Nicky Nicolson

644 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 243 citations indexed

About

Nicky Nicolson is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicky Nicolson has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 243 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Ecological Modeling, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Nicky Nicolson's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers), Plant and animal studies (3 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (3 papers). Nicky Nicolson is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers), Plant and animal studies (3 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (3 papers). Nicky Nicolson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Belgium and United States. Nicky Nicolson's co-authors include Robert Allkinꝉ, Eimear Nic Lughadha, Rafaël Govaerts, Irina V. Belyaeva, Robert E. Magill, Heather L. Lindon, Quentin Groom, Anton Güntsch, Barnaby E. Walker and Allan Tucker and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, New Phytologist and Frontiers in Plant Science.

In The Last Decade

Nicky Nicolson

10 papers receiving 230 citations

Hit Papers

Plant diversity darkspots for global collection priorities 2024 2026 2025 2024 10 20 30
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. Plant diversity darkspots for global collection priorities
    2024 31 citations Ian Ondo, Kiran L. Dhanjal‐Adams et al. New Phytologist profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicky Nicolson United Kingdom 6 106 85 77 75 48 11 243
Melissa Tulig United States 5 128 1.2× 83 1.0× 67 0.9× 104 1.4× 32 0.7× 7 241
Sidnei de Souza Brazil 6 85 0.8× 108 1.3× 41 0.5× 28 0.4× 51 1.1× 10 216
Kamal Acharya Nepal 10 159 1.5× 54 0.6× 46 0.6× 84 1.1× 53 1.1× 37 330
Margaret M. Koopman United States 7 114 1.1× 14 0.2× 43 0.6× 111 1.5× 32 0.7× 9 193
Richard K. Rabeler United States 8 378 3.6× 48 0.6× 213 2.8× 265 3.5× 27 0.6× 44 510
Zack E. Murrell United States 11 217 2.0× 82 1.0× 153 2.0× 142 1.9× 52 1.1× 23 384
Terry Catapano United States 9 48 0.5× 107 1.3× 76 1.0× 19 0.3× 54 1.1× 16 216
Cátia Canteiro United Kingdom 5 130 1.2× 80 0.9× 33 0.4× 49 0.7× 24 0.5× 10 203
Rúbia Santos Fonseca Brazil 9 88 0.8× 29 0.3× 35 0.5× 68 0.9× 35 0.7× 33 303
Jonathan Kennedy United States 2 59 0.6× 104 1.2× 19 0.2× 30 0.4× 62 1.3× 2 188

Countries citing papers authored by Nicky Nicolson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicky Nicolson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicky Nicolson

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

All Works

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Ondo, Ian, Kiran L. Dhanjal‐Adams, Samuel Pironon, et al.. (2024). Plant diversity darkspots for global collection priorities. New Phytologist. 244(2). 719–733. 31 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nicolson, Nicky, Maarten Trekels, Quentin Groom, Sandra Knapp, & Alan Paton. (2023). Global access to nomenclatural botanical resources: Evaluating open access availability. Plants People Planet. 5(6). 899–907. 3 indexed citations
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Meeus, Sofie, Donat Agosti, Christos Arvanitidis, et al.. (2022). Recommendations for interoperability among infrastructures. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 1 indexed citations
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Walker, Barnaby E., Allan Tucker, & Nicky Nicolson. (2022). Harnessing Large-Scale Herbarium Image Datasets Through Representation Learning. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 806407–806407. 7 indexed citations
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Groom, Quentin, Anton Güntsch, Nicky Nicolson, et al.. (2020). People are essential to linking biodiversity data. Database. 2020. 23 indexed citations
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Groom, Quentin, Arnald Marcer, Nicky Nicolson, et al.. (2019). Progress in Authority Management of People Names for Collections. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 3. 1 indexed citations
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Nicolson, Nicky, et al.. (2019). Examining Herbarium Specimen Citation: Developing a literature-based institutional impact measure. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 3. 1 indexed citations
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Güntsch, Anton, Roger Hyam, Gregor Hagedorn, et al.. (2017). Actionable, long-term stable and semantic web compatible identifiers for access to biological collection objects. Database. 2017(1). 56 indexed citations
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Lughadha, Eimear Nic, Rafaël Govaerts, Irina V. Belyaeva, et al.. (2016). Counting counts: revised estimates of numbers of accepted species of flowering plants, seed plants, vascular plants and land plants with a review of other recent estimates. Phytotaxa. 272(1). 114 indexed citations
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