Gareth J. Williams

9.3k citations

141 papers · 6.3k · 3 hit papers · h-index 48

Impact in

Oceanography top 0.5%
- Marine and coastal plant biology
Ecology top 0.2%
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Papers in

Ecology 89
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies 83
- Marine animal studies overview 10
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics 7
Global and Planetary Change 58
- Marine and fisheries research 50

Co-authors: John A. Tainer (10 shared papers)Jamison M. Gove (23 shared papers)Nicholas A. J. Graham (11 shared papers)Stuart A. Sandin (11 shared papers)Albert V. Norström (8 shared papers)Jeffrey Maynard (15 shared papers)Susan P. Lees‐Miller (4 shared papers)K. Doughty (14 shared papers)
Journals: Coral Reefs (8 papers)PLoS ONE (8 papers)Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (7 papers)Marine Pollution Bulletin (5 papers)Scientific Reports (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Australia

In The Last Decade

Gareth J. Williams

136 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Gareth J. Williams's Hit Papers

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Coral reef ecosystem services in the Anthropocene 2019 · 316 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Functional Ecology
2018 Nature Communications
2016 Scientific Reports

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1	Coral reef ecosystem services in the Anthropocene Functional Ecology ·Anna J. Woodhead, Christina C. Hicks, Albert V. Norström, Gareth J. Williams, Nicholas A. J. Graham Hit paper breakdown →	2019	316
2	Local-scale projections of coral reef futures and implications of the Paris Agreement Scientific Reports ·Ruben van Hooidonk, Jeffrey Maynard, Jerker Tamelander, Jamison M. Gove, Gabby N. Ahmadia, Laurie J. Raymundo, Gareth J. Williams, Scott F. Heron, Serge Planes Hit paper breakdown →	2016	288
3	High frequency temperature variability reduces the risk of coral bleaching Nature Communications ·Aryan Safaie, Nyssa J. Silbiger, Tim R. McClanahan, Geno Pawlak, Daniel J. Barshis, James L. Hench, Justin S. Rogers, Gareth J. Williams, Kristen A. Davis Hit paper breakdown →	2018	262
4	The fundamental links between climate change and marine plastic pollution The Science of The Total Environment ·Helen Ford, Nia H. Jones, Andrew J. Davies, Brendan J. Godley, Jenna Jambeck, Imogen E. Napper, Coleen C. Suckling, Gareth J. Williams, Lucy C. Woodall, Heather J. Koldewey	2021	233
5	Near-island biological hotspots in barren ocean basins Nature Communications ·Jamison M. Gove, Margaret A. McManus, Anna B. Neuheimer, Jeffrey J. Polovina, Jeffrey C. Drazen, Craig R. Smith, M. A. Merrifield, Alan M. Friedlander, Julia S. Ehses, Charles W. Young, Amanda K. Dillon, Gareth J. Williams	2016	207
6	Projections of climate conditions that increase coral disease susceptibility and pathogen abundance and virulence Nature Climate Change ·Jeffrey Maynard, Ruben van Hooidonk, C. Mark Eakin, Marji Puotinen, Melissa Garren, Gareth J. Williams, Scott F. Heron, Joleah B. Lamb, Ernesto Weil, Bette L. Willis, C. Drew Harvell	2015	200
7	Mre11–Rad50–Nbs1 conformations and the control of sensing, signaling, and effector responses at DNA double-strand breaks DNA repair ·Gareth J. Williams, Susan P. Lees‐Miller, John A. Tainer	2010	179
8	Local genomic adaptation of coral reef-associated microbiomes to gradients of natural variability and anthropogenic stressors Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Linda Wegley Kelly, Gareth J. Williams, Katie L. Barott, Craig A. Carlson, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Robert A. Edwards, Andreas F. Haas, Matthew Haynes, Yan Wei Lim, Tracey Somera, Craig E. Nelson, Enric Sala, Stuart A. Sandin, Jennifer E. Smith, Mark J. A. Vermeij, Merry Youle, Forest Rohwer	2014	168
9	ABC ATPase signature helices in Rad50 link nucleotide state to Mre11 interface for DNA repair Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Gareth J. Williams, R. Scott Williams, Jessica S. Williams, Gabriel Moncalián, A.S. Arvai, Oliver Limbo, Grant Guenther, Soumita SilDas, Michal Hammel, Paul Russell, John A. Tainer	2011	137
10	Enhancement of RAD51 recombinase activity by the tumor suppressor PALB2 Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ·Eloïse Dray, Julia Etchin, Claudia Wiese, Dorina Saro, Gareth J. Williams, Michal Hammel, Xiong Yu, Vitold E. Galkin, Dongqing Liu, Miaw-Sheue Tsai, Shirley M.-H. Sy, David Schild, Edward H. Egelman, Junjie Chen, Patrick Sung	2010	128
11	ATP-driven Rad50 conformations regulate DNA tethering, end resection, and ATM checkpoint signaling The EMBO Journal ·Rajashree A. Deshpande, Gareth J. Williams, Oliver Limbo, R. Scott Williams, Jeff Kuhnlein, Ji‐Hoon Lee, Scott Classen, Grant Guenther, Paul Russell, John A. Tainer, Tanya T. Paull	2014	126
12	Identifying multiple coral reef regimes and their drivers across the Hawaiian archipelago Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Jean‐Baptiste Jouffray, Magnus Nyström, Albert V. Norström, Ivor D. Williams, Lisa M. Wedding, John N. Kittinger, Gareth J. Williams	2014	126
13	Benthic communities at two remote Pacific coral reefs: effects of reef habitat, depth, and wave energy gradients on spatial patterns PeerJ ·Gareth J. Williams, Jennifer E. Smith, Eric Conklin, Jamison M. Gove, Enric Sala, Stuart A. Sandin	2013	125
14	Pathogenesis of a Tissue Loss Disease Affecting Multiple Species of Corals Along the Florida Reef Tract Frontiers in Marine Science ·Greta S. Aeby, Blake Ushijima, Justin E. Campbell, Scott Jones, Gareth J. Williams, Julie L. Meyer, Claudia C. Häse, Valerie J. Paul	2019	123
15	Prey-size plastics are invading larval fish nurseries Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jamison M. Gove, Jonathan Whitney, Margaret A. McManus, Joey Lecky, Felipe Carvalho, Jennifer M. Lynch, Jiwei Li, Philipp Neubauer, Katharine A. Smith, Jana E. Phipps, Donald R. Kobayashi, Karla B. Balagso, Emily A. Contreras, Mark Manuel, M. A. Merrifield, Jeffrey J. Polovina, Gregory P. Asner, Jeffrey Maynard, Gareth J. Williams	2019	117
16	A smart fall and activity monitor for telecare applications Gareth J. Williams, K. Doughty, K.H. Cameron, D.A. Bradley	2002	110
17	Gradients in Primary Production Predict Trophic Strategies of Mixotrophic Corals across Spatial Scales Current Biology ·Michael D. Fox, Gareth J. Williams, Maggie D. Johnson, Veronica Z. Radice, Brian Zgliczynski, Emily L. A. Kelly, Forest Rohwer, Stuart A. Sandin, Jennifer E. Smith	2018	96
18	Structural insights into NHEJ: Building up an integrated picture of the dynamic DSB repair super complex, one component and interaction at a time DNA repair ·Gareth J. Williams, Michal Hammel, Sarvan Kumar Radhakrishnan, Dale A. Ramsden, Susan P. Lees‐Miller, John A. Tainer	2014	92
19	Parsing human and biophysical drivers of coral reef regimes Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Jean‐Baptiste Jouffray, Lisa M. Wedding, Albert V. Norström, Mary K. Donovan, Gareth J. Williams, Larry B. Crowder, Ashley L. Erickson, Alan M. Friedlander, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Jamison M. Gove, Carrie V. Kappel, John N. Kittinger, Joey Lecky, Kirsten L.L. Oleson, Kimberly A. Selkoe, Crow White, Ivor D. Williams, Magnus Nyström	2019	90
20	Envisioning the dynamics and flexibility of Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 complex to decipher its roles in DNA replication and repair Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology ·Julien Lafrance‐Vanasse, Gareth J. Williams, John A. Tainer	2015	89

About Gareth J. Williams

Gareth J. Williams is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Molecular Biology and Surgery, having authored 141 papers that have together received 6.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (83 papers), Marine and fisheries research (50 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (37 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (15 papers), Marine animal studies overview (10 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (7 papers), Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (6 papers) and Marine Sponges and Natural Products (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Oceanography (2.0k citations), Ecology (3.9k citations), Global and Planetary Change (2.2k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (402 citations) and Pollution (317 citations). Gareth J. Williams has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Frequent co-authors include John A. Tainer, Jamison M. Gove, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Stuart A. Sandin, Albert V. Norström, Jeffrey Maynard, Susan P. Lees‐Miller, K. Doughty, Greta S. Aeby and Scott F. Heron. Their work appears in journals such as Coral Reefs, PLoS ONE, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Marine Pollution Bulletin and Scientific Reports.

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