William Godsoe

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

William Godsoe is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, William Godsoe has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 33 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 20 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in William Godsoe's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (34 papers), Plant and animal studies (33 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers). William Godsoe is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (34 papers), Plant and animal studies (33 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers). William Godsoe collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Japan. William Godsoe's co-authors include Jeremy B. Yoder, Luke J. Harmon, Christopher Irwin Smith, Alison G. Power, Peter M. Kotanen, John N. Klironomos, Charles E. Mitchell, Anurag A. Agrawal, Olle Pellmyr and Jack A. Heinemann and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

William Godsoe

57 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit 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.

Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations

2010 549 citations Jeremy B. Yoder, Erin Clancey et al. Journal of Evolutionary Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Godsoe New Zealand	24	1.0k	1.0k	739	691	663	59	2.5k
Brian L. Anacker United States	24	1.3k 1.3×	1.6k 1.6×	1.0k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	481 0.7×	30	3.2k
Rubén G. Mateo Spain	24	916 0.9×	910 0.9×	1.0k 1.4×	1.5k 2.2×	449 0.7×	55	2.5k
Peter J. Prentis Australia	25	791 0.8×	679 0.7×	920 1.2×	314 0.5×	879 1.3×	91	2.9k
Darién E. Prado Argentina	18	2.0k 1.9×	1.4k 1.3×	593 0.8×	551 0.8×	585 0.9×	61	3.5k
Ladislav Paule Slovakia	25	788 0.8×	706 0.7×	720 1.0×	335 0.5×	1.2k 1.8×	83	2.7k
Laure Gallien France	24	1.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	1.5k 2.1×	978 1.4×	274 0.4×	43	3.1k
Nigel R. Andrew Australia	27	1.1k 1.0×	730 0.7×	813 1.1×	543 0.8×	706 1.1×	91	2.5k
Bruno Vilela Brazil	15	696 0.7×	744 0.7×	1.0k 1.4×	1.5k 2.2×	450 0.7×	53	2.4k
Ignacio Morales‐Castilla Spain	24	777 0.7×	724 0.7×	1.2k 1.6×	929 1.3×	358 0.5×	53	2.4k
Dorothée Ehrich Norway	34	1.3k 1.3×	657 0.6×	1.6k 2.2×	633 0.9×	1.6k 2.4×	89	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by William Godsoe

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of William Godsoe's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by William Godsoe with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites William Godsoe more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by William Godsoe

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by William Godsoe. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by William Godsoe. The network helps show where William Godsoe may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Godsoe

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Bufford, Jennifer L., et al.. (2024). A mismatch between community assembly and abundance‐based diversity indices. Ecography. 2024(4). 1 indexed citations

Di, Hong J., Keith C. Cameron, Andriy Podolyan, et al.. (2024). Contrasting response of comammox Nitrospira, ammonia oxidising bacteria, and archaea to soil pH and nitrogen inputs. The Science of The Total Environment. 924. 171627–171627. 9 indexed citations

Macinnis‐Ng, Cate, Ilze Ziediņš, W. T. Baisden, et al.. (2023). Climate change impacts on Aotearoa New Zealand: a horizon scan approach. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 54(4). 523–546. 6 indexed citations

Godsoe, William, et al.. (2023). Comparing the Above and Below-Ground Chemical Defences of Three Rumex Species Between Their Native and Introduced Provenances. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 49(5-6). 276–286. 1 indexed citations

Bourrat, Pierrick, William Godsoe, Pradeep Pillai, et al.. (2023). What is the price of using the Price equation in ecology?. Oikos. 2023(8). 2 indexed citations

Bishop, Catherine M., et al.. (2022). Copper and nanostructured anatase rutile and carbon coatings induce adaptive antibiotic resistance. AMB Express. 12(1). 117–117. 2 indexed citations

Frank, Steven A. & William Godsoe. (2020). The generalized Price equation: Forces that change population statistics. Lincoln University Research Archive (Lincoln University). 6 indexed citations

Godsoe, William, et al.. (2019). Promiscuous pollinators—Evidence from an Afromontane sunbird–plant pollen transport network. Biotropica. 51(4). 538–548. 11 indexed citations

Godsoe, William, et al.. (2019). Assessing the utility of aerial imagery to quantify the density, age structure and spatial pattern of alien conifer invasions. Biological Invasions. 21(6). 2095–2106. 9 indexed citations

10.

Godsoe, William, et al.. (2018). Using niche conservatism information to prioritize hotspots of invasion by non‐native freshwater invertebrates in New Zealand. Diversity and Distributions. 24(12). 1802–1815. 33 indexed citations

11.

Smith, Adam B., William Godsoe, Francisco Rodríguez‐Sánchez, Hsiao‐Hsuan Wang, & Dan L. Warren. (2018). Niche Estimation Above and Below the Species Level. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 34(3). 260–273. 171 indexed citations

12.

Chapman, Hazel, et al.. (2017). Does a Species’ Extinction–Proneness Predict Its Contribution to Nestedness? A Test Using a Sunbird-Tree Visitation Network. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0170223–e0170223. 1 indexed citations

13.

Godsoe, William, et al.. (2013). Polyploidization in Heuchera cylindrica (Saxifragaceae) did not result in a shift in climatic requirements. American Journal of Botany. 100(3). 496–508. 64 indexed citations

14.

Beckage, Brian, Louis J. Gross, William Platt, William Godsoe, & Daniel Simberloff. (2012). perspective: Individual variation and weak neutrality as determinants of forest diversity. Frontiers of Biogeography. 3(4). 5 indexed citations

15.

Smith, Christopher Irwin, et al.. (2011). Comparative Phylogeography of a Coevolved Community: Concerted Population Expansions in Joshua Trees and Four Yucca Moths. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e25628–e25628. 62 indexed citations

16.

Yoder, Jeremy B., Erin Clancey, Simone Des Roches, et al.. (2010). Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23(8). 1581–1596. 549 indexed citations breakdown →

17.

Smith, Christopher Irwin, Christopher S. Drummond, William Godsoe, Jeremy B. Yoder, & Olle Pellmyr. (2009). Host specificity and reproductive success of yucca moths (Tegeticulaspp. Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) mirror patterns of gene flow between host plant varieties of the Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia: Agavaceae). Molecular Ecology. 18(24). 5218–5229. 34 indexed citations

18.

Godsoe, William, Eva K. Strand, Christopher Irwin Smith, et al.. (2009). Divergence in an obligate mutualism is not explained by divergent climatic factors. New Phytologist. 183(3). 589–599. 38 indexed citations

19.

Godsoe, William, Jeremy B. Yoder, Christopher Irwin Smith, & Olle Pellmyr. (2008). Coevolution and Divergence in the Joshua Tree/Yucca Moth Mutualism. The American Naturalist. 171(6). 816–823. 51 indexed citations

20.

Gomulkiewicz, Richard, Devin M. Drown, Mark F. Dybdahl, et al.. (2007). Dos and don'ts of testing the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution. Heredity. 98(5). 249–258. 114 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact