Benjamin J. Williamson

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 689 citations indexed

About

Benjamin J. Williamson is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin J. Williamson has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 689 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Ecology, 19 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Benjamin J. Williamson's work include Marine animal studies overview (20 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (17 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (15 papers). Benjamin J. Williamson is often cited by papers focused on Marine animal studies overview (20 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (17 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (15 papers). Benjamin J. Williamson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Benjamin J. Williamson's co-authors include Beth E. Scott, James J. Waggitt, Lonneke Goddijn‐Murphy, Vladimir Nikora, Philippe Blondel, Paul S. Bell, Pierre Cazenave, Ricardo Torres, Elizabeth A. Masden and Eric Armstrong and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin J. Williamson

49 papers receiving 653 citations

Hit Papers

Potential environmental impacts of floating solar photovo... 2024 2026 2025 2024 10 20 30 40 50
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. Potential environmental impacts of floating solar photovoltaic systems
    2024 51 citations Steven Benjamins, Benjamin J. Williamson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin J. Williamson United Kingdom 15 250 180 175 152 145 52 689
Olivia Langhamer Sweden 12 277 1.1× 274 1.5× 291 1.7× 83 0.5× 116 0.8× 23 838
Simon Dedman United States 10 146 0.6× 44 0.2× 163 0.9× 120 0.8× 61 0.4× 23 466
Paul T. Jacobson United States 10 206 0.8× 76 0.4× 66 0.4× 217 1.4× 82 0.6× 17 605
Scott Couch United Kingdom 7 105 0.4× 208 1.2× 63 0.4× 33 0.2× 337 2.3× 21 630
Pål Lader Norway 18 180 0.7× 152 0.8× 788 4.5× 310 2.0× 104 0.7× 44 1.4k
Helen C.M. Smith United Kingdom 16 115 0.5× 304 1.7× 127 0.7× 36 0.2× 214 1.5× 35 925
Giacomo Fontanelli Italy 17 328 1.3× 35 0.2× 131 0.7× 38 0.3× 371 2.6× 56 1.1k
Duccio Bertoni Italy 18 219 0.9× 56 0.3× 45 0.3× 22 0.1× 29 0.2× 55 708
Fukun Gui China 23 132 0.5× 158 0.9× 901 5.1× 328 2.2× 112 0.8× 77 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Benjamin J. Williamson

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Benjamin J. Williamson's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Benjamin J. Williamson with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Benjamin J. Williamson more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Benjamin J. Williamson

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Benjamin J. Williamson. 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 Benjamin J. Williamson. The network helps show where Benjamin J. Williamson may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin J. Williamson

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Benjamins, Steven, et al.. (2025). Ecological impacts of floating offshore wind on marine mammals and associated trophic interactions: current evidence and knowledge gaps. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 218. 118059–118059. 1 indexed citations
2.
3.
Houghton, Jonathan D. R., et al.. (2024). Diet of the European Shag Gulosus aristotelis during the non-breeding season at a roost within a tidal channel. Bird Study. 71(1). 103–107.
4.
Williamson, Benjamin J., et al.. (2024). Integrated survey methodologies provide process-driven framework for marine renewable energy environmental impact assessment. Marine Environmental Research. 198. 106532–106532. 4 indexed citations
5.
Scott, Beth E., et al.. (2023). A paradigm for understanding whole ecosystem effects of offshore wind farms in shelf seas. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 82(3). 11 indexed citations
6.
Scott, Beth E., et al.. (2023). A Review of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Usage as an Environmental Survey Tool within Tidal Stream Environments. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 11(12). 2298–2298. 3 indexed citations
7.
Scott, Beth E., et al.. (2023). The bigger picture: developing a low-cost graphical user interface to process drone imagery of tidal stream environments. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 11–17. 2 indexed citations
8.
Narayanaswamy, Bhavani E., et al.. (2022). Aerial detection of beached marine plastic using a novel, hyperspectral short-wave infrared (SWIR) camera. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 79(3). 648–660. 21 indexed citations
9.
Fairley, Iain, Benjamin J. Williamson, Ian Masters, et al.. (2022). Drone-based large-scale particle image velocimetry applied to tidal stream energy resource assessment. Renewable Energy. 196. 839–855. 15 indexed citations
10.
Coles, Daniel, Athanasios Angeloudis, Deborah Greaves, et al.. (2021). A review of the UK and British Channel Islands practical tidal stream energy resource. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 477(2255). 20210469–20210469. 67 indexed citations
11.
Andersen, Roxane, Stacey L. Felgate, Paul P.J. Gaffney, et al.. (2021). Impact of land management on fire resilience and carbon fate in blanket bogs: The FireBlanket project. 1 indexed citations
12.
Cleasby, Ian R., Ellie Owen, Benjamin J. Williamson, et al.. (2021). The Use of Animal-Borne Biologging and Telemetry Data to Quantify Spatial Overlap of Wildlife with Marine Renewables. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 9(3). 263–263. 6 indexed citations
13.
Williamson, Benjamin J., et al.. (2021). Application of a multibeam echosounder to document changes in animal movement and behaviour around a tidal turbine structure. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 78(4). 1253–1266. 16 indexed citations
14.
15.
Masden, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2020). Assessing the effects of tidal stream marine renewable energy on seabirds: A conceptual framework. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 157. 111314–111314. 24 indexed citations
16.
Murphy, Paul, et al.. (2019). Acoustic characterization of sensors used for marine environmental monitoring. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 144. 205–215. 3 indexed citations
17.
Williamson, Benjamin J., et al.. (2017). Multisensor Acoustic Tracking of Fish and Seabird Behavior Around Tidal Turbine Structures in Scotland. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering. 42(4). 948–965. 48 indexed citations
18.
19.
Williamson, Benjamin J., et al.. (2015). Using the FLOWBEC seabed frame to understand underwater interactions between diving seabirds, prey, hydrodynamics and MREDs. The University of Bath Online Publications Store (The University of Bath). 1 indexed citations
20.
Williamson, Benjamin J., Beth E. Scott, James J. Waggitt, et al.. (2014). USING THE FLOWBEC SEABED FRAME TO UNDERSTAND UNDERWATER INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DIVING SEABIRDS, PREY, HYDRODYNAMICS AND TIDAL AND WAVE ENERGY STRUCTURES. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Olivia Langhamer Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Simon Dedman Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Paul T. Jacobson Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Scott Couch Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Pål Lader Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Helen C.M. Smith Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Giacomo Fontanelli Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Duccio Bertoni Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Fukun Gui
Rankless by CCL
2026