Carl Smith

10.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
185 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Carl Smith is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Carl Smith has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 80 papers in Ecology and 48 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Carl Smith's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (91 papers), Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (49 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (45 papers). Carl Smith is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (91 papers), Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (49 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (45 papers). Carl Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Czechia and Poland. Carl Smith's co-authors include Rowena Spence, Martin Reichard, R. J. Wootton, Christian Lawrence, Gabriele Gerlach, P. J. Reay, Christopher M. Thomas, Pavel Jurajda, Mirosław Przybylski and Steven C. Le Comber and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, The EMBO Journal and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Carl Smith

181 papers receiving 7.5k 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.

The behaviour and ecology of the zebrafish,Danio rerio

2007 823 citations Rowena Spence, Carl Smith et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carl Smith United Kingdom	47	3.1k	2.7k	2.0k	1.3k	1.2k	185	7.8k
Eric T. Schultz United States	41	2.0k 0.6×	2.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	2.0k 1.6×	129	6.9k
Andrew R. Cossins United Kingdom	50	664 0.2×	3.5k 1.3×	675 0.3×	2.7k 2.1×	580 0.5×	155	8.5k
Warren W. Burggren United States	54	2.1k 0.7×	5.1k 1.9×	1.3k 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	262	9.7k
Adelino V. M. Canário Portugal	49	1.7k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	299	9.4k
Tomas Brodin Sweden	40	1.6k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	271 0.2×	1.2k 1.0×	137	6.7k
William H. Karasov United States	55	1.4k 0.4×	4.8k 1.8×	2.9k 1.5×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	266	10.3k
David J. McKenzie France	47	2.6k 0.8×	3.9k 1.5×	859 0.4×	301 0.2×	1.0k 0.9×	153	6.4k
Bob B. M. Wong Australia	45	1.9k 0.6×	2.8k 1.1×	4.3k 2.1×	256 0.2×	1.7k 1.4×	219	8.0k
Louis J. Guillette United States	62	3.2k 1.0×	2.3k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.9×	318	15.8k
Craig R. Primmer Finland	54	3.4k 1.1×	3.4k 1.3×	2.2k 1.1×	2.0k 1.6×	1.4k 1.2×	211	10.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Carl Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carl Smith

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carl Smith

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Halabowski, Dariusz, Grzegorz Zięba, Joanna Grabowska, et al.. (2025). The impact of invasive Sinanodonta woodiana (Bivalvia, Unionidae) and mussel macroparasites on the egg distribution of parasitic bitterling fish in host mussels. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 9417–9417. 2 indexed citations

Halabowski, Dariusz, Grzegorz Zięba, Joanna Grabowska, et al.. (2025). Distribution of parasitic larvae of non-native Sinanodonta woodiana on fish hosts across an invasion gradient. NeoBiota. 103. 149–164.

Halabowski, Dariusz, Martin Reichard, Grzegorz Zięba, et al.. (2024). The depressed river mussel Pseudanodonta complanata as an occasional host for the European bitterling Rhodeus amarus. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems. 3–3. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Feng, Jun He, Carl Smith, et al.. (2023). Alternative signal pathways underly fertilization and egg activation in a fish with contrasting modes of spawning. BMC Genomics. 24(1). 167–167. 3 indexed citations

Smith, Carl, Rowena Spence, Richard I. Bailey, & Martin Reichard. (2023). Male position in a sexual network reflects mating role and body size. 72(22069). 2 indexed citations

He, Jun, Liang Chen, Yan Zhao, et al.. (2022). Molecular Mechanisms of Spawning Habits for the Adaptive Radiation of Endemic East Asian Cyprinid Fishes. Research. 2022. 9827986–9827986. 11 indexed citations

Smith, Carl, Grzegorz Zięba, & Mirosław Przybylski. (2021). Elevated temperatures drive the evolution of armour loss in the threespine stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus. Functional Ecology. 35(8). 1735–1744. 4 indexed citations

Douda, Karel, Huanzhang Liu, Veronika Bartáková, et al.. (2018). Energetic costs in the coevolutionary relationship between bitterling fish and freshwater mussels. Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository). 3 indexed citations

Smith, Carl, Rowena Spence, & Martin Reichard. (2018). Sperm is a sexual ornament in rose bitterling. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 31(11). 1610–1622. 4 indexed citations

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Klepaker, Tom, Kjartan Østbye, Rowena Spence, et al.. (2016). Selective agents in the adaptive radiation of Hebridean sticklebacks. Evolutionary ecology research. 17(2). 243–262. 8 indexed citations

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Smith, Carl & Rowena Spence. (2013). The potential additive and non-additive benefits of mate choice in the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Evolutionary ecology research. 15(3). 331–341. 4 indexed citations

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Spence, Rowena, et al.. (2013). A Comparison of the Impact of Direct and Indirect Benefits of Mating Decisions in the Rose Bitterling (Rhodeus Ocellatus). Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution. 58(4). 279–288. 3 indexed citations

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Smith, Carl, et al.. (2011). Pathogen-mediated selection for MHC variability in wild zebrafish. Evolutionary ecology research. 13(6). 589–605. 6 indexed citations

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Smith, Carl, et al.. (2010). Population and individual consequences of breeding resource availability in the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 64(7). 1069–1079. 17 indexed citations

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Reichard, Martin, et al.. (2008). MALE DOMINANCE, FEMALE MATE CHOICE, AND INTERSEXUAL CONFLICT IN THE ROSE BITTERLING (RHODEUS OCELLATUS). Evolution. 63(2). 366–376. 60 indexed citations

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Reichard, Martin, Steven C. Le Comber, & Carl Smith. (2007). Sneaking from a female perspective. Animal Behaviour. 74(4). 679–688. 60 indexed citations

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Liu, Huanzhang, Yurong Zhu, Carl Smith, & Martin Reichard. (2006). Evidence of host specificity and congruence between phylogenies of bitterling and freshwater mussels. Zoological studies. 45(3). 428–434. 24 indexed citations

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Halliday, Nicholas C., S. H. Coombs, & Carl Smith. (2001). A comparison of LHPR and OPC data from vertical distribution sampling of zooplankton in a Norwegian fjord. Sarsia. 86(2). 87–99. 29 indexed citations

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Moody, Christopher J., Peter Hunt, & Carl Smith. (2000). Iodocyclisation of N-allyl ureas; a route to imidazolin-2-ones. ARKIVOC. 2000(5). 698–706. 4 indexed citations

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Smith, Carl, et al.. (2000). Adaptive host choice and avoidance of superparasitism in the spawning decisions of bitterling ( Rhodeus sericeus ). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 48(1). 29–35. 92 indexed citations

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