Richard Grenyer

9.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Richard Grenyer is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Grenyer has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 14 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Richard Grenyer's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (14 papers). Richard Grenyer is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (14 papers). Richard Grenyer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Richard Grenyer's co-authors include John L. Gittleman, Andy Purvis, Kate E. Jones, Olaf R. P. Bininda‐Emonds, Marcel Cardillo, Rutger Vos, Samantha A. Price, R. D. E. MacPhee, Robin M. D. Beck and T. Jonathan Davies and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Richard Grenyer

40 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

The delayed rise of present-day mammals

2007 1.6k citations Olaf R. P. Bininda‐Emonds, Marcel Cardillo et al. Nature profile →
Preserving the evolutionary potential of floras in biodiversity hotspots

2007 727 citations Félix Forest, Richard Grenyer et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Grenyer United Kingdom	26	1.7k	1.6k	1.5k	1.4k	1.1k	42	4.9k
Tiago B. Quental Brazil	19	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	970 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	35	4.3k
Susanne A. Fritz Germany	29	2.3k 1.3×	2.3k 1.4×	2.2k 1.4×	2.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	55	5.8k
Patrick R. Stephens United States	28	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	863 0.8×	49	4.0k
Elizabeth A. Hadly United States	40	2.7k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	112	5.2k
Søren Faurby Sweden	33	2.0k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	677 0.6×	96	4.2k
Marcel Cardillo Australia	37	3.7k 2.1×	2.1k 1.2×	2.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.5×	1.8k 1.7×	105	7.7k
Gabriel C. Costa Brazil	34	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	456 0.4×	89	4.1k
Pedro Cardoso Finland	45	2.9k 1.7×	2.9k 1.7×	2.8k 1.9×	2.8k 2.0×	661 0.6×	221	7.7k
S. K. Morgan Ernest United States	35	3.5k 2.0×	2.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	769 0.7×	76	6.1k
Jason T. Weir Canada	32	1.9k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	2.6k 1.7×	1.2k 0.9×	2.3k 2.2×	60	6.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Grenyer

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ermgassen, Sophus zu, Richard Grenyer, Joseph W. Bull, et al.. (2025). A globally influential area‐condition metric is a poor proxy for invertebrate biodiversity. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(10). 2529–2540. 1 indexed citations

Lewis, Owen T., Richard Grenyer, Richard Comont, et al.. (2025). Leveraging Biodiversity Net Gain to address invertebrate declines in England. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 18(4). 485–493. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Wenyuan, Richard Grenyer, Kevin J. Gaston, & Ben C. Sheldon. (2023). Challenging the geographic bias in recognising large‐scale patterns of diversity change. Diversity and Distributions. 30(1). 13–25.

Caetano, Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira, David G. Chapple, Richard Grenyer, et al.. (2022). Automated assessment reveals that the extinction risk of reptiles is widely underestimated across space and phylogeny. PLoS Biology. 20(5). e3001544–e3001544. 59 indexed citations

Zhang, Wenyuan, Ben C. Sheldon, Richard Grenyer, & Kevin J. Gaston. (2021). Habitat change and biased sampling influence estimation of diversity trends. Current Biology. 31(16). 3656–3662.e3. 18 indexed citations

Gumbs, Rikki, Claudia L. Gray, Monika Böhm, et al.. (2020). Global priorities for conservation of reptilian phylogenetic diversity in the face of human impacts. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2616–2616. 71 indexed citations

McGowan, Jennifer, Linda J. Beaumont, Robert J. Smith, et al.. (2020). Conservation prioritization can resolve the flagship species conundrum. Nature Communications. 11(1). 994–994. 160 indexed citations

Mittermeier, John C., Uri Roll, Thomas J. Matthews, & Richard Grenyer. (2019). A season for all things: Phenological imprints in Wikipedia usage and their relevance to conservation. PLoS Biology. 17(3). e3000146–e3000146. 38 indexed citations

Lorimer, Jamie, et al.. (2019). Making the microbiome public: Participatory experiments with DNA sequencing in domestic kitchens. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 44(3). 524–541. 20 indexed citations

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Grenyer, Richard, et al.. (2019). Classification and ordination of the main plant communities of the Eastern Hajar Mountains, Oman. Journal of Arid Environments. 169. 1–18. 5 indexed citations

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Mazel, Florent, Matthew W. Pennell, Marc W. Cadotte, et al.. (2018). Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2888–2888. 153 indexed citations

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Greenhough, Beth, et al.. (2018). Unsettling antibiosis: how might interdisciplinary researchers generate a feeling for the microbiome and to what effect?. Palgrave Communications. 4(1). 29 indexed citations

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McIntosh, Emma, Madeleine McKinnon, Robert L. Pressey, & Richard Grenyer. (2016). What is the extent and distribution of evidence on effectiveness of systematic conservation planning around the globe? A systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence. 5(1). 12 indexed citations

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Kelly, Steven, Richard Grenyer, & Robert W. Scotland. (2014). Phylogenetic trees do not reliably predict feature diversity. Diversity and Distributions. 20(5). 600–612. 75 indexed citations

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Grenyer, Richard, et al.. (2014). Can REDD+ deliver biodiversity co-benefits in Indonesia?. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 1 indexed citations

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Purvis, Andy, Susanne A. Fritz, Jesús Rodrı́guez, Paul Harvey, & Richard Grenyer. (2011). The shape of mammalian phylogeny: patterns, processes and scales. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 366(1577). 2462–2477. 53 indexed citations

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Cardillo, Marcel, et al.. (2008). The delayed rise of present-day mammals (vol 446, pg 507, 2007). UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Bininda‐Emonds, Olaf R. P., Marcel Cardillo, Kate E. Jones, et al.. (2007). The delayed rise of present-day mammals. Nature. 446(7135). 507–512. 1604 indexed citations breakdown →

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Forest, Félix, Richard Grenyer, Mathieu Rouget, et al.. (2007). Preserving the evolutionary potential of floras in biodiversity hotspots. Nature. 445(7129). 757–760. 727 indexed citations breakdown →

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Grenyer, Richard, C. David L. Orme, Sarah F. Jackson, et al.. (2006). Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates. Nature. 444(7115). 93–96. 431 indexed citations

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