Andy Symes

8.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
8 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Andy Symes is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Andy Symes has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 5 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Andy Symes's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (5 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (5 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (4 papers). Andy Symes is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (5 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (5 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (4 papers). Andy Symes collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Andy Symes's co-authors include Stuart H. M. Butchart, Ben Sullivan, Alison J. Stattersfield, Phil Taylor, John P. Croxall, Ben Lascelles, Michael Hoffmann, Mélodie A. McGeoch, Elizabeth J. Kleynhans and Elrike Marais and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Conservation Biology and Biological Conservation.

In The Last Decade

Andy Symes

8 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Seabird conservation status, threats and priority actions: a global assessment

2012 843 citations John P. Croxall, Stuart H. M. Butchart et al. Bird Conservation International profile →
Financial Costs of Meeting Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets: Current Spending and Unmet Needs

2012 467 citations Paul F. Donald, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann et al. Science profile →
Generation lengths of the world's birds and their implications for extinction risk

2020 196 citations Jeremy P. Bird, Robert W. Martin et al. Conservation Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andy Symes United Kingdom	8	1.6k	736	674	545	375	8	2.4k
Carlos Eduardo Viveiros Grelle Brazil	26	1.3k 0.8×	994 1.4×	926 1.4×	590 1.1×	497 1.3×	86	2.6k
Vassiliki Kati Greece	26	1.2k 0.8×	959 1.3×	919 1.4×	689 1.3×	517 1.4×	66	2.4k
J. Verboom Netherlands	21	1.1k 0.7×	876 1.2×	702 1.0×	496 0.9×	303 0.8×	53	1.9k
James Q. Radford Australia	21	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	709 1.1×	587 1.1×	379 1.0×	49	2.1k
Leonie E. Valentine Australia	24	1.3k 0.8×	880 1.2×	1.0k 1.5×	415 0.8×	300 0.8×	76	2.4k
M. Sanjayan United States	12	1.1k 0.7×	737 1.0×	585 0.9×	415 0.8×	414 1.1×	16	1.9k
Lawrence N. Hudson United Kingdom	13	775 0.5×	589 0.8×	556 0.8×	493 0.9×	445 1.2×	15	1.6k
Madhu Rao United States	21	1.6k 1.0×	885 1.2×	881 1.3×	375 0.7×	497 1.3×	40	2.7k
Adriano Pereira Paglia Brazil	22	1.0k 0.6×	659 0.9×	590 0.9×	462 0.8×	628 1.7×	68	2.3k
Mirko Di Febbraro Italy	29	1.3k 0.8×	502 0.7×	669 1.0×	922 1.7×	513 1.4×	100	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Andy Symes

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Andy Symes's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Andy Symes with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Andy Symes more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Andy Symes

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Andy Symes. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Andy Symes. The network helps show where Andy Symes may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andy Symes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andy Symes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andy Symes 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 Andy Symes. Andy Symes is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

8 of 8 papers shown

1.

Bird, Jeremy P., Robert W. Martin, H. Reşi̇t Akçakaya, et al.. (2020). Generation lengths of the world's birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology. 34(5). 1252–1261. 196 indexed citations breakdown →

2.

Butchart, Stuart H. M., et al.. (2018). Which bird species have gone extinct? A novel quantitative classification approach. Biological Conservation. 227. 9–18. 59 indexed citations

3.

Butchart, Stuart H. M., Moreno Di Marco, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, et al.. (2016). Toward quantification of the impact of 21st‐century deforestation on the extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates. Conservation Biology. 30(5). 1070–1079. 81 indexed citations

4.

Olah, George, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Andy Symes, et al.. (2016). Ecological and socio-economic factors affecting extinction risk in parrots. Biodiversity and Conservation. 25(2). 205–223. 157 indexed citations

5.

Regan, Eugenie, Luca Santini, Michael Hoffmann, et al.. (2015). Global Trends in the Status of Bird and Mammal Pollinators. Conservation Letters. 8(6). 397–403. 82 indexed citations

6.

Donald, Paul F., Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, Graeme M. Buchanan, et al.. (2012). Financial Costs of Meeting Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets: Current Spending and Unmet Needs. Science. 338(6109). 946–949. 467 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Croxall, John P., Stuart H. M. Butchart, Ben Lascelles, et al.. (2012). Seabird conservation status, threats and priority actions: a global assessment. Bird Conservation International. 22(1). 1–34. 843 indexed citations breakdown →

8.

McGeoch, Mélodie A., Stuart H. M. Butchart, Dian Spear, et al.. (2010). Global indicators of biological invasion: species numbers, biodiversity impact and policy responses. Diversity and Distributions. 16(1). 95–108. 472 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact