Deirdre McClean

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 710 citations indexed

About

Deirdre McClean is a scholar working on Ecology, Sociology and Political Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Deirdre McClean has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 710 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Ecology, 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Deirdre McClean's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 papers) and Physiological and biochemical adaptations (2 papers). Deirdre McClean is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (3 papers) and Physiological and biochemical adaptations (2 papers). Deirdre McClean collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and United States. Deirdre McClean's co-authors include Ian Donohue, Kevin Healy, Andrew L. Jackson, José M. Montoya, Miguel Lurgi, Helmut Hillebrand, Owen L. Petchey, Mike S. Fowler, Nessa E. O’Connor and Stuart L. Pimm and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Ecology Letters and PLoS Biology.

In The Last Decade

Deirdre McClean

6 papers receiving 699 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.

Navigating the complexity of ecological stability

2016 431 citations Ian Donohue, Helmut Hillebrand et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deirdre McClean United Kingdom	5	312	229	212	208	112	7	710
Torrance C. Hanley United States	15	360 1.2×	157 0.7×	151 0.7×	182 0.9×	195 1.7×	37	705
Isabelle Gounand Switzerland	14	575 1.8×	183 0.8×	236 1.1×	359 1.7×	103 0.9×	27	918
Thomas Galewski France	13	466 1.5×	226 1.0×	138 0.7×	164 0.8×	148 1.3×	22	789
Louisa E. Wood United Kingdom	17	492 1.6×	335 1.5×	163 0.8×	154 0.7×	45 0.4×	46	850
Núria Galiana Spain	13	295 0.9×	94 0.4×	262 1.2×	221 1.1×	77 0.7×	24	570
Elaine K. Harding United States	8	484 1.6×	279 1.2×	258 1.2×	449 2.2×	75 0.7×	11	893
Arne Schröder Sweden	9	378 1.2×	361 1.6×	215 1.0×	365 1.8×	113 1.0×	10	801
Salvador Herrando‐Pérez Australia	16	387 1.2×	181 0.8×	153 0.7×	160 0.8×	79 0.7×	34	733
Josephine C. Iacarella Canada	15	662 2.1×	325 1.4×	178 0.8×	340 1.6×	60 0.5×	32	1.0k
Charlotte Moritz France	17	411 1.3×	278 1.2×	116 0.5×	176 0.8×	81 0.7×	27	748

Countries citing papers authored by Deirdre McClean

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Fields of papers citing papers by Deirdre McClean

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deirdre McClean

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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McClean, Deirdre, et al.. (2025). Weakly interacting species as drivers of ecological stability. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2048). 20250604–20250604.

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McClean, Deirdre, et al.. (2024). Water‐level fluctuations and nutrient enrichment interact to alter ecosystem structure in distinct ways at different water depths. Freshwater Biology. 69(3). 416–424. 2 indexed citations

3.

Kraemer, Susanne A., Toby Samuels, Deirdre McClean, et al.. (2019). Inferring the distribution of fitness effects of spontaneous mutations in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. PLoS Biology. 17(6). e3000192–e3000192. 34 indexed citations

4.

McClean, Deirdre, et al.. (2019). Coping with multiple enemies: pairwise interactions do not predict evolutionary change in complex multitrophic communities. Oikos. 128(11). 1588–1599. 16 indexed citations

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Donohue, Ian, Helmut Hillebrand, José M. Montoya, et al.. (2016). Navigating the complexity of ecological stability. Ecology Letters. 19(9). 1172–1185. 431 indexed citations breakdown →

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McClean, Deirdre, Luke McNally, Letal I. Salzberg, et al.. (2015). Single gene locus changes perturb complex microbial communities as much as apex predator loss. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8235–8235. 15 indexed citations

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Healy, Kevin, Thomas Guillerme, Sive Finlay, et al.. (2014). Ecology and mode-of-life explain lifespan variation in birds and mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 281(1784). 20140298–20140298. 212 indexed citations

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