Cynthia Riginos

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Cynthia Riginos is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Cynthia Riginos has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Ecology, 47 papers in Genetics and 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Cynthia Riginos's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (45 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (40 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (22 papers). Cynthia Riginos is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (45 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (40 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (22 papers). Cynthia Riginos collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and New Zealand. Cynthia Riginos's co-authors include Eric A. Treml, Michael W. Nachman, Libby Liggins, Yvonne M. Buckley, Cliff Cunningham, Paul De Barro, A. Dinsdale, Lyn G. Cook, Hugh P. Possingham and Pim Bongaerts and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Cynthia Riginos

99 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

  1. Refined Global Analysis ofBemisia tabaci(Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodoidea: Aleyrodidae) Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase 1 to Identify Species Level Genetic Boundaries
    2010 567 citations Cynthia Riginos, Yvonne M. Buckley et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cynthia Riginos Australia 33 2.5k 1.5k 1.5k 1.1k 928 102 4.4k
Marta Pascual Spain 40 2.0k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 1.8k 1.2× 527 0.5× 1.1k 1.2× 137 4.7k
Carol Eunmi Lee United States 28 2.4k 1.0× 934 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 1.0k 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 47 4.4k
Gustav Paulay United States 31 3.2k 1.3× 1.7k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 1.7k 1.6× 893 1.0× 114 5.7k
Frédérique Viard France 44 2.9k 1.1× 2.4k 1.6× 2.0k 1.4× 2.0k 1.8× 589 0.6× 160 6.0k
Eleftherios Zouros Greece 38 2.6k 1.0× 1.8k 1.2× 1.8k 1.3× 847 0.8× 381 0.4× 70 4.3k
John A. Darling United States 35 2.6k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 946 0.7× 650 0.6× 685 0.7× 69 4.2k
Sarah Samadi France 35 1.9k 0.8× 787 0.5× 840 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 428 0.5× 90 3.1k
Annie Machordom Spain 33 1.9k 0.8× 688 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 696 0.7× 1.1k 1.2× 156 3.4k
Dirk Steinke Canada 38 2.5k 1.0× 930 0.6× 872 0.6× 629 0.6× 1.2k 1.3× 106 4.7k
David J. Ayre Australia 39 2.8k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 1.4k 1.0× 1.5k 1.4× 1.3k 1.4× 123 4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Cynthia Riginos

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cynthia Riginos

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cynthia Riginos

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bozec, Yves‐Marie, Arne A. S. Adam, Takuya Iwanaga, et al.. (2025). A rapidly closing window for coral persistence under global warming. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9704–9704.
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Riginos, Cynthia, Iva Popovic, Kevin R. Bairos‐Novak, et al.. (2024). Cryptic species and hybridisation in corals: challenges and opportunities for conservation and restoration. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 7 indexed citations
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Schmid, Sarah, Joris A. M. Bertrand, Fabio Cortesi, et al.. (2024). Gene flow throughout the evolutionary history of a colour polymorphic and generalist clownfish. Molecular Ecology. 33(14). e17436–e17436. 2 indexed citations
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Popovic, Iva, et al.. (2024). Exploring coral speciation: Multiple sympatric Stylophora pistillata taxa along a divergence continuum on the Great Barrier Reef. Evolutionary Applications. 17(1). e13644–e13644. 11 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jia, Matthew A. Field, Cheong Xin Chan, et al.. (2024). Chromosomal inversions harbour excess mutational load in the coral, Acropora kenti , on the Great Barrier Reef. Molecular Ecology. 33(16). e17468–e17468. 3 indexed citations
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Richards, Thomas J., Katrina McGuigan, J. David Aguirre, et al.. (2023). Moving beyond heritability in the search for coral adaptive potential. Global Change Biology. 29(14). 3869–3882. 5 indexed citations
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Madin, Joshua S., Mike McWilliam, Kate M. Quigley, et al.. (2023). Selecting coral species for reef restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(8). 1537–1544. 20 indexed citations
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Riginos, Cynthia & Marlene Jahnke. (2023). Comparative landscape genomics has arrived with a splash. Molecular Ecology. 32(24). 6725–6728. 1 indexed citations
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Liggins, Libby, Michelle R. Gaither, Gideon S. Bradburd, et al.. (2021). Poor data stewardship will hinder global genetic diversity surveillance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(34). 27 indexed citations
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Riginos, Cynthia, Eric D. Crandall, Libby Liggins, et al.. (2020). Building a global genomics observatory: Using GEOME (the Genomic Observatories Metadatabase) to expedite and improve deposition and retrieval of genetic data and metadata for biodiversity research. Molecular Ecology Resources. 20(6). 1458–1469. 30 indexed citations
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Riginos, Cynthia, et al.. (2019). Asymmetric dispersal is a critical element of concordance between biophysical dispersal models and spatial genetic structure in Great Barrier Reef corals. Diversity and Distributions. 25(11). 1684–1696. 27 indexed citations
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Riginos, Cynthia, et al.. (2019). An intertidal fish shows thermal acclimation despite living in a rapidly fluctuating environment. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 189(3-4). 385–398. 35 indexed citations
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Thia, Joshua A., Cynthia Riginos, Libby Liggins, Will F. Figueira, & Katrina McGuigan. (2018). Larval traits show temporally consistent constraints, but are decoupled from postsettlement juvenile growth, in an intertidal fish. Journal of Animal Ecology. 87(5). 1353–1363. 14 indexed citations
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Hanson, Jeffrey O., et al.. (2017). Comparative phylogeography of two co‐distributed but ecologically distinct rainbowfishes of far‐northern Australia. Journal of Biogeography. 45(1). 127–141. 5 indexed citations
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Krueck, Nils C., Gabby N. Ahmadia, Hugh P. Possingham, et al.. (2017). Management of Marine Protected Areas: A Network Perspective. PLoS Biology. 15(1). 17 indexed citations
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Crook, David A., Winsor H. Lowe, Tibor Erős, et al.. (2015). Human effects on ecological connectivity in aquatic ecosystems: Integrating scientific approaches to support management and mitigation. The Science of The Total Environment. 534. 52–64. 147 indexed citations
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Riginos, Cynthia, Yvonne M. Buckley, Simon P. Blomberg, & Eric A. Treml. (2014). Dispersal Capacity Predicts Both Population Genetic Structure and Species Richness in Reef Fishes. The American Naturalist. 184(1). 52–64. 72 indexed citations
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