Uri Roll

6.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
90 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Uri Roll is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Uri Roll has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Ecological Modeling, 38 papers in Ecology and 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Uri Roll's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (46 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (23 papers) and Animal and Plant Science Education (21 papers). Uri Roll is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (46 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (23 papers) and Animal and Plant Science Education (21 papers). Uri Roll collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United Kingdom and United States. Uri Roll's co-authors include Shai Meiri, Tamar Dayan, Ricardo A. Correia, Noga Kronfeld‐Schor, Gopal Murali, John C. Mittermeier, Ivan Jarić, Reut Vardi, Richard J. Ladle and Daniel Simberloff and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Uri Roll

80 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds

2020 333 citations Uri Roll et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates

2023 107 citations Gopal Murali, Takuya Iwamura‏ et al. Nature profile →
The global biomass of wild mammals

2023 73 citations Ron Sender, Yuval Rosenberg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Uri Roll Israel	28	1.0k	875	682	624	559	90	2.4k
Tim R. B. Davenport United Kingdom	21	936 0.9×	492 0.6×	399 0.6×	531 0.9×	563 1.0×	53	1.8k
Bruno Vilela Brazil	15	1.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	696 1.0×	435 0.7×	744 1.3×	53	2.4k
Lee A. Fitzgerald United States	27	1.1k 1.0×	617 0.7×	538 0.8×	1.1k 1.8×	616 1.1×	94	2.1k
Emiliano Mori Italy	32	2.6k 2.6×	871 1.0×	696 1.0×	460 0.7×	838 1.5×	260	3.7k
Timothy C. Bonebrake Hong Kong	26	1.0k 1.0×	825 0.9×	827 1.2×	468 0.8×	675 1.2×	104	2.3k
Yiming Li China	35	1.3k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	714 1.0×	1.2k 1.9×	782 1.4×	108	3.1k
J. Grant C. Hopcraft United Kingdom	24	2.3k 2.2×	489 0.6×	399 0.6×	565 0.9×	740 1.3×	57	3.0k
Diana O. Fisher Australia	32	2.1k 2.1×	704 0.8×	872 1.3×	377 0.6×	664 1.2×	83	3.0k
José M. V. Fragoso United States	23	1.2k 1.2×	420 0.5×	652 1.0×	603 1.0×	1.1k 1.9×	42	2.4k
Katharine Abernethy United Kingdom	35	2.1k 2.0×	410 0.5×	735 1.1×	730 1.2×	602 1.1×	79	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Uri Roll

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Fields of papers citing papers by Uri Roll

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Uri Roll

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Uri Roll. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Uri Roll 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 Uri Roll. Uri Roll 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

Santini, Luca, Victor Cazalis, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, et al.. (2025). Generation length of the world's amphibians and reptiles. Ecography. 2025(7). 1 indexed citations

Roll, Uri, et al.. (2025). Using social media to monitor diving pressure and diver–wildlife interactions in the northern Red Sea. Coral Reefs. 45(1). 181–197.

Murali, Gopal, et al.. (2025). Ecology and Biogeography of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Squamates. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(6).

Gaston, Kevin J., et al.. (2025). The importance of biome in shaping urban biodiversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(6). 601–612. 2 indexed citations

Roll, Uri, et al.. (2024). The contribution of the Gaza Envelope Region to Israel’s food security. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 28–28. 1 indexed citations

Lewin, Amir, Gopal Murali, Shimon Rachmilevitch, & Uri Roll. (2024). Global evaluation of current and future threats to drylands and their vertebrate biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(8). 1448–1458. 29 indexed citations

Roll, Uri, et al.. (2024). Avoiding visitors to a protected area increases predation risk for the endangered mountain gazelle. People and Nature. 6(4). 1581–1591. 2 indexed citations

Chowdhury, Shawan, Corey T. Callaghan, Moreno Di Marco, et al.. (2024). A protocol for harvesting biodiversity data from Facebook. Conservation Biology. 38(4). e14257–e14257. 9 indexed citations

Meiri, Shai, David G. Chapple, Krystal A. Tolley, et al.. (2023). Done but not dusted: Reflections on the first global reptile assessment and priorities for the second. Biological Conservation. 278. 109879–109879. 15 indexed citations

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Chowdhury, Shawan, Richard A. Fuller, Corey T. Callaghan, et al.. (2023). Using social media records to inform conservation planning. Conservation Biology. 38(1). e14161–e14161. 22 indexed citations

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Falaschi, Mattia, et al.. (2023). Global bioregions of reptiles confirm the consistency of bioregionalization processes across vertebrate clades. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(8). 1272–1284. 11 indexed citations

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

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Sender, Ron, Yuval Rosenberg, Yinon M. Bar‐On, et al.. (2023). The global biomass of wild mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(10). e2204892120–e2204892120. 73 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vardi, Reut, John C. Mittermeier, & Uri Roll. (2021). Combining culturomic sources to uncover trends in popularity and seasonal interest in plants. Conservation Biology. 35(2). 460–471. 21 indexed citations

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Correia, Ricardo A., Richard J. Ladle, Ivan Jarić, et al.. (2021). Digital data sources and methods for conservation culturomics. Conservation Biology. 35(2). 398–411. 106 indexed citations

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Murali, Gopal, Rikki Gumbs, Shai Meiri, & Uri Roll. (2021). Global determinants and conservation of evolutionary and geographic rarity in land vertebrates. Science Advances. 7(42). eabe5582–eabe5582. 43 indexed citations

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Jarić, Ivan, Céline Bellard, Ricardo A. Correia, et al.. (2021). Invasion Culturomics and iEcology. Conservation Biology. 35(2). 447–451. 36 indexed citations

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Roll, Uri & Oded Berger‐Tal. (2018). Gritty until proven irritant—What makes a species invasive? Comment on Cassinello (2018). Conservation Letters. 11(6). 1 indexed citations

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Gafny, Sarig, et al.. (2017). Living quarters of a living fossil—Uncovering the current distribution pattern of the rediscovered Hula painted frog ( Latonia nigriventer ) using environmental DNA. Molecular Ecology. 26(24). 6801–6812. 23 indexed citations

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Roll, Uri, Ricardo A. Correia, & Oded Berger‐Tal. (2017). Using machine learning to disentangle homonyms in large text corpora. Conservation Biology. 32(3). 716–724. 31 indexed citations

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