David J. Smith

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
126 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

David J. Smith is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, David J. Smith has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Ecology, 51 papers in Oceanography and 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in David J. Smith's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (86 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (42 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (35 papers). David J. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (86 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (42 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (35 papers). David J. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. David J. Smith's co-authors include David J. Suggett, Jules Pretty, Graham J. C. Underwood, James J. Bell, Neil R. Baker, Mark E. Warner, Sebastian Hennige, Richard K. F. Unsworth, M. James C. Crabbe and Sarah Pilgrim and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

David J. Smith

122 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Social Capital in Biodiversity Conservation and Management

2004 506 citations Jules Pretty, David J. Smith profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David J. Smith United Kingdom	41	3.8k	2.6k	1.9k	450	398	126	5.6k
Jamaluddin Jompa Indonesia	33	3.8k 1.0×	2.3k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	481 1.1×	386 1.0×	172	5.1k
Nyawira A. Muthiga United States	31	6.1k 1.6×	3.7k 1.4×	4.1k 2.1×	296 0.7×	1.1k 2.7×	63	7.9k
R. E. Johannes United States	33	4.0k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	2.6k 1.4×	168 0.4×	698 1.8×	63	5.8k
David Obura Kenya	34	3.5k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	2.5k 1.3×	84 0.2×	737 1.9×	128	4.8k
Simon D. Donner Canada	37	3.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	2.8k 1.5×	90 0.2×	588 1.5×	91	6.4k
Kenneth S. Casey United States	20	5.2k 1.4×	5.1k 2.0×	6.6k 3.4×	92 0.2×	1.7k 4.3×	38	11.1k
Helen Fox United States	24	6.2k 1.6×	3.3k 1.3×	4.9k 2.6×	142 0.3×	2.0k 5.1×	55	9.6k
Jason M. Hall‐Spencer United Kingdom	59	6.3k 1.7×	8.2k 3.2×	5.6k 2.9×	128 0.3×	692 1.7×	212	11.9k
Elizabeth R. Selig United States	30	7.7k 2.0×	3.8k 1.5×	5.7k 2.9×	157 0.3×	2.4k 6.1×	55	10.8k
Emily S. Darling United States	40	4.1k 1.1×	1.8k 0.7×	3.2k 1.7×	68 0.2×	715 1.8×	65	6.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David J. Smith

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20 of 20 papers shown

Razak, Tries B., et al.. (2024). Coral reef restoration in Indonesia: lessons learnt from the world’s largest coral restoration nation. Biodiversity and Conservation. 33(10). 2675–2707. 4 indexed citations

Suggett, David J., et al.. (2024). Carbonate budgets induced by coral restoration of a Great Barrier Reef site following cyclone damage. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 13 indexed citations

Gatton, Michelle L., David J. Smith, Cielo Pasay, et al.. (2024). Comparison of prevalence estimates of pfhrp2 and pfhrp3 deletions in Plasmodium falciparum determined by conventional PCR and multiplex qPCR and implications for surveillance and monitoring. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 144. 107061–107061.

Lowe, Ryan, et al.. (2023). EFFECTIVENESS OF CORAL REEF RESTORATION IN WAVE ATTENUATION APPLICATIONS. Coastal Engineering Proceedings. 90–90. 2 indexed citations

Shaver, Elizabeth C., Elizabeth Mcleod, Margaux Y. Hein, et al.. (2022). A roadmap to integrating resilience into the practice of coral reef restoration. Global Change Biology. 28(16). 4751–4764. 56 indexed citations

Lamont, Timothy A. C., Lucille Chapuis, Tess Gridley, et al.. (2022). HydroMoth: Testing a prototype low‐cost acoustic recorder for aquatic environments. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 8(3). 362–378. 32 indexed citations

Smith, David J., et al.. (2022). Suppressed recovery of functionally important branching Acropora drives coral community composition changes following mass bleaching in Indonesia. Coral Reefs. 41(5). 1337–1350. 5 indexed citations

Lamont, Timothy A. C., Lucille Chapuis, Harry R. Harding, et al.. (2021). The sound of recovery: Coral reef restoration success is detectable in the soundscape. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59(3). 742–756. 52 indexed citations

Ball, Andrew S., Esmaeil Shahsavari, Leadin S. Khudur, Arturo Aburto‐Medina, & David J. Smith. (2021). Factors Affecting Shellfish Quality in Terms of Faecal Contamination at Blakeney Point, East Anglia, UK. Water. 13(22). 3192–3192. 1 indexed citations

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Shahsavari, Esmaeil, Arturo Aburto‐Medina, Leadin S. Khudur, et al.. (2020). Are Sterols Useful for the Identification of Sources of Faecal Contamination in Shellfish? A Case Study. Water. 12(11). 3076–3076. 5 indexed citations

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Smith, David J.. (2020). Exploring Determinants of the Marketing Budget Allocation Process across Countries using Neural Network Classification: Japan, Germany, United States. Academy of Marketing Studies journal. 24(2).

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Shahsavari, Esmaeil, et al.. (2020). Factors Influencing the Concentration of Fecal Coliforms in Oysters in the River Blackwater Estuary, UK. Water. 12(4). 1086–1086. 15 indexed citations

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Moore, Abigail Mary, Asmi Citra Malina A.R. Tassakka, Rohani Ambo‐Rappe, et al.. (2019). Unexpected discovery of Diadema clarki in the Coral Triangle. Marine Biodiversity. 49(5). 2381–2399. 18 indexed citations

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Biggerstaff, Andrew, David J. Smith, Jamaluddin Jompa, & James J. Bell. (2017). Metabolic responses of a phototrophic sponge to sedimentation supports transitions to sponge-dominated reefs. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2725–2725. 23 indexed citations

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Camp, Emma F., J. Hobbs, Maarten De Brauwer, Alex J. Dumbrell, & David J. Smith. (2016). Cohabitation promotes high diversity of clownfishes in the Coral Triangle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1827). 20160277–20160277. 25 indexed citations

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Smith, David J., et al.. (2015). The Good, The Bad, and The Distant: Soundscape Cues for Larval Fish. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 875. 829–837. 2 indexed citations

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Sweet, Michael, David J. Smith, John C. Bythell, & Jamie Craggs. (2013). Changes in microbial diversity associated with two coral species recovering from a stressed state in a public aquarium system: Microbial diversity associated with aquarium corals. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast). 1(2). 1 indexed citations

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Warner, Mark E., et al.. (2013). Contrasting modes of inorganic carbon acquisition amongst Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) phylotypes. New Phytologist. 200(2). 432–442. 47 indexed citations

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Unsworth, Richard K. F., Leanne C. Cullen‐Unsworth, Jules Pretty, David J. Smith, & James J. Bell. (2010). Economic and subsistence values of the standing stocks of seagrass fisheries: Potential benefits of no-fishing marine protected area management. Ocean & Coastal Management. 53(5-6). 218–224. 80 indexed citations

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Smith, David J., Keith K Knapp, & Shauna Hallmark. (2002). SPEED IMPACTS OF TEMPORARY SPEED HUMPS IN SMALL IOWA CITIES. 8 indexed citations

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