William J. McConnell

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

William J. McConnell is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, William J. McConnell has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 8 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in William J. McConnell's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (12 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (9 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers). William J. McConnell is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (12 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (9 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers). William J. McConnell collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. William J. McConnell's co-authors include Eric Keys, Jianguo Liu, Andrés Viña, Sean Sweeney, Peter H. Verburg, William F. Sigler, Hongbo Yang, Kasper Kok, Christopher D. Lippitt and Éric Fotsing and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

William J. McConnell

59 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William J. McConnell United States	22	1.6k	674	291	242	213	65	2.6k
Neville Ash United Kingdom	10	1.2k 0.7×	653 1.0×	401 1.4×	437 1.8×	270 1.3×	10	2.3k
Andrew Kliskey United States	24	1.1k 0.7×	600 0.9×	269 0.9×	396 1.6×	240 1.1×	98	2.7k
Rodel D. Lasco Philippines	26	1.4k 0.9×	432 0.6×	450 1.5×	200 0.8×	232 1.1×	102	2.5k
Jeanine M. Rhemtulla Canada	24	1.4k 0.9×	528 0.8×	495 1.7×	229 0.9×	165 0.8×	47	2.1k
Peter Holmgren Sweden	17	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 1.6×	540 1.9×	286 1.2×	213 1.0×	26	2.8k
Evan Girvetz United States	27	1.2k 0.8×	824 1.2×	328 1.1×	278 1.1×	200 0.9×	70	3.3k
Alejandro Velázquez Mexico	24	1.1k 0.7×	671 1.0×	337 1.2×	250 1.0×	191 0.9×	104	2.1k
Ilse R. Geijzendorffer France	28	1.4k 0.9×	665 1.0×	429 1.5×	309 1.3×	229 1.1×	50	2.4k
R.H.G. Jongman Netherlands	24	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 2.1×	702 2.4×	315 1.3×	129 0.6×	70	2.9k
Thomas Wrbka Austria	27	1.6k 1.0×	918 1.4×	848 2.9×	339 1.4×	207 1.0×	58	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William J. McConnell

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Smajgl, Alex, et al.. (2019). Reviewing benefits and costs of hydropower development evidence from the Lower Mekong River Basin. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 6(4). 14 indexed citations

McConnell, William J.. (2019). The Impact of Design-Based Modeling Instruction on Seventh Graders' Spatial Abilities and Model-Based Argumentation. ODU Digital Commons (Old Dominion University). 2 indexed citations

McConnell, William J. & Andrés Viña. (2018). Interactions between Food Security and Land Use in the Context of Global Change. Land. 7(2). 53–53. 12 indexed citations

Hyndman, D. W., Tianfang Xu, Jillian M. Deines, et al.. (2017). Quantifying changes in water use and groundwater availability in a megacity using novel integrated systems modeling. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(16). 8359–8368. 13 indexed citations

Zhang, Jindong, Vanessa Hull, Jinyan Huang, et al.. (2015). Activity patterns of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). Journal of Mammalogy. 96(6). 1116–1127. 37 indexed citations

Burgin, Stephen R., et al.. (2014). ‘I Actually Contributed to Their Research': The influence of an abbreviated summer apprenticeship program in science and engineering for diverse high-school learners. International Journal of Science Education. 37(3). 411–445. 22 indexed citations

Clarke, Holly J., et al.. (2010). Culture enrichment assists the diagnosis of cattle botulism by a monoclonal antibody based sandwich ELISA. Veterinary Microbiology. 144(1-2). 226–230. 12 indexed citations

Viña, Andrés, Xiaodong Chen, William J. McConnell, et al.. (2010). Effects of Natural Disasters on Conservation Policies: The Case of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, China. AMBIO. 40(3). 274–284. 59 indexed citations

Ojima, Dennis S., et al.. (2005). Global Land Project: Science Plan and ImplementationStrategy. 93 indexed citations

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McConnell, William J. & Sean Sweeney. (2005). Challenges of forest governance in Madagascar. Geographical Journal. 171(3). 223–238. 29 indexed citations

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McConnell, William J.. (2002). Meeting the Challenge of Complexity. 4 indexed citations

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Catalano, Ralph & William J. McConnell. (1996). A Time-Series Test of the Quarantine Theory of Involuntary Commitment. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 37(4). 381–381. 9 indexed citations

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McDowell, S.W.J., Joseph P. Cassidy, & William J. McConnell. (1994). A case of ovine abortion associated with Histophilus ovis infection. Veterinary Record. 134(19). 504–504. 4 indexed citations

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Allan, G. G., et al.. (1991). THE MICROPOROSITY OF PULP : A KEY TO NEW MARKETS. TAPPI Journal. 74(1). 83–84. 3 indexed citations

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McConnell, William J.. (1989). The Quranic depiction of Jesus. ePlace - Preserving, Learning, and Creative Exchange (Asbury Theological Seminary). 1 indexed citations

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McConnell, William J., et al.. (1982). Habitat Suitability Index Models: A Low Effort System for Planned Cool Water and Coldwater Reservoirs. (Revised),. FWS/OBS. 6 indexed citations

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McConnell, William J., et al.. (1977). Gross Photosynthesis as an Estimator of Potential Fish Production. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 106(5). 417–423. 46 indexed citations

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McConnell, William J., et al.. (1966). Some Effects of Threadfin Shad Introduction on Black Crappie Diet and Condition. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science. 4(2). 71–71. 8 indexed citations

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McConnell, William J., et al.. (1964). Threadfin shad, Dorosoma petenense as food of yearling centrarchids.. 50. 170–175. 4 indexed citations

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McConnell, William J.. (1962). PRODUCTIVITY RELATIONS IN CARBOY MICROCOSMS1. Limnology and Oceanography. 7(3). 335–343. 72 indexed citations

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