Paul Nichols

808 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 571 citations indexed

About

Paul Nichols is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Nichols has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 571 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 4 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Paul Nichols's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (6 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (3 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity (3 papers). Paul Nichols is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (6 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (3 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity (3 papers). Paul Nichols collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Spain. Paul Nichols's co-authors include Bernd Hänfling, Lori Lawson Handley, Rosetta C. Blackman, Christoph Hahn, Ian J. Winfield, Jianlong Li, Daniel S. Read, Anna Oliver, Martin J. Genner and Paul W. Shaw and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Molecular Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Paul Nichols

8 papers receiving 564 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.

EnvironmentalDNAmetabarcoding of lake fish communities reflects long‐term data from established survey methods

2016 402 citations Bernd Hänfling, Lori Lawson Handley et al. Molecular Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Nichols United Kingdom	8	469	357	176	62	52	8	571
Emmanuel Corse France	12	331 0.7×	217 0.6×	128 0.7×	58 0.9×	49 0.9×	22	424
Matthew C. Yates Canada	14	612 1.3×	427 1.2×	250 1.4×	148 2.4×	25 0.5×	29	779
Lori Lawson Handley United Kingdom	5	325 0.7×	242 0.7×	91 0.5×	104 1.7×	14 0.3×	8	432
Naiara Guimarães Sales United Kingdom	13	504 1.1×	460 1.3×	208 1.2×	35 0.6×	110 2.1×	28	663
Kyle W. Wellband Canada	13	229 0.5×	134 0.4×	229 1.3×	190 3.1×	86 1.7×	24	500
Mišel Jelić Croatia	14	489 1.0×	83 0.2×	152 0.9×	106 1.7×	138 2.7×	42	634
Cristian B. Canales‐Aguirre Chile	13	203 0.4×	118 0.3×	116 0.7×	147 2.4×	42 0.8×	43	442
Claire Peart United Kingdom	7	154 0.3×	164 0.5×	120 0.7×	241 3.9×	76 1.5×	11	432
Adriana Radulovici Canada	8	378 0.8×	259 0.7×	52 0.3×	86 1.4×	45 0.9×	12	513
Matthew P. Galaska United States	10	285 0.6×	166 0.5×	83 0.5×	55 0.9×	33 0.6×	17	347

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Nichols

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Nichols

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Nichols

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Derocles, Stéphane A. P., et al.. (2018). Climate warming alters the structure of farmland tritrophic ecological networks and reduces crop yield. Molecular Ecology. 27(23). 4931–4946. 26 indexed citations

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Hänfling, Bernd, Lori Lawson Handley, Daniel S. Read, et al.. (2016). EnvironmentalDNAmetabarcoding of lake fish communities reflects long‐term data from established survey methods. Molecular Ecology. 25(13). 3101–3119. 402 indexed citations breakdown →

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Derocles, Stéphane A. P., et al.. (2015). Determining Plant – Leaf Miner – Parasitoid Interactions: A DNA Barcoding Approach. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0117872–e0117872. 31 indexed citations

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Nichols, Paul, Martin J. Genner, Cock van Oosterhout, et al.. (2014). Secondary contact seeds phenotypic novelty in cichlid fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1798). 20142272–20142272. 37 indexed citations

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Genner, Martin J., Paul Nichols, Paul W. Shaw, et al.. (2009). Population structure on breeding grounds of Lake Malawi’s ‘twilight zone’ cichlid fishes. Journal of Biogeography. 37(2). 258–269. 8 indexed citations

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Genner, Martin J., Paul Nichols, Paul W. Shaw, et al.. (2008). Genetic homogeneity among breeding grounds and nursery areas of an exploited Lake Malawi cichlid fish. Freshwater Biology. 53(9). 1823–1831. 11 indexed citations

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Genner, Martin J., Paul Nichols, Gary R. Carvalho, et al.. (2007). Evolution of a cichlid fish in a Lake Malawi satellite lake. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 274(1623). 2249–2257. 32 indexed citations

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Genner, Martin J., Paul Nichols, Gary R. Carvalho, et al.. (2006). Reproductive isolation among deep‐water cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi differing in monochromatic male breeding dress. Molecular Ecology. 16(3). 651–662. 24 indexed citations

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