Shonil Bhagwat

7.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
88 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Shonil Bhagwat is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Shonil Bhagwat has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 22 papers in Ecology and 21 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Shonil Bhagwat's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (27 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (11 papers). Shonil Bhagwat is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (27 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (11 papers). Shonil Bhagwat collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Norway and United States. Shonil Bhagwat's co-authors include Katherine J. Willis, H. J. B. Birks, Claudia Rutte, Sushrut Jadhav, Maan Barua, Robert J. Whittaker, Lydia E. S. Cole, Nick Brown, C.G. Kushalappa and Ambroise Baker and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Shonil Bhagwat

86 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Multifunctional shade-tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes - a review

2011 554 citations Shonil Bhagwat et al. Journal of Applied Ecology profile →
Agroforestry: a refuge for tropical biodiversity?

2008 537 citations Shonil Bhagwat, Katherine J. Willis et al. profile →
The hidden dimensions of human–wildlife conflict: Health impacts, opportunity and transaction costs

2012 443 citations Shonil Bhagwat et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shonil Bhagwat United Kingdom	31	1.8k	1.5k	1.1k	851	849	88	5.1k
Kristoffer Hylander Sweden	37	1.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.4×	1.0k 1.2×	1.7k 2.0×	140	4.7k
Pieter A. Zuidema Netherlands	44	3.7k 2.1×	1.3k 0.9×	3.4k 3.1×	911 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	143	6.5k
Célia A. Harvey United States	41	3.0k 1.7×	2.2k 1.5×	1.6k 1.5×	1.0k 1.2×	1.9k 2.2×	132	8.6k
Bruno Hérault France	42	2.6k 1.5×	1.2k 0.8×	3.1k 2.9×	865 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	150	5.5k
Fernando Casanoves Costa Rica	28	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	2.4k 2.2×	1.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.5×	117	4.6k
Catherine Potvin Canada	37	2.7k 1.5×	1.2k 0.8×	2.6k 2.4×	1.3k 1.5×	816 1.0×	131	5.6k
Bryan Finegan Costa Rica	32	2.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	2.7k 2.5×	484 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	124	4.8k
Fabrice DeClerck United States	36	2.2k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	88	5.7k
Yann Clough Germany	43	2.4k 1.4×	2.5k 1.6×	2.6k 2.4×	2.3k 2.8×	3.6k 4.2×	100	8.8k
Marielos Peña‐Claros Netherlands	39	3.4k 1.9×	1.0k 0.7×	3.3k 3.0×	577 0.7×	895 1.1×	102	5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Shonil Bhagwat

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shonil Bhagwat

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shonil Bhagwat

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

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MacMillan, Tom, Yoseph Araya, Mary Ngendo, et al.. (2024). Crop species diversity: A key strategy for sustainable food system transformation and climate resilience. Food and Energy Security. 13(3). 8 indexed citations

Maseyk, Kadmiel, Shonil Bhagwat, Abel Chemura, et al.. (2023). Factors affecting soil quality among smallholder macadamia farms in Malawi. Agriculture & Food Security. 12(1). 13 indexed citations

Mohan, Giles, et al.. (2023). Beyond legislation: Unpacking land access capability in small-scale mining and its intersections with the agriculture sector in sub-Saharan Africa. The Extractive Industries and Society. 16. 101357–101357. 9 indexed citations

Bhagwat, Shonil, et al.. (2022). Geographical patterns in food availability from pollinator-dependent crops: Towards a Pollinator Threat Index of food security. Global Food Security. 32. 100614–100614. 5 indexed citations

Maseyk, Kadmiel, et al.. (2021). Climate suitability predictions for the cultivation of macadamia (Macadamia integrifolia) in Malawi using climate change scenarios. PLoS ONE. 16(9). e0257007–e0257007. 12 indexed citations

Bhagwat, Shonil, et al.. (2021). Coexistence and Culture: Understanding Human Diversity and Tolerance in Human-Elephant Interactions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 18 indexed citations

Bhagwat, Shonil, et al.. (2019). Practitioner insights as a means of setting a context for conservation. Conservation Biology. 34(1). 113–124. 5 indexed citations

Baker, Ambroise, et al.. (2016). Quantification of population sizes of large herbivores and their long‐term functional role in ecosystems using dung fungal spores. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 7(11). 1273–1281. 74 indexed citations

Singh, Minerva, Yadvinder Malhi, & Shonil Bhagwat. (2015). Aboveground biomass and tree diversity of riparian zones in an oil palm-dominated mixed landscape in Borneo.. JOURNAL OF TROPICAL FOREST SCIENCE. 27(2). 227–239. 14 indexed citations

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Frascaroli, Fabrizio, Shonil Bhagwat, Riccardo Guarino, Alessandro Chiarucci, & Bernhard Schmid. (2015). Shrines in Central Italy conserve plant diversity and large trees. AMBIO. 45(4). 468–479. 44 indexed citations

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Thorn, Jessica, Jake L. Snaddon, Anthony Waldron, et al.. (2015). How effective are on-farm conservation land management strategies for preserving ecosystem services in developing countries? A systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence. 4(1). 9 indexed citations

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Bhagwat, Shonil, Nigel Dudley, & Stuart R. Harrop. (2011). Religious following in biodiversity hotspots: challenges and opportunities for conservation and development. Conservation Letters. 4(3). 234–240. 43 indexed citations

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Bhagwat, Shonil, Alison A. Ormsby, & Claudia Rutte. (2011). The role of religion in linking conservation and development. Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture. 5(1). 39–60. 28 indexed citations

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Willis, Katherine J. & Shonil Bhagwat. (2010). Questions of importance to the conservation of biological diversity: answers from the past. Climate of the past. 6(6). 759–769. 46 indexed citations

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Dudley, Nigel, et al.. (2010). Conservation of Biodiversity in Sacred Natural Sites in Asia and Africa: A Review of the Scientific Literature. Routledge eBooks. 45–58. 46 indexed citations

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García, Claude, et al.. (2009). Biodiversity Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities of Coffee Agroforests in the Western Ghats, India. Conservation Biology. 24(2). 479–488. 98 indexed citations

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Bhagwat, Shonil & Katherine J. Willis. (2008). Species persistence in northerly glacial refugia of Europe: a matter of chance or biogeographical traits?. Journal of Biogeography. 35(3). 464–482. 272 indexed citations

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Brown, Nick, Shonil Bhagwat, & Sarah C. Watkinson. (2005). Macrofungal diversity in fragmented and disturbed forests of the Western Ghats of India. Journal of Applied Ecology. 43(1). 11–17. 69 indexed citations

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White, Richard J., Andrew Jones, Tim Sutton, et al.. (2004). Building a biodiversity problem-solving environment. CentAUR (University of Reading). 38(6). 523–8.

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Vasudeva, R., et al.. (2003). Do informally managed sacred groves have higher richness and regeneration of medicinal plants than state-managed reserve forests?. Current Science. 84(6). 804–808. 52 indexed citations

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