Cecilia Conaco

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Cecilia Conaco is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Cecilia Conaco has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Ecology, 19 papers in Oceanography and 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Cecilia Conaco's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (29 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (14 papers) and Marine Sponges and Natural Products (13 papers). Cecilia Conaco is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (29 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (14 papers) and Marine Sponges and Natural Products (13 papers). Cecilia Conaco collaborates with scholars based in Philippines, United States and Japan. Cecilia Conaco's co-authors include Gail Mandel, Stefanie Otto, Patrick C. Cabaitan, Fedor V. Karginov, Bryan H. Thurtle-Schmidt, Gregory J. Hannon, Joel S. Parker, Zhenyu Xuan, Kenneth S. Kosik and Soren Impey and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Cecilia Conaco

44 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Reciprocal actions of REST and a microRNA promote neuronal identity

2006 568 citations Cecilia Conaco, Stefanie Otto et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cecilia Conaco Philippines	19	1.1k	688	420	243	239	45	1.8k
Thierry Lepage France	28	2.6k 2.4×	226 0.3×	139 0.3×	486 2.0×	405 1.7×	45	3.5k
Peter D. Vize Canada	36	2.4k 2.2×	129 0.2×	411 1.0×	237 1.0×	225 0.9×	85	3.3k
Remo Sanges Italy	26	1.4k 1.3×	376 0.5×	410 1.0×	80 0.3×	357 1.5×	79	2.1k
Yannick Le Parco France	22	661 0.6×	68 0.1×	376 0.9×	358 1.5×	398 1.7×	39	1.6k
Fabian Rentzsch Norway	30	2.0k 1.9×	86 0.1×	276 0.7×	790 3.3×	106 0.4×	52	3.1k
Ferdinand Marlétaz United Kingdom	24	1.3k 1.2×	89 0.1×	295 0.7×	263 1.1×	232 1.0×	45	2.1k
James A. Coffman United States	25	1.2k 1.1×	108 0.2×	99 0.2×	227 0.9×	203 0.8×	60	1.9k
José E. García‐Arrarás Puerto Rico	30	609 0.6×	54 0.1×	169 0.4×	717 3.0×	195 0.8×	95	2.6k
Simona Candiani Italy	26	937 0.9×	160 0.2×	105 0.3×	224 0.9×	23 0.1×	97	1.7k
Veronica F. Hinman United States	29	1.3k 1.2×	116 0.2×	199 0.5×	595 2.4×	377 1.6×	54	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Cecilia Conaco

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cecilia Conaco

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cabaitan, Patrick C., et al.. (2025). Host Evaluation: Reliance on Symbionts: A new metric for quantifying nutrient exchange in nutritional mutualisms. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(9). 2048–2066. 1 indexed citations

Siringan, Fernando P., et al.. (2023). Fish and benthic communities in an offshore and well-managed coral reef after bleaching disturbance in the Philippines. Marine Biology. 170(10).

Sison-Mangus, Marilou P., et al.. (2023). Microbial community structure and settlement induction capacity of marine biofilms developed under varied reef conditions. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 193. 115138–115138. 8 indexed citations

Cabaitan, Patrick C., et al.. (2023). Variation in epibiont communities among restocked giant clam species (Cardiidae: Tridacninae) and across different habitat types. Marine Biodiversity. 53(4). 3 indexed citations

Kelly, Michelle, et al.. (2021). Microbiome diversity and host immune functions influence survivorship of sponge holobionts under future ocean conditions. The ISME Journal. 16(1). 58–67. 37 indexed citations

Alegado, Rosanna A., et al.. (2021). Detection of horizontal gene transfer in the genome of the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 5993–5993. 13 indexed citations

Conaco, Cecilia, et al.. (2020). Distribution and abundance of Heliopora coerulea (Cnidaria: Coenothecalia) and notes on its aggressive behavior against scleractinian corals: Temperature mediated?. Regional Studies in Marine Science. 40. 101502–101502. 3 indexed citations

Cabaitan, Patrick C., et al.. (2020). Population structure and microbial community diversity of two common tetillid sponges in a tropical reef lagoon. PeerJ. 8. e9017–e9017. 13 indexed citations

Cabaitan, Patrick C., et al.. (2020). Warm temperature alters the chemical cue preference of Acropora tenuis and Heliopora coerulea larvae. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 161(Pt B). 111755–111755. 5 indexed citations

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Conaco, Cecilia, et al.. (2020). Fish farm effluents alter reef benthic assemblages and reduce coral settlement. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 153. 111025–111025. 32 indexed citations

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Conaco, Cecilia & Patrick C. Cabaitan. (2019). Influence of salinity and temperature on the survival and settlement of Heliopora coerulea larvae. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 150. 110703–110703. 12 indexed citations

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Shinzato, Chuya, et al.. (2019). Warm seawater temperature promotes substrate colonization by the blue coral, Heliopora coerulea. PeerJ. 7. e7785–e7785. 13 indexed citations

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Conaco, Cecilia, et al.. (2018). Sponge-microbe partnerships are stable under eutrophication pressure from mariculture. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 136. 125–134. 20 indexed citations

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Shinzato, Chuya, et al.. (2018). Transcriptome analysis of the reef-building octocoral, Heliopora coerulea. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 8397–8397. 19 indexed citations

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Conaco, Cecilia, et al.. (2017). Influence of the Blue Coral Heliopora coerulea on Scleractinian Coral Larval Recruitment. Journal of Marine Biology. 2017. 1–5. 18 indexed citations

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Conaco, Cecilia, et al.. (2016). Gene Expression Dynamics Accompanying the Sponge Thermal Stress Response. PLoS ONE. 11(10). e0165368–e0165368. 31 indexed citations

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Conaco, Cecilia, et al.. (2016). Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals insights into the streamlined genomes of haplosclerid demosponges. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 18774–18774. 21 indexed citations

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Conaco, Cecilia, Pierre Neveu, Hongjun Zhou, et al.. (2012). Transcriptome profiling of the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica reveals genome-wide events that accompany major life cycle transitions. BMC Genomics. 13(1). 209–209. 41 indexed citations

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Otto, Stefanie, S. McCorkle, Cecilia Conaco, et al.. (2007). A New Binding Motif for the Transcriptional Repressor REST Uncovers Large Gene Networks Devoted to Neuronal Functions. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(25). 6729–6739. 185 indexed citations

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Karginov, Fedor V., Cecilia Conaco, Zhenyu Xuan, et al.. (2007). A biochemical approach to identifying microRNA targets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(49). 19291–19296. 307 indexed citations

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