Tom Swinfield

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Tom Swinfield is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Swinfield has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Ecology, 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Tom Swinfield's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers). Tom Swinfield is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers). Tom Swinfield collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Malaysia. Tom Swinfield's co-authors include David A. Coomes, Owen T. Lewis, Robert P. Freckleton, Robert Bagchi, Tommaso Jucker, Rhett D. Harrison, David T. Milodowski, Robert M. Ewers, Sofia Gripenberg and Lakshmi Narayan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tom Swinfield

31 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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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.

LIFE: A metric for mapping the impact of land-cover change on global extinctions

2025 20 citations Alison Eyres, Tom Swinfield et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Swinfield United Kingdom	20	489	375	370	222	202	32	1.0k
Juyu Lian China	18	724 1.5×	368 1.0×	412 1.1×	366 1.6×	158 0.8×	63	1.3k
Ben Sparrow Australia	13	389 0.8×	246 0.7×	325 0.9×	145 0.7×	170 0.8×	35	843
Philip Beckschäfer Germany	15	339 0.7×	473 1.3×	442 1.2×	110 0.5×	218 1.1×	25	1.0k
Franziska Taubert Germany	12	538 1.1×	592 1.6×	363 1.0×	158 0.7×	140 0.7×	29	1.1k
Alexander Christian Vibrans Brazil	18	689 1.4×	468 1.2×	251 0.7×	311 1.4×	203 1.0×	91	1.2k
Carol X. Garzón‐López Italy	17	354 0.7×	240 0.6×	405 1.1×	186 0.8×	92 0.5×	30	794
Peter A. Harrison Australia	17	451 0.9×	249 0.7×	355 1.0×	179 0.8×	166 0.8×	47	989
Karin Hall Sweden	17	338 0.7×	252 0.7×	456 1.2×	181 0.8×	104 0.5×	23	779
Jérôme Chave France	10	768 1.6×	414 1.1×	216 0.6×	254 1.1×	103 0.5×	11	1.1k
Hervé Jactel France	2	557 1.1×	650 1.7×	328 0.9×	143 0.6×	100 0.5×	6	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Swinfield

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Swinfield

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Swinfield

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

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Swinfield, Tom, David A. Coomes, Patrick Ferris, et al.. (2025). Learning lessons from over-crediting to ensure additionality in forest carbon credits. 1 indexed citations

Balmford, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Sustainable high-yield farming is essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1917). 20230216–20230216. 4 indexed citations

Holland, J. M., et al.. (2025). Strengthening the integrity of REDD+ credits: objectively assessing counterfactual methods using placebos. Environmental Research Letters. 20(11). 114051–114051. 1 indexed citations

Eyres, Alison, Tom Swinfield, Andy Arnell, et al.. (2025). LIFE: A metric for mapping the impact of land-cover change on global extinctions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1917). 20230327–20230327. 20 indexed citations breakdown →

Swinfield, Tom, et al.. (2024). Nature-based credit markets at a crossroads. Nature Sustainability. 7(10). 1217–1220. 21 indexed citations

Carmenta, Rachel, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the impacts of a large-scale voluntary REDD+ project in Sierra Leone. Nature Sustainability. 7(2). 120–129. 13 indexed citations

Balmford, Andrew, Srinivasan Keshav, Frank Venmans, et al.. (2023). Realizing the social value of impermanent carbon credits. Nature Climate Change. 13(11). 1172–1178. 24 indexed citations

Gilroy, James J., Tom Swinfield, Zuzana Buřivalová, et al.. (2023). Avifauna recovers faster in areas less accessible to trapping in regenerating tropical forests. Biological Conservation. 279. 109901–109901. 5 indexed citations

Schönlieb, Carola‐Bibiane, et al.. (2022). Monitoring early-successional trees for tropical forest restoration using low-cost UAV-based species classification. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5. 8 indexed citations

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Tew, Eleanor R., Greg J. Conway, Ian Henderson, et al.. (2022). Recommendations to enhance breeding bird diversity in managed plantation forests determined using LiDAR. Ecological Applications. 32(7). e2678–e2678. 6 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Hannah M., Paul Eggleton, Tom Swinfield, et al.. (2021). Carbon flux and forest dynamics: Increased deadwood decomposition in tropical rainforest tree‐fall canopy gaps. Global Change Biology. 27(8). 1601–1613. 32 indexed citations

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Nunes, Matheus Henrique, Tommaso Jucker, Terhi Riutta, et al.. (2021). Recovery of logged forest fragments in a human-modified tropical landscape during the 2015-16 El Niño. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1526–1526. 42 indexed citations

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Jucker, Tommaso, Toby Jackson, Florian Zellweger, et al.. (2020). A Research Agenda for Microclimate Ecology in Human-Modified Tropical Forests. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 2. 31 indexed citations

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Williamson, Joseph R., Eleanor M. Slade, Sarah H. Luke, et al.. (2020). Riparian buffers act as microclimatic refugia in oil palm landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(2). 431–442. 35 indexed citations

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Drinkwater, Rosie, Tommaso Jucker, Tom Swinfield, et al.. (2020). Leech blood‐meal invertebrate‐derived DNA reveals differences in Bornean mammal diversity across habitats. Molecular Ecology. 30(13). 3299–3312. 25 indexed citations

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Swinfield, Tom, et al.. (2019). Accurate Measurement of Tropical Forest Canopy Heights and Aboveground Carbon Using Structure From Motion. Remote Sensing. 11(8). 928–928. 52 indexed citations

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Jucker, Tommaso, Stephen R. Hardwick, Sabine Both, et al.. (2018). Canopy structure and topography jointly constrain the microclimate of human‐modified tropical landscapes. Global Change Biology. 24(11). 5243–5258. 183 indexed citations

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Swinfield, Tom, et al.. (2016). Accelerating tropical forest restoration through the selective removal of pioneer species. Forest Ecology and Management. 381. 209–216. 50 indexed citations

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Swinfield, Tom, Owen T. Lewis, Robert Bagchi, & Robert P. Freckleton. (2012). Consequences of changing rainfall for fungal pathogen‐induced mortality in tropical tree seedlings. Ecology and Evolution. 2(7). 1408–1413. 55 indexed citations

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Bagchi, Robert, Tom Swinfield, Rachel E. Gallery, et al.. (2010). Testing the Janzen‐Connell mechanism: pathogens cause overcompensating density dependence in a tropical tree. Ecology Letters. 13(10). 1262–1269. 184 indexed citations

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