Prof. Joel E. Cohen

Director, Laboratory of Populations, School of International and Public Affairs

Professor, Laboratory of Populations

Professor of Populations in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue, Box 20
New York, New York 10065
United States

BIOGRAPHY:

Joel E. Cohen is a professor of populations in the School of International and Public Affairs, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the Department of Statistics. He is also the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University, New York, and he heads the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller and Columbia Universities. Cohen's research deals with the demography, ecology, epidemiology, and social organization of human and nonhuman populations and with mathematical concepts useful in these fields. In March 1997, Cohen was the first winner of the Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Prize for excellence in writing in the population sciences for his book How Many People Can the Earth Support? (Norton 1995). Cohen's other scientific works include A Model of Simple Competition (Harvard 1966); Casual Groups of Monkeys and Men (Harvard 1971); Food Webs and Niche Space (Princeton 1978); Community Food Webs: Data and Theory, with F. Briand and C. M. Newman (Springer-Verlag 1990); Comparisons of Stochastic Matrices, with Applications in Information Theory, Statistics, Economics and Population Sciences, with J. H. B. Kemperman and Gheorghe Zbãganu (Birkhäuser Boston 1998), and Forecasting Product Liability Claims: Epidemiology and Modeling in the Manville Asbestos Case, with Eric Stallard and Kenneth G. Manton (Springer-Verlag 2005). He also coedited volumes on Random Matrices and Their Applications, with H. Kesten and C. M. Newman (American Mathematical Society 1986); Mutualism and Community Organization, with H. Kawanabe and K. Iwasaki (Oxford 1993); Plants and Population: Is There Time?, with N. V. Fedoroff (National Academy Press 1999), Educating All Children: A Global Agenda, with David E. Bloom and Martin Malin (MIT Press, 2006); and International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education, with Martin Malin (Routledge, 2009). In all, Cohen has published more than 465 academic papers, in addition to a book of scientific and mathematical jokes, Absolute Zero Gravity, with B. Devine (Simon and Schuster 1992). Cohen is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. In March 1999, Cohen was named cowinner of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Cohen holds a PhD in applied mathematics and a DrPH in population science and tropical public health, both from Harvard University. Cohen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1989 (in evolutionary and population biology and ecology), the American Philosophical Society in 1994 (in the professions, arts, and affairs), and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1997 (in applied mathematical sciences).

PUBLICATIONS

Academic Books

  • 1966    Translation from the French of Abraham Moles' Information Theory and Esthetic Perception. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 217 pp.  ISBN-10: 0252724852, ISBN-13: 978-0252724855.
  • 1967    A Model of Simple Competition.  Annals of the Computation Laboratory 41.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.  138 pp.  ASIN/ISBN: B0006BOGEO.
  • 1971    Casual Groups of Monkeys and Men: Stochastic Models of Elemental Social Systems. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 175 pp.  ISBN-13: 9780674099814, ISBN: 0674099818.
  • 1978    Food Webs and Niche Space.  Monographs in Population Biology 11.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.  190 pp.  ISBN-13: 978-0-691-08202-8.
  • 1986    (J. E. Cohen, Harry Kesten, Charles M. Newman, editors)  Random Matrices and Their Applications.  Contemporary Mathematics 50.  Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.  358 pp.  ISBN-10: 0-8218-5044-X, ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-5044-2.
  • 1990    (J. E. Cohen, Frédéric Briand, Charles M. Newman)  Community Food Webs: Data and Theory.  Biomathematics 20. Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag.  308 pp.  ISBN-10: 3540511296, ISBN-13: 978-3540511298.
  • 1993    (Hiroya Kawanabe, J. E. Cohen, Keiji Iwasaki, editors)  Mutualism and Community Organization: Behavioural, Theoretical, and Food-Web Approaches.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.  426 pp.  ISBN-10: 0198540272, ISBN-13: 978-0198540274.
  • 1995    How Many People Can the Earth Support? New York: W. W. Norton.  532 pp.  ISBN: 0-393-03862-9.  1996 paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31495-3.  1998 Japanese translation Shin-Jinkou-Ron [New Principle of Population] by Nanako Shigesada, Hiromi Seno, Fugo Takasu. Tokyo: Nosan Gyosan Bunka Kyokai.  ISBN: 4-540-97056-9.  1998 Italian translation Quante persone possono vivere sulla terra? by Nanni Negro. Bologna: Il Mulino. ISBN 88-15-06380-3.  Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg Prize "for excellence in writing in the population sciences," March 1997
  • 1998    (J. E. Cohen, J. H. B. Kemperman, Gh. Zbăganu)  Comparisons of Stochastic Matrices, with Applications in Information Theory, Statistics, Economics and Population Sciences.  Boston, Basel, Berlin: Birkhäuser. 158 pp.http://www.birkhauser.com/cgi-win/ISBN/0-8176-4082-7.  Gheorghe Lazăr Prize of Romanian Academy, December 2000
  • 1999    (J. E. Cohen, Nina V. Fedoroff, editors) Colloquium on Plants and Population: Is There Time?  Washington, DC: National Academy Press. 145 pp.  ISBN-10: 0-309-06427-9,  ISBN-13: 978-0-309-06427-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/9619 https://www.nap.edu/catalog/9619/nas-colloquium-plants-and-population-is-there-time
  •  2005    (Eric Stallard, Kenneth G. Manton, J. E. Cohen) Forecasting Product Liability Claims: Epidemiology and Modeling in the Manville Asbestos Case. New York, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. xxx+394 pp.  ISBN: 0-387-94987-9. 
  • 2006    (J. E. Cohen, David E. Bloom, Martin Malin, editors)  Educating All Children: A Global Agenda.  616 pp. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. http://mitpress.mit.edu/026253293X. ISBN-10: 0-262-53293-X, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53293-8.
  • 2010    (J. E. Cohen, Martin Malin, editors)  International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education. 307 pp. Routledge, New York, London.  HB ISBN: 978-0-415-99766-9.

Nonacademic Book
1992    (Betsy Devine, J. E. Cohen)  Absolute Zero Gravity: Science Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes.  New York: Simon and Schuster.  162 pp. ISBN10: 0671740601, ISBN13: 9780671740603, Paperback.

JOURNAL ARTICLES 2000-present:
2000    Population growth and Earth's human carrying capacity.  In: Consumption, Population, and Sustainability: Perspectives from Science and Religion, ed. Audrey R. Chapman, Rodney L. Petersen, Barbara Smith-Moran, pp. 55-70. Island Press, Washington, DC.

2000    (Jane Memmott, Neo D. Martinez, J. E. Cohen) Predators, parasitoids and pathogens: species richness, trophic generality and body sizes in a natural food web. Journal of Animal Ecology 69(1):1-15.

2000    Hard choices ahead for growing world. California Agriculture 54(1):6-8, January-February.

2000    6 billion people: but who’s counting? EarthMatters (Columbia University Earth Institute) pp. 23-25, Winter 1999/2000.

2000    (Christopher Small, Vivien Gornitz, J. E. Cohen) Coastal hazards and the global distribution of human population. Environmental Geosciences 7(1):3-12, March.

1999    Sustainability. Black Rock Forest Papers No. 32. Black Rock Forest Consortium, Cornwall, NY.

1999    (Christopher Small, J. E. Cohen) Continental physiography, climate and the global distribution of human population. Towards Digital Earth – Proceedings of the International Symposium on Digital Earth, ed. Guanhua Xu, Yuntai Chen, 2:965-971. Science Press, Beijing, China.

2000    (J. E. Cohen, Albert D. Rich) Interspecific competition affects temperature stability in Daisyworld. Tellus 52B(3):980-984.

2000    Keynote address. In: Population and the Environment: Too Many People and/or Poor Management of Resources? College of Natural Resources, Center for Sustainable Resource Development, University of California, Berkeley. Pp. 21-35.

2000    Population problems: Recent developments and their impact. Asia-Pacific Review (Institute for International Policy Studies, Tokyo) 7(2):86-98.

2000    (Xin Chen, J. E. Cohen) Support of the hyperbolic connectance hypothesis by qualitative stability of model food webs. Community Ecology 1(2):215-225.

2001    Educating the children of the world. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 54(2):33-38, winter.

2000    Book review: The Ecological Impact of Population Aging by Donald J. Bogue. Population Studies 54(3):353, November.

2001    (Xin Chen, J. E. Cohen) Transient dynamics and food-web complexity in the Lotka-Volterra cascade model. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) series B 268:869-877.

1999    (J. E. Cohen, David E. Bloom) Universal basic and secondary education. Politics in the Life Sciences 18(2):213-216, September. [Published June 2001.]

2001    (J. E. Cohen, Ricardo E. Gürtler) Modeling household transmission of American trypanosomiasis. Science 293(5530):694-698, July 27.

2001    (Xin Chen and J. E. Cohen) Global stability, local stability and permanence in model food webs. Journal of Theoretical Biology 212(2):223-235, September 21.

2001    Linking human and natural history: a review essay. Something New Under the Sun: an Environmental History of the 20th-Century World by J. R. McNeill. Population and Development Review 27(3):573-584, September.

2001    (Ann K. Sakai, Fred W. Allendorf, Jodie S. Holt, David M. Lodge, Jane Molofsky, Kimberly A. With, Syndallas Baughman, Robert J. Cabin, Joel E. Cohen, Norman C. Ellstrand, David E. McCauley, Pamela O'Neil, Ingrid M. Parker, John N. Thompson, Stephen G. Weller) The population biology of invasive species. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 32:305-332.

2002    The future of population. In: What the Future Holds: Insights from Social Science, ed. Richard N. Cooper, Richard Layard, pp. 29-75. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

2002    (Matthew Spencer, Leon Blaustein, J. E. Cohen) Oviposition habitat selection by mosquitoes (Culiseta longiareolata) and consequences for population size. Ecology 83(3):669–679.

2001    (Leon Blaustein, Moshe Kiflawi, A. Eitam, Marc Mangel, J.E. Cohen) Oviposition site selection by the mosquito, Culiseta longiareolata, in response to chemical detection of a predator, Notonecta maculata. Annual Meetings of the Ecological Society of America, http://abstracts.co.allenpress.com/pweb/esa2001/document/27689. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. http://199.245.200.45/pweb/document/?SOCIETY=esa&YEAR=2001&ID=27689. 

2001    (Moshe Kiflawi, Leon Blaustein, J.E. Cohen) Predation by larval Salamandra and invertebrate species richness in temporary pools. Israel Journal of Zoology 47:185.

2001    (Leon Blaustein, Moshe Kiflawi, A. Eitam, J.E. Cohen, Marc Mangel) Oviposition site selection by the mosquito, Culiseta longiareolata, in response to chemical detection of the predator Notonecta maculata. Israel Journal of Zoology 47:178-179.

2002    2001 induction ceremony orientation remarks [on universal basic and secondary education]. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 55(2):19-23, Winter.

2001    World population in 2050: assessing the projections. In: Seismic Shifts: the Economic Impact of Demographic Change, ed. Jane Sneddon Little and Robert K. Triest, pp. 83-113. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Conference Series No. 46, June. http://bostonfed.org/economic/conf/conf46/conf46d1.pdf

2002    Population and the environment. In: The Convergence of U.S. National Security and the Global Environment, ed. Dick Clark. Aspen Institute Congressional Program 17(4):39-48. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute.

2002    (David E. Bloom, J. E. Cohen) Education for all: an unfinished revolution. Daedalus 131(3):84-95, summer.

2001    (Raymond C. Fisher, James Fallows, John A. Baden, Joel E. Cohen, Eric Redman, Barbara Reeves, Lois C. Schiffer, Barton H. Thompson [panelists]) Balance and conflict: environmental challenges facing the western United States. Western Legal History (Journal of the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society) 14(1):43-72, winter/spring.

2002    (M. C. Cecere, R. E. Gürtler, D. M. Canale, R. Chuit, J. E. Cohen) Effects of partial housing improvement and insecticide spraying on the reinfestation dynamics of Triatoma infestans in rural northwestern Argentina. Acta Tropica 84(2):101-116, November.

2003    (R. E. Gürtler, Elsa L. Segura, J. E. Cohen) Congenital transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi infection. Emerging Infectious Diseases 9(1):29-32, January. DOI: 10.3201/eid0901.020274

2003    (J. E. Cohen, Tomas Jonsson, Stephen R. Carpenter) Ecological community description using the food web, species abundance, and body size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100(4):1781-1786, February 18. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.232715699 

2003    (Kristin Astrom, J. E. Cohen, Joan E. Willett-Brozick, Christopher E. Aston, Bora E. Baysal) Altitude is a phenotypic modifier in hereditary paraganglioma type 1: evidence for an oxygen-sensing defect. Human Genetics 113(3):228-237, August.

2003    Human population: the next half century.  Science 302:1172-1175, November 14.

2004    (Leon Blaustein, Moshe Kiflawi, Avi Eitam, Marc Mangel and J. E. Cohen) Oviposition habitat selection in response to risk of predation in temporary pools: mode of detection and consistency across experimental venue. Oecologia 138(2):300-305, January. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-003-1398-x

2004    (Eric L. Berlow, Anje-Margriet Neutel, J. E. Cohen, Peter de Ruiter, Bo Ebenman, Mark Emmerson, Jeremy W. Fox, Vincent A. A. Jansen, J. Iwan Jones, Giorgos D. Kokkoris, Dmitrii O. Logofet, Alan J. McKane, Jose M. Montoya, Owen Petchey) Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities. Journal of Animal Ecology 73:585–598.

2004    (Christopher Small, J. E. Cohen) Continental physiography, climate and the global distribution of human population. Current Anthropology 45(2):269-277, April. DOI: 10.1086/382255

2004    (Daniel C. Reuman, J. E. Cohen) Trophic links’ length and slope in the Tuesday Lake food web with species’ body mass and numerical abundance. Journal of Animal Ecology 73:852-866, September.

2004    (J. E. Cohen, J. H. B. Kemperman, Gheorghe Zbăganu) Elementary inequalities that involve two nonnegative vectors or functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101(42):15018-15022, October 19. www.pnas.org_cgi_doi_10.1073_pnas.0405413101

2004    Comparing long-range global population projections with historical experience. In: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Population to 2300, pp. 123-126. ST/ESA/SER.A/236, Sales No. E.04.XIII.11. New York: United Nations.

2005    (Christian Mulder, J. E. Cohen, Heikki Setälä, Jaap Bloem, Anton Breure) Bacterial traits, organism mass, and numerical abundance in the detrital soil food web of Dutch agricultural grasslands. Ecology Letters 8(1):80-90, January. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00704.x Corrigenda 8:575, May. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00770.x

2004    Mathematics is biology’s next microscope, only better; biology is mathematics’ next physics, only better. Public Library of Science Biology 12(12):2017-2023, December.  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020439
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2005    (J. E. Cohen, J. H. B. Kemperman, Gheorghe Zbăganu) A family of inequalities originating from coding of messages. Linear Algebra and Its Applications 395:1-82, January 15.

2005    (J. E. Cohen, Tomas Jonsson, Christine B. Müller, H. C. J. Godfray, Van M. Savage) Body sizes of hosts and parasitoids in individual feeding relationships. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(3):684-689. 

2005    (Tomas Jonsson, J. E. Cohen, Stephen R. Carpenter) Food webs, body size and species abundance in ecological community description. In: Food Webs: From Connectivity to Energetics, ed. Hal Caswell. Advances in Ecological Research 36:1 84.

2005    (Daniel C. Reuman, J. E. Cohen) Estimating relative energy fluxes using the food web, species abundance, and body size. In: Food Webs: From Connectivity to Energetics, ed. Hal Caswell. Advances in Ecological Research 36:137-182.

2005    (J. E. Cohen, David E. Bloom) Cultivating minds. Finance and Development 42(2):8-14, June. International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC. 

2005    (Ricardo E. Gürtler, María C. Cecere, Marta A. Lauricella, Rosario M. Petersen, Roberto Chuit, Elsa L. Segura, J. E. Cohen) Incidence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection among children following domestic reinfestation after insecticide spraying in rural northwestern Argentina. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 73(1):95–103, 1 July.

2005    Human population grows up. Scientific American 293(3):48-55, September.

2005    (Ulrich Brose, Lara Cushing, Eric L. Berlow, Tomas Jonsson, Carolin Banasek-Richter, Louis-Felix Bersier, Julia L. Blanchard, Thomas Brey, Stephen R. Carpenter, Marie-France Cattin Blandenier, J. E. Cohen, Hassan Ali Dawah, Tony Dell, Francois Edwards, Sarah Harper-Smith, Ute Jacob, Roland A. Knapp, Mark E. Ledger, Jane Memmott, Katja Mintenbeck, John K. Pinnegar, Björn C. Rall, Tom Rayner, Liliane Ruess, Werner Ulrich, Philip Warren, Rich J. Williams, Guy Woodward, Peter Yodzis, Neo D. Martinez) Body sizes of consumers and their resources. Ecology 86(9):2545, September.  Ecological Archives E086-135

2005    (J. E. Cohen, Stephen R. Carpenter) Species’ average body mass and numerical abundance in a community food web: statistical questions in estimating the relationship. In: Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development and Environmental Change, ed. Peter C. de Ruiter, Volkmar Wolters, John C. Moore, pp. 137-156. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

2006    The evolution of a great mind: the life and work of Darwin.  Reviews of: Darwin, American Museum of Natural History, New York, Nov. 19, 2005-May 29, 2006. Niles Eldredge  2005  Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life.  The Lancet 367:721-722, March 4.

2006    Human population: the next half century.  In: The State of the Planet 2006-2007, ed. Donald Kennedy, pp. 13-21. Island Press, Washington, DC. ISBN: 1597260622. 201 pp.

2006    One-on-one [interview on the future of world population and implications for real estate]. PREA (Pension Real Estate Association) Quarterly, summer.

2006    (Ulrich Brose, Tomas Jonsson, Eric L. Berlow, Philip Warren, Carolin Banasek-Richter, Louis-Felix Bersier, Julia L. Blanchard, Thomas Brey, Stephen R. Carpenter, Marie-France Cattin Blandenier, Lara Cushing, Hassan Ali Dawah, Tony Dell, Francois Edwards, Sarah Harper-Smith, Ute Jacob, Mark E. Ledger, Neo D. Martinez, Jane Memmott, Katja Mintenbeck, John K. Pinnegar, Björn C. Rall, Thomas S. Rayner, Daniel C. Reuman, Liliane Ruess, Werner Ulrich, Rich J. Williams, Guy Woodward, J. E. Cohen)  Consumer-resource body-size relationships in natural food webs.  Ecology 87(10):2411-2417, October.

2006    (Daniel C. Reuman, Robert A. Desharnais, Robert F. Costantino, Omar S. Ahmad, J. E. Cohen)  Power spectra reveal the influence of stochasticity on nonlinear population dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103(49):18860–18865, December 5.

2006    Goals of universal basic and secondary education. Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education (UNESCO) 36(3):247-269, September.

2007    (R. E. Gürtler, M. C. Cecere, M. A. Lauricella, M. V. Cardinal, U. Kitron, J. E. Cohen) Domestic dogs and cats as sources of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in rural northwestern Argentina. Parasitology 134(1):69-82, January. DOI: 10.1017/S0031182006001259.

2007    (J. E. Cohen, David E. Bloom, Martin B. Malin, Helen A. Curry) Universal basic and secondary education. In: Educating All Children: A Global Agenda eds. J. E. Cohen, David E. Bloom, Martin Malin, pp. 1-29.  MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

2007    (Heinrich zu Dohna, María C. Cecere, Ricardo E. Gürtler, Uriel Kitron, J. E. Cohen) Re-establishment of local populations of vectors of Chagas disease after insecticide spraying. Journal of Applied Ecology 44:220-227. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2006.01243.x

2007    Mathematics is biology’s next microscope, only better; biology is mathematics’ next physics, only better. Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology Newsletter 51:12-14, January. http://www.jsmb.jp

2007    Universal basic and secondary education. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 60(2):16-17, winter.

2007    Body sizes in food chains of animal predators and parasites. In: Body Size: The Structure and Function of Aquatic Ecosystems, eds. Alan G. Hildrew, David G. Raffaelli & Ronni Edmonds-Brown, pp. 306-325. Ecological Reviews, British Ecological Society. Cambridge University Press. 

2007    Book review: Fundamental Processes in Ecology: An Earth Systems Approach, by David M. Wilkinson. Quarterly Review of Biology 82(2):173, June.

2007    (Ricardo E. Gürtler, Uriel Kitron, M. Carla Cecere, Elsa L. Segura, J. E. Cohen) Sustainable vector control and management of Chagas disease in the Gran Chaco, Argentina. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(41):16194–16199, October 9.

2007    (J. E. Cohen, Leslie C. Berlowitz) Academia in the crosshairs. Boston Sunday Globe, p. D9, September 30.

2008    Universal basic and secondary education. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 61(2):18-20, winter.

2008    (Daniel C. Reuman, Robert Costantino, Robert Desharnais, J. E. Cohen) Colour of environmental noise affects the nonlinear dynamics of cycling, stage-structured populations. Ecology Letters 11(8):820-830, August. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01194.x

2008    Constant global population with demographic heterogeneity. Demographic Research 18(14):409-436, May 27.  DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2008.18.14

2008    Sustainable cities. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 61(4):6-8, summer.

2008    (Daniel C. Reuman, Christian Mulder, Dave Raffaelli, J. E. Cohen) Three allometric relations of population density to body mass: theoretical integration and empirical tests in 149 food webs. Ecology Letters 11(11):1216 1228, November. DOI 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01236.x

2008    (J. E. Cohen, Marta Roig, Daniel C. Reuman, Cai GoGwilt) International migration beyond gravity: a statistical model for use in population projections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(40):15269-15274, October 7. www.pnas.org_cgi_doi_10.1073_pnas.0808185105

2007    (Alon Silberbush, Shai Markman, Ephraim Lewinsohn, J. E. Cohen, Leon Blaustein) Predator-released kairomones repel oviposition by the mosquito Culiseta longiareolata. Israel Society for Parasitology, Protozoology and Tropical Diseases Annual Meeting Ramat Gan, Israel December 10-11, 2007 http://parasitology-soc.md.huji.ac.il/2007/Abstracts%2011.12.07.pdf

2008    Make secondary education universal. Nature 456:572-573, December 4.

2008    Interview.  Joel E. Cohen takes a step back from the expected risks and looks at the world of threats with long tails and game-changing effects. American Perspectives. PriceWaterhouseCoopers, New York. Pp. 32-33. http://www.pwc.com/extweb/home.nsf/docid/A6902AB8781E1620852574B40052358B

2009    Quanta popolazione è sostenibile? Aspenia 44:47-54, March. Aspen Institute Italia, Rome.

2009    How many people can the planet hold? Aspenia (English edition) 43-44:40-46, June. Aspen Institute Italia, Rome.

2009    (Daniel C. Reuman, Christian Mulder, Carolin Banašek-Richter, Marie-France Cattin Blandenier, Anton M. Breure, Henri Den Hollander, Jamie M. Kneitel, Dave Raffaelli, Guy Woodward, J. E. Cohen) Allometry of body size and abundance in 166 food webs. Advances in Ecological Research 41:1-44.

2009    (Daniel C. Reuman, J. E. Cohen, Christian Mulder) Human and environmental factors influence soil faunal abundance-mass allometry and structure. Advances in Ecological Research 41:45-85.

2009    The demography of the resident membership of the American Philosophical Society. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 153(2):200-213, June.

2009    (Heinrich zu Dohna, María C. Cecere, Ricardo E. Gürtler, Uriel Kitron, J. E. Cohen) Spatial re-establishment dynamics of local populations of vectors of Chagas disease. Public Library of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases 3(7):e490, July 28. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000490

2009    A mindful beauty. The American Scholar 78(4):56-64, fall. http://www.theamericanscholar.org/a-mindful-beauty/

2009    Book review: Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years, by Vaclav Smil. New York Review of Books 56(14):64-68, September 24.

2009    Monitorando o desastre. Book review: Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years, by Vaclav Smil. New York Review of Books 56(14):64-68, September 24, 2009. Portuguese translation by Ailton Benedito de Sousa.  Comunicação & política 27(3):233-247. CEBELA (Centro Brasileiro de Estudos Latino-Americanos)

2009    Goals of universal basic and secondary education. In: International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education, eds. J. E. Cohen, Martin Malin. Routledge, New York, London. Pp. 3-39. HB ISBN: 978-0-415-99766-9.

2009    Educational goals: art, science, love, and the importance of binocular vision. In: International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education, eds. J. E. Cohen, Martin Malin. Routledge, New York, London. Pp. 125-138. HB ISBN: 978-0-415-99766-9.

2009    (J. E. Cohen, Daniella N. Schittler, David G. Raffaelli, Daniel C. Reuman) Food webs are more than the sum of their tri-trophic parts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(52):22335-22340, December 29. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910582106

2010    (Nicole Creanza, Jason S. Schwarz, J. E. Cohen) Intraseasonal dynamics and dominant sequences in H3N2 influenza. PLoS ONE 5(1):e8544, January 1. http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008544

2010    Life expectancy is the death-weighted average of the reciprocal of the survival-specific force of mortality. Demographic Research 22(5):115-128, January 22.  DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.5

2010    Ultimate agents of global change. In: Hoekstra, J.M., J.L. Molnar, M. Jennings, C. Revenga, M.D. Spalding, T.M. Boucher, J.C. Robertson, T. J. Heibel, K. Ellison,  The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges and Opportunities to Make a Difference, ed. J.L. Molnar, pp. 84-87. Berkeley: University of California Press.

2010    Choosing future population. Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History, TeacherServe®. National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntuseland/essays/population.htm

2010    (Kenneth G. Schoenly, J. E. Cohen, K. L. Heong, James A. Litsinger, Alberto T. Barrion, Gertrudo S. Arida) Fallowing did not disrupt invertebrate fauna in Philippine low-pesticide irrigated rice fields. Journal of Applied Ecology 47:593-602, June. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01799.x

2010    Human population grows up.  Renewable Resources Journal 26(1):6-10.  www.rnrf.org

2010    (Alon Silberbush, Shai Markman, Efraim Lewinsohn, Einat Bar, J. E. Cohen, Leon Blaustein) Predator-released hydrocarbons repel oviposition by a mosquito. Ecology Letters 13:1129-1138. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01501.x

2010    Beyond population: everyone counts in development. CGD Working Paper 220. Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development. http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/1424318

2010    Population and climate change. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 154(2):158-182, June. http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/CohenWeb1540203.pdf

2011    What the Earth knows: an exchange. The American Scholar 80(1):4-6, winter.

2010    A mindful beauty. In: The Best Spiritual Writing 2011, ed. Philip Zaleski, pp. 30-42. Penguin Books, New York. 244 pages. ISBN 978-0-14-311867-1

2010    (Keuntae Kim, J. E. Cohen) Determinants of international migration flows to and from industrialized countries: a panel data approach beyond gravity. International Migration Review 44(4):899-932. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7379.2010.00830.x

2011    Life expectancy: lower and upper bounds from surviving fractions and remaining life expectancy. Demographic Research 24(11):251-256. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.11

2011    International migration flows: statistical models for use in population projections. Ninth Coordination Meeting on International Migration, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Secretariat, New York, 17-18 February 2011, UN/POP/MIG-9CM/2011/09 http://www.un.org/esa/population/meetings/ninthcoord2011/p09-cohen.pdf .

2011    Human population grows up. Chapter 2 in: Global Urbanization, eds. Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter, pp. 24-31. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 384 pages. ISBN 978-0-8122-4284-3 http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14780.html

2011    (J. E. Cohen, Øystein Kravdal, Nico Keilman) Childbearing impeded education more than education impeded childbearing in a cohort of Norwegian women. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(29):11830-11835, July 19. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1107993108.

2011    Meat. The First Annual Malthus Lecture. Population Reference Bureau and International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC. http://www.prb.org/pdf11/cohen-lecture.pdf

2011    Mixing apples and oranges: what poetry and applied mathematics have in common. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 155(2):189-202. http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/6Cohen1550206.pdf

2011    7 billion: can humanity handle the unprecedented rise in population? New York Times 161(55,568):op-ed page A23, October 24. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/opinion/seven-billion.html?pagewanted=all

2012    (Johan Ramsayer, Simon Fellous, J. E. Cohen, Michael E. Hochberg) Taylor’s law holds in experimental bacterial populations but competition does not influence the slope. Biology Letters 8(2):316-319, April 23. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0895

2011    (Alon Warburg, Roy Faiman, Alex Shtern, Alon Silberbush, Shai Markman, J. E. Cohen, Leon Blaustein) Oviposition habitat selection by Anopheles gambiae in response to chemical cues by Notonecta maculata. Journal of Vector Ecology 36(2):421-425, December.

2011    Editorial. Science and law: rattled by quakes. Science 334:1472, December 16. DOI: 10.1126/science.1217478

2012    A seismic crime. Project Syndicate, February 2. http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/jecohen1/English

2012    Projection of net migration using a gravity model. Tenth Coordination Meeting On International Migration, Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Secretariat, New York, 9-10 February 2012. UN/POP/MIG-10CM/2012/11, 3 February 2012. http://www.un.org/esa/population/meetings/tenthcoord2012/P11.Laboratory%20of%20Populations.pdf

2012    (Arik Kershenbaum, Matthew Spencer, Leon Blaustein, J. E. Cohen) Modelling evolutionarily stable strategies in oviposition site selection, with varying risks of predation and intraspecific competition. Evolutionary Ecology 26(4):955-974. DOI 10.1007/s10682-011-9548-9.

2012    What will it take to save the Earth? Book review: The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin; Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air by David J. C. MacKay. New York Review of Books 59(7):47-49, April 26, 2012. 

2012    Pythagoras in a box. Math Horizons (Mathematical Association of America) 19(4):14-15, April. DOI: 10.4169/mathhorizons.19.4.14 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/mathhorizons

2012    (Oliver Kaltz, Patricia Escobar-Páramo, Michael E. Hochberg, J. E. Cohen) Bacterial microcosms obey Taylor's law: effects of abiotic and biotic stress and genetics on mean and variance of population density. Ecological Processes 1:5, April 3. DOI: 10.1186/2192-1709-1-5

2012    (J. E. Cohen, Jacob Oppenheim) Is a limit to the median length of human life imminent? Genus 68(1):11-40. DOI: 10.4402/genus-415

2012    (J. E. Cohen, Meng Xu, William S. F. Schuster) Allometric scaling of population variance with mean body size is predicted from Taylor's law and density-mass allometry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(39):15829-15834, September 25. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212883109

2012    (J. E. Cohen, M. J. Plank, R. M. Law) Taylor's law and body size in exploited marine ecosystems. Ecology and Evolution 2(12):3168-3178. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.418

2013    (J. E. Cohen, Meng Xu, William S. F. Schuster) Stochastic multiplicative population growth predicts and interprets Taylor’s power law of fluctuation scaling. Proceedings of the Royal Society series B 280(1757):20122955. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2955

2013    Generalized minimax and maximin inequalities for order statistics and quantile functions. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 141(7):2515-2517, July.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2013-11509-1

2014    Chebyshev and Grüss inequalities for real rectangular matrices. Linear Algebra and its Applications 447:133-138, April 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.laa.2013.03.003 

2013    Taylor's power law of fluctuation scaling and the growth-rate theorem. Theoretical Population Biology 88:94-100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2013.04.002 

2013    (J. E. Cohen, Meng Xu, Helge Brunborg) Taylor's law applies to spatial variation in a human population. Genus 69(1):25-60. http://scistat.cilea.it/index.php/genus/article/view/491 DOI: 10.4402/genus-491

2014    Taylor's law and abrupt biotic change in a smoothly changing environment. Theoretical Ecology 7(1):77-86, February. DOI: 10.1007/s12080-013-0199-z
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2013    Demografiction. In: Secrets of Inferno, in the Footsteps of Dante and Dan Brown, pp. 122-126, ed. Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer. Stamford, CT: Story Plant, 2013.

2014    (Stephen Seligman, J. E. Cohen, Yuval Itan, Jean-Laurent Casanova, John Pezzullo) Defining risk groups to yellow fever vaccine-associated viscerotropic disease in the absence of denominator data. American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 90(2):267-271. DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0542

2014    (J. E. Cohen, Christian Mulder) Soil invertebrates, chemistry, weather, human management, and edaphic food webs at 135 sites in The Netherlands: SIZEWEB. Data Paper, Ecological Archives E095-051-D1. Ecology 95:579. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/13-1337.1 

2014    Stochastic population dynamics in a Markovian environment implies Taylor's power law of fluctuation scaling. Theoretical Population Biology 93:30-37. DOI:10.1016/j.tpb.2014.01.001

2014    The case for more babies. Book review: What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster, by Jonathan V. Last. New York Review of Books 61(7):57-58, April 24, 2014. Letter: reply to Dan Stroock, Too many Earthlings? New York Review of Books 61(9):46, May 22.

2014    Is the fraction of people ever born who are now alive rising or falling? Demographic Research 30(56):1561-1570. http://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol30/56/ DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.56

2014    (Ricardo E. Gürtler, María C. Cecere, Gonzalo M. Vázquez-Prokopec, Leonardo A. Ceballos, Juan M. Gurevitz, María del Pilar Fernández, Uriel Kitron, J. E. Cohen) Domestic animal hosts strongly influence human-feeding rates of the Chagas disease vector Triatoma infestans in Argentina. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 8(5):e2894. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002894

2014    (Jiang Jiang, Donald L. DeAngelis, Bo Zhang, J. E. Cohen) Population age and initial density in a patchy environment affect the occurrence of abrupt transitions in a birth-and-death model of Taylor’s law. Ecological Modelling 289:59–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.06.022 

2014    (Ricardo E. Gürtler, María C. Cecere, María del Pilar Fernández, Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, Leonardo A. Ceballos, Juan M. Gurevitz, Uriel Kitron, J. E. Cohen) Key source habitats and potential dispersal of Triatoma infestans populations in northwestern Argentina: implications for vector control. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 8(10):e3238. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003238

2014    Cauchy inequalities for the spectral radius of products of diagonal and nonnegative matrices. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 142(11):3665-3674, November. S 0002-9939(2014)12119-8.

2015    (Masami Fujiwara, J. E. Cohen) Mean and variance of population density and temporal Taylor's law in stochastic stage-structured density-dependent models of exploited fish populations. Theoretical Ecology 8(2):175-186, May. DOI:10.1007/s12080-014-0242-8

2014    (Kamal Ahmad, J. E. Cohen) Secondary schools' primary importance. Project Syndicate December 18, 2014. http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/secondary-education-developing-countries-by-kamal-ahmad-2014-12 

2015    (Clément Lagrue, Robert Poulin, J. E. Cohen) Parasitism alters 3 power laws of scaling in a metazoan community: Taylor's law, density-mass allometry, and variance-mass allometry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(6):1791-1796. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1422475112

2015    (Meng Xu, William S. F. Schuster, J. E. Cohen) Robustness of Taylor's law under spatial hierarchical groupings of forest tree samples. Population Ecology 57(1):93-103. DOI: 10.1007/s10144-014-0463-0 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10144-014-0463-0   

2015    Markov's inequality and Chebyshev's inequality for tail probabilities: a sharper image. The American Statistician 69(1):5-7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2014.975842

2015    (J. E. Cohen, Meng Xu) Random sampling of skewed distributions implies Taylor's power law of fluctuation scaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(25):7749–7754. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503824112

2015    (Andrea Giometto, Marco Formentin, Andrea Rinaldo, J. E. Cohen, Amos Maritan) Sample and population exponents of generalized Taylor's law. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(25):7755-7760. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1505882112

2015    (J. E. Cohen, Meng Xu) Reply to Chen: Under specified assumptions, adequate random samples of skewed distributions obey Taylor’s law. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(25):7749-7754. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503824112

2015    Mathematical population biologist. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 68(3):66-67, Spring.

2015    (Thomas F. Döring, Samuel Knapp, J. E. Cohen) Taylor's power law and the stability of crop yields. Field Crops Research 183:294–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2015.08.005 

2015    (Christina Bohk, Roland Rau, J. E. Cohen) Taylor’s power law in human mortality. Demographic Research 33(21):589–610, September 17. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2015.33.21.

2016    (Michael K. Tippett, J. E. Cohen) Tornado outbreak variability follows Taylor’s power law of fluctuation scaling and increases dramatically with severity. Nature Communications 7:10668. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10668

2016    (J. E. Cohen, Jiangshan Lai, David A. Coomes, Robert B. Allen) Taylor's law and related allometric power laws in New Zealand mountain beech forests: the roles of space, time, and environment. Oikos 125(9):1342-1357. DOI: 10.1111/oik.02622

2016    (Richard McGarvey, Natalie Dowling, J. E. Cohen) Longer food chains in pelagic ecosystems: trophic energetics of animal body size and metabolic efficiency. American Naturalist 188(1):76-86, July. DOI: 10.1086/686880

2016    Statistics of primes (and probably twin primes) satisfy Taylor's law from ecology. American Statistician 70(4):399-404. DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2016.1173591

2016    (Michael K. Tippett, Chiara Lepore, J. E. Cohen) More tornadoes in the most extreme U.S. tornado outbreaks. Science 10.1126/science.aah7393. DOI: 10.1126/science.aah7393

2016    (J. E. Cohen, Takashi Saitoh) Population dynamics, synchrony, and environmental quality of Hokkaido voles lead to temporal and spatial Taylor's laws. Ecology 97(12):3402-3413, Dec. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1575

2016    (J. E. Cohen, Robert Poulin, Clément Lagrue) Linking parasite populations in hosts to parasite populations in space through Taylor's law and the negative binomial distribution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(1):E47-E56, Dec. 19. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1618803114

2017    (Meng Xu, Jeppe Kolding, J. E. Cohen) Taylor’s power law and fixed precision sampling: application to abundance of fish sampled by gillnets in an African lake. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74(1): 87–100. dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2016-0009

2017    (Meng Xu, Helge Brunborg, J. E. Cohen) Evaluating multi-regional population projections with Taylor's law of mean-variance scaling and its generalization. Journal of Population Research 34(1):79-99. DOI 10.1007/s12546-016-9181-0

2017    (J. E. Cohen, Daniel Courgeau) Modeling distances between humans using Taylor's law and geometric probability. Mathematical Population Studies 24(4):197-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/08898480.2017.1289049 DOI: 10.1080/08898480.2017.1289049

2017    (Daniel C. Reuman, Lei Zhao, Lawrence W. Sheppard, Philip C. Reid, J. E. Cohen) Synchrony affects Taylor’s law in theory and data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(26):6788-6793, June.  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1703593114

2017    La «capacité humaine» de la Terre. Fécondité: un enjeu pour la planète? Revue Projet (Society of Jesus, France) 359:78-83, June-July. http://www.revue-projet.com/articles/2017-07_cohen_la-capacite-humaine-de-la-terre/ 

2017    How many people can the Earth support? Journal of Population and Sustainability 2(1):37-42.

2017    (Mark Brown, J. E. Cohen) Squared coefficient of variation of Taylor's law for random absolute differences. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 1–12. DOI: 10.1017/S0269964817000304

2017    (Mark Brown, J. E. Cohen, Victor de la Peña) Taylor’s law, via ratios, for some distributions with infinite mean. Journal of Applied Probability 54(3):657-669, September. DOI: 10.1017/jpr.2017.25

2017    (J. E. Cohen, Lucía Rodríguez-Planes, María S. Gaspe, María C. Cecere, Marta V. Cardinal, Ricardo E. Gürtler) Chagas disease vector control and Taylor's law. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 11(11):e0006092, November. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006092 

2017    (Ricardo E. Gürtler, María del Pilar Fernández, María Carla Cecere, J. E. Cohen) Body size and hosts of Triatoma infestans populations affect the size of bloodmeal contents and female fecundity in rural northwestern Argentina. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 11(12):e0006097, December. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006097

2018    (Richard McGarvey, Natalie Dowling, J. E. Cohen) Two processes regulating trophic energy flow in pelagic and terrestrial ecosystems: trophic efficiency and body size-dependent biomass production (a reply to Giacomini). American Naturalist 191(3):364-367, March. DOI: 10.1086/695847

2018    (J. E. Cohen, Christina Bohk-Ewald, Roland Rau) Gompertz, Makeham, and Siler models explain Taylor's law in human mortality data. Demographic Research 38(29):773-842, March. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.29 Editor's Choice

2018    (J. E. Cohen, Christina Bohk-Ewald, Roland Rau) Why does Taylor's law in human mortality data have slope less than 2, contrary to the Gompertz model? Demographic Research August. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol38/29/letter.htm, https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol38/29/letter_67.pdf 

2018    (Takashi Saitoh, J. E. Cohen) Environmental variability and density dependence in the temporal Taylor's law. Ecological Modeling 387:134-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.07.017 

2018    (R. A. Desharnais, D. C. Reuman, R. F. Costantino, J. E. Cohen) Temporal scale of environmental correlations affects ecological synchrony. Ecology Letters 21:1800-1811. doi: 10.1111/ele.13155

2018    (Vegard Skirbekk, Ursula M. Staudinger, J. E. Cohen) How to measure population aging? The answer is less than obvious. Gerontology 65:136–144, December. https://doi.org/10.1159/000494025.

2018    (J. E. Cohen, Helge Brunborg, Meng Xu) Can Taylor's law of fluctuation scaling and its relatives help demographers select more plausible multi-regional population forecasts? Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 16:15-23. DOI: 10.1553/populationyearbook2018s015

2018    (Meng Xu, Jeppe Kolding, J. E. Cohen) Sequential analysis of fixed-precision sampling of Lake Kariba fishes using Taylor's law. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0091

2019    Sum of a random number of correlated random variables that depend on the number of summands. The American Statistician 73(1):56–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2017.1311283 Correction by J. E. Cohen and Philip Turk, in press.

2019    (Guy J. Abel, J. E. Cohen) Bilateral international migration flow estimates for 200 countries. Scientific Data 6(82):1-13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0089-3

2019    Cities and climate change: a review essay. Population and Development Review 45(2):425–443, June.

2019    (J. E. Cohen, Heinrich zu Dohna, Ricardo E. Gürtler) Peer review report for: Insights from quantitative and mathematical modelling on the proposed WHO 2030 goals for Chagas disease [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. Gates Open Research 3:1539. https://doi.org/10.21956/gatesopenres.14202.r27887

2019    Every variance function, including Taylor's power law of fluctuation scaling, can be produced by any location-scale family of distributions with positive mean and variance. Theoretical Ecology doi: 10.1007/s12080-019-00445-7 online December 1

2019    (Meng Xu, J. E. Cohen) Analyzing and interpreting spatial and temporal variability of US county population distributions using Taylor's law. PLoS ONE 14(12):e0226096. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226096.

2020    (Michael K. Tippett, J. E. Cohen) Seasonality of Taylor's law of fluctuation scaling in all-India daily rainfall. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 3:3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-019-0104-6

2020      "Population, population, and population": Review of Eric R. Pianka and Laurie J. Vitt, Our One and Only Spaceship: Denial, Delusion, and the Population Crisis.  Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 101(3):e01694. Pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1694

2020      Species-abundance distributions and Taylor's power law of fluctuation scaling. Theoretical Ecology 13(4):607-614 DOI 10.1007/s12080-020-00470-x https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-020-00470-x

2020      (Lee Altenberg, J. E. Cohen) Nonconcavity of the spectral radius in Levinger's theorem. Linear Algebra and its Applications 606:201-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.laa.2020.07.028

2020      How to count humans. Project Syndicate August 13. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/lancet-population-growth-study-july-2020-by-joel-e-cohen-2020-08

2020      (Robin Guilhot, Simon Fellous, J. E. Cohen) Yeast facilitates the multiplication of Drosophila bacterial symbionts but has no effect on the form or parameters of Taylor’s law. PLoS ONE 15(11):e0242692. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242692

2020      (J. E. Cohen, Richard A. Davis, Gennady Samorodnitsky) Heavy-tailed distributions, correlations, kurtosis, and Taylor’s law of fluctuation scaling. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 476:20200610. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0610

2021      (Meng Xu, J. E. Cohen) Spatial and temporal autocorrelations affect Taylor's law for US county populations: descriptive and predictive models. PLoS ONE 16(1):e0245062. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245062

2021      (J. E. Cohen, Joseph Chamie) Slower population growth: the goods and the bads. Inter Press Service News Agency 2021-05-31 http://www.ipsnews.net/2021/05/slower-population-growth-goods-bads/

2021      (J. E. Cohen, Joseph Chamie) Slower population growth signals successes and benefits. News International Union for the Scientific Study of Population N-IUSSP 2021-09-02 https://www.niussp.org/education-work-economy/slower-population-growth-signals-successes-and-benefits/

2021      Measuring the concentration of urban population in the negative exponential model using the Lorenz curve, Gini coefficient, Hoover dissimilarity index, and relative entropy. Demographic Research 44(49):1165-1184, June. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2021.44.49

2021      (Mark Brown, J. E. Cohen) Markov's inequality: sharpness, renewal theory, finite samples, reliability theory. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods online 2021-09-21; in print 2023 52(11):3652-3660 https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2021.1977960

2022      (Ricardo E. Gürtler, J. E. Cohen) Invasive axis deer and wild boar in a protected area in Argentina, controlled hunting, and Taylor's law. Wildlife Research (CSIRO Australia) 49(2):111-128. https://doi.org/10.1071/WR20119 online early 2021-10-15

2021      (Mark Brown, J. E. Cohen, Chuan-Fa Tang, Sheung Chi Phillip Yam) Taylor’s law of fluctuation scaling for semivariances and higher moments of heavy-tailed data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 118(46):e2108031118 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108031118 online early 2021-11-12

2022      (Hui Xu, J. E. Cohen, Richard Davis, Gennady Samorodnitsky) Cauchy, normal and correlations versus heavy tails. Statistics and Probability Letters 186:109489 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2022.109489

2022      (Guy J. Abel, J. E. Cohen) Bilateral international migration flow estimates updated and refined by sex. Scientific Data 9:173 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01271-z https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01271-z

2022      (Yang Yang, Han Lin Shang, J. E. Cohen) Temporal and spatial Taylor’s law: application to Japanese subnational mortality rates. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A (Statistics in Society), 185(4):1979-2006. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12859

2022      (J. E. Cohen, Thierry E. Huillet) Taylor’s law for some infinitely divisible probability distributions from population models. Journal of Statistical Physics 188:33, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-022-02962-y

2022      (J. E. Cohen, Richard A. Davis, Gennady Samorodnitsky) COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States follow Taylor's law for heavy-tailed distributions with infinite variance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (38) e2209234119, September 12. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209234119

2022      Variance functions of asymptotically exponentially increasing integer sequences go beyond Taylor's law. Journal of Integer Sequences 25, Article 22.9.3, November 8. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL25/Cohen/cohen13.pdf

2022      Multiplicative inequalities for primes and the prime counting function. Integers 22, #A106, November 30. http://math.colgate.edu/~integers/w106/w106.pdf

2023      Foreword to: Joseph Chamie, Population Levels, Trends, and Differentials--More Important Population Matters. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

2023      (Ricardo E. Gürtler, Sebastián A. Ballari, Aristóbulo A. Maranta, J. E. Cohen) Controlling the abundance of invasive exotic ungulates improves palm-tree conservation in north-eastern Argentina. European Journal of Wildlife Research 69(40):1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-023-01668-0

2023      (J. E. Cohen, John E. Rogers) Financing childhood growth. Project Syndicate, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/development-impact-bonds-could-end-childhood-stunting-by-joel-e-cohen-and-john-e-rogers-2023-07, 2023-07-14

2023      Generalizations of Bertrand’s postulate to sums of any number of primes. Mathematics Magazine 96(4):428-432 https://doi.org/10.1080/0025570X.2023.2231336. arXiv:2305.03821v1 [math.NT] Fri, 5 May 2023 19:54:45 UTC

2023      First-passage times for random partial sums: Yadrenko's model for e and beyond. The American Statistician https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2023.2244542 Published on-line 2023-08-1

2023      (Samuel Carpenter, Scout Callens, Clark Brown, J. E. Cohen, Benjamin Z. Webb) Taylor’s law for an exponential metapopulation model with internal migration. Theoretical Population Biology 154:118-125 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2023.10.002

2023      Integer sequences with regularly varying counting functions have power-law variance functions. Integers 23:A87, 1-19 http://math.colgate.edu/~integers/x87/x87.pdf

In press

Population and climate change: global overview. In: Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society, 2d ed., Steven R. Brechin, editor. Routledge, New York.

Can Earth support 4 billion people sustainably and well? N-IUSSP 20231121 Gustavo De Santis contact@niussp.org accepted 20231127

(Takashi Saitoh, J. E. Cohen) Quantifying factors that explain the slopes of the temporal Taylor’s law of Hokkaido vole populations. Population Ecology POEC-2023-0023 2023-04-10; POEC-2023-0023.R2 2023-10-30; accepted 2023-12-03