Andy Purvis
Impact in
- Ecological Modeling top 0.02%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Paleontology top 0.05%
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
Papers in
- Ecology 79
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation 53
- Paleontology 70
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies 70
- Co-authors
- John L. Gittleman (23 shared papers)Georgina M. Mace (24 shared papers)Olaf R. P. Bininda‐Emonds (12 shared papers)Kate E. Jones (11 shared papers)Marcel Cardillo (15 shared papers)Susanne A. Fritz (6 shared papers)Andrew Rambaut (1 shared paper)Andy Hector (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (16 papers)Systematic Biology (13 papers)Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (7 papers)Nature (7 papers)Ecography (6 papers)
- Partner nations
- United KingdomUnited StatesGermany
In The Last Decade
Andy Purvis
191 papers receiving 23.0k citations
Andy Purvis's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 197
- Ecological Modeling 5.2k
- Paleontology 5.4k
- Nature and Landscape Conservation 6.7k
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 7.8k
- Ecology 10.2k
Countries citing papers authored by Andy Purvis
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Andy Purvis, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 193 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The delayed rise of present-day mammals Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 1609 |
| 2 | Predicting extinction risk in declining species Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 1289 |
| 3 | Comparative analysis by independent contrasts (CAIC): an Apple Macintosh application for analysing comparative data Hit paper breakdown → | 1995 | 1035 |
| 4 | Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 987 |
| 5 | Getting the measure of biodiversity Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 908 |
| 6 | Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 719 |
| 7 | EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 675 |
| 8 | Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 565 |
| 9 | A composite estimate of primate phylogeny Hit paper breakdown → | 1995 | 562 |
| 10 | The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss Hit paper breakdown → | 2022 | 537 |
| 11 | 1999 | 473 | |
| 12 | 2009 | 467 | |
| 13 | Functional traits, the phylogeny of function, and ecosystem service vulnerability Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 452 |
| 14 | 2004 | 452 | |
| 15 | 2004 | 449 | |
| 16 | 2000 | 441 | |
| 17 | Aiming higher to bend the curve of biodiversity loss Hit paper breakdown → | 2018 | 327 |
| 18 | 1998 | 321 | |
| 19 | 2008 | 319 | |
| 20 | 1991 | 307 |
About Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis is a scholar working on Ecology, Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling, having authored 193 papers that have together received 23.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (70 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (64 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (56 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (53 papers), Plant and animal studies (33 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (29 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (5.2k citations), Paleontology (5.4k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (6.7k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (7.8k citations) and Ecology (10.2k citations). Andy Purvis has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include John L. Gittleman, Georgina M. Mace, Olaf R. P. Bininda‐Emonds, Kate E. Jones, Marcel Cardillo, Susanne A. Fritz, Andrew Rambaut, Andy Hector, Jon Bielby and Guy Cowlishaw. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Systematic Biology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Nature and Ecography.
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