John Morton

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
88 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

John Morton is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, John Morton has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 22 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 12 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in John Morton's work include Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (22 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (19 papers) and Agricultural Innovations and Practices (9 papers). John Morton is often cited by papers focused on Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (22 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (19 papers) and Agricultural Innovations and Practices (9 papers). John Morton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. John Morton's co-authors include Ayansina Ayanlade, Abrham Belay, John Recha, Teshale Woldeamanuel, Maren Radeny, Valerie Nelson, Adrienne Martin, Kate Meadows, Terry Cannon and Feliu López‐i‐Gelats and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

John Morton

79 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

The impact of climate change on smallholder and subsistence agriculture

2007 1.1k citations John Morton profile →
Smallholder farmers’ adaptation to climate change and determinants of their adaptation decisions in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

2017 373 citations John Morton et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Morton United Kingdom	23	1.4k	704	675	586	551	88	3.4k
Polly Ericksen Kenya	22	1.2k 0.9×	595 0.8×	776 1.1×	391 0.7×	902 1.6×	53	3.8k
J. Gordon Arbuckle United States	28	955 0.7×	603 0.9×	1.3k 1.9×	724 1.2×	656 1.2×	78	3.8k
Michael Dunlop Australia	24	1.3k 1.0×	406 0.6×	382 0.6×	416 0.7×	1.2k 2.2×	48	3.3k
Jens Andersson Netherlands	33	844 0.6×	654 0.9×	1.4k 2.0×	322 0.5×	704 1.3×	69	3.9k
Lois Wright Morton United States	30	764 0.6×	279 0.4×	750 1.1×	898 1.5×	611 1.1×	106	3.6k
Netra Chhetri United States	20	2.0k 1.4×	804 1.1×	614 0.9×	580 1.0×	1.2k 2.1×	52	4.2k
Thomas J. Bassett United States	27	532 0.4×	374 0.5×	565 0.8×	854 1.5×	684 1.2×	76	2.7k
Anita Wreford New Zealand	22	1.1k 0.8×	345 0.5×	338 0.5×	1.1k 1.9×	1.4k 2.5×	78	3.2k
Matthew D. Turner United States	38	874 0.6×	420 0.6×	439 0.7×	926 1.6×	829 1.5×	83	3.6k
James Sumberg United Kingdom	33	624 0.5×	435 0.6×	1.6k 2.3×	346 0.6×	254 0.5×	127	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by John Morton

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Morton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Morton

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gyampoh, Benjamin Apraku, et al.. (2025). Managing climate change through social justice in Africa: Key lessons from the Libode area of Eastern Cape, South Africa. Scientific African. 27. e02534–e02534.

Morton, John, et al.. (2023). Livelihood Vulnerability Index: An Approach to Assess Vulnerability of Crop Farmers to Climate Variability and Change in Ghana. Journal of environment and earth science. 1 indexed citations

Morton, John, et al.. (2022). Constraints on farmers’ adaptive capacity to climate variability and change. Climate and Development. 15(4). 312–324. 3 indexed citations

Morton, John, et al.. (2022). Livelihood profiles and adaptive capacity to manage food insecurity in pastoral communities in the central cattle corridor of Uganda. Scientific African. 16. e01163–e01163. 5 indexed citations

Gyampoh, Benjamin Apraku, et al.. (2022). Water security in rural Eastern Cape, SA: Interrogating the impacts of politics and climate change. Scientific African. 19. e01493–e01493. 8 indexed citations

Mezrhab, Abdelhamid, et al.. (2021). Perception and adaptation of pastoralists to climate variability and change in Morocco's arid rangelands. Heliyon. 7(11). e08434–e08434. 19 indexed citations

Morton, John. (2020). On the susceptibility and vulnerability of agricultural value chains to COVID-19. World Development. 136. 105132–105132. 55 indexed citations

Morton, John, et al.. (2015). Diet Diversity in Pastoral and Agro-pastoral Households in Ugandan Rangeland Ecosystems. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 54(5). 529–545. 16 indexed citations

Morton, John. (2010). Why Should Governmentality Matter for the Study of Pastoral Development?. Nomadic Peoples. 14(1). 6–30. 12 indexed citations

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Anderson, Simon, John Morton, & Camilla Toulmin. (2009). Climate change for agrarian societies in drylands: implications and future pathways. Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (University of Greenwich). 199–230. 49 indexed citations

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Enns, Linda C., John Morton, G. Stanley McKnight, et al.. (2009). Attenuation of Age-Related Metabolic Dysfunction in Mice With a Targeted Disruption of the C Subunit of Protein Kinase A. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 64A(12). 1221–1231. 35 indexed citations

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Hizukuri, Yoshiyuki, John Morton, Toshiharu Yakushi, Seiji Kojima, & Michio Homma. (2009). The peptidoglycan-binding (PGB) Domain of the Escherichia coli Pal Protein can also Function as the PGB Domain in E. coli Flagellar Motor Protein MotB. The Journal of Biochemistry. 146(2). 219–229. 28 indexed citations

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Treuting, Piper M., Nancy J. Linford, Sue E. Knoblaugh, et al.. (2008). Reduction of Age-Associated Pathology in Old Mice by Overexpression of Catalase in Mitochondria. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 63(8). 813–822. 103 indexed citations

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Morton, John, et al.. (2007). Legislators and livestock: pastoralist parliamentary groups in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. Digital Library Of The Commons Repository (Indiana University). 15 indexed citations

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Morton, John. (2003). Abortive Redemption?: Apology, History and Subjectivity in Australian Reconciliation. Journal of the Polynesian Society. 112(3). 238–259. 7 indexed citations

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Morton, John. (2003). 'Such a Man Would Find Few Races Hostile': History, Fiction and Anthropological Dialogue in the Melbourne Museum. 53. 4 indexed citations

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Morton, John & Dávid Barton. (2002). Destocking as a Drought–mitigation Strategy: Clarifying Rationales and Answering Critiques. Disasters. 26(3). 213–228. 40 indexed citations

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Barton, Dávid, et al.. (2001). Drought contingency planning for pastoral livelihoods. Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (University of Greenwich). 9 indexed citations

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Morton, John, et al.. (1990). Why Teach about the American Economy. Social Education. 54(2). 84–86. 1 indexed citations

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Morton, John. (1987). The high school economics course comes of age. Theory Into Practice. 26(3). 206–210. 2 indexed citations

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