Samuel T. Turvey

9.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
184 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Samuel T. Turvey is a scholar working on Ecology, Paleontology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel T. Turvey has authored 184 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Ecology, 63 papers in Paleontology and 44 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Samuel T. Turvey's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (82 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (51 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (44 papers). Samuel T. Turvey is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (82 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (51 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (44 papers). Samuel T. Turvey collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Samuel T. Turvey's co-authors include Chris Carbone, Ben Collen, Carly Waterman, Jonathan Baillie, Nick J. B. Isaac, Jennifer J. Crees, J. Marcus Rowcliffe, Ding Wang, James P. Hansford and Yujiang Hao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Samuel T. Turvey

175 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Mammals on the EDGE: Conservation Priorities Based on Threat and Phylogeny

2007 758 citations Samuel T. Turvey, Carly Waterman et al. profile →
Estimating animal density using camera traps without the need for individual recognition

2008 611 citations Samuel T. Turvey et al. profile →
The past and future human impact on mammalian diversity

2020 106 citations Tobias Andermann, Søren Faurby et al. Science Advances profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Samuel T. Turvey United Kingdom	39	3.8k	1.4k	1.4k	1.3k	1.0k	184	6.0k
Chris Carbone United Kingdom	39	5.9k 1.6×	1.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.1×	670 0.5×	969 0.9×	98	7.4k
Søren Faurby Sweden	33	2.0k 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	677 0.5×	782 0.8×	96	4.2k
Elizabeth A. Hadly United States	40	2.7k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	869 0.8×	112	5.2k
Matt W. Hayward Australia	45	6.6k 1.7×	1.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	364 0.3×	903 0.9×	180	8.0k
Lawrence R. Heaney United States	35	2.7k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	902 0.7×	2.0k 1.6×	597 0.6×	135	5.0k
Mark V. Lomolino United States	39	3.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.4×	2.9k 2.2×	1.0k 0.8×	881 0.9×	90	6.6k
S. K. Morgan Ernest United States	35	3.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	2.7k 2.0×	769 0.6×	1.4k 1.3×	76	6.1k
John Alroy Australia	42	2.2k 0.6×	836 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	3.7k 3.0×	786 0.8×	87	6.4k
Graham I. H. Kerley South Africa	48	6.8k 1.8×	1.3k 0.9×	2.5k 1.8×	387 0.3×	1.3k 1.2×	259	8.8k
Susanne A. Fritz Germany	29	2.3k 0.6×	2.0k 1.4×	2.3k 1.7×	1.2k 1.0×	796 0.8×	55	5.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Turvey, Samuel T., et al.. (2025). Rapid habitat fragmentation and niche shifting of an estuarine dolphin driven by coastal urbanization. Global Ecology and Conservation. 58. e03448–e03448.

Lin, Mingli, et al.. (2024). Using local ecological knowledge to inform regional conservation prioritization for threatened marine megafauna. Ocean & Coastal Management. 255. 107268–107268. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Mingli, Samuel T. Turvey, & Songhai Li. (2024). Response to “Overestimated bycatch owing to underestimated sampling bias”. Biological Conservation. 296. 110715–110715.

Papworth, Sarah, et al.. (2024). Can local ecological knowledge establish conservation baselines for the Critically Endangered Blue‐crowned Laughingthrush?. People and Nature. 6(3). 1262–1276. 1 indexed citations

Hopkins, Kevin, Benjamin Tapley, Amaël Borzée, et al.. (2024). What’s in a name? Using species delimitation to inform conservation practice for Chinese giant salamanders (Andrias spp.). Edinburgh Research Explorer. 3(1). 2 indexed citations

Turvey, Samuel T., et al.. (2024). Does endemic mammal conservation in Jamaica conflict with maintaining biocultural heritage?. Conservation Science and Practice. 6(12).

Gumbs, Rikki, Monika Böhm, Félix Forest, et al.. (2024). Global conservation status of the jawed vertebrate Tree of Life. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1101–1101. 9 indexed citations

Rozzi, Roberto, Mark V. Lomolino, Alexandra van der Geer, et al.. (2023). Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands. Science. 379(6636). 1054–1059. 27 indexed citations

Papworth, Sarah, et al.. (2023). Ecological knowledge and value of traded species: Local awareness of native turtles in Hainan, China. Animal Conservation. 26(6). 802–812. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Yifu, Samuel T. Turvey, & Nigel Leader‐Williams. (2023). The scale of the problem: understanding the demand for medicinal pangolin products in China. Nature Conservation. 52. 47–61. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Di, Lingyun Xiao, Yifu Wang, et al.. (2022). Integrating biodiversity conservation and local community perspectives in China through human dimensions research. People and Nature. 4(6). 1461–1474. 19 indexed citations

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Giovas, Christina M., et al.. (2021). Extinct insular oryzomyine rice rats (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from the Grenada Bank, southern Caribbean. Zootaxa. 4951(3). zootaxa.4951.3.2–zootaxa.4951.3.2. 4 indexed citations

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Papworth, Sarah, et al.. (2020). Scaling up local ecological knowledge to prioritise areas for protection: Determining Philippine pangolin distribution, status and threats. Global Ecology and Conservation. 24. e01395–e01395. 15 indexed citations

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Hansford, James P., Patricia C. Wright, Armand H. Rasoamiaramanana, et al.. (2018). Early Holocene human presence in Madagascar evidenced by exploitation of avian megafauna. Science Advances. 4(9). eaat6925–eaat6925. 76 indexed citations

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Andermann, Tobias, et al.. (2018). Estimation of past extinction rates to predict future diversity loss. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 19480. 1 indexed citations

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Turvey, Samuel T., Selina Brace, Richard P. Young, et al.. (2016). Independent evolutionary histories in allopatric populations of a threatened Caribbean land mammal. Diversity and Distributions. 22(5). 589–602. 18 indexed citations

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Bennett, Dominic J., Mark D. Sutton, & Samuel T. Turvey. (2016). Evolutionarily distinct “living fossils” require both lower speciation and lower extinction rates. Paleobiology. 43(1). 34–48. 12 indexed citations

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Turvey, Samuel T. & Tim M. Blackburn. (2011). Determinants of species abundance in the Quaternary vertebrate fossil record. Paleobiology. 37(3). 537–546. 26 indexed citations

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Pour, Mansoureh Ghobadi & Samuel T. Turvey. (2009). Revision of Some Lower to Middle Ordovician Leiostegiid and Associated Trilobites from Iran and China. 463. 10 indexed citations

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Turvey, Samuel T. & Zhiyi Zhou. (2003). Arenig trilobite associations and faunal changes in Southern Shaanxi, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 23(1). 91–103. 14 indexed citations

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