Harith Farooq

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 973 citations indexed

About

Harith Farooq is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Harith Farooq has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 973 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Ecological Modeling and 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Harith Farooq's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (7 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Harith Farooq is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (7 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Harith Farooq collaborates with scholars based in Mozambique, Sweden and United Kingdom. Harith Farooq's co-authors include Alexandre Antonelli, Josué A. R. Azevedo, Daniele Silvestro, Niklas Wengström, Vera Zizka, María Ariza, Andrei Herdean, Sten Svantesson, Tobias Andermann and Camila Duarte Ritter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Current Biology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Harith Farooq

21 papers receiving 956 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.

CoordinateCleaner: Standardized cleaning of occurrence records from biological collection databases

2019 685 citations Alexander Zizka, Daniele Silvestro et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Harith Farooq Mozambique	10	472	401	381	280	176	23	973
Josué A. R. Azevedo Brazil	9	498 1.1×	438 1.1×	458 1.2×	297 1.1×	192 1.1×	21	1.0k
María Ariza Norway	6	411 0.9×	349 0.9×	365 1.0×	287 1.0×	112 0.6×	7	870
Guilherme de Oliveira Brazil	19	554 1.2×	415 1.0×	414 1.1×	308 1.1×	221 1.3×	41	1.1k
Maya Guéguen France	17	544 1.2×	404 1.0×	273 0.7×	459 1.6×	212 1.2×	24	1.0k
Niklas Wengström Sweden	8	371 0.8×	352 0.9×	318 0.8×	310 1.1×	101 0.6×	12	789
Alex Gilman United States	3	589 1.2×	496 1.2×	425 1.1×	375 1.3×	248 1.4×	7	1.1k
Iván Jiménez United States	13	456 1.0×	640 1.6×	459 1.2×	401 1.4×	150 0.9×	19	1.0k
Buntarou Kusumoto Japan	21	424 0.9×	607 1.5×	485 1.3×	420 1.5×	227 1.3×	56	1.2k
Santiago José Elías Velazco Brazil	16	600 1.3×	413 1.0×	325 0.9×	360 1.3×	161 0.9×	40	965
Liliana Ballesteros‐Mejia France	20	448 0.9×	495 1.2×	528 1.4×	588 2.1×	198 1.1×	37	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Harith Farooq

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Harith Farooq

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20 of 20 papers shown

Farooq, Harith, Roomina Mazhar, & Sohail Ahmad Jan. (2025). Mitigating climate change impacts on agriculture through AI-driven crop improvement. 10(1). 29–34.

Farooq, Harith, Mike Harfoot, Carsten Rahbek, & Jonas Geldmann. (2024). Threats to reptiles at global and regional scales. Current Biology. 34(10). 2231–2237.e2. 3 indexed citations

Richards, Sophie L., et al.. (2023). Identifying Mozambique's most critical areas for plant conservation: An evaluation of protected areas and Important Plant Areas. Biotropica. 55(6). 1183–1194.

Verbürgt, Luke, et al.. (2023). Rediscovery of the lost skink Proscelotes aenea and implications for conservation. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 11261–11261. 3 indexed citations

Monadjem, Ara, Harith Farooq, & Adam Kane. (2023). Elevation filters bat, rodent and shrew communities differently by morphological traits. Diversity and Distributions. 30(3). 3 indexed citations

Farooq, Harith, Alexandre Antonelli, & Søren Faurby. (2023). A call for improving the Key Biodiversity Areas framework. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 21(1). 85–91. 11 indexed citations

Farooq, Harith, et al.. (2023). The tourism industry keeps beaches clean in Mozambique. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 196. 115615–115615. 2 indexed citations

Farooq, Harith & Jonas Geldmann. (2023). The fear factor—Snakes in Africa might be at an alarming extinction risk. Conservation Letters. 17(1). 1 indexed citations

Farooq, Harith, et al.. (2022). Snakebite incidence in rural sub-Saharan Africa might be severely underestimated. Toxicon. 219. 106932–106932. 26 indexed citations

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Farooq, Harith, et al.. (2021). Species perceived to be dangerous are more likely to have distinctive local names. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 17(1). 69–69. 9 indexed citations

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Farooq, Harith, Josué A. R. Azevedo, Dominic J. Bennett, et al.. (2020). WEGE: A new metric for ranking locations for biodiversity conservation. Diversity and Distributions. 26(11). 1456–1466. 16 indexed citations

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Farooq, Harith & Peter Uetz. (2020). Identifying Australian snakes by color patterns. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4 indexed citations

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Farooq, Harith, Josué A. R. Azevedo, Amadeu M.V.M. Soares, Alexandre Antonelli, & Søren Faurby. (2020). Mapping Africa’s Biodiversity: More of the Same Is Just Not Good Enough. Systematic Biology. 70(3). 623–633. 23 indexed citations

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Daru, Barnabas H., Harith Farooq, Alexandre Antonelli, & Søren Faurby. (2020). Endemism patterns are scale dependent. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2115–2115. 79 indexed citations

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Zizka, Alexander, Daniele Silvestro, Tobias Andermann, et al.. (2019). CoordinateCleaner: Standardized cleaning of occurrence records from biological collection databases. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(5). 744–751. 685 indexed citations breakdown →

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Conradie, Werner, et al.. (2018). New species of Mongrel Frogs (Pyxicephalidae: Nothophryne) for northern Mozambique inselbergs. African Journal of Herpetology. 67(1). 61–85. 9 indexed citations

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Branch, William R., Jennifer A. Guyton, Andreas Schmitz, et al.. (2017). Description of a new flat gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Afroedura) from Mount Gorongosa, Mozambique. Zootaxa. 4324(1). 9 indexed citations

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Morgado, Fernando, Paula Bacelar Nicolau, Jaime Rendón–von Osten, et al.. (2017). Assessing university student perceptions and comprehension of climate change (Portugal, Mexico and Mozambique). International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management. 9(3). 316–336. 22 indexed citations

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Conradie, Werner, Karen Siu-Ting, Krystal A. Tolley, et al.. (2016). The phylogenetic position and diversity of the enigmatic mongrel frog Nothophryne Poynton, 1963 (Amphibia, Anura). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99. 89–102. 20 indexed citations

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Gómez, María José, José Tarazona, Harith Farooq, et al.. (2012). Risk perception in an extensive agriculture habitat from Nature 2000 Network.. Fresenius environmental bulletin. 21. 1589–1597. 1 indexed citations

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