James S. E. Lea

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

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James S. E. Lea is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, James S. E. Lea has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 10 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in James S. E. Lea's work include Ichthyology and Marine Biology (16 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (8 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (7 papers). James S. E. Lea is often cited by papers focused on Ichthyology and Marine Biology (16 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (8 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (7 papers). James S. E. Lea collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Saudi Arabia. James S. E. Lea's co-authors include Nicolas E. Humphries, David Sims, Mahmood S. Shivji, Lara L. Sousa, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Nuno Queiroz, Guy Harvey, Gonzalo Mucientes, Christopher R. Clarke and Rupert Ormond and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

James S. E. Lea

18 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Repeated, long-distance migrations by a philopatric predator targeting highly contrasting ecosystems

2015 680 citations James S. E. Lea, Bradley M. Wetherbee et al. Scientific Reports profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James S. E. Lea United Kingdom	12	505	357	281	176	141	18	1.2k
Guy Harvey United States	9	365 0.7×	235 0.7×	232 0.8×	148 0.8×	87 0.6×	10	1.0k
Gonzalo Mucientes Spain	14	785 1.6×	513 1.4×	548 2.0×	243 1.4×	196 1.4×	40	1.6k
Lara L. Sousa United Kingdom	15	586 1.2×	649 1.8×	441 1.6×	271 1.5×	115 0.8×	22	1.6k
Richard Kennedy United Kingdom	16	398 0.8×	315 0.9×	304 1.1×	120 0.7×	100 0.7×	51	945
Robert A. Daniels United States	21	711 1.4×	621 1.7×	222 0.8×	36 0.2×	170 1.2×	68	1.3k
Rosalia Ferreri Italy	16	189 0.4×	302 0.8×	409 1.5×	105 0.6×	156 1.1×	41	937
Fabrice R. A. Jaine Australia	17	1.0k 2.0×	812 2.3×	421 1.5×	163 0.9×	134 1.0×	31	1.7k
Vinay Udyawer Australia	14	379 0.8×	357 1.0×	318 1.1×	100 0.6×	40 0.3×	42	1.0k
Xiaomei Zhang China	26	250 0.5×	585 1.6×	173 0.6×	222 1.3×	98 0.7×	115	2.1k
François Meunier France	27	1.2k 2.4×	317 0.9×	283 1.0×	307 1.7×	712 5.0×	137	2.3k

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18 of 18 papers shown

Bullock, Robert, et al.. (2023). Just keep swimming? Observations of resting behavior in gray reef sharks Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856). Journal of Fish Biology. 104(3). 898–900. 1 indexed citations

Bullock, Robert, et al.. (2022). Using Global Red List Data to Inform Localised Research and Conservation Priorities—A Case Study in the Republic of Seychelles. Diversity. 14(8). 681–681. 3 indexed citations

Cowley, Paul D., et al.. (2022). Stingray Habitat Use Is Dynamically Influenced by Temperature and Tides. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8. 11 indexed citations

Cowley, Paul D., et al.. (2021). Residency and habitat use patterns by sympatric stingrays at a remote atoll in the Western Indian Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 662. 97–114. 11 indexed citations

Patel, Ela, et al.. (2020). The complete mitochondrial genome of a gray reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae), from the Western Indian Ocean. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(3). 3498–3499. 1 indexed citations

Lea, James S. E., Nicolas E. Humphries, Ryan Daly, et al.. (2020). At the Turn of the Tide: Space Use and Habitat Partitioning in Two Sympatric Shark Species Is Driven by Tidal Phase. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. 16 indexed citations

Patel, Ela, James S. E. Lea, & Christopher R. Clarke. (2019). Inner space: translating advances in human medicine to minimise the invasiveness of marine tagging procedures. Animal Biotelemetry. 7(1). 3 indexed citations

Lea, James S. E., et al.. (2018). Life after death: behaviour of multiple shark species scavenging a whale carcass. Marine and Freshwater Research. 70(2). 302–306. 29 indexed citations

Daly, Ryan, M. J. Smale, Darrell Anders, et al.. (2018). Refuges and risks: Evaluating the benefits of an expanded MPA network for mobile apex predators. Diversity and Distributions. 24(9). 1217–1230. 45 indexed citations

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Lea, James S. E., Bradley M. Wetherbee, Lara L. Sousa, et al.. (2017). Ontogenetic partial migration is associated with environmental drivers and influences fisheries interactions in a marine predator. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 75(4). 1383–1392. 39 indexed citations

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Lea, James S. E., et al.. (2016). Acoustic telemetry and network analysis reveal the space use of multiple reef predators and enhance marine protected area design. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1834). 20160717–20160717. 107 indexed citations

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Lea, James S. E., Bradley M. Wetherbee, Nuno Queiroz, et al.. (2015). Repeated, long-distance migrations by a philopatric predator targeting highly contrasting ecosystems. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 11202–11202. 680 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kuczaj, Stan A., et al.. (2015). Underwater observations of dolphin reactions to a distressed conspecific. Learning & Behavior. 43(3). 289–300. 40 indexed citations

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Clarke, Christopher R., Stephen A. Karl, Andrea M. Bernard, et al.. (2015). Global mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and population structure of the silky shark, Carcharhinus falciformis. Marine Biology. 162(5). 945–955. 64 indexed citations

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Lea, James S. E., Nicolas E. Humphries, Christopher R. Clarke, & David Sims. (2015). To Madagascar and back: long‐distance, return migration across open ocean by a pregnant female bull shark Carcharhinus leucas. Journal of Fish Biology. 87(6). 1313–1321. 35 indexed citations

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Lea, James S. E., et al.. (2013). Changing relative abundance and behaviour of silky and grey reef sharks baited over 12 years on a Red Sea reef. Marine and Freshwater Research. 64(10). 909–919. 30 indexed citations

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Lea, James S. E., et al.. (2011). Reef-use and residency patterns of a baited population of silky sharks, Carcharhinus falciformis, in the Red Sea. Marine and Freshwater Research. 62(6). 668–675. 66 indexed citations

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Pickering, T., et al.. (2003). Report of the 2nd joint national fisheries university: University of the South Pacific fisheries and oceanography research cruise on board Koyo-Maru, Kadavu Passage, December 1997. 3 indexed citations

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