Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda

705 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 458 citations indexed

About

Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 458 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Oceanography and 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (11 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (10 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (6 papers). Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (11 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (10 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (6 papers). Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, Cuba and United States. Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda's co-authors include Héctor A. Hernández‐Arana, Julio Espinoza-Ávalos, Ligia Collado‐Vides, Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek, Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez, Hazel M. Canizales-Flores, Miguel-Ángel Ruíz-Zárate, Nancy Cabañillas-Terán, Alberto Sánchez and Yann Hénaut and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Marine Pollution Bulletin and Marine Biology.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda

13 papers receiving 448 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.

Severe impacts of brown tides caused by Sargassum spp. on near-shore Caribbean seagrass communities

2017 310 citations Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek, Héctor A. Hernández‐Arana et al. Marine Pollution Bulletin profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda Mexico	7	282	242	139	64	38	13	458
Vanessa Francisco Mexico	6	216 0.8×	168 0.7×	114 0.8×	52 0.8×	34 0.9×	8	391
Jeffrey M. Schell United States	9	295 1.0×	172 0.7×	98 0.7×	37 0.6×	59 1.6×	12	414
Amy N. S. Siuda United States	12	325 1.2×	182 0.8×	116 0.8×	38 0.6×	58 1.5×	18	481
Hazel M. Canizales-Flores Mexico	3	202 0.7×	143 0.6×	79 0.6×	42 0.7×	34 0.9×	5	320
Abigail Uribe-Martínez Mexico	10	204 0.7×	218 0.9×	133 1.0×	64 1.0×	31 0.8×	20	473
Marta García-Sánchez Spain	11	427 1.5×	214 0.9×	141 1.0×	70 1.1×	109 2.9×	14	643
Rodney M. Fujita United States	9	359 1.3×	210 0.9×	154 1.1×	52 0.8×	37 1.0×	10	531
Manuela Bernardes Batista Brazil	11	257 0.9×	184 0.8×	97 0.7×	63 1.0×	40 1.1×	12	381
Maria Luise Koening Brazil	13	282 1.0×	168 0.7×	93 0.7×	82 1.3×	72 1.9×	63	524
Shaun H.P. Deyzel South Africa	10	156 0.6×	161 0.7×	143 1.0×	50 0.8×	15 0.4×	18	368

Countries citing papers authored by Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda 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 Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda. Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

Hernández‐Arana, Héctor A., et al.. (2023). Changes in the community structure of stony corals in the southern Mexican Caribbean. Marine Environmental Research. 191. 106154–106154. 1 indexed citations

Ruíz-Zárate, Miguel-Ángel, et al.. (2023). Benthic successional dynamics on settlement substrate in coral reefs lagoons. Marine Biology. 170(5). 1 indexed citations

Schmitter‐Soto, Juan J., et al.. (2022). How effective are marine parks in protecting their coral reef ecosystem? A study case in the Mexican Caribbean. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 32(7). 1126–1140. 3 indexed citations

Hénaut, Yann, et al.. (2020). Leachate effects of pelagic Sargassum spp. on larval swimming behavior of the coral Acropora palmata. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 3910–3910. 27 indexed citations

Mascareñas‐Osorio, Ismael, Carlos González‐Salas, Horacio Pérez‐España, et al.. (2020). Being Isolated and Protected Is Better Than Just Being Isolated: A Case Study From the Alacranes Reef, Mexico. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. 5 indexed citations

Gómez-Acata, Selene, et al.. (2020). Depth Related Structure and Microbial Composition of Microbialites in a Karst Sinkhole, Cenote Azul, Mexico. Geomicrobiology Journal. 38(3). 237–251. 5 indexed citations

Cabañillas-Terán, Nancy, Héctor A. Hernández‐Arana, Miguel-Ángel Ruíz-Zárate, Alejandro Vega‐Zepeda, & Alberto Sánchez. (2019). Sargassum blooms in the Caribbean alter the trophic structure of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum. PeerJ. 7. e7589–e7589. 66 indexed citations

Tussenbroek, Brigitta I. van, Héctor A. Hernández‐Arana, Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez, et al.. (2017). Severe impacts of brown tides caused by Sargassum spp. on near-shore Caribbean seagrass communities. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 122(1-2). 272–281. 310 indexed citations breakdown →

Hernández‐Arana, Héctor A., et al.. (2017). Did the community structure of a coral reef patch affected by a ship grounding recover after 15 years? Merging historical and recent data sets. Ocean & Coastal Management. 144. 59–70. 8 indexed citations

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Perera‐Valderrama, Susana, Héctor A. Hernández‐Arana, Miguel-Ángel Ruíz-Zárate, et al.. (2017). Temporal dynamic of reef benthic communities in two marine protected areas in the Caribbean. Journal of Sea Research. 128. 15–24. 8 indexed citations

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Espinoza-Ávalos, Julio, et al.. (2016). Reclutamiento del coral Acropora palmata sobre sustratos de dos materiales. Revista de biología marina y oceanografía. 51(3). 643–653. 1 indexed citations

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Perera‐Valderrama, Susana, Héctor A. Hernández‐Arana, Miguel-Ángel Ruíz-Zárate, et al.. (2016). Condition assessment of coral reefs of two marine protected areas under different regimes of use in the north-western Caribbean. Ocean & Coastal Management. 127. 16–25. 14 indexed citations

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Vega‐Zepeda, Alejandro, Héctor A. Hernández‐Arana, & Juan P. Carricart‐Ganivet. (2007). Spatial and size-frequency distribution of Acropora (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) species in Chinchorro Bank, Mexican Caribbean: implications for management. Coral Reefs. 26(3). 671–676. 9 indexed citations

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