David Kelly

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

David Kelly is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, David Kelly has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Ecology, 28 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 24 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in David Kelly's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (20 papers), Plant and animal studies (17 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (16 papers). David Kelly is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (20 papers), Plant and animal studies (17 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (16 papers). David Kelly collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United Kingdom and New Zealand. David Kelly's co-authors include Nicola M. Marples, Andrew L. Jackson, Jonathan Grey, Andrew J. H. Davey, Stuart Bearhop, Andrew Parnell, Richard Inger, Eric J. Ward, Brice X. Semmens and Jonathan W. Moore and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

David Kelly

105 papers receiving 3.3k citations

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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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Kelly Ireland	28	1.7k	782	629	582	417	109	3.5k
Sina M. Adl Canada	27	1.6k 0.9×	653 0.8×	400 0.6×	337 0.6×	96 0.2×	77	4.8k
Olivier Dangles France	42	2.6k 1.5×	1.3k 1.7×	1.7k 2.7×	667 1.1×	163 0.4×	163	5.7k
Jane C. Marks United States	30	2.4k 1.4×	661 0.8×	1.3k 2.1×	478 0.8×	83 0.2×	87	4.1k
WJ Müller Australia	32	1.3k 0.8×	755 1.0×	1.0k 1.6×	840 1.4×	175 0.4×	127	3.9k
David R. Smith United States	34	1.5k 0.9×	269 0.3×	1.2k 1.9×	514 0.9×	136 0.3×	136	3.7k
Kyle H. Elliott Canada	36	3.0k 1.8×	1.2k 1.5×	539 0.9×	666 1.1×	891 2.1×	172	4.3k
Robert H. Cowie United States	41	3.6k 2.1×	1.3k 1.6×	840 1.3×	539 0.9×	562 1.3×	137	6.2k
Peter S. Cranston Australia	30	2.9k 1.7×	1.7k 2.1×	1.0k 1.6×	203 0.3×	287 0.7×	145	5.2k
Blake Matthews Switzerland	37	2.3k 1.4×	888 1.1×	1.4k 2.3×	906 1.6×	160 0.4×	110	4.7k
E. Emiel van Loon Netherlands	40	2.6k 1.5×	1.0k 1.3×	761 1.2×	1.1k 2.0×	78 0.2×	162	5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by David Kelly

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Kelly

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Byrne, Andrew W., Nicola M. Marples, Maria O’Hagan, et al.. (2025). Wildlife response to land-use change forces encounters between zoonotic disease hosts and farms in agricultural landscapes. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 386. 109561–109561. 3 indexed citations

Kelly, Joanna, et al.. (2025). Stemless reverse total shoulder arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JSES Reviews Reports and Techniques. 5(2). 203–215. 1 indexed citations

Guarin, Jose Rafael, Jonas Jägermeyr, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, et al.. (2024). Modeling the effects of tropospheric ozone on the growth and yield of global staple crops with DSSAT v4.8.0. Geoscientific model development. 17(7). 2547–2567. 10 indexed citations

Byrne, Andrew W., Adrian Allen, Simone Ciuti, et al.. (2023). Badger Ecology, Bovine Tuberculosis, and Population Management: Lessons From the Island of Ireland. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Kelly, David, Nicola M. Marples, Rachel L. Byrne, et al.. (2022). An investigation of Mycobacterium bovis and helminth coinfection in the European badger Meles meles. International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife. 19. 311–316. 3 indexed citations

O’Connell, Darren P., et al.. (2021). Threats to an undescribed songbird species in Indonesia. Oryx. 55(1). 10–10. 4 indexed citations

Kelly, David, et al.. (2021). Badger territoriality maintained despite disturbance of major road construction. PLoS ONE. 16(9). e0242586–e0242586. 7 indexed citations

Verburg, Piet, et al.. (2020). Sedimentary phosphorus in contrasting, shallow New Zealand lakes and its effect on water quality. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 55(4). 592–611. 4 indexed citations

Kelly, David & Marc Schallenberg. (2019). Assessing food web structure in relation to nutrient enrichment, macrophyte collapse and lake resilience in shallow lowland lakes. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 53(4). 603–619. 14 indexed citations

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O’Connell, Darren P., et al.. (2019). Increased sexual dimorphism in dense populations of Olive-backed Sunbirds on small islands: morphological niche contraction in females but not males. Emu - Austral Ornithology. 119(3). 296–307. 9 indexed citations

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Schiferl, Luke D., Colette L. Heald, & David Kelly. (2018). Resource and physiological constraints on global crop production enhancements from atmospheric particulate matter and nitrogen deposition. Biogeosciences. 15(14). 4301–4315. 9 indexed citations

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Kamps, Jaap, et al.. (2017). SCST 2017 : Supporting Complex Search Tasks : Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks co-located with the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR 2017) : Oslo, Norway, March 11, 2017. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 1798. 1 indexed citations

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Kelly, David, Nicola M. Marples, Chang‐Yong Choi, & Hyun‐Young Nam. (2012). Migrating dragonflies: famine relief for resident Peregrine Falcons Falco peregrinus on islands. 2 indexed citations

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Schallenberg, Marc, David Kelly, Joanne E. Clapcott, et al.. (2011). Approaches to assessing ecological integrity of New Zealand freshwaters.. 11 indexed citations

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Kelly, David, et al.. (2011). Development of a broad-host-range phage cocktail for biocontrol. PubMed. 2(1). 31–37. 54 indexed citations

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Kelly, David. (2010). The Case for Social Safeguards in a Post-2012 Agreement on REDD. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 14 indexed citations

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Marples, Nicola M., David Kelly, & Robert J. Thomas. (2005). PERSPECTIVE: THE EVOLUTION OF WARNING COLORATION IS NOT PARADOXICAL. Evolution. 59(5). 933–940. 84 indexed citations

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Speed, Michael P., David Kelly, Andrew Davidson, & Graeme D. Ruxton. (2004). Countershading enhances crypsis with some bird species but not others. Behavioral Ecology. 16(2). 327–334. 19 indexed citations

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Thomas, Robert J., et al.. (2003). Nocturnal playbacks reveal hidden differences in singing behaviour between populations of RobinErithacus rubecula. Bird Study. 50(1). 84–87. 9 indexed citations

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Richardson, David J., Glenn F. King, David Kelly, et al.. (1988). The role of auxiliary oxidants in maintaining redox balance during phototrophic growth of Rhodobacter capsulatuspropionate or butyrate. Archives of Microbiology. 150(6). 602–602. 3 indexed citations

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