Vidya Athreya

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Vidya Athreya is a scholar working on Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Vidya Athreya has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Vidya Athreya's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (28 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (10 papers) and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (7 papers). Vidya Athreya is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (28 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (10 papers) and Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (7 papers). Vidya Athreya collaborates with scholars based in India, Norway and United States. Vidya Athreya's co-authors include John D. C. Linnell, Morten Odden, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Ullas Karanth, Srinivas Vaidyanathan, K. Ullas Karanth, K. Ullas Karanth, Saloni Bhatia, Richard Grenyer and David W. Macdonald and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

Vidya Athreya

29 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Big Cats in Our Backyards: Persistence of Large Carnivores in a Human Dominated Landscape in India

2013 333 citations Vidya Athreya, Morten Odden et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vidya Athreya India	19	1.2k	345	333	263	242	30	1.4k
Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi India	19	981 0.8×	382 1.1×	204 0.6×	132 0.5×	210 0.9×	55	1.2k
Bernard M. Kissui United States	17	1.2k 1.0×	512 1.5×	214 0.6×	170 0.6×	188 0.8×	33	1.4k
Jennifer R. B. Miller United States	20	1.0k 0.9×	245 0.7×	221 0.7×	215 0.8×	238 1.0×	37	1.4k
Yash Veer Bhatnagar India	21	1.2k 1.0×	697 2.0×	237 0.7×	131 0.5×	239 1.0×	38	1.4k
Chloe Inskip United Kingdom	7	820 0.7×	231 0.7×	224 0.7×	145 0.6×	110 0.5×	7	945
Naresh Subedi Nepal	22	963 0.8×	288 0.8×	225 0.7×	119 0.5×	248 1.0×	76	1.2k
Morten Odden Norway	26	2.0k 1.7×	431 1.2×	435 1.3×	420 1.6×	411 1.7×	58	2.2k
Matthew S. Becker United States	22	1.4k 1.2×	371 1.1×	311 0.9×	208 0.8×	266 1.1×	48	1.7k
Igor Khorozyan Germany	22	1.1k 0.9×	275 0.8×	227 0.7×	212 0.8×	308 1.3×	58	1.2k
Prithiviraj Fernando United States	22	1.2k 1.0×	173 0.5×	701 2.1×	269 1.0×	120 0.5×	51	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vidya Athreya

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20 of 20 papers shown

Athreya, Vidya, et al.. (2025). Charting risk pathways of leopard attacks on people: A decision tree approach. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. 31(1). 16–33.

Athreya, Vidya, et al.. (2023). Examining leopard attacks: spatio-temporal clustering of human injuries and deaths in Western Himalayas, India. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 4 indexed citations

Sathyakumar, Sambandam, et al.. (2022). Leopards in the City: The Tale of Sanjay Gandhi National Park and Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary, Two Protected Areas in and Adjacent to Mumbai, India. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 13 indexed citations

Nair, Ramya, et al.. (2021). Sharing Spaces and Entanglements With Big Cats: The Warli and Their Waghoba in Maharashtra, India. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 17 indexed citations

Athreya, Vidya, Kavita Isvaran, Morten Odden, et al.. (2020). The impact of leopards ( Panthera pardus ) on livestock losses and human injuries in a human-use landscape in Maharashtra, India. PeerJ. 8. e8405–e8405. 11 indexed citations

Vaidyanathan, Srinivas, et al.. (2020). Looking beyond protected areas: Identifying conservation compatible landscapes in agro-forest mosaics in north-eastern India. Global Ecology and Conservation. 22. e00905–e00905. 33 indexed citations

Athreya, Vidya, et al.. (2019). The leopard that learnt from the cat and other narratives of carnivore–human coexistence in northern India. People and Nature. 1(3). 376–386. 33 indexed citations

Packer, Craig, Vidya Athreya, Meggan E. Craft, et al.. (2018). Species‐specific spatiotemporal patterns of leopard, lion and tiger attacks on humans. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(3). 585–593. 29 indexed citations

Vaidyanathan, Srinivas, et al.. (2017). Leopard in a tea-cup: A study of leopard habitat-use and human-leopard interactions in north-eastern India. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0177013–e0177013. 78 indexed citations

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Athreya, Vidya, Arjun Srivathsa, Mahi Puri, et al.. (2015). Spotted in the News: Using Media Reports to Examine Leopard Distribution, Depredation, and Management Practices outside Protected Areas in Southern India. PLoS ONE. 10(11). e0142647–e0142647. 65 indexed citations

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Athreya, Vidya & Divya Vasudev. (2015). Media workshops to improve reporting of human–wildlife interactions. Oryx. 49(4). 579–580. 2 indexed citations

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Odden, Morten, et al.. (2014). Adaptable Neighbours: Movement Patterns of GPS-Collared Leopards in Human Dominated Landscapes in India. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e112044–e112044. 113 indexed citations

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Athreya, Vidya, et al.. (2014). Waghoba tales: Adventures in leopard land. BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway)). 1 indexed citations

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Athreya, Vidya, et al.. (2014). Movement and Activity Pattern of a Collared Tigress in a Human-Dominated Landscape in Central India. Tropical Conservation Science. 7(1). 75–86. 22 indexed citations

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Athreya, Vidya, Morten Odden, John D. C. Linnell, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, & Ullas Karanth. (2013). Big Cats in Our Backyards: Persistence of Large Carnivores in a Human Dominated Landscape in India. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e57872–e57872. 333 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bhatia, Saloni, Vidya Athreya, Richard Grenyer, & David W. Macdonald. (2013). Understanding the Role of Representations of Human–Leopard Conflict in Mumbai through Media‐Content Analysis. Conservation Biology. 27(3). 588–594. 78 indexed citations

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Athreya, Vidya, Morten Odden, John D. C. Linnell, & K. Ullas Karanth. (2010). Translocation as a Tool for Mitigating Conflict with Leopards in Human‐Dominated Landscapes of India. Conservation Biology. 25(1). 133–141. 139 indexed citations

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Belsare, Aniruddha & Vidya Athreya. (2010). Use of Xylazine Hydrochloride-Ketamine Hydrochloride for Immobilization of Wild Leopards (Panthera pardus fusca) in Emergency Situations. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. 41(2). 331–333. 7 indexed citations

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Mondol, Samrat, et al.. (2009). A panel of microsatellites to individually identify leopards and its application to leopard monitoring in human dominated landscapes. BMC Genetics. 10(1). 79–79. 45 indexed citations

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Athreya, Vidya, et al.. (2007). Leopards in Human dominated Areas: a Spillover from Sustained Translocations Into Nearby Forests?. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 23 indexed citations

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