Rajeev Pillay

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 686 citations indexed

About

Rajeev Pillay is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Rajeev Pillay has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 686 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Rajeev Pillay's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (6 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Rajeev Pillay is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (6 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Rajeev Pillay collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Rajeev Pillay's co-authors include Oscar Venter, James Watson, Andrew J. Hansen, M. D. Madhusudan, S. J. Goetz, Anne Virnig, Christina Supples, Jamison Ervin, Patrick Jantz and José Aragón-Osejo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

Rajeev Pillay

19 papers receiving 670 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.

Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems

2020 207 citations Brooke Williams, Oscar Venter et al. One Earth profile →

Peers

Rajeev Pillay

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GPC

NLC

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Pedro Jaureguiberry Argentina

Susana Rodríguez‐Buriticá Colombia

Sara A. Gagné United States

Paulo Pereira Portugal

C. Ashton Drew United States

Jason Riggio United States

María José Andrade‐Núñez Puerto Rico

Anne Mimet France

Charles Besançon United States

Mandar Trivedi United Kingdom

Pedro Jaureguiberry Argentina

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293 ×0.8

ECOLO

373 ×1.2

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264 ×1.5

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113 ×0.7

124 ×1.5

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Countries citing papers authored by Rajeev Pillay

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rajeev Pillay

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rajeev Pillay

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

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19 of 19 papers shown

Pillay, Rajeev, et al.. (2025). Role of protected areas in mitigating range loss and local extinctions of terrestrial mammals. Conservation Biology. 39(6). e70092–e70092. 1 indexed citations

Pillay, Rajeev, James Watson, Andrew J. Hansen, et al.. (2024). Global rarity of high-integrity tropical rainforests for threatened and declining terrestrial vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(51). e2413325121–e2413325121. 6 indexed citations

Pillay, Rajeev, James Watson, S. J. Goetz, et al.. (2024). The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework needs headline indicators that can actually monitor forest integrity. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 43001–43001. 3 indexed citations

Watson, James, Erle C. Ellis, Rajeev Pillay, Brooke Williams, & Oscar Venter. (2023). Mapping Industrial Influences on Earth's Ecology. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 48(1). 289–317. 18 indexed citations

Pillay, Rajeev, James Watson, Andrew J. Hansen, et al.. (2022). Humid tropical vertebrates are at lower risk of extinction and population decline in forests with higher structural integrity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(12). 1840–1849. 19 indexed citations

Jones, Gavin M., Berry J. Brosi, Jason Evans, et al.. (2021). Conserving alpha and beta diversity in wood‐production landscapes. Conservation Biology. 36(3). e13872–e13872. 15 indexed citations

Pillay, Rajeev, David A. Miller, R. Raghunath, et al.. (2021). Using interview surveys and multispecies occupancy models to inform vertebrate conservation. Conservation Biology. 36(2). e13832–e13832. 7 indexed citations

Hansen, Andrew J., S. J. Goetz, Christina Supples, et al.. (2021). Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Conservation Letters. 14(4). 58 indexed citations

Pillay, Rajeev, Michelle Venter, José Aragón-Osejo, et al.. (2021). Tropical forests are home to over half of the world’s vertebrate species. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 20(1). 10–15. 114 indexed citations

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Hansen, Andrew J., Patrick Burns, Jamison Ervin, et al.. (2020). A policy-driven framework for conserving the best of Earth’s remaining moist tropical forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(10). 1377–1384. 60 indexed citations

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Williams, Brooke, Oscar Venter, Moreno Di Marco, et al.. (2020). Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Williams, Brooke, Oscar Venter, James R. Allan, et al.. (2020). Change in Terrestrial Human Footprint Drives Continued Loss of Intact Ecosystems. One Earth. 3(3). 371–382. 207 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pillay, Rajeev, Robert J. Fletcher, Kathryn E. Sieving, Bradley J. Udell, & Henry Bernard. (2019). Bioacoustic monitoring reveals shifts in breeding songbird populations and singing behaviour with selective logging in tropical forests. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(11). 2482–2492. 26 indexed citations

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Pillay, Rajeev, Fangyuan Hua, Bette A. Loiselle, Henry Bernard, & Robert J. Fletcher. (2018). Multiple stages of tree seedling recruitment are altered in tropical forests degraded by selective logging. Ecology and Evolution. 8(16). 8231–8242. 17 indexed citations

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Madhusudan, M. D., R. Raghunath, Nagarajan Baskaran, et al.. (2015). Distribution, relative abundance, and conservation status of Asian elephants in Karnataka, southern India. Biological Conservation. 187. 34–40. 26 indexed citations

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Pillay, Rajeev, et al.. (2014). An assessment of holothurian diversity, abundance and distribution in the shallow lagoons of Mauritius. 9 indexed citations

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Pillay, Rajeev, et al.. (2013). Accounting for false positives improves estimates of occupancy from key informant interviews. Diversity and Distributions. 20(2). 223–235. 32 indexed citations

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Pillay, Rajeev, A. J. T. Johnsingh, R. Raghunath, & M. D. Madhusudan. (2011). Patterns of spatiotemporal change in large mammal distribution and abundance in the southern Western Ghats, India. Biological Conservation. 144(5). 1567–1576. 57 indexed citations

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Pillay, Rajeev. (2009). Observations of small carnivores in the southern Western Ghats, India. 10 indexed citations

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