Stephen R. Baillie

9.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
105 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Stephen R. Baillie is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecological Modeling and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen R. Baillie has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Ecology, 37 papers in Ecological Modeling and 33 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Stephen R. Baillie's work include Avian ecology and behavior (74 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (53 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (37 papers). Stephen R. Baillie is often cited by papers focused on Avian ecology and behavior (74 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (53 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (37 papers). Stephen R. Baillie collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and France. Stephen R. Baillie's co-authors include Richard D. Gregory, Jeremy D. Wilson, William J. Sutherland, Emmanuel Paradis, S. T. Buckland, Will J. Peach, G. Siriwardena, Robert A. Robinson, Rachel M. Fewster and Humphrey Q. P. Crick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Stephen R. Baillie

103 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Patterns of natal and breeding dispersal in birds

1998 709 citations Emmanuel Paradis, Stephen R. Baillie et al. Journal of Animal Ecology profile →
Long-term datasets in biodiversity research and monitoring: assessing change in ecological communities through time

2010 680 citations Anne E. Magurran, Stephen R. Baillie et al. profile →
Population Declines and Range Contractions among Lowland Farmland Birds in Britain

1995 570 citations Robert J. Fuller, Richard D. Gregory et al. Conservation Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen R. Baillie United Kingdom	42	5.6k	2.7k	2.2k	1.4k	997	105	6.8k
Humphrey Q. P. Crick United Kingdom	31	3.6k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	82	5.0k
Thomas W. Sherry United States	43	5.9k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	2.2k 1.6×	963 1.0×	98	6.8k
Dan Chamberlain Italy	42	4.8k 0.9×	2.9k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	2.1k 1.5×	1.8k 1.8×	137	7.4k
David W. Gibbons United Kingdom	31	3.7k 0.7×	2.8k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	56	6.8k
Les G Underhill South Africa	41	4.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	2.0k 2.0×	299	6.2k
Nicholas J. Aebischer United Kingdom	39	6.0k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	887 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	127	7.4k
Ian J. Burfield United Kingdom	24	3.7k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	899 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	41	4.9k
Jean‐Dominique Lebreton France	40	8.0k 1.4×	3.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.5×	2.0k 1.4×	1.8k 1.8×	88	9.5k
Philip C. Stouffer United States	38	4.4k 0.8×	3.8k 1.4×	1.6k 0.7×	2.2k 1.6×	1.7k 1.7×	124	6.7k
Doug P. Armstrong New Zealand	38	4.6k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 1.2×	968 1.0×	146	6.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen R. Baillie

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Pearce‐Higgins, James W., Chris M. Hewson, Christine Howard, et al.. (2025). Expanding protected area coverage for migratory birds could improve long-term population trends. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1813–1813. 1 indexed citations

Atkinson, Philip W. & Stephen R. Baillie. (2025). Responding to high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) and the conservation crisis in wild birds – where next?. Bird Study. 72(1). 1–4.

Massimino, Dario, Stephen R. Baillie, Dawn E. Balmer, et al.. (2024). The Breeding Bird Survey of the United Kingdom. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(1). 2 indexed citations

Atkinson, Philip W. & Stephen R. Baillie. (2024). Jumping species and seasons – the spread and impact of highly pathogenic avian influenza on seabirds and waterbirds. Bird Study. 71(4). 289–292. 4 indexed citations

Boersch‐Supan, Philipp H., James W. Pearce‐Higgins, Chris M. Hewson, et al.. (2024). Spatial variation in spring arrival patterns of Afro‐Palaearctic bird migration across Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(7). 1 indexed citations

Howard, Christine, Tom H. E. Mason, Stephen R. Baillie, et al.. (2023). Explaining and predicting animal migration under global change. Diversity and Distributions. 30(2). 5 indexed citations

Johnston, Alison, et al.. (2020). Estimating species distributions from spatially biased citizen science data. Ecological Modelling. 422. 108927–108927. 115 indexed citations

Boersch‐Supan, Philipp H., et al.. (2019). Robustness of simple avian population trend models for semi-structured citizen science data is species-dependent. Biological Conservation. 240. 108286–108286. 33 indexed citations

Baillie, Alice L., Stephen R. Baillie, & Helen Smith. (2019). The heritability of lateral banding in Dolomedes plantarius. Arachnology. 18(3). 237–237. 1 indexed citations

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Buckland, S. T., Stephen R. Baillie, Jan Dick, et al.. (2012). How should regional biodiversity be monitored?. Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 19(4). 601–626. 24 indexed citations

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Baillie, Stephen R. & Michael Schaub. (2009). Understanding changes in bird populations – the role of bird marking. Ringing & Migration. 24(3). 189–198. 19 indexed citations

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Baillie, Stephen R., Robert A. Robinson, Jacquie A. Clark, & Christopher P.F. Redfern. (2009). From individuals to flyways: The future of marking birds for conservation. Ringing & Migration. 24(3). 155–161. 15 indexed citations

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Wernham, Chris, et al.. (2004). Quantifying variation in migratory strategies using ring-recoveries. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. 27(1). 299–317. 8 indexed citations

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Paradis, Emmanuel, et al.. (2000). Large‐scale spatial variation in the breeding performance of song thrushesTurdus philomelosand blackbirdsT. merulain Britain. Journal of Applied Ecology. 37(s1). 73–87. 49 indexed citations

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Siriwardena, G., Humphrey Q. P. Crick, Stephen R. Baillie, & Jeremy D. Wilson. (2000). Agricultural land-use and the spatial distribution of granivorous lowland farmland birds. Ecography. 23(6). 702–719. 6 indexed citations

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Thomson, David, Stephen R. Baillie, & Will J. Peach. (1997). The Demography and Age-Specific Annual Survival of Song Thrushes During Periods of Population Stability and Decline. Journal of Animal Ecology. 66(3). 414–414. 73 indexed citations

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Holyoak, Marcel & Stephen R. Baillie. (1996). Factors influencing detection of density dependence in British birds. Oecologia. 108(1). 54–63. 19 indexed citations

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Fuller, Robert J., Richard D. Gregory, David W. Gibbons, et al.. (1995). Population Declines and Range Contractions among Lowland Farmland Birds in Britain. Conservation Biology. 9(6). 1425–1441. 570 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baillie, Stephen R. & Rhys E. Green. (1987). The importance of variation in recovery rates when estimating survival rates from ringing recoveries. Acta Ornithologica. 23(1). 41–60. 41 indexed citations

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Buckland, S. T. & Stephen R. Baillie. (1987). Estimating bird survival rates from organized mist-netting programmes. Acta Ornithologica. 23(1). 89–100. 25 indexed citations

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