Jeffrey S. Levinton

8.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Jeffrey S. Levinton is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeffrey S. Levinton has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Ecology, 50 papers in Oceanography and 47 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Jeffrey S. Levinton's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (46 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (26 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (22 papers). Jeffrey S. Levinton is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (46 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (26 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (22 papers). Jeffrey S. Levinton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Denmark. Jeffrey S. Levinton's co-authors include Glenn R. Lopez, Bengt J. Allen, Paul L. Klerks, Gregory A. Wray, Darcy J. Lonsdale, Leo H. Shapiro, J. Evan Ward, Sandra E. Shumway, Thomas S. Bianchi and Brendan P. Kelaher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jeffrey S. Levinton

123 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

Ecology of Deposit-Feeding Animals in Marine Sediments 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Ecology of Deposit-Feeding Animals in Marine Sediments
    1987 515 citations Glenn R. Lopez, Jeffrey S. Levinton profile →

Peers

Jeffrey S. Levinton
Brian Morton Hong Kong
Henri J. Dumont Belgium
Richard R. Strathmann United States
Lloyd S. Peck United Kingdom
Eric N. Powell United States
Margaret W. Miller United States
D. J. Crisp United Kingdom
Winston F. Ponder Australia
Luc Brendonck Belgium
David G. Reid United Kingdom
Brian Morton Hong Kong
Jeffrey S. Levinton
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Fields of papers citing papers by Jeffrey S. Levinton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jeffrey S. Levinton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jeffrey S. Levinton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jeffrey S. Levinton 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 Jeffrey S. Levinton. Jeffrey S. Levinton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Levinton, Jeffrey S.. (2023). The bigger you are, the weaker you are: Multispecies evidence for the weakening combatant hypothesis. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 43(4). 2 indexed citations
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Levinton, Jeffrey S. & Marc J. Weissburg. (2021). Length of a sexually selected ornament-armament in fiddler crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae): One way, over deep time and space. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 41(4). 2 indexed citations
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Levinton, Jeffrey S., et al.. (2011). Climate Change, Precipitation and Impacts on an Estuarine Refuge from Disease. PLoS ONE. 6(4). e18849–e18849. 65 indexed citations
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Levinton, Jeffrey S., et al.. (2011). EXPERIMENTAL TESTS OF SEX ALLOCATION THEORY WITH TWO SPECIES OF SIMULTANEOUSLY HERMAPHRODITIC ACORN BARNACLES. Evolution. 66(5). 1332–1343. 18 indexed citations
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Klerks, Paul L., Lingtian Xie, & Jeffrey S. Levinton. (2011). Quantitative genetics approaches to study evolutionary processes in ecotoxicology; a perspective from research on the evolution of resistance. Ecotoxicology. 20(3). 513–523. 70 indexed citations
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Mackie, Joshua A., et al.. (2009). LOSS OF EVOLUTIONARY RESISTANCE BY THE OLIGOCHAETELIMNODRILUS HOFFMEISTERITO A TOXIC SUBSTANCE-COST OR GENE FLOW?. Evolution. 64(1). 152–165. 13 indexed citations
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Levinton, Jeffrey S., J. Evan Ward, & Sandra E. Shumway. (2002). Feeding responses of the bivalves Crassostrea gigas and Mytilus trossulus to chemical composition of fresh and aged kelp detritus. Marine Biology. 141(2). 367–376. 64 indexed citations
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Levinton, Jeffrey S.. (1996). Trophic group and the end-Cretaceous extinction: did deposit feeders have it made in the shade?. Paleobiology. 22(1). 104–112. 25 indexed citations
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Levinton, Jeffrey S.. (1992). The Big Bang of Animal Evolution. Scientific American. 267(5). 84–91. 18 indexed citations
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Levinton, Jeffrey S. & James S. Farris. (1987). On the estimation of taxonomic longevity from Lyellian curves. Paleobiology. 13(4). 479–483. 7 indexed citations
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Klerks, Paul L., et al.. (1987). The fate of metal contaminated sediments in Foundry Cove, New York. Environmental Pollution. 45(4). 291–304. 27 indexed citations
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Levinton, Jeffrey S.. (1982). Estimating Stasis: Can a Null Hypothesis be too Null?. Paleobiology. 8(3). 307–307. 10 indexed citations
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Levinton, Jeffrey S.. (1982). Evolutionary stasis in Homo erectus? Estimating stasis, can a null hypothesis be too null?; discussion and reply. Paleobiology. 8(3). 307–307. 1 indexed citations
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Lopez, Glenn R. & Jeffrey S. Levinton. (1978). The availability of microorganisms attached to sediment particles as food for Hydrobia ventrosa Montagu (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Oecologia. 32(3). 263–275. 85 indexed citations
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Levinton, Jeffrey S. & Richard K. Bambach. (1975). A comparative study of Silurian and recent deposit-feeding bivalve communities. Paleobiology. 1(1). 97–124. 49 indexed citations
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Suchanek, Thomas H. & Jeffrey S. Levinton. (1974). Articulate brachiopod food. Journal of Paleontology. 48(1). 1–5. 41 indexed citations

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