Mary I. O’Connor

21.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
110 papers, 13.8k citations indexed

About

Mary I. O’Connor is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Mary I. O’Connor has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 13.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Ecology, 33 papers in Oceanography and 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Mary I. O’Connor's work include Physiological and biochemical adaptations (23 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (22 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers). Mary I. O’Connor is often cited by papers focused on Physiological and biochemical adaptations (23 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (22 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers). Mary I. O’Connor collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Mary I. O’Connor's co-authors include John F. Bruno, Andrew Gonzalez, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Bradley J. Cardinale, David U. Hooper, Lars Gamfeldt, Benjamin S. Halpern, Kristin L. Matulich, Christopher D. G. Harley and J. Emmett Duffy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mary I. O’Connor

102 papers receiving 13.5k citations

Hit Papers

A global synthesis reveal... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2012 2013 2018 2011 2011 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. A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change
    2012 1.7k citations David U. Hooper, Bradley J. Cardinale et al. profile →
  2. Global imprint of climate change on marine life
    2013 1.6k citations Mary I. O’Connor et al. profile →
  3. Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems
    2018 1.2k citations Stilianos Louca, Martin F. Polz et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
  4. The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
    2011 987 citations Mary I. O’Connor et al. profile →
  5. The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems
    2011 953 citations Bradley J. Cardinale, David U. Hooper et al. profile →
  6. Increased temperature variation poses a greater risk to species than climate warming
    2014 752 citations John P. DeLong, Christopher D. G. Harley et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  7. Temperature control of larval dispersal and the implications for marine ecology, evolution, and conservation
    2007 724 citations Mary I. O’Connor et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  8. Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales
    2017 490 citations Forest Isbell, Andrew Gonzalez et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mary I. O’Connor Canada 43 7.5k 5.2k 3.6k 3.4k 2.3k 110 13.8k
Jonathan B. Shurin United States 46 9.0k 1.2× 2.8k 0.5× 6.6k 1.8× 3.2k 0.9× 3.1k 1.4× 116 16.3k
Sébastien Villéger France 46 7.4k 1.0× 4.1k 0.8× 7.9k 2.2× 1.6k 0.5× 2.7k 1.2× 113 13.5k
Owen L. Petchey Switzerland 54 6.7k 0.9× 3.9k 0.7× 6.5k 1.8× 1.4k 0.4× 4.6k 2.0× 146 14.4k
Diane S. Srivastava Canada 40 7.2k 1.0× 4.1k 0.8× 7.0k 1.9× 1.7k 0.5× 4.5k 1.9× 116 16.3k
Jean‐Marc Fromentin France 43 6.8k 0.9× 7.1k 1.4× 4.4k 1.2× 1.9k 0.6× 2.2k 0.9× 141 13.5k
Pablo Inchausti France 29 6.0k 0.8× 3.9k 0.7× 6.0k 1.7× 1.4k 0.4× 3.3k 1.4× 61 12.6k
Guy Woodward United Kingdom 54 6.7k 0.9× 2.1k 0.4× 4.9k 1.3× 1.7k 0.5× 2.1k 0.9× 125 10.9k
Daniel Borcard Canada 29 8.2k 1.1× 3.0k 0.6× 7.5k 2.1× 1.8k 0.5× 3.6k 1.6× 50 16.1k
Eric L. Berlow United States 24 5.7k 0.8× 3.1k 0.6× 4.8k 1.3× 1.2k 0.4× 3.3k 1.4× 40 11.6k
John J. Stachowicz United States 43 7.8k 1.0× 5.4k 1.0× 3.9k 1.1× 5.1k 1.5× 2.9k 1.3× 104 14.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mary I. O’Connor

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mary I. O’Connor

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mary I. O’Connor. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mary I. O’Connor 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 Mary I. O’Connor. Mary I. O’Connor 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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Anderson, David, Mary I. O’Connor, & Colin T. Kremer. (2025). Trophic Interactions Influence Thermal Adaptation of Phytoplankton Size and Stoichiometry. The American Naturalist. 207(2). 313–333. 1 indexed citations
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Kirk, Devin, Jeremy M. Cohen, Marissa L. Childs, et al.. (2025). Impacts of Weather Anomalies and Climate on Plant Disease. Ecology Letters. 28(1). e70062–e70062.
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Clegg, Tom, Joey R. Bernhardt, Tess Nahanni Grainger, et al.. (2024). Toward a More Dynamic Metabolic Theory of Ecology to Predict Climate Change Effects on Biological Systems. The American Naturalist. 205(3). 285–305. 6 indexed citations
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Lundberg, Tommy R., Mary I. O’Connor, Christopher Kirk, Noel Pollock, & Gregory A. Brown. (2024). Comment on: “A unique pseudo-eligibility analysis of longitudinal laboratory performance data from a transgender female competitive cyclist”. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(3-4). 355–358. 2 indexed citations
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Fronhofer, Emanuel A., Lynn Govaert, Mary I. O’Connor, Sebastian J. Schreiber, & Florian Altermatt. (2023). The shape of density dependence and the relationship between population growth, intraspecific competition and equilibrium population density. Oikos. 2024(2). 9 indexed citations
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Bernhardt, Joey R., et al.. (2023). Effects of thermal fluctuations on biological processes: a meta-analysis of experiments manipulating thermal variability. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(1992). 20222225–20222225. 24 indexed citations
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Sunday, Jennifer M., Joey R. Bernhardt, Christopher D. G. Harley, & Mary I. O’Connor. (2023). Temperature dependence of competitive ability is cold‐shifted compared to that of growth rate in marine phytoplankton. Ecology Letters. 27(1). e14337–e14337. 13 indexed citations
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Usinowicz, Jacob & Mary I. O’Connor. (2023). The fitness value of ecological information in a variable world. Ecology Letters. 26(4). 621–639. 4 indexed citations
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Bernhardt, Joey R. & Mary I. O’Connor. (2021). Aquatic biodiversity enhances multiple nutritional benefits to humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(15). 60 indexed citations
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Bernhardt, Joey R., Mary I. O’Connor, Jennifer M. Sunday, & Andrew Gonzalez. (2020). Life in fluctuating environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1814). 20190454–20190454. 121 indexed citations
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Bernhardt, Joey R., Jennifer M. Sunday, Patrick L. Thompson, & Mary I. O’Connor. (2018). Nonlinear averaging of thermal experience predicts population growth rates in a thermally variable environment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1886). 20181076–20181076. 96 indexed citations
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Guzman, Laura Melissa, Rachel M. Germain, Mary I. O’Connor, et al.. (2018). Towards a multi‐trophic extension of metacommunity ecology. Ecology Letters. 22(1). 19–33. 70 indexed citations
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Barnes, Andrew D., Malte Jochum, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, et al.. (2018). Energy Flux: The Link between Multitrophic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 33(3). 186–197. 230 indexed citations
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Louca, Stilianos, Martin F. Polz, Florent Mazel, et al.. (2018). Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(6). 936–943. 1178 indexed citations breakdown →
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O’Connor, Mary I.. (2016). Mixtec Evangelicals: Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group. University Press of Colorado eBooks.
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Gonzalez, Andrew, Bradley J. Cardinale, Ginger Allington, et al.. (2016). Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity. Ecology. 97(8). 1949–1960. 209 indexed citations
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O’Connor, Mary I., et al.. (2013). Migración y conversión religiosa entre los mixtecos de Oaxaca. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 23(45). 9–23. 4 indexed citations
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O’Connor, Mary I., Christy R. Violin, Andrea Antón, Laura M. Ladwig, & Michael F. Piehler. (2011). Salt marsh stabilization affects algal primary producers at the marsh edge. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 19(2). 131–140. 8 indexed citations
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O’Connor, Mary I.. (1990). Women's Networks and the Social Needs of Mexican Immigrants.. Urban anthropology and studies of cultural systems and world economic development. 19(1). 81–98. 17 indexed citations

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