Nigel Maxted

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
154 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Nigel Maxted is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nigel Maxted has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Plant Science, 40 papers in Genetics and 35 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Nigel Maxted's work include Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies (83 papers), Agricultural pest management studies (56 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (38 papers). Nigel Maxted is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies (83 papers), Agricultural pest management studies (56 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (38 papers). Nigel Maxted collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Nigel Maxted's co-authors include Shelagh Kell, B. V. Ford‐Lloyd, Joana Magos Brehm, Luigi Guarino, Melanie Bilz, Richard V. Lansdown, Holly Vincent, Ehsan Dulloo, Andy Jarvis and Nora P Castañeda Álvarez and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Nigel Maxted

145 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Global conservation priorities for crop wild relatives 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Global conservation priorities for crop wild relatives
    2016 338 citations Nora P Castañeda Álvarez, Colin K. Khoury et al. Nature Plants profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nigel Maxted United Kingdom 33 3.4k 1.1k 1.0k 607 496 154 4.3k
Luigi Guarino Colombia 31 3.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 625 1.0× 630 1.3× 85 5.1k
Yves Vigouroux France 36 3.5k 1.0× 695 0.7× 2.7k 2.7× 1.2k 2.0× 417 0.8× 108 5.3k
B. V. Ford‐Lloyd United Kingdom 34 3.1k 0.9× 696 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 1.1k 1.8× 372 0.8× 118 3.9k
Ian K. Dawson Kenya 31 1.3k 0.4× 804 0.8× 693 0.7× 517 0.9× 256 0.5× 83 3.1k
Hannes Dempewolf United States 21 1.9k 0.6× 475 0.5× 606 0.6× 549 0.9× 412 0.8× 37 2.9k
T. Hodgkin Italy 25 2.9k 0.9× 724 0.7× 862 0.9× 725 1.2× 451 0.9× 80 4.2k
R. van Treuren Netherlands 31 1.9k 0.6× 1.0k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 644 1.1× 161 0.3× 78 3.0k
Xavier Reboud France 30 2.8k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 655 0.7× 934 1.5× 98 0.2× 76 4.1k
Christopher M. Richards United States 32 2.0k 0.6× 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 813 1.3× 134 0.3× 96 3.4k
Allison J. Miller United States 29 1.8k 0.5× 553 0.5× 424 0.4× 888 1.5× 374 0.8× 82 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nigel Maxted

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nigel Maxted

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Barata, Ana Maria, et al.. (2024). Towards a practical threat assessment methodology for crop landraces. Frontiers in Plant Science. 15. 1336876–1336876.
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Ellis, Noel, Petr Smýkal, Nigel Maxted, et al.. (2024). The Taxonomic Status of Genera within the Fabeae (Vicieae), with a Special Focus on Pisum. Diversity. 16(7). 365–365. 1 indexed citations
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Lefèvre, François, Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat, Michèle Bozzano, et al.. (2024). European genetic resources conservation in a rapidly changing world: three existential challenges for the crop, forest and animal domains in the 21st century. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(9). 13–28. 1 indexed citations
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Brehm, Joana Magos, et al.. (2023). The impact of climate change on the future distribution of priority crop wild relatives in Indonesia and implications for conservation planning. Journal for Nature Conservation. 73. 126368–126368. 5 indexed citations
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Drucker, Adam G., et al.. (2023). Community-Level Incentive Mechanisms for the Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives: A Malawi Case Study. Plants. 12(5). 1030–1030. 4 indexed citations
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Martin, Peter, et al.. (2023). Trends, challenges and opportunities in the in situ conservation of cereal landraces in Scottish islands. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(7). 32–45. 2 indexed citations
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Carvalho, Miguel Â. A. Pinheiro de, et al.. (2022). Crop landraces inventory for Portugal. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 70(4). 1151–1161. 2 indexed citations
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Mokni, Ridha El, et al.. (2022). A prioritised inventory of crop wild relatives and wild harvested plants of Tunisia. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 69(5). 1787–1816. 13 indexed citations
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Brehm, Joana Magos, et al.. (2021). Gap analysis of Indonesian priority medicinal plant species as part of their conservation planning. Global Ecology and Conservation. 26. e01459–e01459. 27 indexed citations
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Kersey, Paul, Jérôme Collemare, Laura J. Kelly, et al.. (2020). Selecting for useful properties of plants and fungi – Novel approaches, opportunities, and challenges. Plants People Planet. 2(5). 409–420. 16 indexed citations
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Frese, Lothar, F. Branca, B. V. Ford-Lloyd, et al.. (2019). Genetic reserve conservation of European crop wild relative and landrace diversity. Ktisis at Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus University of Technology).
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Vincent, Holly, Ahmed Amri, Nora P Castañeda Álvarez, et al.. (2019). Modeling of crop wild relative species identifies areas globally for in situ conservation. Communications Biology. 2(1). 136–136. 84 indexed citations
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Taylor, Nigel G., et al.. (2017). A systematic conservation strategy for crop wild relatives in the Czech Republic. Diversity and Distributions. 23(4). 448–462. 17 indexed citations
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Brehm, Joana Magos, et al.. (2017). Climate change and national crop wild relative conservation planning. AMBIO. 46(6). 630–643. 19 indexed citations
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Álvarez, Nora P Castañeda, Colin K. Khoury, Harold Achicanoy, et al.. (2016). Global conservation priorities for crop wild relatives. Nature Plants. 2(4). 16022–16022. 338 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dias, Santos Henrique Brant, Ehsan Dulloo, Nigel Maxted, et al.. (2014). International Conference Enhanced Genepool Utilization - Capturing wild relative and landrace diversity for crop improvement, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 16-20 June 2014. Book of Abstracts. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 1 indexed citations
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Scholten, M.C.T., et al.. (2008). Hebridean and Shetland oat (Avena strigosa Schreb.) and Shetland cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.) landraces: occurrence and conservation issues. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 36(154). 1–5. 3 indexed citations
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Maxted, Nigel, Ehsan Dulloo, B. V. Ford‐Lloyd, José María Iriondo, & Andy Jarvis. (2008). Gap analysis: a tool for complementary genetic conservation assessment. Diversity and Distributions. 14(6). 1018–1030. 106 indexed citations
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Bennett, Sarita Jane, et al.. (2001). The ecogeography and collecting of forage legumes in the east Aegean Islands, Greece. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA). 128. 55–63. 3 indexed citations

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