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86
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38651
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566
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20

Hal Caswell publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hal Caswell sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 222 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Hal Caswell D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hal Caswell sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Hal Caswell is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans a range of topics primarily centered around social sciences and environmental science, including demography, sociology and political science, ecology, and gender studies.

The scientist's work covers various main topics such as:

  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction

Caswell has published numerous papers in leading venues, including significant contributions to Demographic Research and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Some of the recent papers include:

  • The formal demography of kinship II: Multistate models, parity, and sibship (2020), Demographic Research
  • The formal demography of kinship III: Kinship dynamics with time-varying demographic rates (2021), Demographic Research
  • Variance as a life history outcome: Sensitivity analysis of the contributions of stochasticity and heterogeneity (2020), Ecological Modelling
  • A demographic and evolutionary analysis of maternal effect senescence (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Projections of human kinship for all countries (2023), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors include Silke F. van Daalen, Christina M. Hernández, Xi Song, Michael G. Neubert, and Kristin E. Gribble, reflecting collaborations across demography, ecology, and related disciplines.

The most common publication venues for Caswell are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Demographic Research
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • The American Naturalist

Caswell has received multiple recognitions, including fellowships from:

  • Ecological Society of America (2014)
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000)
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1989)
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (1985)

Best Publications

  • Matrix Population Models

    Hal Caswell

  • A Stage‐Based Population Model for Loggerhead Sea Turtles and Implications for Conservation

    Deborah T. Crouse;Larry B. Crowder;Hal Caswell

  • Elasticity: The Relative Contribution of Demographic Parameters to Population Growth Rate

    Hans de Kroon;Anton Plaisier;Jan van Groenendael;Hal Caswell

  • Diversity of ageing across the tree of life

    Owen Jones;Alexander Scheuerlein;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Carlo Giovanni Camarda

  • PREDATOR-MEDIATED COEXISTENCE: A NONEQUILIBRIUM MODEL

    Hal Caswell

  • LIFE HISTORIES AND ELASTICITY PATTERNS: PERTURBATION ANALYSIS FOR SPECIES WITH MINIMAL DEMOGRAPHIC DATA

    Selina S. Heppell;Hal Caswell;Larry B. Crowder

  • Community Structure: A Neutral Model Analysis

    Hal Caswell

  • Structured-population models in marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems

    Shripad Tuljapurkar;Hal Caswell

  • DEMOGRAPHY AND DISPERSAL: CALCULATION AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF INVASION SPEED FOR STRUCTURED POPULATIONS

    Michael G. Neubert;Hal Caswell

  • PROSPECTIVE AND RETROSPECTIVE PERTURBATION ANALYSES: THEIR ROLES IN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

    Hal Caswell

  • ALTERNATIVES TO RESILIENCE FOR MEASURING THE RESPONSES OF ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS TO PERTURBATIONS

    Michael G. Neubert;Hal Caswell

  • A general formula for the sensitivity of population growth rate to changes in life history parameters.

    Hal Caswell

  • ESTIMATION OF INDIVIDUAL FITNESS FROM LIFE-HISTORY DATA

    James B. Mcgraw;Hal Caswell

  • Demography of the endangered North Atlantic right whale

    Masami Fujiwara;Hal Caswell

  • Population Growth Rates and Age Versus Stage-Distribution Models for Teasel (Dipsacus Sylvestris Huds.)

    Patricia A. Werner;Hal Caswell

  • North Atlantic Right Whales in Crisis

    Scott D. Kraus;Moira W. Brown;Hal Caswell;Christopher W. Clark

  • Phenotypic Plasticity in Life-History Traits: Demographic Effects and Evolutionary Consequences

    Hal Caswell

  • Sensitivity analysis of transient population dynamics.

    Hal Caswell

  • Pod-specific demography of killer whales(Orcinus orca).

    Solange Brault;Hal Caswell

  • Declining survival probability threatens the North Atlantic right whale.

    Hal Caswell;Masami Fujiwara;Solange Brault

  • The compadre Plant Matrix Database: an open online repository for plant demography

    Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Owen R. Jones;C. Ruth Archer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Yvonne M. Buckley

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphanie Jenouvrier
Stéphanie Jenouvrier Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
James W. Vaupel
James W. Vaupel University of Southern Denmark
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Roberto Salguero-Gómez University of Oxford
Henri Weimerskirch
Henri Weimerskirch Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christophe Barbraud
Christophe Barbraud Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Yvonne M. Buckley
Yvonne M. Buckley Trinity College Dublin
Mercedes Pascual
Mercedes Pascual University of Chicago
Joel E. Cohen
Joel E. Cohen Rockefeller University
Marika M. Holland
Marika M. Holland National Center for Atmospheric Research
Julienne Stroeve
Julienne Stroeve University of Manitoba

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