Megan Barnes

9.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
42 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Megan Barnes is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Megan Barnes has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 24 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Megan Barnes's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (16 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (16 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (14 papers). Megan Barnes is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (16 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (16 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (14 papers). Megan Barnes collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Megan Barnes's co-authors include Ian D. Craigie, Jonas Geldmann, Marc Hockings, Hugh P. Possingham, Lauren Coad, Neil D. Burgess, Jeremy Ringma, Leah R. Gerber, Miranda Bernard and Stephanie B. Borrelle and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Megan Barnes

40 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

2020 2.0k citations Stephanie B. Borrelle, Jeremy Ringma et al. Science profile →
Effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing habitat loss and population declines

2013 686 citations Jonas Geldmann, Megan Barnes et al. Biological Conservation profile →
INfrastructure for a PHAge REference Database: Identification of Large-Scale Biases in the Current Collection of Cultured Phage Genomes

2021 195 citations Ryan Cook, Nathan Brown et al. PubMed profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Megan Barnes Australia	23	1.6k	1.5k	1.5k	1.0k	617	42	4.8k
Leah R. Gerber United States	41	1.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.5×	3.5k 2.3×	1.0k 1.0×	1.4k 2.2×	158	7.3k
Nicola Beaumont United Kingdom	30	1.5k 1.0×	3.2k 2.1×	3.0k 2.0×	959 0.9×	737 1.2×	75	7.1k
Corrado Battisti Italy	31	1.2k 0.7×	735 0.5×	1.7k 1.1×	523 0.5×	1.1k 1.7×	229	3.3k
Heather J. Koldewey United Kingdom	30	1.1k 0.7×	658 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	822 0.8×	519 0.8×	74	3.4k
Melanie C. Austen United Kingdom	42	874 0.6×	2.5k 1.6×	2.8k 1.9×	483 0.5×	355 0.6×	113	6.5k
Joseph Fargione United States	42	786 0.5×	4.3k 2.8×	4.3k 2.8×	248 0.2×	3.1k 4.9×	89	14.0k
Kyle S. Van Houtan United States	26	438 0.3×	1.2k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	307 0.3×	1.4k 2.3×	73	3.1k
Isabelle Durance United Kingdom	21	557 0.4×	479 0.3×	1.3k 0.9×	357 0.3×	898 1.5×	51	2.6k
David K. A. Barnes United Kingdom	52	5.4k 3.5×	3.1k 2.0×	5.3k 3.5×	3.4k 3.4×	448 0.7×	244	13.7k
Emma L. Johnston Australia	52	1.7k 1.1×	3.0k 2.0×	3.9k 2.6×	336 0.3×	539 0.9×	203	9.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Megan Barnes

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Fields of papers citing papers by Megan Barnes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Megan Barnes

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Oleson, Kirsten L.L., Megan Barnes, Whitney Goodell, et al.. (2023). Trade-offs across values in cesspool management highlight challenges to policy making. Journal of Environmental Management. 330. 116853–116853. 3 indexed citations

Barnes, Megan, et al.. (2021). Reconstructing lost ecosystems: A risk analysis framework for planning multispecies reintroductions under severe uncertainty. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(10). 2171–2184. 10 indexed citations

Cazalis, Victor, Megan Barnes, Alison Johnston, et al.. (2021). Mismatch between bird species sensitivity and the protection of intact habitats across the Americas. Ecology Letters. 24(11). 2394–2405. 13 indexed citations

Cook, Ryan, Nathan Brown, Tamsin Redgwell, et al.. (2021). INfrastructure for a PHAge REference Database: Identification of Large-Scale Biases in the Current Collection of Cultured Phage Genomes. PubMed. 2(4). 214–223. 195 indexed citations breakdown →

Pressey, Robert L., Piero Visconti, Madeleine McKinnon, et al.. (2021). The mismeasure of conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 36(9). 808–821. 59 indexed citations

Murphy, Erin L., Miranda Bernard, Gwenllian D. Iacona, et al.. (2021). A decision framework for estimating the cost of marine plastic pollution interventions. Conservation Biology. 36(2). e13827–e13827. 20 indexed citations

Borrelle, Stephanie B., Jeremy Ringma, Kara Lavender Law, et al.. (2020). Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution. Science. 369(6510). 1515–1518. 2018 indexed citations breakdown →

Oleson, Kirsten L.L., Kenneth J. Bagstad, Carlo Fezzi, et al.. (2020). Linking Land and Sea Through an Ecological-Economic Model of Coral Reef Recreation. Ecological Economics. 177. 106788–106788. 14 indexed citations

Sharma, Roshan, Johanna Eklund, Megan Barnes, et al.. (2020). The impact of terrestrial protected areas on vegetation extent and condition: a systematic review protocol. Environmental Evidence. 9(1). 4 indexed citations

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Schleicher, Judith, Johanna Eklund, Megan Barnes, et al.. (2019). Statistical matching for conservation science. Conservation Biology. 34(3). 538–549. 135 indexed citations

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Barnes, Megan, et al.. (2019). Decision analysis to support wastewater management in coral reef priority area. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 148. 16–29. 11 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Emily, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Thomas M. Brooks, et al.. (2018). Scenarios and Models to Support Global Conservation Targets. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 34(1). 57–68. 68 indexed citations

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Barnes, Megan, Louise Glew, Carina Wyborn, & Ian D. Craigie. (2018). Prevent perverse outcomes from global protected area policy. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(5). 759–762. 138 indexed citations

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Prowse, Thomas A. A., Patrick O’Connor, Steven Delean, et al.. (2017). Prescribed burning impacts avian diversity and disadvantages woodland-specialist birds unless long-unburnt habitat is retained. Biological Conservation. 215. 268–276. 24 indexed citations

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Fox, Helen, Megan Barnes, Gabby N. Ahmadia, et al.. (2017). Generating actionable data for evidence-based conservation: The global center of marine biodiversity as a case study. Biological Conservation. 210. 299–309. 13 indexed citations

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Barnes, Megan, Ian D. Craigie, Luke B. Harrison, et al.. (2016). Wildlife population trends in protected areas predicted by national socio-economic metrics and body size. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12747–12747. 145 indexed citations

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Barnes, Megan, Ian D. Craigie, Nigel Dudley, & Marc Hockings. (2016). Understanding local‐scale drivers of biodiversity outcomes in terrestrial protected areas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1399(1). 42–60. 54 indexed citations

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Tulloch, Ayesha, Megan Barnes, Jeremy Ringma, Richard A. Fuller, & James Watson. (2015). Understanding the importance of small patches of habitat for conservation. Journal of Applied Ecology. 53(2). 418–429. 126 indexed citations

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Barnes, Megan, Judit K. Szabo, William K. Morris, & Hugh P. Possingham. (2014). Evaluating protected area effectiveness using bird lists in the Australian Wet Tropics. Diversity and Distributions. 21(4). 368–378. 26 indexed citations

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Barnes, Megan. (2013). Protected area effectiveness: evaluation of biological outcomes in protected areas. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 1 indexed citations

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