Chris Sandbrook

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Chris Sandbrook is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Sandbrook has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 20 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 17 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Chris Sandbrook's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (13 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (12 papers). Chris Sandbrook is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (13 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (12 papers). Chris Sandbrook collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Chris Sandbrook's co-authors include William M. Adams, Bhaskar Vira, Nibedita Mukherjee, Aiora Zabala, Fred Nelson, Janet Fisher, George Holmes, Dilys Roe, Andrew Balmford and Theresa M. Marteau and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Chris Sandbrook

65 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

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2018 271 citations Chris Sandbrook et al. Conservation Biology profile →
The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity

2022 127 citations James R. Allan, Hugh P. Possingham et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Chris Sandbrook	1.7k	1.1k	760	694	506	70	3.7k
Duan Biggs	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	726 1.0×	880 1.3×	531 1.0×	87	4.4k
Graham Epstein	1.7k 1.0×	998 0.9×	783 1.0×	536 0.8×	348 0.7×	59	3.4k
Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares	1.4k 0.8×	944 0.9×	730 1.0×	707 1.0×	231 0.5×	91	3.8k
Anke Fischer	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	725 1.0×	665 1.0×	496 1.0×	95	3.5k
Maria Tengö	2.7k 1.6×	931 0.9×	911 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	359 0.7×	55	5.0k
Carina Wyborn	2.8k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.5×	1.2k 1.8×	413 0.8×	73	5.3k
Anna C. Evely	1.7k 1.0×	969 0.9×	818 1.1×	724 1.0×	249 0.5×	11	3.6k
Jon Hutton	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	683 0.9×	430 0.6×	566 1.1×	23	3.3k
Cathy Robinson	1.5k 0.9×	918 0.9×	570 0.8×	531 0.8×	262 0.5×	99	3.4k
J. Peter Brosius	1.8k 1.1×	814 0.8×	733 1.0×	870 1.3×	359 0.7×	39	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Sandbrook

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Sandbrook

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Chris Sandbrook. 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 Chris Sandbrook. The network helps show where Chris Sandbrook may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Sandbrook

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sandbrook, Chris, et al.. (2025). From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 50(3). 2 indexed citations

Naik, Hemal, et al.. (2025). Advancing animal behaviour research using drone technology. Animal Behaviour. 222. 123147–123147. 6 indexed citations

Simlai, Trishant & Chris Sandbrook. (2024). The gendered forest: Digital surveillance technologies for conservation and gender-environment relationships. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 4(2). 157–174. 1 indexed citations

Fisher, Janet, et al.. (2024). Assessing the breadth and multidisciplinarity of the conservation curriculum in the United Kingdom and Australia. BioScience. 74(9). 652–662. 2 indexed citations

Clark, Douglas A., Peadar Brehony, Amy Dickman, et al.. (2023). Hunting trophy import bans proposed by the UK may be ineffective and inequitable as conservation policies in multiple social‐ecological contexts. Conservation Letters. 16(2). 4 indexed citations

Millner, Naomi, Andrew M. Cunliffe, Margarita Mulero‐Pázmány, et al.. (2023). Exploring the opportunities and risks of aerial monitoring for biodiversity conservation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 2–23. 7 indexed citations

Sandbrook, Chris, Martin Fisher, Graeme S. Cumming, et al.. (2023). The role of journals in supporting the socially responsible use of conservation technology. Oryx. 57(1). 1–2. 5 indexed citations

Allan, James R., Hugh P. Possingham, Scott Atkinson, et al.. (2022). The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity. Science. 376(6597). 1094–1101. 127 indexed citations breakdown →

Sandbrook, Chris, Douglas A. Clark, Tuuli Toivonen, et al.. (2021). Principles for the socially responsible use of conservation monitoring technology and data. Conservation Science and Practice. 3(5). 52 indexed citations

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Garnett, Emma, Andrew Balmford, Theresa M. Marteau, Mark Pilling, & Chris Sandbrook. (2021). Price of change: Does a small alteration to the price of meat and vegetarian options affect their sales?. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 75. 101589–101589. 37 indexed citations

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Wyborn, Carina, Federico Davila, Laura Pereira, et al.. (2020). Imagining transformative biodiversity futures. Nature Sustainability. 3(9). 670–672. 64 indexed citations

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Garnett, Emma, Theresa M. Marteau, Chris Sandbrook, Mark Pilling, & Andrew Balmford. (2020). Order of meals at the counter and distance between options affect student cafeteria vegetarian sales. Nature Food. 1(8). 485–488. 44 indexed citations

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Moon, Katie, Deborah Blackman, Vanessa M. Adams, et al.. (2019). Expanding the role of social science in conservation through an engagement with philosophy, methodology, and methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(3). 294–302. 100 indexed citations

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Sandbrook, Chris, et al.. (2018). Human Bycatch: Conservation Surveillance and the Social Implications of Camera Traps. Conservation and Society. 16(4). 493–493. 51 indexed citations

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Daw, Tim M., Christina C. Hicks, Katrina Brown, et al.. (2016). Elasticity in ecosystem services: exploring the variable relationship between ecosystems and human well-being. Ecology and Society. 21(2). 171 indexed citations

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Twongyirwe, Ronald, et al.. (2015). REDD at the crossroads? The opportunities and challenges of REDD for conservation and human welfare in South West Uganda. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development. 14(3). 273–273. 10 indexed citations

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Sandbrook, Chris. (2015). The social implications of using drones for biodiversity conservation. AMBIO. 44(S4). 636–647. 155 indexed citations

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Sandbrook, Chris, Ivan R. Scales, Bhaskar Vira, & William M. Adams. (2010). Value Plurality among Conservation Professionals. Conservation Biology. 25(2). 285–294. 106 indexed citations

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Roe, Dilys, Chris Sandbrook, & Fred Nelson. (2009). Community management of natural resources in Africa: impacts, experiences and future directions.. 152 indexed citations

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Sandbrook, Chris. (2009). Local economic impact of different forms of nature‐based tourism. Conservation Letters. 3(1). 21–28. 52 indexed citations

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