Richard Levins
Impact in
- Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.05%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Ecological Modeling top 0.1%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Papers in
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- Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models 16
- Genetics 24
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics 15
- Co-authors
- Robert H. MacArthur (4 shared papers)E. C. Pielou (1 shared paper)Richard C Lewontin (22 shared papers)David C. Culver (1 shared paper)Daniel Simberloff (1 shared paper)Gregory H. Adler (1 shared paper)Charles J. Puccia (5 shared papers)Junko Yasuoka (5 shared papers)
- Journals
- Capitalism Nature Socialism (15 papers)Monthly Review (8 papers)The American Naturalist (8 papers)Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (7 papers)Ecology (6 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesPuerto RicoAustralia
In The Last Decade
Richard Levins
157 papers receiving 20.1k citations
Richard Levins's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 212
- Nature and Landscape Conservation 7.2k
- Ecological Modeling 2.1k
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 6.6k
- Ecology 8.4k
- Global and Planetary Change 4.1k
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evolution in Changing Environments Hit paper breakdown → | 1968 | 4070 |
| 2 | The Limiting Similarity, Convergence, and Divergence of Coexisting Species Hit paper breakdown → | 1967 | 3465 |
| 3 | An Introduction to Mathematical Ecology. Hit paper breakdown → | 1970 | 3084 |
| 4 | Some Demographic and Genetic Consequences of Environmental Heterogeneity for Biological Control Hit paper breakdown → | 1969 | 2333 |
| 5 | The Dialectical Biologist Hit paper breakdown → | 1987 | 888 |
| 6 | AN INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL ECOLOGY Hit paper breakdown → | 1970 | 798 |
| 7 | COMPETITION, HABITAT SELECTION, AND CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT IN A PATCHY ENVIRONMENT Hit paper breakdown → | 1964 | 689 |
| 8 | Regional Coexistence of Species and Competition between Rare Species Hit paper breakdown → | 1971 | 599 |
| 9 | 2001 | 436 | |
| 10 | 1994 | 393 | |
| 11 | Coexistence in a Variable Environment Hit paper breakdown → | 1979 | 374 |
| 12 | Theory of Fitness in a Heterogeneous Environment. I. The Fitness Set and Adaptive Function Hit paper breakdown → | 1962 | 348 |
| 13 | 1969 | 310 | |
| 14 | 1974 | 291 | |
| 15 | 2007 | 237 | |
| 16 | 1970 | 227 | |
| 17 | 1969 | 221 | |
| 18 | 1963 | 211 | |
| 19 | 1985 | 202 | |
| 20 | 1997 | 155 |
About Richard Levins
Richard Levins is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology, having authored 173 papers that have together received 22.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models (16 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (15 papers), Plant and animal studies (11 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (7 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (7 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (6 papers) and Agricultural Economics and Policy (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (7.2k citations), Ecological Modeling (2.1k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (6.6k citations), Ecology (8.4k citations) and Global and Planetary Change (4.1k citations). Richard Levins has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Puerto Rico and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Robert H. MacArthur, E. C. Pielou, Richard C Lewontin, David C. Culver, Daniel Simberloff, Gregory H. Adler, Charles J. Puccia, Junko Yasuoka, Harold Heatwole and J. Maynard Smith. Their work appears in journals such as Capitalism Nature Socialism, Monthly Review, The American Naturalist, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and Ecology.
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