Penny Williams

62 total papers · 4.1k total citations
40 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Penny Williams is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Penny Williams has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 9 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Penny Williams's work include Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (11 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (7 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (6 papers). Penny Williams is often cited by papers focused on Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (11 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (7 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (6 papers). Penny Williams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Penny Williams's co-authors include Jeremy Biggs, Mericia Whitfield, Pascale Nicolet, Simon Bray, David Sear, Anita Weatherby, Martin J. Hodson, Antony Corfield, David I. Walker and Steve Maund and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Science of The Total Environment and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Penny Williams

38 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Comparative biodiversity ... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2014 200 400 600
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Comparative biodiversity of rivers, streams, ditches and ponds in an agricultural landscape in Southern England
    2003 708 citations Penny Williams, Mericia Whitfield et al. Biological Conservation profile →
  2. Using eDNA to develop a national citizen science-based monitoring programme for the great crested newt (Triturus cristatus)
    2014 383 citations Jeremy Biggs, Naomi Ewald et al. Biological Conservation profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Penny Williams 2.1k 954 908 446 354 40 3.1k
Vinicius F. Farjalla 1.8k 0.8× 744 0.8× 953 1.0× 484 1.1× 206 0.6× 93 3.4k
Jeremy J. Piggott 1.9k 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 538 0.6× 398 0.9× 280 0.8× 56 2.9k
Gabriel Yvon‐Durocher 2.1k 1.0× 767 0.8× 1.1k 1.2× 1.2k 2.7× 312 0.9× 44 4.2k
Janne Alahuhta 1.4k 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 739 0.8× 419 0.9× 368 1.0× 89 2.6k
Robert Ptáčník 1.8k 0.8× 873 0.9× 1.6k 1.7× 377 0.8× 149 0.4× 78 3.4k
Janine Gibert 2.3k 1.1× 577 0.6× 845 0.9× 441 1.0× 192 0.5× 78 4.0k
James M. Hood 1.8k 0.8× 1.4k 1.5× 1.1k 1.2× 502 1.1× 128 0.4× 48 3.2k
James A. Rusak 2.0k 0.9× 1.3k 1.4× 1.3k 1.5× 957 2.1× 301 0.9× 70 4.2k
Jeremy Biggs 3.3k 1.5× 1.5k 1.6× 1.4k 1.5× 828 1.9× 595 1.7× 59 4.7k
Stina Drakare 1.6k 0.8× 661 0.7× 942 1.0× 287 0.6× 220 0.6× 54 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Penny Williams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Penny Williams

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Penny Williams. 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 Penny Williams. The network helps show where Penny Williams may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Penny Williams

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

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