Kelly Kearney

4.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
46 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Kelly Kearney is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kelly Kearney has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 24 papers in Oceanography and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kelly Kearney's work include Marine and fisheries research (28 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (15 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (14 papers). Kelly Kearney is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (28 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (15 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (14 papers). Kelly Kearney collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Kelly Kearney's co-authors include Jorge L. Sarmiento, Reg Watson, William W. L. Cheung, Daniel Pauly, Vicky W. Y. Lam, Dirk Zeller, Kerim Aydin, Albert J. Hermann, Wei Cheng and Charles A. Stock and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Kelly Kearney

41 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios

2009 1.1k citations William W. L. Cheung, Vicky W. Y. Lam et al. Fish and Fisheries profile →
Large‐scale redistribution of maximum fisheries catch potential in the global ocean under climate change

2009 845 citations William W. L. Cheung, Vicky W. Y. Lam et al. profile →
Marine heatwaves need clear definitions so coastal communities can adapt

2023 78 citations Dillon J. Amaya, Michael G. Jacox et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kelly Kearney United States	19	2.2k	1.5k	987	454	316	46	3.1k
Katherine E. Mills United States	24	2.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	798 1.8×	394 1.2×	66	3.4k
Kerim Aydin United States	35	2.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	808 0.8×	1.0k 2.3×	352 1.1×	89	3.3k
Janet A. Nye United States	27	2.9k 1.3×	1.8k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	1.0k 2.2×	496 1.6×	66	3.8k
François Le Loc’h France	36	2.1k 0.9×	2.2k 1.5×	752 0.8×	576 1.3×	114 0.4×	123	3.5k
Ryan R. Rykaczewski United States	29	2.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	2.1k 2.1×	522 1.1×	577 1.8×	47	3.8k
Andrew Constable Australia	23	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	651 0.7×	300 0.7×	215 0.7×	68	1.9k
Kirstin K. Holsman United States	27	1.6k 0.7×	966 0.6×	450 0.5×	617 1.4×	176 0.6×	61	2.1k
Patrick Lehodey France	30	2.7k 1.2×	2.1k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	728 1.6×	146 0.5×	83	3.5k
Olivier Maury France	27	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	931 0.9×	437 1.0×	114 0.4×	62	2.5k
Isaac C. Kaplan United States	31	2.8k 1.2×	1.9k 1.2×	775 0.8×	988 2.2×	94 0.3×	74	3.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kelly Kearney

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McHuron, Elizabeth A., Elliott L. Hazen, Noel A. Pelland, et al.. (2025). Current and future habitat suitability of northern fur seals and overlap with the commercial walleye pollock fishery in the eastern Bering Sea. Movement Ecology. 13(1). 26–26.

Pilcher, Darren, Jessica Cross, Natalie Monacci, et al.. (2025). Amplified bottom water acidification rates on the Bering Sea shelf from 1970–2022. Biogeosciences. 22(12). 3103–3125.

Hollowed, Anne B., Kirstin K. Holsman, Alan C. Haynie, et al.. (2024). Development of climate informed management scenarios for fisheries in the eastern Bering Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 82(1). 5 indexed citations

Kearney, Kelly, et al.. (2024). Teachers’ Perceptions of Mathematical Discourse. Journal of Advanced Academics. 35(4). 576–612.

Rogers, Lauren A., et al.. (2024). Projecting marine fish distributions during early life stages under future climate scenarios. Fish and Fisheries. 25(4). 733–749. 1 indexed citations

Hermann, Albert J., Wei Cheng, Phyllis J. Stabeno, et al.. (2023). Applications of Biophysical Modeling to Pacific High-Latitude Ecosystems. Oceanography. 3 indexed citations

Bigman, Jennifer S., et al.. (2023). Predicting Pacific cod thermal spawning habitat in a changing climate. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 82(1). 7 indexed citations

Amaya, Dillon J., Michael G. Jacox, Melanie R. Fewings, et al.. (2023). Marine heatwaves need clear definitions so coastal communities can adapt. Nature. 616(7955). 29–32. 78 indexed citations breakdown →

Whitehouse, George A., Kerim Aydin, Anne B. Hollowed, et al.. (2021). Bottom–Up Impacts of Forecasted Climate Change on the Eastern Bering Sea Food Web. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8. 19 indexed citations

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Thorson, James T., Steven J. Barbeaux, Daniel R. Goethel, et al.. (2021). Estimating fine‐scale movement rates and habitat preferences using multiple data sources. Fish and Fisheries. 22(6). 1359–1376. 18 indexed citations

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Hermann, Albert J., Kelly Kearney, Wei Cheng, et al.. (2021). Coupled modes of projected regional change in the Bering Sea from a dynamically downscaling model under CMIP6 forcing. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 194. 104974–104974. 15 indexed citations

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Kearney, Kelly. (2021). Temperature data from the eastern Bering Sea continental shelf bottom trawl survey as used for hydrodynamic model validation and comparison. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - NOAA Central Library. 1 indexed citations

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Eddy, Tyler D., Joey R. Bernhardt, Julia L. Blanchard, et al.. (2020). Energy Flow Through Marine Ecosystems: Confronting Transfer Efficiency. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 36(1). 76–86. 103 indexed citations

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Kearney, Kelly, Albert J. Hermann, Wei Cheng, Ivonne Ortiz, & Kerim Aydin. (2020). A coupled pelagic–benthic–sympagic biogeochemical model for the Bering Sea: documentation and validation of the BESTNPZ model (v2019.08.23) within a high-resolution regional ocean model. Geoscientific model development. 13(2). 597–650. 43 indexed citations

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Holsman, Kirstin K., Alan C. Haynie, Anne B. Hollowed, et al.. (2020). Ecosystem-based fisheries management forestalls climate-driven collapse. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4579–4579. 119 indexed citations

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Greene, Chad A., Kaustubh Thirumalai, Kelly Kearney, et al.. (2019). The Climate Data Toolbox for MATLAB. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 20(7). 3774–3781. 188 indexed citations

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Kearney, Kelly. (2019). Freshwater Input to the Bering Sea, 1950–2017. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - NOAA Central Library. 4 indexed citations

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Lassalle, Géraldine, Aurélie Chaalali, Kelly Kearney, et al.. (2015). Incorporating food-web parameter uncertainty into Ecopath-derived ecological network indicators. Ecological Modelling. 313. 29–40. 43 indexed citations

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Kearney, Kelly. (2012). An analysis of marine ecosystem dynamics through development of a coupled physical-biogeochemical-fisheries food web model. 6 indexed citations

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Cheung, William W. L., Vicky W. Y. Lam, Jorge L. Sarmiento, et al.. (2009). Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios. Fish and Fisheries. 10(3). 235–251. 1118 indexed citations breakdown →

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