Vishwesha Guttal

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Vishwesha Guttal is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Vishwesha Guttal has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Environmental Engineering and 13 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Vishwesha Guttal's work include Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (25 papers), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (17 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (9 papers). Vishwesha Guttal is often cited by papers focused on Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (25 papers), Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (17 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (9 papers). Vishwesha Guttal collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and France. Vishwesha Guttal's co-authors include C. Jayaprakash, Iain D. Couzin, Sonia Kéfi, Christos C. Ioannou, Vasilis Dakos, Stephen R. Carpenter, Aaron M. Ellison, David A. Seekell, Egbert H. van Nes and Valerie Livina and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Vishwesha Guttal

46 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.

Methods for Detecting Early Warnings of Critical Transitions in Time Series Illustrated Using Simulated Ecological Data

2012 636 citations Vasilis Dakos, Stephen R. Carpenter et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vishwesha Guttal India	23	1.8k	601	586	516	466	48	3.0k
Ethan R. Deyle United States	16	1.2k 0.6×	288 0.5×	650 1.1×	379 0.7×	284 0.6×	25	3.5k
Ingrid A. van de Leemput Netherlands	19	2.3k 1.3×	332 0.6×	1.9k 3.2×	415 0.8×	156 0.3×	28	4.4k
Chih‐hao Hsieh Taiwan	37	3.1k 1.7×	304 0.5×	3.1k 5.2×	1.6k 3.2×	549 1.2×	142	7.2k
Emilio Hernández-Garcı́a Spain	34	1.3k 0.7×	153 0.3×	739 1.3×	331 0.6×	163 0.3×	153	4.0k
Stephan B. Munch United States	36	3.1k 1.7×	255 0.4×	2.2k 3.8×	2.3k 4.5×	814 1.7×	102	6.5k
Christian Wissel Germany	37	1.6k 0.9×	244 0.4×	1.8k 3.1×	1.9k 3.6×	1.0k 2.2×	86	4.7k
Bernd Blasius Germany	35	961 0.5×	166 0.3×	1.5k 2.5×	839 1.6×	657 1.4×	118	6.2k
Kim Cuddington Canada	26	1.7k 1.0×	213 0.4×	2.2k 3.8×	1.7k 3.3×	873 1.9×	50	4.8k
E. Meroni Israel	43	3.0k 1.6×	343 0.6×	961 1.6×	2.0k 3.8×	847 1.8×	133	6.0k
Bruce T. Milne United States	29	3.0k 1.6×	513 0.9×	2.9k 4.9×	2.3k 4.5×	845 1.8×	43	6.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Vishwesha Guttal

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vishwesha Guttal

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20 of 20 papers shown

Escobedo, Ramón, et al.. (2025). Experimental Evidence of Stress-Induced Critical State in Schooling Fish. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 3(3).

Guttal, Vishwesha, et al.. (2024). Spatial structure could explain the maintenance of alternative reproductive tactics in tree cricket males. Biology Open. 13(6).

Roy, Matthieu, et al.. (2024). Collective responses of flocking sheep (Ovis aries) to a herding dog (border collie). Communications Biology. 7(1). 1543–1543. 2 indexed citations

Brückner, David B., et al.. (2024). Discovering Stochastic Dynamical Equations from Ecological Time Series Data. The American Naturalist. 205(4). E100–E117. 3 indexed citations

Guttal, Vishwesha, et al.. (2024). Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics for Finite Populations and the Noise-Induced Reversal of Selection. The American Naturalist. 205(1). 1–19. 3 indexed citations

Torney, Colin J., et al.. (2023). Multi-Object Tracking in Heterogeneous environments (MOTHe) for animal video recordings. PeerJ. 11. e15573–e15573. 3 indexed citations

Sire, Clément, et al.. (2023). Data-driven discovery of stochastic dynamical equations of collective motion. Physical Biology. 20(5). 56003–56003. 3 indexed citations

Isvaran, Kavita, et al.. (2023). Lekking as collective behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1874). 20220066–20220066. 10 indexed citations

Hazra, Dhiraj Kumar, Bhalchandra S. Pujari, Sitabhra Sinha, et al.. (2022). Modelling the first wave of COVID-19 in India. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(10). e1010632–e1010632. 6 indexed citations

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Guttal, Vishwesha, Bharath Holla, Ravi Kumar Nadella, et al.. (2022). Abnormalities in the migration of neural precursor cells in familial bipolar disorder. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 15(10). 4 indexed citations

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Morris, Richard G., et al.. (2020). Noise-induced schooling of fish. Nature Physics. 16(4). 488–493. 87 indexed citations

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Majumder, Sabiha, et al.. (2018). Monitoring ecosystem degradation using spatial data and the R package spatialwarnings. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(10). 2067–2075. 28 indexed citations

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Joshi, Jaideep & Vishwesha Guttal. (2018). Demographic noise and cost of greenbeard can facilitate greenbeard cooperation. Evolution. 72(12). 2595–2607. 7 indexed citations

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Majumder, Sabiha, Florian D. Schneider, Alain Danet, et al.. (2018). Spatially heterogeneous stressors can alter the performance of indicators of regime shifts. Ecological Indicators. 94. 520–533. 18 indexed citations

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Eby, Stephanie, Amit Agrawal, Sabiha Majumder, Andrew P. Dobson, & Vishwesha Guttal. (2017). Alternative stable states and spatial indicators of critical slowing down along a spatial gradient in a savanna ecosystem. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 26(6). 638–649. 65 indexed citations

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Majumder, Sabiha, et al.. (2017). Implications of being discrete and spatial for detecting early warning signals of regime shifts. Ecological Indicators. 94. 503–511. 12 indexed citations

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Joshi, Jaideep, Iain D. Couzin, Simon A. Levin, & Vishwesha Guttal. (2017). Mobility can promote the evolution of cooperation via emergent self-assortment dynamics. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(9). e1005732–e1005732. 22 indexed citations

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Dakos, Vasilis, Stephen R. Carpenter, William A. Brock, et al.. (2012). Methods for Detecting Early Warnings of Critical Transitions in Time Series Illustrated Using Simulated Ecological Data. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e41010–e41010. 636 indexed citations breakdown →

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Guttal, Vishwesha, Paweł Romańczuk, Stephen J. Simpson, Gregory A. Sword, & Iain D. Couzin. (2012). Cannibalism can drive the evolution of behavioural phase polyphenism in locusts. Ecology Letters. 15(10). 1158–1166. 63 indexed citations

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Guttal, Vishwesha & Iain D. Couzin. (2011). Leadership, collective motion and the evolution of migratory strategies. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 4(3). 294–298. 24 indexed citations

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