Ian Watson

1.8k total citations
53 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ian Watson is a scholar working on Ecology, Forestry and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Watson has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Ecology, 14 papers in Forestry and 14 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Ian Watson's work include Pasture and Agricultural Systems (14 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (14 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (13 papers). Ian Watson is often cited by papers focused on Pasture and Agricultural Systems (14 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (14 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (13 papers). Ian Watson collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Ireland. Ian Watson's co-authors include Mark Westoby, A. McR. Holm, Mark Stafford‐Smith, W. B. Hall, Greg McKeon, Beverley Henry, Grant Stone, David Dunkerley, Chris R. Dickman and Julian Reid and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology and Journal of Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Ian Watson

52 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ian Watson Australia 20 723 429 416 295 248 53 1.4k
EC Lefroy Australia 22 667 0.9× 566 1.3× 376 0.9× 194 0.7× 213 0.9× 58 1.7k
Craig Morris South Africa 22 683 0.9× 345 0.8× 789 1.9× 248 0.8× 199 0.8× 82 1.5k
Álvaro Iribarrem Brazil 11 436 0.6× 697 1.6× 489 1.2× 170 0.6× 109 0.4× 19 1.5k
Leslie M. Roche United States 20 736 1.0× 463 1.1× 297 0.7× 351 1.2× 110 0.4× 68 1.3k
WRI 4 691 1.0× 993 2.3× 568 1.4× 317 1.1× 68 0.3× 8 2.1k
Anja Linstädter Germany 26 567 0.8× 510 1.2× 516 1.2× 548 1.9× 205 0.8× 63 1.6k
Rainer Waldhardt Germany 20 500 0.7× 585 1.4× 572 1.4× 149 0.5× 65 0.3× 42 1.4k
Ruth D. Swetnam United Kingdom 22 1.0k 1.4× 1.0k 2.4× 569 1.4× 184 0.6× 74 0.3× 49 2.0k
Andreas Brink Italy 15 663 0.9× 987 2.3× 214 0.5× 171 0.6× 159 0.6× 28 1.5k
Justin Jonson Australia 11 695 1.0× 848 2.0× 714 1.7× 302 1.0× 96 0.4× 16 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Ian Watson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ian Watson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Watson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ian Watson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ian Watson 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 Ian Watson. Ian Watson 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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Runting, Rebecca K., Darran King, Martin Nolan, et al.. (2024). Balancing livestock production and environmental outcomes in northern Australia’s tropical savanna under global change. Environmental Research Letters. 19(10). 104014–104014. 3 indexed citations
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Robinson, Cathy, Ian Watson, C. J. Stokes, et al.. (2021). Caring for Indigenous Data to Evaluate the Benefits of Indigenous Environmental Programs. Environmental Management. 68(2). 160–169. 22 indexed citations
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Porfirio, Luciana L., Diógenes L. Antille, Ian Watson, et al.. (2020). Productivity and Biomass of Australia’s Rangelands: Towards a National Database. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 128. 75–98. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Ian, Bill Wang, Joanne Vanderzalm, et al.. (2018). Chapter 2: Water resource assessment for the Fitzroy catchment. CSIRO. 1 indexed citations
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Davies, Jocelyn, Yiheyis Maru, Andy Hall, et al.. (2017). Understanding innovation platform effectiveness through experiences from west and central Africa. Agricultural Systems. 165. 321–334. 43 indexed citations
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Watson, Ian. (2016). No more ‘voices from down south’: Parallel voices in remote Queensland Indigenous communities. Radio Journal International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media. 14(1). 137–151. 3 indexed citations
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Higgins, Andrew, Ian Watson, Chris Chilcott, et al.. (2013). A framework for optimising capital investment and operations in livestock logistics. The Rangeland Journal. 35(2). 181–191. 5 indexed citations
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Petheram, Cuan, Ian Watson, M. Craig Barber, et al.. (2012). Proposed project methods for the Flinders and Gilbert agricultural resource assessment. Own your potential (DEAKIN). 733–741. 1 indexed citations
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Reside, April E., Jeremy VanDerWal, Alex S. Kutt, Ian Watson, & Stephen E. Williams. (2011). Fire regime shifts affect bird species distributions. Diversity and Distributions. 18(3). 213–225. 45 indexed citations
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Reside, April E., Ian Watson, Jeremy VanDerWal, & Alex S. Kutt. (2011). Incorporating low-resolution historic species location data decreases performance of distribution models. Ecological Modelling. 222(18). 3444–3448. 33 indexed citations
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Morton, Stephen, Mark Stafford‐Smith, Chris R. Dickman, et al.. (2010). A fresh framework for the ecology of arid Australia. Journal of Arid Environments. 75(4). 313–329. 274 indexed citations
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Robinson, Todd P., et al.. (2009). Towards an Approach for Remote Sensing-Based Rangeland Condition Assessment in North Western Australia. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 19(10). 899–913. 2 indexed citations
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Fisher, Andrew, et al.. (2005). Management of total grazing pressure: Managing for biodiversity in the rangelands. Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries archive of scientific and research publications (Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries). 3 indexed citations
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Holm, A. McR., Ian Watson, William A. Loneragan, & Mark A. Adams. (2003). Loss of patch-scale heterogeneity on primary productivity and rainfall-use efficiency in Western Australia. Basic and Applied Ecology. 4(6). 569–578. 25 indexed citations
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Caccetta, Peter, Ian Watson, N. A. Campbell, et al.. (2000). The Land Monitor Project. Murdoch Research Repository (Murdoch University). 23 indexed citations
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Watson, Ian, Mark Westoby, & A. McR. Holm. (1997). Demography of Two Shrub Species from an Arid Grazed Ecosystem in Western Australia 1983-93. Journal of Ecology. 85(6). 815–815. 64 indexed citations
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Watson, Ian, et al.. (1996). Event-Driven or Continuous; Which Is the Better Model for Managers?. The Rangeland Journal. 18(2). 351–369. 40 indexed citations
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Watson, Ian. (1973). LOW COST REMOTE THERMOMETRY. Weather. 28(12). 504–508. 1 indexed citations

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