Ian J. Wright

73.8k total citations · 14 hit papers
184 papers, 28.6k citations indexed

About

Ian J. Wright is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian J. Wright has authored 184 papers receiving a total of 28.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 95 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 63 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ian J. Wright's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (99 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (90 papers) and Plant and animal studies (35 papers). Ian J. Wright is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (99 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (90 papers) and Plant and animal studies (35 papers). Ian J. Wright collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Ian J. Wright's co-authors include Mark Westoby, Peter B. Reich, Daniel S. Falster, Ülo Niinemets, David I. Warton, Hendrik Poorter, Rafael Villar, Jacek Oleksyn, Lourens Poorter and Angela T. Moles and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ian J. Wright

178 papers receiving 27.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Plant Ecological Strategies: Some Leading Dimensions of Variation Between Species

2002 2.3k citations Mark Westoby, Daniel S. Falster et al. profile →
Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships

2005 2.3k citations Ian J. Wright, Peter B. Reich et al. New Phytologist profile →
Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta‐analysis

2009 2.1k citations Hendrik Poorter, Ülo Niinemets et al. New Phytologist profile →
Bivariate line‐fitting methods for allometry

2006 1.9k citations David I. Warton, Ian J. Wright et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →
The Evolution of Plant Functional Variation: Traits, Spectra, and Strategies

2003 1.1k citations Peter B. Reich, Ian J. Wright et al. profile →
A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

2008 823 citations Peter M. van Bodegom, Ian J. Wright et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →
Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade‐off in tropical trees

2010 795 citations S. Joseph Wright‬, Peter B. Reich et al. profile →
Land-plant ecology on the basis of functional traits

2006 761 citations Mark Westoby, Ian J. Wright profile →
Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability

2009 715 citations Peter B. Reich, Ian J. Wright et al. New Phytologist profile →
Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate

2005 700 citations Ian J. Wright, Peter B. Reich et al. Global Ecology and Biogeography profile →
Strategy shifts in leaf physiology, structure and nutrient content between species of high‐ and low‐rainfall and high‐ and low‐nutrient habitats

2001 696 citations Ian J. Wright, Peter B. Reich et al. Functional Ecology profile →
Global climatic drivers of leaf size

2017 647 citations Ian J. Wright, Ning Dong et al. Science profile →
ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

2008 593 citations Lourens Poorter, S. Joseph Wright‬ et al. profile →
Physiological and structural tradeoffs underlying the leaf economics spectrum

2017 486 citations Yusuke Onoda, Ian J. Wright et al. New Phytologist profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian J. Wright Australia	70	16.1k	12.1k	10.6k	9.0k	5.1k	184	28.6k
Fernando Valladares Spain	75	14.9k 0.9×	10.5k 0.9×	10.5k 1.0×	8.5k 0.9×	5.6k 1.1×	317	26.8k
Hendrik Poorter Netherlands	66	11.8k 0.7×	9.9k 0.8×	15.4k 1.5×	6.3k 0.7×	4.1k 0.8×	120	27.6k
S. Joseph Wright‬ Panama	95	18.2k 1.1×	9.7k 0.8×	7.0k 0.7×	10.5k 1.2×	9.2k 1.8×	338	30.5k
Éric Garnier France	53	16.2k 1.0×	7.2k 0.6×	8.1k 0.8×	9.3k 1.0×	5.8k 1.1×	113	24.1k
William J. Bond South Africa	86	20.3k 1.3×	18.1k 1.5×	6.4k 0.6×	7.5k 0.8×	12.2k 2.4×	342	34.1k
Juli G. Pausas Spain	78	13.2k 0.8×	14.1k 1.2×	5.8k 0.6×	5.1k 0.6×	6.8k 1.3×	241	23.0k
Andy Hector United Kingdom	50	14.1k 0.9×	8.3k 0.7×	5.1k 0.5×	7.2k 0.8×	9.1k 1.8×	105	26.1k
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen Netherlands	65	9.5k 0.6×	5.7k 0.5×	6.3k 0.6×	5.6k 0.6×	6.6k 1.3×	231	20.1k
Mark Westoby Australia	98	26.7k 1.7×	12.6k 1.0×	14.7k 1.4×	17.1k 1.9×	11.4k 2.2×	282	43.3k
Alan K. Knapp United States	84	12.3k 0.8×	15.6k 1.3×	7.0k 0.7×	4.0k 0.4×	11.4k 2.3×	303	29.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian J. Wright

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Wang, Han, Ian J. Wright, I. Colin Prentice, et al.. (2025). Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback. Science. 388(6750). 984–988. 1 indexed citations

Martina, Jason P., Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, et al.. (2025). Soil Nitrogen Supply Exerts Largest Influence on Leaf Nitrogen in Environments with the Greatest Leaf Nitrogen Demand. Ecology Letters. 28(1). e70015–e70015. 4 indexed citations

Leahy, Lily, Steven L. Chown, Ian J. Wright, et al.. (2025). Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(29). e2501541122–e2501541122. 1 indexed citations

Schrader, Julian, et al.. (2025). Adaptation in Wood Anatomical Traits to Temperature and Precipitation—A Common Garden Study. Plant Cell & Environment. 48(8). 6016–6031.

Dong, Ning, Benjamin Dechant, Han Wang, Ian J. Wright, & I. Colin Prentice. (2023). Global leaf‐trait mapping based on optimality theory. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(7). 1152–1162. 10 indexed citations

Dong, Ning, I. Colin Prentice, Ian J. Wright, et al.. (2022). Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function. Journal of Ecology. 110(11). 2585–2602. 26 indexed citations

Schrader, Julian, Ian J. Wright, Holger Kreft, et al.. (2022). ETIB‐T: An Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography for plant traits. Journal of Biogeography. 50(1). 223–234. 16 indexed citations

Gibb, Heloise, Tom R. Bishop, Lily Leahy, et al.. (2022). Ecological strategies of (pl)ants: Towards a world‐wide worker economic spectrum for ants. Functional Ecology. 37(1). 13–25. 24 indexed citations

Herberstein, Marie E., Donald James McLean, Elizabeth Lowe, et al.. (2022). AnimalTraits - a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size. Scientific Data. 9(1). 265–265. 42 indexed citations

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Wang, Han, et al.. (2021). Coordination of plant hydraulic and photosynthetic traits: confronting optimality theory with field measurements. New Phytologist. 232(3). 1286–1296. 39 indexed citations

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Nolan, Rachael H., Alice Gauthey, Adriano Losso, et al.. (2021). Hydraulic failure and tree size linked with canopy die‐back in eucalypt forest during extreme drought. New Phytologist. 230(4). 1354–1365. 88 indexed citations

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Schrader, Julian, Mark Westoby, Ian J. Wright, & Holger Kreft. (2021). Disentangling direct and indirect effects of island area on plant functional trait distributions. Journal of Biogeography. 48(8). 2098–2110. 16 indexed citations

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Schrader, Julian, Peijian Shi, Dana L. Royer, et al.. (2021). Leaf size estimation based on leaf length, width and shape. Annals of Botany. 128(4). 395–406. 79 indexed citations

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Mencuccini, Maurizio, Teresa Rosas, Lucy Rowland, et al.. (2019). Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf : wood area ratios. New Phytologist. 224(4). 1544–1556. 102 indexed citations

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Yiotis, Charilaos, Andrew Parnell, Ian J. Wright, et al.. (2019). Rising CO ₂ drives divergence in water use efficiency of evergreen and deciduous plants. Science Advances. 5(12). eaax7906–eaax7906. 69 indexed citations

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Wright, Ian J., Ning Dong, Vincent Maire, et al.. (2017). Global climatic drivers of leaf size. Science. 357(6354). 917–921. 647 indexed citations breakdown →

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Keenan, Trevor F., et al.. (2015). Predicting the maximum rate of carboxylation based on the coordination hypothesis of leaf resource allocation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Verheijen, Lieneke M., Victor Brovkin, Rien Aerts, et al.. (2013). Impacts of trait variation through observed trait–climate relationships on performance of an Earth system model: a conceptual analysis. Biogeosciences. 10(8). 5497–5515. 110 indexed citations

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Warton, David I., Ian J. Wright, Daniel S. Falster, & Mark Westoby. (2006). Bivariate line‐fitting methods for allometry. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 81(2). 259–291. 1889 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wright, Ian J., David D. Ackerly, Frans Bongers, et al.. (2006). Relationships Among Ecologically Important Dimensions of Plant Trait Variation in Seven Neotropical Forests. Annals of Botany. 99(5). 1003–1015. 320 indexed citations

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