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53
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9190
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3336
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181

Joseph O. Ogutu 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 Joseph O. Ogutu sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 129 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joseph O. Ogutu 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 Joseph O. Ogutu sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Joseph O. Ogutu is affiliated with the University of Hohenheim in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields including Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers a diverse range of topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, Species Distribution and Climate Change, as well as Primate Behavior and Ecology.

Ogutu's recent publications include:

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations, 2021, Science
  • Spatio-Temporal Changes in Wildlife Habitat Quality in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem, 2020, Sustainability
  • Genomic prediction using machine learning: a comparison of the performance of regularized regression, ensemble, instance-based and deep learning methods on synthetic and empirical data, 2024, BMC Genomics
  • Moving through the mosaic: identifying critical linkage zones for large herbivores across a multiple-use African landscape, 2021, Landscape Ecology
  • Savannas are vital but overlooked carbon sinks, 2022, Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ogutu include:

  • Hans-Peter Piepho
  • Jared A. Stabach
  • Gordon O. Ojwang
  • Mohammed Y. Said
  • J. Grant C. Hopcraft

The main publication venues for their research are:

  • Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Genomics
  • Biological Conservation
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Genomic selection using regularized linear regression models: ridge regression, lasso, elastic net and their extensions

    Joseph O Ogutu;Torben Schulz-Streeck;Hans-Peter Piepho

  • Extreme Wildlife Declines and Concurrent Increase in Livestock Numbers in Kenya: What Are the Causes?

    Joseph O. Ogutu;Hans-Peter Piepho;Mohamed Y. Said;Gordon O. Ojwang

  • Conserving large carnivores: dollars and fence

    C. Packer;A. Loveridge;S. Canney;Timothy Caro

  • A comparison of random forests, boosting and support vector machines for genomic selection

    Joseph O Ogutu;Hans-Peter Piepho;Torben Schulz-Streeck

  • Continuing wildlife population declines and range contraction in the Mara region of Kenya during 1977-2009

    Joseph O. Ogutu;Joseph O. Ogutu;N. Owen-Smith;Hans-Peter Piepho;Mohammed Yahya Said

  • ENSO, rainfall and temperature influences on extreme population declines among African savanna ungulates

    Joseph O. Ogutu;Norman Owen‐Smith

  • Cross-boundary human impacts compromise the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem

    Michiel P. Veldhuis;Mark E. Ritchie;Joseph O. Ogutu;Thomas A. Morrison

  • Dynamics of Mara-Serengeti ungulates in relation to land use changes

    Joseph O. Ogutu;Hans-Peter Piepho;H.T. Dublin;N. Bhola

  • Evolution of models to support community and policy action with science: Balancing pastoral livelihoods and wildlife conservation in savannas of East Africa

    R. S. Reid;D. Nkedianye;D. Nkedianye;M. Y. Said;D. Kaelo

  • Rainfall influences on ungulate population abundance in the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem.

    J. O. Ogutu;H.-P. Piepho;H. T. Dublin;N. Bhola

  • A stage-wise approach for the analysis of multi-environment trials.

    Hans-Peter Piepho;Jens Möhring;Torben Schulz-Streeck;Joseph O Ogutu

  • Correlates of survival rates for 10 African ungulate populations: density, rainfall and predation

    Norman Owen-Smith;Norman Owen-Smith;Darryl R. Mason;Joseph O. Ogutu;Joseph O. Ogutu

  • The response of lions and spotted hyaenas to sound playbacks as a technique for estimating population size

    J. O. Ogutu;H. T. Dublin

  • Human-wildlife conflicts and their correlates in Narok County, Kenya

    Joseph M. Mukeka;Joseph M. Mukeka;Joseph O. Ogutu;Erustus Kanga;Eivin Røskaft

  • El Niño-Southern Oscillation, rainfall, temperature and normalized difference vegetation index fluctuations in the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem

    J. Ogutu;Hans-Peter Piepho;H.T. Dublin;N. Bhola

  • The effects of pastoralism and protection on the density and distribution of carnivores and their prey in the Mara ecosystem of Kenya

    Joseph O. Ogutu;Nina Bhola;Robin Reid

  • Mobility and livestock mortality in communally used pastoral areas: the impact of the 2005-2006 drought on livestock mortality in Maasailand

    David Nkedianye;David Nkedianye;Jan de Leeuw;Joseph O Ogutu;Joseph O Ogutu;Mohammed Y Said

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations.

    Matthew J. Kauffman;Francesca Cagnacci;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Mark Hebblewhite

  • Road will ruin Serengeti

    Andrew P. Dobson;Markus Borner;Anthony R. E. Sinclair;Peter J. Hudson

  • Livelihood mapping and poverty correlates at a meso-level in Kenya

    Patricia M. Kristjanson;Maren A.O. Radeny;Isabelle Baltenweck;Joseph O. Ogutu

  • Genome-based prediction of maize hybrid performance across genetic groups, testers, locations, and years

    Theresa Albrecht;Hans-Jürgen Auinger;Valentin Wimmer;Joseph O. Ogutu

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Peter Piepho
Hans-Peter Piepho University of Hohenheim
Robin S. Reid
Robin S. Reid Colorado State University
Norman Owen-Smith
Norman Owen-Smith University of the Witwatersrand
Han Olff
Han Olff University of Groningen
Eivin Røskaft
Eivin Røskaft Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Randall B. Boone
Randall B. Boone Colorado State University
Jan W. de Leeuw
Jan W. de Leeuw International Soil Reference and Information Centre
Bekele Megersa
Bekele Megersa Addis Ababa University
Kathleen A. Galvin
Kathleen A. Galvin Colorado State University
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra
Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra University of Twente

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