Francis H. Joyce

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Francis H. Joyce is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francis H. Joyce has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 6 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Francis H. Joyce's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers), Plant and animal studies (4 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (3 papers). Francis H. Joyce is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers), Plant and animal studies (4 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (3 papers). Francis H. Joyce collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ecuador and Costa Rica. Francis H. Joyce's co-authors include Douglas J. McCauley, Stephen R. Palumbi, Robert R. Warner, Malin L. Pinsky, James A. Estes, Juan Mayorga, Christopher D. Golden, David A. Kroodsma, Edward H. Allison and Karen D. Holl and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Scientific Reports and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Francis H. Joyce

13 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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 →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francis H. Joyce United States	7	764	534	251	204	185	14	1.1k
Nate Peterson Australia	13	807 1.1×	624 1.2×	200 0.8×	234 1.1×	237 1.3×	17	1.1k
Andrew F. Johnson United States	19	532 0.7×	548 1.0×	282 1.1×	115 0.6×	118 0.6×	40	921
Tessa Mazor Australia	22	972 1.3×	1.1k 2.0×	281 1.1×	318 1.6×	357 1.9×	29	1.6k
Rebecca Gorton Australia	21	775 1.0×	1.1k 2.1×	358 1.4×	185 0.9×	322 1.7×	34	1.5k
Kellee Koenig United States	6	782 1.0×	609 1.1×	122 0.5×	295 1.4×	333 1.8×	9	1.2k
Darcy Bradley United States	18	593 0.8×	540 1.0×	501 2.0×	119 0.6×	86 0.5×	40	1.1k
Tyler D. Eddy Canada	16	870 1.1×	722 1.4×	142 0.6×	214 1.0×	353 1.9×	45	1.3k
Kristin N. Marshall United States	24	1.1k 1.4×	1.3k 2.3×	524 2.1×	202 1.0×	264 1.4×	57	1.8k
R. Cotton Rockwood United States	7	922 1.2×	616 1.2×	209 0.8×	290 1.4×	417 2.3×	8	1.5k
Göran Sundblad Sweden	19	616 0.8×	651 1.2×	455 1.8×	120 0.6×	258 1.4×	32	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francis H. Joyce

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14 of 14 papers shown

Brancalion, Pedro H. S., Fangyuan Hua, Francis H. Joyce, Alexandre Antonelli, & Karen D. Holl. (2025). Moving biodiversity from an afterthought to a key outcome of forest restoration. 1(4). 248–261. 7 indexed citations

Pettit, Allison R., et al.. (2025). Using community science to assess the population dynamics and spatial ecology of the giant sea bass in Southern California. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 760. 151–169.

Joyce, Francis H., Rakan A. Zahawi, & Karen D. Holl. (2025). Lower‐intensity restoration interventions drive greater seedling establishment for later‐successional tree species. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(9). 2319–2329. 1 indexed citations

Werden, Leland K., Rebecca J. Cole, Karen D. Holl, et al.. (2024). Assessing innovations for upscaling forest landscape restoration. One Earth. 7(9). 1515–1528. 2 indexed citations

Joyce, Francis H., et al.. (2024). Vertebrate seed predation can limit recruitment of later‐successional species in tropical forest restoration. Biotropica. 56(6). 4 indexed citations

Joyce, Francis H., et al.. (2024). Active restoration accelerates recovery of tropical forest bird assemblages over two decades. Biological Conservation. 293. 110593–110593. 2 indexed citations

Joyce, Francis H., et al.. (2024). Differing Agents of Physical Damage to Artificial Seedlings in Remnant and Restored Forests. Biotropica. 57(1). 1 indexed citations

McDevitt‐Irwin, Jamie M., Douglas J. McCauley, Daniel R. Brumbaugh, et al.. (2023). Consumers decrease variability across space and turnover through time during coral reef succession. Oecologia. 202(2). 431–443. 4 indexed citations

San‐José, Miriam, Leland K. Werden, Francis H. Joyce, et al.. (2022). Effects of landscape structure on restoration success in tropical premontane forest. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 13452–13452. 8 indexed citations

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Holl, Karen D., Francis H. Joyce, & J. Leighton Reid. (2022). Alluring restoration strategies to attract seed‐dispersing animals need more rigorous testing. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59(3). 649–652. 6 indexed citations

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Posner, Stephen, Eli P. Fenichel, Douglas J. McCauley, et al.. (2019). Boundary spanning among research and policy communities to address the emerging industrial revolution in the ocean. Environmental Science & Policy. 104. 73–81. 17 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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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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McCauley, Douglas J., Todd E. Dawson, Mary E. Power, et al.. (2015). Carbon stable isotopes suggest that hippopotamus‐vectored nutrients subsidize aquatic consumers in an East African river. Ecosphere. 6(4). 1–11. 81 indexed citations

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