Xavier Basurto

9.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
99 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Xavier Basurto is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Xavier Basurto has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 51 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Xavier Basurto's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (46 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (23 papers). Xavier Basurto is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (46 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (23 papers). Xavier Basurto collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Xavier Basurto's co-authors include Элинор Остром, Kai M. A. Chan, Anne D. Guerry, Rachelle K. Gould, Sarah C. Klain, Jordan Levine, H. Shelton Smith, Rebecca L. Gruby, Jordan Tam and Patricia Balvanera and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Xavier Basurto

97 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Where are Cultural and Social in Ecosystem Services? A Framework for Constructive Engagement

2012 780 citations Xavier Basurto et al. profile →
Humans and Nature: How Knowing and Experiencing Nature Affect Well-Being

2013 450 citations Xavier Basurto et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xavier Basurto United States	39	3.1k	1.9k	1.4k	1.1k	664	99	5.8k
Christina C. Hicks United Kingdom	42	3.4k 1.1×	2.8k 1.5×	1.6k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	367 0.6×	92	6.6k
Albert V. Norström Sweden	36	3.3k 1.1×	2.5k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	655 0.6×	308 0.5×	65	5.8k
Tim M. Daw Sweden	42	4.5k 1.4×	3.3k 1.7×	1.9k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	334 0.5×	92	7.2k
Ratana Chuenpagdee Canada	35	2.7k 0.9×	2.2k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	771 0.7×	294 0.4×	114	4.9k
Ioan Fazey United Kingdom	37	3.1k 1.0×	875 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	371 0.6×	66	6.3k
Katrina Brown United Kingdom	33	3.9k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	2.1k 1.8×	358 0.5×	54	7.3k
Eduardo S. Brondízio United States	39	3.9k 1.3×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	324 0.5×	95	7.3k
Bruno Locatelli France	43	3.4k 1.1×	1.0k 0.5×	739 0.5×	816 0.7×	388 0.6×	154	5.5k
Ryan Plummer Canada	37	3.3k 1.1×	1.0k 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	2.0k 1.8×	201 0.3×	135	6.8k
Maria Tengö Sweden	29	2.7k 0.9×	931 0.5×	911 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	654 1.0×	55	5.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xavier Basurto

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20 of 20 papers shown

Basurto, Xavier, et al.. (2025). Five archetypes of small-scale fisheries reveal a continuum of production strategies to guide governance and policymaking. Nature Food. 6(11). 1020–1031. 1 indexed citations

Basurto, Xavier, Philippa J. Cohen, Nicole Franz, et al.. (2024). Accounting for existing tenure and rights over marine and freshwater systems. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 2 indexed citations

Betsill, Michele M., Rebecca L. Gruby, Elodie Le Cornu, et al.. (2024). Community engagement and power dynamics in conservation philanthropy grant making. Conservation Biology. 38(4). 2 indexed citations

Frawley, Timothy H., Mateja Nenadović, Jorge Torre, et al.. (2024). Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response. Global Environmental Change. 84. 102805–102805. 6 indexed citations

Smith, H. Shelton, Xavier Basurto, & Kevin St. Martin. (2023). Enacting food system transformation through the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines. MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studies. 23(1). 1 indexed citations

Cornu, Elodie Le, et al.. (2023). Conceptualizing responsible exits in conservation philanthropy. Conservation Science and Practice. 5(5). 5 indexed citations

Virdin, John, Xavier Basurto, Sarah Harper, et al.. (2023). Fishing for subsistence constitutes a livelihood safety net for populations dependent on aquatic foods around the world. Nature Food. 4(10). 874–885. 20 indexed citations

Gruby, Rebecca L., Michele M. Betsill, Elodie Le Cornu, et al.. (2023). Who’s setting the agenda? Philanthropic donor influence in marine conservation. Ecology and Society. 28(3). 7 indexed citations

Funge‐Smith, Simon, Xavier Basurto, Nicole Franz, et al.. (2022). Proximity to small-scale inland and coastal fisheries is associated with improved income and food security. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 174–174. 15 indexed citations

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Pennington‐Gray, Lori, et al.. (2020). Recuperación de los Destinos Turísticos Después de un Desastre: Una Evaluación del Scorecard de Resiliencia Turística para Destinos (SRTD). PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural. 18(2). 309–321. 2 indexed citations

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Basurto, Xavier, Abigail Bennett, Emilie Lindkvist, & Maja Schlüter‬. (2020). Governing the commons beyond harvesting: An empirical illustration from fishing. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0231575–e0231575. 31 indexed citations

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Pennington‐Gray, Lori, et al.. (2017). Desarrollo de un modelo de resiliencia para destinos patrimoniales. 10(22). 13. 1 indexed citations

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Basurto, Xavier. (2017). Linking MPA effectiveness to the future of local rural fishing societies. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 75(3). 1193–1194. 4 indexed citations

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Carter, David, Christopher M. Weible, Saba Siddiki, & Xavier Basurto. (2015). Integrating core concepts from the institutional analysis and development framework for the systematic analysis of policy designs: An illustration from the US National Organic Program regulation. Journal of Theoretical Politics. 28(1). 159–185. 47 indexed citations

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Cinner, Joshua E., M. Aaron MacNeil, Xavier Basurto, & Stefan Gelcich. (2013). Looking beyond the fisheries crisis: Cumulative learning from small-scale fisheries through diagnostic approaches. Global Environmental Change. 23(6). 1359–1365. 32 indexed citations

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Basurto, Xavier, Stefan Gelcich, & Элинор Остром. (2013). The social–ecological system framework as a knowledge classificatory system for benthic small-scale fisheries. Global Environmental Change. 23(6). 1366–1380. 206 indexed citations

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Fox, Helen, Michael B. Mascia, Xavier Basurto, et al.. (2011). Reexamining the science of marine protected areas: linking knowledge to action. Conservation Letters. 5(1). 1–10. 156 indexed citations

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Basurto, Xavier & Элинор Остром. (2009). Beyond The Tragedy Of The Commons. DukeSpace (Duke University). 35–60. 42 indexed citations

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Cudney‐Bueno, Richard & Xavier Basurto. (2009). Lack of Cross-Scale Linkages Reduces Robustness of Community-Based Fisheries Management. PLoS ONE. 4(7). e6253–e6253. 125 indexed citations

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Basurto, Xavier. (2006). Commercial Diving and the Callo de Hacha Fishery in Seri Territory. DukeSpace (Duke University). 48(2). 189–209. 19 indexed citations

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