Richard A. Fuller

35.3k total citations · 18 hit papers
308 papers, 24.1k citations indexed

About

Richard A. Fuller is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard A. Fuller has authored 308 papers receiving a total of 24.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Ecology, 92 papers in Ecological Modeling and 85 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Richard A. Fuller's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (105 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (92 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (65 papers). Richard A. Fuller is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (105 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (92 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (65 papers). Richard A. Fuller collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Richard A. Fuller's co-authors include Kevin J. Gaston, James Watson, Hugh P. Possingham, Danielle F. Shanahan, Katherine N. Irvine, Philip H. Warren, Brenda B. Lin, Sean Maxwell, Thomas M. Brooks and Nicholas Murray and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard A. Fuller

298 papers receiving 23.3k citations

Hit Papers

Biodiversity: The ravages... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2016 2004 2007 2013 2018 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers
    2016 1.3k citations Sean Maxwell, Richard A. Fuller et al. Nature profile →
  2. Determining trophic niche width: a novel approach using stable isotope analysis
    2004 1.1k citations Richard A. Fuller et al. profile →
  3. Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity
    2007 1.1k citations Richard A. Fuller et al. profile →
  4. What are the Benefits of Interacting with Nature?
    2013 838 citations Richard A. Fuller et al. profile →
  5. The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats
    2018 711 citations Richard A. Fuller et al. Nature profile →
  6. One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressure
    2018 652 citations Kendall R. Jones, Oscar Venter et al. Science profile →
  7. Distorted Views of Biodiversity: Spatial and Temporal Bias in Species Occurrence Data
    2010 544 citations Richard A. Fuller et al. profile →
  8. Health Benefits from Nature Experiences Depend on Dose
    2016 540 citations Richard A. Fuller et al. profile →
  9. Cities are hotspots for threatened species
    2015 525 citations Caragh G. Threlfall, Sarah Bekessy et al. profile →
  10. Urban form, biodiversity potential and ecosystem services
    2007 501 citations Richard A. Fuller et al. profile →
  11. Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity
    2014 431 citations Oscar Venter, Richard A. Fuller et al. profile →
  12. Tracking the rapid loss of tidal wetlands in the Yellow Sea
    2014 394 citations Richard A. Fuller et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment profile →
  13. Conserving mobile species
    2014 393 citations Richard A. Fuller et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment profile →
  14. Achieving Conservation Science that Bridges the Knowledge–Action Boundary
    2013 382 citations Richard A. Fuller et al. Conservation Biology profile →
  15. Rapid population decline in migratory shorebirds relying on Yellow Sea tidal mudflats as stopover sites
    2017 376 citations Richard A. Fuller et al. profile →
  16. Climate change drives expansion of Antarctic ice-free habitat
    2017 316 citations Richard A. Fuller et al. Nature profile →
  17. Opportunity or Orientation? Who Uses Urban Parks and Why
    2014 311 citations Richard A. Fuller et al. profile →
  18. Protected areas have a mixed impact on waterbirds, but management helps
    2022 122 citations Hannah S. Wauchope, Julia P. G. Jones et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Richard A. Fuller 10.3k 9.3k 7.4k 4.5k 4.1k 308 24.1k
Joern Fischer 8.2k 0.8× 9.4k 1.0× 1.8k 0.3× 6.6k 1.5× 2.7k 0.7× 253 21.3k
Andrew S. Pullin 4.4k 0.4× 5.0k 0.5× 3.3k 0.5× 3.1k 0.7× 2.0k 0.5× 165 14.0k
Ann P. Kinzig 7.7k 0.7× 9.8k 1.1× 1.8k 0.2× 7.3k 1.6× 2.9k 0.7× 97 25.6k
Gretchen C. Daily 14.8k 1.4× 26.9k 2.9× 5.0k 0.7× 11.4k 2.5× 4.4k 1.1× 232 52.4k
Taylor H. Ricketts 8.1k 0.8× 12.6k 1.4× 1.5k 0.2× 7.4k 1.7× 3.9k 1.0× 126 27.6k
Steward T. A. Pickett 10.8k 1.1× 15.2k 1.6× 6.1k 0.8× 13.2k 2.9× 1.9k 0.5× 245 33.4k
Jianguo Wu 10.2k 1.0× 21.7k 2.3× 8.3k 1.1× 6.2k 1.4× 1.7k 0.4× 327 37.3k
Jari Niemelä 4.9k 0.5× 6.6k 0.7× 3.5k 0.5× 4.9k 1.1× 1.4k 0.3× 137 14.5k
Ruth DeFries 16.8k 1.6× 30.3k 3.3× 3.0k 0.4× 6.1k 1.4× 2.8k 0.7× 258 47.6k
Thomas Elmqvist 4.3k 0.4× 10.4k 1.1× 3.2k 0.4× 3.4k 0.8× 836 0.2× 133 20.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard A. Fuller

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

All Works

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Fuller, Richard A., et al.. (2025). Level-up urban conservation by increasing vegetation complexity. Urban forestry & urban greening. 112. 128949–128949. 1 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Corey T., et al.. (2024). Assessing adequacy of citizen science datasets for biodiversity monitoring. Ecology and Evolution. 14(2). e10857–e10857. 9 indexed citations
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Oh, Rachel Rui Ying, Richard A. Fuller, Angela J. Dean, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the health and wellbeing benefits of biodiversity citizen science. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 12. 3 indexed citations
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Kusmanoff, Alexander M., Stephen Kearney, Michelle Ward, et al.. (2024). Motivating government on threatened species through electoral systems. Conservation Science and Practice. 6(9). 1 indexed citations
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Fuller, Richard A., et al.. (2023). The Reptile Relocation Industry in Australia: Perspectives from Operators. Diversity. 15(3). 343–343. 1 indexed citations
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Threlfall, Caragh G., Camilo Ordóñez, Stephen J. Livesley, et al.. (2023). Tree removals as socioecological experiments in cities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 22(1). 2 indexed citations
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Huang, Ke, He‐Bo Peng, Changlin Li, et al.. (2023). Habitat selection and population status of breeding Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola in an alpine meadow in Sichuan, China. Bird Conservation International. 33. 1 indexed citations
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Chowdhury, Shawan, et al.. (2023). Increasing biodiversity knowledge through social media: A case study from tropical Bangladesh. BioScience. 73(6). 453–459. 21 indexed citations
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Schwarzkopf, Lin, et al.. (2023). Can an acoustic observatory contribute to the conservation of threatened species?. Austral Ecology. 48(7). 1230–1237. 3 indexed citations
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Chowdhury, Shawan, Richard A. Fuller, Corey T. Callaghan, et al.. (2023). Using social media records to inform conservation planning. Conservation Biology. 38(1). e14161–e14161. 22 indexed citations
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Nicol, Sam, Marie‐Josée Cros, Nathalie Peyrard, et al.. (2022). FlywayNet : A hidden semi‐Markov model for inferring the structure of migratory bird networks from count data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(1). 265–279. 2 indexed citations
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Hu, Cheng, Joshua Soderholm, Jason W. Chapman, et al.. (2022). Prospects for monitoring bird migration along the East Asian‐Australasian Flyway using weather radar. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9(2). 169–181. 15 indexed citations
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Wauchope, Hannah S., Julia P. G. Jones, Jonas Geldmann, et al.. (2022). Protected areas have a mixed impact on waterbirds, but management helps. Nature. 605(7908). 103–107. 122 indexed citations breakdown →
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Roe, Paul, Richard A. Fuller, Paul G. McDonald, et al.. (2021). The Australian Acoustic Observatory. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(10). 1802–1808. 55 indexed citations
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Mao, Dehua, Zongming Wang, Chi‐Yeung Choi, et al.. (2021). Remote Observations in China’s Ramsar Sites: Wetland Dynamics, Anthropogenic Threats, and Implications for Sustainable Development Goals. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2021. 46 indexed citations
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Jones, Kendall R., Oscar Venter, Richard A. Fuller, et al.. (2018). One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressure. Science. 360(6390). 788–791. 652 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yáñez-Ruíz, David R., Robert J. Gruninger, Gabriel O Ribeiro, et al.. (2017). Invited. Advances in Animal Biosciences. 8(1). 132–146. 1 indexed citations
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Fuller, Richard A., et al.. (2005). Assessing the status of Handsome Francolin Francolinus nobilis in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, western Uganda. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 5 indexed citations
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Petch, Alison, et al.. (1996). Delivering community care Initial implementation of care management in Scotland. OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). 7 indexed citations

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