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Ecology and Evolution
Netherlands
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
90
Citations
35048
World Ranking
465
National Ranking
18

Douglas Sheil publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Douglas Sheil sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 374 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Douglas Sheil D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Douglas Sheil sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 95 scientists 31 D-Index: 123 scientists 32 D-Index: 191 scientists 33 D-Index: 245 scientists 34 D-Index: 252 scientists 35 D-Index: 244 scientists 36 D-Index: 249 scientists 37 D-Index: 244 scientists 38 D-Index: 254 scientists 39 D-Index: 254 scientists 40 D-Index: 280 scientists 41 D-Index: 274 scientists 42 D-Index: 266 scientists 43 D-Index: 233 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 208 scientists 46 D-Index: 201 scientists 47 D-Index: 213 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 172 scientists 50 D-Index: 209 scientists 51 D-Index: 199 scientists 52 D-Index: 153 scientists 53 D-Index: 169 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 148 scientists 56 D-Index: 120 scientists 57 D-Index: 146 scientists 58 D-Index: 137 scientists 59 D-Index: 140 scientists 60 D-Index: 104 scientists 61 D-Index: 119 scientists 62 D-Index: 118 scientists 63 D-Index: 99 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 100 scientists 66 D-Index: 86 scientists 67 D-Index: 83 scientists 68 D-Index: 75 scientists 69 D-Index: 94 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 68 scientists 72 D-Index: 59 scientists 73 D-Index: 63 scientists 74 D-Index: 66 scientists 75 D-Index: 60 scientists 76 D-Index: 42 scientists 77 D-Index: 49 scientists 78 D-Index: 39 scientists 79 D-Index: 37 scientists 80 D-Index: 43 scientists 81 D-Index: 41 scientists 82 D-Index: 45 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 40 scientists 85 D-Index: 35 scientists 86 D-Index: 55 scientists 87 D-Index: 24 scientists 88 D-Index: 24 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 25 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 27 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 23 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 14 scientists 98 D-Index: 19 scientists 99 D-Index: 16 scientists 100 D-Index: 14 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 21 scientists 103 D-Index: 16 scientists 104 D-Index: 10 scientists 105 D-Index: 7 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 7 scientists 108 D-Index: 6 scientists 109 D-Index: 9 scientists 110 D-Index: 11 scientists 111 D-Index: 12 scientists 112 D-Index: 9 scientists 113 D-Index: 7 scientists 114 D-Index: 3 scientists 115 D-Index: 8 scientists 116 D-Index: 5 scientists 117 D-Index: 11 scientists 118 D-Index: 4 scientists 119 D-Index: 2 scientists 120 D-Index: 5 scientists 121+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Douglas Sheil is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with a significant concentration on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Atmospheric Science.

Their academic contributions span a wide array of topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Douglas Sheil's frequent coauthors include:

  • Erik Meijaard
  • Francesco Rovero
  • Robert Bitariho
  • Fernanda Santos
  • Santiago Espinosa

The scholar publishes in a variety of scientific venues, with the most frequent publication platforms being:

  • Preprints.org
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests," 2020, Nature
  • "The environmental impacts of palm oil in context," 2020, Nature Plants
  • "An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when?", 2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Unprecedented fire activity above the Arctic Circle linked to rising temperatures," 2022, Science
  • "Slowing deforestation in Indonesia follows declining oil palm expansion and lower oil prices," 2022, PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses

    Jeffrey Sayer;Terry Sunderland;Jaboury Ghazoul;Jean-Laurent Pfund

  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Julio Rendeiro;Margareta Kalka

  • Assessing forest canopies and understorey illumination: canopy closure, canopy cover and other measures

    SB Jennings;ND Brown;D Sheil

  • Trees, forests and water : Cool insights for a hot world

    David Ellison;Cindy E. Morris;Cindy E. Morris;Bruno Locatelli;Douglas Sheil

  • Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

    Simon L. Lewis;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez;Bonaventure Sonké;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests

    Robin L. Chazdon;Carlos A. Peres;Daisy H. Dent;Douglas Sheil

  • Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

    Francis E. Putz;Francis E. Putz;Pieter A. Zuidema;Pieter A. Zuidema;Timothy Synnott;Marielos Peña-Claros

  • A review of tools for incorporating community knowledge, preferences, and values into decision making in natural resources management

    T. Lynam;W. de Jong;Douglas Sheil;T. Kusumanto

  • The interpretation and misinterpretation of mortality rate measures

    D Sheil;David Francis Robert Philip Burslem;D Alder

  • Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

    J.W. Ferry Slik;Gary Paoli;Krista L. McGuire;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Four decades of forest persistence, clearance and logging on Borneo.

    David L. A. Gaveau;Sean Sloan;Elis Molidena;Husna Yaen

  • Rapid conversions and avoided deforestation: examining four decades of industrial plantation expansion in Borneo

    David L. A. Gaveau;Douglas Sheil;Husnayaen;Mohammad A. Salim

  • The impacts and opportunities of oil palm in Southeast Asia: What do we know and what do we need to know?

    Douglas Sheil;Anne Casson;Erik Meijaard;Meline van Noordwijk

  • Community structure and diversity of tropical forest mammals: data from a global camera trap network.

    Jorge A. Ahumada;Carlos E. F. Silva;Krisna Gajapersad;Chris Hallam

  • Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests

    David P. Edwards;David P. Edwards;Joseph A. Tobias;Douglas Sheil;Douglas Sheil;Douglas Sheil;Erik Meijaard;Erik Meijaard

  • MORTALITY AND RECRUITMENT RATE EVALUATIONS IN HETEROGENEOUS TROPICAL FORESTS

    Douglas Sheil;Robert M. May

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Disturbing hypotheses in tropical forests

    D. Sheil;David Francis Robert Philip Burslem

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Meijaard
Erik Meijaard University of Queensland
Antonio D. Nobre
Antonio D. Nobre National Institute for Space Research
Serge A. Wich
Serge A. Wich Liverpool John Moores University
Patrick A. Jansen
Patrick A. Jansen Wageningen University & Research
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia
Francis Q. Brearley
Francis Q. Brearley Manchester Metropolitan University
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Francesco Rovero
Francesco Rovero University of Florence
Bai-Lian Li
Bai-Lian Li University of California, Riverside

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Best Scientists Citing Douglas Sheil

Simon L. Lewis

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Publications: 131

Oliver L. Phillips

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University of Leeds

Publications: 112

William F. Laurance

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Erik Meijaard

Erik Meijaard

University of Queensland

Publications: 96

Yadvinder Malhi

Yadvinder Malhi

University of Oxford

Publications: 82

Terry Sunderland

Terry Sunderland

University of British Columbia

Publications: 75

Jos Barlow

Jos Barlow

Lancaster University

Publications: 74

Robin L. Chazdon

Robin L. Chazdon

University of Connecticut

Publications: 66

David B. Lindenmayer

David B. Lindenmayer

Australian National University

Publications: 62

Timothy R. Baker

Timothy R. Baker

University of Leeds

Publications: 62

Francis E. Putz

Francis E. Putz

University of Florida

Publications: 55

Ted R. Feldpausch

Ted R. Feldpausch

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Publications: 51

David A. Coomes

David A. Coomes

University of Cambridge

Publications: 50

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Jeffrey Sayer

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Publications: 49

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Andy Purvis

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