Sam Nicol

1.4k total citations
60 papers, 941 citations indexed

About

Sam Nicol is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam Nicol has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 941 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Ecology, 24 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Sam Nicol's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (12 papers). Sam Nicol is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (12 papers). Sam Nicol collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Sam Nicol's co-authors include Iadine Chadès, Hugh P. Possingham, Tara G. Martin, Mark A. Burgman, Yvonne M. Buckley, Adam Kerezsy, Jenny Davis, Richard A. Fuller, Josie Carwardine and Jennifer Firn and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sam Nicol

57 papers receiving 916 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sam Nicol Australia 17 412 349 294 217 125 60 941
Libby Rumpff Australia 16 504 1.2× 425 1.2× 436 1.5× 390 1.8× 88 0.7× 47 1.2k
Tom Harwood Australia 15 411 1.0× 257 0.7× 466 1.6× 281 1.3× 149 1.2× 31 1.2k
Luciana L. Porfirio Australia 12 410 1.0× 325 0.9× 400 1.4× 461 2.1× 81 0.6× 19 1.1k
Federico Montesino Pouzols Finland 16 618 1.5× 333 1.0× 507 1.7× 295 1.4× 184 1.5× 36 1.3k
Jeffrey Hepinstall‐Cymerman United States 18 653 1.6× 224 0.6× 513 1.7× 143 0.7× 88 0.7× 56 1.1k
Steven E. Sesnie United States 16 575 1.4× 235 0.7× 476 1.6× 237 1.1× 64 0.5× 59 1.1k
Kara N. Youngentob Australia 20 582 1.4× 347 1.0× 427 1.5× 325 1.5× 62 0.5× 44 1.2k
C. Ashton Drew United States 11 345 0.8× 263 0.8× 233 0.8× 229 1.1× 45 0.4× 18 696
Carlos Alberto de Mattos Scaramuzza Brazil 4 243 0.6× 235 0.7× 333 1.1× 87 0.4× 58 0.5× 4 815
Mika Siljander Finland 19 432 1.0× 183 0.5× 398 1.4× 131 0.6× 37 0.3× 36 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Sam Nicol

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sam Nicol

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam Nicol

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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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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Probert, William J. M., Sam Nicol, Matthew J. Ferrari, et al.. (2022). Vote-processing rules for combining control recommendations from multiple models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 380(2233). 20210314–20210314. 5 indexed citations
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Nicol, Sam, et al.. (2022). A general optimal adaptive framework for managing a threatened species. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 3 indexed citations
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Chadès, Iadine, et al.. (2021). A primer on partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs). Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(11). 2058–2072. 21 indexed citations
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Nicol, Sam, J. Angus Webb, Rebecca E. Lester, et al.. (2021). Evaluating the Ecological Benefits of Management Actions to Complement Environmental Flows in River Systems. Environmental Management. 67(2). 277–290. 5 indexed citations
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Nicol, Sam, et al.. (2019). Quantifying the impact of uncertainty on threat management for biodiversity. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3570–3570. 31 indexed citations
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Ponce‐Reyes, Rocío, Jennifer Firn, Sam Nicol, et al.. (2019). Building a stakeholder-led common vision increases the expected cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation. PLoS ONE. 14(6). e0218093–e0218093. 9 indexed citations
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Osunkoya, Olusegun O., et al.. (2019). Management feasibility of established invasive plant species in Queensland, Australia: A stakeholders’ perspective. Journal of Environmental Management. 246. 484–495. 11 indexed citations
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Nicol, Sam, Keith Ward, Danial Stratford, Klaus Joehnk, & Iadine Chadès. (2018). Making the best use of experts' estimates to prioritise monitoring and management actions: A freshwater case study. Journal of Environmental Management. 215. 294–304. 16 indexed citations
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Stoffels, Rick J., Nick Bond, & Sam Nicol. (2018). Science to support the management of riverine flows. Freshwater Biology. 63(8). 996–1010. 31 indexed citations
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Carwardine, Josie, Tara G. Martin, Jennifer Firn, et al.. (2018). Priority Threat Management for biodiversity conservation: A handbook. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(2). 481–490. 67 indexed citations
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Tulloch, Ayesha, Sam Nicol, & Nils Bunnefeld. (2017). Quantifying the expected value of uncertain management choices for over-abundant Greylag Geese. Biological Conservation. 214. 147–155. 9 indexed citations
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Nicol, Sam & Iadine Chadès. (2017). A preliminary approach to quantifying the overall environmental risks posed by development projects during environmental impact assessment. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0180982–e0180982. 6 indexed citations
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Cresswell, Ian, Lee J. Baumgartner, Nick Bond, et al.. (2017). Scoping the development of a method to assess the relative environmental benefits of Complementary Measures. Charles Sturt University Research Output (CRO). 3 indexed citations
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Southwell, Darren, Jonathan R. Rhodes, Eve McDonald‐Madden, et al.. (2016). Abiotic and biotic interactions determine whether increased colonization is beneficial or detrimental to metapopulation management. Theoretical Population Biology. 109. 44–53. 5 indexed citations
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Firn, Jennifer, Ramona Maggini, Iadine Chadès, et al.. (2015). Priority threat management of invasive animals to protect biodiversity under climate change. Global Change Biology. 21(11). 3917–3930.
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Nicol, Sam & Iadine Chadès. (2012). Which States Matter? An Application of an Intelligent Discretization Method to Solve a Continuous POMDP in Conservation Biology. PLoS ONE. 7(2). e28993–e28993. 21 indexed citations
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Lucieer, VL, et al.. (2010). A Review of Surrogates for Marine Benthic Biodiversity. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 6 indexed citations
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Nicol, Sam & Hugh P. Possingham. (2010). Should metapopulation restoration strategies increase patch area or number of patches?. Ecological Applications. 20(2). 566–581. 29 indexed citations

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