2026 James R. Bence: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	38	8621	8273	3080	2862	124	5771

Overview

James R. Bence is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States and conducts research primarily in environmental science. Their work encompasses multiple subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, global and planetary change, aquatic science, and ecological modeling.

Their research topics focus mainly on fish ecology and management studies, marine and fisheries research, wildlife ecology and conservation, fish biology and ecology, species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics, as well as genetic diversity and population structure.

They have authored several papers in various academic journals. Recent publications include:

An assessment of statistical methods for nonindependent data in ecological meta-analyses, 2020, Ecology
Comparing traditional and Bayesian approaches to ecological meta-analysis, 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
An assessment of statistical methods for non-independent data in ecological meta-analyses: Reply, 2021, Ecology
Using simulation to understand annual sea lamprey marking rates on lake trout, 2020, Journal of Great Lakes Research
Dynamics of lake trout production in the main basin of Lake Huron, 2020, ICES Journal of Marine Science

Frequent coauthors in Bence's research include Craig W. Osenberg, Ji X. He, Chao Song, Scott D. Peacor, and Elizabeth Hamman.

James R. Bence regularly publishes in the following venues:

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Journal of Great Lakes Research
Fisheries Research
Ecology
North American Journal of Fisheries Management

Best Publications

TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Allan Stewart-Oaten;James R. Bence

424
Citations
Assessing Effects of Unreplicated Perturbations: No Simple Solutions

Allan Stewart-Oaten;James R. Bence;Craig W. Osenberg

371
Citations
Dynamics of the Lake Michigan food web, 1970-2000

Charles P. Madenjian;Gary L. Fahnenstiel;Thomas H. Johengen;Thomas F. Nalepa

370
Citations
Analysis of Short Time Series: Correcting for Autocorrelation

James R. Bence

253
Citations
A review of harvest policies: Understanding relative performance of control rules

Jonathan J. Deroba;James R. Bence

213
Citations
PREY SIZE SELECTION BY THE MOSQUITOFISH: RELATION TO OPTIMAL DIET THEORY'

James R. Bence;W. W. Murdoch

184
Citations
Space-limited recruitment in open systems: the importance of time delays

J. R. Bence;R. M. Nisbet

146
Citations
Ecology of the Lake Huron fish community, 1970-1999

Norine E. Dobiesz;David A. McLeish;Randy L. Eshenroder;James R. Bence

141
Citations
Detecting the ecological effects of environmental impacts: A case study of kelp forest invertebrates

Stephen C. Schroeter;John D. Dixon;Jon Kastendiek;Richard O. Smith

141
Citations
Prey Selection by Freshwater Predators with Different Foraging Strategies

Scott D. Cooper;Daniel W. Smith;James R. Bence

127
Citations
Recruitment Variability of Alewives in Lake Michigan

Charles P. Madenjian;Tomas O. Höök;Edward S. Rutherford;Doran M. Mason

124
Citations
INDIRECT EFFECTS AND BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF MOSQUITOES BY MOSQUITOFISH

J. R. Bence

123
Citations
Lake Trout Mortality and Abundance in Southern Lake Huron

Shawn P. Sitar;James R. Bence;James E. Johnson;Mark P. Ebener

111
Citations
Coupling age-structured stock assessment and fish bioenergetics models: a system of time-varying models for quantifying piscivory patterns during the rapid trophic shift in the main basin of Lake Huron

Ji X. He;James R. Bence;Charles P. Madenjian;Steven A. Pothoven

99
Citations
Yellow Perch Dynamics in Southwestern Lake Michigan during 1986-2002

Michael J. Wilberg;James R. Bence;Bradley T. Eggold;Daniel Makauskas

99
Citations
Performance of time-varying catchability estimators in statistical catch-at-age analysis

Michael J Wilberg;James R Bence

94
Citations
Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) Parasite-host Interactions in the Great Lakes

James R. Bence;Roger A. Bergstedt;Gavin C. Christie;Phillip A. Cochran

93
Citations
Applying structured decision making to recreational fisheries management

Brian J. Irwin;Michael J. Wilberg;Michael L. Jones;James R. Bence

91
Citations
An approach to estimating rockfish biomass based on larval production, with application to Sebastes jordani*

Stephen Ralston;James R. Bence;Maxwell B. Eldridge;William H. Lenarz

85
Citations
Modeling Annual Growth Variation using a Hierarchical Bayesian Approach and the von Bertalanffy Growth Function, with Application to Lake Trout in Southern Lake Huron

J. X. He;J. R. Bence

84
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael L. Jones Michigan State University

Charles P. Madenjian United States Geological Survey

Kim T. Scribner Michigan State University

William F. Porter Michigan State University

Scott D. Peacor Michigan State University

Craig W. Osenberg University of Georgia

Tyler Wagner United States Geological Survey

Steven A. Pothoven National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Thomas F. Nalepa University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Charles R. Bronte United States Fish and Wildlife Service

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