Robin Freeman

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
115 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Robin Freeman is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Robin Freeman has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Ecology, 38 papers in Ecological Modeling and 31 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Robin Freeman's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (38 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (36 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (35 papers). Robin Freeman is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (38 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (36 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (35 papers). Robin Freeman collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Robin Freeman's co-authors include Tim Guilford, David Jacoby, Dora Biro, Louise McRae, Holly Kirk, Chris M. Perrins, Ben Dean, Jessica Meade, Stefanie Deinet and Fiona Spooner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Robin Freeman

111 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Aiming higher to bend the curve of biodiversity loss

2018 313 citations Robin Freeman et al. profile →
Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity

2021 164 citations Joseph Millard, Charlotte L. Outhwaite et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robin Freeman United Kingdom	35	2.3k	1.1k	920	868	864	115	4.2k
David A. Westcott Australia	35	1.8k 0.8×	2.3k 2.1×	778 0.8×	806 0.9×	1.8k 2.1×	123	4.8k
Anthony David Fox Denmark	40	5.1k 2.3×	953 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	1.3k 1.5×	1.6k 1.9×	300	6.6k
Emily L. C. Shepard United Kingdom	34	3.4k 1.5×	1.7k 1.6×	819 0.9×	328 0.4×	1.3k 1.4×	76	5.1k
Justin M. Calabrese United States	29	2.9k 1.2×	882 0.8×	752 0.8×	817 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	79	3.9k
Lee White United States	40	2.3k 1.0×	844 0.8×	1.6k 1.8×	327 0.4×	1.4k 1.7×	137	6.5k
Thomas Mueller Germany	40	4.2k 1.8×	1.5k 1.4×	893 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	1.3k 1.5×	92	6.1k
C. Patrick Doncaster United Kingdom	43	3.9k 1.7×	1.3k 1.2×	817 0.9×	701 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	139	5.9k
Juan M. Morales Argentina	44	4.4k 1.9×	2.4k 2.2×	1.2k 1.4×	917 1.1×	2.6k 3.0×	121	6.9k
Julia K. Parrish United States	33	2.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	1.4k 1.6×	956 1.1×	90	6.3k
David Saltz Israel	34	4.0k 1.8×	1.7k 1.5×	919 1.0×	651 0.8×	1.6k 1.9×	118	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Robin Freeman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robin Freeman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robin Freeman

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wood, Hannah, Emma J. Tebbs, Robin Freeman, et al.. (2025). A behavioural approach to key area identification in seabirds for threat mitigation and spatial management. Animal Biotelemetry. 13(1). 34–34.

Dunn, Ruth E., Alice M. Trevail, Malcolm A. C. Nicoll, et al.. (2025). Commuting in crosswinds and foraging in fast winds: the foraging ecology of a flying fish specialist. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2052). 20250774–20250774. 2 indexed citations

Serrano, Filipe C., Valentina Marconi, Stefanie Deinet, et al.. (2025). Knowledge from non‐English‐language studies broadens contributions to conservation policy and helps to tackle bias in biodiversity data. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(9). 2148–2162.

Wynn, Joe, Oliver Padget, Greg Morgan, et al.. (2024). Behavioural responses of a trans-hemispheric migrant to climate oscillation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2033). 20241944–20241944. 1 indexed citations

Johnson, Thomas F., et al.. (2023). Achieving a real‐time online monitoring system for conservation culturomics. Conservation Biology. 37(4). e14096–e14096. 3 indexed citations

Trevail, Alice M., Malcolm A. C. Nicoll, Robin Freeman, et al.. (2023). Tracking seabird migration in the tropical Indian Ocean reveals basin-scale conservation need. Current Biology. 33(23). 5247–5256.e4. 11 indexed citations

Carbone, Chris, et al.. (2023). Habitat suitability as an indicator of urbanisation potential in four UK mammals. Mammal Review. 54(2). 105–120. 4 indexed citations

Nowakowski, A. Justin, James I. Watling, Jessica L. Deichmann, et al.. (2023). Protected areas slow declines unevenly across the tetrapod tree of life. Nature. 622(7981). 101–106. 27 indexed citations

Miranda, Rafael, William Darwall, Nicholas K. Dulvy, et al.. (2022). Monitoring extinction risk and threats of the world’s fishes based on the Sampled Red List Index. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 32(3). 975–991. 24 indexed citations

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Capdevila, Pol, et al.. (2021). Global patterns of resilience decline in vertebrate populations. Ecology Letters. 25(1). 240–251. 27 indexed citations

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Millard, Joseph, Charlotte L. Outhwaite, Robin Freeman, et al.. (2021). Global effects of land-use intensity on local pollinator biodiversity. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2902–2902. 164 indexed citations breakdown →

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Freeman, Robin, et al.. (2021). Using citizen science to understand and map habitat suitability for a synurbic mammal in an urban landscape: the hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus. Mammal Review. 52(2). 291–303. 11 indexed citations

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Henriques, Sérgio, Monika Böhm, Ben Collen, et al.. (2020). Accelerating the monitoring of global biodiversity: Revisiting the sampled approach to generating Red List Indices. Conservation Letters. 13(3). 22 indexed citations

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Jones, Samuel E. I., Joseph A. Tobias, Robin Freeman, & Steven J. Portugal. (2019). Weak asymmetric interspecific aggression and divergent habitat preferences at an elevational contact zone between tropical songbirds. Ibis. 162(3). 814–826. 10 indexed citations

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Deinet, Stefanie, Robin Freeman, Georgia Titcomb, et al.. (2018). Migration in the Anthropocene: how collective navigation, environmental system and taxonomy shape the vulnerability of migratory species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1746). 20170017–20170017. 50 indexed citations

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Fayet, Annette L., Robin Freeman, Akiko Shoji, et al.. (2016). Drivers and fitness consequences of dispersive migration in a pelagic seabird. Behavioral Ecology. 27(4). 1061–1072. 49 indexed citations

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Shoji, Akiko, Stéphane Aris‐Brosou, Ellie Owen, et al.. (2016). Foraging flexibility and search patterns are unlinked during breeding in a free-ranging seabird. Marine Biology. 163(4). 72–72. 14 indexed citations

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McInerny, Greg, Min Chen, Robin Freeman, et al.. (2014). Information visualisation for science and policy: engaging users and avoiding bias. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 29(3). 148–157. 96 indexed citations

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Mann, Richard P., Robin Freeman, Michael A. Osborne, et al.. (2009). Gaussian Processes for Prediction of Homing Pigeon Flight Trajectories. AIP conference proceedings. 360–367. 2 indexed citations

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Guilford, Tim, Jessica Meade, Robin Freeman, et al.. (2008). GPS tracking of the foraging movements of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus breeding on Skomer Island, Wales. Ibis. 150(3). 462–473. 102 indexed citations

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