Ester Polaina

572 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 369 citations indexed

About

Ester Polaina is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ester Polaina has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 369 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Ecological Modeling, 7 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ester Polaina's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (4 papers). Ester Polaina is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (4 papers). Ester Polaina collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. Ester Polaina's co-authors include Laura Kehoe, Tobias Kuemmerle, Holger Kreft, Lyndon Estes, Alfredo Romero‐Muñoz, Manuela González‐Suárez, Eloy Revilla, Mariano R. Recio, Tomas Pärt and Stina Drakare and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Environmental Research Letters and Global Ecology and Biogeography.

In The Last Decade

Ester Polaina

10 papers receiving 356 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.

  1. Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification
    2017 271 citations Laura Kehoe, Alfredo Romero‐Muñoz et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ester Polaina Spain 8 167 135 88 74 69 10 369
Samuel M. Jantz United States 4 181 1.1× 199 1.5× 71 0.8× 73 1.0× 48 0.7× 5 454
Monika Bertzky United Kingdom 6 137 0.8× 166 1.2× 38 0.4× 63 0.9× 50 0.7× 9 397
Gaëtane Le Provost Germany 8 118 0.7× 162 1.2× 70 0.8× 139 1.9× 97 1.4× 15 417
Alejandra Martínez‐Salinas Costa Rica 10 193 1.2× 222 1.6× 54 0.6× 139 1.9× 130 1.9× 19 527
Raúl Abel Vaca Mexico 9 146 0.9× 137 1.0× 36 0.4× 75 1.0× 61 0.9× 13 318
Fernando M. Resende Brazil 10 94 0.6× 174 1.3× 62 0.7× 104 1.4× 59 0.9× 20 373
John Musinsky United States 6 172 1.0× 204 1.5× 52 0.6× 61 0.8× 71 1.0× 6 385
Andrea E. Izquierdo Argentina 11 242 1.4× 248 1.8× 59 0.7× 134 1.8× 34 0.5× 26 501
Fernando Gast Colombia 6 142 0.9× 127 0.9× 67 0.8× 91 1.2× 90 1.3× 7 408
Jonas Josefsson Sweden 10 153 0.9× 131 1.0× 58 0.7× 160 2.2× 97 1.4× 13 403

Countries citing papers authored by Ester Polaina

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ester Polaina

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ester Polaina. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ester Polaina. The network helps show where Ester Polaina may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ester Polaina

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Auffret, Alistair G., Hedvig K. Nenzén, & Ester Polaina. (2024). Underprediction of extirpation and colonisation following climate and land‐use change using species distribution models. Diversity and Distributions. 30(7). 6 indexed citations
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Drakare, Stina, et al.. (2022). Species distribution models as a tool for early detection of the invasive Raphidiopsis raciborskii in European lakes. Harmful Algae. 113. 102202–102202. 12 indexed citations
3.
Polaina, Ester, et al.. (2021). The future of invasive terrestrial vertebrates in Europe under climate and land-use change. Environmental Research Letters. 16(4). 44004–44004. 10 indexed citations
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Polaina, Ester, Tomas Pärt, & Mariano R. Recio. (2020). Identifying hotspots of invasive alien terrestrial vertebrates in Europe to assist transboundary prevention and control. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 11655–11655. 17 indexed citations
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Polaina, Ester, Manuela González‐Suárez, & Eloy Revilla. (2019). The legacy of past human land use in current patterns of mammal distribution. Ecography. 42(10). 1623–1635. 17 indexed citations
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Polaina, Ester, Manuela González‐Suárez, Tobias Kuemmerle, Laura Kehoe, & Eloy Revilla. (2018). From tropical shelters to temperate defaunation: The relationship between agricultural transition stage and the distribution of threatened mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27(6). 647–657. 13 indexed citations
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Jerina, Klemen & Ester Polaina. (2018). Reconstruction of brown bear population dynamics in Slovenia and Croatia for the period 1998-2018. Repository of the University of Ljubljana (University of Ljubljana). 3 indexed citations
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Kehoe, Laura, Alfredo Romero‐Muñoz, Ester Polaina, et al.. (2017). Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(8). 1129–1135. 271 indexed citations breakdown →
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Polaina, Ester, Eloy Revilla, & Manuela González‐Suárez. (2016). Putting susceptibility on the map to improve conservation planning, an example with terrestrial mammals. Diversity and Distributions. 22(8). 881–892. 7 indexed citations
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Polaina, Ester, Manuela González‐Suárez, & Eloy Revilla. (2015). Socioeconomic correlates of global mammalian conservation status. Ecosphere. 6(9). 1–34. 13 indexed citations

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