The median number of citations received by hierarchical modeling papers within our database is 8 (IQR = 2-17). As expected, the number of citations are negatively correlated with the year of publication (rho = -0.76, p < 0.001). Yet, several recently published papers are very well cited compared with articles published in the same period (Figure 4). The most cited paper in our database is MacKenzie et al. (2002) with 3047 citations, MacKenzie et al. (2003) with 1184 citations, Tyre et al. (2003) with 539 citations, followed by Royle and Kery (2007), with 303 citations in Web of Science at the end of 2022, followed by Woodcock et al. (2016) with 269 citations. Other papers with more than 200 citations are Nichols et al. (2008), Dail and Madsen (2011), van Strien et al. (2013) and Zipkin, Dewan and Royle (2009).