Ute Jacob

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Ute Jacob is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Ute Jacob has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Ecology, 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Ute Jacob's work include Isotope Analysis in Ecology (10 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (8 papers) and Plant and animal studies (8 papers). Ute Jacob is often cited by papers focused on Isotope Analysis in Ecology (10 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (8 papers) and Plant and animal studies (8 papers). Ute Jacob collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Ute Jacob's co-authors include Thomas Brey, Rainer Knust, Katja Mintenbeck, Ulrich Brose, José M. Montoya, Kyle S. Beyer, Mark Emmerson, Guy Woodward, Owen L. Petchey and F. J. Frank van Veen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Ute Jacob

41 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Review: Ecological networks – beyond food webs

2008 630 citations Thomas C. Ings, José M. Montoya et al. Journal of Animal Ecology profile →
The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss

2022 450 citations Pedro Jaureguiberry, Nicolas Titeux et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ute Jacob Germany	26	1.8k	1.2k	936	909	569	43	3.3k
Christopher F. Steiner United States	20	1.8k 1.0×	809 0.7×	2.1k 2.2×	1.0k 1.1×	495 0.9×	37	3.5k
Karl Inne Ugland Norway	27	1.7k 0.9×	711 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	840 0.9×	594 1.0×	56	3.4k
Daniel C. Reuman United States	30	1.5k 0.8×	811 0.7×	863 0.9×	657 0.7×	345 0.6×	74	2.7k
John Lambrinos United States	20	1.6k 0.9×	672 0.6×	1.4k 1.5×	1.0k 1.1×	419 0.7×	39	3.3k
Virginie Maris France	17	1.4k 0.8×	715 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	684 0.8×	180 0.3×	36	3.5k
Blake Matthews Switzerland	37	2.3k 1.3×	906 0.8×	1.4k 1.5×	888 1.0×	561 1.0×	110	4.7k
Jurek Kolasa Canada	25	1.3k 0.7×	566 0.5×	920 1.0×	610 0.7×	333 0.6×	73	2.7k
Raphael D. Sagarin United States	17	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	695 0.7×	483 0.5×	796 1.4×	32	2.9k
Göran Englund Sweden	33	2.6k 1.5×	957 0.8×	2.0k 2.1×	1.4k 1.5×	406 0.7×	84	4.4k
Uriel N. Safriel Israel	35	1.9k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	370 0.7×	84	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ute Jacob

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ute Jacob

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ute Jacob

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ute Jacob. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ute Jacob based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ute Jacob. Ute Jacob is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Franke, Andrea, Benjamin S. Halpern, Bernadette Snow, et al.. (2025). From science to policy: evolving marine biodiversity targets. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 23(8). 2 indexed citations

Gauzens, Benoît, Gregor Kalinkat, Eoin J. O’Gorman, et al.. (2024). Quantitative description of six fish species’ gut contents and prey abundances in the Baltic Sea (1968–1978). Scientific Data. 11(1). 236–236. 1 indexed citations

Franke, Andrea, Kimberley Peters, Jochen Hinkel, et al.. (2022). Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions. People and Nature. 5(1). 21–33. 16 indexed citations

Jaureguiberry, Pedro, Nicolas Titeux, Martin Wiemers, et al.. (2022). The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss. Science Advances. 8(45). eabm9982–eabm9982. 450 indexed citations breakdown →

Brauman, Kate A., Lucas A. Garibaldi, Stephen Polasky, et al.. (2020). Global trends in nature’s contributions to people. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(51). 32799–32805. 144 indexed citations

Purvis, Andy, Zsolt Molnár, David Obura, et al.. (2019). Chapter 2.2 Status and Trends –Nature. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 13 indexed citations

Pennekamp, Frank, Alison C. Iles, Joshua Garland, et al.. (2019). The intrinsic predictability of ecological time series and its potential to guide forecasting. Ecological Monographs. 89(2). 84 indexed citations

Pavoine, Sandrine, Michael B. Bonsall, Amaël Dupaix, Ute Jacob, & Carlo Ricotta. (2017). From phylogenetic to functional originality: Guide through indices and new developments. Ecological Indicators. 82. 196–205. 36 indexed citations

Dee, Laura E., Stefano Allesina, Aletta Bonn, et al.. (2016). Operationalizing Network Theory for Ecosystem Service Assessments. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 32(2). 118–130. 113 indexed citations

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Gray, Clare, Donald J. Baird, Ute Jacob, et al.. (2014). FORUM: Ecological networks: the missing links in biomonitoring science. Journal of Applied Ecology. 51(5). 1444–1449. 75 indexed citations

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Jacob, Ute, Guy Woodward, & Eoin J. O’Gorman. (2012). Global change in multispecies systems. Elsevier eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Brose, Ulrich, Jennifer A. Dunne, José M. Montoya, et al.. (2012). Climate change in size-structured ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 367(1605). 2903–2912. 150 indexed citations

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Riede, Jens, Ulrich Brose, Bo Ebenman, et al.. (2010). Stepping in Elton’s footprints: a general scaling model for body masses and trophic levels across ecosystems. Ecology Letters. 14(2). 169–178. 145 indexed citations

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Zook, Alexander, Anna Eklöf, Ute Jacob, & Stefano Allesina. (2010). Food webs: Ordering species according to body size yields high degree of intervality. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 271(1). 106–113. 29 indexed citations

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Pietruschka, Dirk, Ute Jacob, V. I. Hanby, & Ursula Eicker. (2008). Simulation Based Optimisation of a Newly Developed System Controller for Solar Cooling and Heating Systems. DMU Open Research Archive (De Montfort University). 3 indexed citations

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Ings, Thomas C., José M. Montoya, Jordi Bascompte, et al.. (2008). Review: Ecological networks – beyond food webs. Journal of Animal Ecology. 78(1). 253–269. 630 indexed citations breakdown →

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Graeve, Martin, et al.. (2007). Temperature-dependent lipid levels and components in polar and temperate eelpout (Zoarcidae). Fish Physiology and Biochemistry. 34(3). 261–274. 35 indexed citations

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Jacob, Ute, Thomas Brey, Ingo Fetzer, et al.. (2005). Towards the trophic structure of the Bouvet Island marine ecosystem. Polar Biology. 29(2). 106–113. 28 indexed citations

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Brenner, Matthias, Bela H. Buck, Sabine P. Cordes, et al.. (2001). The role of iceberg scours in niche separation within the Antarctic fish genus Trematomus. Polar Biology. 24(7). 502–507. 36 indexed citations

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Jacob, Ute, et al.. (1990). [Surgical anatomy of the petrous canal and posterior cranial fossa in relation to hearing preservation in surgery of acoustic neuroma].. PubMed. 38(3). 83–91. 2 indexed citations

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