Lachlan Phillips

499 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 110 citations indexed

About

Lachlan Phillips is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Lachlan Phillips has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 110 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Ecology, 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 2 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Lachlan Phillips's work include Marine and fisheries research (5 papers), Marine animal studies overview (3 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (2 papers). Lachlan Phillips is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (5 papers), Marine animal studies overview (3 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (2 papers). Lachlan Phillips collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Lachlan Phillips's co-authors include Ian D. Jonsen, Gemma Carroll, Robert Harcourt, Mark A. Hindell, Toby A. Patterson, Clive R. McMahon, W. James Grecian, Moninya Roughan, Martin J. Cox and Andrew S. Brierley and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Animal Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution and Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography.

In The Last Decade

Lachlan Phillips

6 papers receiving 110 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.

aniMotum, an R package for animal movement data: Rapid quality control, behavioural estimation and simulation

2023 70 citations Ian D. Jonsen, W. James Grecian et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lachlan Phillips Australia	5	93	48	33	23	21	6	110
K. Sweeney United States	4	130 1.4×	46 1.0×	49 1.5×	15 0.7×	22 1.0×	4	140
Nora A. Rojek United States	6	77 0.8×	56 1.2×	23 0.7×	12 0.5×	12 0.6×	11	105
Robin M. Corcoran United States	6	114 1.2×	30 0.6×	34 1.0×	18 0.8×	15 0.7×	14	146
Guy Williams Australia	5	118 1.3×	66 1.4×	27 0.8×	42 1.8×	64 3.0×	5	160
Sandra Yap Philippines	5	41 0.4×	36 0.8×	47 1.4×	25 1.1×	12 0.6×	10	103
Thorsten Werner Germany	6	82 0.9×	56 1.2×	24 0.7×	64 2.8×	15 0.7×	9	118
Anna Conchon France	6	91 1.0×	99 2.1×	41 1.2×	45 2.0×	9 0.4×	12	146
Ian R. Butler Australia	8	105 1.1×	75 1.6×	15 0.5×	56 2.4×	7 0.3×	11	135
José Antonio Vázquez Spain	4	84 0.9×	40 0.8×	9 0.3×	23 1.0×	13 0.6×	8	92
Aurore Receveur France	9	112 1.2×	106 2.2×	38 1.2×	50 2.2×	9 0.4×	18	190

Countries citing papers authored by Lachlan Phillips

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lachlan Phillips

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lachlan Phillips

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

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Niella, Yuri, Ian D. Jonsen, David J. Slip, et al.. (2025). Spatial, environmental and trophic niche partitioning by seabirds in a climate change hotspot. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(4). 582–596. 1 indexed citations

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Jonsen, Ian D., W. James Grecian, Lachlan Phillips, et al.. (2023). aniMotum, an R package for animal movement data: Rapid quality control, behavioural estimation and simulation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(3). 806–816. 70 indexed citations breakdown →

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Phillips, Lachlan, Gemma Carroll, Ian D. Jonsen, et al.. (2022). Variability in prey field structure drives inter-annual differences in prey encounter by a marine predator, the little penguin. Royal Society Open Science. 9(9). 220028–220028. 11 indexed citations

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Phillips, Lachlan, Neil Malan, Moninya Roughan, et al.. (2022). Coastal seascape variability in the intensifying East Australian Current Southern Extension. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. 7 indexed citations

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Phillips, Lachlan, Gemma Carroll, Ian D. Jonsen, Robert Harcourt, & Moninya Roughan. (2020). A Water Mass Classification Approach to Tracking Variability in the East Australian Current. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. 14 indexed citations

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Hindell, Mark A., Akiko Kato, Lachlan Phillips, et al.. (2019). Habitat utilization of a mesopredator linked to lower sea-surface temperatures & prey abundance in a region of rapid warming. Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography. 175. 104634–104634. 7 indexed citations

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