Carly Cowell

954 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 692 citations indexed

About

Carly Cowell is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Carly Cowell has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 692 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 5 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Carly Cowell's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (3 papers) and Plant and animal studies (3 papers). Carly Cowell is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (3 papers) and Plant and animal studies (3 papers). Carly Cowell collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Carly Cowell's co-authors include Sandrine Godefroid, Kristina Bjureke, José María Iriondo, Graziano Rossi, Rupert Koopman, Stéphane Buord, Carl W. Weekley, Albert‐Dieter Stevens, Thierry Vanderborght and Isabel Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Environmental Management and Biological Conservation.

In The Last Decade

Carly Cowell

15 papers receiving 672 citations

Hit Papers

1 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.

How successful are plant species reintroductions?

2010 486 citations Sandrine Godefroid, Graziano Rossi et al. Biological Conservation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carly Cowell South Africa	8	302	266	233	229	120	15	692
Ramona Oviedo Cuba	8	378 1.3×	459 1.7×	257 1.1×	215 0.9×	170 1.4×	20	799
Albert‐Dieter Stevens Germany	7	386 1.3×	373 1.4×	273 1.2×	252 1.1×	220 1.8×	10	790
David Figueroa Chile	4	272 0.9×	388 1.5×	274 1.2×	163 0.7×	90 0.8×	4	673
Jacques Tassin France	16	334 1.1×	281 1.1×	207 0.9×	182 0.8×	81 0.7×	70	839
Brenda Molano‐Flores United States	14	277 0.9×	377 1.4×	194 0.8×	345 1.5×	134 1.1×	80	694
Rui B. Elias Portugal	17	309 1.0×	271 1.0×	178 0.8×	187 0.8×	185 1.5×	60	831
Timothy J. S. Whitfeld United States	10	398 1.3×	390 1.5×	199 0.9×	177 0.8×	234 1.9×	18	713
Rodrigo F. Fadini Brazil	11	525 1.7×	559 2.1×	309 1.3×	272 1.2×	127 1.1×	30	899
Lin Taylor United Kingdom	8	245 0.8×	373 1.4×	155 0.7×	201 0.9×	128 1.1×	9	617
Aino Juslén Finland	15	214 0.7×	476 1.8×	246 1.1×	282 1.2×	212 1.8×	36	852

Countries citing papers authored by Carly Cowell

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carly Cowell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carly Cowell

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

All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

Cowell, Carly, et al.. (2022). Prioritising species for monitoring in a South African protected area and the Red List for plants. Biodiversity and Conservation. 32(1). 119–137. 5 indexed citations

Cowell, Carly, et al.. (2022). Fortuitous Alignment: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability. 14(4). 2366–2366. 14 indexed citations

Cowell, Carly, Alan Paton, James S. Borrell, et al.. (2021). Uses and benefits of digital sequence information from plant genetic resources: Lessons learnt from botanical collections. Plants People Planet. 4(1). 33–43. 15 indexed citations

Whitehead, David, Carly Cowell, Anita Lavorgna, & Stuart E. Middleton. (2021). Countering plant crime online: Cross-disciplinary collaboration in the FloraGuard study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 100007–100007. 11 indexed citations

Silva, Manuela da, Gemedo Dalle, Paul Smith, et al.. (2020). Conservation Policy: Helping or hindering science to unlock properties of plants and fungi. Plants People Planet. 2(5). 535–545. 17 indexed citations

Williams, Jenny, et al.. (2020). Lessons learned as Erica turgida is returned. Journal for Nature Conservation. 56. 125858–125858. 4 indexed citations

Cowell, Carly, et al.. (2020). Historic herbarium specimens as biocultural assets: An examination of herbarium specimens and their in situ plant communities of the Agulhas National Park, South Africa. People and Nature. 2(2). 483–494. 4 indexed citations

Cowell, Carly, Charlene Bissett, & Sam M. Ferreira. (2019). Top-down and bottom-up processes to implement biological monitoring in protected areas. Journal of Environmental Management. 257. 109998–109998. 11 indexed citations

Margulies, Jared D., Amy Hinsley, Daniel J. Ingram, et al.. (2019). Illegal wildlife trade and the persistence of “plant blindness”. Plants People Planet. 1(3). 173–182. 87 indexed citations

10.

Cowell, Carly, et al.. (2017). A ranking system for prescribed burn prioritization in Table Mountain National Park, South Africa. Journal of Environmental Management. 190. 283–289. 6 indexed citations

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Ferreira, Sam M., Charlene Bissett, Carly Cowell, et al.. (2017). The status of rhinoceroses in South African National Parks. Koedoe. 59(1). 26 indexed citations

12.

Novellie, Peter, et al.. (2017). Adaptive Governance of Cape Mountain Zebra, Can It Work?. African Journal of Wildlife Research. 47(2). 79–91. 2 indexed citations

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Cowell, Carly & Sam M. Ferreira. (2015). Challenges Managing Herbivores in the Contractual Postberg Section of West Coast National Park. African Journal of Wildlife Research. 45(1). 28–28. 2 indexed citations

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Cowell, Carly, et al.. (2012). The lost fynbos of Tokai Park. 98(1). 30–33. 2 indexed citations

15.

Godefroid, Sandrine, Graziano Rossi, Stéphane Buord, et al.. (2010). How successful are plant species reintroductions?. Biological Conservation. 144(2). 672–682. 486 indexed citations breakdown →

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