Pamela McElwee

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
67 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Pamela McElwee is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Pamela McElwee has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 14 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Pamela McElwee's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (27 papers), Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (10 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers). Pamela McElwee is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (27 papers), Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (10 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers). Pamela McElwee collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Pamela McElwee's co-authors include Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Victòria Reyes-García, Eduardo S. Brondízio, Zsolt Molnár, Huệ Lê, Kinga Öllerer, Sarah Jane Wilson, Hien T. Ngo, Kathleen A. Galvin and Gert Van Hecken and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Pamela McElwee

64 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

2023 237 citations Hans‐Otto Pörtner, Robert J. Scholes et al. Science profile →
Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature

2021 173 citations Eduardo S. Brondízio, Yildiz Aumeeruddy‐Thomas et al. Annual Review of Environment and Resources profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pamela McElwee United States	26	1.5k	644	500	386	356	67	2.6k
Sergio Villamayor‐Tomás Spain	29	1.5k 1.0×	704 1.1×	531 1.1×	422 1.1×	405 1.1×	89	3.1k
Marja Spierenburg Netherlands	24	1.6k 1.1×	657 1.0×	593 1.2×	214 0.6×	554 1.6×	59	3.1k
L. Jamila Haider Sweden	20	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.7×	485 1.0×	553 1.4×	348 1.0×	39	3.5k
Michael Schoon United States	27	1.9k 1.3×	865 1.3×	615 1.2×	373 1.0×	614 1.7×	64	3.5k
Neil Dawson United Kingdom	20	1.1k 0.7×	366 0.6×	342 0.7×	326 0.8×	366 1.0×	39	2.0k
Melissa Marschke Canada	26	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.7×	771 1.5×	245 0.6×	774 2.2×	58	3.5k
Hannah Gosnell United States	28	1.3k 0.9×	662 1.0×	505 1.0×	381 1.0×	692 1.9×	62	3.1k
Sharachchandra Lélé India	23	1.2k 0.8×	291 0.5×	345 0.7×	294 0.8×	324 0.9×	64	2.3k
Adrian Martin United Kingdom	29	2.1k 1.4×	814 1.3×	753 1.5×	898 2.3×	428 1.2×	82	3.8k
Jan Sendzimir Austria	22	1.4k 1.0×	631 1.0×	456 0.9×	186 0.5×	413 1.2×	52	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Pamela McElwee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pamela McElwee

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chu, Eric, et al.. (2025). Broadening diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in the process and development of climate assessments. Climatic Change. 178(4). 63–63. 4 indexed citations

McElwee, Pamela & Paula A. Harrison. (2025). Time to act across crises: Lessons from the Nexus Assessment for UNFCCC COP 30. PLOS Climate. 4(11). e0000730–e0000730.

McElwee, Pamela. (2025). A tale of two panels: learning and coordinating across IPCC, IPBES, and other science-policy interfaces. Climatic Change. 178(3). 1 indexed citations

McElwee, Pamela. (2025). New wine in old bottles? Key research gaps on neoliberal financing for biodiversity emerging from the Global Biodiversity Framework. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 76. 101557–101557.

Balmford, Andrew, Lian Pin Koh, David Tilman, et al.. (2024). Reflections on the Global Biodiversity Framework: Achievements, gaps, and future priorities. One Earth. 7(12). 2092–2094.

Pörtner, Hans‐Otto, Robert J. Scholes, Almut Arneth, et al.. (2023). Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts. Science. 380(6642). eabl4881–eabl4881. 237 indexed citations breakdown →

McElwee, Pamela, et al.. (2023). Climate precarity in rural livelihoods: Agrarian transformations and smallholder vulnerability in Vietnam. Journal of Agrarian Change. 23(4). 661–686. 7 indexed citations

Pascual, Unai, Pamela McElwee, Sarah E. Diamond, et al.. (2022). Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus. BioScience. 72(7). 684–704. 85 indexed citations

Smith, Pete, Saskia Keesstra, Whendee L. Silver, et al.. (2021). Soil-derived Nature's Contributions to People and their contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1834). 20200185–20200185. 39 indexed citations

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Brondízio, Eduardo S., Yildiz Aumeeruddy‐Thomas, Peter Bates, et al.. (2021). Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 46(1). 481–509. 173 indexed citations breakdown →

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McElwee, Pamela. (2021). The role of soils in learning and inspiration, physical and psychological experiences, and in supporting identities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1834). 20200184–20200184. 11 indexed citations

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McElwee, Pamela, et al.. (2021). Gender and payments for environmental services: impacts of participation, benefit-sharing and conservation activities in Viet Nam. Oryx. 55(6). 844–852. 7 indexed citations

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McElwee, Pamela, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Yildiz Aumeeruddy‐Thomas, et al.. (2020). Working with Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in large‐scale ecological assessments: Reviewing the experience of the IPBES Global Assessment. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57(9). 1666–1676. 105 indexed citations

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McElwee, Pamela, Mireille Chiroleu‐Assouline, Jennifer Clapp, et al.. (2020). Ensuring a Post-COVID Economic Agenda Tackles Global Biodiversity Loss. One Earth. 3(4). 448–461. 78 indexed citations

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Reyes-García, Victòria, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Pamela McElwee, et al.. (2018). The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ecological restoration. Restoration Ecology. 27(1). 3–8. 201 indexed citations

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McElwee, Pamela. (2016). Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam. 89 indexed citations

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Lahsen, Myanna, Andrew S. Mathews, Michael R. Dove, et al.. (2015). Strategies for changing the intellectual climate. Nature Climate Change. 5(5). 391–392. 8 indexed citations

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McElwee, Pamela, et al.. (2012). Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America. University of Arizona Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations

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McElwee, Pamela. (2009). Reforesting “Bare Hills” in Vietnam: Social and Environmental Consequences of the 5 Million Hectare Reforestation Program. AMBIO. 38(6). 325–333. 89 indexed citations

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McElwee, Pamela. (2009). Resource Use Among Rural Agricultural Households Near Protected Areas in Vietnam: The Social Costs of Conservation and Implications for Enforcement. Environmental Management. 45(1). 113–131. 66 indexed citations

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