Erik E. Cordes

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Erik E. Cordes is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik E. Cordes has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Ecology, 69 papers in Oceanography and 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Erik E. Cordes's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (54 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (51 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (22 papers). Erik E. Cordes is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (54 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (51 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (22 papers). Erik E. Cordes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Costa Rica and Germany. Erik E. Cordes's co-authors include Charles R. Fisher, Andrea M. Quattrini, Derk C. Bergquist, Lisa A. Levin, Stéphane Hourdez, Erin L. Becker, Jay J. Lunden, Amanda W.J. Demopoulos, Timothy M. Shank and Samuel E. Georgian and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Erik E. Cordes

95 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Hydrothermal Vents and Methane Seeps: Rethinking the Sphere of Influence

2016 301 citations Lisa A. Levin, Erik E. Cordes et al. Frontiers in Marine Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erik E. Cordes United States	36	2.5k	2.3k	1.4k	819	437	98	4.0k
Kam W. Tang United Kingdom	38	2.1k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	272 0.6×	127	4.1k
Charles R. Fisher United States	49	3.5k 1.4×	4.0k 1.7×	2.3k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	449 1.0×	167	6.4k
Maren Voß Germany	38	3.2k 1.3×	3.2k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.5k 1.9×	644 1.5×	118	6.6k
André Visser Denmark	40	1.8k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	914 1.1×	717 1.6×	102	5.3k
Les Watling United States	37	3.2k 1.3×	3.0k 1.3×	2.5k 1.7×	379 0.5×	212 0.5×	141	5.5k
Gabriel Yvon‐Durocher United Kingdom	29	2.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	107 0.2×	44	4.2k
Laurent Seuront France	38	2.1k 0.8×	2.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	441 0.5×	467 1.1×	197	4.9k
Katsunori Fujikura Japan	29	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	667 0.5×	313 0.4×	638 1.5×	135	3.0k
Harry R. Burton Australia	42	3.5k 1.4×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	268 0.3×	645 1.5×	131	5.2k
Shana K. Goffredi United States	33	1.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	719 0.5×	585 0.7×	93 0.2×	75	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik E. Cordes

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20 of 20 papers shown

Helmberger, Maxwell S., et al.. (2025). Microplastic accumulation visually and fluorescently undetectable within deepwater corals of the remote equatorial Pacific. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 223. 104550–104550.

Rouse, Greg W., et al.. (2025). Seepage, depth, and oxygen as drivers of heterogeneity and resilience of carbonate macrofauna at methane seeps. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 13(1).

Cortés, Jorge, et al.. (2024). New species and records of limpets (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Pacific Costa Rica Margin. ZooKeys. 1214. 281–324. 2 indexed citations

Cordes, Erik E., et al.. (2024). New records of Provanna (Gastropoda, Provannidae) from the Costa Rica Margin and an identification key for the genus. ZooKeys. 1189. 1–32. 1 indexed citations

Mienis, Furu, et al.. (2024). Gulf Stream intrusion and deep current upwelling drive dynamic patterns of temperature and food supply within cold‐water coral reefs. Limnology and Oceanography. 69(9). 2193–2210. 1 indexed citations

Güth, Arthur Z., et al.. (2023). Underwater surveys reveal deep-sea corals in newly explored regions of the southwest Atlantic. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 6 indexed citations

Herrera, Santiago & Erik E. Cordes. (2023). Genome assembly of the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2023. 1–12. 4 indexed citations

Dahlgren, Thomas G., Patricia Esquete, Sabine Gollner, et al.. (2023). Insights from the management of offshore energy resources: Toward an ecosystem-services based management approach for deep-ocean industries. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. 7 indexed citations

Cordes, Erik E., et al.. (2023). Biogeography and depth partitioning in deep‐sea gastropods at the Pacific Costa Rica Margin. Journal of Biogeography. 50(12). 2109–2121. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Xudong, Jörn Peckmann, Germain Bayon, et al.. (2023). Molybdenum isotope signature of microbial nitrogen utilization in siboglinid tubeworms. Geology. 51(7). 698–702. 3 indexed citations

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Osman, Eslam O., et al.. (2022). Capacity of deep‐sea corals to obtain nutrition from cold seeps aligned with microbiome reorganization. Global Change Biology. 29(1). 189–205. 8 indexed citations

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Gauthier, Anna E., Courtney E. Chandler, Valentina Poli, et al.. (2021). Deep-sea microbes as tools to refine the rules of innate immune pattern recognition. Science Immunology. 6(57). 27 indexed citations

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Halanych, Kenneth M., Cameron H. Ainsworth, Erik E. Cordes, et al.. (2021). Effects of Petroleum By-Products and Dispersants on Ecosystems. Oceanography. 34(1). 152–163. 12 indexed citations

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Goffredi, Shana K., Tilic Ekin, Sean W. Mullin, et al.. (2020). Methanotrophic bacterial symbionts fuel dense populations of deep-sea feather duster worms (Sabellida, Annelida) and extend the spatial influence of methane seepage. Science Advances. 6(14). eaay8562–eaay8562. 34 indexed citations

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Vogt, Daniel M., Kaitlyn P. Becker, Brennan Phillips, et al.. (2018). Shipboard design and fabrication of custom 3D-printed soft robotic manipulators for the investigation of delicate deep-sea organisms. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0200386–e0200386. 72 indexed citations

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Cordes, Erik E., Anna P. M. Michel, Jillian M. Petersen, et al.. (2016). ROV Hercules Investigates Brine Lakes on the Bottom of the Ocean. Oceanography. 29. 30–31.

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Quattrini, Andrea M., Carlos E. Gómez, & Erik E. Cordes. (2016). Environmental filtering and neutral processes shape octocoral community assembly in the deep sea. Oecologia. 183(1). 221–236. 37 indexed citations

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Reuter, Kim E., et al.. (2016). Using Stable Isotopes to Infer the Impacts of Habitat Change on the Diets and Vertical Stratification of Frugivorous Bats in Madagascar. PLoS ONE. 11(4). e0153192–e0153192. 10 indexed citations

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Quattrini, Andrea M., et al.. (2013). Niche divergence by deep‐sea octocorals in the genus Callogorgia across the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico. Molecular Ecology. 22(15). 4123–4140. 63 indexed citations

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White, Helen K., Pen‐Yuan Hsing, Walter Cho, et al.. (2012). Impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a deep-water coral community in the Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(50). 20303–20308. 293 indexed citations

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