James R. Watson

4.4k total citations
84 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

James R. Watson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, James R. Watson has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 27 papers in Ecology and 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in James R. Watson's work include Marine and fisheries research (28 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (22 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (12 papers). James R. Watson is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (28 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (22 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (12 papers). James R. Watson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Australia. James R. Watson's co-authors include David A. Siegel, Satoshi Mitarai, Robert J. Toonen, Crow White, Kimberly A. Selkoe, Simon A. Levin, Danielle C. Zacherl, Dane H. Klinger, Bror Jönsson and James C. McWilliams and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

James R. Watson

78 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James R. Watson United States 28 1.5k 1.3k 964 464 296 84 2.7k
Melanie Frazier United States 22 2.3k 1.6× 1.5k 1.1× 896 0.9× 357 0.8× 343 1.2× 43 3.9k
Stuart Kininmonth Australia 26 2.1k 1.4× 1.5k 1.1× 889 0.9× 135 0.3× 445 1.5× 57 2.8k
Crow White United States 28 2.3k 1.6× 2.3k 1.7× 759 0.8× 462 1.0× 561 1.9× 61 4.0k
Mark Huxham United Kingdom 37 2.3k 1.6× 922 0.7× 1.0k 1.1× 102 0.2× 233 0.8× 102 3.8k
Raphael D. Sagarin United States 17 1.4k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 796 0.8× 365 0.8× 695 2.3× 32 2.9k
Michael Sinclair Canada 30 1.2k 0.8× 2.5k 1.9× 866 0.9× 279 0.6× 1.0k 3.5× 57 3.5k
Piers K. Dunstan Australia 29 1.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 839 0.9× 103 0.2× 410 1.4× 59 2.4k
Michele Casini Sweden 34 1.8k 1.2× 2.8k 2.1× 834 0.9× 221 0.5× 1.4k 4.8× 111 3.9k
Nicholas J. Bax Australia 37 2.8k 1.9× 2.7k 2.0× 1.4k 1.5× 169 0.4× 773 2.6× 83 4.5k
Kenyon C. Lindeman United States 22 3.0k 2.0× 2.7k 2.0× 922 1.0× 252 0.5× 1.1k 3.8× 40 3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by James R. Watson

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Fields of papers citing papers by James R. Watson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James R. Watson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James R. Watson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James R. Watson based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with James R. Watson. James R. Watson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Harte, Michael, et al.. (2024). Emergent geopolitical risks from fishing activities and past conflicts in the Pacific Ocean. Marine Policy. 166. 106234–106234. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, James R., Claire M. Spillman, L. Richard Little, Alistair J. Hobday, & Phillip S. Levin. (2023). Enhancing the resilience of blue foods to climate shocks using insurance. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 80(10). 2457–2469. 4 indexed citations
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Villarino, Ernesto, James R. Watson, Guillem Chust, et al.. (2022). Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31(11). 2323–2336. 19 indexed citations
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Samhouri, Jameal F., et al.. (2021). Fisheries connectivity measures of adaptive capacity in small-scale fisheries. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 79(2). 519–531. 8 indexed citations
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Hagstrom, George I., et al.. (2021). Unsupervised manifold learning of collective behavior. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(2). e1007811–e1007811. 4 indexed citations
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Watson, James R., et al.. (2020). Critical speeding up as an early warning signal of stochastic regime shifts. Theoretical Ecology. 13(4). 449–457. 13 indexed citations
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Watson, James R., et al.. (2018). Resilience through risk management: cooperative insurance in small-holder aquaculture systems. Heliyon. 4(9). e00799–e00799. 24 indexed citations
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Tilman, Andrew R., Simon A. Levin, & James R. Watson. (2018). Revenue-sharing clubs provide economic insurance and incentives for sustainability in common-pool resource systems. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 454. 205–214. 19 indexed citations
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Fuller, Emma, Jameal F. Samhouri, Joshua S. Stoll, Simon A. Levin, & James R. Watson. (2017). Characterizing fisheries connectivity in marine social–ecological systems. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 74(8). 2087–2096. 78 indexed citations
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Klinger, Dane H., Simon A. Levin, & James R. Watson. (2017). The growth of finfish in global open-ocean aquaculture under climate change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1864). 20170834–20170834. 74 indexed citations
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Jönsson, Bror & James R. Watson. (2016). The timescales of global surface-ocean connectivity. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11239–11239. 82 indexed citations
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Österblom, Henrik, Andrew Merrie, Marc Métian, et al.. (2013). Modeling Social–Ecological Scenarios in Marine Systems. BioScience. 63(9). 735–744. 42 indexed citations
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Alberto, Filipe, P. Raimondi, Daniel C. Reed, et al.. (2011). Isolation by oceanographic distance explains genetic structure for Macrocystis pyrifera in the Santa Barbara Channel. Molecular Ecology. 20(12). 2543–2554. 97 indexed citations
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Watson, James R., Cynthia G. Hays, P. Raimondi, et al.. (2011). Currents connecting communities: nearshore community similarity and ocean circulation. Ecology. 92(6). 1193–1200. 77 indexed citations
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Mitarai, Satoshi, David A. Siegel, James R. Watson, Can Dong, & J. C. McWilliams. (2008). Quantifying Connectivity in the Coastal Ocean. AGUFM. 2008. 4 indexed citations
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Watson, James R., et al.. (2005). Towards a network pattern language for complex systems. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 309–317. 2 indexed citations
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Watson, James R., Janet Wiles, & Jim Hanan. (2003). Towards More Relevant Evolutionary Models: Integrating an Artificial Genome With a Developmental Phenotype. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 1. 288–298. 3 indexed citations
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Wiles, Janet, et al.. (2001). How learning can guide evolution in hierarchical modular tasks. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1(23). 1130–1135. 3 indexed citations
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Rosenberg, Alan, James R. Watson, & D. B. Linke. (2000). Contemporary portrayals of Auschwitz : philosophical challenges. DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library). 3 indexed citations
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Watson, James R.. (1971). Heidegger's Hermeneutic Phenomenology. Philosophy Today. 15(1). 30–43. 1 indexed citations

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