Craig R. McClain

6.0k total citations
91 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Craig R. McClain is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Craig R. McClain has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Ecology, 56 papers in Oceanography and 47 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Craig R. McClain's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (53 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (26 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (25 papers). Craig R. McClain is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (53 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (26 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (25 papers). Craig R. McClain collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Craig R. McClain's co-authors include James Barry, Michael A. Rex, Sarah L. Mincks, Jonathan L. Payne, Seth Finnegan, Alison G. Boyer, Ron J. Etter, Derek P. Tittensor, Nicholas A. Johnson and Lonny Lundsten and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Craig R. McClain

85 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Peers

Craig R. McClain

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Aaron O’Dea Panama

Brian Rosen United Kingdom

David R. Lindberg United States

Ann F. Budd United States

Evgeny A. Pakhomov Canada

Richard B. Aronson United States

Katrin Linse United Kingdom

Verena Tunnicliffe Canada

Angelika Brandt Germany

Andrew G. Hirst United Kingdom

Aaron O’Dea Panama

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537 ×0.8

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521 ×1.1

NLC

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20 of 20 papers shown

McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2025). MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(6).

McClain, Craig R.. (2025). Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM. PLoS Biology. 23(6). e3003243–e3003243. 1 indexed citations

McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2025). The Hidden Forests Below: A Review of the Ecology and Evolution of Wood Falls on the Deep Seafloor. Marine Ecology. 46(2). 1 indexed citations

McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2024). Size bias in the documentation of marine biodiversity. Oikos. 2025(1). 5 indexed citations

McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2024). Navigating uncertainty in maximum body size in marine metazoans. Ecology and Evolution. 14(6). 1 indexed citations

McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2023). Sunken trees in the deep sea link terrestrial and marine biodiversity. Ecology. 104(11). e4168–e4168. 3 indexed citations

McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2023). Disentangling mechanisms of species–energy relationships in experimental deep‐sea wood falls. Ecosphere. 14(10). 1 indexed citations

McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2022). Energetic constraints on body-size niches in a resource-limited marine environment. Biology Letters. 18(8). 20220112–20220112. 4 indexed citations

McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2022). Functional space expansion driven by transitions between energetically advantageous traits in the deep sea. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1987). 20221302–20221302. 1 indexed citations

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McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2022). Extremophiles in Earth's Deep Seas: A View Toward Life in Exo-Oceans. Astrobiology. 22(8). 1009–1028. 4 indexed citations

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McClain, Craig R.. (2021). The commonness of rarity in a deep‐sea taxon. Oikos. 130(6). 863–878. 23 indexed citations

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Gaskins, Leo C. & Craig R. McClain. (2021). Visible name changes promote inequity for transgender researchers. PLoS Biology. 19(3). e3001104–e3001104. 14 indexed citations

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McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2019). Alligators in the abyss: The first experimental reptilian food fall in the deep ocean. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0225345–e0225345. 11 indexed citations

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McClain, Craig R., Clifton C. Nunnally, & Mark C. Benfield. (2019). Persistent and substantial impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on deep-sea megafauna. Royal Society Open Science. 6(8). 191164–191164. 28 indexed citations

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McClain, Craig R.. (2017). Practices and promises of Facebook for science outreach: Becoming a “Nerd of Trust”. PLoS Biology. 15(6). e2002020–e2002020. 44 indexed citations

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Martini, Kim I., Craig R. McClain, Rebecca R. Helm, et al.. (2016). Ten Simple Rules for Effective Online Outreach: What a decade at Deep Sea News has taught us.. AGUFM. 2016.

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McClain, Craig R., Meghan A. Balk, Mark C. Benfield, et al.. (2014). Data from: Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations

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McClain, Craig R. & Alison G. Boyer. (2009). Biodiversity and body size are linked across metazoans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 276(1665). 2209–2215. 38 indexed citations

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Payne, Jonathan L., Alison G. Boyer, James H. Brown, et al.. (2008). Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(1). 24–27. 185 indexed citations

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McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2005). Deconstructing bathymetric body size patterns in deep-sea gastropods. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 297. 181–187. 33 indexed citations

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