Sarah Jane Wilson

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Sarah Jane Wilson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Jane Wilson has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 3 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Sarah Jane Wilson's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (20 papers), Forest Management and Policy (16 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers). Sarah Jane Wilson is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (20 papers), Forest Management and Policy (16 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers). Sarah Jane Wilson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Sarah Jane Wilson's co-authors include Robin L. Chazdon, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Chetan Kumar, Kathleen Buckingham, J. Leighton Reid, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Kinga Öllerer, Eduardo S. Brondízio and Zsolt Molnár and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science Advances and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Jane Wilson

29 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration

2016 373 citations Robin L. Chazdon, Pedro H. S. Brancalion et al. AMBIO profile →
Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes

2019 325 citations Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Renato Crouzeilles et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Jane Wilson United States	17	1.0k	347	332	183	125	29	1.6k
Harald Schaich Germany	17	881 0.8×	328 0.9×	235 0.7×	175 1.0×	181 1.4×	24	1.3k
Stéphanie Mansourian Switzerland	24	1.4k 1.3×	325 0.9×	329 1.0×	338 1.8×	223 1.8×	55	2.0k
Jeanine M. Rhemtulla Canada	24	1.4k 1.3×	495 1.4×	528 1.6×	229 1.3×	137 1.1×	47	2.1k
Sharif A. Mukul Australia	24	1.0k 1.0×	280 0.8×	427 1.3×	159 0.9×	66 0.5×	89	1.8k
Christy M. Slay United States	4	1.4k 1.4×	417 1.2×	648 2.0×	126 0.7×	118 0.9×	6	2.1k
Philip G. Curtis United States	3	961 0.9×	244 0.7×	487 1.5×	107 0.6×	81 0.6×	3	1.5k
Michelle Venter Australia	9	1.0k 1.0×	348 1.0×	517 1.6×	227 1.2×	70 0.6×	11	1.7k
Martha Bonilla‐Moheno Mexico	15	731 0.7×	383 1.1×	369 1.1×	95 0.5×	56 0.4×	38	1.2k
Alejandro J. Rescia Spain	21	687 0.7×	463 1.3×	352 1.1×	185 1.0×	99 0.8×	53	1.4k
M. F. Schmitz Spain	23	964 0.9×	496 1.4×	419 1.3×	131 0.7×	82 0.7×	62	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Jane Wilson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Jane Wilson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Jane Wilson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Jane Wilson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Jane Wilson 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 Sarah Jane Wilson. Sarah Jane Wilson 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

Wilson, Sarah Jane, et al.. (2025). ‘Sowing and harvesting water’: Revisiting forest restoration in the Peruvian Andes through a multi‐stakeholder analysis. People and Nature. 7(3). 631–652. 5 indexed citations

Williams, Brooke, Hawthorne L. Beyer, Matthew E. Fagan, et al.. (2024). Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions. Nature. 636(8041). 131–137. 36 indexed citations

Palomeque, Ximena, et al.. (2023). Disrupted montane forest recovery hinders biodiversity conservation in the tropical Andes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(5). 793–808. 10 indexed citations

Wilson, Sarah Jane, et al.. (2022). Better Forests, Better Cities. 2 indexed citations

Chazdon, Robin L., Donald A. Falk, Lindsay F. Banin, et al.. (2021). The intervention continuum in restoration ecology: rethinking the active–passive dichotomy. Restoration Ecology. 32(8). 91 indexed citations

Gutierrez, Victoria, James G. Hallett, Liz Ota, et al.. (2021). Forest and landscape restoration monitoring frameworks: how principled are they?. Restoration Ecology. 30(4). 8 indexed citations

Wilson, Sarah Jane, et al.. (2021). Practitioner views on the determinants of tropical forest restoration longevity. Restoration Ecology. 29(3). 16 indexed citations

Wilson, Sarah Jane & Oliver T. Coomes. (2019). ‘Crisis restoration’ in post-frontier tropical environments: Replanting cloud forests in the Ecuadorian Andes. Journal of Rural Studies. 67. 152–165. 13 indexed citations

Robson, James P., et al.. (2019). Engaging youth in conversations about community and forests: Methodological reflections from Asia, Africa, and the Americas. World Development Perspectives. 16. 100141–100141. 6 indexed citations

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Reyes-García, Victòria, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Pamela McElwee, et al.. (2018). The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ecological restoration. Restoration Ecology. 27(1). 3–8. 201 indexed citations

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Wilson, Sarah Jane & Jeanine M. Rhemtulla. (2018). Small montane cloud forest fragments are important for conserving tree diversity in the Ecuadorian Andes. Biotropica. 50(4). 586–597. 14 indexed citations

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Reid, J. Leighton, Sarah Jane Wilson, Megan E. Cattau, et al.. (2017). How Long Do Restored Ecosystems Persist?. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 102(2). 258–265. 44 indexed citations

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Watkins, Cristy, et al.. (2017). Developing an interdisciplinary and cross‐sectoral community of practice in the domain of forests and livelihoods. Conservation Biology. 32(1). 60–71. 22 indexed citations

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Wilson, Sarah Jane, John Schelhas, Ricardo Grau, A. Sofía Nanni, & Sean Sloan. (2017). Forest ecosystem-service transitions: the ecological dimensions of the forest transition. Ecology and Society. 22(4). 62 indexed citations

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Chazdon, Robin L., Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Kathleen Buckingham, et al.. (2016). When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration. AMBIO. 45(5). 538–550. 373 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wilson, Sarah Jane & Angi M. Christensen. (2016). A test of the citrate method of PMI estimation from skeletal remains. Forensic Science International. 270. 70–75. 12 indexed citations

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Wilson, Sarah Jane, et al.. (2016). Governing restoration: Strategies, adaptations and innovations for tomorrow’s forest landscapes. World Development Perspectives. 4. 11–15. 31 indexed citations

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Wilson, Sarah Jane, et al.. (2015). The Conservation Social Sciences: What?, How? and Why?. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 9 indexed citations

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Wilson, Sarah Jane & Anthony Ricciardi. (2009). Epiphytic macroinvertebrate communities on Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) and native milfoils Myriophyllum sibericum and Myriophyllum alterniflorum in eastern North America. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 66(1). 18–30. 22 indexed citations

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Beiraghi, Soraya, et al.. (1989). Effect of calcium lactate in erosion and S. mutans in rats when added to Coca-Cola.. PubMed. 11(4). 312–5. 30 indexed citations

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