Tom August

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Tom August is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom August has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecological Modeling, 13 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Tom August's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (23 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (12 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers). Tom August is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (23 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (12 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 papers). Tom August collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Netherlands. Tom August's co-authors include Nick J. B. Isaac, David B. Roy, Parkhurst A. Shore, Silvio Garattini, A. van Strien, James M. Bullock, Tom H. Oliver, Ben A. Woodcock, Richard Fox and Kevin J. Walker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Tom August

30 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Statistics for citizen science: extracting signals of change from noisy ecological data

2014 385 citations Nick J. B. Isaac, A. van Strien et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering

2018 285 citations Andrew J. Suggitt, Robert J. Wilson et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom August United Kingdom	19	854	668	534	505	293	31	1.9k
Elizabeth R. Ellwood United States	20	907 1.1×	604 0.9×	463 0.9×	628 1.2×	332 1.1×	42	1.7k
Emily K. Meineke United States	20	627 0.7×	459 0.7×	428 0.8×	675 1.3×	281 1.0×	29	1.6k
J. Mason Heberling United States	20	601 0.7×	456 0.7×	628 1.2×	583 1.2×	265 0.9×	41	1.4k
Neil Brummitt United Kingdom	23	1.0k 1.2×	763 1.1×	979 1.8×	948 1.9×	412 1.4×	45	2.3k
Barnabas H. Daru South Africa	26	762 0.9×	586 0.9×	1.0k 1.9×	1.0k 2.0×	299 1.0×	57	2.3k
Johan P. Dahlgren Sweden	19	357 0.4×	504 0.8×	783 1.5×	758 1.5×	285 1.0×	45	1.8k
Quentin Groom Belgium	24	692 0.8×	530 0.8×	382 0.7×	666 1.3×	235 0.8×	149	2.4k
Patrick J. McIntyre United States	17	824 1.0×	795 1.2×	963 1.8×	870 1.7×	458 1.6×	38	2.6k
Lars Pettersson Sweden	29	321 0.4×	879 1.3×	935 1.8×	1.0k 2.1×	532 1.8×	81	2.4k
Chris Yesson United Kingdom	24	525 0.6×	1.2k 1.9×	477 0.9×	482 1.0×	681 2.3×	67	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom August

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom August

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom August

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Núñez, Martín A., Tom August, Sven Bacher, et al.. (2024). Including a diverse set of voices to address biological invasions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(5). 409–412. 3 indexed citations

Pernat, Nadja, Daniyar Memedemin, Tom August, et al.. (2024). Extracting secondary data from citizen science images reveals host flower preferences of the Mexican grass‐carrying wasp Isodontia mexicana in its native and introduced ranges. Ecology and Evolution. 14(6). e11537–e11537. 3 indexed citations

Pocock, Michael J. O., et al.. (2024). Adaptive sampling by citizen scientists improves species distribution model performance: A simulation study. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(7). 1206–1220. 9 indexed citations

Høye, Toke T., Tom August, Mario V. Balzan, et al.. (2023). Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biоdiversity (MAMBO). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9. 5 indexed citations

Young, Juliette, Prashanth Nuggehalli Srinivas, Tanya Seshadri, et al.. (2022). Co-production of knowledge as part of a OneHealth approach to better control zoonotic diseases. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). e0000075–e0000075. 18 indexed citations

Smith, Bethany R., et al.. (2021). Using biological records to infer long-term occupancy trends of mammals in the UK. Biological Conservation. 264. 109362–109362. 19 indexed citations

August, Tom, Oliver L. Pescott, Alexis Joly, & Pierre Bonnet. (2020). AI Naturalists Might Hold the Key to Unlocking Biodiversity Data in Social Media Imagery. Patterns. 1(7). 100116–100116. 39 indexed citations

August, Tom, Richard Fox, David B. Roy, & Michael J. O. Pocock. (2020). Data-derived metrics describing the behaviour of field-based citizen scientists provide insights for project design and modelling bias. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 11009–11009. 44 indexed citations

Terry, J. Christopher D., Helen E. Roy, & Tom August. (2019). Thinking like a naturalist: Enhancing computer vision of citizen science images by harnessing contextual data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(2). 303–315. 68 indexed citations

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Suggitt, Andrew J., Robert J. Wilson, Nick J. B. Isaac, et al.. (2018). Extinction risk from climate change is reduced by microclimatic buffering. Nature Climate Change. 8(8). 713–717. 285 indexed citations breakdown →

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Oliver, Tom H., Nick J. B. Isaac, Tom August, et al.. (2015). Declining resilience of ecosystem functions under biodiversity loss. Nature Communications. 6(1). 10122–10122. 270 indexed citations

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Eaton, Mark A., Fiona Burns, Nick J. B. Isaac, et al.. (2015). The priority species indicator: measuring the trends in threatened species in the UK. Biodiversity. 16(2-3). 108–119. 14 indexed citations

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August, Tom, et al.. (2015). Emerging technologies for biological recording. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 115(3). 731–749. 98 indexed citations

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August, Tom, et al.. (2014). Sympatric Woodland Myotis Bats Form Tight-Knit Social Groups with Exclusive Roost Home Ranges. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e112225–e112225. 20 indexed citations

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Suggitt, Andrew J., Robert J. Wilson, Tom August, et al.. (2014). Climate change refugia for the flora and fauna of England. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 11 indexed citations

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Suggitt, Andrew J., Robert J. Wilson, Tom August, et al.. (2014). Microclimate affects landscape level persistence in the British Lepidoptera. Journal of Insect Conservation. 19(2). 237–253. 19 indexed citations

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Stroh, Peter, Tom August, Kevin J. Walker, et al.. (2014). A vascular plant red list for England. 66 indexed citations

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Isaac, Nick J. B., et al.. (2014). Statistics for citizen science: extracting signals of change from noisy ecological data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5(10). 1052–1060. 385 indexed citations breakdown →

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August, Tom, Fiona Mathews, & Miles A. Nunn. (2012). Alphacoronavirus Detected in Bats in the United Kingdom. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 12(6). 530–533. 29 indexed citations

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Garattini, Silvio, Parkhurst A. Shore, & Tom August. (1962). Advances in pharmacology. Academic Press eBooks. 315 indexed citations

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