James J. Bell

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
179 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

James J. Bell is a scholar working on Ecology, Biotechnology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, James J. Bell has authored 179 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Ecology, 103 papers in Biotechnology and 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in James J. Bell's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (125 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (103 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (42 papers). James J. Bell is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (125 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (103 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (42 papers). James J. Bell collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and Australia. James J. Bell's co-authors include David K. A. Barnes, David J. Smith, Nicole S. Webster, Simon K. Davy, James Hardy, Michael W. Taylor, Richard K. F. Unsworth, Jamaluddin Jompa, Lew Hardy and Stuart Beattie and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

James J. Bell

174 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

The functional roles of marine sponges

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James J. Bell New Zealand	38	3.7k	2.6k	1.7k	1.6k	609	179	5.8k
Michael Sweet United Kingdom	37	2.8k 0.8×	355 0.1×	652 0.4×	918 0.6×	75 0.1×	121	3.8k
Stefano Piraino Italy	37	1.5k 0.4×	482 0.2×	2.1k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	189 0.3×	154	4.3k
Katharine G. Field United States	33	2.1k 0.6×	121 0.0×	241 0.1×	590 0.4×	52 0.1×	56	6.3k
Maren Ziegler Germany	30	2.4k 0.7×	334 0.1×	591 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	63 0.1×	73	3.3k
Jose V. Lopez United States	29	1.1k 0.3×	426 0.2×	238 0.1×	221 0.1×	52 0.1×	84	2.9k
David Lecchini French Polynesia	33	2.3k 0.6×	61 0.0×	1.1k 0.6×	654 0.4×	90 0.1×	166	4.1k
Mary A. Sewell New Zealand	35	2.3k 0.6×	110 0.0×	2.1k 1.2×	2.4k 1.5×	655 1.1×	123	5.7k
Jane E. Williamson Australia	34	1.8k 0.5×	70 0.0×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	343 0.6×	141	3.5k
Alan E. Wilson United States	42	1.6k 0.4×	15 0.0×	293 0.2×	1.4k 0.9×	19 0.0×	132	5.4k
Robert A. Andersen United States	39	2.6k 0.7×	56 0.0×	189 0.1×	2.3k 1.4×	32 0.1×	124	5.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Micaroni, Valerio, James J. Bell, & Francesca Strano. (2024). Ecologically significant shallow-water (0–30 m) marine animal forests in central New Zealand. Global Ecology and Conservation. 54. e03140–e03140.

Bell, James J., Valerio Micaroni, Francesca Strano, et al.. (2024). Marine heatwave‐driven mass mortality and microbial community reorganisation in an ecologically important temperate sponge. Global Change Biology. 30(8). e17417–e17417. 10 indexed citations

Strano, Francesca, et al.. (2024). Responses of the temperate calcareous sponge Grantia sp. to ocean acidification. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 104.

Bell, James J., et al.. (2024). Spatial variation in the rocky temperate benthic mesophotic communities of the Wellington region in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 58(4). 719–736. 1 indexed citations

Bell, James J., et al.. (2023). Testing the impact of Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROVs) camera angle on community metrics of temperate mesophotic organisms: A 3D model-based approach. Ecological Informatics. 76. 102041–102041. 6 indexed citations

Bury, Sarah J., et al.. (2023). Transitions from coral to sponge-dominated states alter trophodynamics in associated coral reef fish assemblages. Anthropocene. 43. 100392–100392. 2 indexed citations

Tracey, Dianne M., et al.. (2023). Effects of sediment pulses on the deep‐sea coral Goniocorella dumosa. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 59(5). 1371–1387. 4 indexed citations

Bell, James J., Robert O. Smith, Valerio Micaroni, et al.. (2022). Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges. Current Biology. 33(1). 158–163.e2. 31 indexed citations

Bell, James J., et al.. (2022). Phototrophic sponge productivity may not be enhanced in a high CO₂ world. Global Change Biology. 28(16). 4900–4911. 4 indexed citations

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Bell, James J., et al.. (2022). Global status, impacts, and management of rocky temperate mesophotic ecosystems. Conservation Biology. 38(1). e13945–e13945. 33 indexed citations

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Silva, Catarina N. S., Emma F. Young, Nicholas P. Murphy, et al.. (2021). Climatic change drives dynamic source–sink relationships in marine species with high dispersal potential. Ecology and Evolution. 11(6). 2535–2550. 9 indexed citations

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Davy, Simon K., et al.. (2021). Increased cellular detoxification, cytoskeletal activities and protein transport explain physiological stress in a lagoon sponge. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(22). 2 indexed citations

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Dunn, Matthew R., Elizabeth A. Fulton, Lisa Woods, et al.. (2021). Interannual variability and decadal stability of benthic organisms on an Indonesian coral reef. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 101(2). 221–231. 2 indexed citations

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Bell, James J., et al.. (2021). Bioeroding sponge species from the Wakatobi region of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. Zootaxa. 4996(1). 1–48. 3 indexed citations

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Bell, James J., Emily McGrath, Megan Shaffer, et al.. (2020). Interocean patterns in shallow water sponge assemblage structure and function. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 95(6). 1720–1758. 25 indexed citations

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Silva, Catarina N. S., Nicholas P. Murphy, James J. Bell, et al.. (2020). Global drivers of recent diversification in a marine species complex. Molecular Ecology. 30(5). 1223–1236. 8 indexed citations

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Haris, Abdul, et al.. (2019). Spatial variation in the benthic community composition of coral reefs in the Wakatobi Marine National Park, Indonesia: updated baselines and limited benthic community shifts. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 100(1). 37–44. 10 indexed citations

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Bell, James J., et al.. (2018). Elucidating the sponge stress response; lipids and fatty acids can facilitate survival under future climate scenarios. Global Change Biology. 24(7). 3130–3144. 37 indexed citations

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Bell, James J., et al.. (2017). Responses of two temperate sponge species to ocean acidification. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 52(2). 247–263. 19 indexed citations

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Biggerstaff, Andrew, David J. Smith, Jamaluddin Jompa, & James J. Bell. (2017). Metabolic responses of a phototrophic sponge to sedimentation supports transitions to sponge-dominated reefs. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2725–2725. 23 indexed citations

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