Alan Gray

6.5k total citations
104 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Alan Gray is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Gray has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, 41 papers in Plant Science and 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Alan Gray's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (23 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (20 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (19 papers). Alan Gray is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (23 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (20 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (19 papers). Alan Gray collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Alan Gray's co-authors include G. Matt Davies, Alan Raybould, Peter Levy, Colin J. Legg, T. McNeilly, Richard L. Haedrich, Francis G. Howarth, J. E. Purcell, Nicholas J. Bax and James T. Carlton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Alan Gray

101 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan Gray United Kingdom	34	1.5k	1.2k	891	634	597	104	3.4k
Hannah L. Buckley New Zealand	33	1.6k 1.1×	924 0.8×	680 0.8×	889 1.4×	688 1.2×	116	3.5k
Allan E. Strand United States	25	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	574 0.6×	960 1.5×	404 0.7×	57	3.3k
Exequiel Ezcurra Mexico	40	2.3k 1.6×	1.5k 1.3×	1.5k 1.7×	1.5k 2.3×	369 0.6×	169	5.6k
László Orlóci Canada	25	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	560 0.6×	877 1.4×	179 0.3×	88	3.8k
Alain Franc France	27	1.0k 0.7×	630 0.5×	730 0.8×	559 0.9×	472 0.8×	62	3.0k
Lee Belbin Australia	24	1.7k 1.2×	450 0.4×	650 0.7×	590 0.9×	231 0.4×	52	3.4k
Andrew J. Kerkhoff United States	27	1.9k 1.3×	951 0.8×	1.6k 1.8×	1.4k 2.2×	368 0.6×	39	5.1k
Peter R. Minchin United States	13	1.9k 1.3×	750 0.6×	761 0.9×	849 1.3×	183 0.3×	24	3.8k
Karl Inne Ugland Norway	27	1.7k 1.2×	393 0.3×	711 0.8×	840 1.3×	235 0.4×	56	3.4k
Jennifer Firn Australia	26	1.5k 1.0×	907 0.7×	924 1.0×	660 1.0×	293 0.5×	83	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Gray

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Gray

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Gray

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gray, Alan, et al.. (2025). Non-native vegetation encroachment drives trophic turnover in island nematodes. Biodiversity and Conservation. 34(3). 1071–1090.

Davies, G. Matt, et al.. (2023). Resilience of temperate peatland vegetation communities to wildfire depends upon burn severity and pre‐fire species composition. Ecology and Evolution. 13(4). e9912–e9912. 6 indexed citations

Proesmans, Willem, Christopher Andrews, Alan Gray, et al.. (2022). Long‐term cattle grazing shifts the ecological state of forest soils. Ecology and Evolution. 12(4). e8786–e8786. 9 indexed citations

Davies, G. Matt, et al.. (2018). Increased fire severity alters initial vegetation regeneration across Calluna-dominated ecosystems. Journal of Environmental Management. 231. 1004–1011. 24 indexed citations

Gray, Alan, et al.. (2018). Burning increases post-fire carbon emissions in a heathland and a raised bog, but experimental manipulation of fire severity has no effect. Journal of Environmental Management. 233. 321–328. 13 indexed citations

Davies, G. Matt, et al.. (2017). Fire severity is more sensitive to low fuel moisture content on Calluna heathlands than on peat bogs. The Science of The Total Environment. 616-617. 1261–1269. 26 indexed citations

Davies, G. Matt, et al.. (2017). Leaving moss and litter layers undisturbed reduces the short-term environmental consequences of heathland managed burns. Journal of Environmental Management. 204(Pt 1). 102–110. 4 indexed citations

Davies, G. Matt, et al.. (2016). Vegetation structure and fire weather influence variation in burn severity and fuel consumption during peatland wildfires. Biogeosciences. 13(2). 389–398. 38 indexed citations

Roberts, Andrew, et al.. (2013). Environmental risk assessment of GE plants under low-exposure conditions. Transgenic Research. 23(6). 971–983. 14 indexed citations

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Wolt, Jeffrey D., Paul Keese, Alan Raybould, et al.. (2009). Problem formulation in the environmental risk assessment for genetically modified plants. Transgenic Research. 19(3). 425–436. 121 indexed citations

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Garbutt, Angus, C. J. Reading, Mineke Wolters, Alan Gray, & P. Rothery. (2005). Monitoring the development of intertidal habitats on former agricultural land after the managed realignment of coastal defences at Tollesbury, Essex, UK. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 53(1-4). 155–164. 93 indexed citations

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Gray, Alan & Mads Haahr. (2004). Personalised, Collaborative Spam Filtering. 51 indexed citations

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Bax, Nicholas J., James T. Carlton, Richard L. Haedrich, et al.. (2001). The Control of Biological Invasions in the World's Oceans. Conservation Biology. 15(5). 1234–1246. 171 indexed citations

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Bull, Ian D., Pim F. van Bergen, Roland Bol, et al.. (1999). Estimating the contribution of Spartina anglica biomass to salt-marsh sediments using compound specific stable carbon isotope measurements. Organic Geochemistry. 30(7). 477–483. 24 indexed citations

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Maskell, Lindsay C., et al.. (1999). The prevalence and spatial distribution of viruses in natural populations of Brassica oleracea. New Phytologist. 141(2). 265–275. 75 indexed citations

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Gray, Alan & G. H. Davis. (1995). Commercial performance of sheep carrying the Inverdale gene (FecX).. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production. 55. 294–295. 2 indexed citations

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Thompson, John D., Alan Gray, & T. McNeilly. (1990). The effects of density on the population dynamics of Spartina anglica.. Acta Oecologica. 11(5). 669–682. 16 indexed citations

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Raybould, Alan, et al.. (1990). The origin and taxonomy of Spartina X neyrautii Foucaud.. New Journal of Botany. 18(2). 207–209. 3 indexed citations

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Williamson, Mark, H.L. Kornberg, M. W. Holdgate, Alan Gray, & Gordon Conway. (1986). Preface - The British contribution to the SCOPE Programme on the Ecology of Biological Invasions. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 314(1167). 503–504. 9 indexed citations

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Gray, Alan. (1965). What Price Sanctions Against South Africa. 3(11). 270–274. 1 indexed citations

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