Leaderboards/Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education

Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
K. Denise Kendall Niemiller
University of Alabama in Huntsville
2
Iain R. Caldwell
Wildlife Conservation Society
3
Harriet Downey
University of Cambridge
4
Erich K. Eberhard
Columbia University
5
Samuel Finnerty
Lancaster University
6
Nora Escribano
Universidad de Navarra
7
Megan Evansen
Unknown
8
Hannah L. Harrison
Dalhousie University
9
Piia Lundberg
University of Helsinki
10
Elisabetta Canteri
University of Copenhagen

Rising Stars Papers

1
Global trends and biases in biodiversity conservation research
Cell Reports Sustainability|2024
50 cit.
2
Consumers and self-repair: What do they repair, what skills do they have and what are they willing to learn?
Resources Conservation and Recycling|2024
27 cit.
3
Scientists’ identities shape engagement with environmental activism
Communications Earth & Environment|2024
25 cit.
4
A commentary on the role of hatcheries and stocking programs in salmon conservation and adapting ourselves to less‐than‐wild futures
Fish and Fisheries|2024
18 cit.
5
Between two worlds: the scientist’s dilemma in climate activism
npj Climate Action|2024
13 cit.
6
Protection efforts have resulted in ~10% of existing fish biomass on coral reefs
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
12 cit.
7
Climate futures: Scientists' discourses on collapse versus transformation
British Journal of Social Psychology|2024
10 cit.
8
Beyond fish: Social outcomes of Maritimes region atlantic salmon hatcheries and stocking programs through a social-ecological systems lens
Fisheries Research|2025
6 cit.
9
Mismatch in reindeer resilience to past and future warming signals ongoing declines
Science Advances|2025
5 cit.
10
Precycling in the circular economy: Application of the motivation opportunity ability framework to explore the antecedents of consumers’ precycling behavior in Finland
Waste Management|2024
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
James R. Allan
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
2
Erin K. Zess
Confluence Life Sciences (United States)
3
Ben C. Scheele
Australian National University
4
Lisa Zander
Technische Universität Berlin
5
Jocelyn P. Colella
American Museum of Natural History
6
Rebecca D. Tarvin
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
7
Kassandra Ford
Science Museum of Minnesota
8
Melissa T. R. Hawkins
National Museum of Natural History
9
Alejandro Rico‐Guevara
University of Washington
10
Jeffrey W. Streicher
The University of Texas at Arlington

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene
Science|2022
272 cit.
2
The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity
Science|2022
243 cit.
3
Overcoming Language Barriers in Academia: Machine Translation Tools and a Vision for a Multilingual Future
BioScience|2022
137 cit.
4
Why We Need to Invest in Large-Scale, Long-Term Monitoring Programs in Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology
Current Landscape Ecology Reports|2022
101 cit.
5
A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2022
78 cit.
6
triangulaR: an R package for identifying AIMs and building triangle plots using SNP data from hybrid zones
Heredity|2025
27 cit.
7
Engaging with the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing: recommendations for noncommercial biodiversity researchers
Journal of Mammalogy|2023
26 cit.
8
The Diverse Mechanisms that Animals Use to Resist Toxins
Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics|2023
24 cit.
9
That's Not a Hybrid: How to Distinguish Patterns of Admixture and Isolation By Distance
Molecular Ecology Resources|2024
23 cit.
10
An invasive pathogen drives directional niche contractions in amphibians
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2023
21 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Michael E. Soulé
Wildlands Network
2
Andrew R. Watkinson
University of East Anglia
3
Richard B. Primack
Boston University
4
Eduard Hovy
The University of Melbourne
5
John G. Robinson
Mayo Clinic Hospital
6
Richard A. Fuller
The University of Queensland
7
David B. Lindenmayer
Australian National University
8
James Murombedzi
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
9
Tara Sayuri Whitty
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
10
James Watson
The University of Queensland

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Hierarchical Attention Networks for Document Classification
Unknown Journal|2016
4.8k cit.
2
End-to-end Sequence Labeling via Bi-directional LSTM-CNNs-CRF
Unknown Journal|2016
2.6k cit.
3
Landscape modification and habitat fragmentation: a synthesis
Global Ecology and Biogeography|2007
2.4k cit.
4
The performance and potential of protected areas
Nature|2014
2.3k cit.
5
Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers
Nature|2016
1.9k cit.
6
Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation
Nature Communications|2016
1.9k cit.
7
Mesopredator release and avifaunal extinctions in a fragmented system
Nature|1999
1.7k cit.
8
What Is Conservation Biology?
BioScience|1985
1.6k cit.
9
Automatic evaluation of summaries using N-gram co-occurrence statistics
Unknown Journal|2003
1.6k cit.
10
Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity
Biology Letters|2007
1.5k cit.

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