Gavin McDonald

758 total citations
28 papers, 487 citations indexed

About

Gavin McDonald is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Gavin McDonald has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 487 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Ecology, 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Gavin McDonald's work include Marine and fisheries research (17 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (16 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (6 papers). Gavin McDonald is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (17 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (16 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (6 papers). Gavin McDonald collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Gavin McDonald's co-authors include Christopher Costello, Kyle C. Meng, Tracey Mangin, Michaela Clemence, Rachael E. Blake, Colette Ward, Jennifer Bone, Elizabeth A. Babcock, Todd Gedamke and Rod Fujita and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gavin McDonald

27 papers receiving 466 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gavin McDonald United States 15 254 223 95 85 55 28 487
Louise Teh Canada 15 342 1.3× 295 1.3× 173 1.8× 61 0.7× 68 1.2× 31 572
Clare Fitzsimmons United Kingdom 12 184 0.7× 203 0.9× 118 1.2× 45 0.5× 66 1.2× 35 390
Emmanuel Mbaru Kenya 10 249 1.0× 302 1.4× 193 2.0× 69 0.8× 102 1.9× 18 558
Dorothy J. Dankel Norway 11 261 1.0× 158 0.7× 126 1.3× 79 0.9× 80 1.5× 37 464
Serge Raemaekers South Africa 10 166 0.7× 154 0.7× 96 1.0× 41 0.5× 76 1.4× 14 347
Moenieba Isaacs South Africa 12 188 0.7× 170 0.8× 181 1.9× 37 0.4× 100 1.8× 27 480
Jorge Ramos Portugal 12 155 0.6× 153 0.7× 117 1.2× 39 0.5× 32 0.6× 43 326
Leo X.C. Dutra Australia 15 247 1.0× 247 1.1× 140 1.5× 60 0.7× 92 1.7× 36 524
Matilda Thyresson Sweden 8 499 2.0× 447 2.0× 99 1.0× 103 1.2× 50 0.9× 8 750
Julia Olson United States 11 254 1.0× 207 0.9× 173 1.8× 35 0.4× 120 2.2× 25 546

Countries citing papers authored by Gavin McDonald

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gavin McDonald

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gavin McDonald

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Raynor, Jennifer, et al.. (2025). Little-to-no industrial fishing occurs in fully and highly protected marine areas. Science. 389(6758). 392–395. 2 indexed citations
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Villaseñor‐Derbez, Juan Carlos, et al.. (2024). Dangerous Waters: The Economic Toll of Piracy on Maritime Shipping. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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McDonald, Gavin, et al.. (2024). Global expansion of marine protected areas and the redistribution of fishing effort. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(29). e2400592121–e2400592121. 10 indexed citations
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Deschênes, Olivier, Christopher J. Malloy, & Gavin McDonald. (2023). Causal Effects of Renewable Portfolio Standards on Renewable Investments and Generation: The Role of Heterogeneity and Dynamics. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Deschênes, Olivier, Christopher J. Malloy, & Gavin McDonald. (2023). Causal Effects of Renewable Portfolio Standards on Renewable Investments and Generation: The Role of Heterogeneity and Dynamics. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Deschênes, Olivier, Christopher J. Malloy, & Gavin McDonald. (2023). Causal effects of Renewable Portfolio Standards on renewable investments and generation: The role of heterogeneity and dynamics. Resource and Energy Economics. 75. 101393–101393. 9 indexed citations
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McDonald, Gavin, et al.. (2023). Opportunities and challenges for improving fisheries management through greater transparency in vessel tracking. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 80(4). 675–689. 24 indexed citations
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Oyanedel, Rodrigo, et al.. (2022). Assessing the drivers of vessel tracking systems adoption for improved small-scale fisheries management. Ocean & Coastal Management. 226. 106265–106265. 9 indexed citations
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Deschênes, Olivier, et al.. (2022). Can Demand-Side Interventions Rebuild Global Fisheries?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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McDonald, Gavin, Christopher Costello, Jennifer Bone, et al.. (2021). Reply to Swartz et al.: Challenges and opportunities for identifying forced labor using satellite-based fishing vessel monitoring. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(19). 4 indexed citations
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Halpern, Benjamin S., Jason Maier, Christopher Costello, et al.. (2021). The long and narrow path for novel cell‐based seafood to reduce fishing pressure for marine ecosystem recovery. Fish and Fisheries. 22(3). 652–664. 25 indexed citations
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McDonald, Gavin, Christopher Costello, Jennifer Bone, et al.. (2020). Satellites can reveal global extent of forced labor in the world’s fishing fleet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(3). 52 indexed citations
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McDonald, Gavin, M. Roy Wilson, Diogo Veríssimo, et al.. (2020). Catalyzing sustainable fisheries management through behavior change interventions. Conservation Biology. 34(5). 1176–1189. 17 indexed citations
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Villaseñor‐Derbez, Juan Carlos, Sean P. Fitzgerald, Stuart Fulton, et al.. (2018). A user-friendly tool to evaluate the effectiveness of no-take marine reserves. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0191821–e0191821. 14 indexed citations
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Blake, Rachael E., et al.. (2018). A funder-imposed data publication requirement seldom inspired data sharing. PLoS ONE. 13(7). e0199789–e0199789. 41 indexed citations
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Viana, Daniel, et al.. (2017). Recreational boaters value biodiversity: The case of the California Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Marine Policy. 81. 91–97. 8 indexed citations
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McDonald, Gavin, Stuart Campbell, Kendra Karr, et al.. (2017). An adaptive assessment and management toolkit for data-limited fisheries. Ocean & Coastal Management. 152. 100–119. 20 indexed citations
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Mangin, Tracey, Miguel Ángel Cisneros‐Mata, Jennifer Bone, et al.. (2017). The cost of management delay: The case for reforming Mexican fisheries sooner rather than later. Marine Policy. 88. 1–10. 21 indexed citations
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Liu, Owen R., Michaela Clemence, Rod Fujita, et al.. (2016). An Evaluation of Harvest Control Methods for Fishery Management. Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture. 24(3). 244–263. 24 indexed citations
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McDonald, Gavin, et al.. (2016). Impacts of TURFs and marine reserves on fisheries and conservation goals: theory, empirical evidence, and modeling. Bulletin of Marine Science. 93(1). 173–198. 17 indexed citations

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