David Benz

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

David Benz is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, David Benz has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 3 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in David Benz's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (3 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (2 papers). David Benz is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (3 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (2 papers). David Benz collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Norway and Kenya. David Benz's co-authors include Katherine J. Willis, Peter R. Long, Marc Macias‐Fauria, Alistair W. R. Seddon, Simon I Hay, David J. Rogers, Bethan V. Purse, Andrew J. Tatem, William Wint and Jörn P. W. Scharlemann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

David Benz

12 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Sensitivity of global terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability

2016 1.0k citations Alistair W. R. Seddon, Marc Macias‐Fauria et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Benz United Kingdom	8	803	502	310	308	284	12	1.6k
Douglas O. Fuller United States	30	812 1.0×	741 1.5×	176 0.6×	687 2.2×	175 0.6×	60	2.0k
Monia Santini Italy	24	677 0.8×	321 0.6×	222 0.7×	108 0.4×	154 0.5×	50	1.5k
Dan Malkinson Israel	23	771 1.0×	527 1.0×	78 0.3×	115 0.4×	376 1.3×	75	1.5k
Florencia Sangermano United States	17	589 0.7×	547 1.1×	123 0.4×	80 0.3×	157 0.6×	34	1.1k
Amy McNally United States	18	838 1.0×	273 0.5×	426 1.4×	412 1.3×	62 0.2×	54	1.9k
Abdoul Aziz Diouf Senegal	20	700 0.9×	839 1.7×	191 0.6×	50 0.2×	237 0.8×	106	1.6k
Douglas G. Goodin United States	24	528 0.7×	570 1.1×	109 0.4×	246 0.8×	78 0.3×	71	1.7k
Mika Siljander Finland	19	398 0.5×	432 0.9×	77 0.2×	69 0.2×	183 0.6×	36	1.1k
Frauke Ecke Sweden	28	365 0.5×	1.4k 2.7×	95 0.3×	193 0.6×	398 1.4×	96	2.4k
Yali Si China	24	424 0.5×	845 1.7×	59 0.2×	103 0.3×	198 0.7×	50	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by David Benz

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Benz

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Benz

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

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Purse, Bethan V., Luigi Sedda, David Benz, et al.. (2024). Bluetongue Risk Map for Vaccination and Surveillance Strategies in India. Pathogens. 13(7). 590–590. 3 indexed citations

2.

Long, Peter R., Sandra Nogué, David Benz, & Katherine J. Willis. (2020). Devising a method to remotely model and map the distribution of natural landscapes in Europe with the greatest recreational amenity value (cultural services). Frontiers of Biogeography. 13(1). 7 indexed citations

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Long, Peter R., David Benz, Andrew Martin, et al.. (2017). LEFT—A web‐based tool for the remote measurement and estimation of ecological value across global landscapes. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(3). 571–579. 7 indexed citations

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Seddon, Alistair W. R., Marc Macias‐Fauria, Peter R. Long, David Benz, & Katherine J. Willis. (2016). Sensitivity of global terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability. Nature. 531(7593). 229–232. 1011 indexed citations breakdown →

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Benz, David, et al.. (2016). Sensitivity of global terrestrial ecosystems to climate variability: data and R code. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 2 indexed citations

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Thorn, Jessica, Rachel Friedman, David Benz, Katherine J. Willis, & Gillian Petrokofsky. (2016). What evidence exists for the effectiveness of on-farm conservation land management strategies for preserving ecosystem services in developing countries? A systematic map. Environmental Evidence. 5(1). 16 indexed citations

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Sedda, Luigi, et al.. (2014). Risk assessment of vector-borne diseases for public health governance. Public Health. 128(12). 1049–1058. 18 indexed citations

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Macias‐Fauria, Marc, Alistair W. R. Seddon, David Benz, Peter R. Long, & Katherine J. Willis. (2014). Spatiotemporal patterns of warming. Nature Climate Change. 4(10). 845–846. 12 indexed citations

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Bejon, Philip, Thomas N. Williams, Christopher Nyundo, et al.. (2014). A micro-epidemiological analysis of febrile malaria in Coastal Kenya showing hotspots within hotspots. eLife. 3. e02130–e02130. 88 indexed citations

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Hay, Simon I, Marianne Sinka, Caroline Kabaria, et al.. (2010). Developing Global Maps of the Dominant Anopheles Vectors of Human Malaria. PLoS Medicine. 7(2). e1000209–e1000209. 141 indexed citations

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Scharlemann, Jörn P. W., David Benz, Simon I Hay, et al.. (2008). Global Data for Ecology and Epidemiology: A Novel Algorithm for Temporal Fourier Processing MODIS Data. PLoS ONE. 3(1). e1408–e1408. 232 indexed citations

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Linderman, Marc, Pedram Rowhani, David Benz, Suzanne Serneels, & Éric F. Lambin. (2005). Land‐cover change and vegetation dynamics across Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 110(D12). 39 indexed citations

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