Fran Sheldon

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
111 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Fran Sheldon is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fran Sheldon has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Ecology, 73 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 30 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Fran Sheldon's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (70 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (37 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (29 papers). Fran Sheldon is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (70 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (37 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (29 papers). Fran Sheldon collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and China. Fran Sheldon's co-authors include J. T. Puckridge, Kate F. Walker, Stuart E. Bunn, Martin C. Thoms, Catherine Leigh, A. J. Boulton, Martin J. Kainz, Fen Guo, Robert J. Rolls and Keith F. Walker and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Fran Sheldon

109 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.

Flow variability and the ecology of large rivers

1998 576 citations Fran Sheldon, Kate F. Walker et al. Marine and Freshwater Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fran Sheldon Australia	38	3.3k	2.7k	1.4k	849	681	111	4.5k
Nicolas Lamouroux France	39	3.5k 1.1×	3.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	843 1.0×	407 0.6×	103	4.8k
Colden V. Baxter United States	36	4.8k 1.5×	4.4k 1.6×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	900 1.3×	86	6.3k
Stefan Schmutz Austria	38	3.5k 1.0×	3.3k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	631 0.7×	475 0.7×	123	5.1k
Sherri L. Johnson United States	33	2.8k 0.8×	2.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.3×	797 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	83	4.4k
Mark S. Wipfli United States	32	3.7k 1.1×	3.4k 1.3×	754 0.5×	968 1.1×	1.2k 1.8×	95	5.0k
Christian E. Torgersen United States	32	3.3k 1.0×	3.5k 1.3×	1.6k 1.2×	811 1.0×	444 0.7×	62	4.8k
F. Richard Hauer United States	33	4.1k 1.2×	2.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	1.1k 1.6×	77	5.4k
Mary C. Freeman United States	36	3.9k 1.2×	4.2k 1.5×	2.2k 1.6×	1.0k 1.2×	476 0.7×	123	5.8k
Timo Muotka Finland	45	5.5k 1.7×	3.9k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	727 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	164	7.1k
Gordon H. Reeves United States	30	3.4k 1.0×	3.3k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	365 0.5×	79	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Fran Sheldon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fran Sheldon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fran Sheldon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fran Sheldon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fran Sheldon based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fran Sheldon. Fran Sheldon is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Capon, Samantha J., Jamie Pittock, Bradley Moggridge, et al.. (2025). Repairing Australia’s inland river and groundwater systems: nine priority actions, benefits and the finance gap. Marine and Freshwater Research. 76(4).

Suárez‐Castro, Andrés Felipe, et al.. (2024). Exploring the relationship between the soundscape and the environment: A systematic review. Ecological Indicators. 166. 112388–112388. 7 indexed citations

Sheldon, Fran, et al.. (2024). Are environmental water requirements being met in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia?. Marine and Freshwater Research. 75(8). 9 indexed citations

Colloff, Matthew J., Jamie Pittock, Sarah Ann Wheeler, et al.. (2024). Murky waters running clearer? Monitoring, reporting and evaluation of the state of the Murray–Darling Basin after more than three decades of policy reform. Marine and Freshwater Research. 75(18). 3 indexed citations

Sheldon, Fran, et al.. (2023). Natural regeneration of wetlands under climate change. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 5 indexed citations

Klunzinger, M.W., et al.. (2023). Comparative diversity in glochidia of Australasian freshwater mussels. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 1 indexed citations

Linke, Simon, et al.. (2020). Singing streams: Describing freshwater soundscapes with the help of acoustic indices. Ecology and Evolution. 10(11). 4979–4989. 14 indexed citations

Sheldon, Fran, et al.. (2018). Spatial distributions and environmental relationships of two species complexes of freshwater atyid shrimps. Ecosphere. 9(8). 7 indexed citations

Sheldon, Fran. (2017). Moreton Bay River Study, AARC. Impact. 2017(3). 20–22. 1 indexed citations

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Kennard, Mark J., et al.. (2016). Testing Three Species Distribution Modelling Strategies to Define Fish Assemblage Reference Conditions for Stream Bioassessment and Related Applications. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0146728–e0146728. 25 indexed citations

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Guo, Fen, Martin J. Kainz, Fran Sheldon, & Stuart E. Bunn. (2016). Effects of light and nutrients on periphyton and the fatty acid composition and somatic growth of invertebrate grazers in subtropical streams. Oecologia. 181(2). 449–462. 62 indexed citations

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Sheldon, Fran, et al.. (2012). Identifying the spatial scale of land use that most strongly influences overall river ecosystem health score. Ecological Applications. 22(8). 2188–2203. 79 indexed citations

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Tan, Xiang, Fran Sheldon, Stuart E. Bunn, & Quanfa Zhang. (2012). Using diatom indices for water quality assessment in a subtropical river, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 20(6). 4164–4175. 46 indexed citations

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Leigh, Catherine, Ben Stewart‐Koster, Fran Sheldon, & Michele A. Burford. (2011). Understanding multiple ecological responses to anthropogenic disturbance: rivers and potential flow regime change. Ecological Applications. 22(1). 250–263. 34 indexed citations

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Balcombe, Stephen R., Fran Sheldon, Samantha J. Capon, et al.. (2011). Climate-change threats to native fish in degraded rivers and floodplains of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research. 62(9). 1099–1114. 71 indexed citations

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Fellows, C. S., et al.. (2008). Benthic metabolism in two turbid dryland rivers. Freshwater Biology. 54(2). 236–253. 37 indexed citations

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Baker, Andrew, et al.. (2003). Cryptic species and morphological plasticity in long‐lived bivalves (Unionoida: Hyriidae) from inland Australia. Molecular Ecology. 12(10). 2707–2717. 67 indexed citations

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Walker, Kate F., et al.. (1994). Effects of water-level changes induced by weirs on the distribution of littoral plants along the River Murray, South Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 45(8). 1421–1438. 47 indexed citations

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Sheldon, Fran & Kate F. Walker. (1993). Shell variation in Australian Notopala (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Viviparidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia. 14(1). 59–71. 5 indexed citations

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Sheldon, Fran & Kate F. Walker. (1993). Short communication. Pipelines as a refuge for freshwater snails. Regulated Rivers Research & Management. 8(3). 295–299. 31 indexed citations

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