Kevin Healy

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Kevin Healy is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Healy has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Kevin Healy's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (5 papers), Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies (5 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (5 papers). Kevin Healy is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (5 papers), Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies (5 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (5 papers). Kevin Healy collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United Kingdom and United States. Kevin Healy's co-authors include Andrew L. Jackson, Ian Donohue, José M. Montoya, Miguel Lurgi, Owen L. Petchey, Nessa E. O’Connor, Thomas Guillerme, Deirdre McClean, Luke McNally and Yvonne M. Buckley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Healy

31 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Navigating the complexity of ecological stability

2016 431 citations Ian Donohue, José M. Montoya et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers

Kevin Healy

ECOLO

GPC

NLC

EEBS

GENET

Sebastián Abades Chile

Justin D. Yeakel United States

Peter A. H. Westley United States

Gregor Kalinkat Germany

Benoît Fontaine France

Tom Hart United Kingdom

Rebecca Laws New Zealand

Brandon T. Barton United States

Keith D. Farnsworth United Kingdom

Donald L. DeAngelis United States

Sebastián Abades Chile

Kevin Healy

615 ×0.8

ECOLO

324 ×0.7

GPC

440 ×0.9

NLC

353 ×0.8

EEBS

140 ×0.6

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Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Healy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Healy

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Healy

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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O’Connell, Darren P., Kevin Healy, James Wilton, Cristina Botías, & Julia C. Jones. (2025). A systematic meta-analysis of the efficacy of treatments for a global honey bee pathogen - the Varroa mite. The Science of The Total Environment. 963. 178228–178228. 4 indexed citations

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Healy, Kevin, et al.. (2025). Improving Discharge Education and Outcomes for Patients with Heart Failure. AJN American Journal of Nursing. 125(3). 40–46.

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Gorman, Thomas A., et al.. (2024). Variation in ecological scorecards and their potential for wider use. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 196(8). 722–722. 1 indexed citations

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Ryan, Conor, Kevin Healy, Lars Bejder, et al.. (2024). Morphology of nares associated with stereo-olfaction in baleen whales. Biology Letters. 20(1). 20230479–20230479. 6 indexed citations

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Canavan, Susan, et al.. (2024). Trending extinctions: online interest in recently extinct animals. Animal Conservation. 28(3). 445–464.

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Dugon, Michel M., et al.. (2023). Venom extraction method influences venom composition and potency in the giant house spider Eratigena atrica (C. L. Koch, 1843). Toxicon. 234. 107303–107303. 1 indexed citations

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Dugon, Michel M., et al.. (2023). A history of accidental widow spider (genus Latrodectus ) introductions on the island of Ireland with a new irish record for Latrodectus hesperus (Chamberlin and Ivie, 1935), and additional records of Latrodectus geometricus (C.L. Koch, 1841).. Biology & Environment Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 123B(3). 111–120.

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Csergő, Anna Mária, Kevin Healy, Darren P. O’Connell, et al.. (2023). Spatial phenotypic variability is higher between island populations than between mainland populations worldwide. Ecography. 2024(1). 2 indexed citations

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Monadjem, Ara, Kevin Healy, Thomas Guillerme, & Adam Kane. (2023). Dispersal ability is associated with contrasting patterns of beta diversity in African small mammal communities. Journal of Biogeography. 50(3). 539–550. 11 indexed citations

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Kelly, Ruth, Kevin Healy, Madhur Anand, et al.. (2021). Climatic and evolutionary contexts are required to infer plant life history strategies from functional traits at a global scale. Ecology Letters. 24(5). 970–983. 27 indexed citations

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Mooney, Andrew, Dalia A. Conde, Kevin Healy, & Yvonne M. Buckley. (2020). A system wide approach to managing zoo collections for visitor attendance and in situ conservation. Nature Communications. 11(1). 584–584. 29 indexed citations

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Dugon, Michel M., et al.. (2020). Diet Breadth Mediates the Prey Specificity of Venom Potency in Snakes. Toxins. 12(2). 74–74. 47 indexed citations

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Hinshelwood, R. D., et al.. (2018). Reflective Enquiry into Therapeutic Institutions.

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Kane, Adam, Kevin Healy, Graeme D. Ruxton, & Andrew L. Jackson. (2016). Body Size as a Driver of Scavenging in Theropod Dinosaurs. The American Naturalist. 187(6). 706–716. 24 indexed citations

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Guillerme, Thomas & Kevin Healy. (2014). mulTree: a package for running MCMCglmm analysis on multiple trees. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 35 indexed citations

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Donohue, Ian, Owen L. Petchey, José M. Montoya, et al.. (2013). On the dimensionality of ecological stability. Ecology Letters. 16(4). 421–429. 311 indexed citations

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Healy, Kevin, Luke McNally, Graeme D. Ruxton, Natalie Cooper, & Andrew L. Jackson. (2013). Metabolic rate and body size are linked with perception of temporal information. Animal Behaviour. 86(4). 685–696. 108 indexed citations

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Healy, Kevin, Roger Kennedy, & Janet Sinclair. (1991). Child Physical Abuse Observed. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 158(2). 234–237. 14 indexed citations

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Healy, Kevin. (1989). A personal experience of the high court. Psychiatric Bulletin. 13(10). 570–571. 1 indexed citations

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Healy, Kevin. (1988). Assessment of drunk patients. Psychiatric Bulletin. 12(3). 104–105. 1 indexed citations

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