George Roff

4.7k total citations
85 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

George Roff is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, George Roff has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Ecology, 55 papers in Oceanography and 53 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in George Roff's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (81 papers), Marine and fisheries research (52 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (50 papers). George Roff is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (81 papers), Marine and fisheries research (52 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (50 papers). George Roff collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and China. George Roff's co-authors include Peter J. Mumby, Christopher Doropoulos, Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg, Jian‐xin Zhao, Yves‐Marie Bozec, Mark A. Priest, Maoz Fine, John M. Pandolfi, Laurence J. McCook and Yuexing Feng and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

George Roff

84 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
George Roff Australia	33	2.9k	1.8k	1.6k	533	201	85	3.3k
Russell E. Brainard United States	34	2.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	520 1.0×	257 1.3×	96	3.8k
Diego Lirman United States	36	3.3k 1.2×	1.9k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	387 0.7×	94 0.5×	105	3.8k
William F. Precht United States	28	3.5k 1.2×	2.1k 1.2×	2.1k 1.4×	247 0.5×	175 0.9×	71	3.8k
Alina M. Szmant United States	34	4.1k 1.4×	2.3k 1.2×	2.6k 1.6×	324 0.6×	173 0.9×	50	4.6k
Covadonga Orejas Spain	31	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	294 0.6×	140 0.7×	98	2.7k
James Gilmour Australia	26	2.2k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	416 0.8×	105 0.5×	62	2.5k
Daniela M. Ceccarelli Australia	24	3.1k 1.1×	2.3k 1.3×	1.4k 0.9×	618 1.2×	41 0.2×	63	3.5k
Michel Pichon France	29	2.1k 0.7×	973 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	527 1.0×	119 0.6×	60	2.4k
Derek P. Manzello United States	32	2.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	148 0.3×	122 0.6×	81	3.0k
R. P. M. Bak Netherlands	34	2.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	270 0.5×	48 0.2×	56	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by George Roff

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Roff

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20 of 20 papers shown

Doropoulos, Christopher, George Roff, Marine Gouezo, et al.. (2025). Larval seedboxes: A modular and effective tool for scaling coral reef restoration. Ecological Applications. 35(7). e70140–e70140.

Gouezo, Marine, Peter L. Harrison, George Roff, et al.. (2025). Coral larval enhancement with and without nets yields similar recruitment during slack current releases. Restoration Ecology. 34(1). 1 indexed citations

Staples, Timothy L., et al.. (2024). Taxonomic novelty emerges more frequently and independently of functional novelty in historical coral communities. Oikos. 2025(2). 1 indexed citations

Stella, Jessica, Kennedy Wolfe, George Roff, et al.. (2022). Functional and phylogenetic responses of motile cryptofauna to habitat degradation. Journal of Animal Ecology. 91(11). 2203–2219. 16 indexed citations

Roff, George, Alberto Rodriguez‐Ramirez, Nicole D. Leonard, et al.. (2021). Reef accumulation is decoupled from recent degradation in the central and southern Red Sea. The Science of The Total Environment. 809. 151176–151176. 9 indexed citations

Vieira, Christophe, et al.. (2020). Cryptic diversity in the macroalgal genus Lobophora (Dictyotales) reveals environmental drivers of algal assemblages. Marine Biology. 167(12). 7 indexed citations

Roff, George, et al.. (2020). Multi-decadal changes in structural complexity following mass coral mortality on a Caribbean reef. Biogeosciences. 17(23). 5909–5918. 15 indexed citations

Leonard, Nicole D., Mauro Lepore, Jian‐xin Zhao, et al.. (2020). A U‐Th Dating Approach to Understanding Past Coral Reef Dynamics and Geomorphological Constraints on Future Reef Growth Potential; Mazie Bay, Southern Great Barrier Reef. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 35(2). 10 indexed citations

Zhao, Jian‐xin, A. Y. Annie Lau, George Roff, et al.. (2019). Episodic Reef Growth in the Northern South China Sea linked to Warm Climate During the Past 7,000 Years: Potential for Future Coral Refugia. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(4). 1032–1043. 22 indexed citations

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Roff, George, Sonia Bejarano, Mark A. Priest, et al.. (2018). Seascapes as drivers of herbivore assemblages in coral reef ecosystems. Ecological Monographs. 89(1). 39 indexed citations

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Bozec, Yves‐Marie, Christopher Doropoulos, George Roff, & Peter J. Mumby. (2018). Transient Grazing and the Dynamics of an Unanticipated Coral–Algal Phase Shift. Ecosystems. 22(2). 296–311. 29 indexed citations

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Sampayo, Eugenia M., et al.. (2016). Coral symbioses under prolonged environmental change: living near tolerance range limits. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 36271–36271. 37 indexed citations

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Roff, George, Christopher Doropoulos, Mirta Zupan, et al.. (2015). Phase shift facilitation following cyclone disturbance on coral reefs. Oecologia. 178(4). 1193–1203. 49 indexed citations

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Doropoulos, Christopher, George Roff, Mirta Zupan, et al.. (2014). Reef-scale failure of coral settlement following typhoon disturbance and macroalgal bloom in Palau, Western Pacific. Coral Reefs. 33(3). 613–623. 51 indexed citations

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He, Hu, Renata Ferrari, David McKinnon, et al.. (2012). Measuring reef complexity and rugosity from monocular video bathymetric reconstruction. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 11 indexed citations

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Roff, George, et al.. (2011). The Ecology of ‘Acroporid White Syndrome', a Coral Disease from the Southern Great Barrier Reef. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e26829–e26829. 32 indexed citations

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Kvennefors, E. Charlotte E., et al.. (2011). Regulation of Bacterial Communities Through Antimicrobial Activity by the Coral Holobiont. Microbial Ecology. 63(3). 605–618. 95 indexed citations

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Roff, George, Karin E. Ulstrup, Maoz Fine, Peter J. Ralph, & Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg. (2008). SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY WITHIN DISEASED CORALS FROM THE GREAT BARRIER REEF¹. Journal of Phycology. 44(2). 526–538. 20 indexed citations

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Ainsworth, Tracy D., Maoz Fine, George Roff, & Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg. (2007). Bacteria are not the primary cause of bleaching in the Mediterranean coral Oculina patagonica. The ISME Journal. 2(1). 67–73. 74 indexed citations

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Roff, George. (2007). Corals on the move: morphological and reproductive strategies of reef flat coralliths. Coral Reefs. 27(2). 343–344. 14 indexed citations

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