Brennan Phillips

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

About

Brennan Phillips is a scholar working on Ecology, Biomedical Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Brennan Phillips has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Ecology, 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Brennan Phillips's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (9 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (7 papers) and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (7 papers). Brennan Phillips is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (9 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (7 papers) and Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (7 papers). Brennan Phillips collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Brennan Phillips's co-authors include David F. Gruber, Robert J. Wood, Kaitlyn P. Becker, Kevin C. Galloway, Stephen Licht, Dan Tchernov, Patricia Kremer, Laurence P. Madin, Shunichi Kurumaya and Michelle Rosen and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Brennan Phillips

32 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Soft Robotic Grippers for Biological Sampling on Deep Reefs

2016 673 citations Kevin C. Galloway, Kaitlyn P. Becker et al. Soft Robotics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brennan Phillips United States	14	982	497	387	211	180	36	1.4k
Silas Alben United States	23	528 0.5×	522 1.1×	206 0.5×	254 1.2×	579 3.2×	65	2.6k
Maarja Kruusmaa Estonia	26	862 0.9×	188 0.4×	133 0.3×	823 3.9×	183 1.0×	128	2.1k
Valentina Vitiello Italy	19	585 0.6×	131 0.3×	157 0.4×	60 0.3×	102 0.6×	50	1.2k
Michael Triantafyllou United States	31	895 0.9×	282 0.6×	763 2.0×	950 4.5×	409 2.3×	113	4.0k
William Megill United Kingdom	17	422 0.4×	102 0.2×	69 0.2×	259 1.2×	94 0.5×	38	940
Marcello Calisti Italy	22	1.9k 1.9×	1.1k 2.1×	718 1.9×	492 2.3×	643 3.6×	57	2.4k
J.B.C. Davies United Kingdom	12	928 0.9×	411 0.8×	491 1.3×	842 4.0×	458 2.5×	38	2.3k
Frédérick P. Gosselin Canada	21	622 0.6×	485 1.0×	164 0.4×	38 0.2×	84 0.5×	60	1.6k
Naomi Kato Japan	17	341 0.3×	142 0.3×	281 0.7×	347 1.6×	164 0.9×	80	1.0k
Derek E. Moulton United Kingdom	20	417 0.4×	569 1.1×	98 0.3×	26 0.1×	106 0.6×	66	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Brennan Phillips

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brennan Phillips

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brennan Phillips

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

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Burns, John A., J. Daniëls, Kaitlyn P. Becker, et al.. (2024). Transcriptome sequencing of seven deep marine invertebrates. Scientific Data. 11(1). 679–679.

Burns, John A., Kaitlyn P. Becker, J. Daniëls, et al.. (2024). An in situ digital synthesis strategy for the discovery and description of ocean life. Science Advances. 10(3). eadj4960–eadj4960. 7 indexed citations

Licht, Stephen, et al.. (2024). A Predictable Design and Production Workflow for Field Deployable Underwater Soft Actuator Applications. 1–8.

Phillips, Brennan, et al.. (2024). Novel deep-sea observations reveal twilight zone occurrence for two species of pelagic sharks: the bignose shark Carcharhinus altimus and the silky shark Carcharhinus falciformis. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 107(2). 231–236. 1 indexed citations

Phillips, Brennan, et al.. (2023). Investigations into 3D-printed nautiloid-inspired pressure housings. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 18(6). 66015–66015.

Licht, Stephen, et al.. (2023). Rapid Design and Production of Soft Actuators using Dynamic Modeling and Additive Manufacturing for Underwater Soft Actuators. Journal of Media Literacy Education. 137–144. 1 indexed citations

Claassens, Louw, et al.. (2023). First records of the Pacific sleeper shark Somniosus cf. pacificus in the western tropical Pacific. Journal of Fish Biology. 103(5). 1214–1220. 4 indexed citations

Phillips, Brennan, et al.. (2020). A novel fish sampling system for ROVs. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 167. 103428–103428. 6 indexed citations

Gruber, David F., Brennan Phillips, Vivek Boominathan, et al.. (2019). Bioluminescent flashes drive nighttime schooling behavior and synchronized swimming dynamics in flashlight fish. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0219852–e0219852. 14 indexed citations

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Phillips, Brennan, et al.. (2019). Additive manufacturing aboard a moving vessel at sea using passively stabilized stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing. Additive manufacturing. 31. 100969–100969. 32 indexed citations

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Phillips, Brennan, et al.. (2019). First in situ observations of the sharpnose sevengill shark (Heptranchias perlo), from the Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 8 indexed citations

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Phillips, Brennan, Kaitlyn P. Becker, Shunichi Kurumaya, et al.. (2018). A Dexterous, Glove-Based Teleoperable Low-Power Soft Robotic Arm for Delicate Deep-Sea Biological Exploration. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 14779–14779. 127 indexed citations

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Phillips, Brennan, Kaitlyn P. Becker, James C. Weaver, et al.. (2018). Rotary-actuated folding polyhedrons for midwater investigation of delicate marine organisms. Science Robotics. 3(20). 75 indexed citations

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Kurumaya, Shunichi, Brennan Phillips, Kaitlyn P. Becker, et al.. (2018). A Modular Soft Robotic Wrist for Underwater Manipulation. Soft Robotics. 5(4). 399–409. 115 indexed citations

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Vogt, Daniel M., Kaitlyn P. Becker, Brennan Phillips, et al.. (2018). Shipboard design and fabrication of custom 3D-printed soft robotic manipulators for the investigation of delicate deep-sea organisms. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0200386–e0200386. 72 indexed citations

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Phillips, Brennan, Matthew Dunbabin, A. F. Flinders, et al.. (2016). Exploring the “Sharkcano”: Biogeochemical Observations of the Kavachi Submarine Volcano (Solomon Islands). Oceanography. 29(4). 160–169. 8 indexed citations

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Phillips, Brennan, David F. Gruber, Ganesh Vasan, et al.. (2016). Observations of in situ deep-sea marine bioluminescence with a high-speed, high-resolution sCMOS camera. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 111. 102–109. 21 indexed citations

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Galloway, Kevin C., Kaitlyn P. Becker, Brennan Phillips, et al.. (2016). Soft Robotic Grippers for Biological Sampling on Deep Reefs. Soft Robotics. 3(1). 23–33. 673 indexed citations breakdown →

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Phillips, Brennan, David F. Gruber, Ganesh Vasan, et al.. (2016). First Evidence of Bioluminescence on a “Black Smoker” Hydrothermal Chimney. Oceanography. 29(2). 10 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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