Douglas J. McCauley

10.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
103 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Douglas J. McCauley is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas J. McCauley has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Ecology, 43 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Douglas J. McCauley's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (32 papers), Marine and fisheries research (28 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (19 papers). Douglas J. McCauley is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (32 papers), Marine and fisheries research (28 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (19 papers). Douglas J. McCauley collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Douglas J. McCauley's co-authors include Hillary S. Young, Malin L. Pinsky, James A. Estes, Rodolfo Dirzo, Francis H. Joyce, Robert R. Warner, Stephen R. Palumbi, Jonathan L. Payne, Fiorenza Micheli and Anne Maria Eikeset and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Douglas J. McCauley

100 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

2015 887 citations Douglas J. McCauley, Malin L. Pinsky et al. Science profile →
Selling out on nature

2006 508 citations Douglas J. McCauley Nature profile →
Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms

2019 474 citations Malin L. Pinsky, Douglas J. McCauley et al. Nature profile →
Nutrition: Fall in fish catch threatens human health

2016 426 citations Christopher D. Golden, Edward H. Allison et al. Nature profile →
Marine reserves can mitigate and promote adaptation to climate change

2017 426 citations Douglas J. McCauley et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation

2016 354 citations Hillary S. Young, Douglas J. McCauley et al. profile →
Pathways to reduce global plastic waste mismanagement and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050

2024 109 citations Roland Geyer, Ciera Martinez et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Douglas J. McCauley United States	40	4.4k	3.0k	2.0k	967	746	103	7.2k
Malin L. Pinsky United States	43	4.7k 1.1×	4.6k 1.6×	1.9k 0.9×	760 0.8×	1.7k 2.2×	117	7.7k
Camilo Mora United States	36	4.4k 1.0×	3.6k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	633 0.7×	1.4k 1.8×	57	10.1k
Julia L. Blanchard Australia	51	4.6k 1.0×	5.2k 1.7×	2.0k 1.0×	810 0.8×	1.4k 1.9×	140	8.6k
Salit Kark Israel	44	3.6k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	2.0k 1.0×	561 0.6×	453 0.6×	121	6.5k
Rebecca L. Lewison United States	41	4.8k 1.1×	3.6k 1.2×	3.4k 1.7×	702 0.7×	544 0.7×	119	7.4k
Derek P. Tittensor Canada	38	4.3k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	478 0.5×	2.2k 3.0×	79	7.5k
Stelios Katsanevakis Greece	51	4.5k 1.0×	5.0k 1.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	1.9k 2.6×	200	8.1k
GT Pecl Australia	48	3.9k 0.9×	3.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.6×	193	7.0k
Richard T. Kingsford Australia	48	5.4k 1.2×	2.8k 0.9×	3.8k 1.9×	563 0.6×	199 0.3×	266	8.9k
Emily S. Darling United States	40	4.1k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	715 0.7×	1.8k 2.4×	65	6.4k

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Adams, Josh, Barbara A. Block, Jennifer E. Caselle, et al.. (2025). Multi‐Species Telemetry Quantifies Current and Future Efficacy of a Remote Marine Protected Area. Global Change Biology. 31(4). e70138–e70138.

Rhodes, Richard, Hillary S. Young, Barry Hayes, et al.. (2025). Investigation of a port queuing system on CO2 emissions from container shipping. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 218. 118151–118151. 1 indexed citations

McCauley, Douglas J., Samantha Andrzejaczek, Barbara A. Block, et al.. (2024). Improving Ocean Management Using Insights from Space. Annual Review of Marine Science. 17(1). 381–408. 4 indexed citations

Geyer, Roland, Ciera Martinez, Chao Liu, et al.. (2024). Pathways to reduce global plastic waste mismanagement and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Science. 386(6726). 1168–1173. 109 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Xincheng, Hanchen Wang, Douglas J. McCauley, et al.. (2023). A wide megafauna gap undermines China’s expanding coastal ecosystem conservation. Science Advances. 9(32). eadg3800–eadg3800. 5 indexed citations

McCauley, Douglas J.. (2023). The future of whales in our Anthropocene ocean. Science Advances. 9(25). eadi7604–eadi7604. 7 indexed citations

Dillon, Erin, Douglas J. McCauley, Jorge Manuel Morales‐Saldaña, et al.. (2021). Fossil dermal denticles reveal the preexploitation baseline of a Caribbean coral reef shark community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(29). 25 indexed citations

Stears, Keenan, et al.. (2021). Hippopotamus movements structure the spatiotemporal dynamics of an active anthrax outbreak. Ecosphere. 12(6). 9 indexed citations

Guerra, Ana Sofía, Albert B. Kao, Douglas J. McCauley, & Andrew M. Berdahl. (2020). Fisheries-induced selection against schooling behaviour in marine fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1935). 20201752–20201752. 21 indexed citations

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McCauley, Douglas J., et al.. (2020). Invasive plant Arundo donax alters habitat use by carnivores. Biological Invasions. 22(6). 1983–1995. 15 indexed citations

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Atwood, Trisha B., Edd Hammill, Douglas J. McCauley, et al.. (2020). Herbivores at the highest risk of extinction among mammals, birds, and reptiles. Science Advances. 6(32). eabb8458–eabb8458. 91 indexed citations

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Burnett, M., Timothy D. White, Douglas J. McCauley, Giulio A. De Leo, & Fiorenza Micheli. (2019). Quantifying coconut palm extent on Pacific islands using spectral and textural analysis of very high resolution imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 40(19). 7329–7355. 15 indexed citations

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McCauley, Douglas J., Edward H. Allison, Christopher D. Golden, et al.. (2018). Wealthy countries dominate industrial fishing. Science Advances. 4(8). eaau2161–eaau2161. 80 indexed citations

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Stears, Keenan & Douglas J. McCauley. (2018). Hippopotamus dung inputs accelerate fish predation by terrestrial consumers. African Journal of Ecology. 56(4). 1034–1038. 10 indexed citations

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Guerra, Ana Sofía, Daniel J. Madigan, Milton S. Love, & Douglas J. McCauley. (2017). The worth of giants: The consumptive and non‐consumptive use value of the giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas). Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 28(2). 296–304. 10 indexed citations

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McCauley, Douglas J., Malin L. Pinsky, Stephen R. Palumbi, et al.. (2015). Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean. Science. 347(6219). 1255641–1255641. 887 indexed citations breakdown →

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Young, Hillary S., Douglas J. McCauley, Rodolfo Dirzo, et al.. (2014). Context‐Dependent Effects of Largewildlife Declines on Small‐Mammal Communities in Central Kenya. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 96(1). 157–160. 15 indexed citations

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McCauley, Douglas J., Hillary S. Young, Robert B. Dunbar, et al.. (2012). From wing to wing: the persistence of long ecological interaction chains in less-disturbed ecosystems. Scientific Reports. 2(1). 409–409. 98 indexed citations

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Pringle, Robert M., Truman P. Young, Daniel I. Rubenstein, & Douglas J. McCauley. (2006). Herbivore-initiated interaction cascades and their modulation by productivity in an African savanna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(1). 193–197. 183 indexed citations

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McCauley, Douglas J.. (2006). Selling out on nature. Nature. 443(7107). 27–28. 508 indexed citations breakdown →

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