Bradley M. Wetherbee

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

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Bradley M. Wetherbee is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bradley M. Wetherbee has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 32 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Bradley M. Wetherbee's work include Ichthyology and Marine Biology (51 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (34 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (30 papers). Bradley M. Wetherbee is often cited by papers focused on Ichthyology and Marine Biology (51 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (34 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (30 papers). Bradley M. Wetherbee collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Bradley M. Wetherbee's co-authors include Christopher G. Lowe, Kim N. Holland, Gerald L. Crow, Mahmood S. Shivji, Carl G. Meyer, Guy Harvey, Enric Cortés, Albert L. Tester, Lara L. Sousa and James S. E. Lea and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Bradley M. Wetherbee

63 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Repeated, long-distance migrations by a philopatric predator targeting highly contrasting ecosystems

2015 680 citations James S. E. Lea, Bradley M. Wetherbee et al. Scientific Reports profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bradley M. Wetherbee United States	30	2.3k	1.5k	1.4k	596	255	67	3.4k
Kevin C. Weng United States	32	2.1k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	1.8k 1.3×	385 0.6×	545 2.1×	69	3.7k
Charlie Huveneers Australia	33	2.9k 1.2×	2.0k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	617 1.0×	372 1.5×	199	4.3k
D. Pollard United States	29	833 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	467 0.8×	194 0.8×	76	2.7k
Martín Castonguay Canada	39	2.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	2.4k 1.7×	1.1k 1.9×	273 1.1×	118	4.4k
Matthew D. Taylor Australia	35	1.7k 0.7×	2.5k 1.7×	2.2k 1.6×	497 0.8×	177 0.7×	204	4.5k
Hamish A. Campbell Australia	30	953 0.4×	1.6k 1.1×	780 0.6×	279 0.5×	240 0.9×	112	3.4k
R. W. Gauldie United States	24	951 0.4×	617 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	541 0.9×	109 0.4×	82	1.8k
Gonzalo Mucientes Spain	14	785 0.3×	513 0.3×	548 0.4×	196 0.3×	243 1.0×	40	1.6k
Thomas F. Turner United States	36	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	592 0.4×	508 0.9×	332 1.3×	143	3.5k
Nuno Queiroz Portugal	27	1.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	323 0.5×	816 3.2×	63	3.8k

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Bernard, Andrea M., et al.. (2025). Connections Across Open Water: A Bi‐Organelle, Genomics‐Scale Assessment of Atlantic‐Wide Population Dynamics in a Pelagic, Endangered Apex Predator Shark (Isurus oxyrinchus). Evolutionary Applications. 18(1). e70071–e70071.

Curtis, Tobey H., Barbara A. Block, Jeremy J. Vaudo, et al.. (2025). Considerations for using sharks as ocean observing platforms. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 82(2).

Parra, Rafael de la, et al.. (2024). Tracking 4 years in the life of a female whale shark shows consistent migrations in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Marine and Freshwater Research. 75(10). 2 indexed citations

Vaudo, Jeremy J., et al.. (2023). Diversity and spatiotemporal variation of an Eastern Tropical Pacific pelagic vertebrate community assessed with drifting pelagic BRUVS. Marine Biology. 170(12). 2 indexed citations

Vaudo, Jeremy J., et al.. (2023). Patrolling the border: Billfish exploit the hypoxic boundary created by the world's largest oxygen minimum zone. Journal of Animal Ecology. 92(8). 1658–1671. 11 indexed citations

Vaudo, Jeremy J., et al.. (2023). Hunting behavior of a solitary sailfish Istiophorus platypterus and estimated energy gain after prey capture. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 1484–1484. 6 indexed citations

Wetherbee, Bradley M., et al.. (2021). Sexual conflicts in sand tiger sharks Carcharias taurus (Rafinesque, 1810) in an artificial environment. NSUWorks (Nova Southeastern University). 9(3). 161. 2 indexed citations

Brewster, Lauran R., Kim Bassos‐Hull, John P. Tyminski, et al.. (2020). First insights into the vertical habitat use of the whitespotted eagle ray Aetobatus narinari revealed by pop‐up satellite archival tags. Journal of Fish Biology. 98(1). 89–101. 12 indexed citations

Hoopes, Lisa A., et al.. (2020). Seasonal patterns in stable isotope and fatty acid profiles of southern stingrays (Hypanus americana) at Stingray City Sandbar, Grand Cayman. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 19753–19753. 8 indexed citations

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Francis, Malcolm P., Clinton Duffy, Paul J. Rogers, et al.. (2018). Oceanic nomad or coastal resident? Behavioural switching in the shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus). Marine Biology. 166(1). 23 indexed citations

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Daly, Ryan, M. J. Smale, Darrell Anders, et al.. (2018). Refuges and risks: Evaluating the benefits of an expanded MPA network for mobile apex predators. Diversity and Distributions. 24(9). 1217–1230. 45 indexed citations

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Howey, Lucy A., et al.. (2017). Biogeophysical and physiological processes drive movement patterns in a marine predator. Movement Ecology. 5(1). 16–16. 23 indexed citations

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Ebert, David A., Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Stephen M. Kajiura, & Bradley M. Wetherbee. (2017). Etmopterus lailae sp. nov., a new lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Zootaxa. 4237(2). zootaxa.4237.2.10–zootaxa.4237.2.10. 8 indexed citations

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Vaudo, Jeremy J., Bradley M. Wetherbee, Richard S. Nemeth, et al.. (2016). Comparative Use of a Caribbean Mesophotic Coral Ecosystem and Association with Fish Spawning Aggregations by Three Species of Shark. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0151221–e0151221. 18 indexed citations

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Vaudo, Jeremy J., et al.. (2016). Long‐term satellite tracking reveals region‐specific movements of a large pelagic predator, the shortfin mako shark, in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Applied Ecology. 54(6). 1765–1775. 54 indexed citations

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Simpfendorfer, Colin A. & Bradley M. Wetherbee. (2015). Shark and ray life history. Marine and Freshwater Research. 66(4). i–ii. 3 indexed citations

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Wood, Anthony D., Bradley M. Wetherbee, Francis Juanes, Nancy E. Kohler, & Cheryl Wilga. (2009). Recalculated diet and daily ration of the shortfin mako ( Isurus oxyrinchus ), with a focus on quantifying predation on bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Fishery Bulletin. 107(1). 27 indexed citations

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Freitas, Renato Hajenius Aché de, Ricardo de Souza Rosa, Bradley M. Wetherbee, & Samuel H. Gruber. (2009). Population size and survivorship for juvenile lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) on their nursery grounds at a marine protected area in Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology. 7(2). 205–212. 22 indexed citations

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Lowe, Christopher G., Bradley M. Wetherbee, & Carl G. Meyer. (2006). Using acoustic telemetry monitoring techniques to quantify movement patterns and site fidelity of sharks and giant trevally around French frigate shoals and Midway Atoll. Atoll research bulletin. 543. 281–303. 57 indexed citations

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Lowe, Christopher G., Bradley M. Wetherbee, Gerald L. Crow, & Albert L. Tester. (1996). Ontogenetic dietary shifts and feeding behavior of the tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, in Hawaiian waters. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 47(2). 203–211. 294 indexed citations

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