Meredith Welch‐Devine

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 817 citations indexed

About

Meredith Welch‐Devine is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Meredith Welch‐Devine has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 817 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Meredith Welch‐Devine's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 papers), Agriculture and Rural Development Research (5 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (3 papers). Meredith Welch‐Devine is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 papers), Agriculture and Rural Development Research (5 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (3 papers). Meredith Welch‐Devine collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Tanzania. Meredith Welch‐Devine's co-authors include J. Peter Brosius, Sheila O’Connor, Peter Coppolillo, Alexander N. Songorwa, Bruno Monteferri, Thomas O. McShane, Paul Hirsch, Ann P. Kinzig, Hoang Van Thang and Juan Luis Dammert and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ecology Letters and Biological Conservation.

In The Last Decade

Meredith Welch‐Devine

22 papers receiving 758 citations

Hit Papers

Hard choices: Making trade-offs between biodiversity cons... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 200 400 600
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. Hard choices: Making trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and human well-being
    2010 634 citations Thomas O. McShane, Paul Hirsch et al. Biological Conservation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Meredith Welch‐Devine United States 9 504 216 184 158 139 24 817
Juan Luis Dammert United States 4 570 1.1× 244 1.1× 201 1.1× 188 1.2× 122 0.9× 4 892
Bruno Monteferri Peru 5 462 0.9× 232 1.1× 185 1.0× 147 0.9× 97 0.7× 7 777
Madeleine McKinnon United States 13 470 0.9× 245 1.1× 175 1.0× 157 1.0× 83 0.6× 16 760
Paul Hirsch United States 10 636 1.3× 265 1.2× 222 1.2× 212 1.3× 165 1.2× 19 1.0k
Hoang Van Thang Vietnam 7 460 0.9× 208 1.0× 162 0.9× 142 0.9× 81 0.6× 18 716
Judith Schleicher United Kingdom 11 506 1.0× 310 1.4× 178 1.0× 224 1.4× 105 0.8× 15 906
Noelia Zafra‐Calvo Spain 12 545 1.1× 251 1.2× 216 1.2× 179 1.1× 121 0.9× 29 933
Tran Chi Trung Tanzania 3 430 0.9× 202 0.9× 158 0.9× 140 0.9× 76 0.5× 5 648
Manuel Pulgar‐Vidal Tanzania 2 426 0.8× 202 0.9× 159 0.9× 139 0.9× 73 0.5× 3 636
Alexander L. Metcalf United States 16 413 0.8× 267 1.2× 126 0.7× 87 0.6× 126 0.9× 43 807

Countries citing papers authored by Meredith Welch‐Devine

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Fields of papers citing papers by Meredith Welch‐Devine

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meredith Welch‐Devine

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Welch‐Devine, Meredith, et al.. (2024). Designing research collaboratively: Socioenvironmental systems research in the French Basque Country. Human Organization. 84(2). 218–233.
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Jackson, C. Rhett, Seth J. Wenger, Brian P. Bledsoe, et al.. (2023). Water supply, waste assimilation, and low‐flow issues facing the Southeast Piedmont Interstate‐85 urban archipelago. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 59(5). 1146–1161. 2 indexed citations
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Drake, John M., Kamal J.K. Gandhi, Meredith Welch‐Devine, et al.. (2023). Disasters collide at the intersection of extreme weather and infectious diseases. Ecology Letters. 26(4). 485–489. 9 indexed citations
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Jackson, C. Rhett, et al.. (2023). Mowers versus growers: Riparian buffer management in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains, USA. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 59(4). 803–823.
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Coffield, Julie A., Jasmine Choi, Ikseon Choi, et al.. (2021). Graduate Scholars Leadership, Engagement, And Development: Initial Design, Implementation, and Lessons Learned. Journal of higher education outreach & engagement. 25(1). 3 indexed citations
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Welch‐Devine, Meredith, et al.. (2021). Environmental Change in Southern Appalachia: Local Ecological Knowledge across Residential Groups. AMBIO. 51(1). 280–290. 2 indexed citations
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Boley, B. Bynum, et al.. (2021). Peer-to-peer accommodation hosts: an identity framework. 2(1). 20–41. 7 indexed citations
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Welch‐Devine, Meredith & Brian Orland. (2020). Is it Time to Move Away? How Hurricanes Affect Future Plans. International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters. 38(1). 54–76. 2 indexed citations
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Welch‐Devine, Meredith, et al.. (2020). Changing Climate, Changing Worlds. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 9 indexed citations
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Yao, Xiaobai, et al.. (2019). Assessing Social Vulnerability through a Local Lens: An Integrated Geovisual Approach. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 110(1). 36–55. 19 indexed citations
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Welch‐Devine, Meredith, et al.. (2018). Facilitating Interdisciplinary Graduate Education: Barriers, Solutions, and Needed Innovations. Change The Magazine of Higher Learning. 50(5). 53–59. 8 indexed citations
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Welch‐Devine, Meredith, Dean Hardy, Karen E. Allen, et al.. (2014). Acknowledging Trade-offs and Understanding Complexity: Exurbanization Issues in Macon County, North Carolina. Ecology and Society. 19(1). 28 indexed citations
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Welch‐Devine, Meredith, Dean Hardy, J. Peter Brosius, & Nik Heynen. (2014). A pedagogical model for integrative training in conservation and sustainability. Ecology and Society. 19(2). 23 indexed citations
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Welch‐Devine, Meredith, et al.. (2011). 'We're European Farmers Now'. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. 20(1). 69–88. 3 indexed citations
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Welch‐Devine, Meredith. (2011). Implementation and Resistance: Networking to Create and Renegotiate Natura 2000. 3(3). 287–302. 6 indexed citations
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Welch‐Devine, Meredith & Lisa M. Campbell. (2010). Sorting out roles and defining divides: Social sciences at the World Conservation Congress. Conservation and Society. 8(4). 339–339. 15 indexed citations
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McShane, Thomas O., Paul Hirsch, Tran Chi Trung, et al.. (2010). Hard choices: Making trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and human well-being. Biological Conservation. 144(3). 966–972. 634 indexed citations breakdown →
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Welch‐Devine, Meredith. (1970). Graduate education and training in the neoliberal university. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 83–86. 1 indexed citations

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