Tsung‐Jen Shen

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Tsung‐Jen Shen is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Tsung‐Jen Shen has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Ecology, 25 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 17 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Tsung‐Jen Shen's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (25 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (17 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (17 papers). Tsung‐Jen Shen is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (25 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (17 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (17 papers). Tsung‐Jen Shen collaborates with scholars based in Taiwan, China and United States. Tsung‐Jen Shen's co-authors include Anne Chao, Robert K. Colwell, Robin L. Chazdon, Chih‐Feng Lin, Youhua Chen, Fangliang He, Wen‐Han Hwang, Yongbin Wu, Richard Condit and Stephen P. Hubbell and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, Scientific Reports and Biometrics.

In The Last Decade

Tsung‐Jen Shen

33 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data

2004 1.6k citations Anne Chao, Robin L. Chazdon et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Nonparametric estimation of Shannon’s index of diversity when there are unseen species in sample

2003 618 citations Anne Chao, Tsung‐Jen Shen Environmental and Ecological Statistics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Tsung‐Jen Shen	1.2k	1.1k	816	470	466	37	3.1k
Chun‐Huo Chiu	975 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	747 0.9×	362 0.8×	557 1.2×	30	2.5k
Elizabeth L. Sander	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	984 1.2×	277 0.6×	453 1.0×	6	2.9k
François Massol	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.6×	345 0.7×	559 1.2×	90	3.5k
Hanno Seebens	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	839 1.0×	184 0.4×	682 1.5×	59	2.6k
Sarah Goslee	1.4k 1.1×	903 0.9×	925 1.1×	353 0.8×	342 0.7×	66	3.4k
Vincent Calcagno	926 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	802 1.0×	209 0.4×	300 0.6×	39	3.0k
Gottfried Jetschke	1.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.7×	1.3k 1.6×	343 0.7×	754 1.6×	33	3.4k
Francis K. C. Hui	1.7k 1.4×	1.5k 1.4×	925 1.1×	259 0.6×	876 1.9×	80	4.1k
Hannah L. Buckley	1.6k 1.3×	828 0.8×	889 1.1×	688 1.5×	236 0.5×	116	3.5k
Jérôme Chave	1.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.8×	1.3k 1.6×	271 0.6×	633 1.4×	17	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tsung‐Jen Shen

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shen, Tsung‐Jen. (2025). Estimating Shannon’s entropy with incomplete species inventories. Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science. 8(1). 559–585. 2 indexed citations

Shen, Tsung‐Jen, et al.. (2025). Biogeographic Patterns of Estimation Bias of Biodiversity Indices. Journal of Biogeography. 52(11).

Chen, Youhua & Tsung‐Jen Shen. (2024). Minimum habitat size required to detect new rare species. Ecology. 105(10). e4400–e4400.

Chen, Youhua, Ren-Hong Wang, & Tsung‐Jen Shen. (2023). Biodiversity survey and estimation for line-transect sampling. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1159090–1159090. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Youhua, Yongbin Wu, Chia‐Hao Chang, & Tsung‐Jen Shen. (2023). How close is an undiscovered species to you after conducting biodiversity sampling?. Ecological Indicators. 154. 110482–110482. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Youhua, Yongbin Wu, Jin Zhou, et al.. (2021). Effectively inferring overall spatial distribution pattern of species in a map when exact coordinate information is missing. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(6). 971–984. 6 indexed citations

Chen, Youhua & Tsung‐Jen Shen. (2020). Unifying conspecific‐encounter index v and Moran's I index. Ecography. 43(12). 1902–1904. 12 indexed citations

Wu, Yongbin, Youhua Chen, & Tsung‐Jen Shen. (2019). Comparing Allee effect-based and dispersal-based neutral models for species abundance distribution patterns. Ecological Informatics. 52. 69–73. 1 indexed citations

Shen, Tsung‐Jen & Youhua Chen. (2018). A Bayesian‐weighted approach to predicting the number of newly discovered rare species. Conservation Biology. 33(2). 444–455. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Youhua & Tsung‐Jen Shen. (2017). A general framework for predicting delayed responses of ecological communities to habitat loss. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 998–998. 8 indexed citations

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Shen, Tsung‐Jen, et al.. (2017). Estimating species pools for a single ecological assemblage. BMC Ecology. 17(1). 45–45. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Youhua & Tsung‐Jen Shen. (2017). Rarefaction and extrapolation of species richness using an area‐based Fisher's logseries. Ecology and Evolution. 7(23). 10066–10078. 16 indexed citations

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Shen, Tsung‐Jen, et al.. (2015). Postnatal growth and age estimation inScotophilus kuhlii. Zoo Biology. 35(1). 35–41. 6 indexed citations

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Shen, Tsung‐Jen, et al.. (2014). Delimitation of a continuous morphological character with unknown prior membership: application of a finite mixture model to classify scapular setae of Abacarus panticis. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 63(3). 361–375. 2 indexed citations

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Lin, Chih‐Wei, et al.. (2014). Good–Turing frequency estimation in a finite population. Biometrical Journal. 57(2). 321–339. 2 indexed citations

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Shen, Tsung‐Jen, et al.. (2009). Small‐Sample Estimation of Species Richness Applied to Forest Communities. Biometrics. 66(4). 1052–1060. 11 indexed citations

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Shen, Tsung‐Jen & Fangliang He. (2008). AN INCIDENCE-BASED RICHNESS ESTIMATOR FOR QUADRATS SAMPLED WITHOUT REPLACEMENT. Ecology. 89(7). 2052–2060. 26 indexed citations

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Chao, Anne, Robin L. Chazdon, Robert K. Colwell, & Tsung‐Jen Shen. (2006). Abundance‐Based Similarity Indices and Their Estimation When There Are Unseen Species in Samples. Biometrics. 62(2). 361–371. 488 indexed citations

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Chao, Anne, Robin L. Chazdon, Robert K. Colwell, & Tsung‐Jen Shen. (2004). A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data. Ecology Letters. 8(2). 148–159. 1550 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chao, Anne & Tsung‐Jen Shen. (2003). Nonparametric estimation of Shannon’s index of diversity when there are unseen species in sample. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 10(4). 429–443. 618 indexed citations breakdown →

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