Alison Specht

2.3k total citations
49 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Alison Specht is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Information Systems and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison Specht has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 11 papers in Information Systems and Management. Recurrent topics in Alison Specht's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (12 papers), Research Data Management Practices (10 papers) and Scientific Computing and Data Management (10 papers). Alison Specht is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (12 papers), Research Data Management Practices (10 papers) and Scientific Computing and Data Management (10 papers). Alison Specht collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and France. Alison Specht's co-authors include R. L. Specht, Philip W. West, Kevin Crowston, RL Specht, Bruce W. Grant, Renata Gonçalves Curty, Elizabeth D. Dalton, Elwyn E. Hegarty, Brian Fry and Peter Gell and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Forest Ecology and Management.

In The Last Decade

Alison Specht

43 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alison Specht Australia 17 412 379 367 141 140 49 1.1k
Emery R. Boose United States 19 726 1.8× 1.0k 2.7× 456 1.2× 256 1.8× 117 0.8× 34 2.0k
Johannes Peterseil Austria 16 507 1.2× 618 1.6× 491 1.3× 273 1.9× 34 0.2× 34 1.5k
Ilse R. Geijzendorffer France 28 429 1.0× 1.4k 3.8× 665 1.8× 166 1.2× 25 0.2× 50 2.4k
Matthew A. Williamson United States 21 312 0.8× 534 1.4× 495 1.3× 106 0.8× 23 0.2× 56 1.2k
Melinda Laituri United States 18 90 0.2× 293 0.8× 237 0.6× 50 0.4× 24 0.2× 60 1.1k
Yolanda F. Wiersma Canada 22 833 2.0× 492 1.3× 951 2.6× 127 0.9× 42 0.3× 99 1.9k
Yoseph Araya United Kingdom 13 338 0.8× 386 1.0× 214 0.6× 207 1.5× 49 0.3× 31 911
Adena R. Rissman United States 22 245 0.6× 914 2.4× 362 1.0× 48 0.3× 16 0.1× 65 1.5k
Eugenie Regan United Kingdom 18 342 0.8× 380 1.0× 603 1.6× 75 0.5× 11 0.1× 28 1.2k
Inian Moorthy Austria 16 143 0.3× 420 1.1× 537 1.5× 145 1.0× 26 0.2× 39 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alison Specht

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alison Specht

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alison Specht. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alison Specht based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alison Specht. Alison Specht is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Specht, Alison, Margaret O’Brien, Rorie Edmunds, et al.. (2023). The Value of a Data and Digital Object Management Plan (D(DO)MP) in Fostering Sharing Practices in a Multidisciplinary Multinational Project. Data Science Journal. 22. 4 indexed citations
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Specht, Alison, Rachael Lammey, Margaret O’Brien, et al.. (2023). Insights into the practicalities of collaboration, data and code sharing across the globe.. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1 indexed citations
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Borycz, Joshua, Robert Olendorf, Alison Specht, et al.. (2023). Perceived benefits of open data are improving but scientists still lack resources, skills, and rewards. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 10(1). 17 indexed citations
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Specht, Alison & Kevin Crowston. (2022). Interdisciplinary collaboration from diverse science teams can produce significant outcomes. PLoS ONE. 17(11). e0278043–e0278043. 30 indexed citations
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David, Romain, Laurence Mabile, Alison Specht, et al.. (2020). FAIRness Literacy: The Achilles’ Heel of Applying FAIR Principles. Data Science Journal. 19. 46 indexed citations
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Specht, Alison & R. L. Specht. (2020). The Legacy of the International Biological Program in Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 128. 113–124. 1 indexed citations
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Specht, Alison, Siddeswara Guru, Lauren C. Houghton, et al.. (2015). Data management challenges in analysis and synthesis in the ecosystem sciences. The Science of The Total Environment. 534. 144–158. 37 indexed citations
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Thackway, Richard & Alison Specht. (2015). Synthesising the effects of land use on natural and managed landscapes. The Science of The Total Environment. 526. 136–152. 3 indexed citations
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Davis, Jenny, Anthony P. O’Grady, Allan Dale, et al.. (2015). When trends intersect: The challenge of protecting freshwater ecosystems under multiple land use and hydrological intensification scenarios. The Science of The Total Environment. 534. 65–78. 99 indexed citations
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Brooks, Lyndon, et al.. (2014). The natural diet of the endangered camaenid land snail Thersites mitchellae (Cox, 1864) in northern New South Wales, Australia. Australian Zoologist. 37(3). 343–349. 4 indexed citations
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Specht, R. L., et al.. (2013). SPECIES RICHNESS OF PLANT COMMUNITIES: RELATIONSHIP WITH COMMUNITY GROWTH AND STRUCTURE. Israel journal of botany. Basic and applied plant sciences. 39. 465–480. 3 indexed citations
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Specht, Alison, et al.. (2011). Long-term monitoring of a coastal sandy freshwater wetland: Eighteen Mile Swamp, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 117. 201–223. 2 indexed citations
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Specht, Alison, et al.. (2011). Long-term monitoring of a coastal sandy freshwater wetlands: Eighteen mile swamp, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 117. 201–223. 3 indexed citations
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Specht, Alison, et al.. (2011). Initial observations of a population of Mitchell's Rainforest Snail Thersites mitchellae Cox 1864. Australian Zoologist. 35(3). 590–598. 3 indexed citations
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Specht, R. L. & Alison Specht. (2007). Pre-settlement Tree Density In the Eucalypt Open-forest on the Brisbane Tuff. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 113. 9–16. 1 indexed citations
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Specht, R. L. & Alison Specht. (2002). Objective Classification of Plant Communities in Tropical and Subtropical Australia. 110. 103–12030. 3 indexed citations
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Specht, Alison, et al.. (2001). The effect of serpentine on vegetation structure, composition and endemism in northern New South Wales, Australia. South African Journal of Science. 97. 521–529. 11 indexed citations
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Specht, R. L., H. T. Clifford, Μαργαρίτα Αριανούτσου, et al.. (1991). Structure, floristics and species richness of plant communities in southeast Queensland.. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 101. 27–78. 15 indexed citations
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Specht, R. L. & Alison Specht. (1989). Canopy structure in Eucalyptus-dominated communities in Australia along climatic gradients. 10(2). 191–213. 86 indexed citations

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