Christopher J. Sandom

6.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
43 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Christopher J. Sandom is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher J. Sandom has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 22 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Christopher J. Sandom's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (19 papers), Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (17 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (12 papers). Christopher J. Sandom is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (19 papers), Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (17 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (12 papers). Christopher J. Sandom collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and United States. Christopher J. Sandom's co-authors include Jens‐Christian Svenning, Brody Sandel, Søren Faurby, David W. Macdonald, Rasmus Ejrnæs, John Terborgh, Mauro Galetti, Frans W. M. Vera, Yadvinder Malhi and Pil Birkefeldt Møller Pedersen 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

Christopher J. Sandom

41 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Collapse of the world’s largest herbivores

2015 779 citations David W. Macdonald, Yadvinder Malhi et al. profile →
Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

2015 448 citations Jens‐Christian Svenning, Rasmus Ejrnæs et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Rewilding complex ecosystems

2019 408 citations Andrea Perino, Henrique M. Pereira et al. Science profile →
Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change

2014 321 citations Christopher J. Sandom, Jens‐Christian Svenning et al. profile →
Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation

2015 304 citations Elisabeth S. Bakker, Jacquelyn L. Gill et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Christopher J. Sandom	1.9k	1.7k	1.2k	668	476	43	3.7k
Søren Faurby	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	782 0.7×	1.0k 1.5×	170 0.4×	96	4.2k
Daniel Ramp	1.8k 0.9×	819 0.5×	535 0.5×	618 0.9×	127 0.3×	111	3.0k
Leonie E. Valentine	1.3k 0.7×	880 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	415 0.6×	310 0.7×	76	2.4k
Marcelo M. Rivadeneira	1.8k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	772 0.7×	675 1.0×	110 0.2×	80	3.9k
Rasmus Ejrnæs	1.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	902 0.8×	764 1.1×	164 0.3×	97	4.0k
Nuria Selva	2.6k 1.3×	726 0.4×	658 0.6×	488 0.7×	117 0.2×	85	3.5k
Alison J. Stattersfield	3.1k 1.6×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	1.4k 2.1×	79 0.2×	26	4.8k
Emily Lindsey	1.3k 0.7×	839 0.5×	718 0.6×	828 1.2×	67 0.1×	30	3.3k
Arjun Amar	3.2k 1.6×	831 0.5×	745 0.6×	823 1.2×	366 0.8×	137	4.3k
Brett P. Murphy	3.2k 1.6×	2.5k 1.4×	3.8k 3.2×	722 1.1×	79 0.2×	140	6.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher J. Sandom

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Schowanek, Simon D., Matt Davis, Erick Lundgren, et al.. (2025). The Late‐Quaternary Extinctions Gave Rise to Functionally Novel Herbivore Assemblages. Ecology and Evolution. 15(3). e71101–e71101. 1 indexed citations

Aldoh, Alaa, et al.. (2025). How multisensory nature exposure affects well‐being: Visual and auditory influences on affect. People and Nature. 7(11). 2821–2837.

Wooster, Eamonn I. F., Erick Lundgren, Christopher J. Sandom, et al.. (2024). Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(12). 4 indexed citations

Harvey, Gemma L., et al.. (2024). The role of rewilding in mitigating hydrological extremes: State of the evidence. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 11(3). 5 indexed citations

Williams, Jake, Christopher J. Sandom, & Nathalie Pettorelli. (2024). Active management is required to regenerate the Caledonian forest: Alladale as a case study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 1 indexed citations

Quaas, Martin F., et al.. (2023). Applying conventional funding mechanisms to rewilding: the opportunities and challenges for funding rewilding in Europe. Restoration Ecology. 31(4). 7 indexed citations

Pereira, Henrique M., et al.. (2023). Diverse approaches to nature recovery are needed to meet the varied needs of people and nature. Sustainability Science. 1–17. 3 indexed citations

Jones, Nikoleta, et al.. (2022). Rewilding—The farmers’ perspective. Perceptions and attitudinal support for rewilding among the English farming community. People and Nature. 4(6). 1435–1449. 21 indexed citations

Malhi, Yadvinder, Tonya A. Lander, Elizabeth le Roux, et al.. (2022). The role of large wild animals in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Current Biology. 32(4). R181–R196. 97 indexed citations

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Sandom, Christopher J., et al.. (2022). What evidence exists on the impacts of large herbivores on climate change? A systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence. 11(1). 14–14. 4 indexed citations

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Balfour, Nicholas J., Rachael Durrant, Adrian Ely, & Christopher J. Sandom. (2021). People, nature and large herbivores in a shared landscape: A mixed‐method study of the ecological and social outcomes from agriculture and conservation. People and Nature. 3(2). 418–430. 11 indexed citations

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Egoh, Benis N., Charity Nyelele, Karen D. Holl, et al.. (2021). Rewilding and restoring nature in a changing world. PLoS ONE. 16(7). e0254249–e0254249. 10 indexed citations

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Lundgren, Erick, Simon D. Schowanek, John Rowan, et al.. (2021). Functional traits of the world’s late Quaternary large-bodied avian and mammalian herbivores. Scientific Data. 8(1). 17–17. 26 indexed citations

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Lundgren, Erick, Daniel Ramp, John Rowan, et al.. (2020). Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(14). 7871–7878. 83 indexed citations

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Perino, Andrea, Henrique M. Pereira, Laetitia M. Navarro, et al.. (2019). Rewilding complex ecosystems. Science. 364(6438). 408 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pettorelli, Nathalie, Jos Barlow, Philip A. Stephens, et al.. (2018). Making rewilding fit for policy. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(3). 1114–1125. 144 indexed citations

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Sandom, Christopher J., David J. Bullock, Adrian Ely, et al.. (2018). Rewilding in the English uplands: Policy and practice. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(2). 266–273. 40 indexed citations

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Bull, Joseph W., Rasmus Ejrnæs, David W. Macdonald, Jens‐Christian Svenning, & Christopher J. Sandom. (2018). Fences can support restoration in human‐dominated ecosystems when rewilding with large predators. Restoration Ecology. 27(1). 198–209. 13 indexed citations

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Sandom, Christopher J., James P. Williams, Dawn Burnham, et al.. (2017). Deconstructed cat communities: Quantifying the threat to felids from prey defaunation. Diversity and Distributions. 23(6). 667–679. 20 indexed citations

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Bakker, Elisabeth S., Jacquelyn L. Gill, Christopher N. Johnson, et al.. (2015). Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(4). 847–855. 304 indexed citations breakdown →

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