Merlin Sheldrake

964 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 519 citations indexed

About

Merlin Sheldrake is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Merlin Sheldrake has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 519 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 6 papers in Insect Science and 6 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Merlin Sheldrake's work include Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (6 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (5 papers). Merlin Sheldrake is often cited by papers focused on Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (6 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (5 papers). Merlin Sheldrake collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Panama. Merlin Sheldrake's co-authors include Benjamin L. Turner, E. Toby Kiers, Stephen Hagen, Heidi‐Jayne Hawkins, Michael E. Van Nuland, Katie J. Field, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, E. V. J. Tanner, S. Joseph Wright‬ and Daniel Revillini and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, Current Biology and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Merlin Sheldrake

10 papers receiving 514 citations

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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.

Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool

2023 197 citations Heidi‐Jayne Hawkins, Michael E. Van Nuland et al. Current Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Merlin Sheldrake United Kingdom	7	334	195	142	141	83	10	519
Ashley K. Lang United States	12	291 0.9×	168 0.9×	150 1.1×	146 1.0×	135 1.6×	22	507
Daniel Revillini United States	12	418 1.3×	190 1.0×	129 0.9×	107 0.8×	101 1.2×	22	629
Milagros Barceló Netherlands	8	397 1.2×	183 0.9×	219 1.5×	205 1.5×	140 1.7×	8	591
Asem A. Akhmetzhanova Russia	6	369 1.1×	124 0.6×	167 1.2×	169 1.2×	59 0.7×	15	456
Saleh Rahimlou Estonia	7	315 0.9×	98 0.5×	152 1.1×	122 0.9×	58 0.7×	18	427
Minggang Wang China	14	293 0.9×	167 0.9×	85 0.6×	89 0.6×	96 1.2×	34	509
Amane Hidaka Japan	8	398 1.2×	272 1.4×	240 1.7×	69 0.5×	80 1.0×	10	624
Tanya E. Cheeke United States	12	548 1.6×	205 1.1×	168 1.2×	238 1.7×	97 1.2×	23	698
Jens Wöllecke Germany	8	196 0.6×	118 0.6×	104 0.7×	113 0.8×	81 1.0×	11	471
Felipe E. Albornoz Australia	15	568 1.7×	210 1.1×	218 1.5×	135 1.0×	108 1.3×	26	747

Countries citing papers authored by Merlin Sheldrake

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Fields of papers citing papers by Merlin Sheldrake

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Merlin Sheldrake

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Hawkins, Heidi‐Jayne, Michael E. Van Nuland, Stephen Hagen, et al.. (2023). Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool. Current Biology. 33(11). R560–R573. 197 indexed citations breakdown →

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Palahí, Marc, et al.. (2022). Republish: Open letter on the crucial role of fungi in preserving and enhancing biodiversity. Studies in Fungi. 7(1). 1–1. 3 indexed citations

3.

Sheldrake, Merlin. (2020). The ‘enigma’ of Richard Schultes, Amazonian hallucinogenic plants, and the limits of ethnobotany. Social Studies of Science. 50(3). 345–376. 6 indexed citations

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Sheldrake, Merlin, Nicholas P. Rosenstock, Scott A. Mangan, et al.. (2018). Responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to long-term inorganic and organic nutrient addition in a lowland tropical forest. The ISME Journal. 12(10). 2433–2445. 72 indexed citations

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Wright‬, S. Joseph, Benjamin L. Turner, Joseph B. Yavitt, et al.. (2018). Plant responses to fertilization experiments in lowland, species‐rich, tropical forests. Ecology. 99(5). 1129–1138. 118 indexed citations

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Verbruggen, Erik, Merlin Sheldrake, Luke D. Bainard, et al.. (2017). Mycorrhizal fungi show regular community compositions in natural ecosystems. The ISME Journal. 12(2). 380–385. 22 indexed citations

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Sheldrake, Merlin, Nicholas P. Rosenstock, Daniel Revillini, et al.. (2017). Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition is altered by long‐term litter removal but not litter addition in a lowland tropical forest. New Phytologist. 214(1). 455–467. 48 indexed citations

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Sheldrake, Merlin, Nicholas P. Rosenstock, Daniel Revillini, et al.. (2017). A phosphorus threshold for mycoheterotrophic plants in tropical forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1848). 20162093–20162093. 25 indexed citations

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Tanner, Edmund V. J., Merlin Sheldrake, & Benjamin L. Turner. (2016). Changes in soil carbon and nutrients following 6 years of litter removal and addition in a tropical semi-evergreen rain forest. Biogeosciences. 13(22). 6183–6190. 27 indexed citations

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Sheldrake, Merlin. (2011). Albert Howard and the mycorrhizal association. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 43(1). 225–231. 1 indexed citations

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