François Edwards

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

François Edwards is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, François Edwards has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Ecology, 17 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 9 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in François Edwards's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (15 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (12 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (9 papers). François Edwards is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (15 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (12 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (9 papers). François Edwards collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. François Edwards's co-authors include Guy Woodward, Lee E. Brown, Mark E. Ledger, Alexander M. Milner, Rasmus B. Lauridsen, J. Iwan Jones, Francesca Gherardi, Bernd Hänfling, José M. Montoya and Jordi Bascompte and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

François Edwards

38 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Review: Ecological networks – beyond food webs

2008 630 citations Thomas C. Ings, José M. Montoya et al. Journal of Animal Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
François Edwards United Kingdom	21	1.3k	833	480	331	314	40	2.1k
Mark E. Ledger United Kingdom	26	1.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.6×	570 1.2×	364 1.1×	82 0.3×	48	2.5k
Carola Gómez‐Rodríguez Spain	24	1.1k 0.8×	546 0.7×	425 0.9×	400 1.2×	153 0.5×	60	1.8k
Carl D. Sayer United Kingdom	26	1.1k 0.9×	639 0.8×	172 0.4×	294 0.9×	167 0.5×	68	1.7k
Victor Lemes Landeiro Brazil	28	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	397 0.8×	223 0.7×	141 0.4×	50	2.3k
Tom L. Dudley United States	27	1.7k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	302 0.6×	722 2.2×	116 0.4×	73	2.5k
Stefano Larsen Italy	21	1.4k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	227 0.5×	442 1.3×	69 0.2×	43	2.1k
Jeffrey J. Duda United States	29	2.0k 1.6×	1.4k 1.6×	171 0.4×	477 1.4×	278 0.9×	80	2.8k
Olivier Beauchard Belgium	29	1.8k 1.4×	1.9k 2.3×	192 0.4×	509 1.5×	115 0.4×	54	3.0k
Jean‐Nicolas Beisel France	29	2.0k 1.5×	880 1.1×	138 0.3×	267 0.8×	161 0.5×	92	2.5k
Eoin J. O’Gorman United Kingdom	25	1.6k 1.2×	851 1.0×	496 1.0×	647 2.0×	358 1.1×	61	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by François Edwards

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Fields of papers citing papers by François Edwards

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Edwards

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Johnson, Andrew C., Dinara Sadykova, Yueming Qu, et al.. (2025). Zinc and Copper Have the Greatest Relative Importance for River Macroinvertebrate Richness at a National Scale. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(8). 4068–4079. 4 indexed citations

Qu, Yueming, Virginie Keller, Nuria Bachiller‐Jareno, et al.. (2023). Significant improvement in freshwater invertebrate biodiversity in all types of English rivers over the past 30 years. The Science of The Total Environment. 905. 167144–167144. 21 indexed citations

Seymour, Mathew, François Edwards, B. J. Cosby, et al.. (2021). Environmental DNA provides higher resolution assessment of riverine biodiversity and ecosystem function via spatio-temporal nestedness and turnover partitioning. Communications Biology. 4(1). 60 indexed citations

Greenop, Arran, Ben A. Woodcock, Charlotte L. Outhwaite, et al.. (2021). Patterns of invertebrate functional diversity highlight the vulnerability of ecosystem services over a 45-year period. Current Biology. 31(20). 4627–4634.e3. 21 indexed citations

Hutchins, Michael, Lee E. Brown, M. Loewenthal, et al.. (2021). Hourly Prediction of Phytoplankton Biomass and Its Environmental Controls in Lowland Rivers. Water Resources Research. 57(3). 24 indexed citations

Wilkes, Martin, François Edwards, J. Iwan Jones, et al.. (2020). Trait‐based ecology at large scales: Assessing functional trait correlations, phylogenetic constraints and spatial variability using open data. Global Change Biology. 26(12). 7255–7267. 30 indexed citations

Seymour, Mathew, François Edwards, B. J. Cosby, et al.. (2020). Executing multi-taxa eDNA ecological assessment via traditional metrics and interactive networks. The Science of The Total Environment. 729. 138801–138801. 51 indexed citations

Seymour, Mathew, Isabelle Durance, B. J. Cosby, et al.. (2018). Acidity promotes degradation of multi-species environmental DNA in lotic mesocosms. Communications Biology. 1(1). 4–4. 207 indexed citations

Jarvie, Helen P., Douglas R. Smith, Lisa Norton, et al.. (2017). Phosphorus and nitrogen limitation and impairment of headwater streams relative to rivers in Great Britain: A national perspective on eutrophication. The Science of The Total Environment. 621. 849–862. 127 indexed citations

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Old, Gareth, Mark Jitlal, François Edwards, et al.. (2016). Assessment of the water quality outcomes from Agri-Environment & development of an associated Rural Development Programme (RDP) ‘impact’ indicator for Agriculture & Water Quality. Environmental Stewardship monitoring and evaluation framework request for mini-tender. 1 indexed citations

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Sorensen, James, Louise Maurice, François Edwards, et al.. (2013). Using Boreholes as Windows into Groundwater Ecosystems. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e70264–e70264. 45 indexed citations

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Dollar, Evan S.J., François Edwards, Cédric Laizé, et al.. (2013). Monitoring and assessment of environmental impacts of droughts (SC120024): work package 4. Final report. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 1 indexed citations

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Jones, J. Iwan, Carlos Abrahams, Lee E. Brown, et al.. (2013). The impact of extreme events on freshwater ecosystems. 26 indexed citations

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Woodward, Guy, Lee E. Brown, François Edwards, et al.. (2012). Climate change impacts in multispecies systems: drought alters food web size structure in a field experiment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 367(1605). 2990–2997. 72 indexed citations

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Ledger, Mark E., Lee E. Brown, François Edwards, Alexander M. Milner, & Guy Woodward. (2012). Drought alters the structure and functioning of complex food webs. Nature Climate Change. 3(3). 223–227. 195 indexed citations

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Brown, Lee E., François Edwards, Alexander M. Milner, Guy Woodward, & Mark E. Ledger. (2011). Food web complexity and allometric scaling relationships in stream mesocosms: implications for experimentation. Journal of Animal Ecology. 80(4). 884–895. 29 indexed citations

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Edwards, François, et al.. (2009). The relationship between length, mass and preservation time for three species of freshwater leeches (Hirudinea). Fundamental and Applied Limnology / Archiv für Hydrobiologie. 173(4). 321–327. 28 indexed citations

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Ings, Thomas C., José M. Montoya, Jordi Bascompte, et al.. (2008). Review: Ecological networks – beyond food webs. Journal of Animal Ecology. 78(1). 253–269. 630 indexed citations breakdown →

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Woodward, Guy, et al.. (2008). Trophic trickles and cascades in a complex food web: impacts of a keystone predator on stream community structure and ecosystem processes. Oikos. 117(5). 683–692. 98 indexed citations

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Edwards, François, T. McKeown, & A.G.W. Whitfield. (1959). Contributions and Demands of Elderly Men. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 13(2). 59–66. 1 indexed citations

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