Matt Davis

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 920 citations indexed

About

Matt Davis is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Matt Davis has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 920 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Ecology, 5 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 5 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Matt Davis's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (5 papers). Matt Davis is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (5 papers). Matt Davis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Australia. Matt Davis's co-authors include Jens‐Christian Svenning, Søren Faurby, Silvia Pineda‐Munoz, Simon D. Schowanek, Rasmus Østergaard Pedersen, Alexandre Antonelli, Daniele Silvestro, Fabien Leprieur, Catalina Pimiento and John N. Griffin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Matt Davis

18 papers receiving 898 citations

Hit Papers

PHYLACINE 1.2: The Phylogenetic Atlas of Mammal Macroecology 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. PHYLACINE 1.2: The Phylogenetic Atlas of Mammal Macroecology
    2018 220 citations Søren Faurby, Matt Davis et al. Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matt Davis United States 12 501 333 235 215 198 18 920
Salvador Herrando‐Pérez Australia 16 387 0.8× 160 0.5× 208 0.9× 151 0.7× 181 0.9× 34 733
Juan L. Cantalapiedra Spain 16 362 0.7× 270 0.8× 165 0.7× 491 2.3× 116 0.6× 45 884
Rasmus Østergaard Pedersen Denmark 11 282 0.6× 193 0.6× 164 0.7× 99 0.5× 100 0.5× 14 528
Risto Tornberg Finland 17 726 1.4× 236 0.7× 138 0.6× 195 0.9× 78 0.4× 37 942
Rebecca C. Terry United States 14 491 1.0× 198 0.6× 225 1.0× 339 1.6× 85 0.4× 24 827
Samantha S. B. Hopkins United States 14 454 0.9× 142 0.4× 139 0.6× 613 2.9× 94 0.5× 39 934
Marcelo F. Tognelli Argentina 18 903 1.8× 615 1.8× 581 2.5× 195 0.9× 354 1.8× 35 1.5k
C. C. Grant South Africa 12 533 1.1× 215 0.6× 48 0.2× 137 0.6× 82 0.4× 21 750
Luke E. Painter United States 11 905 1.8× 338 1.0× 197 0.8× 46 0.2× 280 1.4× 21 1.1k
André F. Boshoff South Africa 18 689 1.4× 344 1.0× 212 0.9× 44 0.2× 248 1.3× 46 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Matt Davis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matt Davis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Matt Davis. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Matt Davis. The network helps show where Matt Davis may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matt Davis

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Schowanek, Simon D., Matt Davis, Erick Lundgren, et al.. (2025). The Late‐Quaternary Extinctions Gave Rise to Functionally Novel Herbivore Assemblages. Ecology and Evolution. 15(3). e71101–e71101. 1 indexed citations
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Wooster, Eamonn I. F., Owen Middleton, Arian D. Wallach, et al.. (2024). Australia's recently established predators restore complexity to food webs simplified by extinction. Current Biology. 34(22). 5164–5172.e2. 2 indexed citations
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Davis, Matt, Benjamin D. Nye, Gale M. Sinatra, et al.. (2022). Designing scientifically-grounded paleoart for augmented reality at La Brea Tar Pits. Palaeontologia Electronica. 2 indexed citations
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Lundgren, Erick, Simon D. Schowanek, John Rowan, et al.. (2021). Functional traits of the world’s late Quaternary large-bodied avian and mammalian herbivores. Scientific Data. 8(1). 17–17. 26 indexed citations
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Schowanek, Simon D., Matt Davis, Erick Lundgren, et al.. (2021). Reintroducing extirpated herbivores could partially reverse the late Quaternary decline of large and grazing species. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(4). 896–908. 30 indexed citations
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Lundgren, Erick, Daniel Ramp, John Rowan, et al.. (2020). Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(14). 7871–7878. 83 indexed citations
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Shiffman, David S., Matthew J. Ajemian, Jeffrey C. Carrier, et al.. (2020). Trends in Chondrichthyan Research: An Analysis of Three Decades of Conference Abstracts. Copeia. 108(1). 122–122. 20 indexed citations
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Pimiento, Catalina, Fabien Leprieur, Daniele Silvestro, et al.. (2020). Functional diversity of marine megafauna in the Anthropocene. Science Advances. 6(16). eaay7650–eaay7650. 145 indexed citations
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Pineda‐Munoz, Silvia, Advait M. Jukar, Anikó B. Tóth, et al.. (2020). Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America. Ecography. 44(1). 56–66. 10 indexed citations
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Tóth, Anikó B., S. Kathleen Lyons, W. Andrew Barr, et al.. (2019). Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction. Science. 365(6459). 1305–1308. 44 indexed citations
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Davis, Matt, Søren Faurby, & Jens‐Christian Svenning. (2018). Mammal diversity will take millions of years to recover from the current biodiversity crisis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(44). 11262–11267. 122 indexed citations
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Faurby, Søren, Matt Davis, Rasmus Østergaard Pedersen, et al.. (2018). PHYLACINE 1.2: The Phylogenetic Atlas of Mammal Macroecology. Ecology. 99(11). 2626–2626. 220 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schweiger, Andreas, Isabelle Boulangeat, Timo Conradi, Matt Davis, & Jens‐Christian Svenning. (2018). The importance of ecological memory for trophic rewilding as an ecosystem restoration approach. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 94(1). 1–15. 53 indexed citations
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Davis, Matt. (2017). What North America's skeleton crew of megafauna tells us about community disassembly. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1846). 20162116–20162116. 19 indexed citations
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Davis, Matt, et al.. (2016). Was Frozen Mammoth or Giant Ground Sloth Served for Dinner at The Explorers Club?. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0146825–e0146825. 3 indexed citations
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Davis, Matt & Silvia Pineda‐Munoz. (2016). The temporal scale of diet and dietary proxies. Ecology and Evolution. 6(6). 1883–1897. 110 indexed citations
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Madden, Anne A., Matt Davis, & Philip T. Starks. (2010). First detailed report of brood parasitoidism in the invasive population of the paper wasp Polistes dominulus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in North America. Insectes Sociaux. 57(3). 257–260. 11 indexed citations

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