Nicky Phillips

744 total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 420 citations indexed

About

Nicky Phillips is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Reproductive Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicky Phillips has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 420 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 2 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in Reproductive Medicine. Recurrent topics in Nicky Phillips's work include Climate variability and models (2 papers), Science, Research, and Medicine (2 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (1 paper). Nicky Phillips is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (2 papers), Science, Research, and Medicine (2 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (1 paper). Nicky Phillips collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Latvia and Canada. Nicky Phillips's co-authors include Bianca Nogrady, David Cyranoski, Smriti Mallapaty, Davide Castelvecchi, Ewen Callaway, S. Navrátil, Alexandra Witze, Richard Van Noorden, Heidi Ledford and Quirin Schiermeier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Forestry Chronicle and Ringing & Migration.

In The Last Decade

Nicky Phillips

25 papers receiving 403 citations

Hit Papers

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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 coronavirus is here to stay — here’s what that means

2021 272 citations Nicky Phillips Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicky Phillips Denmark	7	128	59	51	47	46	26	420
Aisha Khan Pakistan	15	115 0.9×	90 1.5×	22 0.4×	53 1.1×	27 0.6×	44	590
Crystal Watson United States	9	72 0.6×	51 0.9×	28 0.5×	124 2.6×	33 0.7×	31	382
Jeffrey C. Blossom United States	10	89 0.7×	84 1.4×	18 0.4×	53 1.1×	67 1.5×	24	450
Peter Clevestig Sweden	6	115 0.9×	87 1.5×	20 0.4×	58 1.2×	17 0.4×	8	414
Mia Moore United States	14	190 1.5×	65 1.1×	16 0.3×	29 0.6×	37 0.8×	54	676
Kui Liu China	17	269 2.1×	63 1.1×	27 0.5×	92 2.0×	46 1.0×	72	767
Mark Gallivan United States	7	118 0.9×	92 1.6×	15 0.3×	39 0.8×	26 0.6×	14	339
Patrick Saunders‐Hastings United States	7	147 1.1×	158 2.7×	18 0.4×	30 0.6×	29 0.6×	13	540
Attaullah Ahmadi United Kingdom	12	119 0.9×	79 1.3×	48 0.9×	56 1.2×	80 1.7×	51	468
Thomas Neyens Belgium	13	37 0.3×	75 1.3×	33 0.6×	19 0.4×	45 1.0×	52	421

Countries citing papers authored by Nicky Phillips

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicky Phillips

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicky Phillips

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Phillips, Nicky. (2022). She was convicted of killing her four children. Could a gene mutation set her free?. Nature. 611(7935). 218–223. 5 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky. (2021). The coronavirus is here to stay — here’s what that means. Nature. 590(7846). 382–384. 272 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thompson, Bruce, et al.. (2021). Coronapod: our future with an ever-present coronavirus. Nature. 1 indexed citations

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Graham, Flora, Davide Castelvecchi, & Nicky Phillips. (2020). Daily briefing: The evidence is not stacking up for hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19. Nature. 2 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky, Smriti Mallapaty, & David Cyranoski. (2020). How quickly does the Wuhan virus spread?. Nature. 3 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky. (2018). Bonded by science: researchers describe their nerdy proposals. Nature.

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Phillips, Nicky. (2017). A close look at China's rise. Nature. 545(7655). S39–S39. 7 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky. (2017). Australia cuts conservation protections in marine parks. Nature. 2 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky. (2017). Connecting big ideas to benefit. Nature. 548(7666). S3–S3. 1 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky. (2017). Striving for a research renaissance. Nature. 543(7646). S7–S7. 6 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky. (2017). Legal threat exposes gaps in climate-change planning. Nature. 548(7669). 508–509. 3 indexed citations

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Callaway, Ewen, Davide Castelvecchi, David Cyranoski, et al.. (2017). 2017 in news: The science events that shaped the year. Nature. 552(7685). 304–307. 12 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky. (2017). Australian students report high rates of sexual harassment and assault. Nature. 1 indexed citations

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Reardon, Sara, Nicky Phillips, Alison Abbott, et al.. (2017). What happened at March for Science events around the world. Nature. 544(7651). 404–405. 8 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky. (2017). Online software spots genetic errors in cancer papers. Nature. 551(7681). 422–423. 5 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky. (2016). Australia & New Zealand. Nature. 538(7626). S49–S49. 2 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky. (2016). Nature Index 2016 Japan. Nature. 531(7594). S97–S97. 6 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky. (2016). Rising stars. Nature. 535(7613). S49–S49. 1 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky. (2016). China: Building an innovator. Nature. 533(7601). S32–S33. 1 indexed citations

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Phillips, Nicky, et al.. (2015). Nature Index 2015 China. Nature. 528(7582). S165–S165. 2 indexed citations

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