Michael B. Mascia

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
59 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Michael B. Mascia is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael B. Mascia has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 25 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Michael B. Mascia's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (28 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (18 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (18 papers). Michael B. Mascia is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (28 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (18 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (18 papers). Michael B. Mascia collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Michael B. Mascia's co-authors include Sharon Pailler, C. Anne Claus, Carly N. Cook, Robin Naidoo, Hugh P. Possingham, Mark W. Schwartz, Richard A. Fuller, Bruce C. Forbes, Nancy J. Turner and J. Peter Brosius and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael B. Mascia

57 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Conservation and the Social Sciences

2003 505 citations Michael B. Mascia et al. Conservation Biology profile →
Achieving Conservation Science that Bridges the Knowledge–Action Boundary

2013 382 citations Carly N. Cook, Michael B. Mascia et al. Conservation Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael B. Mascia United States	35	2.6k	2.0k	1.4k	707	558	59	4.4k
Sue Stolton United Kingdom	28	2.3k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	915 0.7×	812 1.1×	586 1.1×	108	3.9k
Morena Mills Australia	36	2.3k 0.9×	2.4k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	455 0.6×	566 1.0×	86	4.3k
Anne D. Guerry United States	25	3.1k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	657 0.9×	480 0.9×	48	5.2k
Sarah C. Klain Canada	18	3.2k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	891 1.3×	606 1.1×	31	5.5k
Jon Hutton United Kingdom	15	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	683 0.5×	566 0.8×	449 0.8×	23	3.3k
Nick Salafsky United States	25	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	715 0.5×	627 0.9×	752 1.3×	46	3.6k
Chris Sandbrook United Kingdom	34	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	760 0.6×	506 0.7×	348 0.6×	70	3.7k
Bhaskar Vira United Kingdom	25	2.6k 1.0×	948 0.5×	920 0.7×	864 1.2×	528 0.9×	70	4.4k
Juliette Young United Kingdom	35	2.8k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	620 0.9×	835 1.5×	105	5.9k
Dilys Roe United Kingdom	37	2.5k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	951 0.7×	836 1.2×	579 1.0×	95	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael B. Mascia

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael B. Mascia

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pienkowski, Thomas, Michael B. Mascia, Stefan Gelcich, et al.. (2025). Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 10(1). 14–17.

Gill, David, Sarah E. Lester, Christopher M. Free, et al.. (2024). A diverse portfolio of marine protected areas can better advance global conservation and equity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(10). e2313205121–e2313205121. 17 indexed citations

Cheng, Samantha H., Sébastien Costedoat, Amanda Sigouin, et al.. (2023). Assessing evidence on the impacts of nature-based interventions for climate change mitigation: a systematic map of primary and secondary research from subtropical and tropical terrestrial regions. Environmental Evidence. 12(1). 21–21. 3 indexed citations

Cheng, Samantha H., Sébastien Costedoat, Eleanor J. Sterling, et al.. (2022). What evidence exists on the links between natural climate solutions and climate change mitigation outcomes in subtropical and tropical terrestrial regions? A systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence. 11(1). 15–15. 14 indexed citations

Cook, Carly N., et al.. (2021). Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) in marine protected areas. Marine Policy. 129. 104437–104437. 17 indexed citations

Mahajan, Shauna L., Arundhati Jagadish, Louise Glew, et al.. (2020). A theory‐based framework for understanding the establishment, persistence, and diffusion of community‐based conservation. Conservation Science and Practice. 3(1). 38 indexed citations

Mahajan, Shauna L., Louise Glew, Gabby N. Ahmadia, et al.. (2019). Systems thinking for planning and evaluating conservation interventions. Conservation Science and Practice. 1(7). 27 indexed citations

Gill, David, et al.. (2019). Social Synergies, Tradeoffs, and Equity in Marine Conservation Impacts. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 44(1). 347–372. 74 indexed citations

McKinnon, Madeleine, et al.. (2015). Impact evaluation to communicate and improve conservation non-governmental organization performance: the case of Conservation International. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 370(1681). 20140282–20140282. 34 indexed citations

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Cook, Carly N., Michael B. Mascia, Mark W. Schwartz, Hugh P. Possingham, & Richard A. Fuller. (2013). Achieving Conservation Science that Bridges the Knowledge–Action Boundary. Conservation Biology. 27(4). 669–678. 382 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fox, Helen, Michael B. Mascia, Xavier Basurto, et al.. (2011). Reexamining the science of marine protected areas: linking knowledge to action. Conservation Letters. 5(1). 1–10. 156 indexed citations

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Sutherland, William J., Erica Fleishman, Michael B. Mascia, Jules Pretty, & Murray A. Rudd. (2011). Methods for collaboratively identifying research priorities and emerging issues in science and policy. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2(3). 238–247. 182 indexed citations

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Mascia, Michael B. & Sharon Pailler. (2010). Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) and its conservation implications. Conservation Letters. 4(1). 9–20. 336 indexed citations

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Mascia, Michael B., C. Anne Claus, & Robin Naidoo. (2010). Impacts of Marine Protected Areas on Fishing Communities. Conservation Biology. 24(5). 1424–1429. 223 indexed citations

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Cowling, Richard M., Michael B. Mascia, Hugh P. Possingham, & William J. Sutherland. (2009). Conservation science for impact: the first year of Conservation Letters. Conservation Letters. 2(1). 1–3. 6 indexed citations

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Mascia, Michael B. & C. Anne Claus. (2008). A Property Rights Approach to Understanding Human Displacement from Protected Areas: the Case of Marine Protected Areas. Conservation Biology. 23(1). 16–23. 102 indexed citations

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Loucks, Colby, et al.. (2008). Wildlife decline in Cambodia, 1953–2005: exploring the legacy of armed conflict. Conservation Letters. 2(2). 82–92. 56 indexed citations

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Blundell, Arthur G. & Michael B. Mascia. (2006). Response to Data on Wildlife Trade. Conservation Biology. 20(3). 598–599. 1 indexed citations

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Mascia, Michael B.. (2003). The Human Dimension of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas: Recent Social Science Research and Its Policy Implications. Conservation Biology. 17(2). 630–632. 145 indexed citations

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Mascia, Michael B.. (2000). Institutional emergence, evolution, and performance in complex common pool resource systems : marine protected areas in the wider Caribbean. Bell & Howell Information and Learning eBooks. 12 indexed citations

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