Ernesto Weil

11.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Ernesto Weil is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ernesto Weil has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Ecology, 46 papers in Oceanography and 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ernesto Weil's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (93 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (38 papers) and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (27 papers). Ernesto Weil is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (93 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (38 papers) and Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (27 papers). Ernesto Weil collaborates with scholars based in Puerto Rico, United States and Australia. Ernesto Weil's co-authors include Garriet W. Smith, Aldo Cróquer, C. Drew Harvell, Bette L. Willis, Alina M. Szmant, Diego L. Gil-Agudelo, Mónica Medina, Héctor M. Guzmán, Laurie J. Raymundo and Margaret W. Miller and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ernesto Weil

95 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Climate Change Influences on Marine Infectious Diseases: Implications for Management and Society

2013 427 citations Colleen A. Burge, Ernesto Weil et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ernesto Weil Puerto Rico	39	4.9k	2.3k	1.8k	1.4k	812	98	5.7k
John C. Bythell United Kingdom	39	4.0k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	796 1.0×	74	4.7k
Garriet W. Smith United States	30	4.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	815 1.0×	59	5.6k
Tracy D. Ainsworth Australia	36	3.8k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	941 0.7×	625 0.8×	91	4.3k
James W. Porter United States	43	7.2k 1.5×	4.4k 1.9×	3.3k 1.8×	1.1k 0.8×	780 1.0×	69	8.6k
Ruth D. Gates United States	48	7.0k 1.4×	5.0k 2.2×	2.5k 1.4×	805 0.6×	921 1.1×	127	8.1k
Rebecca Vega Thurber United States	27	3.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	739 0.4×	929 0.7×	444 0.5×	57	4.8k
Jeffrey Maynard Australia	37	4.3k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	2.6k 1.4×	329 0.2×	216 0.3×	67	5.1k
Stuart A. Sandin United States	43	5.5k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	3.5k 2.0×	403 0.3×	204 0.3×	116	6.9k
Scott R. Santos United States	34	4.0k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	920 0.5×	355 0.3×	327 0.4×	89	5.5k
Mehdi Adjeroud France	34	2.9k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	222 0.2×	217 0.3×	98	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ernesto Weil

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Schizas, Nikolaos V., et al.. (2025). Proteomics reveal selectable markers in the threatened species Acropora palmata under seasonal temperature fluctuations. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 105.

Williams, Stacey M., et al.. (2023). Use of predator exclusion cages to enhance Orbicella faveolata micro-fragment survivorship and growth during restoration. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 1 indexed citations

Tracy, Allison M., Ernesto Weil, & Colleen A. Burge. (2021). Ecological Factors Mediate Immunity and Parasitic Co-Infection in Sea Fan Octocorals. Frontiers in Immunology. 11. 608066–608066. 8 indexed citations

Hernández‐Delgado, Edwin A. & Ernesto Weil. (2019). Spread of the new coral disease “SCTLD” into the Caribbean: implications for Puerto Rico. 24 indexed citations

Tracy, Allison M., Ernesto Weil, & C. Drew Harvell. (2019). Warming and pollutants interact to modulate octocoral immunity and shape disease outcomes. Ecological Applications. 30(2). e02024–e02024. 14 indexed citations

Tracy, Allison M., Ernesto Weil, & C. Drew Harvell. (2017). Octocoral co-infection as a balance between host immunity and host environment. Oecologia. 186(3). 743–753. 12 indexed citations

Fuess, Lauren E., Jorge H. Pinzón, Ernesto Weil, & Laura D. Mydlarz. (2016). Associations between transcriptional changes and protein phenotypes provide insights into immune regulation in corals. Developmental & Comparative Immunology. 62. 17–28. 31 indexed citations

Morgan, Michael L., et al.. (2015). Development and application of molecular biomarkers for characterizing Caribbean Yellow Band Disease in Orbicella faveolata. PeerJ. 3. e1371–e1371. 10 indexed citations

Tussenbroek, Brigitta I. van, Jorge Cortés, Rachel Collin, et al.. (2014). Caribbean-Wide, Long-Term Study of Seagrass Beds Reveals Local Variations, Shifts in Community Structure and Occasional Collapse. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e90600–e90600. 82 indexed citations

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Miloslavich, Patricia, Juan Manuel Díaz, Eduardo Klein, et al.. (2010). Marine Biodiversity in the Caribbean: Regional Estimates and Distribution Patterns. PLoS ONE. 5(8). e11916–e11916. 243 indexed citations

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Harris, Sam, et al.. (2009). Macroalgae Has No Effect on the Severity and Dynamics of Caribbean Yellow Band Disease. PLoS ONE. 4(2). e4514–e4514. 16 indexed citations

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Kimes, Nikole E., Joy D. Van Nostrand, Ernesto Weil, Jizhong Zhou, & Pamela J. Morris. (2009). Microbial functional structure of Montastraea faveolata , an important Caribbean reef‐building coral, differs between healthy and yellow‐band diseased colonies. Environmental Microbiology. 12(2). 541–556. 146 indexed citations

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Weil, Ernesto, et al.. (2009). Yellow band disease compromises the reproductive output of the Caribbean reef-building coral Montastraea faveolata (Anthozoa, Scleractinia). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 87(1-2). 45–55. 57 indexed citations

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McClanahan, Tim R., Ernesto Weil, & Joseph Maina. (2008). Strong relationship between coral bleaching and growth anomalies in massive Porites. Global Change Biology. 15(7). 1804–1816. 66 indexed citations

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Weil, Ernesto & Aldo Cróquer. (2008). Spatial variability in distribution and prevalence of Caribbean scleractinian coral and octocoral diseases. I. Community-level analysis. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 83(3). 195–208. 67 indexed citations

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Smith, Garriet W., et al.. (2007). Bacteria associated with the coral Echinopora lamellosa (Esper 1795) in the Indian Ocean - Zanzibar Region. African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology. 1(5). 93–98. 8 indexed citations

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Gil-Agudelo, Diego L., Garriet W. Smith, & Ernesto Weil. (2006). The white band disease type II pathogen in Puerto Rico. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 50 indexed citations

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Griffin, Sean, Ranjeet Bhagooli, & Ernesto Weil. (2006). Evaluation of thermal acclimation capacity in corals with different thermal histories based on catalase concentrations and antioxidant potentials. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 144(2). 155–162. 19 indexed citations

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Weil, Ernesto, Garriet W. Smith, & Diego L. Gil-Agudelo. (2006). INTRODUCTION Status and progress in coral reef disease research Ernesto Weil1,*, Garriet Smith2, Diego L. Gil-Agudelo3. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 69(1). 1–7. 205 indexed citations

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Rivera‐Monroy, Víctor H., Robert R. Twilley, David Bone, et al.. (2004). A Conceptual Framework to Develop Long-Term Ecological Research and Management Objectives in the Wider Caribbean Region. BioScience. 54(9). 843–843. 49 indexed citations

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