Dave Balfour

884 total citations
28 papers, 535 citations indexed

About

Dave Balfour is a scholar working on Ecology, Agronomy and Crop Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Dave Balfour has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 535 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Ecology, 8 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science and 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Dave Balfour's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers), Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (8 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers). Dave Balfour is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers), Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (8 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers). Dave Balfour collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and Kenya. Dave Balfour's co-authors include William J. Bond, William D. Stock, Rob Slotow, Jeremy J. Midgley, Andrew Skowno, Graham I. H. Kerley, J. J. Midgley, Hayley S. Clements, Chris Barichievy and Christopher Gordon and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Ecology and Biological Conservation.

In The Last Decade

Dave Balfour

26 papers receiving 491 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dave Balfour South Africa 13 288 246 139 106 77 28 535
Nicole Hagenah South Africa 15 348 1.2× 317 1.3× 154 1.1× 157 1.5× 58 0.8× 23 607
Laurence Kruger South Africa 14 363 1.3× 491 2.0× 153 1.1× 296 2.8× 107 1.4× 27 743
Jenny Stott Australia 9 391 1.4× 307 1.2× 199 1.4× 240 2.3× 38 0.5× 9 722
C. C. Grant South Africa 12 533 1.9× 215 0.9× 81 0.6× 82 0.8× 20 0.3× 21 750
Phoebe Barnard South Africa 19 582 2.0× 332 1.3× 333 2.4× 157 1.5× 70 0.9× 43 913
Kathryn M. Rodríguez‐Clark Venezuela 15 361 1.3× 288 1.2× 114 0.8× 227 2.1× 64 0.8× 32 715
María Andrea Relva Argentina 13 389 1.4× 461 1.9× 151 1.1× 220 2.1× 135 1.8× 26 672
J. J. Midgley South Africa 14 206 0.7× 376 1.5× 205 1.5× 183 1.7× 221 2.9× 26 603
Stella M. Giannoni Argentina 19 740 2.6× 413 1.7× 321 2.3× 61 0.6× 116 1.5× 78 991
Christine Fletcher Malaysia 15 289 1.0× 373 1.5× 248 1.8× 244 2.3× 67 0.9× 28 694

Countries citing papers authored by Dave Balfour

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dave Balfour

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dave Balfour

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

All Works

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Gobush, Kathleen S., et al.. (2024). Survey-based inference of continental African elephant decline. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(48). e2403816121–e2403816121. 3 indexed citations
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Hawkins, Heidi‐Jayne, et al.. (2023). Shepherding is not a shot in the dark: evidence of low predation losses from the Northern Cape province of South Africa. African Journal of Range and Forage Science. 40(4). 373–384. 1 indexed citations
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Clements, Hayley S., Dave Balfour, & Enrico Di Minin. (2023). Importance of private and communal lands to sustainable conservation of Africa's rhinoceroses. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 21(3). 140–147. 4 indexed citations
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Hawkins, Heidi‐Jayne, et al.. (2022). Shepherding is not a shot in the dark. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).
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Barichievy, Chris, et al.. (2021). A demographic model to support an impact financing mechanism for black rhino metapopulations. Biological Conservation. 257. 109073–109073. 5 indexed citations
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Balfour, Dave, et al.. (2019). A Theory of Change to grow numbers of African rhino at a conservation site. Conservation Science and Practice. 1(6). 20 indexed citations
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Selier, Jeanetta, Rob Slotow, & Dave Balfour. (2018). Management of African elephant populations in small fenced areas: Current practices, constraints and recommendations. Bothalia. 48(1). 5 indexed citations
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Kerley, Graham I. H., Kevin Behrens, Jane Carruthers, et al.. (2017). Livestock predation in South Africa: The need for and value of a scientific assessment. South African Journal of Science. 113(3/4). 3–3. 13 indexed citations
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Slotow, Rob, et al.. (2009). Use of black rhino range estimates for conservation decisions: a response to Linklater et al.. Oryx. 44(1). 18–19. 1 indexed citations
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Balfour, Dave, et al.. (2007). Review of options for managing the impacts of locally overabundant African elephants. IUCN eBooks. 30 indexed citations
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Balfour, Dave, et al.. (2006). Is carry-over of grass biomass between years important in determining savanna fire regimes?. African Journal of Range and Forage Science. 23(1). 81–83. 5 indexed citations
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Midgley, J. J., Dave Balfour, & Graham I. H. Kerley. (2005). Why do elephants damage savanna trees. South African Journal of Science. 101. 213–215. 35 indexed citations
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Slotow, Rob, et al.. (2001). Killing of black and white rhinoceroses by African elephants in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park, South Africa. Pachyderm. 31. 14–20. 20 indexed citations
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Bond, William J., et al.. (2001). Acacia species turnover in space and time in an African savanna. Journal of Biogeography. 28(1). 117–128. 68 indexed citations
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Midgley, Jeremy J., et al.. (2001). Why do some African thorn trees (Acacia spp.) have a flat‐top: a grazer–plant mutualism hypothesis?. African Journal of Ecology. 39(2). 226–228. 4 indexed citations
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Balfour, Dave, et al.. (1998). On the uptake of ornithogenic products by plants on the inland mountains of Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, using stable isotopes. Polar Biology. 20(2). 107–111. 51 indexed citations
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Balfour, Dave & H. P. Linder. (1990). Morphological variation in populations of Disa uniflora (Diseae: Orchidaceae) in the southwestern Cape, South Africa. Canadian Journal of Botany. 68(11). 2361–2370. 8 indexed citations

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