Van M. Savage

25.7k total citations · 10 hit papers
92 papers, 17.9k citations indexed

About

Van M. Savage is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Van M. Savage has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 17.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, 26 papers in Genetics and 20 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Van M. Savage's work include Physiological and biochemical adaptations (34 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (19 papers) and Plant and animal studies (13 papers). Van M. Savage is often cited by papers focused on Physiological and biochemical adaptations (34 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (19 papers) and Plant and animal studies (13 papers). Van M. Savage collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Van M. Savage's co-authors include James H. Brown, James F. Gillooly, Geoffrey B. West, Andrew P. Allen, Eric L. Charnov, Anthony I. Dell, Samraat Pawar, Brian J. Enquist, Eric J. Deeds and Walter Fontana and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Van M. Savage

90 papers receiving 17.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY

2004 5.7k citations James H. Brown, James F. Gillooly et al. Ecology profile →
Effects of Size and Temperature on Metabolic Rate

2001 2.8k citations James F. Gillooly, James H. Brown et al. Science profile →
Effects of size and temperature on developmental time

2002 753 citations James F. Gillooly, Eric L. Charnov et al. Nature profile →
Increased temperature variation poses a greater risk to species than climate warming

2014 752 citations John P. DeLong, Van M. Savage et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
Effects of Body Size and Temperature on Population Growth

2004 714 citations Van M. Savage, James H. Brown et al. profile →
Systematic variation in the temperature dependence of physiological and ecological traits

2011 652 citations Van M. Savage et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The predominance of quarter‐power scaling in biology

2004 526 citations Van M. Savage, James F. Gillooly et al. profile →
Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models

2017 416 citations Erin A. Mordecai, Jeremy M. Cohen et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases profile →
Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease

2019 394 citations Erin A. Mordecai, Catherine A. Lippi et al. profile →
Temperature dependence of trophic interactions are driven by asymmetry of species responses and foraging strategy

2013 337 citations Van M. Savage et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Van M. Savage United States	45	9.7k	4.8k	4.4k	4.2k	2.9k	92	17.9k
Kevin S. McCann Canada	49	6.9k 0.7×	4.5k 0.9×	3.3k 0.7×	3.6k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	157	12.8k
William F. Fagan United States	64	8.5k 0.9×	5.8k 1.2×	3.7k 0.8×	4.0k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	270	16.5k
Hal Caswell United States	69	9.4k 1.0×	7.5k 1.6×	4.4k 1.0×	5.0k 1.2×	2.6k 0.9×	214	19.5k
James F. Gillooly United States	37	9.1k 0.9×	4.5k 0.9×	3.9k 0.9×	3.7k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	66	15.4k
Marcel Holyoak United States	36	6.9k 0.7×	5.0k 1.0×	2.2k 0.5×	3.9k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	125	11.9k
Pablo A. Marquet Chile	55	6.7k 0.7×	4.8k 1.0×	3.6k 0.8×	3.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	211	14.4k
Aaron M. Ellison United States	65	8.5k 0.9×	6.2k 1.3×	4.9k 1.1×	5.4k 1.3×	1.8k 0.6×	291	19.5k
Peter Chesson United States	47	6.5k 0.7×	8.9k 1.9×	3.3k 0.8×	7.1k 1.7×	3.2k 1.1×	117	16.1k
Daniel I. Bolnick United States	56	9.5k 1.0×	6.2k 1.3×	3.7k 0.8×	6.9k 1.7×	5.7k 2.0×	165	19.2k
Nelson G. Hairston United States	61	7.8k 0.8×	5.4k 1.1×	3.1k 0.7×	4.2k 1.0×	3.7k 1.3×	187	15.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Van M. Savage

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Van M. Savage. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Van M. Savage 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 Van M. Savage. Van M. Savage is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cruz‐Loya, Mauricio, Erin A. Mordecai, & Van M. Savage. (2026). A flexible model for thermal performance curves. Ecology. 107(2). e70251–e70251.

DeLong, John P., et al.. (2023). Beyond individual, population, and community: Considering information, cell number, and energy flux as fundamental dimensions of life across scales. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 16. 1 indexed citations

Lozano-Huntelman, Natalie, et al.. (2022). Meta-analysis of three-stressor combinations on population-level fitness reveal substantial higher-order interactions. The Science of The Total Environment. 864. 161163–161163. 6 indexed citations

Mira, Portia, Natalie Lozano-Huntelman, Adrienne Johnson, Van M. Savage, & Pamela J. Yeh. (2022). Evolution of antibiotic resistance impacts optimal temperature and growth rate in Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus epidermidis. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 133(4). 2655–2667. 5 indexed citations

Cruz‐Loya, Mauricio, Elif Tekin, Natalie Lozano-Huntelman, et al.. (2021). Antibiotics Shift the Temperature Response Curve of Escherichia coli Growth. mSystems. 6(4). e0022821–e0022821. 21 indexed citations

Rodríguez‐Verdugo, Alejandra, Natalie Lozano-Huntelman, Mauricio Cruz‐Loya, Van M. Savage, & Pamela J. Yeh. (2020). Compounding Effects of Climate Warming and Antibiotic Resistance. iScience. 23(4). 101024–101024. 91 indexed citations

Savage, Van M., et al.. (2020). Predicting collapse of complex ecological systems: quantifying the stability–complexity continuum. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(166). 20190391–20190391. 20 indexed citations

Herman, Alexander, et al.. (2020). Unraveling why we sleep: Quantitative analysis reveals abrupt transition from neural reorganization to repair in early development. Science Advances. 6(38). 58 indexed citations

Savage, Van M., et al.. (2019). Self-Similar Processes Follow a Power Law in Discrete Logarithmic Space. Physical Review Letters. 122(15). 158303–158303. 8 indexed citations

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Pruitt, Jonathan N., Andrew M. Berdahl, Christina Riehl, et al.. (2018). Social tipping points in animal societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1887). 20181282–20181282. 27 indexed citations

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Tekin, Elif, Pamela J. Yeh, & Van M. Savage. (2018). General Form for Interaction Measures and Framework for Deriving Higher-Order Emergent Effects. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 6. 21 indexed citations

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Mordecai, Erin A., Jeremy M. Cohen, Michelle Evans, et al.. (2017). Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 11(4). e0005568–e0005568. 416 indexed citations breakdown →

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Savage, Van M., et al.. (2017). A general model for metabolic scaling in self-similar asymmetric networks. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(3). e1005394–e1005394. 26 indexed citations

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Tekin, Elif, et al.. (2016). Do Vascular Networks Branch Optimally or Randomly across Spatial Scales?. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(11). e1005223–e1005223. 35 indexed citations

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Ennis, Daniel B., et al.. (2015). Testing Foundations of Biological Scaling Theory Using Automated Measurements of Vascular Networks. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(8). e1004455–e1004455. 20 indexed citations

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Savage, Van M., et al.. (2010). Curvature in metabolic scaling. Nature. 464(7289). 753–756. 253 indexed citations

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O’Dwyer, James P., et al.. (2009). An integrative framework for stochastic, size-structured community assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(15). 6170–6175. 43 indexed citations

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Savage, Van M., Ethan P. White, Melanie E. Moses, et al.. (2006). Comment on "The Illusion of Invariant Quantities in Life Histories". Science. 312(5771). 198–198. 22 indexed citations

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Cohen, Joel E., Tomas Jönsson, Christine Müller, H. C. J. Godfray, & Van M. Savage. (2005). Body sizes of hosts and parasitoids in individual feeding relationships. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(3). 684–689. 68 indexed citations

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Pepper, John W., et al.. (2003). Allometric scaling of ant foraging trail networks. Evolutionary ecology research. 5(2). 297–303. 32 indexed citations

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