Malin Rivers

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Malin Rivers is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Malin Rivers has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 19 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 15 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Malin Rivers's work include Plant and animal studies (18 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (15 papers). Malin Rivers is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (18 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (15 papers). Malin Rivers collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Malin Rivers's co-authors include Sara Oldfield, Emily Beech, Eimear Nic Lughadha, Paul Smith, Neil Brummitt, Thomas R. Meagher, Steven P. Bachman, David L. Roberts, Lin Taylor and Adrian C. Newton and has published in prestigious journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Conservation Biology and Journal of Applied Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Malin Rivers

31 papers receiving 974 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.

GlobalTreeSearch: The first complete global database of tree species and country distributions

2017 261 citations Emily Beech, Malin Rivers et al. Journal of Sustainable Forestry profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Malin Rivers United Kingdom	16	472	424	346	251	169	33	1.0k
Pati Vitt United States	16	532 1.1×	567 1.3×	347 1.0×	386 1.5×	318 1.9×	41	1.1k
Stefan Abrahamczyk Germany	21	896 1.9×	527 1.2×	172 0.5×	408 1.6×	196 1.2×	50	1.2k
Vincent Droissart Belgium	13	590 1.3×	380 0.9×	279 0.8×	147 0.6×	153 0.9×	65	955
Greg R. Guerin Australia	19	342 0.7×	506 1.2×	358 1.0×	258 1.0×	299 1.8×	66	1.0k
Jihong Huang China	21	692 1.5×	899 2.1×	472 1.4×	250 1.0×	301 1.8×	61	1.4k
Tariq Stévart Belgium	17	802 1.7×	420 1.0×	294 0.8×	195 0.8×	155 0.9×	99	1.2k
Ji‐Zhong Wan China	18	334 0.7×	471 1.1×	477 1.4×	169 0.7×	281 1.7×	87	935
Javier Rodríguez‐Pérez Spain	22	733 1.6×	772 1.8×	170 0.5×	399 1.6×	405 2.4×	44	1.2k
Marina Corrêa Côrtes Brazil	11	633 1.3×	657 1.5×	189 0.5×	219 0.9×	422 2.5×	25	1.1k
Chun‐Jing Wang China	18	310 0.7×	460 1.1×	471 1.4×	172 0.7×	278 1.6×	84	958

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Malin Rivers

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Maděra, Petr, Petr Vahalík, Fabio Attorre, et al.. (2024). Distribution, ecology, and threats assessment of 11 endemic frankincense tree taxa (Boswellia) in the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen). Plants People Planet. 6(6). 1552–1571. 5 indexed citations

Rivers, Malin, et al.. (2024). Conservation Action Tracker: A tool to identify and monitor conservation actions for tree species. Applications in Plant Sciences. 12(3). e11579–e11579. 1 indexed citations

Cannon, Charles H., et al.. (2023). The Global Tree Assessment provides a multifaceted view on the future of tree diversity conservation. Plants People Planet. 5(4). 461–465. 5 indexed citations

Gallagher, Rachael V., Stuart Allen, Rafaël Govaerts, et al.. (2023). Global shortfalls in threat assessments for endemic flora by country. Plants People Planet. 5(6). 885–898. 24 indexed citations

Coffey, Emily E. D., et al.. (2022). Assessing Magnoliaceae through time: Major global efforts to track extinction risk status and ex situ conservation. Plants People Planet. 5(4). 496–501. 4 indexed citations

Rivers, Malin, et al.. (2022). Raising awareness through the Global Tree Assessment: Extinction risk of six fully assessed tree groups. Plants People Planet. 5(4). 563–573. 1 indexed citations

Shaw, Kirsty J., et al.. (2022). Using the Global Tree Assessment at Multiple Scales of Planning and Action. Diversity. 14(10). 891–891. 6 indexed citations

Rivers, Malin, Emily Beech, & Sara Oldfield. (2021). Increasing knowledge of the world's trees. Oryx. 55(4). 492–492. 1 indexed citations

Vaughan, Ian P., Nik C. Cole, Vikash Tatayah, et al.. (2021). Impacts of herbivory by ecological replacements on an island ecosystem. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59(9). 2245–2261. 13 indexed citations

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Rivers, Malin, Tony D. Auld, Tom Le Breton, et al.. (2020). Shortfalls in extinction risk assessments for plants. Australian Journal of Botany. 68(6). 466–471. 7 indexed citations

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Jänicke, Stefan, Emily Beech, & Malin Rivers. (2019). Exploring the diversity and conservation status of tree species with TreeeX. Environmental Earth Sciences. 78(21). 1 indexed citations

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Lughadha, Eimear Nic, Barnaby E. Walker, Cátia Canteiro, et al.. (2018). The use and misuse of herbarium specimens in evaluating plant extinction risks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1763). 20170402–20170402. 92 indexed citations

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Beech, Emily, Malin Rivers, Sara Oldfield, & Paul Smith. (2017). GlobalTreeSearch: The first complete global database of tree species and country distributions. Journal of Sustainable Forestry. 36(5). 454–489. 261 indexed citations breakdown →

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Newton, Adrian C., Sara Oldfield, Malin Rivers, et al.. (2015). Towards a Global Tree Assessment. Oryx. 49(3). 410–415. 30 indexed citations

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Brummitt, Neil, Steven P. Bachman, Elina Aletrari, et al.. (2015). The Sampled Red List Index for Plants, phase II: ground-truthing specimen-based conservation assessments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 370(1662). 20140015–20140015. 47 indexed citations

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Mark, Jennifer, Adrian C. Newton, Sara Oldfield, & Malin Rivers. (2014). A Working List of Commercial Timber Tree Species.. Bournemouth University Research Online (Bournemouth University). 1 indexed citations

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Rivers, Malin, Neil Brummitt, Eimear Nic Lughadha, & Thomas R. Meagher. (2014). Do species conservation assessments capture genetic diversity?. Global Ecology and Conservation. 2. 81–87. 43 indexed citations

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Rivers, Malin, Lin Taylor, Neil Brummitt, et al.. (2011). How many herbarium specimens are needed to detect threatened species?. Biological Conservation. 144(10). 2541–2547. 105 indexed citations

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Rivers, Malin, Neil Brummitt, Eimear Nic Lughadha, & Thomas R. Meagher. (2011). Genetic variation in Delonix s.l. (Leguminosae) in Madagascar revealed by AFLPs: fragmentation, conservation status and taxonomy. Conservation Genetics. 12(5). 1333–1344. 11 indexed citations

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Rivers, Malin, Steven P. Bachman, Thomas R. Meagher, Eimear Nic Lughadha, & Neil Brummitt. (2010). Subpopulations, locations and fragmentation: applying IUCN red list criteria to herbarium specimen data. Biodiversity and Conservation. 19(7). 2071–2085. 69 indexed citations

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