Colin E. Adams

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
189 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Colin E. Adams is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Aquatic Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin E. Adams has authored 189 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 152 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 92 papers in Ecology and 66 papers in Aquatic Science. Recurrent topics in Colin E. Adams's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (151 papers), Marine and fisheries research (54 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (46 papers). Colin E. Adams is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (151 papers), Marine and fisheries research (54 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (46 papers). Colin E. Adams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Norway and Canada. Colin E. Adams's co-authors include Felicity A. Huntingford, Susan Waldron, Stuart Bearhop, Richard A. Fuller, James Turnbull, Victoria A. Braithwaite, Peter Sandøe, T.G. Pottinger, Sunil Kadri and Colin W. Bean and has published in prestigious journals such as Trends in Ecology & Evolution, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Animal Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Colin E. Adams

183 papers receiving 5.8k citations

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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.

Determining trophic niche width: a novel approach using stable isotope analysis

2004 1.1k citations Colin E. Adams et al. profile →
Current issues in fish welfare

2006 634 citations Colin E. Adams et al. Journal of Fish Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin E. Adams United Kingdom	36	3.7k	3.3k	1.9k	1.6k	1.1k	189	6.1k
David P. Philipp United States	47	4.3k 1.2×	2.5k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	166	5.9k
David L. G. Noakes Canada	44	3.9k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	970 0.9×	187	5.6k
R. J. Wootton United Kingdom	38	4.1k 1.1×	2.5k 0.7×	3.3k 1.7×	2.1k 1.3×	880 0.8×	100	7.1k
Sigurd Einum Norway	33	3.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	105	4.8k
Per‐Arne Amundsen Norway	45	5.7k 1.5×	5.2k 1.6×	2.2k 1.2×	2.5k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	193	8.4k
Kjetil Hindar Norway	38	3.8k 1.0×	1.7k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	2.6k 2.3×	119	5.6k
Julian J. Dodson Canada	51	4.9k 1.3×	3.0k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	2.4k 1.5×	2.5k 2.2×	187	7.5k
Carlos García de Leániz United Kingdom	39	2.2k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	855 0.4×	862 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	134	4.2k
Cory D. Suski United States	49	6.0k 1.6×	4.3k 1.3×	2.2k 1.2×	3.0k 1.8×	243 0.2×	227	8.3k
Jay R. Stauffer United States	35	3.1k 0.9×	2.8k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	762 0.5×	875 0.8×	217	5.0k

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Elmer, Kathryn R., et al.. (2025). Defining Conservation Units in a Highly Diverse Species: A Case on Arctic Charr. Evolutionary Applications. 19(1). e70190–e70190.

Miller, Richard C., et al.. (2024). A comparison of acoustic tag sizes on wild Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. smolt migration success and behaviour. Ecology Of Freshwater Fish. 33(4). 2 indexed citations

Adams, Colin E., et al.. (2024). Which ecological factors influence the level of intraspecific diversity within post‐glacial fishes? A case study using Coregonus and Salvelinus. Freshwater Biology. 70(1). 1 indexed citations

Boylan, Patrick J., et al.. (2024). Complex landscape, instream and anthropogenic environmental features drive genetic and morphological structuring amongst brown trout (Salmo trutta) populations in a dendritic river system. Evolutionary Ecology. 39(1). 57–80. 2 indexed citations

Adams, Colin E., et al.. (2024). Resource instability undermines predictable plasticity‐mediated morphological responses to diet in a postglacial fish. Ecology and Evolution. 14(2). e10932–e10932. 1 indexed citations

Bean, Colin W., et al.. (2024). Ecological opportunity leads to higher diversity and probability of trophic specialization in Arctic charr. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 3(1). 1 indexed citations

Bolland, Jonathan D., et al.. (2024). Genotype But Not Body Shape Predicts River Migration Success in Atlantic Salmon. Ecology and Evolution. 14(12). e70682–e70682. 1 indexed citations

Schluter, Dolph, et al.. (2023). Patterns and repeatability of multi‐ecotype assemblages of sympatric salmonids. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(12). 2257–2270. 6 indexed citations

Bolland, Jonathan D., Andy D. Nunn, Colin E. Adams, et al.. (2023). Is shape in the eye of the beholder? Assessing landmarking error in geometric morphometric analyses on live fish. PeerJ. 11. e15545–e15545. 8 indexed citations

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Adams, Colin E., et al.. (2022). Scientific study in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs area, Scotland. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 27(4). 44–52. 1 indexed citations

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Bean, Colin W., A. R. D. Gowans, Ian J. Winfield, et al.. (2021). Complex and divergent histories gave rise to genome‐wide divergence patterns amongst European whitefish ( Coregonus lavaretus ). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 34(12). 1954–1969. 9 indexed citations

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Adams, Colin E., et al.. (2020). Population genomic SNPs from epigenetic RADs: Gaining genetic and epigenetic data from a single established next‐generation sequencing approach. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(7). 839–849. 7 indexed citations

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Schwinn, Michael, Ann Anton, Colin E. Adams, et al.. (2020). Are we designing fishways for diversity? Potential selection on alternative phenotypes resulting from differential passage in brown trout. Journal of Environmental Management. 262. 110317–110317. 23 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Arne, Madeleine Carruthers, Andrey A. Yurchenko, et al.. (2020). Parallelism in eco-morphology and gene expression despite variable evolutionary and genomic backgrounds in a Holarctic fish. PLoS Genetics. 16(4). e1008658–e1008658. 72 indexed citations

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Schneider, Kevin, Colin E. Adams, & Kathryn R. Elmer. (2019). Parallel selection on ecologically relevant gene functions in the transcriptomes of highly diversifying salmonids. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 1010–1010. 13 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Arne, Madeleine Carruthers, Reiner Eckmann, et al.. (2018). Rapid niche expansion by selection on functional genomic variation after ecosystem recovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(1). 77–86. 30 indexed citations

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Verspoor, E., et al.. (2018). Phenotypic and resource use partitioning amongst sympatric, lacustrine brown trout, Salmo trutta. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 124(2). 200–212. 16 indexed citations

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Adams, Colin E., Colin W. Bean, A. R. D. Gowans, et al.. (2012). Are phenotypic traits useful for differentiating among a priori Coregonus taxa?. Journal of Fish Biology. 80(2). 387–407. 21 indexed citations

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Harrod, Chris, et al.. (2010). Has habitat heterogeneity promoted phenotypic and ecological sub‐structuring among a Coregonus lavaretus population in a large Scottish lake?. Journal of Fish Biology. 77(10). 2391–2404. 8 indexed citations

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Wilson, Alastair J., Davíð Gíslason, Skúli Skúlason, et al.. (2004). Population genetic structure of Arctic Charr, Salvelinus alpinus from northwest Europe on large and small spatial scales. Molecular Ecology. 13(5). 1129–1142. 112 indexed citations

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