Sonia Kéfi

11.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
99 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Sonia Kéfi is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonia Kéfi has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 57 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 36 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Sonia Kéfi's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (59 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (53 papers) and Plant and animal studies (33 papers). Sonia Kéfi is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (59 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (53 papers) and Plant and animal studies (33 papers). Sonia Kéfi collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Spain. Sonia Kéfi's co-authors include Max Rietkerk, Vasilis Dakos, Marten Scheffer, Concepción L. Alados, Egbert H. van Nes, Yolanda Pueyo, Peter C. de Ruiter, Miguel Berdugo, Fernando T. Maestre and Santiago Soliveres and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sonia Kéfi

94 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Spatial vegetation patterns and imminent desertification in Mediterranean arid ecosystems

2007 799 citations Sonia Kéfi et al. profile →
Methods for Detecting Early Warnings of Critical Transitions in Time Series Illustrated Using Simulated Ecological Data

2012 636 citations Vasilis Dakos, Vishwesha Guttal et al. profile →
The physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems

2021 520 citations Federico Battiston, Enrico Amico et al. Nature Physics profile →
Structure and Functioning of Dryland Ecosystems in a Changing World

2016 386 citations Fernando T. Maestre, David J. Eldridge et al. profile →
Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research

2020 301 citations Andrew Gonzalez, Rachel M. Germain et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Biogeography of global drylands

2021 224 citations Fernando T. Maestre, Blas M. Benito et al. New Phytologist profile →
Ecological resilience: what to measure and how

2022 128 citations Vasilis Dakos, Sonia Kéfi profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonia Kéfi France	39	3.8k	2.6k	2.1k	1.6k	840	99	7.3k
Wolf M. Mooij Netherlands	50	2.0k 0.5×	2.2k 0.8×	3.7k 1.8×	845 0.5×	364 0.4×	143	8.9k
Andreas Huth Germany	42	3.2k 0.9×	3.2k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	840 0.5×	905 1.1×	128	6.0k
Bruce T. Milne United States	29	3.0k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	2.9k 1.4×	845 0.5×	513 0.6×	43	6.1k
Bai-Lian Li United States	47	2.0k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	667 0.4×	572 0.7×	203	6.5k
Milena Holmgren Netherlands	44	4.3k 1.1×	4.0k 1.6×	2.6k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	382 0.5×	108	7.9k
P. R. Moorcroft United States	51	4.9k 1.3×	2.7k 1.1×	3.7k 1.8×	870 0.5×	800 1.0×	104	8.4k
Moshe Shachak Israel	40	3.5k 0.9×	3.5k 1.3×	4.5k 2.1×	2.7k 1.7×	362 0.4×	107	10.1k
Kerstin Wiegand Germany	37	2.5k 0.6×	3.0k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	555 0.7×	99	5.7k
Andrew J. Hansen United States	48	4.4k 1.2×	2.7k 1.1×	3.8k 1.8×	789 0.5×	418 0.5×	140	8.2k
Vasilis Dakos France	40	8.7k 2.3×	1.9k 0.7×	2.9k 1.4×	848 0.5×	2.3k 2.8×	100	13.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonia Kéfi

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Galtier, Nicolas, Khalid Belkhir, Christophe Boëte, et al.. (2025). Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 39(2). 190–199.

Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel, Ricard V. Solé, Sonia Kéfi, et al.. (2025). Causes and consequences of disordered hyperuniformity in global drylands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(41). e2504496122–e2504496122. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Yanchuang, Sonia Kéfi, Emilio Guirado, et al.. (2025). The Relationship Between Grazing Pressure and Environmental Factors Drives Vegetation Fragmentation Across Global Drylands. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(8).

Brose, Ulrich, Myriam R. Hirt, Remo Ryser, et al.. (2025). Embedding information flows within ecological networks. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(4). 547–558. 6 indexed citations

Arnoldi, Jean‐François, et al.. (2024). A taxonomy of multiple stable states in complex ecological communities. Ecology Letters. 27(4). e14413–e14413. 6 indexed citations

Domínguez‐García, Virginia & Sonia Kéfi. (2024). The structure and robustness of ecological networks with two interaction types. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(1). e1011770–e1011770. 17 indexed citations

Arnoldi, Jean‐François, et al.. (2024). Unpacking sublinear growth: diversity, stability and coexistence. Oikos. 2025(1). 2 indexed citations

Gounand, Isabelle, et al.. (2024). The interplay of facilitation and competition drives the emergence of multistability in dryland plant communities. Ecology. 105(8). e4369–e4369. 4 indexed citations

Kéfi, Sonia, Ángeles G. Mayor, Emilio Guirado, et al.. (2024). Self-organization as a mechanism of resilience in dryland ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(6). e2305153121–e2305153121. 34 indexed citations

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Kéfi, Sonia, Christopher J. Lortie, & Lohengrin A. Cavieres. (2024). The importance of facilitative interactions in mediating climate change impact on biodiversity. Oikos. 2024(8). 1 indexed citations

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Kéfi, Sonia, et al.. (2022). Spatial autocorrelation of local patch extinctions drives recovery dynamics in metacommunities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1972). 20220543–20220543. 7 indexed citations

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Kéfi, Sonia, et al.. (2022). Scaling up our understanding of tipping points. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1857). 20210386–20210386. 28 indexed citations

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Battiston, Federico, Enrico Amico, Alain Barrat, et al.. (2021). The physics of higher-order interactions in complex systems. Nature Physics. 17(10). 1093–1098. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

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Maestre, Fernando T., Blas M. Benito, Miguel Berdugo, et al.. (2021). Biogeography of global drylands. New Phytologist. 231(2). 540–558. 224 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thompson, Patrick L., Sonia Kéfi, Yuval R. Zelnik, et al.. (2021). Scaling up biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships: the role of environmental heterogeneity in space and time. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1946). 20202779–20202779. 30 indexed citations

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Lurgi, Miguel, Núria Galiana, Bernardo R. Broitman, et al.. (2020). Geographical variation of multiplex ecological networks in marine intertidal communities. Ecology. 101(11). e03165–e03165. 13 indexed citations

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Gonzalez, Andrew, Rachel M. Germain, Diane S. Srivastava, et al.. (2020). Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research. Ecology Letters. 23(4). 757–776. 301 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kéfi, Sonia, Virginia Domínguez‐García, Ian Donohue, et al.. (2019). Advancing our understanding of ecological stability. Ecology Letters. 22(9). 1349–1356. 158 indexed citations

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Majumder, Sabiha, et al.. (2018). Monitoring ecosystem degradation using spatial data and the R package spatialwarnings. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(10). 2067–2075. 28 indexed citations

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Petchey, Owen L., Mikael Pontarp, Thomas M. Massie, et al.. (2015). The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants. Ecology Letters. 18(7). 597–611. 207 indexed citations

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