2026 Bill Shipley: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	73	581	535	16	14	178	30447
Ecology and Evolution	72	1212	1155	69	64	170	30824

Bill Shipley publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bill Shipley sits on this spectrum.

36 publications 467+

This scientist: 178 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Bill Shipley D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bill Shipley sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Bill Shipley is a researcher affiliated with Université de Sherbrooke in Canada, focused primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics covered by Shipley's research include:

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Plant and animal studies
Species Distribution and Climate Change
Forest ecology and management
Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis

Their recent publications demonstrate a focus on ecological traits, ecosystem functions, and decomposition processes. Notable papers include:

"Global root traits (GRooT) database" (2020), published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
"The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset" (2022), published in Scientific Data
"The complexity of trait-environment performance landscapes in a local subtropical forest" (2020), published in New Phytologist
"Causal hypotheses accounting for correlations between decomposition rates of different mass fractions of leaf litter" (2020), published in Ecology
"Crop functional diversity drives multiple ecosystem functions during early agroforestry succession" (2021), published in Journal of Applied Ecology

Shipley frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Isabelle Aubin, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Grégoire T. Freschet, Jens Kattge, and Hendrik Poorter. These collaborations underscore an active engagement in ecological research communities and multidisciplinary studies.

The researcher has multiple publications in key ecological and environmental journals, such as:

Ecology
Ecosystems
Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Global Ecology and Biogeography

Best Publications

The global spectrum of plant form and function

Sandra Myrna Díaz;Jens Kattge;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Ian J. Wright

3228
Citations
TRY - a global database of plant traits

J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

2885
Citations
TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

1926
Citations
Cause and Correlation in Biology: A User's Guide to Path Analysis, Structural Equations and Causal Inference

Bill Shipley

1515
Citations
Confirmatory path analysis in a generalized multilevel context.

Bill Shipley

1074
Citations
A standardized protocol for the determination of specific leaf area and leaf dry matter content

E. Garnier;B. Shipley;C. Roumet;G. Laurent

996
Citations
Cause and correlation in biology

Bill Shipley

740
Citations
Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities

Franciska T. de Vries;Pete Manning;Jerry R. B. Tallowin;Simon R. Mortimer

705
Citations
A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

Andrew Siefert;Cyrille Violle;Loïc Chalmandrier;Loïc Chalmandrier;Cécile H Albert

702
Citations
The balanced‐growth hypothesis and the allometry of leaf and root biomass allocation

B. Shipley;D. Meziane

699
Citations
A Modern Tool for Classical Plant Growth Analysis

R. Hunt;D. R. Causton;B. Shipley;A. P. Askew

695
Citations
From Plant Traits to Plant Communities: A Statistical Mechanistic Approach to Biodiversity

Bill Shipley;Denis Vile;Denis Vile;Éric Garnier

685
Citations
The AIC model selection method applied to path analytic models compared using a d-separation test.

Bill Shipley

653
Citations
Fundamental trade-offs generating the worldwide leaf economics spectrum

Bill Shipley;Martin J. Lechowicz;Ian Wright;Peter B. Reich

621
Citations
A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

Simon Pierce;Daniel Negreiros;Bruno E. L. Cerabolini;Jens Kattge

597
Citations
Specific Leaf Area and dry Matter Content Estimate thickness in Laminar Leaves

Denis Vile;Éric Garnier;Bill Shipley;Gérard Laurent

587
Citations
Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology.

Bill Shipley;Francesco De Bello;Francesco De Bello;J. Hans C. Cornelissen;Etienne Laliberté

551
Citations
Net assimilation rate, specific leaf area and leaf mass ratio: which is most closely correlated with relative growth rate? A meta‐analysis

B. Shipley

404
Citations
Competitive hierarchies in herbaceous plant communities

Paul A. Keddy;Bill Shipley

393
Citations
Is leaf dry matter content a better predictor of soil fertility than specific leaf area

J. G. Hodgson;G. Montserrat-Martí;M. Charles;G. Jones

371
Citations
Trade-offs between net assimilation rate and specific leaf area in determining relative growth rate: relationship with daily irradiance

B. Shipley

291
Citations