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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Ecology and Evolution 75 1022 974 58 54 182 33168

Mark Vellend publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Mark Vellend between 1999 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Mark Vellend published across 28 years, from 1999 to 2026, averaging 7.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 15 publications in 2016. 9 of the 203 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1999 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 15. Peak 15 publications in 2016. 1999: 1 publication 2000: 3 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 2 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 7 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 7 publications 2009: 7 publications 2010: 7 publications 2011: 8 publications 2012: 11 publications 2013: 14 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 15 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 8 publications 2019: 11 publications 2020: 9 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 7 publications 2023: 12 publications 2024: 7 publications 2025: 7 publications 2026: 2 publications
1999 2026

203 publications in total across all disciplines

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Mark Vellend: publications per year, 1999 to 2026
Year Publications
1999 1
2000 3
2001 1
2002 2
2003 3
2004 6
2005 7
2006 4
2007 3
2008 7
2009 7
2010 7
2011 8
2012 11
2013 14
2014 7
2015 11
2016 15
2017 13
2018 8
2019 11
2020 9
2021 10
2022 7
2023 12
2024 7
2025 7
2026 2
Total 203
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Mark Vellend publications per year - data summary

  • Mark Vellend, a Ecology and Evolution scholar from Université de Sherbrooke, has 203 publications recorded across 28 years, from 1999 to 2026.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1999 and the most recent to 2026.
  • The most productive year is 2016, with 15 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1999 and 2001, with 1 publication each.
  • The rate of publication averages 7.3 papers per year over the whole span, or 7.3 per year counting only the 28 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2022-2026) hold 35 publications, 17% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1999-2008: 37 publications (3.7 per year); 2009-2018: 101 publications (10.1 per year); 2019-2026: 65 publications (8.1 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Mark Vellend 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 Mark Vellend sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 100 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 37–41 to 531+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 333. Most scientists, 333, have 97–101 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 182–186 publications, is where this scientist sits. 37–41 publications: 2 scientists 42–46 publications: 9 scientists 47–51 publications: 10 scientists 52–56 publications: 31 scientists 57–61 publications: 56 scientists 62–66 publications: 91 scientists 67–71 publications: 92 scientists 72–76 publications: 127 scientists 77–81 publications: 173 scientists 82–86 publications: 236 scientists 87–91 publications: 227 scientists 92–96 publications: 240 scientists 97–101 publications: 333 scientists 102–106 publications: 280 scientists 107–111 publications: 300 scientists 112–116 publications: 285 scientists 117–121 publications: 305 scientists 122–126 publications: 287 scientists 127–131 publications: 278 scientists 132–136 publications: 289 scientists 137–141 publications: 273 scientists 142–146 publications: 262 scientists 147–151 publications: 246 scientists 152–156 publications: 235 scientists 157–161 publications: 205 scientists 162–166 publications: 199 scientists 167–171 publications: 174 scientists 172–176 publications: 164 scientists 177–181 publications: 173 scientists 182–186 publications: 189 scientists 187–191 publications: 170 scientists 192–196 publications: 139 scientists 197–201 publications: 128 scientists 202–206 publications: 117 scientists 207–211 publications: 115 scientists 212–216 publications: 107 scientists 217–221 publications: 124 scientists 222–226 publications: 81 scientists 227–231 publications: 82 scientists 232–236 publications: 85 scientists 237–241 publications: 75 scientists 242–246 publications: 66 scientists 247–251 publications: 81 scientists 252–256 publications: 69 scientists 257–261 publications: 70 scientists 262–266 publications: 55 scientists 267–271 publications: 64 scientists 272–276 publications: 49 scientists 277–281 publications: 48 scientists 282–286 publications: 44 scientists 287–291 publications: 45 scientists 292–296 publications: 36 scientists 297–301 publications: 39 scientists 302–306 publications: 38 scientists 307–311 publications: 30 scientists 312–316 publications: 34 scientists 317–321 publications: 25 scientists 322–326 publications: 22 scientists 327–331 publications: 28 scientists 332–336 publications: 30 scientists 337–341 publications: 22 scientists 342–346 publications: 30 scientists 347–351 publications: 26 scientists 352–356 publications: 22 scientists 357–361 publications: 29 scientists 362–366 publications: 21 scientists 367–371 publications: 12 scientists 372–376 publications: 18 scientists 377–381 publications: 17 scientists 382–386 publications: 13 scientists 387–391 publications: 21 scientists 392–396 publications: 13 scientists 397–401 publications: 10 scientists 402–406 publications: 15 scientists 407–411 publications: 8 scientists 412–416 publications: 9 scientists 417–421 publications: 8 scientists 422–426 publications: 4 scientists 427–431 publications: 10 scientists 432–436 publications: 10 scientists 437–441 publications: 5 scientists 442–446 publications: 4 scientists 447–451 publications: 10 scientists 452–456 publications: 2 scientists 457–461 publications: 4 scientists 462–466 publications: 7 scientists 467–471 publications: 7 scientists 472–476 publications: 6 scientists 477–481 publications: 6 scientists 482–486 publications: 3 scientists 487–491 publications: 3 scientists 492–496 publications: 4 scientists 497–501 publications: 4 scientists 502–506 publications: 8 scientists 507–511 publications: 5 scientists 512–516 publications: 4 scientists 517–521 publications: 5 scientists 522–526 publications: 4 scientists 527–530 publications: 5 scientists 531+ publications: 100 scientists
37–41 publications 531+

This scientist: 182 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Ecology and Evolution scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 8,381 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
37–41 2
42–46 9
47–51 10
52–56 31
57–61 56
62–66 91
67–71 92
72–76 127
77–81 173
82–86 236
87–91 227
92–96 240
97–101 333
102–106 280
107–111 300
112–116 285
117–121 305
122–126 287
127–131 278
132–136 289
137–141 273
142–146 262
147–151 246
152–156 235
157–161 205
162–166 199
167–171 174
172–176 164
177–181 173
182–186 189 182
187–191 170
192–196 139
197–201 128
202–206 117
207–211 115
212–216 107
217–221 124
222–226 81
227–231 82
232–236 85
237–241 75
242–246 66
247–251 81
252–256 69
257–261 70
262–266 55
267–271 64
272–276 49
277–281 48
282–286 44
287–291 45
292–296 36
297–301 39
302–306 38
307–311 30
312–316 34
317–321 25
322–326 22
327–331 28
332–336 30
337–341 22
342–346 30
347–351 26
352–356 22
357–361 29
362–366 21
367–371 12
372–376 18
377–381 17
382–386 13
387–391 21
392–396 13
397–401 10
402–406 15
407–411 8
412–416 9
417–421 8
422–426 4
427–431 10
432–436 10
437–441 5
442–446 4
447–451 10
452–456 2
457–461 4
462–466 7
467–471 7
472–476 6
477–481 6
482–486 3
487–491 3
492–496 4
497–501 4
502–506 8
507–511 5
512–516 4
517–521 5
522–526 4
527–530 5
531+ 100
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Mark Vellend publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 8,381 Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 100 ranges running from 37–41 to 531+ publications.
  • Mark Vellend, a Ecology and Evolution scholar from Université de Sherbrooke, records 182 publications - the 67th percentile of the discipline.
  • 67% of ranked Ecology and Evolution scientists score the same or lower than Mark Vellend, and about 33% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 147–151 publications range, and Mark Vellend ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 97–101 publications, holding 333 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 58% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 157–161 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 531 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Mark Vellend 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 Mark Vellend sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 92 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 121+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 280. Most scientists, 280, have 40 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 75 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 95 scientists 31 D-Index: 123 scientists 32 D-Index: 191 scientists 33 D-Index: 245 scientists 34 D-Index: 252 scientists 35 D-Index: 244 scientists 36 D-Index: 249 scientists 37 D-Index: 244 scientists 38 D-Index: 254 scientists 39 D-Index: 254 scientists 40 D-Index: 280 scientists 41 D-Index: 274 scientists 42 D-Index: 266 scientists 43 D-Index: 233 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 208 scientists 46 D-Index: 201 scientists 47 D-Index: 213 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 172 scientists 50 D-Index: 209 scientists 51 D-Index: 199 scientists 52 D-Index: 153 scientists 53 D-Index: 169 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 148 scientists 56 D-Index: 120 scientists 57 D-Index: 146 scientists 58 D-Index: 137 scientists 59 D-Index: 140 scientists 60 D-Index: 104 scientists 61 D-Index: 119 scientists 62 D-Index: 118 scientists 63 D-Index: 99 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 100 scientists 66 D-Index: 86 scientists 67 D-Index: 83 scientists 68 D-Index: 75 scientists 69 D-Index: 94 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 68 scientists 72 D-Index: 59 scientists 73 D-Index: 63 scientists 74 D-Index: 66 scientists 75 D-Index: 60 scientists 76 D-Index: 42 scientists 77 D-Index: 49 scientists 78 D-Index: 39 scientists 79 D-Index: 37 scientists 80 D-Index: 43 scientists 81 D-Index: 41 scientists 82 D-Index: 45 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 40 scientists 85 D-Index: 35 scientists 86 D-Index: 55 scientists 87 D-Index: 24 scientists 88 D-Index: 24 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 25 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 27 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 23 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 14 scientists 98 D-Index: 19 scientists 99 D-Index: 16 scientists 100 D-Index: 14 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 21 scientists 103 D-Index: 16 scientists 104 D-Index: 10 scientists 105 D-Index: 7 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 7 scientists 108 D-Index: 6 scientists 109 D-Index: 9 scientists 110 D-Index: 11 scientists 111 D-Index: 12 scientists 112 D-Index: 9 scientists 113 D-Index: 7 scientists 114 D-Index: 3 scientists 115 D-Index: 8 scientists 116 D-Index: 5 scientists 117 D-Index: 11 scientists 118 D-Index: 4 scientists 119 D-Index: 2 scientists 120 D-Index: 5 scientists 121+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Ecology and Evolution scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 8,381 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 95
31 123
32 191
33 245
34 252
35 244
36 249
37 244
38 254
39 254
40 280
41 274
42 266
43 233
44 248
45 208
46 201
47 213
48 207
49 172
50 209
51 199
52 153
53 169
54 163
55 148
56 120
57 146
58 137
59 140
60 104
61 119
62 118
63 99
64 77
65 100
66 86
67 83
68 75
69 94
70 57
71 68
72 59
73 63
74 66
75 60 75
76 42
77 49
78 39
79 37
80 43
81 41
82 45
83 34
84 40
85 35
86 55
87 24
88 24
89 30
90 23
91 25
92 27
93 27
94 13
95 23
96 12
97 14
98 19
99 16
100 14
101 5
102 21
103 16
104 10
105 7
106 7
107 7
108 6
109 9
110 11
111 12
112 9
113 7
114 3
115 8
116 5
117 11
118 4
119 2
120 5
121+ 100
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Mark Vellend D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 8,381 Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 92 ranges running from 30 to 121+ D-Index.
  • Mark Vellend, a Ecology and Evolution scholar from Université de Sherbrooke, records 75 D-Index - the 88th percentile of the discipline.
  • 88% of ranked Ecology and Evolution scientists score the same or lower than Mark Vellend, and about 12% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 48 D-Index range, and Mark Vellend ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 40 D-Index, holding 280 scientists (3% of the field).
  • 60% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 52 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Non-climatic constraints on upper elevational plant range expansion under climate change. Proc. Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281:20141779

Overview

Mark Vellend is affiliated with the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable work in subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Mark Vellend has published widely in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist
  • Global Change Biology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Recent publications by Vellend include:

  • "Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes" (2020) in People and Nature
  • "Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome" (2020) in Nature Communications
  • "Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead" (2023) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats" (2021) in Ecology Letters
  • "Predicting leaf traits across functional groups using reflectance spectroscopy" (2023) in New Phytologist

Frequent co-authors of Mark Vellend include:

  • Étienne Laliberté
  • Anna L. Crofts
  • Margaret Kalácska
  • Nicholas C. Coops
  • Christine I.B. Wallis

Mark Vellend received the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2015 for work related to non-climatic constraints on upper elevational plant range expansion under climate change, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

    Mark Vellend

  • Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist

    Marti J. Anderson;Thomas O. Crist;Jonathan M. Chase;Mark Vellend

  • Ecological consequences of genetic diversity.

    A. Randall Hughes;Brian D. Inouye;Marc T. J. Johnson;Nora Underwood

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity

    Jonathan M. Chase;Jonathan M. Chase;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Kevin G. Smith;Mark Vellend

  • Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Research: Is It Relevant to Conservation?

    Diane S. Srivastava;Mark Vellend

  • Disentangling the Drivers of β Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Nathan J. B. Kraft;Liza S. Comita;Liza S. Comita;Jonathan M. Chase;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders

  • Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;David Anthony Coomes;Lander Baeten

  • The Theory of Ecological Communities (MPB-57)

    Mark Vellend

  • Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

    Pieter De Frenne;Florian Zellweger;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;Brett R. Scheffers

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Connections between species diversity and genetic diversity

    Mark Vellend;Monica A. Geber

  • Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

    Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Pieter S. A. Beck;Martin Wilmking

  • Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time

    Mark Vellend;Lander Baeten;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf

  • The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages.

    Shane A. Blowes;Sarah R. Supp;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Laura H. Antao;Amanda Bates

  • Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity

    Lenore Fahrig;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Joseph R. Bennett;Véronique Boucher-Lalonde

  • Recovery of forest plant communities in post‐agricultural landscapes

    Kathryn M. Flinn;Mark Vellend

  • Extinction debt of forest plants persists for more than a century following habitat fragmentation.

    Mark Vellend;Kris Verheyen;Hans Jacquemyn;Annette Kolb

  • Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

    Mark Vellend;Diane S. Srivastava;Kathryn M. Anderson;Carissa D. Brown

  • Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

    Maud Bernard-Verdier;Marie-Laure Navas;Marie-Laure Navas;Mark Vellend;Cyrille Violle

Frequent Co-Authors

Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Anne D. Bjorkman
Anne D. Bjorkman University of Gothenburg
Isla H. Myers-Smith
Isla H. Myers-Smith University of Edinburgh
Sarah C. Elmendorf
Sarah C. Elmendorf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Martin Hermy
Martin Hermy KU Leuven
Jonathan M. Chase
Jonathan M. Chase Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
James C. Stegen
James C. Stegen Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Maria Dornelas
Maria Dornelas University of St Andrews

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