William M. Adams

17.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
182 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

William M. Adams is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William M. Adams has authored 182 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 41 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 35 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in William M. Adams's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (48 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (20 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (20 papers). William M. Adams is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (48 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (20 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (20 papers). William M. Adams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. William M. Adams's co-authors include Jon Hutton, Bhaskar Vira, Michael Mortimore, Chris Sandbrook, Dan Brockington, Ian Hodge, David Hulme, William J. Sutherland, Elia Apostolopoulou and James Murombedzi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Lancet and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

William M. Adams

178 papers receiving 9.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William M. Adams United Kingdom 51 5.1k 3.1k 2.4k 1.9k 1.5k 182 10.7k
Charles L. Redman United States 43 8.1k 1.6× 2.7k 0.9× 2.6k 1.1× 1.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 92 17.2k
Kai M. A. Chan Canada 46 8.7k 1.7× 3.1k 1.0× 3.0k 1.3× 1.6k 0.9× 2.5k 1.7× 156 13.7k
Dan Brockington United Kingdom 45 5.7k 1.1× 2.1k 0.7× 2.1k 0.9× 2.4k 1.3× 1.6k 1.1× 148 9.9k
Belinda Reyers South Africa 50 7.6k 1.5× 3.3k 1.1× 3.0k 1.2× 1.9k 1.0× 2.3k 1.6× 109 16.7k
Tobías Plieninger Germany 63 8.6k 1.7× 2.0k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 240 12.8k
Emilio F. Morán United States 55 8.9k 1.7× 5.6k 1.8× 1.8k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 201 16.5k
Mark S. Reed United Kingdom 57 7.9k 1.6× 2.9k 0.9× 4.0k 1.7× 3.3k 1.8× 1.5k 1.0× 180 17.5k
Johan Colding Sweden 36 4.9k 1.0× 2.0k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 1.7k 0.9× 713 0.5× 72 10.1k
Berta Martín‐López Spain 70 11.1k 2.2× 3.5k 1.1× 3.1k 1.3× 1.7k 0.9× 3.1k 2.1× 182 16.8k
Reinette Biggs Sweden 31 4.5k 0.9× 2.2k 0.7× 2.2k 0.9× 1.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 58 12.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William M. Adams

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vickery, Juliet A., John W. Mallord, William M. Adams, et al.. (2023). The conservation of Afro‐Palaearctic migrants: What we are learning and what we need to know?. Ibis. 165(3). 717–738. 23 indexed citations
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Searle, Adam, Jonathon Turnbull, & William M. Adams. (2022). The digital peregrine: A technonatural history of a cosmopolitan raptor. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 48(1). 195–212. 23 indexed citations
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Redford, Kent H. & William M. Adams. (2021). Strange Natures. Yale University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Redford, Kent H. & William M. Adams. (2021). Strange Natures. Yale University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Sandbrook, Chris, Douglas A. Clark, Tuuli Toivonen, et al.. (2021). Principles for the socially responsible use of conservation monitoring technology and data. Conservation Science and Practice. 3(5). 52 indexed citations
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Adams, William M. & Kent H. Redford. (2021). Editing the wild. Conservation Biology. 35(5). 1701–1703. 1 indexed citations
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Pascual, Unai, William M. Adams, Sandra Dı́az, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism. Nature Sustainability. 4(7). 567–572. 223 indexed citations breakdown →
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Turnbull, Jonathon, Adam Searle, & William M. Adams. (2020). Quarantine encounters with digital animals: More-than-human geographies of lockdown life. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 1(Supplement 1). 6.1–6.10. 22 indexed citations
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Adams, William M., et al.. (2014). The impact of land use change on migrant birds in the Sahel. Biodiversity. 15(2-3). 101–108. 26 indexed citations
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Adams, William M.. (2009). The conservation of diversity.
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Adams, William M. & Sally Jeanrenaud. (2008). Transición a la sostenibilidad : hacia un mundo humanitario y diverso. IUCN eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Adams, William M. & Jon Hutton. (2007). People, Parks and Poverty: Political Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation. Conservation and Society. 5(2). 147. 593 indexed citations breakdown →
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Adams, William M., Martin R. Perrow, & Angus I. Carpenter. (2004). Conservatives and Champions: River Managers and the River Restoration Discourse in the United Kingdom. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 36(11). 1929–1942. 36 indexed citations
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Hedrich, Hans J. & William M. Adams. (1990). Genetic monitoring of inbred strains of rats : a manual on colony management, basic monitoring techniques, and genetic variants of the laboratory rat. 14 indexed citations
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Adams, William M., Francine M. R. Hughes, & Andrew Goudie. (1990). Irrigation development in desert environments.. Arthroplasty Today. 8. 135–160. 3 indexed citations
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Seeley, Janet & William M. Adams. (1988). Environmental Issues in African Development Planning. 2 indexed citations
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Steers, J. A. & William M. Adams. (1987). Nature's Place: Conservation Sites and Countryside Change. Geographical Journal. 153(1). 121–121. 25 indexed citations
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Adams, William M. & Nicholas Polunin. (1987). Ecosystem Theory and Application. Geographical Journal. 153(3). 401–401. 77 indexed citations
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Adams, William M.. (1984). Sites of Special Scientific Interest and habitat protection: implications of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.. Area. 16(4). 273–280. 3 indexed citations
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Purchase, I. F. H., et al.. (1978). Chromosomal analyses in vinyl chloride-exposed workers. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 57(3). 325–334. 52 indexed citations

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