Bernard Ball

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Bernard Ball is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernard Ball has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Ecology, 6 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Bernard Ball's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (5 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (4 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (4 papers). Bernard Ball is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (5 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (4 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (4 papers). Bernard Ball collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Belgium. Bernard Ball's co-authors include Cliff Cunningham, Joel W. Martin, Andreas Zwick, Jeffrey W. Shultz, Jerome C. Regier, Regina Wetzer, Douglas J. Emlen, Jens Carlsson, Michael P. Cummings and Austen R. D. Ganley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Science of The Total Environment and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Bernard Ball

19 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences

2010 723 citations Jerome C. Regier, Jeffrey W. Shultz et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernard Ball United States	11	528	461	456	449	292	19	1.4k
Johann Wolfgang Wägele Germany	17	499 0.9×	309 0.7×	384 0.8×	549 1.2×	245 0.8×	41	1.3k
Jesús Lozano-Fernández Spain	21	387 0.7×	513 1.1×	493 1.1×	228 0.5×	393 1.3×	30	1.4k
Frank E. Anderson United States	22	791 1.5×	611 1.3×	300 0.7×	502 1.1×	301 1.0×	47	1.6k
Regina Wetzer United States	10	297 0.6×	429 0.9×	350 0.8×	896 2.0×	255 0.9×	27	1.6k
Annie R. Lindgren United States	15	560 1.1×	306 0.7×	191 0.4×	461 1.0×	154 0.5×	25	994
M. Sabrina Pankey United States	19	325 0.6×	294 0.6×	194 0.4×	490 1.1×	215 0.7×	45	1.2k
Daegan Inward United Kingdom	17	981 1.9×	240 0.5×	914 2.0×	553 1.2×	181 0.6×	29	1.9k
Vanessa L. González United States	16	240 0.5×	384 0.8×	307 0.7×	503 1.1×	248 0.8×	31	1.2k
J. Wolfgang Wägele Germany	13	312 0.6×	238 0.5×	247 0.5×	407 0.9×	163 0.6×	56	954
Thomas F. Duda United States	24	211 0.4×	1.1k 2.4×	667 1.5×	614 1.4×	202 0.7×	42	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bernard Ball

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19 of 19 papers shown

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U’Ren, Jana M., François Lutzoni, Jolanta Miądlikowska, et al.. (2024). Environmental drivers and cryptic biodiversity hotspots define endophytes in Earth’s largest terrestrial biome. Current Biology. 34(5). 1148–1156.e7. 2 indexed citations

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Georgieva, Magdalena N., Cindy Lee Van Dover, Diva J. Amon, et al.. (2023). A tale of two tubeworms: taxonomy of vestimentiferans (Annelida: Siboglinidae) from the Mid-Cayman Spreading Centre. Invertebrate Systematics. 37(3). 167–191. 1 indexed citations

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Gargan, Laura, Tor Atle Mo, Jeanette E. L. Carlsson, et al.. (2021). Development of an environmental DNA assay and field validation for the detection of invasive pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha. Environmental DNA. 4(2). 284–290. 5 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Siobhán, Michael Bruen, John J. Sullivan, et al.. (2020). An inspection-based assessment of obstacles to salmon, trout, eel and lamprey migration and river channel connectivity in Ireland. The Science of The Total Environment. 719. 137215–137215. 22 indexed citations

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Turner, Phillip J., Bernard Ball, Zoie Diana, et al.. (2020). Methane Seeps on the US Atlantic Margin and Their Potential Importance to Populations of the Commercially Valuable Deep-Sea Red Crab, Chaceon quinquedens. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. 18 indexed citations

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Ball, Bernard, Jens Carlsson, Elvira de Eyto, et al.. (2019). The application of CRISPR‐Cas for single species identification from environmental DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(5). 1106–1114. 85 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Siobhán, et al.. (2019). Field application of an eDNA assay for the threatened white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes. Freshwater Science. 38(3). 503–509. 12 indexed citations

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Plouviez, Sophie, Abigail L. LaBella, David W. Weisrock, et al.. (2019). Amplicon sequencing of 42 nuclear loci supports directional gene flow between South Pacific populations of a hydrothermal vent limpet. Ecology and Evolution. 9(11). 6568–6580. 11 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Siobhán, Jeanette E. L. Carlsson, Bernard Ball, et al.. (2018). A quantitative PCR‐based environmental DNA assay for detecting Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar L.). Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 28(5). 1238–1243. 25 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Siobhán, Michael Bruen, Jonathan Turner, et al.. (2018). The value of a desk study for building a national river obstacle inventory. River Research and Applications. 34(8). 1085–1094. 8 indexed citations

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Meyer, Kirstin S., et al.. (2016). Hyalinoecia artifex: Field notes on a charismatic and abundant epifaunal polychaete on the US Atlantic continental margin. Invertebrate Biology. 135(3). 211–224. 9 indexed citations

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Carey, Steven, Katherine Bell, Chris Roman, et al.. (2015). Exploring Kick’em Jenny Submarine Volcano and the Barbados Cold Seep Province, Southern Lesser Antilles [in special issue: New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus 2014 Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Field Season]. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations

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Carey, Steven, Katherine L.C. Bell, Chris Roman, et al.. (2015). Exploring Kick’em Jenny submarine volcano and the Barbados cold seep province, Southern Lesser Antilles. 4 indexed citations

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Dover, Cindy Lee Van, Katherine Bell, Leigh Marsh, et al.. (2014). Exploration of the Mid-Cayman Rise. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations

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Miądlikowska, Jolanta, D. H. S. Richardson, Nicolas Magain, et al.. (2014). Phylogenetic placement, species delimitation, and cyanobiont identity of endangered aquatic Peltigera species (lichen‐forming Ascomycota, Lecanoromycetes). American Journal of Botany. 101(7). 1141–1156. 31 indexed citations

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Regier, Jerome C., Jeffrey W. Shultz, Andreas Zwick, et al.. (2010). Arthropod relationships revealed by phylogenomic analysis of nuclear protein-coding sequences. Nature. 463(7284). 1079–1083. 723 indexed citations breakdown →

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Regier, Jerome C., Jeffrey W. Shultz, Austen R. D. Ganley, et al.. (2008). Resolving Arthropod Phylogeny: Exploring Phylogenetic Signal within 41 kb of Protein-Coding Nuclear Gene Sequence. Systematic Biology. 57(6). 920–938. 174 indexed citations

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Emlen, Douglas J., et al.. (2005). DIVERSITY IN THE WEAPONS OF SEXUAL SELECTION: HORN EVOLUTION IN THE BEETLE GENUS ONTHOPHAGUS (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE). Evolution. 59(5). 1060–1084. 219 indexed citations

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Emlen, Douglas J., et al.. (2005). DIVERSITY IN THE WEAPONS OF SEXUAL SELECTION: HORN EVOLUTION IN THE BEETLE GENUS ONTHOPHAGUS (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE). Evolution. 59(5). 1060–1060. 32 indexed citations

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