2026 Mathew A. Leibold: 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	59	2365	2265	839	791	153	22954

Mathew A. Leibold 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 Mathew A. Leibold sits on this spectrum.

37 publications 533+

This scientist: 153 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Mathew A. Leibold 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 Mathew A. Leibold sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mathew A. Leibold is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research spans several main fields of study including Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist's work covers multiple subfields such as Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics, and Ecological Modeling.

The primary topics Mathew A. Leibold investigates involve Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Gut Microbiota and Health, and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies.

Among their recent publications, key papers include:

"Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects" (2023, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
"Evolution and Community Assembly Across Spatial Scales" (2022, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics)
"A Landscape of Opportunities for Microbial Ecology Research" (2020, Frontiers in Microbiology)
"Integrating fundamental processes to understand eco-evolutionary community dynamics and patterns" (2021, Functional Ecology)
"The Internal Structure of Metacommunities" (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))

Frequent collaborators in Mathew A. Leibold's work include Florian Härtig, Luc De Meester, Jonathan M. Chase, Alex Bush, and Maximilian Pichler.

The scientist's publications appeared often in several venues, notably bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, and Frontiers in Microbiology.

Best Publications

The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology

M. A. Leibold;M. Holyoak;N. Mouquet;N. Mouquet;P. Amarasekare

5892
Citations
Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches

Jonathan M. Chase;Mathew A. Leibold

2563
Citations
Spatial scale dictates the productivity-biodiversity relationship.

Jonathan M. Chase;Mathew A. Leibold

1019
Citations
Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities

Mark Hovenden;M. Holyoak;M. A. Leibold;R. D. Holt

1001
Citations
Coexistence of the niche and neutral perspectives in community ecology.

Mathew A. Leibold;Mark A. McPeek

887
Citations
A Graphical Model of Keystone Predators in Food Webs: Trophic Regulation of Abundance, Incidence, and Diversity Patterns in Communities

Mathew A. Leibold

691
Citations
Coherence, species turnover, and boundary clumping: Elements of meta-community structure

Mathew A. Leibold;Gregory M. Mikkelson

518
Citations
Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

Nicolas Mouquet;Vincent Devictor;Christine N. Meynard;Francois Munoz

504
Citations
Metacommunity Ecology, Volume 59

Mathew A. Leibold;Jonathan M. Chase

460
Citations
Species Turnover and the Regulation of Trophic Structure

Mathew A. Leibold;Jonathan M. Chase;Jonathan B. Shurin;Amy L. Downing

407
Citations
Bacterial diversity patterns along a gradient of primary productivity

M. Claire Horner-Devine;Mathew A. Leibold;Val H. Smith;Brendan J. M. Bohannan

376
Citations
The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities.

Mark C. Urban;Mathew A. Leibold;Priyanga Amarasekare;Luc De Meester

359
Citations
Linking community and ecosystem dynamics through spatial ecology

François Massol;Dominique Gravel;Dominique Gravel;Nicolas Mouquet;Marc W. Cadotte

333
Citations
A COMPARISON OF TAXON CO-OCCURRENCE PATTERNS FOR MACRO- AND MICROORGANISMS

M. Claire Horner-Devine;Jessica M. Silver;Mathew A. Leibold;Brendan J.M. Bohannan

324
Citations
Ecosystem consequences of species richness and composition in pond food webs

Amy L. Downing;Mathew A. Leibold

298
Citations
LOCAL AND REGIONAL ZOOPLANKTON SPECIES RICHNESS: A SCALE-INDEPENDENT TEST FOR SATURATION

Jonathan B. Shurin;John E. Havel;Mathew A. Leibold;Bernadette Pinel-Alloul

287
Citations
Biodiversity and nutrient enrichment in pond plankton communities

Mathew A. Leibold

254
Citations
THE EFFECTS OF PRODUCTIVITY, HERBIVORY, AND PLANT SPECIES TURNOVER IN GRASSLAND FOOD WEBS

Jonathan M. Chase;Mathew A. Leibold;Amy L. Downing;Jonathan B. Shurin

254
Citations
Metacommunity phylogenetics: separating the roles of environmental filters and historical biogeography.

Mathew A. Leibold;Evan P. Economo;Pedro Peres-Neto

252
Citations
Similarity and local co-existence of species in regional biotas

Mathew A. Leibold

228
Citations
Community assembly and the functioning of ecosystems: how metacommunity processes alter ecosystems attributes.

Mathew A. Leibold;Jonathan M. Chase;S. K. Morgan Ernest

227
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan M. Chase Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Nicolas Mouquet University of Montpellier

Dominique Gravel Université de Sherbrooke

Val H. Smith University of Kansas

Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin

Pedro R. Peres-Neto Concordia University

Spencer R. Hall Indiana University

S. K. Morgan Ernest University of Florida

Jonathan B. Shurin University of California, San Diego

David A. Lytle Oregon State University

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