Matthew D. Turner

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Matthew D. Turner is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew D. Turner has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 32 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 23 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Matthew D. Turner's work include Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (53 papers), Agriculture and Rural Development Research (28 papers) and Animal Diversity and Health Studies (23 papers). Matthew D. Turner is often cited by papers focused on Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (53 papers), Agriculture and Rural Development Research (28 papers) and Animal Diversity and Health Studies (23 papers). Matthew D. Turner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Niger and Kenya. Matthew D. Turner's co-authors include Pierre Hiernaux, Mara J. Goldman, Augustine A. Ayantunde, Eva Schlecht, Paul Nadasdy, Deborah Rabinowitz, Bilal Butt, Thomas J. Bassett, Maryam Niamir‐Fuller and John G. McPeak and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, Remote Sensing of Environment and Journal of Applied Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Matthew D. Turner

81 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

How is the Third Law of Geography different?

2022 68 citations A‐Xing Zhu, Matthew D. Turner Annals of GIS profile →

Peers

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Kathleen A. Galvin United States

D. Layne Coppock United States

María E. Fernández‐Giménez United States

Katherine Homewood United Kingdom

Robin S. Reid Kenya

An Notenbaert Kenya

Simon Batterbury Australia

Michael Mortimore United Kingdom

Randall B. Boone United States

Brent Swallow Canada

Kathleen A. Galvin United States

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1.3k ×1.6

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1.2k ×1.7

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Countries citing papers authored by Matthew D. Turner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthew D. Turner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew D. Turner

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Turner, Matthew D., et al.. (2025). Connectivity and boundaries revisited: Livestock herders and parks in Central Africa. Biological Conservation. 302. 110990–110990. 1 indexed citations

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Brottem, Leif & Matthew D. Turner. (2024). Violent farmer–herder conflicts in West Africa: landscape–livelihood interactions and the political ecology of customary dispute resolution. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 52(3). 574–596. 2 indexed citations

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Briske, David D., Susanne Vetter, Corli Coetsee, & Matthew D. Turner. (2024). Rangeland afforestation is not a natural climate solution. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 22(5). 12 indexed citations

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Turner, Matthew D., et al.. (2023). The causal nexus of Trans-Saharan migration: A political ecology approach from Niger. Geoforum. 144. 103792–103792. 2 indexed citations

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Turner, Matthew D., Diana Davis, Emily T. Yeh, & Pierre Hiernaux. (2023). Abandon the idea of ‘great green walls’.

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Turner, Matthew D., et al.. (2023). Great Green Walls: Hype, Myth, and Science. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 48(1). 263–287. 29 indexed citations

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Zhu, A‐Xing & Matthew D. Turner. (2022). How is the Third Law of Geography different?. Annals of GIS. 28(1). 57–67. 68 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schlecht, Eva, Matthew D. Turner, Christian Hülsebusch, & Andreas Buerkert. (2020). Managing Rangelands Without Herding? Insights From Africa and Beyond. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 4. 7 indexed citations

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Ribot, Jesse, et al.. (2020). Climate of Anxiety in the Sahel: Emigration in Xenophobic Times. Public Culture. 32(1). 45–75. 29 indexed citations

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Turner, Matthew D., et al.. (2018). Mosaics of property: control of village land in West Africa. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 46(6). 1167–1191. 17 indexed citations

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Turner, Matthew D., Bilal Butt, Aditya Singh, et al.. (2014). Variation in vegetation cover and livestock mobility needs in Sahelian West Africa. Journal of Land Use Science. 11(1). 76–95. 11 indexed citations

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Turner, Matthew D.. (2013). Political ecology I. Progress in Human Geography. 38(4). 616–623. 88 indexed citations

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Turner, Matthew D., et al.. (2011). Livelihood Transitions and the Changing Nature of Farmer–Herder Conflict in Sahelian West Africa. The Journal of Development Studies. 47(2). 183–206. 72 indexed citations

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Butt, Bilal, Matthew D. Turner, Aditya Singh, & Leif Brottem. (2011). Use of MODIS NDVI to evaluate changing latitudinal gradients of rangeland phenology in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa. Remote Sensing of Environment. 115(12). 3367–3376. 55 indexed citations

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Turner, Matthew D.. (1999). No space for participation: pastoralist narratives and the etiology of park‐herder conflict in southeastern Niger. Land Degradation and Development. 10(4). 345–363. 2 indexed citations

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Turner, Matthew D.. (1999). No space for participation: pastoralist narratives and the etiology of park-herder conflict in southeastern Niger. Land Degradation and Development. 10(4). 345–363. 47 indexed citations

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Turner, Matthew D.. (1998). Counting sheep : Waking up to new estimates of livestock numbers in England C 1800. 46(2). 142–161. 8 indexed citations

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Turner, Matthew D., et al.. (1996). Answer to Dr Priestley's letters to a philosophical unbeliever . An investigation of the essence of the deity . The Necessity of atheism ; A refutation of deism. 1 indexed citations

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Jones, Ε. L., et al.. (1984). A gazetteer of English urban fire disasters, 1500-1900. 12 indexed citations

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Turner, Matthew D. & Deborah Rabinowitz. (1983). Factors Affecting Frequency Distributions of Plant Mass: The Absence of Dominance and Suppression in Competing Monocultures of Festuca Paradoxa. Ecology. 64(3). 469–475. 109 indexed citations

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