Alberto Brito

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Alberto Brito is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Brito has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Ecology, 39 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 35 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Alberto Brito's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (37 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (25 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (22 papers). Alberto Brito is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (37 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (25 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (22 papers). Alberto Brito collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Portugal and United States. Alberto Brito's co-authors include Sabrina Clemente, José Carlos Hernández, J.M. Falcón, Ricardo S. Santos, Natacha Aguilar de Soto, Mark Johnson, Peter T. Madsen, Adriana Rodríguez, Giacomo Bernardi and Vítor C. Almada and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Animal Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Brito

84 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Atlantic reef fish biogeography and evolution

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alberto Brito Spain	25	1.8k	1.1k	967	533	397	87	2.5k
Sara A. Lourie Canada	12	2.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	691 1.3×	857 2.2×	18	3.7k
Héctor Reyes‐Bonilla Mexico	26	2.5k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	1.6k 1.7×	339 0.6×	237 0.6×	199	3.1k
Peter R. Teske South Africa	29	1.2k 0.7×	750 0.7×	786 0.8×	481 0.9×	595 1.5×	115	2.5k
C. Roland Pitcher Australia	25	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	815 0.8×	541 1.0×	221 0.6×	55	2.6k
J. Hobbs Australia	31	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	517 0.5×	931 1.7×	410 1.0×	115	2.7k
Risto Väinölä Finland	30	2.0k 1.1×	680 0.6×	917 0.9×	583 1.1×	199 0.5×	84	3.1k
João Luiz Rosetti Gasparini Brazil	25	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.5×	452 0.5×	1.2k 2.3×	363 0.9×	83	2.8k
Brian P. Kinlan United States	22	2.4k 1.3×	1.8k 1.7×	1.9k 2.0×	660 1.2×	137 0.3×	33	3.7k
Jean‐Pierre Féral France	26	1.2k 0.7×	860 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	146 0.3×	277 0.7×	87	1.9k
Gary C. B. Poore Australia	33	2.9k 1.6×	1.7k 1.6×	2.4k 2.4×	590 1.1×	407 1.0×	177	4.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Brito, Alberto, et al.. (2025). Five-year assessment of reef fish communities in the Canary Islands: marine heatwaves as drivers of rapid annual shifts. Marine Biology. 172(11).

Brito, Alberto, et al.. (2025). Ergonomia no ambiente de trabalho. 7(1). e74–e74.

Gonçalves, Berta, et al.. (2024). Prevalence of paucibacillary cases of leprosy in Brazil: a 20-year systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Medicine. 11. 1401685–1401685. 1 indexed citations

Rodríguez, Adriana, et al.. (2022). Response of Cymodocea nodosa to ocean acidification and warming in the Canary Islands: Direct and indirect effects. Marine Environmental Research. 176. 105603–105603. 5 indexed citations

Sangil, Carlos, Sabrina Clemente, Alberto Brito, et al.. (2016). Seaweed community response to a massive CO2 input. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 178. 48–57. 3 indexed citations

Ocaña, Óscar, J.C. den Hartog, Alberto Brito, et al.. (2015). A survey on Anthozoa and its habitats along the Northwest African coast and some islands: new records, descriptions of new taxa and biogeographical, ecological and taxonomical comments. Part I.. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 27(1). 9–66. 5 indexed citations

Brito, Alberto, et al.. (2015). The polygon moray, Gymnothorax polygonius (Poey, 1875) : A new record from Ascension Island, South Atlantic. University of Salford Institutional Repository (University of Salford). 32. 1 indexed citations

Stefanni, Sérgio, Rita Castilho, Joana I. Robalo, et al.. (2015). Establishment of a coastal fish in the Azores: recent colonisation or sudden expansion of an ancient relict population?. Heredity. 115(6). 527–537. 13 indexed citations

Arranz, Patricia, et al.. (2011). Following a Foraging Fish-Finder: Diel Habitat Use of Blainville's Beaked Whales Revealed by Echolocation. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e28353–e28353. 85 indexed citations

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Almada, V. C., Rocío Pérez‐Portela, Joana I. Robalo, & Alberto Brito. (2009). Phylogenetic relationships of Gymnothorax bacalladoi Böhlke and Brito (1987) a poorly known moray of the Macaronesian islands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52(1). 252–256. 6 indexed citations

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Lozano, Gonzalo, et al.. (2009). Content of Lead and Cadmium in Barred Hogfish, Bodianus scrofa, Island Grouper, Mycteroperca fusca, and Portuguese Dogfish, Centroscymnus coelolepis, from Canary Islands, Spain. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 83(4). 591–594. 22 indexed citations

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Domingues, Vera, Cláudia Faria, Sérgio Stefanni, et al.. (2007). Genetic divergence in the Atlantic–Mediterranean Montagu's blenny, Coryphoblennius galerita (Linnaeus 1758) revealed by molecular and morphological characters. Molecular Ecology. 16(17). 3592–3605. 37 indexed citations

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Francisco, Sara M., Leonardo Congiu, Sérgio Stefanni, et al.. (2007). Phylogenetic relationships of the North-eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean forms of Atherina (Pisces, Atherinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48(2). 782–788. 29 indexed citations

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Domingues, Vera, Sérgio Stefanni, Alberto Brito, Ricardo S. Santos, & Vítor C. Almada. (2007). Phylogeography and demography of the Blenniid Parablennius parvicornis and its sister species P. sanguinolentus from the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the western Mediterranean Sea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 46(1). 397–402. 26 indexed citations

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Ocaña, Óscar, Alberto Brito, Gustavo González, & Rogélio Herrera. (2007). Additions in relation to Gerardiidae from theMacaronesian waters and the Mediterranean Sea(Anthozoa: Zoantharia). Vieraea Folia scientiarum biologicarum canariensium. 35(Vieraea 35). 163–168. 9 indexed citations

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Domingues, Vera, Ricardo S. Santos, Alberto Brito, & Vítor C. Almada. (2006). Historical population dynamics and demography of the eastern Atlantic pomacentrid Chromis limbata (Valenciennes, 1833). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40(1). 139–147. 48 indexed citations

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Hernández, José Carlos, et al.. (2005). Descripción de la post-larva y primeras fases juveniles de tres equinoideos presentes en las Islas Canarias: Diadema antillarum Philippi, 1845, Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) y Arbaciella elegans Mortensen, 1910. Vieraea Folia scientiarum biologicarum canariensium. 385–398. 7 indexed citations

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Almada, Vítor C., et al.. (2002). On the phylogenetic affinities of Centrolabrus trutta and Centrolabrus caeruleus (Perciformes: Labridae) to the genus Symphodus : molecular, meristic and behavioural evidences.. Repositório do ISPA (Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada). 85–92. 8 indexed citations

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Matallanas, Jesús & Alberto Brito. (1999). Description of Ophidion saldanhai sp. nov. from the Cabo Verde Islands. Journal of Fish Biology. 55(5). 931–936. 4 indexed citations

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Hartog, J.C. den, Óscar Ocaña, & Alberto Brito. (1993). Corallimorpharia collected during the CANCAP expeditions (1976-1986) in the south-eastern part of the North Atlantic*. The Digital Academic Repository of Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Naturalis Biodiversity Center). 282(1). 1–76. 23 indexed citations

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