| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A general and simple method for obtaining R2 from generalized linear mixed‐effects models | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 7,490 |
| 2 | phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things) | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 7,280 |
| 3 | A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2010 | 5,735 |
| 4 | popart: full‐feature software for haplotype network construction | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2015 | 4,199 |
| 5 | ggtree: an r package for visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees with their covariates and other associated data | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 2,998 |
| 6 | piecewiseSEM: Piecewise structural equation modelling in r for ecology, evolution, and systematics | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2016 | 2,488 |
| 7 | iNEXT: an R package for rarefaction and extrapolation of species diversity (Hill numbers) | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2016 | 2,368 |
| 8 | Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2010 | 2,158 |
| 9 | The art of modelling range-shifting species | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2010 | 1,945 |
| 10 | BORIS: a free, versatile open‐source event‐logging software for video/audio coding and live observations | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2016 | 1,798 |
| 11 | Selecting pseudo‐absences for species distribution models: how, where and how many? | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 1,658 |
| 12 | geomorph: an r package for the collection and analysis of geometric morphometric shape data | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 1,631 |
| 13 | betapart: an R package for the study of beta diversity | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 1,561 |
| 14 | ENMeval: An R package for conducting spatially independent evaluations and estimating optimal model complexity for Maxent ecological niche models | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 1,277 |
| 15 | smatr 3– an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 1,244 |
| 16 | SIMR: an R package for power analysis of generalized linear mixed models by simulation | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2016 | 1,229 |
| 17 | mvabund– an R package for model‐based analysis of multivariate abundance data | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 1,166 |
| 18 | rptR: repeatability estimation and variance decomposition by generalized linear mixed‐effects models | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 1,117 |
| 19 | The use of focus group discussion methodology: Insights from two decades of application in conservation | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 1,056 |
| 20 | diveRsity: An R package for the estimation and exploration of population genetics parameters and their associated errors | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 1,051 |
| 21 | LEA: An R package for landscape and ecological association studies | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2015 | 1,047 |
| 22 | Do not log‐transform count data | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2010 | 942 |
| 23 | Distance‐based multivariate analyses confound location and dispersion effects | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 905 |
| 24 | Improved software detection and extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from ribosomal ITS sequences of fungi and other eukaryotes for analysis of environmental sequencing data | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 868 |
| 25 | SDMtoolbox: a python‐based GIS toolkit for landscape genetic, biogeographic and species distribution model analyses | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 864 |
| 26 | Extension of Nakagawa & Schielzeth's R2GLMM to random slopes models | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 769 |
| 27 | Diversitree: comparative phylogenetic analyses of diversification in R | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 767 |
| 28 | How to measure and test phylogenetic signal | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 759 |
| 29 | BAMMtools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 751 |
| 30 | Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2010 | 721 |
| 31 | Critical considerations for the application of environmental DNA methods to detect aquatic species | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2016 | 684 |
| 32 | Oligotyping: differentiating between closely related microbial taxa using 16S rRNA gene data | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 652 |
| 33 | abc: an R package for approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 617 |
| 34 | CliMond: global high‐resolution historical and future scenario climate surfaces for bioclimatic modelling | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 565 |
| 35 | Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 543 |
| 36 | Presence‐only modelling using MAXENT: when can we trust the inferences? | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 537 |
| 37 | Investigating the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality: challenges and solutions | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 533 |
| 38 | Robustness of linear mixed‐effects models to violations of distributional assumptions | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2020 | 528 |
| 39 | PASSaGE: Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Geographic Exegesis. Version 2 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2011 | 525 |
| 40 | A protocol for conducting and presenting results of regression‐type analyses | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2016 | 522 |
| 41 | Guidelines for estimating repeatability | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 521 |
| 42 | Using false discovery rates for multiple comparisons in ecology and evolution | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2011 | 483 |
| 43 | Understanding co‐occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species Distribution Model (JSDM) | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 477 |
| 44 | CoordinateCleaner: Standardized cleaning of occurrence records from biological collection databases | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2019 | 473 |
| 45 | Lost in parameter space: a road map for stacks | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 466 |
| 46 | Testing the significance of canonical axes in redundancy analysis | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2011 | 459 |
| 47 | Nondestructive estimates of above‐ground biomass using terrestrial laser scanning | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2015 | 449 |
| 48 | How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 446 |
| 49 | PopGenReport: simplifying basic population genetic analyses in R | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 441 |
| 50 | Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2012 | 439 |
