John A. Burt

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
132 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

John A. Burt is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, John A. Burt has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Ecology, 64 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 57 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in John A. Burt's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (98 papers), Marine and fisheries research (52 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (46 papers). John A. Burt is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (98 papers), Marine and fisheries research (52 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (46 papers). John A. Burt collaborates with scholars based in United Arab Emirates, United States and United Kingdom. John A. Burt's co-authors include Andrew G. Bauman, Aaron Bartholomew, David A. Feary, Edward G. Smith, Benjamin C. C. Hume, Peter F. Sale, Jörg Wiedenmann, Paolo Usseglio, Cecilia D’Angelo and Emily J. Howells and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

John A. Burt

125 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

SymPortal: A novel analytical framework and platform for coral algal symbiont next‐generation sequencing ITS2 profiling

2019 204 citations Benjamin C. C. Hume, Edward G. Smith et al. Molecular Ecology Resources profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
John A. Burt	3.8k	2.3k	2.0k	522	301	132	4.7k
Britta Schaffelke	3.4k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	2.2k 1.1×	444 0.9×	336 1.1×	91	4.8k
Carla Morri	4.8k 1.3×	4.3k 1.9×	3.3k 1.7×	590 1.1×	263 0.9×	178	6.7k
Loke Ming Chou	3.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	368 0.7×	755 2.5×	184	4.7k
Ross Jones	4.2k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	260 0.5×	325 1.1×	98	5.2k
Eva Ramírez-Llodra	2.4k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	374 0.7×	348 1.2×	75	4.3k
Joaquim Garrabou	4.5k 1.2×	3.1k 1.4×	3.3k 1.6×	326 0.6×	486 1.6×	143	6.3k
Ronaldo B. Francini‐Filho	2.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	352 0.7×	796 2.6×	124	3.6k
Rodrigo L. Moura	3.3k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	430 0.8×	1.1k 3.8×	143	4.4k
Alfonse Dubi	3.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	353 0.7×	268 0.9×	21	4.4k
Les Watling	3.2k 0.8×	3.0k 1.3×	2.5k 1.2×	346 0.7×	579 1.9×	141	5.5k

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Howells, Emily J., David Abrego, Sebastian Schmidt‐Roach, et al.. (2025). Marine heatwaves select for thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral. Nature Climate Change. 15(8). 829–832. 1 indexed citations

Burt, John A., et al.. (2025). From effluent to algal bloom: linking wastewater infrastructure, nutrient enrichment, and ecosystem stress in the Arabian Gulf. Frontiers in Water. 7.

Mohan, Midhun, Emma Asbridge, Stacey M. Trevathan‐Tackett, et al.. (2025). Eco-friendly structures for sustainable mangrove restoration. The Science of The Total Environment. 978. 179393–179393. 2 indexed citations

Vaughan, Grace O., et al.. (2025). Narrow Margins: Aerobic Performance and Temperature Tolerance of Coral Reef Fishes Facing Extreme Thermal Variability. Global Change Biology. 31(3). e70100–e70100. 3 indexed citations

Burt, John A., et al.. (2024). First Record of Bramble Sharks, Echinorhinus brucus (Echinorhiniformes, Echinorhinidae), in the United Arab Emirates. Diversity. 16(10). 614–614.

Paparella, Francesco, et al.. (2024). Acceleration of Warming, Deoxygenation, and Acidification in the Arabian Gulf Driven by Weakening of Summer Winds. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(24). 3 indexed citations

Friis, Guillermo, Edward G. Smith, Catherine E. Lovelock, et al.. (2024). Rapid diversification of grey mangroves (Avicennia marina) driven by geographic isolation and extreme environmental conditions in the Arabian Peninsula. Molecular Ecology. 33(4). e17260–e17260. 9 indexed citations

Burt, John A., et al.. (2024). Remote sensing of 50 years of coastal urbanization and environmental change in the Arabian Gulf: a systematic review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 9 indexed citations

Wade, Christopher M., et al.. (2024). Phylogeography of a commercially important reef fish, Lutjanus ehrenbergii, from the coastal waters of the Arabian Peninsula. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 143(2). 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Edward G., Khaled M. Hazzouri, Jae Young Choi, et al.. (2022). Signatures of selection underpinning rapid coral adaptation to the world’s warmest reefs. Science Advances. 8(2). eabl7287–eabl7287. 33 indexed citations

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Fanning, Lucia, Pedro Range, Jessica Bouwmeester, et al.. (2021). Applying the ecosystem services - EBM framework to sustainably manage Qatar's coral reefs and seagrass beds. Ocean & Coastal Management. 205. 105566–105566. 19 indexed citations

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Howells, Emily J., David Abrego, Yi Jin Liew, et al.. (2021). Enhancing the heat tolerance of reef-building corals to future warming. Science Advances. 7(34). 53 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Amy C., Anja Pabel, Sally A. Ferguson, et al.. (2021). “It's not just about putting a smile on your face, it's about keeping people safe”: Causes and consequences of sleep loss and fatigue in the coral reef tourism industry. Annals of Tourism Research. 88.

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Friis, Guillermo, Joel Vizueta, Edward G. Smith, et al.. (2020). A high-quality genome assembly and annotation of the gray mangrove, Avicennia marina. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(1). 21 indexed citations

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Liew, Yi Jin, Emily J. Howells, Xin Wang, et al.. (2020). Intergenerational epigenetic inheritance in reef-building corals. Nature Climate Change. 10(3). 254–259. 99 indexed citations

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Range, Pedro, Radhouan Ben‐Hamadou, Eva Egelyng Sigsgaard, et al.. (2019). Consequences of marine barriers for genetic diversity of the coral‐specialist yellowbar angelfish from the Northwestern Indian Ocean. Ecology and Evolution. 9(19). 11215–11226. 21 indexed citations

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Hume, Benjamin C. C., Edward G. Smith, Maren Ziegler, et al.. (2019). SymPortal: A novel analytical framework and platform for coral algal symbiont next‐generation sequencing ITS2 profiling. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(4). 1063–1080. 204 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kirk, Nathan L., Emily J. Howells, David Abrego, John A. Burt, & Eli Meyer. (2018). Genomic and transcriptomic signals of thermal tolerance in heat‐tolerant corals ( Platygyra daedalea ) of the Arabian/Persian Gulf. Molecular Ecology. 27(24). 5180–5194. 46 indexed citations

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D’Angelo, Cecilia, Benjamin C. C. Hume, John A. Burt, et al.. (2015). Local adaptation constrains the distribution potential of heat-tolerant Symbiodinium from the Persian/Arabian Gulf. The ISME Journal. 9(12). 2551–2560. 100 indexed citations

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Burt, John A., David A. Feary, Geórgenes H. Cavalcante, Andrew G. Bauman, & Paolo Usseglio. (2012). Urban breakwaters as reef fish habitat in the Persian Gulf. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 72(2). 342–350. 53 indexed citations

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