Chris van Swaay

147 total papers · 7.6k total citations
74 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Chris van Swaay is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris van Swaay has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 38 papers in Ecological Modeling and 36 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Chris van Swaay's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (39 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (38 papers) and Plant and animal studies (28 papers). Chris van Swaay is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (39 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (38 papers) and Plant and animal studies (28 papers). Chris van Swaay collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany. Chris van Swaay's co-authors include M. S. Warren, A. van Strien, Michiel F. WallisDeVries, Dirk Maes, Josef Settele, Irma Wynhoff, Tim Termaat, Grégoire Loïs, Hans Van Dyck and Piotr Nowicki and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Chris van Swaay

68 papers receiving 4.5k 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale
    2012 562 citations Vincent Devictor, Chris van Swaay et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  2. The decline of butterflies in Europe: Problems, significance, and possible solutions
    2021 245 citations M. S. Warren, Dirk Maes et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Chris van Swaay 2.7k 2.6k 2.5k 1.5k 992 74 4.8k
Juha Pöyry 2.6k 1.0× 1.9k 0.7× 2.3k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 637 0.6× 68 4.3k
M. S. Warren 3.6k 1.4× 3.2k 1.2× 3.5k 1.4× 1.8k 1.2× 1.5k 1.5× 50 6.2k
Susanne A. Fritz 2.3k 0.9× 2.0k 0.8× 2.2k 0.9× 2.3k 1.5× 946 1.0× 55 5.8k
Denis Couvet 2.3k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 2.1k 0.9× 2.3k 1.6× 1.3k 1.4× 113 6.0k
Mark V. Lomolino 2.9k 1.1× 2.0k 0.8× 1.9k 0.8× 3.9k 2.6× 1.1k 1.1× 89 6.6k
Cléo Bertelsmeier 1.4k 0.5× 1.9k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 2.1k 1.4× 1.1k 1.1× 60 4.9k
Dirk Nikolaus Karger 2.0k 0.8× 2.1k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 1.6k 1.1× 632 0.6× 82 5.4k
Jan Christian Habel 1.9k 0.7× 1.7k 0.6× 2.5k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 1.7k 1.7× 159 5.0k
Blaise Petitpierre 1.8k 0.7× 3.2k 1.2× 1.6k 0.7× 2.1k 1.4× 997 1.0× 41 4.8k
Matthew C. Fitzpatrick 2.6k 1.0× 3.4k 1.3× 1.9k 0.8× 3.0k 2.0× 1.6k 1.6× 69 7.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris van Swaay

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris van Swaay

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris van Swaay

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

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