Kieran Cox

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Kieran Cox is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kieran Cox has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Ecology, 19 papers in Oceanography and 14 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Kieran Cox's work include Marine animal studies overview (22 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (14 papers) and Underwater Acoustics Research (10 papers). Kieran Cox is often cited by papers focused on Marine animal studies overview (22 papers), Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (14 papers) and Underwater Acoustics Research (10 papers). Kieran Cox collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Brazil. Kieran Cox's co-authors include Francis Juanes, Sarah E. Dudas, Hailey L. Davies, Garth A. Covernton, John F. Dower, Travis G. Gerwing, Alyssa M. Allen Gerwing, Tara A. Macdonald, Audrey Looby and Rodney A. Rountree and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kieran Cox

44 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Human Consumption of Microplastics 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 500 1000 1.5k
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. Human Consumption of Microplastics
    2019 1.8k citations Kieran Cox, Garth A. Covernton et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kieran Cox Canada 15 1.7k 1.2k 457 378 308 48 2.4k
Sarah E. Dudas Canada 20 2.2k 1.3× 1.6k 1.4× 484 1.1× 509 1.3× 322 1.0× 46 3.1k
Cole C. Monnahan United States 16 1.5k 0.9× 1.0k 0.8× 421 0.9× 528 1.4× 188 0.6× 29 2.9k
Sarah E. Nelms United Kingdom 17 2.3k 1.4× 1.5k 1.3× 325 0.7× 328 0.9× 108 0.4× 22 2.6k
Beth Polidoro United States 19 1.9k 1.1× 1.2k 1.0× 522 1.1× 594 1.6× 204 0.7× 49 3.2k
Jeff Shimeta Australia 23 1.4k 0.8× 666 0.6× 597 1.3× 291 0.8× 164 0.5× 67 2.9k
Marc Suquet France 28 1.5k 0.9× 786 0.7× 240 0.5× 446 1.2× 184 0.6× 59 4.1k
João Canning‐Clode Portugal 26 1.5k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 1.1k 2.3× 309 0.8× 134 0.4× 97 3.2k
Ian O’Connor Ireland 31 4.2k 2.5× 3.3k 2.7× 705 1.5× 879 2.3× 332 1.1× 94 5.9k
Maíra Proietti Brazil 22 1.9k 1.1× 1.2k 1.0× 471 1.0× 369 1.0× 68 0.2× 48 2.6k
Cristina Panti Italy 26 2.9k 1.7× 1.8k 1.5× 419 0.9× 412 1.1× 163 0.5× 70 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Kieran Cox

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kieran Cox

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kieran Cox

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Williams, Rob, Kieran Cox, Diva J. Amon, et al.. (2025). Noise from deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean will impact a broad range of marine taxa. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 218. 118135–118135. 2 indexed citations
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Looby, Audrey, et al.. (2025). The sound of recovery: Integrating acoustics into fish status assessments and recovery strategies. Biological Conservation. 310. 111339–111339.
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Birch, A. N. E., et al.. (2025). Shipping noise tolerance in invertebrates: A case study of the shore crab Hemigrapsus oregonensis. PLoS ONE. 20(8). e0329098–e0329098. 1 indexed citations
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Davies, Hailey L., et al.. (2024). Marine and Freshwater Sounds Impact Invertebrate Behavior and Physiology: A Meta‐Analysis. Global Change Biology. 30(11). e17593–e17593. 5 indexed citations
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Cox, Kieran, et al.. (2024). Habitat‐mediated soundscape conservation in marine ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 23(2). 1 indexed citations
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Looby, Audrey, Christine Erbe, Kieran Cox, et al.. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). 892–892. 14 indexed citations
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Looby, Audrey, Francis Juanes, Rodney A. Rountree, et al.. (2023). The importance of context in the acoustic behaviors of marine, subtropical fish species. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 154(5). 3252–3258. 4 indexed citations
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Cox, Kieran, et al.. (2023). Dead but not forgotten: complexity of Acropora palmata colonies increases with greater composition of dead coral. PeerJ. 11. e16101–e16101. 4 indexed citations
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Mouy, Xavier, et al.. (2023). Identification of fish sounds in the wild using a set of portable audio‐video arrays. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(8). 2165–2186. 12 indexed citations
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Cox, Kieran, et al.. (2022). Habitation Sites Influence Tree Community Assemblages in the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9. 3 indexed citations
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Halliday, William D., et al.. (2021). The sources and prevalence of anthropogenic noise in Rockfish Conservation Areas with implications for marine reserve planning. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 164. 112017–112017. 9 indexed citations
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Cox, Kieran, et al.. (2021). Regional heterogeneity in coral species richness and hue reveals novel global predictors of reef fish intra-family diversity. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 18275–18275. 5 indexed citations
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Davies, Hailey L., et al.. (2021). A preliminary analysis of ingestion and egestion of microplastic fibres in the acorn barnacle Balanus glandula. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 542-543. 151589–151589. 6 indexed citations
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Claar, Danielle C., et al.. (2020). Chronic disturbance modulates symbiont (Symbiodiniaceae) beta diversity on a coral reef. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 4492–4492. 18 indexed citations
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Mouy, Xavier, et al.. (2020). FishCam: A low-cost open source autonomous camera for aquatic research. HardwareX. 8. e00110–e00110. 25 indexed citations
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Cox, Kieran, Garth A. Covernton, Hailey L. Davies, et al.. (2019). Human Consumption of Microplastics. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(12). 7068–7074. 1751 indexed citations breakdown →
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Davies, Hailey L., et al.. (2019). Impacts of noise on the behavior and physiology of marine invertebrates: A meta-analysis. Proceedings of meetings on acoustics. 39. 40002–40002. 10 indexed citations
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Mouy, Xavier, et al.. (2019). Identifying fish sounds of British Columbia with an autonomous audio and video array. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 146(4_Supplement). 2854–2855. 1 indexed citations
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Gerwing, Travis G., et al.. (2018). Potential impacts of logging on intertidal infaunal communities within the Kitimat River estuary. Journal of Natural History. 52(43-44). 2833–2855. 14 indexed citations
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Cox, Kieran, et al.. (2016). Assessing the effect of aquatic noise on fish behavior and physiology: a meta-analysis approach. Proceedings of meetings on acoustics. 10024–10024. 6 indexed citations

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