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Brian J. McGill

Active 2003–2023

43
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21,653
Citations
37
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Citations

Citations per year for Brian J. McGill2003: 4 citations2004: 11 citations2005: 18 citations2006: 31 citations2007: 36 citations2008: 36 citations2009: 44 citations2010: 65 citations2011: 59 citations2012: 100 citations2013: 89 citations2014: 112 citations2015: 137 citations2016: 138 citations2017: 112 citations2018: 110 citations2019: 228 citations2020: 239 citations2021: 234 citations2022: 154 citations2023: 109 citations2024: 159 citations2025: 71 citations2026: 9 citations

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 888 citing papers, 16.9% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 381 citing papers, 7.3% of this breakdownFrance: 315 citing papers, 6% of this breakdownGermany: 310 citing papers, 5.9% of this breakdownCanada: 280 citing papers, 5.3% of this breakdownChina: 249 citing papers, 4.7% of this breakdownAustralia: 241 citing papers, 4.6% of this breakdownSpain: 194 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 172 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownNetherlands: 168 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownBrazil: 121 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownItaly: 102 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Environmental Science53.4%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences17.1%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14.2%
  • Medicine3.1%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences2.9%
  • Social Sciences2.4%
  • Other6.9%

Topics

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies10.2%
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change9.7%
  • Plant and animal studies8.8%
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics4.6%
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology3.5%
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior2.7%
  • Other60.5%

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  1. Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits

    Authors: Brian J. McGill, Brian J. Enquist, Evan Weiher, Mark Westoby - Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2006 cited by 4,561

  2. Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework

    Authors: Brian J. McGill, Rampal S. Etienne, John S. Gray, David Alonso, Marti J. Anderson, Habtamu Benecha, María Dornelas, Brian J. Enquist, Jessica L. Green, Fangliang He, Allen H. Hurlbert, Anne E. Magurran, Pablo A. Marquet, Brian A. Maurer, Annette Ostling, Candan U. Soykan, Karl Inne Ugland, Ethan P. White - Ecology Letters 2007 cited by 1,558

  3. Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

    Authors: María Dornelas, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Brian J. McGill, Hideyasu Shimadzu, Faye Moyes, Caya Sievers, Anne E. Magurran - Science 2014 cited by 1,430

  4. The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages

    Authors: Shane A. Blowes, Sarah R. Supp, Laura H. Antão, Amanda E. Bates, Helge Bruelheide, Jonathan M. Chase, Faye Moyes, Anne E. Magurran, Brian J. McGill, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Marten Winter, Anne D. Bjorkman, Diana E. Bowler, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Andrew Gonzalez, Jes Hines, Forest Isbell, Holly P. Jones, Laetitia M. Navarro, Patrick L. Thompson, Mark Vellend, Conor Waldock, María Dornelas - Science 2019 cited by 669

  5. The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

    Authors: Cyrille Violle, Brian J. Enquist, Brian J. McGill, Lin Jiang, Cécile H. Albert, Catherine M. Hulshof, Vincent Jung, Julie Messier - Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2012 cited by 1,741

  6. The bien r package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) database

    Authors: Brian Maitner, Brad Boyle, Nathan Casler, Rick Condit, John C. Donoghue, Sandra M. Durán, Daniel Guaderrama, Cody E. Hinchliff, Peter M. Jørgensen, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Brian J. McGill, Cory Merow, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Robert K. Peet, Brody Sandel, Mark Schildhauer, Stephen A. Smith, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Barbara M. Thiers, Cyrille Violle, Susan K. Wiser, Brian J. Enquist - Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2017 cited by 411

  7. Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change

    Authors: E. M. Wolkovich, Benjamin I. Cook, Jenica M. Allen, Theresa M. Crimmins, Julio L. Betancourt, Steven E. Travers, Stephanie Pau, Jim Regetz, T. Jonathan Davies, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Toby R. Ault, Kjell Bolmgren, Susan J. Mazer, Gregory J. McCabe, Brian J. McGill, Camille Parmesan, Nicolas Salamin, Mark D. Schwartz, Elsa E. Cleland - Nature 2012 cited by 1,018

  8. Biological Diversity: Frontiers in Measurement and Assessment

    Authors: Anne E. Magurran, Brian J. McGill - 2011 cited by 1,796

  9. Evolutionary Game Theory and Adaptive Dynamics of Continuous Traits

    Authors: Brian J. McGill, Joel S. Brown - Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 2007 cited by 255

  10. Matters of Scale

    Authors: Brian J. McGill - Science 2010 cited by 380

  11. The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants

    Authors: Owen L. Petchey, Mikael Pontarp, Thomas M. Massie, Sonia Kéfi, Arpat Özgül, M. Weilenmann, Gian Marco Palamara, Florian Altermatt, Blake Matthews, Jonathan M. Levine, Dylan Z. Childs, Brian J. McGill, Michael E. Schaepman, Bernhard Schmid, Piet Spaak, Andrew P. Beckerman, Frank Pennekamp, Ian S. Pearse - Ecology Letters 2015 cited by 347

  12. A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base

    Authors: Xiao Feng, Brian J. Enquist, Daniel Park, Brad Boyle, David D. Breshears, Rachael V. Gallagher, Aaron Lien, Erica A. Newman, Joseph R. Burger, Brian Maitner, Cory Merow, Yaoqi Li, Kimberly M. Huynh, Kacey C. Ernst, Elizabeth R. Baldwin, Wendy Foden, Lee Hannah, Peter M. Jørgensen, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Jon C. Lovett, Pablo A. Marquet, Brian J. McGill, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Danilo M. Neves, Maurício M. Núñez‐Regueiro, Ary Teixeira de Oliveira‐Filho, Robert K. Peet, Michiel Pillet, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Brody Sandel, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Irena Šímová, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Cyrille Violle, Trang D. Weitemier, Susan K. Wiser, Laura López‐Hoffman - Global Ecology and Biogeography 2022 cited by 99

  13. The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants

    Authors: Brian J. Enquist, Xiao Feng, Brad Boyle, Brian Maitner, Erica A. Newman, Peter M. Jørgensen, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Barbara M. Thiers, Joseph R. Burger, Richard T. Corlett, Thomas L. P. Couvreur, Gilles Dauby, John C. Donoghue, Wendy Foden, Jon C. Lovett, Pablo A. Marquet, Cory Merow, Guy F. Midgley, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Danilo M. Neves, Ary Teixeira de Oliveira‐Filho, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Daniel Park, Robert K. Peet, Michiel Pillet, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Brody Sandel, Mark Schildhauer, Irena Šímová, Cyrille Violle, Jan J. Wieringa, Susan K. Wiser, Lee Hannah, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Brian J. McGill - Science Advances 2019 cited by 337

  14. Testing the predictive performance of distribution models

    Authors: Volker Bahn, Brian J. McGill - Oikos 2012 cited by 247

  15. A network approach for inferring species associations from co‐occurrence data

    Authors: Naia Morueta‐Holme, Benjamin Blonder, Brody Sandel, Brian J. McGill, Robert K. Peet, Jeffrey E. Ott, Cyrille Violle, Brian J. Enquist, Peter M. Jørgensen, Jens‐Christian Svenning - Ecography 2015 cited by 142

  16. How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait‐based ecology

    Authors: Julie Messier, Brian J. McGill, Martin J. Lechowicz - Ecology Letters 2010 cited by 830

  17. Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

    Authors: Brian J. McGill, María Dornelas, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Anne E. Magurran - Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2014 cited by 694

  18. Embracing scale‐dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities

    Authors: Jonathan M. Chase, Brian J. McGill, Daniel J. McGlinn, Felix May, Shane A. Blowes, Xiao Xiao, Tiffany M. Knight, Oliver Purschke, Nicholas J. Gotelli - Ecology Letters 2018 cited by 319

  19. Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development

    Authors: Cory Merow, Brad Boyle, Brian J. Enquist, Xiao Feng, Jamie M. Kass, Brian Maitner, Brian J. McGill, Hannah L. Owens, Daniel Park, Andrea Paz, Gonzalo E. Pinilla‐Buitrago, Mark C. Urban, Sara Varela, Adam M. Wilson - Nature Ecology & Evolution 2023 cited by 20

  20. Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient

    Authors: Christine Lamanna, Benjamin Blonder, Cyrille Violle, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Brody Sandel, Irena Šímová, John C. Donoghue, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Brian J. McGill, Brad Boyle, Vanessa Buzzard, Steven Dolins, Peter M. Jørgensen, Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Robert K. Peet, William H. Piel, James Regetz, Mark Schildhauer, Nick Spencer, Barbara M. Thiers, Susan K. Wiser, Brian J. Enquist - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2014 cited by 424

  21. Null Versus Neutral Models: What's The Difference?

    Authors: N. J. Gotelli, Brian J. McGill - Ecography 2006 cited by 280

  22. Species richness change across spatial scales

    Authors: Jonathan M. Chase, Brian J. McGill, Patrick L. Thompson, Laura H. Antão, Amanda E. Bates, Shane A. Blowes, María Dornelas, Andrew Gonzalez, Anne E. Magurran, Sarah R. Supp, Marten Winter, Anne D. Bjorkman, Helge Bruelheide, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Juliano Sarmento Cabral, Robin Elahi, Catalina Gómez, Héctor M. Guzmán, Forest Isbell, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Holly P. Jones, Jes Hines, Mark Vellend, Conor Waldock, Mary I. O’Connor - Oikos 2019 cited by 269

  23. A balance of winners and losers in the Anthropocene

    Authors: María Dornelas, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Hideyasu Shimadzu, Faye Moyes, Anne E. Magurran, Brian J. McGill - Ecology Letters 2019 cited by 268

  24. The priority of prediction in ecological understanding

    Authors: Jeff E. Houlahan, Shawn T. McKinney, T. Michael Anderson, Brian J. McGill - Oikos 2016 cited by 245