Jonathan Belmaker

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Belmaker is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Belmaker has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Ecology, 53 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 47 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Belmaker's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (42 papers), Marine and fisheries research (38 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (31 papers). Jonathan Belmaker is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (42 papers), Marine and fisheries research (38 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (31 papers). Jonathan Belmaker collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and France. Jonathan Belmaker's co-authors include Walter Jetz, Jennifer E. Simpson, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, Michel Kulbicki, Valériano Parravicini, Itai van Rijn, Moshe Kiflawi, Ernesto Azzurro, Nadav Shashar and Jonathan M. Chase and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Belmaker

98 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan Belmaker Israel	33	2.8k	1.9k	1.5k	1.4k	1.1k	99	4.6k
François Guilhaumon France	34	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	897 0.8×	87	4.5k
Damien A. Fordham Australia	37	2.6k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.9k 1.4×	726 0.7×	117	4.6k
Healy Hamilton United States	25	1.7k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	826 0.7×	41	4.0k
Allen H. Hurlbert United States	35	2.9k 1.1×	2.8k 1.5×	1.1k 0.7×	2.5k 1.8×	1.8k 1.6×	70	5.6k
Márcio S. Araújo Brazil	24	3.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	807 0.6×	1.8k 1.6×	53	5.6k
David Štorch Czechia	40	2.1k 0.8×	2.3k 1.2×	886 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	97	4.2k
David Mouillot France	42	3.8k 1.4×	3.0k 1.6×	2.2k 1.5×	1.6k 1.1×	1.7k 1.6×	82	6.8k
Amy L. Freestone United States	18	2.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.2×	887 0.6×	892 0.6×	1.4k 1.3×	34	4.4k
Mary S. Wisz Denmark	26	2.5k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	2.3k 1.6×	803 0.7×	50	4.7k
Christine N. Meynard France	26	2.0k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	702 0.5×	1.7k 1.2×	984 0.9×	54	3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan Belmaker

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Kiflawi, Moshe, et al.. (2025). Post‐Larval Processes Reduce the Diversity of Coral Reef Fish Communities. Ecology Letters. 28(2). e70058–e70058. 1 indexed citations

Leihy, Rachel I., Mélodie A. McGeoch, David A. Clarke, et al.. (2025). Antarctic Biosecurity Policy Effectively Manages the Rates of Alien Introductions. Earth s Future. 13(4). 2 indexed citations

Knight, Tiffany M., et al.. (2024). The cumulative niche approach: A framework to assess the performance of ecological niche model projections. Ecology and Evolution. 14(2). e11060–e11060. 3 indexed citations

Malamud, Shahar, et al.. (2024). Surprising widespread Cymodocea nodosa occurrence along Israel’s Mediterranean coast and Implications for Seagrass Conservation in a hotspot of climate change. Mediterranean Marine Science. 25(2). 500–510.

Riva, Federico, et al.. (2024). Marine fishes experiencing high-velocity range shifts may not be climate change winners. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(5). 936–946. 10 indexed citations

Malamud, Shahar, Antonio Franco, Paolo Guidetti, et al.. (2023). Marine protected areas' positive effect on fish biomass persists across the steep climatic gradient of the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(4). 638–649. 14 indexed citations

Zvuloni, Assaf, et al.. (2023). An extreme storm decreases reef fish abundance and richness but does not impact spatial heterogeneity. Coral Reefs. 42(6). 1395–1410. 3 indexed citations

McGeoch, Mélodie A., Yehezkel Buba, Jonathan Belmaker, et al.. (2023). Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets. Conservation Letters. 16(6). 13 indexed citations

Malamud, Shahar, Ilia Ostrovsky, Ruthy Yahel, et al.. (2023). Consistent edge effect patterns revealed using continuous surveys across an Eastern Mediterranean no-take marine protected area. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 80(6). 1594–1605. 1 indexed citations

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Kiflawi, Moshe, et al.. (2023). Confronting the ‘nocturnal problem’ in coral reefs: sleeping site selection and cocoon formation in parrotfishes. Coral Reefs. 42(4). 811–825. 4 indexed citations

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Belmaker, Jonathan, et al.. (2022). Classic or hybrid? The performance of next generation ecological models to study the response of Southern Ocean species to changing environmental conditions. Diversity and Distributions. 28(11). 2286–2302. 4 indexed citations

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Kiflawi, Moshe, et al.. (2022). Highly repetitive space-use dynamics in parrotfishes. Coral Reefs. 41(4). 1059–1073. 7 indexed citations

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Belmaker, Jonathan, et al.. (2021). A review of seascape complexity indices and their performance in coral and rocky reefs. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(4). 681–695. 14 indexed citations

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Steger, Jan, et al.. (2021). Non‐indigenous molluscs in the Eastern Mediterranean have distinct traits and cannot replace historic ecosystem functioning. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31(1). 89–102. 28 indexed citations

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Belmaker, Jonathan, et al.. (2020). Little spatial and temporal segregation between coexisting lionfishes (Pterois miles and Pterois radiata) in the Red Sea. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution. 67(1-2). 51–59. 2 indexed citations

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Blowes, Shane A., Alan M. Friedlander, Camille Mellin, et al.. (2020). A closer examination of the ‘abundant centre’ hypothesis for reef fishes. Journal of Biogeography. 47(10). 2194–2209. 16 indexed citations

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Arndt, Erik, et al.. (2018). Shifts in Eastern Mediterranean Fish Communities: Abundance Changes, Trait Overlap, and Possible Competition between Native and Non-Native Species. Fishes. 3(2). 19–19. 35 indexed citations

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Schipper, Aafke M., Jonathan Belmaker, Laetitia M. Navarro, et al.. (2016). Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages from 1971 to 2010. Global Change Biology. 22(12). 3948–3959. 75 indexed citations

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Santini, Luca, Jonathan Belmaker, Mark J. Costello, et al.. (2016). Assessing the suitability of diversity metrics to detect biodiversity change. Biological Conservation. 213. 341–350. 116 indexed citations

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Belmaker, Jonathan, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Mao‐Ning Tuanmu, et al.. (2015). Empirical evidence for the scale dependence of biotic interactions. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 24(7). 750–761. 64 indexed citations

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