Gillian Davies

608 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 369 citations indexed

About

Gillian Davies is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gillian Davies has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 369 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 4 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Gillian Davies's work include Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (4 papers), Environmental Conservation and Management (3 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (2 papers). Gillian Davies is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Philosophy and Ethics (4 papers), Environmental Conservation and Management (3 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (2 papers). Gillian Davies collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Gillian Davies's co-authors include C. Max Finlayson, William R. Moomaw, Susan M. Natali, Gail L. Chmura, James E. Perry, Nigel T. Roulet, Ariana E. Sutton‐Grier, Beth A. Middleton, Dave Pritchard and Nick C. Davidson and has published in prestigious journals such as BioScience, Marine and Freshwater Research and Wetlands.

In The Last Decade

Gillian Davies

9 papers receiving 357 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.

Wetlands In a Changing Climate: Science, Policy and Management

2018 261 citations William R. Moomaw, Gail L. Chmura et al. Wetlands profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gillian Davies United States	5	227	172	80	56	30	9	369
Dave Pritchard Australia	8	191 0.8×	210 1.2×	100 1.3×	65 1.2×	35 1.2×	16	390
Constantin Cazacu Romania	8	159 0.7×	193 1.1×	41 0.5×	59 1.1×	30 1.0×	16	352
J. Nyunja Kenya	10	262 1.2×	174 1.0×	52 0.7×	96 1.7×	60 2.0×	13	451
Ashley L. Erickson United States	9	271 1.2×	276 1.6×	90 1.1×	61 1.1×	15 0.5×	14	448
Daniel Trauner Austria	7	176 0.8×	173 1.0×	84 1.1×	72 1.3×	72 2.4×	8	369
Stefano Barchiesi United States	7	173 0.8×	174 1.0×	43 0.5×	68 1.2×	87 2.9×	13	348
Yi Qu China	12	173 0.8×	280 1.6×	66 0.8×	47 0.8×	35 1.2×	27	423
B. Owsley United States	8	153 0.7×	219 1.3×	55 0.7×	44 0.8×	67 2.2×	10	410
Lindley A. Mease United States	6	192 0.8×	246 1.4×	129 1.6×	65 1.2×	17 0.6×	10	474
Peter August United States	6	169 0.7×	165 1.0×	61 0.8×	36 0.6×	26 0.9×	7	381

Countries citing papers authored by Gillian Davies

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gillian Davies

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gillian Davies

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

1.

Sullivan, S. Mažeika P., Robert M. Hughes, Robert L. Vadas, et al.. (2025). Waterbody connectivity: Linking science and policy for improved waterbody protection. BioScience. 75(1). 68–91. 4 indexed citations

2.

Davies, Gillian. (2021). Shifting the Paradigm: A Society of Wetland Scientists Rights of Wetlands Initiative. 38(2). 89–93. 1 indexed citations

3.

Davies, Gillian, C. Max Finlayson, N. C. Davidson, et al.. (2021). Reply to Bridgewater (2021), ‘Response to Davies et al., ‘Towards a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands’’. Marine and Freshwater Research. 72(10). 1401–1407. 3 indexed citations

4.

Finlayson, C. Max, Gillian Davies, Dave Pritchard, et al.. (2021). Reframing the human–wetlands relationship through a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands. Marine and Freshwater Research. 73(10). 1278–1282. 7 indexed citations

5.

Davies, Gillian, C. Max Finlayson, Dave Pritchard, et al.. (2020). Towards a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands. Marine and Freshwater Research. 72(5). 593–600. 25 indexed citations

6.

Moomaw, William R., Gail L. Chmura, Gillian Davies, et al.. (2018). Wetlands In a Changing Climate: Science, Policy and Management. Wetlands. 38(2). 183–205. 261 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Finlayson, C. Max, Gillian Davies, William R. Moomaw, et al.. (2018). The Second Warning to Humanity – Providing a Context for Wetland Management and Policy. Wetlands. 39(1). 1–5. 65 indexed citations

8.

Finlayson, C. Max, William R. Moomaw, & Gillian Davies. (2017). The second warning to humanity and wetlands. 34(4). 2 indexed citations

9.

Murlis, John & Gillian Davies. (2002). Public perception of the health impacts of climate change. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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