James R. Guest

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
82 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

James R. Guest is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, James R. Guest has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Ecology, 54 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 40 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in James R. Guest's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (72 papers), Marine and fisheries research (51 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (38 papers). James R. Guest is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (72 papers), Marine and fisheries research (51 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (38 papers). James R. Guest collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore. James R. Guest's co-authors include Andrew H. Baird, Bette L. Willis, Loke Ming Chou, Alasdair J. Edwards, Beverly Pi Lee Goh, Jeffrey Maynard, Peter A. Todd, Efin Muttaqin, Yang Amri Affendi and Stuart Campbell and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

James R. Guest

80 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Systematic and Biogeographical Patterns in the Reproductive Biology of Scleractinian Corals

2009 580 citations Andrew H. Baird, James R. Guest et al. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics profile →
Contrasting Patterns of Coral Bleaching Susceptibility in 2010 Suggest an Adaptive Response to Thermal Stress

2012 376 citations James R. Guest, Andrew H. Baird et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Rising cover amid population density decline: the unstable demography of a reef-building coral 2025 ·Royal Society Open Science ·Liam Lachs, Alex Ward, (unknown), Alasdair J. Edwards, Renata Ferrari, Will F. Figueira, Yimnang Golbuu, Adriana Humanes, (unknown), (unknown), Brigitte Sommer, (unknown), John C. Bythell, James R. Guest	0
2	Influence of attachment techniques on coral seeding unit deployment cost and performance 2025 ·Restoration Ecology ·(unknown), Anastazia T. Banaszak, (unknown), (unknown), James R. Guest, Margaret W. Miller	1
3	Higher spatial resolution is not always better: evaluating satellite-sensed sea surface temperature products for a west Pacific coral reef system 2025 ·Scientific Reports ·Liam Lachs, Simon D. Donner, Alasdair J. Edwards, Yimnang Golbuu, James R. Guest	1
4	Demographic recovery of corals at a wave-exposed reef following catastrophic disturbance 2024 ·Coral Reefs ·Liam Lachs, (unknown), Marine Gouezo, Victor Nestor, (unknown), James R. Guest, Yimnang Golbuu	5
5	Selective breeding enhances coral heat tolerance to marine heatwaves 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Adriana Humanes, Liam Lachs, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), John C. Bythell, Jamie Craggs, (unknown), Alasdair J. Edwards, Yimnang Golbuu, (unknown), Paweł Palmowski, (unknown), Michael Sweet, Alex Ward, Alastair J. Wilson, James R. Guest	19
6	Honduran Reef Island Shoreline Change and Planform Evolution over the Last 15 Years: Implications for Reef Island Monitoring and Futures 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Holly K. East, Emma P. Hocking, James R. Guest	6
7	Contrasting reproductive strategies between stress-tolerant and competitive coral taxa 2023 ·Coral Reefs ·(unknown), James R. Guest, (unknown)	3
8	SizeExtractR: A workflow for rapid reproducible extraction of object size metrics from scaled images 2022 ·Ecology and Evolution ·Liam Lachs, (unknown), Maria Beger, Holly K. East, James R. Guest, Brigitte Sommer	9
9	Scale dependence of coral reef oases and their environmental correlates 2022 ·Ecological Applications ·Robin Elahi, Peter J. Edmunds, Ruth D. Gates, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Brian B. Barnes, Iliana Chollett, Travis A. Courtney, James R. Guest, Elizabeth A. Lenz, Lauren T. Toth, T. Shay Viehman, Ivor D. Williams	13
10	Onset of sexual maturity of sexually propagated and wild colonies of the massive coral Favites abdita in northwestern Philippines 2021 ·Invertebrate Reproduction & Development ·(unknown), James R. Guest, Dexter W. dela Cruz, (unknown)	3
11	Latitudinal variation in monthly-scale reproductive synchrony among Acropora coral assemblages in the Indo-Pacific 2021 ·Coral Reefs ·Jessica Bouwmeester, Alasdair J. Edwards, James R. Guest, Andrew G. Bauman, Michael L. Berumen, Andrew H. Baird	8
12	Fine-Tuning Heat Stress Algorithms to Optimise Global Predictions of Mass Coral Bleaching 2021 ·Remote Sensing ·Liam Lachs, John C. Bythell, Holly K. East, Alasdair J. Edwards, Peter J. Mumby, William Skirving, (unknown), James R. Guest	22
13	Disturbances drive changes in coral community assemblages and coral calcification capacity 2020 ·Ecosphere ·Travis A. Courtney, Brian B. Barnes, Iliana Chollett, Robin Elahi, Kevin Gross, James R. Guest, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Elizabeth A. Lenz, Hannah Nelson, Caroline S. Rogers, Lauren T. Toth, Andreas J. Andersson	32
14	A framework for identifying and characterising coral reef “oases” against a backdrop of degradation 2018 ·Journal of Applied Ecology ·James R. Guest, Peter J. Edmunds, Ruth D. Gates, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Andreas J. Andersson, Brian B. Barnes, Iliana Chollett, Travis A. Courtney, Robin Elahi, Kevin Gross, Elizabeth A. Lenz, Satoshi Mitarai, Peter J. Mumby, Hannah Nelson, Britt-Anne A. Parker, Hollie M. Putnam, Caroline S. Rogers, Lauren T. Toth	58
15	Maintaining natural spawning timing in Acropora corals following long distance inter-continental transportation. 2018 ·University of Derby Online Research Archive. (University of Derby) ·Jamie Craggs, James R. Guest, (unknown), Michelle Davis, Michael Sweet	5
16	Coral mass spawning predicted by rapid seasonal rise in ocean temperature 2016 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Sally A. Keith, Jeffrey Maynard, Alasdair J. Edwards, James R. Guest, Andrew G. Bauman, Ruben van Hooidonk, Scott F. Heron, Michael L. Berumen, Jessica Bouwmeester, (unknown), Carsten Rahbek, Andrew H. Baird	85
17	27 years of benthic and coral community dynamics on turbid, highly urbanised reefs off Singapore 2016 ·Scientific Reports ·James R. Guest, Karenne Tun, Jeffrey Low, Adriana Vergés, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli, Alexandra H. Campbell, Andrew G. Bauman, David A. Feary, Loke Ming Chou, Peter D. Steinberg	103
18	Coral community response to bleaching on a highly disturbed reef 2016 ·Scientific Reports ·James R. Guest, Jeffrey Low, Karenne Tun, B.W. Wilson, Charmaine Ng, (unknown), Karin E. Ulstrup, Jani Tanzil, Peter A. Todd, Tai Chong Toh, Diane McDougald, Loke Ming Chou, Peter D. Steinberg	111
19	Systematic and Biogeographical Patterns in the Reproductive Biology of Scleractinian Corals breakdown → 2009 ·Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics ·Andrew H. Baird, James R. Guest, Bette L. Willis	580
20	Histopathological methods for the investigation of microbial communities associated with disease lesions in reef corals 2002 ·Letters in Applied Microbiology ·John C. Bythell, Michael R. Barer, Rory P. Cooney, James R. Guest, Anthony G. O’Donnell, Olga Pantos, Martin Le Tissier	58

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