James Watson
Impact in
- Ecological Modeling top 0.01%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.05%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Papers in
- Ecology 190
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation 115
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- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 101
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 60
- Forest Management and Policy 27
- Co-authors
- Oscar Venter (61 shared papers)Hugh P. Possingham (75 shared papers)Richard A. Fuller (38 shared papers)Daniel B. Segan (14 shared papers)Nigel Dudley (10 shared papers)Sean Maxwell (18 shared papers)Marc Hockings (5 shared papers)Thomas M. Brooks (10 shared papers)
- Journals
- Conservation Biology (31 papers)Conservation Letters (23 papers)Biological Conservation (22 papers)Cytometry (16 papers)Nature Ecology & Evolution (13 papers)
- Partner nations
- AustraliaUnited StatesUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
James Watson
536 papers receiving 36.1k citations
James Watson's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 224
- Ecological Modeling 7.4k
- Nature and Landscape Conservation 7.6k
- Global and Planetary Change 13.2k
- Ecology 13.6k
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 4.2k
Countries citing papers authored by James Watson
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Fields of papers citing papers by James Watson
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside James Watson, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The performance and potential of protected areas Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 1707 |
| 2 | A meta-analysis of crop yield under climate change and adaptation Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 1696 |
| 3 | Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 1378 |
| 4 | Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 1267 |
| 5 | Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 990 |
| 6 | The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 988 |
| 7 | A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation Hit paper breakdown → | 2018 | 896 |
| 8 | Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century Hit paper breakdown → | 2020 | 662 |
| 9 | Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009 Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 562 |
| 10 | The impact of urbanization and climate change on urban temperatures: a systematic review Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 531 |
| 11 | People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years Hit paper breakdown → | 2021 | 526 |
| 12 | Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 449 |
| 13 | 2010 | 419 | |
| 14 | Climate change vulnerability assessment of species Hit paper breakdown → | 2018 | 371 |
| 15 | Catastrophic Declines in Wilderness Areas Undermine Global Environment Targets Hit paper breakdown → | 2016 | 354 |
| 16 | 1960 | 327 | |
| 17 | Species’ traits influenced their response to recent climate change Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 301 |
| 18 | Protected area targets post-2020 Hit paper breakdown → | 2019 | 298 |
| 19 | Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity Hit paper breakdown → | 2020 | 294 |
| 20 | Guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological networks and corridors Hit paper breakdown → | 2020 | 288 |
About James Watson
James Watson is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Molecular Biology, having authored 547 papers that have together received 37.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (120 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (115 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (101 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (95 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (60 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (52 papers), Environmental Conservation and Management (36 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (27 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (7.4k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (7.6k citations), Global and Planetary Change (13.2k citations), Ecology (13.6k citations) and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (4.2k citations). James Watson has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Oscar Venter, Hugh P. Possingham, Richard A. Fuller, Daniel B. Segan, Nigel Dudley, Sean Maxwell, Marc Hockings, Thomas M. Brooks, Moreno Di Marco and James R. Allan. Their work appears in journals such as Conservation Biology, Conservation Letters, Biological Conservation, Cytometry and Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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