Michael C. Gavin

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
88 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Michael C. Gavin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael C. Gavin has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 23 papers in Ecology and 13 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael C. Gavin's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (26 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (12 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (9 papers). Michael C. Gavin is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (26 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (12 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (9 papers). Michael C. Gavin collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Germany. Michael C. Gavin's co-authors include Jennifer Solomon, Joe McCarter, Ruifei Tang, Robert R. Dunn, Dominique David-Chavez, Taciano L. Milfont, Matías E. Mastrángelo, Aroha Te Pareake Mead, Fikret Berkes and John Richard Stepp and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Michael C. Gavin

85 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.

Defining biocultural approaches to conservation

2015 361 citations Michael C. Gavin, Joe McCarter et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
A global assessment of Indigenous community engagement in climate research

2018 194 citations Michael C. Gavin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael C. Gavin United States	32	1.1k	1.1k	604	411	401	88	3.4k
Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares Finland	30	1.4k 1.4×	944 0.9×	707 1.2×	367 0.9×	730 1.8×	91	3.8k
Anke Fischer United Kingdom	34	1.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	665 1.1×	715 1.7×	725 1.8×	95	3.5k
Duan Biggs Australia	32	1.7k 1.6×	1.5k 1.4×	880 1.5×	330 0.8×	726 1.8×	87	4.4k
Eleanor J. Sterling United States	31	1.6k 1.5×	1.7k 1.6×	276 0.5×	524 1.3×	467 1.2×	92	4.0k
Chris Sandbrook United Kingdom	34	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	694 1.1×	350 0.9×	760 1.9×	70	3.7k
Anna C. Evely United Kingdom	10	1.7k 1.6×	969 0.9×	724 1.2×	211 0.5×	818 2.0×	11	3.6k
Jennifer Shirk United States	9	664 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	744 1.2×	1.3k 3.1×	374 0.9×	13	5.1k
Lesley Head Australia	42	1.0k 1.0×	483 0.5×	1.3k 2.1×	297 0.7×	538 1.3×	139	4.4k
Heidi L. Ballard United States	24	777 0.7×	895 0.8×	1.0k 1.7×	1.4k 3.4×	584 1.5×	57	5.1k
Jamie Lorimer United Kingdom	35	729 0.7×	2.1k 2.0×	746 1.2×	409 1.0×	468 1.2×	86	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael C. Gavin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael C. Gavin

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20 of 20 papers shown

Berl, Richard E. W., Lily M. van Eeden, Jonathan Salerno, et al.. (2025). Foundational principles of an applied cultural evolutionary science for natural resource management and conservation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1940).

Dubinsky, Stanley, et al.. (2023). On “historical unity” of Russian and Ukrainian: A linguistic perspective on language conflict and change. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. 8(1). 5467–5467. 1 indexed citations

Jones, Kelly W., et al.. (2023). Perceived impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on protected area management and conservation outcomes in Mexico. Oryx. 57(6). 736–746. 1 indexed citations

Haynie, Hannah J., Geoff Kushnick, Patrick H. Kavanagh, et al.. (2023). The biogeography and evolution of land ownership. Journal of Biogeography. 50(6). 1129–1138. 1 indexed citations

Berl, Richard E. W., et al.. (2021). Prestige and content biases together shape the cultural transmission of narratives. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 3. e42–e42. 13 indexed citations

Vilela, Bruno, Trevor S. Fristoe, Ty Tuff, et al.. (2020). Cultural transmission and ecological opportunity jointly shaped global patterns of reliance on agriculture. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2. e53–e53. 7 indexed citations

Berl, Richard E. W., et al.. (2020). The Position-Reputation-Information (PRI) scale of individual prestige. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0234428–e0234428. 8 indexed citations

Fernández‐Llamazares, Álvaro, Julien Terraube, Michael C. Gavin, et al.. (2020). Reframing the Wilderness Concept can Bolster Collaborative Conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 35(9). 750–753. 30 indexed citations

Gavin, Michael C., Joe McCarter, Fikret Berkes, et al.. (2018). Effective Biodiversity Conservation Requires Dynamic, Pluralistic, Partnership-Based Approaches. Sustainability. 10(6). 1846–1846. 114 indexed citations

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Breidt, F. Jay, et al.. (2018). Understanding the drivers of sensitive behavior using Poisson regression from quantitative randomized response technique data. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0204433–e0204433. 2 indexed citations

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Kirby, Kathryn R., Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, et al.. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0158391–e0158391. 156 indexed citations

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Gavin, Michael C., Joe McCarter, Aroha Te Pareake Mead, et al.. (2015). Defining biocultural approaches to conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 30(3). 140–145. 361 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gavin, Michael C. & John Richard Stepp. (2014). Rapoport's Rule Revisited: Geographical Distributions of Human Languages. PLoS ONE. 9(9). e107623–e107623. 15 indexed citations

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Mastrángelo, Matías E., Michael C. Gavin, Pedro Laterra, Wayne L. Linklater, & Taciano L. Milfont. (2013). Psycho‐Social Factors Influencing Forest Conservation Intentions on the Agricultural Frontier. Conservation Letters. 7(2). 103–110. 68 indexed citations

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Milfont, Taciano L., et al.. (2011). The Relative Influence of Psycho-Social Factors on Urban Edible Gardening. New Zealand journal of psychology. 41(1). 49. 6 indexed citations

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McCarter, Joe & Michael C. Gavin. (2011). Perceptions of the value of traditional ecological knowledge to formal school curricula: opportunities and challenges from Malekula Island, Vanuatu. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 7(1). 38–38. 64 indexed citations

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Dunn, Robert R., T. Jonathan Davies, Nyeema C. Harris, & Michael C. Gavin. (2010). Global drivers of human pathogen richness and prevalence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 277(1694). 2587–2595. 145 indexed citations

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Gavin, Michael C., et al.. (2009). Measuring and Monitoring Illegal Use of Natural Resources. Conservation Biology. 24(1). 89–100. 242 indexed citations

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Solomon, Jennifer, Susan K. Jacobson, Kenneth D. Wald, & Michael C. Gavin. (2007). Estimating Illegal Resource Use at a Ugandan Park with the Randomized Response Technique. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. 12(2). 75–88. 82 indexed citations

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Gavin, Michael C.. (1966). Combined effect of heat and acid on keeping quality of yoghurt.. Milk science international/Milchwissenschaft. 21. 85–87. 2 indexed citations

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