Niki Rust

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 685 citations indexed

About

Niki Rust is a scholar working on Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Niki Rust has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 685 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 6 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Niki Rust's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (10 papers), Agricultural Innovations and Practices (5 papers) and Animal and Plant Science Education (4 papers). Niki Rust is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (10 papers), Agricultural Innovations and Practices (5 papers) and Animal and Plant Science Education (4 papers). Niki Rust collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark. Niki Rust's co-authors include Mark S. Reed, Laurie Marker, Rebecca M. Jarvis, Beth Clark, Volen Arkumarev, Jenny Anne Glikman, Andrea Santangeli, Marco Girardello, Julia P. G. Jones and Jasper R. de Vries and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Biological Conservation.

In The Last Decade

Niki Rust

24 papers receiving 653 citations

Hit Papers

Have farmers had enough of experts? 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 25 50 75 100
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. Have farmers had enough of experts?
    2021 104 citations Niki Rust, Rebecca M. Jarvis et al. Environmental Management profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Niki Rust United Kingdom 14 329 126 118 102 96 24 685
Aroha Te Pareake Mead Canada 7 262 0.8× 227 1.8× 91 0.8× 48 0.5× 112 1.2× 9 648
Carla Morsello Brazil 17 221 0.7× 343 2.7× 87 0.7× 76 0.7× 53 0.6× 32 757
Martin Tchamba Cameroon 15 354 1.1× 173 1.4× 167 1.4× 49 0.5× 73 0.8× 58 729
Tom Brewer Australia 18 414 1.3× 308 2.4× 135 1.1× 105 1.0× 94 1.0× 33 1.2k
Ruifei Tang New Zealand 5 232 0.7× 236 1.9× 113 1.0× 48 0.5× 100 1.0× 5 596
Isabel Díaz‐Reviriego Spain 16 208 0.6× 316 2.5× 157 1.3× 80 0.8× 160 1.7× 28 894
Caroline Ward United Kingdom 11 247 0.8× 227 1.8× 82 0.7× 92 0.9× 57 0.6× 30 682
Helen Newing United Kingdom 13 474 1.4× 424 3.4× 212 1.8× 91 0.9× 91 0.9× 30 1.2k
Michael P. Gilmore United States 16 470 1.4× 259 2.1× 50 0.4× 44 0.4× 82 0.9× 46 864
Kim Jacobsen United Kingdom 12 174 0.5× 76 0.6× 59 0.5× 108 1.1× 257 2.7× 25 589

Countries citing papers authored by Niki Rust

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Fields of papers citing papers by Niki Rust

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Niki Rust. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Niki Rust. The network helps show where Niki Rust may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Niki Rust

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Keil, Paul G., et al.. (2022). Dodo dilemmas: Conflicting ethical loyalties in conservation social science research. Area. 55(2). 245–253. 7 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki, Steven Vella, Elizabeth Oughton, et al.. (2022). Perceived Causes and Solutions to Soil Degradation in the UK and Norway. Land. 11(1). 131–131. 12 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki, Rebecca M. Jarvis, Jasper R. de Vries, et al.. (2021). Have farmers had enough of experts?. Environmental Management. 69(1). 31–44. 104 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rust, Niki, Rebecca M. Jarvis, Mark S. Reed, & Julia Cooper. (2021). Framing of sustainable agricultural practices by the farming press and its effect on adoption. Agriculture and Human Values. 38(3). 753–765. 34 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki, et al.. (2021). What does the UK public want farmland to look like?. Land Use Policy. 106. 105445–105445. 18 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki, Lucy E. Ridding, Caroline Ward, et al.. (2020). How to transition to reduced-meat diets that benefit people and the planet. The Science of The Total Environment. 718. 137208–137208. 123 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki, Morten Graversgaard, Mark S. Reed, et al.. (2020). Social capital factors affecting uptake of sustainable soil management practices: a literature review. Emerald Open Research. 2. 8–8. 19 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki, Morten Graversgaard, Mark S. Reed, et al.. (2020). Social capital factors affecting uptake of sustainable soil management practices: a literature review. Emerald Open Research. 1(10). 10 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki, Morten Graversgaard, Mark S. Reed, et al.. (2020). Social capital factors affecting uptake of sustainable soil management practices: a literature review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 8–8. 15 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki, et al.. (2020). A catalogue of UK household datasets to monitor transitions to sustainable diets. Global Food Security. 24. 100344–100344. 5 indexed citations
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Jones, Julia P. G., Laura Thomas‐Walters, Niki Rust, & Diogo Veríssimo. (2019). Nature documentaries and saving nature: Reflections on the new Netflix series Our Planet. People and Nature. 1(4). 420–425. 45 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki & Laura Kehoe. (2018). A Call for Conservation Scientists to Empirically Study the Effects of Human Population Policies on Biodiversity Loss. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 3 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki & Laura Kehoe. (2017). call for conservation scientists to empirically study the effects of human population policies on biodiversity loss. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2). 1 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki, Amber Abrams, Daniel W. S. Challender, et al.. (2017). Quantity Does Not Always Mean Quality: The Importance of Qualitative Social Science in Conservation Research. Society & Natural Resources. 30(10). 1304–1310. 77 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki, Joseph Tzanopoulos, Tatyana Humle, & Douglas C. MacMillan. (2016). Why Has Human–Carnivore Conflict Not Been Resolved in Namibia?. Society & Natural Resources. 29(9). 1079–1094. 41 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki. (2015). Media Framing of Financial Mechanisms for Resolving Human–Predator Conflict in Namibia. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. 20(5). 440–453. 19 indexed citations
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Rust, Niki, et al.. (2014). Environmental factors affect swing gates as a barrier to large carnivores entering game farms. African Journal of Ecology. 53(3). 339–345. 4 indexed citations
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