Gray A. Williams

6.5k total citations
187 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Gray A. Williams is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Gray A. Williams has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Oceanography, 103 papers in Ecology and 65 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Gray A. Williams's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (86 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (84 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (34 papers). Gray A. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (86 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (84 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (34 papers). Gray A. Williams collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, Italy and United Kingdom. Gray A. Williams's co-authors include David Morritt, Yun‐Wei Dong, Stephen J. Hawkins, Mark S. Davies, David J. Marshall, Benny K. K. Chan, Christopher D. McQuaid, Terence P. T. Ng, S Nagarkar and Maurizio De Pirro and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gray A. Williams

178 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Gray A. Williams 3.0k 2.9k 1.8k 386 359 187 5.0k
Tom Moens 4.0k 1.3× 4.5k 1.5× 1.3k 0.7× 371 1.0× 267 0.7× 187 6.6k
Lars Tomanek 2.4k 0.8× 3.3k 1.1× 2.2k 1.2× 272 0.7× 308 0.9× 51 5.4k
Eric Sanford 4.4k 1.4× 3.2k 1.1× 3.2k 1.7× 477 1.2× 444 1.2× 79 6.0k
Marco A. Lardies 1.8k 0.6× 2.0k 0.7× 1.9k 1.0× 414 1.1× 382 1.1× 91 3.3k
R. N. Hughes 2.0k 0.7× 2.0k 0.7× 2.1k 1.1× 574 1.5× 255 0.7× 75 4.0k
Benjamin G. Miner 1.7k 0.5× 1.9k 0.7× 1.6k 0.9× 596 1.5× 289 0.8× 29 3.7k
Rachel Collin 1.6k 0.5× 1.3k 0.4× 1.3k 0.7× 343 0.9× 289 0.8× 124 2.8k
Mary A. Sewell 2.4k 0.8× 2.3k 0.8× 2.1k 1.1× 454 1.2× 338 0.9× 123 5.7k
David R. Lindberg 1.6k 0.5× 1.5k 0.5× 991 0.5× 499 1.3× 327 0.9× 86 3.3k
David R. Schiel 3.7k 1.2× 3.2k 1.1× 1.8k 1.0× 347 0.9× 171 0.5× 149 5.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gray A. Williams

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Guénard, Benoît, et al.. (2025). Limited and biased global conservation funding means most threatened species remain unsupported. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(9). e2412479122–e2412479122. 8 indexed citations
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Leung, Kin Sum, Gray A. Williams, Monthon Ganmanee, et al.. (2024). Thermal fluctuations independently modulate physiological plasticity and the dynamics of the gut microbiome in a tropical rocky shore oyster. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 573. 152004–152004. 3 indexed citations
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Cordeiro, César A. M. M., Luis Giménez, Áurea Maria Ciotti, et al.. (2024). Environmental factors have stronger effects than biotic processes in patterns of intertidal populations along the southeast coast of Brazil. Marine Environmental Research. 200. 106646–106646. 2 indexed citations
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Hui, Jerome H. L., Ting‐Fung Chan, Leo Lai Chan, et al.. (2024). Chromosome-level genome assembly of the common chiton, Liolophura japonica (Lischke, 1873). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2024. 1–14. 3 indexed citations
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Han, Kai, et al.. (2024). HSC 3 D : A Python package to quantify three‐dimensional habitat structural complexity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(4). 639–646. 2 indexed citations
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Bridges, SM, Jessica Shuk Ching Leung, Gary K. W. Wong, et al.. (2024). Presence, absence, and spatial relations: An Interactional Ethnography of physical-virtual field-based learning through a sociomaterial lens. Learning Culture and Social Interaction. 47. 100834–100834. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Gray A., et al.. (2024). Can the native crab Thalamita danae be an effective biological control agent of the invasive mussel Xenostrobus securis in Hong Kong?. Biological Invasions. 26(4). 1139–1155. 1 indexed citations
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Williams, Gray A., et al.. (2023). Behavioural adaptation to heat stress: shell lifting of the hermit crab Diogenes deflectomanus. Journal of Thermal Biology. 113. 103476–103476. 6 indexed citations
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Hu, Jiaxin, et al.. (2023). A comparative study on CNN-based semantic segmentation of intertidal mussel beds. Ecological Informatics. 75. 102116–102116. 7 indexed citations
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Williams, Gray A., et al.. (2023). Status Quo and Future Perspectives of Molecular and Genomic Studies on the Genus Biomphalaria—The Intermediate Snail Host of Schistosoma mansoni. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(5). 4895–4895. 6 indexed citations
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Williams, Gray A., et al.. (2021). An integrated approach to infer the mechanisms of mate choice for size. Animal Behaviour. 175. 33–43. 5 indexed citations
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Ng, Terence P. T., et al.. (2019). The causal relationship between sexual selection and sexual size dimorphism in marine gastropods. Animal Behaviour. 148. 53–62. 21 indexed citations
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Trowbridge, Cynthia D., Christopher Little, Gray A. Williams, et al.. (2019). No ‘silver bullet’: Multiple factors control population dynamics of European purple sea urchins in Lough Hyne Marine Reserve, Ireland. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 226. 106271–106271. 13 indexed citations
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Rinaldi, Alessandro, et al.. (2018). Predicting effective aquaculture in subtropical waters: A dynamic energy budget model for the green lipped mussel, Perna viridis. Aquaculture. 495. 749–756. 16 indexed citations
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Ng, Terence P. T., et al.. (2018). A novel method to estimate the spatial scale of mate choice in the wild. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 72(12). 8 indexed citations
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Ng, Terence P. T., et al.. (2017). A novel method for estimating the strength of positive mating preference by similarity in the wild. Ecology and Evolution. 7(9). 2883–2893. 12 indexed citations
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Stafford, Richard, Davies Davies, & Gray A. Williams. (2005). Creating an artificial rocky shore ecosystem. 1 indexed citations
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Nagarkar, S & Gray A. Williams. (1997). Comparative techniques to quantify cyanobacteria dominated epilithic biofilms on tropical rocky shores. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 154. 281–291. 51 indexed citations
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Williams, Gray A., et al.. (1988). Some new and additional larval host records for Australian Cerambycidae (Coleoptera). Australian entomologist. 15(3). 95. 5 indexed citations
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Williams, Gray A.. (1987). A revision of the genus Nascioides Kerremans (Coleoptera : Buprestidae). Invertebrate taxonomy. 1(2). 121–145. 2 indexed citations

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