Zsolt Molnár

17.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
176 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Zsolt Molnár is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Zsolt Molnár has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Ecology, 55 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 43 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Zsolt Molnár's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (33 papers), Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (32 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (26 papers). Zsolt Molnár is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (33 papers), Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (32 papers) and Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (26 papers). Zsolt Molnár collaborates with scholars based in Hungary, Romania and United States. Zsolt Molnár's co-authors include Dániel Babai, Marianna Biró, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Eduardo S. Brondízio, János Bölöni, Ferenc Horváth, Sandra Dı́az, Kinga Öllerer, Bálint Czúcz and Stephen T. Garnett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Zsolt Molnár

165 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation

2018 784 citations Stephen T. Garnett, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss

2022 450 citations Zsolt Molnár et al. profile →
Locally Based, Regionally Manifested, and Globally Relevant: Indigenous and Local Knowledge, Values, and Practices for Nature

2021 173 citations Yildiz Aumeeruddy‐Thomas, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zsolt Molnár Hungary	35	2.0k	1.6k	1.3k	1.0k	823	176	5.4k
Fabrice DeClerck United States	36	2.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	475 0.6×	88	5.7k
Jon Moen Sweden	38	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	2.0k 1.5×	855 0.8×	407 0.5×	108	4.8k
Jan Hanspach Germany	35	2.3k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	632 0.6×	738 0.9×	90	4.7k
Shonil Bhagwat United Kingdom	31	1.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	851 0.8×	533 0.6×	88	5.1k
Christian A. Kull Switzerland	34	2.9k 1.4×	1.3k 0.8×	992 0.8×	484 0.5×	709 0.9×	105	5.0k
Robert Nasi Indonesia	44	3.8k 1.9×	2.6k 1.6×	1.2k 0.9×	416 0.4×	687 0.8×	217	7.4k
Célia A. Harvey United States	41	3.0k 1.5×	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	692 0.8×	132	8.6k
Eric Higgs Canada	32	2.1k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	1.8k 1.3×	461 0.5×	612 0.7×	100	6.3k
Paula A. Harrison United Kingdom	47	3.8k 1.9×	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	800 0.8×	809 1.0×	122	7.6k
Teri Knight United Kingdom	20	2.7k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	880 0.7×	497 0.5×	688 0.8×	42	7.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zsolt Molnár

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20 of 20 papers shown

Molnár, Zsolt, et al.. (2025). Conserving culture and biodiversity? The role of Indigenous young adults in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2048). 20250279–20250279. 1 indexed citations

Molnár, Zsolt, et al.. (2024). Estimating population abundance and monitoring population trends of endangered, elusive subterranean mammals (Rodentia: Spalacinae: Nannospalax) using HRAMN methodology. Global Ecology and Conservation. 57. e03393–e03393.

Fernández‐Llamazares, Álvaro, Irene Teixidor‐Toneu, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, et al.. (2024). The global relevance of locally grounded ethnobiology. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 20(1). 53–53. 7 indexed citations

Molnár, Zsolt, László Demeter, Marianna Biró, et al.. (2024). Benefits and challenges of reviewing across knowledge systems: ‘Gourmet omnivore’ pigs foraging in the wild. People and Nature. 6(6). 2182–2199. 1 indexed citations

Molnár, Zsolt, et al.. (2024). Are agri-environmental schemes doing their job? Evidence from Biebrza National Park, Poland. Land Use Policy. 148. 107390–107390. 1 indexed citations

Molnár, Zsolt, et al.. (2024). Poor convergence between local traditional farmers and conservationists on which species to protect locally. People and Nature. 6(4). 1421–1434.

Seebens, Hanno, Aidin Niamir, Franz Essl, et al.. (2024). Biological invasions on Indigenous peoples’ lands. Nature Sustainability. 7(6). 737–746. 8 indexed citations

Molnár, Zsolt, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Christoph Schunko, et al.. (2023). Social justice for traditional knowledge holders will help conserve Europe's nature. Biological Conservation. 285. 110190–110190. 23 indexed citations

Bede‐Fazekas, Ákos, et al.. (2022). Foraging decisions with conservation consequences: Interaction between beavers and invasive tree species. Ecology and Evolution. 12(5). e8899–e8899. 8 indexed citations

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Manzano, Pablo, Saverio Krätli, Dániel Babai, et al.. (2022). Global principles in local traditional knowledge: A review of forage plant-livestock-herder interactions. Journal of Environmental Management. 328. 116966–116966. 26 indexed citations

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Tanács, Eszter, Tibor Standovár, László Pásztor, et al.. (2021). Compiling a high-resolution country-level ecosystem map to support environmental policy: methodological challenges and solutions from Hungary. Geocarto International. 37(25). 8746–8769. 26 indexed citations

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Somodi, Imelda, Jörg Ewald, Ákos Bede‐Fazekas, & Zsolt Molnár. (2021). The relevance of the concept of potential natural vegetation in the Anthropocene. Plant Ecology & Diversity. 14(1-2). 13–22. 18 indexed citations

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Löki, Viktor, et al.. (2021). Known but not called by name: recreational fishers’ ecological knowledge of freshwater plants in Hungary. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 17(1). 63–63. 9 indexed citations

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Demeter, László, Ákos Bede‐Fazekas, Zsolt Molnár, et al.. (2020). The legacy of management approaches and abandonment on old-growth attributes in hardwood floodplain forests in the Pannonian Ecoregion. European Journal of Forest Research. 139(4). 595–610. 4 indexed citations

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Molnár, Zsolt, et al.. (2020). Accurate Non-Disturbance Population Survey Method of Nesting Colonies in the Reedbed with Georeferenced Aerial Imagery. Sensors. 20(9). 2601–2601. 7 indexed citations

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Molnár, Zsolt, et al.. (2020). Expert understandings on rangeland ecosystem services and their sustainable management (Atrak River Basin, NE Iran). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(2). 109–120. 3 indexed citations

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Babai, Dániel, et al.. (2017). Az eurázsiai hód (Castor fiber) táplálkozási és fásszárú-használati szokásaival kapcsolatos helyi tudás két évtizeddel a visszatelepítések kezdete után a Kárpát-medencében. 23. 182–200. 5 indexed citations

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Dénes, Andrea, Nóra Papp, Dániel Babai, Bálint Czúcz, & Zsolt Molnár. (2013). Ehető, vadon termő növények és felhasználásuk a Kárpát-medencében élő magyarok körében néprajzi és etnobotanikai kutatások alapján. Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). 260(7). 4357–63.

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Bölöni, János, et al.. (2008). Térképezési célú, növényzeti alapú élőhely- osztályozás Magyarországon (Az Á-NÉR2003 és 2007 rendszer). Tájökológiai Lapok. 6(3). 379–393. 1 indexed citations

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Bartholy, Judit, Rita Pongrácz, & Zsolt Molnár. (2002). Analysis of Historical Climatological Records In The Carpathian Basin Based On The RÉthly Collection For The Last 1000 Years. EGSGA. 507. 1 indexed citations

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