Nicholas Murray

9.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
96 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Murray is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Murray has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Ecology, 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Murray's work include Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (26 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (15 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers). Nicholas Murray is often cited by papers focused on Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (26 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (15 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers). Nicholas Murray collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Nicholas Murray's co-authors include Richard A. Fuller, Stuart Phinn, Mitchell Lyons, Robert S. Clemens, Hugh P. Possingham, Renata Ferrari, David A. Keith, Nicholas Clinton, Michael DeWitt and David Thau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Murray

85 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats

2018 711 citations Nicholas Murray, Stuart Phinn et al. Nature profile →
Tracking the rapid loss of tidal wetlands in the Yellow Sea

2014 394 citations Nicholas Murray, Robert S. Clemens et al. profile →
Rapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sites

2017 376 citations Colin E. Studds, Bruce E. Kendall et al. Nature Communications profile →
High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth’s tidal wetlands

2022 274 citations Nicholas Murray, Thomas A. Worthington et al. profile →
Global Mangrove Extent Change 1996–2020: Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0

2022 250 citations Peter Bunting, Åke Rosenqvist et al. Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas Murray Australia	35	3.7k	1.9k	785	706	668	96	5.1k
Zhijun Ma China	36	3.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	525 0.7×	387 0.5×	570 0.9×	115	4.7k
Adrian C. Stier United States	29	4.5k 1.2×	2.2k 1.1×	1.6k 2.0×	1.1k 1.5×	816 1.2×	73	6.3k
Daniel Ierodiaconou Australia	37	2.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.7×	477 0.7×	245 0.4×	150	3.8k
Kyle C. Cavanaugh United States	30	2.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 1.6×	487 0.7×	258 0.4×	78	3.6k
Daniel C. Donato United States	37	6.0k 1.6×	4.2k 2.2×	838 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	684 1.0×	66	8.4k
Caitlin M. Crain United States	20	2.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 2.1×	476 0.7×	573 0.9×	23	4.2k
Nick C. Davidson Australia	30	4.3k 1.1×	3.1k 1.6×	1.5k 1.9×	162 0.2×	806 1.2×	53	6.6k
Trisha B. Atwood United States	27	2.6k 0.7×	879 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	351 0.5×	386 0.6×	51	3.5k
John Gunn United Kingdom	36	1.9k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	393 0.5×	473 0.7×	237 0.4×	128	4.0k
Glenn R. Guntenspergen United States	42	5.9k 1.6×	2.1k 1.1×	705 0.9×	3.0k 4.2×	356 0.5×	121	7.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Nicholas Murray

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Murray

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rowland, Jessica A., Emily Nicholson, José R. Ferrer‐Paris, et al.. (2025). Assessing risk of ecosystem collapse in a changing climate. Nature Climate Change. 15(6). 597–609.

Zhang, Zhen, Nicholas Murray, Xiao‐Peng Song, et al.. (2025). Unexpected canopy gain in Earth’s mangrove forests linked to natural expansion and regrowth. California Digital Library.

Tóth, Anikó B., Aleks Terauds, Steven L. Chown, et al.. (2025). A dataset of Antarctic ecosystems in ice-free lands: classification, descriptions, and maps. Scientific Data. 12(1). 133–133. 5 indexed citations

Worthington, Thomas A., Mark Spalding, Emily Landis, et al.. (2024). The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(8). 18 indexed citations

Murray, Nicholas, Timothy J. McCabe, Marc Reid, & Emily R. Draper. (2024). Non-contact computer vision enables analysis of the dynamic performance of naphthalene diimide electrochromic films. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(32). 12483–12490. 1 indexed citations

Duce, Stephanie, et al.. (2024). Predicting the impacts of clearing on vegetation communities: a model-based approach for identifying conservation priorities in Queensland, Australia. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. 31(1). 40–63. 1 indexed citations

Lisovski, Simeon, Bethany J. Hoye, Jesse R. Conklin, et al.. (2024). Predicting resilience of migratory birds to environmental change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(19). e2311146121–e2311146121. 12 indexed citations

Bunting, Peter, Åke Rosenqvist, Lammert Hilarides, et al.. (2022). Global Mangrove Extent Change 1996–2020: Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0. Remote Sensing. 14(15). 3657–3657. 250 indexed citations breakdown →

Bagstad, Kenneth J., Julien Brun, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, et al.. (2022). The future of ecosystem assessments is automation, collaboration, and artificial intelligence. Environmental Research Letters. 18(1). 11003–11003. 8 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Emma, Chris Roelfsema, Mitchell Lyons, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Reef Cover, a coral reef classification for global habitat mapping from remote sensing. Scientific Data. 8(1). 233–233. 1 indexed citations

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Lyons, Mitchell, Kate Brandis, Nicholas Murray, et al.. (2019). Monitoring large and complex wildlife aggregations with drones. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(7). 1024–1035. 93 indexed citations

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Murray, Nicholas, David A. Keith, Daniel Simpson, John H. Wilshire, & Richard Lucas. (2018). Remap : An online remote sensing application for land cover classification and monitoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(9). 2019–2027. 37 indexed citations

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Murray, Nicholas, Stuart Phinn, Michael DeWitt, et al.. (2018). The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats. Nature. 565(7738). 222–225. 711 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rowland, Jessica A., Emily Nicholson, Nicholas Murray, et al.. (2018). Selecting and applying indicators of ecosystem collapse for risk assessments. Conservation Biology. 32(6). 1233–1245. 35 indexed citations

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Studds, Colin E., Bruce E. Kendall, Nicholas Murray, et al.. (2017). Rapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sites. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14895–14895. 376 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bland, Lucie M., Tracey J. Regan, Renata Ferrari, et al.. (2017). Using multiple lines of evidence to assess the risk of ecosystem collapse. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1863). 20170660–20170660. 55 indexed citations

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Murray, Nicholas. (2013). SIMULATING WAR: Studying Conflict through Simulation Games. Military review. 93(2). 111. 34 indexed citations

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Murray, Nicholas. (2010). The red sweet wine of youth : British poets of the First World War. Little, Brown eBooks.

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Murray, Nicholas, et al.. (2006). BREEDING BIOLOGY OF THE AUSTRALIAN WHITE IBIS Threskiornis molucca AT AN URBAN BREEDING COLONY SOUTH-EAST QUEENSLAND. ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University). 30. 41–45. 8 indexed citations

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Murray, Nicholas. (2002). Aldous Huxley : an English intellectual. Little, Brown eBooks. 7 indexed citations

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