Brian Petrie

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Brian Petrie is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Petrie has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Oceanography, 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 29 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Brian Petrie's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (39 papers), Marine and fisheries research (35 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (17 papers). Brian Petrie is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (39 papers), Marine and fisheries research (35 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (17 papers). Brian Petrie collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Brian Petrie's co-authors include Kenneth T. Frank, William C. Leggett, Jae S. Choi, Nancy L. Shackell, Jonathan A. D. Fisher, Kenneth F. Drinkwater, P. A. Yeats, Beth Curry, C. M. Lee and John W. Loder and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Brian Petrie

79 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Trophic Cascades in a Formerly Cod-Dominated Ecosystem

2005 922 citations Kenneth T. Frank, Brian Petrie et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Brian Petrie	2.6k	2.3k	1.7k	1.6k	696	82	4.6k
Demetrio Boltovskoy	1.4k 0.5×	2.0k 0.9×	3.1k 1.9×	903 0.6×	984 1.4×	110	4.8k
Enrique Curchitser	3.3k 1.2×	3.9k 1.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.9k 1.2×	496 0.7×	99	5.4k
Jan Marcin Węsławski	1.6k 0.6×	2.8k 1.3×	2.8k 1.7×	1.3k 0.8×	236 0.3×	148	4.9k
Dag Slagstad	1.8k 0.7×	2.8k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	218 0.3×	94	4.1k
Kenneth F. Drinkwater	2.8k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	948 0.6×	1.1k 1.5×	68	4.2k
Franklin B. Schwing	3.7k 1.4×	3.3k 1.5×	2.9k 1.7×	978 0.6×	949 1.4×	77	6.3k
Howard J. Freeland	2.1k 0.8×	3.2k 1.4×	1.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	299 0.4×	71	4.4k
Igor M. Belkin	2.0k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	257 0.4×	57	4.1k
David L. Mackas	2.9k 1.1×	3.6k 1.6×	2.2k 1.3×	563 0.4×	693 1.0×	72	5.1k
Sergei N. Rodionov	2.0k 0.8×	973 0.4×	829 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	349 0.5×	23	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Petrie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Petrie

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Petrie

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20 of 20 papers shown

Amos, Carl L., et al.. (2024). An Evaluation of the Bagnold (1956) Theories for Sediment Transport in Northumberland Strait, Canada. Journal of Coastal Research. 40(6).

Petrie, Brian. (2022). Sydney Harbour: Seiches, tides and mean circulation. 52(2). 225–225.

Boyce, Daniel G., Brian Petrie, & Kenneth T. Frank. (2021). Fishing, predation, and temperature drive herring decline in a large marine ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution. 11(24). 18136–18150. 5 indexed citations

Frank, Kenneth T., Brian Petrie, William C. Leggett, & Daniel G. Boyce. (2018). Exploitation drives an ontogenetic-like deepening in marine fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(25). 6422–6427. 36 indexed citations

Boyce, Daniel G., Brian Petrie, Kenneth T. Frank, Boris Worm, & William C. Leggett. (2017). Environmental structuring of marine plankton phenology. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(10). 1484–1494. 31 indexed citations

Frank, Kenneth T., William C. Leggett, Brian Petrie, et al.. (2013). Irruptive prey dynamics following the groundfish collapse in the Northwest Atlantic: an illusion?. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 70(7). 1299–1307. 6 indexed citations

Frank, Kenneth T., Brian Petrie, Jonathan A. D. Fisher, & William C. Leggett. (2012). Setting the record straight on drivers of changing ecosystem states. Fisheries Oceanography. 22(2). 143–146. 7 indexed citations

Frank, Kenneth T., Brian Petrie, Jonathan A. D. Fisher, & William C. Leggett. (2011). Transient dynamics of an altered large marine ecosystem. Nature. 477(7362). 86–89. 207 indexed citations

Shackell, Nancy L., Kenneth T. Frank, Jonathan A. D. Fisher, Brian Petrie, & William C. Leggett. (2009). Decline in top predator body size and changing climate alter trophic structure in an oceanic ecosystem. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 277(1686). 1353–1360. 156 indexed citations

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Fisher, Jonathan A. D., Kenneth T. Frank, Brian Petrie, William C. Leggett, & Nancy L. Shackell. (2008). Temporal dynamics within a contemporary latitudinal diversity gradient. Ecology Letters. 11(9). 883–897. 29 indexed citations

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Greenan, B. J. W., Brian Petrie, W. G. Harrison, & Peter M. Strain. (2008). The onset and evolution of a spring bloom on the Scotian Shelf. Limnology and Oceanography. 53(5). 1759–1775. 11 indexed citations

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Frank, Kenneth T., Brian Petrie, & Nancy L. Shackell. (2007). The ups and downs of trophic control in continental shelf ecosystems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 22(5). 236–242. 263 indexed citations

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Frank, Kenneth T., Brian Petrie, Nancy L. Shackell, & Jae S. Choi. (2006). Reconciling differences in trophic control in mid‐latitude marine ecosystems. Ecology Letters. 9(10). 1096–1105. 179 indexed citations

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Frank, Kenneth T., Brian Petrie, Jae S. Choi, & William C. Leggett. (2005). Trophic Cascades in a Formerly Cod-Dominated Ecosystem. Science. 308(5728). 1621–1623. 922 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lee, Craig M., et al.. (2004). An Observational Array for High-Resolution, Year-Round Measurements of Volume, Freshwater, and Ice Flux Variability in Davis Strait: Cruise Report for R/V Knorr 179-05, 22 September-4 October 2004. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 3 indexed citations

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Shackell, Nancy L., Kenneth T. Frank, Brian Petrie, David Brickman, & Jennifer A. Shore. (1999). Dispersal of early life stage haddock (<i>Melanogrammus aeglefinus</i>) as inferred from the spatial distribution and variability in length-at-age of juveniles. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 56(12). 2350–2361. 3 indexed citations

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Harrison, W. G., T. Platt, Brian Petrie, Shubha Sathyendranath, & Oceans Canada. (1999). Variability in phytoplankton biomass on the Scotian Shelf as viewed from space: Imagery from the CZCS Ocean Color Sensor (1978-1986) and SeaWiFS (1997-present). 1 indexed citations

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Petrie, Brian & C. L. Anderson. (1983). Circulation on the newfoundland continental shelf. ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN. 21(2). 207–226. 111 indexed citations

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Garrett, Christopher & Brian Petrie. (1981). Dynamical Aspects of the Flow Through the Strait of Belle Isle. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 11(3). 376–393. 77 indexed citations

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Smith, Peter, et al.. (1978). Circulation, Variability, and Dynamics of the Scotian Shelf and Slope. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 35(8). 1067–1083. 55 indexed citations

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