Hillary S. Young

10.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
101 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Hillary S. Young is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Hillary S. Young has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Ecology, 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Hillary S. Young's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (20 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers) and Zoonotic diseases and public health (18 papers). Hillary S. Young is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (20 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers) and Zoonotic diseases and public health (18 papers). Hillary S. Young collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and United Kingdom. Hillary S. Young's co-authors include Rodolfo Dirzo, Mauro Galetti, Nick J. B. Isaac, Ben Collen, Gerardo Ceballos, Douglas J. McCauley, Fiorenza Micheli, Robert B. Dunbar, Sara B. Weinstein and Chelsea L. Wood and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Hillary S. Young

96 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

2014 2.7k citations Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young et al. profile →
Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

2016 404 citations Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young et al. profile →
Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation

2016 354 citations Hillary S. Young, Douglas J. McCauley et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hillary S. Young United States	32	3.7k	2.0k	1.4k	1.2k	1.2k	101	6.5k
Taal Levi United States	32	3.2k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	721 0.6×	804 0.7×	96	5.2k
Tim Newbold United Kingdom	39	2.6k 0.7×	2.2k 1.1×	2.1k 1.5×	1.9k 1.5×	2.1k 1.8×	93	6.9k
Renata Pardini Brazil	37	3.0k 0.8×	2.5k 1.2×	1.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	956 0.8×	85	5.5k
Dennis L. Murray Canada	48	5.1k 1.4×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	212	6.8k
Robbie A. McDonald United Kingdom	46	4.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	739 0.5×	998 0.8×	647 0.6×	207	7.0k
Justin S. Brashares United States	43	6.5k 1.8×	1.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	102	8.8k
William J. McShea United States	51	5.5k 1.5×	2.6k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	215	7.5k
Christopher C. Wilmers United States	41	7.7k 2.1×	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	103	9.5k
Aaron J. Wirsing United States	37	6.6k 1.8×	2.7k 1.4×	2.2k 1.5×	1.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	109	8.3k
Stephen M. Redpath United Kingdom	50	7.1k 1.9×	2.1k 1.1×	1.8k 1.3×	1.9k 1.6×	1.4k 1.2×	195	9.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hillary S. Young

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20 of 20 papers shown

Young, Hillary S., et al.. (2026). The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory. One Earth. 9(2). 101565–101565.

Moore, D. P., et al.. (2025). Labile Soil Carbon Heterogeneity Driven by Consumer Engineering of Aboveground Structure in a Kenyan Savanna. Ecosystems. 28(1).

Swei, Andrea, et al.. (2025). Variable effects of wildlife and livestock on questing tick abundance across a topographical–climatic gradient. Ecosphere. 16(2). 2 indexed citations

Rhodes, Richard, Hillary S. Young, Barry Hayes, et al.. (2025). Investigation of a port queuing system on CO2 emissions from container shipping. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 218. 118151–118151. 1 indexed citations

Sparkman, Amanda M., et al.. (2025). Climate-driven variation in the phenology of juvenile Ixodes pacificus on lizard hosts. Parasites & Vectors. 18(1). 141–141.

Young, Hillary S., et al.. (2024). Interacting effects of surface water and temperature on wild and domestic large herbivore aggregations and contact rates. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61(9). 2219–2230. 2 indexed citations

Steibl, Sebastian, et al.. (2024). Atolls are globally important sites for tropical seabirds. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(10). 1907–1915. 9 indexed citations

Heinse, Robert, et al.. (2024). Soil Building and Capillary Barrier–Enhanced Water Availability Help Explain Pisonia grandis and Other Atoll Native's Tolerance for Variable Precipitation Regimes. Ecohydrology. 17(8). 1 indexed citations

Lee, Michelle, et al.. (2023). Interactions between temperature and predation impact insect emergence in alpine lakes. Ecosphere. 14(7). 5 indexed citations

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McCullough, Ian M., et al.. (2022). Context‐dependent effects of shifting large herbivore assemblages on plant structure and diversity. Journal of Ecology. 110(6). 1312–1327. 15 indexed citations

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Preston, Daniel L., et al.. (2022). Changes in invertebrate food web structure between high- and low-productivity environments are driven by intermediate but not top-predator diet shifts. Biology Letters. 18(10). 20220364–20220364. 4 indexed citations

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Titcomb, Georgia, Johan Pansu, Matthew C. Hutchinson, et al.. (2022). Large-herbivore nemabiomes: patterns of parasite diversity and sharing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1974). 20212702–20212702. 10 indexed citations

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Deinet, Stefanie, Robin Freeman, Georgia Titcomb, et al.. (2018). Migration in the Anthropocene: how collective navigation, environmental system and taxonomy shape the vulnerability of migratory species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1746). 20170017–20170017. 50 indexed citations

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McCauley, Douglas J., Daniel J. Salkeld, Hillary S. Young, et al.. (2015). Effects of Land Use on Plague (Yersinia pestis) Activity in Rodents in Tanzania. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 92(4). 776–783. 31 indexed citations

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Young, Hillary S., Douglas J. McCauley, Rodolfo Dirzo, et al.. (2014). Context‐Dependent Effects of Largewildlife Declines on Small‐Mammal Communities in Central Kenya. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 96(1). 157–160. 15 indexed citations

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Young, Hillary S., et al.. (2013). The roles of productivity and ecosystem size in determining food chain length in tropical terrestrial ecosystems. Ecology. 94(3). 692–701. 42 indexed citations

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McCauley, Douglas J., Hillary S. Young, Robert B. Dunbar, et al.. (2012). From wing to wing: the persistence of long ecological interaction chains in less-disturbed ecosystems. Scientific Reports. 2(1). 409–409. 98 indexed citations

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McCauley, Douglas J., Hillary S. Young, Robert B. Dunbar, et al.. (2012). Assessing the effects of large mobile predators on ecosystem connectivity. Ecological Applications. 22(6). 1711–1717. 190 indexed citations

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Young, Hillary S., Scott A. Shaffer, Douglas J. McCauley, et al.. (2010). Resource partitioning by sympatric boobies in the Central Pacific Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 403. 2 indexed citations

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McCauley, Douglas J., Fiorenza Micheli, Hillary S. Young, et al.. (2010). Acute effects of removing large fish from a near-pristine coral reef. Marine Biology. 157(12). 2739–2750. 53 indexed citations

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