W. E. Ricker

18.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
50 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

W. E. Ricker is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, W. E. Ricker has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in W. E. Ricker's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (19 papers), Marine and fisheries research (16 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (8 papers). W. E. Ricker is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (19 papers), Marine and fisheries research (16 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (8 papers). W. E. Ricker collaborates with scholars based in Canada and United States. W. E. Ricker's co-authors include Lawrence B. Slobodkin, L. C. Birch, David Lack, H. G. Andrewartha, Herbert H. Ross, L. L. Eberhardt, Shelby D. Gerking, Peter Larkin, H. T. Bilton and H. Duane Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Limnology and Oceanography, Journal of Animal Ecology and Aquaculture.

In The Last Decade

W. E. Ricker

48 papers receiving 10.6k 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.

Computation and interpretation of biological statistics of fish populations

1975 5.8k citations W. E. Ricker profile →
Stock and Recruitment

1954 2.5k citations W. E. Ricker Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada profile →
Linear Regressions in Fishery Research

1973 1.5k citations W. E. Ricker Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada profile →
Handbook of Computations for Biological Statistics of Fish Populations

1960 600 citations W. E. Ricker et al. profile →
The Natural Regulation of Animal Numbers

1955 582 citations W. E. Ricker et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. E. Ricker Canada	26	7.5k	6.4k	5.0k	4.7k	1.0k	50	13.2k
J. M. Elliott United Kingdom	54	8.3k 1.1×	3.2k 0.5×	6.3k 1.3×	3.8k 0.8×	859 0.8×	164	11.7k
Ransom A. Myers Canada	57	9.7k 1.3×	11.0k 1.7×	8.7k 1.7×	2.3k 0.5×	728 0.7×	110	17.1k
William C. Leggett Canada	55	5.9k 0.8×	5.8k 0.9×	4.2k 0.8×	2.4k 0.5×	615 0.6×	160	9.5k
Lennart Persson Sweden	69	8.5k 1.1×	5.4k 0.8×	7.3k 1.5×	2.4k 0.5×	1.9k 1.8×	166	14.5k
Peter B. Moyle United States	65	11.5k 1.5×	4.2k 0.7×	9.7k 1.9×	3.8k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	239	16.3k
Joshua Elliott United States	51	4.7k 0.6×	3.8k 0.6×	5.0k 1.0×	2.5k 0.5×	882 0.8×	126	13.3k
E. C. Pielou Canada	30	4.3k 0.6×	2.9k 0.5×	5.3k 1.1×	503 0.1×	1.5k 1.4×	71	13.3k
Mikko Heino Norway	49	5.1k 0.7×	5.4k 0.8×	3.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.3×	2.0k 1.9×	178	9.1k
S.A.L.M. Kooijman Netherlands	54	2.3k 0.3×	3.5k 0.5×	4.4k 0.9×	946 0.2×	1.2k 1.2×	219	10.9k
James F. Kitchell United States	69	10.4k 1.4×	7.0k 1.1×	11.4k 2.3×	2.2k 0.5×	605 0.6×	171	19.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. E. Ricker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of W. E. Ricker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of W. E. Ricker 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 W. E. Ricker. W. E. Ricker 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

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Ricker, W. E. & Jon T. Schnute. (1999). A westward trajectory extension for the earth-grazing fireballs seen on 9 February 1913. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 113(4). 693–697. 1 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E.. (1992). Back-Calculation of Fish Lengths Based on Proportionality between Scale and Length Increments. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 49(5). 1018–1026. 99 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E.. (1987). Effects of the fishery and of obstacles to migration on the abundance of Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 29 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E., et al.. (1982). The IDRC milkfish project 1975-1978. 1 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E.. (1981). Changes in the Average Size and Average Age of Pacific Salmon. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 38(12). 1636–1656. 365 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E.. (1975). Computation and interpretation of biological statistics of fish populations. 191. 1–382. 5779 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ricker, W. E.. (1975). The Fisheries Research Board of Canada — Seventy-Five Years of Achievements. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 32(8). 1465–1490. 6 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E. & Herbert H. Ross. (1975). Synopsis of the Brachypterinae, (Insecta: Plecoptera: Taeniopterygidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 53(2). 132–153. 25 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E.. (1974). Specific production of aquatic invertebrates. Aquaculture. 4. 313–314. 39 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E.. (1973). Two Mechanisms That Make it Impossible to Maintain Peak-Period Yields From Stocks of Pacific Salmon and Other Fishes. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 30(9). 1275–1286. 33 indexed citations

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Ross, Herbert H. & W. E. Ricker. (1971). The classification, evolution, and dispersal of the winter stonefly genus Allocapnia. University of Illinois Press eBooks. 58 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E., et al.. (1970). Methods of Assessment of Fish Production in Fresh Waters. Journal of Animal Ecology. 39(2). 548–548. 61 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E. & Herbert H. Ross. (1968). North American Species of Taeniopteryx (Plecoptera, Insecta). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 25(7). 1423–1439. 14 indexed citations

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Bilton, H. T. & W. E. Ricker. (1965). Supplementary Checks on the Scales of Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) and Chum Salmon (O. keta). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 22(6). 1477–1489. 28 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E.. (1962). Connecticut River Shad. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 91(1). 98–99. 2 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E.. (1960). A Population of Dwarf Coastrange Sculpins (Cottus aleuticus). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 17(6). 929–932. 4 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E.. (1959). Additional Observations Concerning Residual Sockeye and Kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 16(6). 897–902. 21 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E.. (1958). A key to the adults and nymphs of British stoneflies (Plecoptera). Limnology and Oceanography. 3(4). 481–481. 46 indexed citations

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Ricker, W. E.. (1954). Stock and Recruitment. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 11(5). 559–623. 2451 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ricker, W. E.. (1952). Systematic studies in Plecoptera. 18. 69 indexed citations

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