Phil McManus

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Phil McManus is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Phil McManus has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Phil McManus's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (13 papers), Rural development and sustainability (9 papers) and Mining and Resource Management (9 papers). Phil McManus is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (13 papers), Rural development and sustainability (9 papers) and Mining and Resource Management (9 papers). Phil McManus collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Phil McManus's co-authors include Bill Pritchard, Graham Haughton, Gavin Bridge, Krishna K. Shrestha, Elizabeth Duncan, Tony Sörensen, Neil Argent, Scott Baum, Lisa Bourke and Jim Walmsley and has published in prestigious journals such as Tourism Management, BioScience and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Phil McManus

98 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Rural Community and Rural Resilience: What is important t... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300
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. Rural Community and Rural Resilience: What is important to farmers in keeping their country towns alive?
    2011 302 citations Phil McManus, Bill Pritchard et al. Journal of Rural Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Phil McManus Australia 26 813 490 437 319 316 104 2.6k
Mark Scott Ireland 30 795 1.0× 829 1.7× 590 1.4× 183 0.6× 164 0.5× 101 2.7k
Harvey C. Perkins New Zealand 25 1.2k 1.4× 249 0.5× 316 0.7× 228 0.7× 248 0.8× 75 2.7k
Guy M. Robinson Australia 28 727 0.9× 1.0k 2.1× 586 1.3× 637 2.0× 200 0.6× 151 3.5k
Tony Binns United Kingdom 28 897 1.1× 398 0.8× 299 0.7× 286 0.9× 282 0.9× 168 2.8k
Federico Demaria Spain 19 862 1.1× 460 0.9× 237 0.5× 376 1.2× 370 1.2× 38 2.3k
Richard Howitt Australia 33 1.3k 1.6× 571 1.2× 199 0.5× 425 1.3× 632 2.0× 119 3.4k
Annelies Zoomers Netherlands 21 886 1.1× 526 1.1× 928 2.1× 192 0.6× 99 0.3× 96 2.5k
Matthew Tonts Australia 27 792 1.0× 440 0.9× 670 1.5× 122 0.4× 490 1.6× 103 2.7k
Lummina Horlings Netherlands 23 549 0.7× 520 1.1× 529 1.2× 266 0.8× 68 0.2× 75 2.0k
Gina Porter United Kingdom 36 1.1k 1.4× 334 0.7× 281 0.6× 108 0.3× 169 0.5× 127 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Phil McManus

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Fields of papers citing papers by Phil McManus

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Phil McManus

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

All Works

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Carthey, Alexandra J. R., Peter B. Banks, Catherine E. Grueber, et al.. (2025). Urban rewilding to combat global biodiversity decline. BioScience. 75(7). 545–558. 1 indexed citations
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Connell, John, et al.. (2024). Chinese Tourism in Australia. 2 indexed citations
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Taksa, Lucy, et al.. (2024). Rail relations: Aboriginal storywork and remaking Australia’s settler‐colonial infrastructure. Geographical Research. 63(2). 279–290.
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Smith, Paul M. & Phil McManus. (2023). Geographies of Coexistence: negotiating urban space with the Grey-Headed Flying-Fox. Australian Geographer. 55(1). 95–114. 3 indexed citations
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Stallones, Lorann, Phil McManus, & Paul McGreevy. (2023). Sustainability and the Thoroughbred Breeding and Racing Industries: An Enhanced One Welfare Perspective. Animals. 13(3). 490–490. 13 indexed citations
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Jones, Bidda, Catherine A. Herbert, Amy D. Lykins, et al.. (2023). In Situ Provisioning Wildlife with Food, Water, or Shelter after Bushfires: Using a One Welfare Framework to Guide Responses. Animals. 13(22). 3518–3518. 4 indexed citations
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McManus, Phil. (2023). Living with anthropogenic climate change: Learning from environmental history to question narratives of doom, hope, and crisis. Geographical Research. 61(4). 525–530. 4 indexed citations
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McManus, Phil. (2022). Counterurbanisation, demographic change and discourses of rural revival in Australia during COVID-19. Australian Geographer. 53(4). 363–378. 31 indexed citations
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McManus, Phil. (2021). A more-than-urban political ecology of bushfire smoke in eastern Australia, 2019–2020. Australian Geographer. 52(3). 243–256. 12 indexed citations
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Connell, John & Phil McManus. (2019). Flower viewing from horseback? New directions in Chinese tourism in Australia. Australian Geographer. 50(3). 333–347. 9 indexed citations
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McManus, Phil, et al.. (2013). Engaging Communities for Success: social impact assessment and social licence to operate at Northparkes Mines, NSW. Australian Geographer. 44(4). 435–459. 30 indexed citations
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McManus, Phil & Linda Connor. (2013). What’s Mine Is Mine(D): Contests Over Marginalisation Of rural life in the Upper Hunter, NSW. Rural Society. 22(2). 166–183. 34 indexed citations
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McManus, Phil. (2012). Measuring Urban Sustainability: the potential and pitfalls of city rankings. Australian Geographer. 43(4). 411–424. 30 indexed citations
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Newell, Barry, et al.. (2007). Seeing obesity as a systems problem. New South Wales Public Health Bulletin. 18(12). 214–214. 25 indexed citations
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McManus, Phil. (2001). Feeding a growing city: The Glebe Island Abattoir and the provision of meat for Sydney. Rural Society. 11(3). 243–253. 3 indexed citations
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Pritchard, Bill & Phil McManus. (2000). Land of discontent: the dynamics of change in rural and regional Australia. 213 indexed citations
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McManus, Phil. (1999). Histories of Forestry: Ideas, Networks and Silences. Environment and History. 5(2). 185–208. 12 indexed citations
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McManus, Phil. (1996). Trading with the environment: Ecology, economics, institutions and policy. Journal of Rural Studies. 12(2). 208–209. 8 indexed citations

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