Bart Shepherd

986 total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 631 citations indexed

About

Bart Shepherd is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Bart Shepherd has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 631 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Ecology, 18 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Bart Shepherd's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (20 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (15 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (9 papers). Bart Shepherd is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (20 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (15 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (9 papers). Bart Shepherd collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Australia. Bart Shepherd's co-authors include Luiz A. Rocha, Hudson T. Pinheiro, Richard L. Pyle, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Pim Bongaerts, Osmar J. Luiz, Gretchen Goodbody‐Gringley, João Batista Teixeira, Chancey MacDonald and Juan P. Quimbayo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Bart Shepherd

24 papers receiving 615 citations

Hit Papers

Plastic pollution on the world’s coral reefs 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 40 80 120
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. Plastic pollution on the world’s coral reefs
    2023 122 citations Hudson T. Pinheiro, Chancey MacDonald et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bart Shepherd United States 11 460 306 223 183 65 25 631
Juan P. Quimbayo Brazil 16 586 1.3× 426 1.4× 229 1.0× 175 1.0× 74 1.1× 51 814
Mei Lin Neo Singapore 21 603 1.3× 500 1.6× 99 0.4× 340 1.9× 194 3.0× 53 1.0k
Rui Freitas Cabo Verde 12 161 0.3× 121 0.4× 90 0.4× 52 0.3× 71 1.1× 30 379
Leonardo M. Neves Brazil 21 567 1.2× 479 1.6× 247 1.1× 247 1.3× 24 0.4× 40 904
Eduardo Cuevas Mexico 15 275 0.6× 212 0.7× 278 1.2× 185 1.0× 31 0.5× 34 600
Leandro Nolé Eduardo Brazil 14 294 0.6× 356 1.2× 233 1.0× 88 0.5× 106 1.6× 49 631
Gretchen Goodbody‐Gringley United States 16 664 1.4× 430 1.4× 129 0.6× 405 2.2× 103 1.6× 38 821
Nami Okubo Japan 14 420 0.9× 234 0.8× 35 0.2× 232 1.3× 105 1.6× 25 562
Nikoleta Bellou Greece 7 250 0.5× 289 0.9× 21 0.1× 221 1.2× 105 1.6× 10 546
Hélio H. Checon Brazil 14 280 0.6× 138 0.5× 25 0.1× 256 1.4× 149 2.3× 36 550

Countries citing papers authored by Bart Shepherd

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bart Shepherd

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Bart Shepherd. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Bart Shepherd. The network helps show where Bart Shepherd may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bart Shepherd

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

All Works

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Pinheiro, Hudson T., Chancey MacDonald, Robson G. Santos, et al.. (2023). Plastic pollution on the world’s coral reefs. Nature. 619(7969). 311–316. 122 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pinheiro, Hudson T., Chancey MacDonald, Juan P. Quimbayo, et al.. (2023). Assembly rules of coral reef fish communities along the depth gradient. Current Biology. 33(8). 1421–1430.e4. 22 indexed citations
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Pinheiro, Hudson T., Bart Shepherd, João Batista Teixeira, et al.. (2021). Fish aggregations and reproductive behaviour on mesophotic coral ecosystems of a southwestern Atlantic Oceanic archipelago. Journal of Natural History. 55(31-32). 2017–2025. 6 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Chancey, et al.. (2021). Disturbance and distribution gradients influence resource availability and feeding behaviours in corallivore fishes following a warm-water anomaly. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 23656–23656. 6 indexed citations
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Pimentel, Caio Ribeiro, Luiz A. Rocha, Bart Shepherd, et al.. (2020). Mesophotic ecosystems at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil (South-western Atlantic), reveal unique ichthyofauna and need for conservation. Neotropical Ichthyology. 18(4). 15 indexed citations
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Pinheiro, Hudson T., Bart Shepherd, Brian D. Greene, & Luiz A. Rocha. (2019). Liopropoma incandescens sp. nov. (Epinephelidae, Liopropominae), a new species of basslet from mesophotic coral ecosystems of Pohnpei, Micronesia. ZooKeys. 863. 97–106. 2 indexed citations
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Pinheiro, Hudson T., Gal Eyal, Bart Shepherd, & Luiz A. Rocha. (2019). Ecological insights from environmental disturbances in mesophotic coral ecosystems. Ecosphere. 10(4). 24 indexed citations
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Pinheiro, Hudson T., Bart Shepherd, Cristina Castillo, et al.. (2019). Deep reef fishes in the world’s epicenter of marine biodiversity. Coral Reefs. 38(5). 985–995. 35 indexed citations
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Pinheiro, Hudson T., Claudia R. Rocha, Brian D. Greene, et al.. (2019). Three new species of Chromis (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines. ZooKeys. 835. 1–15. 14 indexed citations
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Shepherd, Bart, Hudson T. Pinheiro, & Luiz A. Rocha. (2019). Sometimes hard to swallow: Attempted feeding on a porcupinefish results in death of both predator and prey. Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science. 18(2). 87–89. 3 indexed citations
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Shepherd, Bart, et al.. (2018). SubCAS: A Portable, Submersible Hyperbaric Chamber to Collect Living Mesophotic Fishes. Frontiers in Marine Science. 5. 2 indexed citations
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Rocha, Luiz A., et al.. (2017). Roa rumsfeldi, a new butterflyfish (Teleostei, Chaetodontidae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines. ZooKeys. 709(709). 127–134. 11 indexed citations
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Shepherd, Bart, Hudson T. Pinheiro, & Luiz A. Rocha. (2017). Ephemeral aggregation of the benthic ctenophore Lyrocteis imperatoris on a mesophotic coral ecosystem in the Philippines. Bulletin of Marine Science. 94(1). 101–102. 6 indexed citations

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