Thomas F. Thornton

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas F. Thornton is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas F. Thornton has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in General Health Professions, 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 21 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Thomas F. Thornton's work include Indigenous Studies and Ecology (27 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (10 papers) and Marine animal studies overview (9 papers). Thomas F. Thornton is often cited by papers focused on Indigenous Studies and Ecology (27 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (10 papers) and Marine animal studies overview (9 papers). Thomas F. Thornton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Thomas F. Thornton's co-authors include Yuge Ma, Diana Mangalagiu, Claudia Comberti, Dajian Zhu, Ariella Helfgott, Jing Lan, Trista Patterson, Shonil Bhagwat, Ke Rong and Jessica Thorn and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Thomas F. Thornton

78 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Ecosystem services or services to ecosystems? Valuing cultivation and reciprocal relationships between humans and ecosystems

2015 251 citations Claudia Comberti, Thomas F. Thornton et al. Global Environmental Change profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas F. Thornton United Kingdom	30	810	798	506	398	397	82	2.9k
Susana Mourato United Kingdom	32	1.7k 2.0×	1.3k 1.6×	466 0.9×	445 1.1×	1.4k 3.6×	91	6.4k
Alan Randall United States	28	1.3k 1.6×	512 0.6×	353 0.7×	314 0.8×	1.1k 2.8×	106	6.3k
Clevo Wilson Australia	35	467 0.6×	656 0.8×	449 0.9×	234 0.6×	440 1.1×	154	4.1k
Kimberly A. Nicholas Sweden	35	1.4k 1.7×	665 0.8×	728 1.4×	156 0.4×	739 1.9×	72	4.7k
Peter C. Boxall Canada	34	1.7k 2.1×	936 1.2×	591 1.2×	794 2.0×	1.2k 3.0×	161	6.9k
David Maddison United Kingdom	26	720 0.9×	1.0k 1.3×	143 0.3×	117 0.3×	597 1.5×	63	4.5k
Biljana Macura Sweden	20	644 0.8×	375 0.5×	473 0.9×	96 0.2×	417 1.1×	50	2.6k
Jill Jäger United Kingdom	23	2.4k 2.9×	1.2k 1.6×	387 0.8×	66 0.2×	883 2.2×	51	4.4k
William E. Rees Canada	32	1.1k 1.4×	602 0.8×	672 1.3×	181 0.5×	1.3k 3.4×	84	5.3k
Peter Newton United States	33	1.3k 1.5×	349 0.4×	672 1.3×	71 0.2×	311 0.8×	142	3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas F. Thornton

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thornton, Thomas F., et al.. (2025). Displacement Ecologies: An alternative conceptual framework for navigating how to reorient to a changing world. World Development. 192. 107030–107030.

Pisor, Anne C., Xavier Basurto, Kristina Douglass, et al.. (2022). Effective climate change adaptation means supporting community autonomy. Nature Climate Change. 12(3). 213–215. 53 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

Hestad, Dina, J. David Tàbara, & Thomas F. Thornton. (2020). The three logics of sustainability-oriented hybrid organisations: a multi-disciplinary review. Sustainability Science. 16(2). 647–661. 21 indexed citations

Thornton, Thomas F., et al.. (2019). Lower Lobe Bronchiectasis Associated with Tuberculosis1,2. American Review of Tuberculosis. 1 indexed citations

Thornton, Thomas F., Diana Mangalagiu, Yuge Ma, et al.. (2019). Cultural models of and for urban sustainability: assessing beliefs about Green-Win. Climatic Change. 160(4). 521–537. 21 indexed citations

Thornton, Thomas F., Rajindra K. Puri, Shonil Bhagwat, & Patricia Howard. (2019). Human adaptation to biodiversity change: An adaptation process approach applied to a case study from southern India. AMBIO. 48(12). 1431–1446. 20 indexed citations

Lan, Jing, Yuge Ma, Dajian Zhu, Diana Mangalagiu, & Thomas F. Thornton. (2017). Enabling Value Co-Creation in the Sharing Economy: The Case of Mobike. Sustainability. 9(9). 1504–1504. 132 indexed citations

Sova, Chase, Thomas F. Thornton, Robert B. Zougmoré, Ariella Helfgott, & Abrar Chaudhury. (2016). Power and influence mapping in Ghana's agricultural adaptation policy regime. Climate and Development. 9(5). 399–414. 22 indexed citations

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Pyhälä, Aili, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Anja Byg, et al.. (2016). Global environmental change: local perceptions, understandings, and explanations. Ecology and Society. 21(3). 98 indexed citations

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Comberti, Claudia, et al.. (2016). Addressing Indigenous Peopless Marginalisation at International Climate Negotiations: Adaptation and Resilience at the Margins. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations

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Thornton, Thomas F. & Patricia M. Thornton. (2015). The Mutable, the Mythical, and the Managerial: Raven Narratives and the Anthropocene. 6(1). 8 indexed citations

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Thornton, Thomas F., et al.. (2015). Aboriginal Tourism as Sustainable Social-Environmental Enterprise (SSEE): A Tlingit Case Study from Southeast Alaska. International Indigenous Policy Journal. 6(4). 5 indexed citations

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Sova, Chase, Joost Vervoort, Thomas F. Thornton, et al.. (2015). Exploring farmer preference shaping in international agricultural climate change adaptation regimes. Environmental Science & Policy. 54. 463–474. 31 indexed citations

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Thorn, Jessica, Thomas F. Thornton, & Ariella Helfgott. (2015). Autonomous adaptation to global environmental change in peri-urban settlements: Evidence of a growing culture of innovation and revitalisation in Mathare Valley Slums, Nairobi. Global Environmental Change. 31. 121–131. 96 indexed citations

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Thornton, Thomas F., et al.. (2010). Local and Traditional Knowledge and the Historical Ecologyof Pacific Herring in Alaska. Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida). 14(1). 81–88. 40 indexed citations

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Thornton, Thomas F.. (2001). Subsistence in Northern Communities: Lessons from Alaska. 17 indexed citations

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Thornton, Thomas F.. (2000). First Nations of British Columbia: An Anthropological Survey. 7(1). 27–27. 6 indexed citations

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Thornton, Thomas F.. (1998). The Land Is Ours. American Anthropologist. 100(4). 1015–1016. 4 indexed citations

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Thornton, Thomas F., et al.. (1990). Use of sockeye salmon at Sitkoh Bay, Alaska. 4 indexed citations

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