Andrew J. Pershing

9.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
82 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Andrew J. Pershing is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew J. Pershing has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 44 papers in Oceanography and 35 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Andrew J. Pershing's work include Marine and fisheries research (44 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (22 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (15 papers). Andrew J. Pershing is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (44 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (22 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (15 papers). Andrew J. Pershing collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Andrew J. Pershing's co-authors include Katherine E. Mills, Charles H. Greene, Nicholas R. Record, Andrew C. Thomas, Michael A. Alexander, Janet A. Nye, James D. Scott, Arnault Le Bris, Hillary A. Scannell and Graham D. Sherwood and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Andrew J. Pershing

82 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Slow adaptation in the face of rapid warming leads to collapse of the Gulf of Maine cod fishery

2015 691 citations Andrew J. Pershing, Michael A. Alexander et al. profile →
Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

2020 666 citations Andrew J. Pershing et al. profile →
Fisheries Management in a Changing Climate: Lessons From the 2012 Ocean Heat Wave in the Northwest Atlantic

2013 533 citations Katherine E. Mills, Andrew J. Pershing et al. Oceanography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew J. Pershing United States	37	3.5k	2.9k	2.6k	929	921	82	5.9k
Anne B. Hollowed United States	36	4.5k 1.3×	3.1k 1.1×	2.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.7×	628 0.7×	82	6.3k
Thomas L. Frölicher Switzerland	48	5.8k 1.6×	3.0k 1.0×	5.0k 1.9×	685 0.7×	2.1k 2.3×	125	9.3k
Mads S. Thomsen Australia	48	4.2k 1.2×	5.5k 1.9×	7.2k 2.7×	624 0.7×	900 1.0×	122	9.6k
Adrian C. Stier United States	29	2.2k 0.6×	4.5k 1.6×	1.6k 0.6×	886 1.0×	413 0.4×	73	6.3k
Neil Saintilan Australia	45	1.9k 0.5×	6.4k 2.2×	1.2k 0.4×	615 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	181	7.5k
Nick C. Davidson Australia	30	3.1k 0.9×	4.3k 1.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.0k 1.1×	264 0.3×	53	6.6k
Paul V. R. Snelgrove Canada	42	2.6k 0.7×	3.4k 1.2×	2.9k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	221 0.2×	127	5.9k
Bernhard Riegl United States	50	3.7k 1.1×	6.5k 2.3×	4.1k 1.5×	521 0.6×	622 0.7×	169	7.9k
Bernardo R. Broitman Chile	37	2.2k 0.6×	3.2k 1.1×	3.2k 1.2×	880 0.9×	217 0.2×	100	5.5k
Katherine E. Mills United States	24	2.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	798 0.9×	394 0.4×	66	3.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew J. Pershing

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20 of 20 papers shown

Roman, Joe, Andrew J. Abraham, Jérémy J. Kiszka, et al.. (2025). Migrating baleen whales transport high-latitude nutrients to tropical and subtropical ecosystems. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2125–2125. 7 indexed citations

Mills, Katherine E., et al.. (2024). Multispecies population-scale emergence of climate change signals in an ocean warming hotspot. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 81(2). 375–389. 13 indexed citations

Gilford, Daniel M., et al.. (2024). Human Fingerprints on Daily Temperatures in 2022. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105(7). E1365–E1370. 1 indexed citations

Record, Nicholas R., Andrew J. Pershing, & Douglas B. Rasher. (2024). Early Warning of a Cold Wave in the Gulf of Maine. Oceanography. 37(3). 3 indexed citations

Pershing, Andrew J., et al.. (2023). Decadal comparisons identify the drivers of persistent changes in the zooplankton community structure in the northwest Atlantic. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 81(3). 564–574. 12 indexed citations

Pershing, Andrew J., Maria Grigoratou, Katherine E. Mills, et al.. (2023). Merging trait‐based ecology and regime shift theory to anticipate community responses to warming. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17065–e17065. 1 indexed citations

Pershing, Andrew J. & Daniel E. Pendleton. (2021). Can Right Whales Out-Swim Climate Change? Can We?. Oceanography. 34(3). 19–21. 5 indexed citations

Record, Nicholas R., Jeffrey A. Runge, Daniel E. Pendleton, et al.. (2019). Rapid Climate-Driven Circulation Changes Threaten Conservation of Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales. Oceanography. 32(2). 111 indexed citations

Wahle, Richard A., et al.. (2019). The cresting wave: larval settlement and ocean temperatures predict change in the American lobster harvest. Ecological Applications. 29(8). e02006–e02006. 38 indexed citations

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Schuetz, Justin G., Katherine E. Mills, Andrew Allyn, et al.. (2018). Complex patterns of temperature sensitivity, not ecological traits, dictate diverse species responses to climate change. Ecography. 42(1). 111–124. 20 indexed citations

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Pershing, Andrew J., et al.. (2018). Evidence for Adaptation from the 2016 Marine Heatwave in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Oceanography. 31(2). 95 indexed citations

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Pershing, Andrew J., Michael A. Alexander, Christina M. Hernández, et al.. (2016). Slow Adaptation in the Face of Rapid Warming Leads to the Collapse of Atlantic Cod in the Gulf of Maine. 2016. 4 indexed citations

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Stamieszkin, Karen, Andrew J. Pershing, Nicholas R. Record, et al.. (2015). Size as the master trait in modeled copepod fecal pellet carbon flux. Limnology and Oceanography. 60(6). 2090–2107. 50 indexed citations

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Mills, Katherine E., Andrew J. Pershing, Curtis Brown, et al.. (2013). Fisheries Management in a Changing Climate: Lessons From the 2012 Ocean Heat Wave in the Northwest Atlantic. Oceanography. 26(2). 533 indexed citations breakdown →

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Record, Nicholas R., Andrew J. Pershing, & Frédéric Maps. (2012). First principles of copepod development help explain global marine diversity patterns. Oecologia. 170(2). 289–295. 12 indexed citations

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Pershing, Andrew J., Line Bang Christensen, Nicholas R. Record, Graham D. Sherwood, & P. B. Stetson. (2010). The Impact of Whaling on the Ocean Carbon Cycle: Why Bigger Was Better. PLoS ONE. 5(8). e12444–e12444. 107 indexed citations

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Witman, Jon D., Mathieu Cusson, Philippe Archambault, Andrew J. Pershing, & Nova Mieszkowska. (2008). THE RELATION BETWEEN PRODUCTIVITY AND SPECIES DIVERSITY IN TEMPERATE–ARCTIC MARINE ECOSYSTEMS. Ecology. 89(sp11). S66–80. 65 indexed citations

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Greene, Charles H., et al.. (2008). ARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACTS ON THE ECOLOGY OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC. Ecology. 89(sp11). S24–38. 106 indexed citations

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Wanamaker, Alan D., K. J. Kreutz, Bernd R. Schöne, et al.. (2008). A late Holocene paleo-productivity record in the western Gulf of Maine, USA, inferred from growth histories of the long-lived ocean quahog (Arctica islandica). International Journal of Earth Sciences. 98(1). 51 indexed citations

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Greene, Charles H. & Andrew J. Pershing. (2004). Climate and the conservation biology of North Atlantic right whales: the right whale at the wrong time?. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2(1). 29–34. 67 indexed citations

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