Sara McDonald

14 total papers · 668 total citations
5 papers, 445 citations indexed

About

Sara McDonald is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara McDonald has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 445 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Ecology, 1 paper in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 1 paper in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sara McDonald's work include Marine animal studies overview (2 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (1 paper) and Turtle Biology and Conservation (1 paper). Sara McDonald is often cited by papers focused on Marine animal studies overview (2 papers), Global Health Workforce Issues (1 paper) and Turtle Biology and Conservation (1 paper). Sara McDonald collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. Sara McDonald's co-authors include Patrick N. Halpin, Carl Safina, Ramūnas Žydelis, Connie Y. Kot, Jeffrey E. Moore, Bryan P. Wallace, Tara M. Cox, Michelle Sims, André M. Boustany and Larry B. Crowder and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Marine Policy and British Journal of General Practice.

In The Last Decade

Sara McDonald

5 papers receiving 425 citations

Hit Papers

Global patterns of marine... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Global patterns of marine mammal, seabird, and sea turtle bycatch reveal taxa-specific and cumulative megafauna hotspots
    2014 349 citations Rebecca L. Lewison, Larry B. Crowder et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Sara McDonald 288 192 188 33 33 5 445
Débora Peterson 198 0.7× 158 0.8× 50 0.3× 32 1.0× 55 1.7× 7 411
Monika T. Hoffmann 306 1.1× 188 1.0× 59 0.3× 31 0.9× 47 1.4× 5 445
Lucas Stephens 153 0.5× 204 1.1× 94 0.5× 39 1.2× 49 1.5× 5 469
Anne Lemahieu 118 0.4× 90 0.5× 81 0.4× 51 1.5× 69 2.1× 10 383
Ute Langner 284 1.0× 220 1.1× 114 0.6× 29 0.9× 31 0.9× 7 462
Martina M. I. Di Fonzo 202 0.7× 137 0.7× 150 0.8× 19 0.6× 50 1.5× 9 408
Patty Glick 201 0.7× 190 1.0× 120 0.6× 29 0.9× 30 0.9× 6 403
Fabio Berzaghi 218 0.8× 230 1.2× 196 1.0× 9 0.3× 47 1.4× 15 442
Kevin M. Johnston 250 0.9× 126 0.7× 198 1.1× 7 0.2× 17 0.5× 9 470
Alison Ochs 221 0.8× 109 0.6× 134 0.7× 14 0.4× 32 1.0× 8 419

Countries citing papers authored by Sara McDonald

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara McDonald

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sara McDonald. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sara McDonald. The network helps show where Sara McDonald may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara McDonald

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

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