Brigitte Sommer

5.1k total citations
44 papers, 963 citations indexed

About

Brigitte Sommer is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Brigitte Sommer has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 963 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Ecology, 29 papers in Oceanography and 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Brigitte Sommer's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (39 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (28 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (23 papers). Brigitte Sommer is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (39 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (28 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (23 papers). Brigitte Sommer collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Japan. Brigitte Sommer's co-authors include John M. Pandolfi, Maria Beger, Peter L. Harrison, Joshua S. Madin, Andrew H. Baird, Stephen Smith, David Palandro, Ashley M. Fowler, David J. Booth and Peter I. Macreadie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Brigitte Sommer

40 papers receiving 950 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brigitte Sommer Australia 18 770 565 524 95 77 44 963
Kristjan Herkül Estonia 19 489 0.6× 504 0.9× 363 0.7× 75 0.8× 47 0.6× 55 826
Alex Rattray Australia 18 637 0.8× 458 0.8× 395 0.8× 181 1.9× 49 0.6× 31 947
Kennedy Wolfe Australia 18 896 1.2× 823 1.5× 631 1.2× 48 0.5× 54 0.7× 49 1.2k
Patrik Kraufvelin Finland 22 654 0.8× 896 1.6× 516 1.0× 93 1.0× 39 0.5× 45 1.2k
SJ Hawkins United Kingdom 10 587 0.8× 782 1.4× 304 0.6× 57 0.6× 48 0.6× 12 980
Pedro A. Ribeiro Portugal 17 740 1.0× 847 1.5× 554 1.1× 167 1.8× 51 0.7× 41 1.3k
Matthew S. Kendall United States 19 880 1.1× 380 0.7× 639 1.2× 211 2.2× 40 0.5× 61 1.1k
Juan Manuel Díaz Spain 14 490 0.6× 350 0.6× 388 0.7× 116 1.2× 64 0.8× 41 860
Trine Bekkby Norway 20 687 0.9× 703 1.2× 268 0.5× 51 0.5× 35 0.5× 49 1.1k
S.J. Hawkins United Kingdom 19 566 0.7× 653 1.2× 389 0.7× 76 0.8× 120 1.6× 35 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Brigitte Sommer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brigitte Sommer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brigitte Sommer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brigitte Sommer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brigitte Sommer 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 Brigitte Sommer. Brigitte Sommer 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
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Lachs, Liam, Alex Ward, Alasdair J. Edwards, et al.. (2025). Rising cover amid population density decline: the unstable demography of a reef-building coral. Royal Society Open Science. 12(7).
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Sommer, Brigitte, et al.. (2025). Searchin' for Urchins: Utilising Museum Collections and Citizen Science to Assess Species on the Move in the Genus Tripneustes. Journal of Biogeography. 52(5). 1 indexed citations
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Sommer, Brigitte, et al.. (2024). Taxa‐dependent temporal trends in the abundance and size of sea urchins in subtropical eastern Australia. Ecology and Evolution. 14(5). e11412–e11412. 4 indexed citations
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Reimer, James Davis, Hiroki Kise, Masaru Mizuyama, et al.. (2024). Variation in species and functional composition of octocorals and zoantharians across a tropical to temperate environmental gradient in the Indo-Pacific. Coral Reefs. 43(3). 613–626. 1 indexed citations
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Palmas, Stéphane De, Hiroki Kise, Miyuki Nishijima, et al.. (2024). Subtropical specialists dominate a coral range expansion front. Coral Reefs. 45(1). 5–19. 2 indexed citations
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Sommer, Brigitte, et al.. (2024). Decadal demographic shifts and size-dependent disturbance responses of corals in a subtropical warming hotspot. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 6327–6327. 6 indexed citations
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Sommer, Brigitte, Liam Lachs, Magnus L. Johnson, et al.. (2023). High‐latitude marginal reefs support fewer but bigger corals than their tropical counterparts. Ecography. 2023(12). 12 indexed citations
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Reimer, James Davis, Brigitte Sommer, Sun Wook Kim, et al.. (2023). Coral assemblages at higher latitudes favor short‐term potential over long‐term performance. Ecology. 104(9). e4138–e4138. 8 indexed citations
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Reimer, James Davis, et al.. (2023). Variation in functional composition of reef fishes along a tropical‐to‐temperate gradient. Journal of Biogeography. 51(3). 454–466. 4 indexed citations
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Sommer, Brigitte, et al.. (2023). The role of microbial biofilms in range shifts of marine habitat-forming organisms. Trends in Microbiology. 32(2). 190–199. 6 indexed citations
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Kim, Sun Wook, Brigitte Sommer, Maria Beger, & John M. Pandolfi. (2023). Regional and global climate risks for reef corals: Incorporating species‐specific vulnerability and exposure to climate hazards. Global Change Biology. 29(14). 4140–4151. 9 indexed citations
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Miller, Mark G. R., et al.. (2023). Temperate functional niche availability not resident-invader competition shapes tropicalisation in reef fishes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2181–2181. 17 indexed citations
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Lachs, Liam, et al.. (2022). SizeExtractR: A workflow for rapid reproducible extraction of object size metrics from scaled images. Ecology and Evolution. 12(3). e8724–e8724. 9 indexed citations
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Ferrari, Renata, Liam Lachs, Adriana Humanes, et al.. (2021). Photogrammetry as a tool to improve ecosystem restoration. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 36(12). 1093–1101. 34 indexed citations
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Mizuyama, Masaru, Brigitte Sommer, Mark G. R. Miller, et al.. (2020). Functional diversity of reef molluscs along a tropical-to-temperate gradient. Coral Reefs. 39(5). 1361–1376. 21 indexed citations
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Sommer, Brigitte, et al.. (2018). Decommissioning of offshore oil and gas structures – Environmental opportunities and challenges. The Science of The Total Environment. 658. 973–981. 99 indexed citations
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