Sheila Vergara

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 369 citations indexed

About

Sheila Vergara is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sheila Vergara has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 369 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 4 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 3 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sheila Vergara's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (3 papers) and Environmental Conservation and Management (2 papers). Sheila Vergara is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (3 papers) and Environmental Conservation and Management (2 papers). Sheila Vergara collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Sheila Vergara's co-authors include Stuart H. M. Butchart, Penny F. Langhammer, Thomas M. Brooks, James Watson, Alberto Yanosky, Daniel Marnewick, Piero Visconti, Blas R. Tabaranza, Melizar V. Duya and Xuemei Han and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Biodiversity and Conservation.

In The Last Decade

Sheila Vergara

7 papers receiving 351 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Protected area targets post-2020

2019 278 citations Piero Visconti, Stuart H. M. Butchart et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sheila Vergara United States	5	214	193	90	89	84	7	369
Daniel Marnewick United Kingdom	6	238 1.1×	178 0.9×	92 1.0×	102 1.1×	86 1.0×	8	391
Juan Bezaury-Creel Mexico	9	231 1.1×	162 0.8×	116 1.3×	76 0.9×	63 0.8×	12	385
R Sims-Castley South Africa	7	226 1.1×	247 1.3×	120 1.3×	74 0.8×	175 2.1×	8	443
Juan Pablo Ramírez‐Delgado Canada	5	211 1.0×	179 0.9×	62 0.7×	36 0.4×	71 0.8×	7	387
Simone Stevenson Australia	8	177 0.8×	126 0.7×	57 0.6×	85 1.0×	71 0.8×	10	313
Camilo Zamora Germany	7	347 1.6×	204 1.1×	72 0.8×	107 1.2×	87 1.0×	9	498
Mark Botha South Africa	7	245 1.1×	134 0.7×	72 0.8×	137 1.5×	137 1.6×	14	404
Andrea Mandrici Italy	7	278 1.3×	317 1.6×	106 1.2×	57 0.6×	118 1.4×	9	487
Luca Battistella Italy	5	245 1.1×	289 1.5×	84 0.9×	49 0.6×	103 1.2×	10	429
Jacob Malcom United States	11	97 0.5×	111 0.6×	83 0.9×	47 0.5×	72 0.9×	28	264

Countries citing papers authored by Sheila Vergara

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sheila Vergara

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sheila Vergara. 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 Sheila Vergara. The network helps show where Sheila Vergara may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sheila Vergara

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

1.

Han, Xuemei, Bruce E. Young, Michael Gill, Healy Hamilton, & Sheila Vergara. (2020). Data on Indicators used in Southeast Asian nations’ 4th and 5th National Reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 31. 105705–105705. 2 indexed citations

2.

Han, Xuemei, Michael Gill, Healy Hamilton, Sheila Vergara, & Bruce E. Young. (2019). Progress on national biodiversity indicator reporting and prospects for filling indicator gaps in Southeast Asia. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators. 5. 100017–100017. 6 indexed citations

3.

Visconti, Piero, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Thomas M. Brooks, et al.. (2019). Protected area targets post-2020. Science. 364(6437). 239–241. 278 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Stuart, Simon N., Thomas M. Brooks, Stuart H. M. Butchart, et al.. (2017). Clarifying the key biodiversity areas partnership and programme. Biodiversity and Conservation. 27(3). 791–793. 1 indexed citations

5.

Duya, Melizar V., et al.. (2012). Key Biodiversity Areas in the Philippines: Priorities for Conservation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(8). 2788–2796. 59 indexed citations

6.

Pomeroy, Robert S., Patrick McConney, María Luz Martín Peña, et al.. (2008). Socioeconomic conditions along the world's tropical coasts, 2008. 11 indexed citations

7.

Pollnac, Richard Β., et al.. (2000). Unexpected relationships between coral reef health and socio-economic pressures in the Philippines: reefbase/RAMP applied. Marine and Freshwater Research. 51(5). 529–533. 12 indexed citations

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