2026 Jacob Weiner: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	71	1289	1231	25	24	150	22813

Overview

Jacob Weiner is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily falls within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Plant Science, Agronomy and Crop Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Soil Science.

The scientist has contributed to several main topics including:

Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
Plant and animal studies
Genetics and Plant Breeding

Recent publications of Jacob Weiner include:

"Yield components, reproductive allometry and the tradeoff between grain yield and yield stability in dryland spring wheat" (2020), Field Crops Research
"Resistance vs. surrender: Different responses of functional traits of soybean and peanut to intercropping with maize" (2022), Field Crops Research
"Effects of Intra- and Interspecific Plant Density on Rhizosphere Bacterial Communities" (2020), Frontiers in Microbiology
"Cultivar mixtures increase crop yields and temporal yield stability globally. A meta-analysis" (2024), Agronomy for Sustainable Development
"Effect of reductive soil disinfestation on the chemical and microbial characteristics of rhizosphere soils associated with Salvia miltiorrhiza production in three cropping systems" (2020), Applied Soil Ecology

Jacob Weiner frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

Feng-Min Li
Yan-Lei Du
Andrea Cavalieri
Christian Damgaard
Yue Xi

Their work appears regularly in multiple scientific journals, with notable frequent publication venues such as:

Field Crops Research
Frontiers in Plant Science
Journal of Plant Ecology
Agronomy
Basic and Applied Ecology

Best Publications

Pattern-oriented modeling of agent-based complex systems: lessons from ecology

Volker Grimm;Eloy Revilla;Uta Berger;Florian Jeltsch

2613
Citations
Asymmetric competition in plant populations

Jacob Weiner

1530
Citations
Mechanisms determining the degree of size asymmetry in competition among plants.

Susanne Schwinning;Jacob Weiner

1203
Citations
Allocation, plasticity and allometry in plants

Jacob Weiner

1149
Citations
Size variability and competition in plant monocultures

Jacob Weiner;Sean C. Thomas

875
Citations
Are invasive plant species better competitors than native plant species? - evidence from pair-wise experiments

Montserrat Vilà;Jacob Weiner

784
Citations
The meaning and measurement of size hierarchies in plant populations

Jacob Weiner;Otto T. Solbrig

683
Citations
Size Hierarchies in Experimental Populations of Annual Plants

Jacob Weiner

576
Citations
The effect of nutrient availability on biomass allocation patterns in 27 species of herbaceous plants

Ivo Müller;Bernhard Schmid;Jacob Weiner

534
Citations
Bootstrapping the gini coefficient of inequality

Philip M. Dixon;Jacob Weiner;Thomas Mitchell-Olds;Robert Woodley

434
Citations
Describing inequality in plant size or fecundity

Christian Damgaard;Jacob Weiner

424
Citations
The influence of competition on plant reproduction.

J. Weiner

416
Citations
Suppression of weeds by spring wheat Triticum aestivum increases with crop density and spatial uniformity

Jacob Weiner;Hans-Werner Griepentrog;Lars Kristensen

409
Citations
Neighbourhood interference amongst Pinus Rigida individuals.

Jacob Weiner

386
Citations
The allometry of reproduction within plant populations

Jacob Weiner;Jacob Weiner;Lesley G. Campbell;Joan Pino;Laura Echarte

372
Citations
A Neighborhood Model of Annual-Plant Interference

Jacob Weiner

325
Citations
How competition for light and nutrients affects size variability in Ipomoea tricolor populations

Jacob Weiner

319
Citations
Competition and Allometry in Three Species of Annual Plants

Jacob Weiner;Sean C. Thomas

306
Citations
The Effects of Density, Spatial Pattern, and Competitive Symmetry on Size Variation in Simulated Plant Populations

J. Weiner;Peter Stoll;H. Müller-Landau;A. Jasentuliyana

300
Citations
Feeding the world: genetically modified crops versus agricultural biodiversity

Sven-Erik Jacobsen;Marten Sørensen;Søren Marcus Pedersen;Jacob Weiner

298
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Damgaard Aarhus University

Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich

Feng-Min Li Lanzhou University

Sean C. Thomas University of Toronto

Fernando T. Maestre King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Montserrat Vilà Spanish National Research Council

Volker Grimm Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Jørgen E. Olesen Aarhus University

Sven-Erik Jacobsen University of Copenhagen

Jun Li University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

External Links

Personal website of Jacob Weiner

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