Alastair Brown

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
142 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Alastair Brown is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Alastair Brown has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Ecology, 48 papers in Oceanography and 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Alastair Brown's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (35 papers), Physiological and biochemical adaptations (22 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (22 papers). Alastair Brown is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (35 papers), Physiological and biochemical adaptations (22 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (22 papers). Alastair Brown collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and France. Alastair Brown's co-authors include Anton McLachlan, Sven Thatje, A. McLachlan, E. R. Trueman, Chris Hauton, Andrew Oliphant, Nélia C. Mestre, Bruce Shillito, Juliette Ravaux and Lisa Mevenkamp and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Alastair Brown

136 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Ecology of Sandy Shores 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Ecology of Sandy Shores
    1990 520 citations Alastair Brown et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alastair Brown South Africa 21 1.2k 1.1k 905 279 197 142 2.4k
Rachel Przeslawski Australia 23 1.5k 1.3× 1.6k 1.4× 1.4k 1.5× 262 0.9× 124 0.6× 76 2.8k
Gordon W. Thayer United States 26 2.0k 1.7× 2.1k 1.8× 1.1k 1.2× 307 1.1× 98 0.5× 55 3.2k
Gérard Thouzeau France 30 1.1k 0.9× 1.4k 1.2× 1.3k 1.4× 91 0.3× 245 1.2× 79 2.5k
P. S. Meadows United Kingdom 25 1.0k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 568 0.6× 224 0.8× 183 0.9× 63 2.3k
Markku Viitasalo Finland 35 1.4k 1.1× 1.8k 1.6× 1.2k 1.3× 591 2.1× 201 1.0× 69 3.3k
Angelo Tursi Italy 30 1.7k 1.4× 785 0.7× 1.6k 1.8× 453 1.6× 127 0.6× 103 2.6k
R. I. E. Newell United States 18 1.2k 1.0× 1.4k 1.2× 1.4k 1.5× 224 0.8× 101 0.5× 21 2.6k
Candace A. Oviatt United States 28 1.2k 1.0× 1.3k 1.2× 1.0k 1.2× 397 1.4× 106 0.5× 57 2.4k
Richard F. Dame United States 29 1.7k 1.5× 1.7k 1.5× 2.0k 2.2× 275 1.0× 187 0.9× 45 3.3k
Jean–Claude Dauvin France 27 1.0k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.4× 153 0.5× 139 0.7× 139 2.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alastair Brown

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alastair Brown

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alastair Brown. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alastair Brown based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alastair Brown. Alastair Brown is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brown, Alastair, et al.. (2025). WCN25-1576 Survival Outcomes Following Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Adults Receiving Kidney Replacement Therapy. Kidney International Reports. 10(2). S288–S288.
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Stuart, Beth, Alastair Brown, Ann Van den Bruel, et al.. (2019). Exploring the appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing for common respiratory tract infections in UK primary care. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 75(1). 236–242. 15 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair & Sven Thatje. (2019). Growth in the northern stone crab Lithodes maja Linnaeus, 1758 (Decapoda: Anomura: Lithodidae), a potential fishery target, in the laboratory. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 39(5). 582–585. 1 indexed citations
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Mestre, Nélia C., Manon Auguste, Tainá G. Fonseca, et al.. (2019). Are shallow-water shrimps proxies for hydrothermal-vent shrimps to assess the impact of deep-sea mining?. Marine Environmental Research. 151. 104771–104771. 13 indexed citations
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Thatje, Sven, Alastair Brown, & Claus‐Dieter Hillenbrand. (2019). Prospects for metazoan life in sub-glacial Antarctic lakes: the most extreme life on Earth?. International Journal of Astrobiology. 18(5). 416–419. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair, Chris Hauton, Tanja Stratmann, et al.. (2018). Metabolic rates are significantly lower in abyssal Holothuroidea than in shallow-water Holothuroidea. Royal Society Open Science. 5(5). 172162–172162. 16 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair, Sven Thatje, & Chris Hauton. (2017). The Effects of Temperature and Hydrostatic Pressure on Metal Toxicity: Insights into Toxicity in the Deep Sea. Environmental Science & Technology. 51(17). 10222–10231. 37 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair, Sven Thatje, James P. Morris, et al.. (2017). Metabolic costs imposed by hydrostatic pressure constrain bathymetric range in the lithodid crabLithodes maja. Journal of Experimental Biology. 220(21). 3916–3926. 19 indexed citations
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Durden, Jennifer M., David Billett, Alastair Brown, et al.. (2016). Report on the Managing Impacts of Deep-seA reSource exploitation (MIDAS) workshop on environmental management of deep-sea mining. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. e10292–e10292. 14 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair. (2015). Regional climate prediction. Nature Climate Change. 5(3). 193–193. 2 indexed citations
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Amsler, Margaret O., Kathryn E. Smith, James B. McClintock, et al.. (2015). In situobservations of a possible skate nursery off the western Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Fish Biology. 86(6). 1867–1872. 19 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair. (2012). Global implications for Africa. Nature Climate Change. 2(11). 769–769. 1 indexed citations
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Trueman, E. R. & Alastair Brown. (1985). The mechanism of shell elevation in Haliotis (Mollusca: Gastropoda) and a consideration of the evolution of the hydrostatic skeleton in Mollusca. Journal of Zoology. 205(4). 585–594. 18 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair, et al.. (1984). Effects of temperature on oxygen consumption in two closely-related whelks from different temperature regimes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 84(2). 145–153. 11 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair, et al.. (1981). The effects of salinity changes on respiration in the sandy-beach whelk Bullia digitalis (dillwyn). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Physiology. 69(3). 599–601. 9 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair. (1974). OBSERVATIONS ON THE EFFECT OF AMMONIUM NITRATE SOLUTIONS ON SOME COMMON MARINE ANIMALS FROM TABLE BAY. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 41(2). 217–223. 5 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair, et al.. (1972). THE ECOLOGY OF THE SANDY BEACHES OF THE CAPE PENINSULA, SOUTH AFRICA. PART 3: A STUDY OFGASTROSACCUS PSAMMODYTESTATTERSALL (CRUSTACEA: MYSIDACEA). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 40(4). 309–333. 20 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair. (1971). THE ECOLOGY OF THE SANDY BEACHES OF THE CAPE PENINSULA, SOUTH AFRICA PART 2: THE MODE OF LIFE OF BULLIA (GASTROPODA: PROSOBRANCHIATA). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 39(3). 281–319. 48 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair. (1967). The Elimination of Foreign Particles Injected into the Haemocoels of some Prosobranchiate Gastropoda. Zoologica Africana. 3(1). 9–19. 4 indexed citations
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Brown, Alastair, et al.. (1960). Function of the Osphradium in Bullia (Gastropoda). Nature. 188(4755). 1045–1045. 33 indexed citations

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