Takuya Iwamura‏

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Takuya Iwamura‏ is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Takuya Iwamura‏ has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Takuya Iwamura‏'s work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (13 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (8 papers). Takuya Iwamura‏ is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (13 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (8 papers). Takuya Iwamura‏ collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Israel. Takuya Iwamura‏'s co-authors include Hugh P. Possingham, Richard A. Fuller, James Watson, Robin Naidoo, Kris A. Murray, Oscar Venter, Nathalie Butt, Kerrie A. Wilson, Adriana Guzmán-Holst and Josie Carwardine and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Takuya Iwamura‏

36 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity

2014 431 citations Oscar Venter, Richard A. Fuller et al. PLoS Biology profile →
Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates

2023 107 citations Gopal Murali, Takuya Iwamura‏ et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Takuya Iwamura‏ United States	19	963	861	544	508	355	39	2.1k
Andrew J. Hoskins Australia	24	917 1.0×	1.4k 1.6×	424 0.8×	550 1.1×	181 0.5×	63	2.4k
Leonie Seabrook Australia	25	688 0.7×	876 1.0×	340 0.6×	353 0.7×	133 0.4×	41	1.9k
Stephen Woodley Australia	24	1.7k 1.7×	1.4k 1.6×	483 0.9×	663 1.3×	393 1.1×	48	3.0k
Leandro Reverberi Tambosi Brazil	24	1.1k 1.1×	722 0.8×	220 0.4×	688 1.4×	207 0.6×	52	2.1k
David Williams United Kingdom	23	896 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	466 0.9×	487 1.0×	269 0.8×	55	2.6k
Binbin V. Li China	19	547 0.6×	760 0.9×	482 0.9×	338 0.7×	136 0.4×	37	1.8k
Harvey Locke United States	16	935 1.0×	840 1.0×	223 0.4×	332 0.7×	174 0.5×	27	2.0k
Mariana M. Vale Brazil	25	665 0.7×	929 1.1×	602 1.1×	490 1.0×	133 0.4×	76	2.4k
Peter Coppolillo United States	11	900 0.9×	895 1.0×	221 0.4×	351 0.7×	233 0.7×	13	2.0k
John C. Withey United States	17	963 1.0×	630 0.7×	278 0.5×	287 0.6×	263 0.7×	24	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Takuya Iwamura‏

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Fields of papers citing papers by Takuya Iwamura‏

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Takuya Iwamura‏

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

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Fornace, Kimberly, et al.. (2025). Human animal contact, land use change and zoonotic disease risk: a protocol for systematic review. Systematic Reviews. 14(1). 65–65.

Fornace, Kimberly, et al.. (2024). Human–animal contact to inform zoonotic disease risk across gradients of agricultural land use change in the Central River Region (CRR) of The Gambia (ZooContact): a formative study. Frontiers in Public Health. 12. 1424007–1424007.

Martín, Gerardo, Joseph J. Erinjery, Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera, et al.. (2024). Effects of global change on snakebite envenoming incidence up to 2050: a modelling assessment. The Lancet Planetary Health. 8(8). e533–e544. 1 indexed citations

Murali, Gopal, Takuya Iwamura‏, Shai Meiri, & Uri Roll. (2023). Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates. Nature. 615(7952). 461–467. 107 indexed citations breakdown →

Kiat, Yosef, et al.. (2023). Stopover-site feather isotopes uncover African non-breeding grounds of migratory passerines. Journal für Ornithologie. 164(4). 859–873. 3 indexed citations

Rosensaft, Marcelo, et al.. (2023). Land‐use changes interact with geology to facilitate dispersal of the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) and leishmaniasis across Israel and the West Bank. Ecology and Evolution. 13(3). e9915–e9915. 4 indexed citations

Iwamura‏, Takuya, et al.. (2023). Deforestation for oil palm increases microclimate suitability for the development of the disease vector Aedes albopictus. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 9514–9514. 4 indexed citations

Erinjery, Joseph J., Gerardo Martín, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, et al.. (2023). Climate change maladaptation for health: Agricultural practice against shifting seasonal rainfall affects snakebite risk for farmers in the tropics. iScience. 26(2). 105946–105946. 7 indexed citations

Martín, Gerardo, Joseph J. Erinjery, Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera, et al.. (2022). A mechanistic model of snakebite as a zoonosis: Envenoming incidence is driven by snake ecology, socioeconomics and its impacts on snakes. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(5). e0009867–e0009867. 12 indexed citations

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Lewin, Amir, Joseph J. Erinjery, Doron Nissim, & Takuya Iwamura‏. (2022). Social‐ecological cascade effects of land use on vertebrate pest dynamics in arid agricultural communities. Ecological Applications. 33(3). e2804–e2804. 3 indexed citations

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Martín, Gerardo, Joseph J. Erinjery, Rikki Gumbs, et al.. (2021). Integrating snake distribution, abundance and expert‐derived behavioural traits predicts snakebite risk. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59(2). 611–623. 8 indexed citations

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Erinjery, Joseph J., Gerardo Martín, Anuradhani Kasturiratne, et al.. (2021). Integrating human behavior and snake ecology with agent-based models to predict snakebite in high risk landscapes. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(1). e0009047–e0009047. 29 indexed citations

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Ediriweera, Dileepa Senajith, A. Pathmeswaran, Shaluka Jayamanne, et al.. (2021). Evaluating spatiotemporal dynamics of snakebite in Sri Lanka: Monthly incidence mapping from a national representative survey sample. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(6). e0009447–e0009447. 11 indexed citations

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Martín, Gerardo, et al.. (2021). Implications of global environmental change for the burden of snakebite. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9-10. 100069–100069. 20 indexed citations

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Perlman, Gidon, et al.. (2021). Limited flexibility in departure timing of migratory passerines at the East-Mediterranean flyway. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 5184–5184. 2 indexed citations

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Iwamura‏, Takuya, Adriana Guzmán-Holst, & Kris A. Murray. (2020). Accelerating invasion potential of disease vector Aedes aegypti under climate change. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2130–2130. 187 indexed citations

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Ediriweera, Dileepa Senajith, A. Pathmeswaran, Shaluka Jayamanne, et al.. (2019). Adjusting for spatial variation when assessing individual-level risk: A case-study in the epidemiology of snake-bite in Sri Lanka. PLoS ONE. 14(10). e0223021–e0223021. 11 indexed citations

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Butt, Nathalie, et al.. (2014). Assessing carbon stocks using indigenous peoples’ field measurements in Amazonian Guyana. Forest Ecology and Management. 338. 191–199. 20 indexed citations

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Venter, Oscar, Richard A. Fuller, Daniel B. Segan, et al.. (2014). Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity. PLoS Biology. 12(6). e1001891–e1001891. 431 indexed citations breakdown →

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Iwamura‏, Takuya, Kerrie A. Wilson, Oscar Venter, & Hugh P. Possingham. (2010). A Climatic Stability Approach to Prioritizing Global Conservation Investments. PLoS ONE. 5(11). e15103–e15103. 54 indexed citations

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