Jacqueline Lau

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Jacqueline Lau is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacqueline Lau has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Jacqueline Lau's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (11 papers), Coastal and Marine Management (7 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers). Jacqueline Lau is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (11 papers), Coastal and Marine Management (7 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers). Jacqueline Lau collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Malaysia and United States. Jacqueline Lau's co-authors include Joshua E. Cinner, Christina C. Hicks, Michele L. Barnes, Georgina G. Gurney, Philippa J. Cohen, Edward H. Allison, Tiffany H. Morrison, Stefan Gelcich, W. Neil Adger and Terry P. Hughes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Jacqueline Lau

28 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

2 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.

Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities

2018 485 citations Joshua E. Cinner, W. Neil Adger et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions

2021 97 citations Jacqueline Lau, Danika Kleiber et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jacqueline Lau Australia	15	668	451	441	363	173	31	1.5k
Shauna BurnSilver United States	15	674 1.0×	444 1.0×	364 0.8×	426 1.2×	211 1.2×	23	1.8k
Natasha Stacey Australia	23	643 1.0×	322 0.7×	513 1.2×	314 0.9×	97 0.6×	62	1.6k
Melissa Nursey‐Bray Australia	23	587 0.9×	528 1.2×	542 1.2×	580 1.6×	230 1.3×	91	1.8k
Wiebren J. Boonstra Sweden	24	975 1.5×	457 1.0×	392 0.9×	496 1.4×	109 0.6×	55	2.0k
Angela M. Guerrero Australia	20	1.1k 1.6×	348 0.8×	516 1.2×	330 0.9×	148 0.9×	44	1.9k
Sarah Coulthard United Kingdom	19	967 1.4×	481 1.1×	587 1.3×	571 1.6×	107 0.6×	25	1.9k
Barbara Cosens United States	21	997 1.5×	465 1.0×	248 0.6×	384 1.1×	98 0.6×	63	2.0k
Monika Zurek United Kingdom	17	847 1.3×	220 0.5×	397 0.9×	267 0.7×	209 1.2×	37	1.8k
Kathleen Hermans Germany	16	766 1.1×	324 0.7×	203 0.5×	158 0.4×	133 0.8×	26	1.3k
Lowell Pritchard Sweden	3	1.2k 1.8×	490 1.1×	304 0.7×	465 1.3×	142 0.8×	4	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Jacqueline Lau

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jacqueline Lau

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacqueline Lau

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

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Zamborain‐Mason, Jessica, Sean R. Connolly, M. Aaron MacNeil, et al.. (2025). Downscaling global reference points to assess the sustainability of local fisheries. Conservation Biology. 39(3). e14440–e14440. 1 indexed citations

Curnock, Matt, et al.. (2025). Redefining social licence for coral reef protection and management. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100019–100019. 1 indexed citations

Büscher, Bram, Jessica Dempsey, Jacqueline Lau, Jared D. Margulies, & Kate Massarella. (2025). The value of political ecology in biodiversity conservation. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 1(10). 622–626.

Morrison, Tiffany H., Jon Barnett, Georgina G. Gurney, et al.. (2024). Overcoming lock-in of science-policy responses to reef heating. Marine Policy. 170. 106380–106380. 4 indexed citations

Hinckel, Betina B., et al.. (2024). The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Orthopedic Injuries: A Single-Center Retrospective Study. Children. 11(10). 1265–1265.

Lawless, Sarah, Jacqueline Lau, Robert P. Streit, & Tiffany H. Morrison. (2024). Risks of competing discourses of scientific responsibility in global ocean futures. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 2 indexed citations

Sutcliffe, Sarah, Jacqueline Lau, Michele L. Barnes, et al.. (2023). COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities. Ecology and Society. 28(1). 6 indexed citations

Bergseth, Brock J., Adrian Arias, Michele L. Barnes, et al.. (2023). Closing the compliance gap in marine protected areas with human behavioural sciences. Fish and Fisheries. 24(4). 695–704. 12 indexed citations

Diedrich, Amy, Stephanie Duce, Hampus Eriksson, et al.. (2022). An applied research agenda for navigating diverse livelihood challenges in rural coastal communities in the tropics. One Earth. 5(11). 1205–1215. 9 indexed citations

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Barnes, Michele L., Lorien Jasny, Andrew G. Bauman, et al.. (2022). ‘Bunkering down’: How one community is tightening social‐ecological network structures in the face of global change. People and Nature. 4(4). 1032–1048. 9 indexed citations

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Chin, Andrew, et al.. (2022). Clashing conservation values: The social complexities of shark depredation. Biological Conservation. 272. 109658–109658. 9 indexed citations

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Mason, Julia G., Jacob G. Eurich, Jacqueline Lau, et al.. (2021). Attributes of climate resilience in fisheries: From theory to practice. Fish and Fisheries. 23(3). 522–544. 64 indexed citations

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Lau, Jacqueline, et al.. (2021). Social and temporal dynamics mediate the distribution of ecosystem service benefits from a small-scale fishery. Ecosystems and People. 18(1). 15–30. 4 indexed citations

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Lau, Jacqueline, Danika Kleiber, Sarah Lawless, & Philippa J. Cohen. (2021). Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions. Nature Climate Change. 11(3). 186–192. 97 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bassett, Hannah R., et al.. (2021). Preliminary lessons from COVID-19 disruptions of small-scale fishery supply chains. World Development. 143. 105473–105473. 92 indexed citations

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Lau, Jacqueline, Andrew M. Song, Tiffany H. Morrison, et al.. (2021). Morals and climate decision-making: insights from social and behavioural sciences. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 52. 27–35. 15 indexed citations

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Lau, Jacqueline, Sarah Sutcliffe, Michele L. Barnes, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 impacts on coastal communities in Kenya. Marine Policy. 134. 104803–104803. 33 indexed citations

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Barnes, Michele L., Peng Wang, Joshua E. Cinner, et al.. (2020). Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change. Nature Climate Change. 10(9). 823–828. 179 indexed citations

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Lau, Jacqueline, et al.. (2020). Gleaning: beyond the subsistence narrative. MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studies. 19(4). 509–524. 35 indexed citations

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Lau, Jacqueline. (2020). Three lessons for gender equity in biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology. 34(6). 1589–1591. 30 indexed citations

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