Ben Collen

30.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
99 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Ben Collen is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Collen has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Ecology, 59 papers in Ecological Modeling and 47 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ben Collen's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (59 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (47 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (36 papers). Ben Collen is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (59 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (47 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (36 papers). Ben Collen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Ben Collen's co-authors include Nick J. B. Isaac, Gerardo Ceballos, Hillary S. Young, Rodolfo Dirzo, Mauro Galetti, Jonathan Baillie, Samuel T. Turvey, Carly Waterman, Louise McRae and Monika Böhm and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ben Collen

98 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

2014 2.7k citations Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young et al. Science profile →
Mammals on the EDGE: Conservation Priorities Based on Threat and Phylogeny

2007 758 citations Nick J. B. Isaac, Ben Collen et al. PLoS ONE profile →
A Standard Lexicon for Biodiversity Conservation: Unified Classifications of Threats and Actions

2008 578 citations Nick Salafsky, Daniel W. Salzer et al. Conservation Biology profile →
Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas

2010 503 citations Ian D. Craigie, Jonathan Baillie et al. Biological Conservation profile →
Global patterns of freshwater species diversity, threat and endemism

2013 466 citations Ben Collen, Ellie E. Dyer et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ben Collen	5.8k	4.2k	3.8k	2.8k	2.1k	99	10.2k
Carlo Rondinini	6.8k 1.2×	3.7k 0.9×	4.6k 1.2×	3.5k 1.3×	1.7k 0.8×	151	11.7k
Michael Hoffmann	4.5k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	3.0k 0.8×	2.8k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	126	9.2k
Çaḡan H. Şekercioḡlu	7.6k 1.3×	5.7k 1.4×	4.6k 1.2×	3.1k 1.1×	3.5k 1.6×	172	12.5k
John F. Lamoreux	5.4k 0.9×	4.6k 1.1×	3.9k 1.0×	4.4k 1.6×	3.4k 1.6×	27	13.0k
Ana S. L. Rodrigues	5.8k 1.0×	4.5k 1.1×	4.7k 1.2×	6.3k 2.2×	2.2k 1.0×	82	12.5k
H. Reşi̇t Akçakaya	6.4k 1.1×	5.3k 1.3×	5.0k 1.3×	3.0k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	130	11.5k
Simon N. Stuart	5.8k 1.0×	4.2k 1.0×	4.9k 1.3×	5.6k 2.0×	2.5k 1.1×	79	12.2k
George V. N. Powell	5.6k 1.0×	3.0k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	3.1k 1.1×	2.7k 1.3×	61	10.6k
John D. Pilgrim	3.6k 0.6×	3.0k 0.7×	2.3k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	30	8.9k
Eric Dinerstein	6.4k 1.1×	4.5k 1.1×	3.5k 0.9×	4.6k 1.7×	3.1k 1.4×	67	13.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Collen

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Miranda, Rafael, William Darwall, Nicholas K. Dulvy, et al.. (2022). Monitoring extinction risk and threats of the world’s fishes based on the Sampled Red List Index. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 32(3). 975–991. 24 indexed citations

Watermeyer, Kate E., Gurutzeta Guillera‐Arroita, Payal Bal, et al.. (2020). Using decision science to evaluate global biodiversity indices. Conservation Biology. 35(2). 492–501. 29 indexed citations

Henriques, Sérgio, Monika Böhm, Ben Collen, et al.. (2020). Accelerating the monitoring of global biodiversity: Revisiting the sampled approach to generating Red List Indices. Conservation Letters. 13(3). 22 indexed citations

Meredith, Helen, Freya A. V. St. John, Ben Collen, Simon A. Black, & Richard A. Griffiths. (2017). Practitioner and scientist perceptions of successful amphibian conservation. Conservation Biology. 32(2). 366–375. 12 indexed citations

Dyer, Ellie E., Phillip Cassey, David W. Redding, et al.. (2017). The Global Distribution and Drivers of Alien Bird Species Richness. PLoS Biology. 15(1). e2000942–e2000942. 124 indexed citations

Collen, Ben, et al.. (2016). Why Huddle? Ecological Drivers of Chick Aggregations in Gentoo Penguins, Pygoscelis papua, across Latitudes. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0145676–e0145676. 10 indexed citations

Collen, Ben, E.J. Milner‐Gulland, Ian D. Craigie, et al.. (2015). Global Biodiversity Indicators Reflect the Modeled Impacts of Protected Area Policy Change. Conservation Letters. 9(1). 14–20. 25 indexed citations

Álvarez‐Filip, Lorenzo, Michelle J. Paddack, Ben Collen, D. Ross Robertson, & Isabelle M. Côté. (2015). Simplification of Caribbean Reef-Fish Assemblages over Decades of Coral Reef Degradation. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0126004–e0126004. 67 indexed citations

Dirzo, Rodolfo, Hillary S. Young, Mauro Galetti, et al.. (2014). Defaunation in the Anthropocene. Science. 345(6195). 401–406. 2735 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hodgkinson, Colin A., et al.. (2012). First records of Liberian Mongoose Liberiictis kuhni in Sapo National Park, southeast Liberia. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Collen, Ben, et al.. (2012). Spineless: status and trends of the world's invertebrates. UCL Discovery (University College London). 98 indexed citations

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McRae, Louise, Stefanie Deinet, Michael Gill, & Ben Collen. (2012). Tracking trends in Arctic marine populations. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Bland, Lucie M., Ben Collen, C. David L. Orme, & Jon Bielby. (2012). Data uncertainty and the selectivity of extinction risk in freshwater invertebrates. Diversity and Distributions. 18(12). 1211–1220. 42 indexed citations

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Bubb, Philip, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Ben Collen, et al.. (2009). IUCN Red List index : guidance for national and regional use. Version 1.1. IUCN eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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Clausnitzer, Viola, Vincent J. Kalkman, Mala Ram, et al.. (2009). Odonata enter the biodiversity crisis debate: The first global assessment of an insect group. Biological Conservation. 142(8). 1864–1869. 267 indexed citations

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Salafsky, Nick, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Daniel W. Salzer, et al.. (2009). Pragmatism and Practice in Classifying Threats: Reply to Balmford et al.. Conservation Biology. 23(2). 488–493. 11 indexed citations

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Collen, Ben, et al.. (2008). The Living Planet Index for migratory species: an index of change in population abundance. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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Baillie, Jonathan, Ben Collen, Rajan Amin, et al.. (2008). Toward monitoring global biodiversity. Conservation Letters. 1(1). 18–26. 139 indexed citations

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Collen, Ben, Jonathan Loh, Sarah Whitmee, et al.. (2008). Monitoring Change in Vertebrate Abundance: the Living Planet Index. Conservation Biology. 23(2). 317–327. 276 indexed citations

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Salafsky, Nick, Daniel W. Salzer, Alison J. Stattersfield, et al.. (2008). A Standard Lexicon for Biodiversity Conservation: Unified Classifications of Threats and Actions. Conservation Biology. 22(4). 897–911. 578 indexed citations breakdown →

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