James S. Albert

8.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
111 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

James S. Albert is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, James S. Albert has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 73 papers in Aquatic Science and 19 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in James S. Albert's work include Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (94 papers), Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (73 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (64 papers). James S. Albert is often cited by papers focused on Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (94 papers), Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (73 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (64 papers). James S. Albert collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Canada. James S. Albert's co-authors include William G. R. Crampton, Roberto Esser dos Reis, Nathan R. Lovejoy, Victor Alberto Tagliacollo., Scott M. Duke‐Sylvester, Paulo Petry, Michael Maia Mincarone, Fábio Di Dario, Luiz A. Rocha and Thierry Oberdorff and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

James S. Albert

107 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Scientists’ warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis

2020 574 citations James S. Albert, Georgia Destouni et al. AMBIO profile →
Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America

2016 485 citations Roberto Esser dos Reis, James S. Albert et al. profile →
Diversification of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes

2020 163 citations James S. Albert, Victor Alberto Tagliacollo. et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James S. Albert United States	34	3.3k	2.1k	908	527	474	111	4.5k
Lynne R. Parenti United States	26	1.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	481 0.5×	633 1.2×	614 1.3×	99	3.1k
John G. Lundberg United States	35	3.0k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	801 0.9×	948 1.8×	783 1.7×	96	5.2k
Francisco J. García-Dé León Mexico	30	1.4k 0.4×	759 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	454 0.9×	1.1k 2.4×	145	3.2k
Jörg Freyhof Germany	32	3.0k 0.9×	2.3k 1.1×	1.8k 2.0×	133 0.3×	1.3k 2.7×	116	4.7k
Jansen Zuanon Brazil	40	4.4k 1.3×	2.3k 1.1×	2.2k 2.4×	129 0.2×	310 0.7×	202	6.2k
Joseph S. Nelson Canada	24	3.8k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	1.9k 2.1×	425 0.8×	1.0k 2.1×	81	5.4k
Joseph T. Eastman United States	34	2.0k 0.6×	768 0.4×	2.3k 2.6×	320 0.6×	551 1.2×	124	4.3k
Maurice Kottelat Singapore	28	3.7k 1.1×	3.8k 1.8×	1.5k 1.7×	130 0.2×	1.1k 2.3×	164	5.5k
R. M. McDowall New Zealand	43	4.8k 1.5×	2.5k 1.2×	2.5k 2.7×	366 0.7×	1.1k 2.4×	157	6.0k
Michael Tobler United States	36	1.6k 0.5×	672 0.3×	1.6k 1.7×	414 0.8×	934 2.0×	136	3.4k

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Vliet, Jasper van, et al.. (2025). Rural development outpaces urban expansion in threatening biodiversity in China. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 215. 108176–108176. 2 indexed citations

Ritter, Camila Duarte, Jesús Muñoz, James S. Albert, et al.. (2025). Indigenous territories and protected areas are crucial for ecosystem connectivity in the Amazon basin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(31). e2418189122–e2418189122.

Guayasamin, Juan M., Camila C. Ribas, Ana Carolina Carnaval, et al.. (2024). Evolution of Amazonian biodiversity: A review. Acta Amazonica. 54(spe1). 23 indexed citations

Cerezer, Felipe O., Cristian Dambros, Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, et al.. (2023). Accelerated body size evolution in upland environments is correlated with recent speciation in South American freshwater fishes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6070–6070. 11 indexed citations

Albert, James S., Adam P. Summers, Brandon P. Hedrick, et al.. (2023). A New Era of Morphological Investigations: Reviewing Methods for Comparative Anatomical Studies. Integrative Organismal Biology. 5(1). obad008–obad008. 9 indexed citations

Tagliacollo., Victor Alberto, Fernando César Paiva Dagosta, Mário C. C. de Pinna, Roberto Esser dos Reis, & James S. Albert. (2021). Assessing extinction risk from geographic distribution data in Neotropical freshwater fishes. Neotropical Ichthyology. 19(3). 19 indexed citations

Melo, Bruno Francelino de, James S. Albert, Fernando César Paiva Dagosta, & Victor Alberto Tagliacollo.. (2021). Biogeography of curimatid fishes reveals multiple lowland–upland river transitions and differential diversification in the Neotropics (Teleostei, Curimatidae). Ecology and Evolution. 11(22). 15815–15832. 12 indexed citations

Faircloth, Brant C., Fernando Alda, Kendra Hoekzema, et al.. (2020). A Target Enrichment Bait Set for Studying Relationships among Ostariophysan Fishes. Copeia. 108(1). 47–47. 27 indexed citations

Albert, James S., et al.. (2020). Paleogeographic influences on freshwater fish distributions in northeastern Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 102. 102692–102692. 15 indexed citations

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Albert, James S., et al.. (2020). Genetic differentiation through dispersal and isolation in two freshwater fish species from coastal basins of Northeastern Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology. 18(3). 3 indexed citations

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Albert, James S., Georgia Destouni, Scott M. Duke‐Sylvester, et al.. (2020). Scientists’ warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis. AMBIO. 50(1). 85–94. 574 indexed citations breakdown →

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Craig, Jack M., et al.. (2019). Historical biogeography of fishes from coastal basins of Maranhão State, northeastern Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology. 17(2). 23 indexed citations

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Hilsdorf, Alexandre Wagner Silva, et al.. (2019). Molecular assessment of Gymnotus spp. (Gymnotiformes: Gymnotidae) fishing used as live baitfish in the Tietê River, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology. 17(4). 4 indexed citations

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Tagliacollo., Victor Alberto, et al.. (2019). Molecular phylogeny of the ghost knifefishes (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 135. 297–307. 17 indexed citations

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Antonelli, Alexandre, María Ariza, James S. Albert, et al.. (2018). Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research. PeerJ. 6. e5644–e5644. 107 indexed citations

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Albert, James S., et al.. (2018). New species of glass knifefish Eigenmannia loretana (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) from the Western Amazon. Zootaxa. 4399(3). 399–411. 6 indexed citations

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Roxo, Fábio Fernandes, Nathan K. Lujan, Victor Alberto Tagliacollo., et al.. (2017). Shift from slow- to fast-water habitats accelerates lineage and phenotype evolution in a clade of Neotropical suckermouth catfishes (Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae). PLoS ONE. 12(6). e0178240–e0178240. 36 indexed citations

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Evans, Kory M., et al.. (2017). Fluctuations in Evolutionary Integration Allow for Big Brains and Disparate Faces. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 40431–40431. 41 indexed citations

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Lovejoy, Nathan R., et al.. (2009). Phylogeny, biogeography, and electric signal evolution of Neotropical knifefishes of the genus Gymnotus (Osteichthyes: Gymnotidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 54(1). 278–290. 68 indexed citations

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Maldonado‐Ocampo, Javier A. & James S. Albert. (2003). Species diversity of gymnotiform fishes (Gymnotiformes, Teleostei) in Colombia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5 indexed citations

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