Clinton D. Francis

5.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
88 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Clinton D. Francis is a scholar working on Ecology, Developmental Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Clinton D. Francis has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Ecology, 54 papers in Developmental Biology and 46 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Clinton D. Francis's work include Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (54 papers), Marine animal studies overview (48 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (34 papers). Clinton D. Francis is often cited by papers focused on Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (54 papers), Marine animal studies overview (48 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (34 papers). Clinton D. Francis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Clinton D. Francis's co-authors include Alexander Cruz, Catherine P. Ortega, Jesse R. Barber, Nathan J. Kleist, Robert Guralnick, Christopher J. W. McClure, Masayuki Senzaki, Christopher A. Lowry, Neil Carter and Jennifer N. Phillips and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Clinton D. Francis

85 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Noise Pollution Changes Avian Communities and Species Interactions

2009 485 citations Clinton D. Francis, Catherine P. Ortega et al. profile →
A framework for understanding noise impacts on wildlife: an urgent conservation priority

2013 423 citations Clinton D. Francis, Jesse R. Barber profile →
Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection

2017 266 citations Adam M. Siepielski, Michael B. Morrissey et al. Science profile →
Why conservation biology can benefit from sensory ecology

2020 180 citations Davide M. Dominoni, Wouter Halfwerk et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Clinton D. Francis United States	31	2.9k	2.1k	1.8k	734	463	88	4.2k
Jesse R. Barber United States	35	2.9k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	603 0.8×	526 1.1×	85	4.6k
Kurt M. Fristrup United States	33	3.3k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	628 0.9×	841 1.8×	88	4.9k
Jérôme Sueur France	31	2.3k 0.8×	2.8k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	626 0.9×	432 0.9×	79	4.3k
Almo Farina Italy	34	3.4k 1.2×	3.2k 1.5×	911 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	907 2.0×	98	5.8k
Lisa M. Angeloni United States	25	1.7k 0.6×	911 0.4×	920 0.5×	329 0.4×	240 0.5×	60	2.7k
John P. Swaddle United States	40	2.9k 1.0×	855 0.4×	2.5k 1.4×	490 0.7×	116 0.3×	109	6.3k
Hans Slabbekoorn Netherlands	45	6.1k 2.1×	5.9k 2.8×	4.9k 2.7×	1.1k 1.5×	324 0.7×	157	8.5k
Wouter Halfwerk Netherlands	22	1.4k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	441 0.6×	122 0.3×	60	2.5k
Nadia Pieretti Italy	21	2.0k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	612 0.3×	249 0.3×	508 1.1×	36	2.9k
Graeme Shannon United Kingdom	24	1.8k 0.6×	777 0.4×	642 0.4×	373 0.5×	157 0.3×	61	2.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Francis, Clinton D., et al.. (2025). Life history and nesting traits reflect urban tolerance in coastal birds. Royal Society Open Science. 12(6). 250116–250116.

Özkan, Kürşad, et al.. (2024). Divergent effects of short-term and continuous anthropogenic noise exposure on Western Bluebird parental care behavior. PeerJ. 12. e18558–e18558.

Francis, Clinton D., et al.. (2024). Latitudinal Variation in the Timing of Nest Predator Activity Is Habitat Specific. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(1). 1 indexed citations

Dantzer, Ben, Karen E. Mabry, Joey R. Bernhardt, et al.. (2023). Understanding Organisms Using Ecological Observatory Networks. Integrative Organismal Biology. 5(1). obad036–obad036. 2 indexed citations

Toth, Cory A., et al.. (2022). Experimentally broadcast ocean surf and river noise alters birdsong. PeerJ. 10. e13297–e13297. 7 indexed citations

Toth, Cory A., Benjamin P. Pauli, Christopher J. W. McClure, et al.. (2022). A stochastic simulation model for assessing the masking effects of road noise for wildlife, outdoor recreation, and bioacoustic monitoring. Oecologia. 199(1). 217–228. 2 indexed citations

Ditmer, Mark A., Clinton D. Francis, Jesse R. Barber, et al.. (2021). Assessing the Vulnerabilities of Vertebrate Species to Light and Noise Pollution: Expert Surveys Illuminate the Impacts on Specialist Species. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 61(3). 1202–1215. 10 indexed citations

Martin, Lynn B., et al.. (2021). Light pollution affects West Nile virus exposure risk across Florida. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1947). 20210253–20210253. 13 indexed citations

Francis, Clinton D., et al.. (2021). Introduction to the Symposium: Effects of Light Pollution Across Diverse Natural Systems. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 61(3). 1089–1097. 2 indexed citations

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Gomes, Dylan, Cory A. Toth, Craig Bateman, et al.. (2021). Experimental river noise alters arthropod abundance. Oikos. 130(11). 2001–2014. 5 indexed citations

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Phillips, Jennifer N., et al.. (2021). Artificial light at night and anthropogenic noise alter the foraging activity and structure of vertebrate communities. The Science of The Total Environment. 805. 150223–150223. 28 indexed citations

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Dominoni, Davide M., Wouter Halfwerk, Emily Baird, et al.. (2020). Why conservation biology can benefit from sensory ecology. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(4). 502–511. 180 indexed citations breakdown →

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Francis, Clinton D., et al.. (2020). Motivation Strategies and Exiting Class by Students in Inquiry-Oriented Biology Labs. Teaching & Learning Inquiry The ISSOTL Journal. 8(2). 128–139.

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Senzaki, Masayuki, Jesse R. Barber, Jennifer N. Phillips, et al.. (2020). Sensory pollutants alter bird phenology and fitness across a continent. Nature. 587(7835). 605–609. 127 indexed citations

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Siepielski, Adam M., Michael B. Morrissey, Stephanie M. Carlson, et al.. (2019). No evidence that warmer temperatures are associated with selection for smaller body sizes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1907). 20191332–20191332. 35 indexed citations

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Injaian, Allison, Clinton D. Francis, Jenny Q. Ouyang, et al.. (2019). Baseline and stress-induced corticosterone levels across birds and reptiles do not reflect urbanization levels. Conservation Physiology. 8(1). coz110–coz110. 60 indexed citations

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Kleist, Nathan J., Robert Guralnick, Alexander Cruz, Christopher A. Lowry, & Clinton D. Francis. (2018). Chronic anthropogenic noise disrupts glucocorticoid signaling and has multiple effects on fitness in an avian community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(4). E648–E657. 184 indexed citations

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Siepielski, Adam M., Michael B. Morrissey, Mathieu Buoro, et al.. (2017). Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection. Science. 355(6328). 959–962. 266 indexed citations breakdown →

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Francis, Clinton D., et al.. (2014). Impacts of Digital Imaging versus Drawing on Student Learning in Undergraduate Biodiversity Labs.. 40(2). 15–21. 2 indexed citations

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Francis, Clinton D., Nathan J. Kleist, Catherine P. Ortega, & Alexander Cruz. (2012). Noise pollution alters ecological services: enhanced pollination and disrupted seed dispersal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 279(1739). 2727–2735. 165 indexed citations

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