West, Geoffrey B.

TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY

Brown, J. H., Gillooly, J. F., Allen, A. P., Savage, V. M., & West, G. B. (2004) · Ecology

Physiological and biochemical adaptationsEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Cited by 7,779

A General Model for the Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology

West, G. B., Brown, J. H., & Enquist, B. J. (1997) · Science

Physiological and biochemical adaptationsHeat Transfer and Optimization

Cited by 5,016

Effects of Size and Temperature on Metabolic Rate

Gillooly, J. F., Brown, J. H., West, G. B., Savage, V. M., & Charnov, E. L. (2001) · Science

Physiological and biochemical adaptationsEvolution and Paleontology Studies

Cited by 3,810

Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities

Bettencourt, L. M. A., Lobo, J., Helbing, D., Kühnert, C., & West, G. B. (2007) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Agglomeration and Urban SystemsGlobal Urban Networks and Dynamics

Cited by 2,699

The Fourth Dimension of Life: Fractal Geometry and Allometric Scaling of Organisms

West, G. B., Brown, J. H., & Enquist, B. J. (1999) · Science

Physiological and biochemical adaptationsTheoretical and Computational Physics

Cited by 1,718

A unified theory of urban living

Bettencourt, L., & West, G. (2010) · Nature

Agglomeration and Urban SystemsUrban Design and Spatial Analysis

Cited by 1,009

The predominance of quarter‐power scaling in biology

Savage, V. M., Gillooly, J. F., Woodruff, W. H., West, G. B., Allen, A. P., Enquist, B. J., & Brown, J. H. (2004) · Functional Ecology

Physiological and biochemical adaptationsEvolution and Paleontology Studies

Cited by 713

Urban scaling and its deviations: Revealing the structure of wealth, innovation and crime across cities

Bettencourt, L. M. A., Lobo, J., Strumsky, D., & West, G. B. (2010) · PLoS ONE

Agglomeration and Urban SystemsGlobal Urban Networks and Dynamics

Cited by 651

The scaling of human interactions with city size

Schläpfer, M., Bettencourt, L. M. A., Grauwin, S., Raschke, M., Claxton, R., Smoreda, Z., West, G. B., & Ratti, C. (2014) · Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Complex Network Analysis TechniquesGlobal Urban Networks and Dynamics

Cited by 356

Unraveling why we sleep: quantitative analysis reveals abrupt transition from neural reorganization to repair in early development

Cao, J., Herman, A. B., West, G. B., Poe, G., & Savage, V. M. (2020) · Science Advances

Sleep and Wakefulness ResearchSleep and related disorders

Cited by 105

The Scales That Limit: The Physical Boundaries of Evolution

Kempes, C. P., Koehl, M. A. R., & West, G. B. (2019) · Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Physiological and biochemical adaptationsEvolution and Genetic Dynamics

Cited by 58