Aidin Niamir

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 818 citations indexed

About

Aidin Niamir is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Aidin Niamir has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 818 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Ecology, 13 papers in Ecological Modeling and 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Aidin Niamir's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (8 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Aidin Niamir is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (8 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Aidin Niamir collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Aidin Niamir's co-authors include Thomas Hickler, Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Sarah Jane Wilson, Eben N. Broadbent, S. J. Goetz, J. Leighton Reid, Robin L. Chazdon, Alessandro Baccini, Felipe S. M. Barros and Renato Crouzeilles and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Aidin Niamir

30 papers receiving 796 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aidin Niamir Germany	14	377	247	232	201	72	31	818
Qiongyu Huang United States	17	314 0.8×	529 2.1×	238 1.0×	370 1.8×	89 1.2×	40	920
Nancy Shackelford Canada	18	304 0.8×	363 1.5×	336 1.4×	172 0.9×	148 2.1×	43	1.0k
Jasper A.J. Eikelboom Netherlands	6	185 0.5×	416 1.7×	142 0.6×	115 0.6×	77 1.1×	8	870
Rajeev Pillay United States	12	310 0.8×	387 1.6×	174 0.8×	156 0.8×	81 1.1×	19	686
Sam Nicol Australia	17	294 0.8×	412 1.7×	349 1.5×	217 1.1×	98 1.4×	60	941
Jonathan M. Graham United States	16	438 1.2×	413 1.7×	216 0.9×	88 0.4×	53 0.7×	33	1.1k
Haruka Ohashi Japan	14	230 0.6×	380 1.5×	198 0.9×	190 0.9×	111 1.5×	33	851
Mrigesh Kshatriya South Africa	13	292 0.8×	370 1.5×	230 1.0×	203 1.0×	119 1.7×	19	769
Mika Siljander Finland	19	398 1.1×	432 1.7×	183 0.8×	131 0.7×	150 2.1×	36	1.1k
Tom Harwood Australia	15	466 1.2×	411 1.7×	257 1.1×	281 1.4×	138 1.9×	31	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aidin Niamir

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Bagstad, Kenneth J., Stefano Balbi, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, et al.. (2025). Interoperability for ecosystem service assessments: Why, how, who, and for whom?. Ecosystem Services. 72. 101705–101705. 2 indexed citations

Yoshida, Yuki, Nadia Sitas, Lelani Mannetti, et al.. (2024). Beyond Academia: A case for reviews of gray literature for science-policy processes and applied research. Environmental Science & Policy. 162. 103882–103882. 10 indexed citations

Ghaffari, Hanyeh, et al.. (2024). Amphibian hotspots in Iran: Effectiveness of current protected area and priorities for conservation planning. Global Ecology and Conservation. 54. e03178–e03178. 1 indexed citations

Seebens, Hanno, Aidin Niamir, Franz Essl, et al.. (2024). Biological invasions on Indigenous peoples’ lands. Nature Sustainability. 7(6). 737–746. 8 indexed citations

Jong, Menno de, Aidin Niamir, Andrew C. Kitchener, et al.. (2023). Range-wide whole-genome resequencing of the brown bear reveals drivers of intraspecies divergence. Communications Biology. 6(1). 153–153. 21 indexed citations

Harmáčková, Zuzana V., Yuki Yoshida, Nadia Sitas, et al.. (2023). The role of values in future scenarios: what types of values underpin (un)sustainable and (un)just futures?. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 64. 101343–101343. 15 indexed citations

Ghaffari, Hanyeh, et al.. (2023). A synoptic review of the Amphibians of Iran: bibliography, taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, conservation status, and identification key to the eggs, larvae, and adults. Zootaxa. 5279(1). 1–112. 5 indexed citations

Feurdean, Angelica, Andrei‐Cosmin Diaconu, Mirjam Pfeiffer, et al.. (2022). Holocene wildfire regimes in western Siberia: interaction between peatland moisture conditions and the composition of plant functional types. Climate of the past. 18(6). 1255–1274. 14 indexed citations

Voskamp, Alke, Christian Hof, Matthias F. Biber, et al.. (2022). Projected climate change impacts on the phylogenetic diversity of the world's terrestrial birds: more than species numbers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1979). 20212184–20212184. 12 indexed citations

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Rogers, Alex D., et al.. (2022). Habitat Protection Indexes - new monitoring measures for the conservation of coastal and marine habitats. Scientific Data. 9(1). 203–203. 7 indexed citations

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Feurdean, Angelica, Andrei‐Cosmin Diaconu, Mirjam Pfeiffer, et al.. (2021). Holocene wildfire regimes in forested peatlands in western Siberia: interaction between peatland moisture conditions and the composition of plant functional types. Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Goethe University Frankfurt). 4 indexed citations

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Skidmore, Andrew K., et al.. (2020). Potential invasion range of raccoon in Iran under climate change. European Journal of Wildlife Research. 66(6). 4 indexed citations

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Paula, Mateus Dantas de, et al.. (2019). Combining European Earth Observation products with Dynamic Global Vegetation Models for estimating Essential Biodiversity Variables. International Journal of Digital Earth. 13(2). 262–277. 13 indexed citations

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Purvis, Andy, Zsolt Molnár, David Obura, et al.. (2019). Chapter 2.2 Status and Trends –Nature. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 13 indexed citations

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Biber, Matthias F., Alke Voskamp, Aidin Niamir, Thomas Hickler, & Christian Hof. (2019). A comparison of macroecological and stacked species distribution models to predict future global terrestrial vertebrate richness. Journal of Biogeography. 47(1). 114–129. 33 indexed citations

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Reuss, Friederike, et al.. (2019). Modelling seasonal dynamics, population stability, and pest control in Aedes japonicus japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae). Parasites & Vectors. 12(1). 142–142. 21 indexed citations

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Niamir, Aidin, et al.. (2019). Regional adaptation of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) to drought in Central European conditions considering environmental suitability and economic implications. Regional Environmental Change. 19(4). 1159–1174. 21 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Marco, et al.. (2017). Interactive Data Exploration for Geoscience.. 117–126. 3 indexed citations

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Niamir, Aidin, Andrew K. Skidmore, Albertus G. Toxopeus, & Raimundo Real. (2015). Use of taxonomy to delineate spatial extent of atlas data for species distribution models. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25(2). 227–237. 11 indexed citations

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Niamir, Aidin, Andrew K. Skidmore, Albertus G. Toxopeus, Antonio‐Román Muñoz, & Raimundo Real. (2011). Finessing atlas data for species distribution models. Diversity and Distributions. 17(6). 1173–1185. 37 indexed citations

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