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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
148
Citations
117616
World Ranking
31
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - US President's National Medal of Science "For international leadership in environmental science, straddling ecology and applied mathematics, to promote conservation; for his impact on a generation of environmental scientists; and for his critical contributions to ecology, environmental economics, epidemiology, applied mathematics, and evolution.", Award will be presented by President Barack Obama at a future White House ceremony (date TBD).
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2005 - Kyoto Prize in Biological sciences Establishment of the field of spatial ecology and the proposition of the biosphere as a "complex adaptive system"
  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Simon A. Levin is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research notably focuses on the intersection of ecology, applied mathematics, and epidemiology within this broad field.

They have contributed to several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Infectious Diseases

The primary topics within their body of work are:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models

Recent publications by Simon A. Levin include:

  • Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere, 2021, AMBIO
  • Immune life history, vaccination, and the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 over the next 5 years, 2020, Science
  • Epidemiological and evolutionary considerations of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine dosing regimes, 2021, Science
  • Evolution of cooperation on temporal networks, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Link recommendation algorithms and dynamics of polarization in online social networks, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The frequently published venues for this scientist include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • UNC Libraries

Simon A. Levin has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

  • Bryan T. Grenfell
  • Chadi M. Saad-Roy
  • Daniel I. Rubenstein
  • Andrea L. Graham
  • C. Jessica E. Metcalf

The scientist has received multiple awards recognizing contributions to environmental science and related disciplines:

  • US President's National Medal of Science, 2014, for leadership in environmental science and contributions to ecology, environmental economics, epidemiology, applied mathematics, and evolution
  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), 2012
  • Kyoto Prize in Biological Sciences, 2005, for establishment of the field of spatial ecology and the proposition of the biosphere as a "complex adaptive system"
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992

These data points reveal an extensive and interdisciplinary career marked by scholarly contributions that span multiple dimensions of environmental and epidemiological science.

Best Publications

  • The Problem of Pattern and Scale in Ecology: The Robert H. MacArthur Award Lecture

    Simon Asher Levin

  • Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment

    Kenneth Arrow;Bert Bolin;Robert Costanza;Partha Dasgupta

  • Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment.

    Kenneth Arrow;Bert Bolin;Robert Costanza;Partha Dasgupta

  • Effective leadership and decision-making in animal groups on the move

    Iain D. Couzin;Jens Krause;Nigel R. Franks;Simon Asher Levin

  • Ecosystems and the Biosphere as Complex Adaptive Systems

    Simon Asher Levin

  • Anticipating Critical Transitions

    Marten Scheffer;Marten Scheffer;Stephen R. Carpenter;Timothy M. Lenton;Jordi Bascompte

  • Towards a general theory of adaptive walks on rugged landscapes.

    Stuart Kauffman;Simon Levin

  • Diffusion and Ecological Problems: Modern Perspectives

    明 大久保;Simon A Levin

  • The Value of Nature and the Nature of Value

    Gretchen C. Daily;Tore Söderqvist;Sara Aniyar;Kenneth Arrow

  • Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons

    Simon A Levin

  • Dispersion and Population Interactions

    Simon A. Levin

  • Marine Taxa Track Local Climate Velocities

    Malin L. Pinsky;Malin L. Pinsky;Boris Worm;Michael J. Fogarty;Jorge Louis Sarmiento

  • Intertidal Landscapes: Disturbance and the Dynamics of Pattern

    R. T. Paine;Simon A. Levin

  • The global extent and determinants of savanna and forest as alternative biome states.

    A. Carla Staver;Sally Archibald;Simon A. Levin

  • Encyclopedia of Biodiversity

    Simon A Levin

  • Disturbance, Patch Formation, and Community Structure

    Simon A. Levin;R. T. Paine

  • The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative: An Ecological Research Agenda: A Report from the Ecological Society of America

    Jane Lubchenco;Annette M. Olson;Linda B. Brubaker;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Niche, Habitat, and Ecotope

    R. H. Whittaker;S. A. Levin;R. B. Root

  • Optimal nitrogen-to-phosphorus stoichiometry of phytoplankton

    Christopher A. Klausmeier;Elena Litchman;Elena Litchman;Tanguy Daufresne;Simon A. Levin

  • Influence of nonlinear incidence rates upon the behavior of SIRS epidemiological models

    Wei min Liu;Wei min Liu;Simon A. Levin;Yoh Iwasa

  • Complex systems: Ecology for bankers

    Robert M. May;Simon A. Levin;George Sugihara

  • Are We Consuming Too Much

    Kenneth Arrow;Partha Dasgupta;Lawrence Goulder;Gretchen Daily

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul R. Ehrlich
Paul R. Ehrlich Stanford University
Karl-Göran Mäler
Karl-Göran Mäler Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Jonathan Dushoff
Jonathan Dushoff McMaster University
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Kenneth J. Arrow
Kenneth J. Arrow Stanford University
Partha Dasgupta
Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Ramanan Laxminarayan Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy
Brian Walker
Brian Walker Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe Texas A&M University

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