Alastair Grant

11.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
106 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Alastair Grant is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Alastair Grant has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Ecology, 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 20 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Alastair Grant's work include Marine and fisheries research (23 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (14 papers) and Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (14 papers). Alastair Grant is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (23 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (14 papers) and Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (14 papers). Alastair Grant collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Alastair Grant's co-authors include Tim G. Benton, Jennifer A. Gill, Isabelle M. Côté, Toby Gardner, Andrew R. Watkinson, Hannah L. Mossman, A. J. Davy, Philip S. Poole, Patricia Bi Asanga Fai and Paul A. Tyler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Alastair Grant

104 papers receiving 7.6k 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.

Long-Term Region-Wide Declines in Caribbean Corals

2003 1.6k citations Alastair Grant et al. Science profile →
Phytochromes function as thermosensors in Arabidopsis

2016 703 citations Jae‐Hoon Jung, Mirela Domijan et al. Science profile →
Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals kingdom level changes in the rhizosphere microbiome of plants

2013 371 citations Thomas R. Turner, Ramakrishnan Karunakaran et al. The ISME Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alastair Grant United Kingdom	42	3.9k	2.5k	1.9k	1.7k	1.3k	106	8.0k
James B. Cotner United States	46	4.7k 1.2×	1.0k 0.4×	3.3k 1.8×	786 0.5×	1.7k 1.3×	125	9.2k
Norman C. Duke Australia	44	8.0k 2.0×	2.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	635 0.5×	135	9.9k
Stuart E. Jones United States	42	6.5k 1.7×	1.1k 0.4×	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	168	10.5k
Paul J. Somerfield United Kingdom	51	7.6k 1.9×	4.1k 1.7×	5.6k 3.0×	658 0.4×	1.6k 1.2×	152	12.2k
Dave Raffaelli United Kingdom	40	4.2k 1.1×	2.8k 1.1×	2.8k 1.5×	724 0.4×	2.5k 1.9×	78	8.5k
Peter A. Thompson Australia	50	2.6k 0.7×	2.4k 1.0×	3.8k 2.0×	998 0.6×	670 0.5×	194	7.8k
Eric J. Ward United States	43	5.1k 1.3×	3.5k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.9×	157	9.3k
Susan S. Kilham United States	36	3.0k 0.8×	969 0.4×	1.8k 1.0×	352 0.2×	1.5k 1.2×	77	7.1k
Ellen van Donk Netherlands	62	6.7k 1.7×	1.4k 0.6×	5.6k 3.0×	600 0.4×	2.6k 1.9×	213	14.0k
Martin Solan United Kingdom	43	3.8k 1.0×	2.6k 1.1×	3.6k 1.9×	326 0.2×	961 0.7×	109	7.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alastair Grant

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20 of 20 papers shown

Grant, Alastair, et al.. (2025). KSGP 3.1: improved taxonomic annotation of Archaea communities using LotuS2, the genome taxonomy database and RNAseq data. ISME Communications. 5(1). ycaf094–ycaf094. 1 indexed citations

Grant, Alastair, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the impact of residual low chlorine concentration on phytoplankton communities by flow cytometry. Chemosphere. 367. 143634–143634.

Fernandes, José A., Louise A. Rutterford, Stephen D. Simpson, et al.. (2020). Can we project changes in fish abundance and distribution in response to climate?. Global Change Biology. 26(7). 3891–3905. 30 indexed citations

Phillips, Sophy R. McCully, Alastair Grant, & Jim R. Ellis. (2019). Diet composition of starry smooth‐hound Mustelus asterias and methodological considerations for assessing the trophic level of predatory fish. Journal of Fish Biology. 96(3). 590–600. 5 indexed citations

Jung, Jae‐Hoon, Mirela Domijan, Cornelia Klose, et al.. (2016). Phytochromes function as thermosensors in Arabidopsis. Science. 354(6314). 886–889. 703 indexed citations breakdown →

Grant, Alastair, et al.. (2013). Multigenerational demographic responses of sexual and asexual Artemia to chronic genotoxicity by a reference mutagen. Aquatic Toxicology. 144-145. 66–74. 13 indexed citations

Turner, Thomas R., Ramakrishnan Karunakaran, John Walshaw, et al.. (2013). Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals kingdom level changes in the rhizosphere microbiome of plants. The ISME Journal. 7(12). 2248–2258. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

Grant, Alastair, et al.. (2013). Effects of genotoxicity and its consequences at the population level in sexual and asexual Artemia assessed by analysis of inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSR). Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis. 757(1). 8–14. 20 indexed citations

Davy, A. J., Michael Joseph Brown, Hannah L. Mossman, & Alastair Grant. (2011). Colonization of a newly developing salt marsh: disentangling independent effects of elevation and redox potential on halophytes. Journal of Ecology. 99(6). 1350–1357. 136 indexed citations

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Fai, Patricia Bi Asanga & Alastair Grant. (2010). An assessment of the potential of the microbial assay for risk assessment (MARA) for ecotoxicological testing. Ecotoxicology. 19(8). 1626–1633. 22 indexed citations

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Batty, Lesley, Lesley Batty, Alan J. M. Baker, et al.. (2010). Ecology of Industrial Pollution. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 124 indexed citations

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Mossman, Hannah L., Michael Joseph Brown, A. J. Davy, & Alastair Grant. (2010). Constraints on Salt Marsh Development Following Managed Coastal Realignment: Dispersal Limitation or Environmental Tolerance?. Restoration Ecology. 20(1). 65–75. 50 indexed citations

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Shah, N. Jon, et al.. (2010). Hawksbill turtle monitoring in Cousin Island Special Reserve, Seychelles: an eight-fold increase in annual nesting numbers. Endangered Species Research. 11(3). 195–200. 32 indexed citations

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Fai, Patricia Bi Asanga & Alastair Grant. (2009). A rapid resazurin bioassay for assessing the toxicity of fungicides. Chemosphere. 74(9). 1165–1170. 59 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Philip W., et al.. (2004). Managed realignment in the UK – the first 5 years of colonization by birds. Ibis. 146(s1). 101–110. 29 indexed citations

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Côté, IM, et al.. (2003). Coral reef decline in the Caribbean - Response. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 392–393. 2 indexed citations

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Grant, Alastair. (2002). Pollution-Tolerant Species and Communities: Intriguing Toys or Invaluable Monitoring Tools?. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal. 8(5). 955–970. 22 indexed citations

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Benton, Tim G. & Alastair Grant. (2000). Evolutionary fitness in ecology: Comparing measures of fitness in stochastic, density-dependent environments. Evolutionary ecology research. 2(6). 769–789. 65 indexed citations

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Benton, Tim G., Tim G. Benton, Alastair Grant, & Alastair Grant. (1999). Elasticity analysis as an important tool in evolutionary and population ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 14(12). 467–471. 250 indexed citations

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Young, Emma F., GR Bigg, & Alastair Grant. (1996). A statistical study of environmental influences on bivalve recruitment in the Wash, England. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 143. 121–129. 39 indexed citations

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