Mathis Messager

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 734 citations indexed

About

Mathis Messager is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mathis Messager has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 734 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Ecology, 11 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 10 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Mathis Messager's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (11 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (10 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (8 papers). Mathis Messager is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (11 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (10 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (8 papers). Mathis Messager collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and United States. Mathis Messager's co-authors include Julian D. Olden, Bernhard Lehner, Thibault Datry, Tim Trautmann, Nicolas Lamouroux, Hervé Pella, Klement Tockner, Ton H. Snelder, Caitlin Watt and Albert Ruhí and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Mathis Messager

20 papers receiving 724 citations

Hit Papers

Global prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 100 200 300
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. Global prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams
    2021 344 citations Mathis Messager, Bernhard Lehner et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mathis Messager Canada 12 345 337 262 237 81 20 734
Sukhmani Mantel South Africa 17 443 1.3× 315 0.9× 357 1.4× 329 1.4× 55 0.7× 61 928
Yeai Zou China 17 514 1.5× 280 0.8× 509 1.9× 174 0.7× 169 2.1× 40 1.0k
Daniel A. Auerbach United States 11 336 1.0× 199 0.6× 169 0.6× 236 1.0× 48 0.6× 13 571
Charles Wight United Kingdom 6 233 0.7× 246 0.7× 226 0.9× 187 0.8× 23 0.3× 11 733
Ibraim Fantin‐Cruz Brazil 14 239 0.7× 250 0.7× 161 0.6× 257 1.1× 66 0.8× 42 579
Katie H. Costigan United States 11 498 1.4× 428 1.3× 175 0.7× 333 1.4× 105 1.3× 16 736
C. Nathan Jones United States 18 399 1.2× 387 1.1× 348 1.3× 92 0.4× 139 1.7× 40 759
Stewart J. Clarke United Kingdom 13 370 1.1× 185 0.5× 179 0.7× 134 0.6× 129 1.6× 24 651
Ben Gawne Australia 16 491 1.4× 228 0.7× 220 0.8× 512 2.2× 103 1.3× 60 824
Megan Klaar United Kingdom 19 486 1.4× 328 1.0× 200 0.8× 223 0.9× 148 1.8× 44 868

Countries citing papers authored by Mathis Messager

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mathis Messager

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mathis Messager. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mathis Messager. The network helps show where Mathis Messager may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mathis Messager

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mathis Messager. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mathis Messager 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 Mathis Messager. Mathis Messager 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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Jabot, Franck, Claire Jacquet, Mathis Messager, et al.. (2025). Exploring the spatio-temporal dynamics of disturbed metacommunities: A mechanistic modeling approach to species resistance and resilience strategies in drying river networks. Ecological Modelling. 506. 111136–111136. 1 indexed citations
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Messager, Mathis, Chris Dickens, Nishadi Eriyagama, & Rebecca E. Tharme. (2024). Limited comparability of global and local estimates of environmental flow requirements to sustain river ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters. 19(2). 24012–24012. 3 indexed citations
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Messager, Mathis, Hervé Pella, & Thibault Datry. (2024). Inconsistent Regulatory Mapping Quietly Threatens Rivers and Streams. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(39). 17201–17214. 4 indexed citations
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Seybold, Erin, C. Nathan Jones, Amy J. Burgin, et al.. (2023). How low can you go? Widespread challenges in measuring low stream discharge and a path forward. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 8(6). 804–811. 14 indexed citations
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Messager, Mathis, Julian D. Olden, Jonathan D. Tonkin, et al.. (2023). A metasystem approach to designing environmental flows. BioScience. 73(9). 643–662. 7 indexed citations
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Kuehne, Lauren M., Chris Dickens, David Tickner, et al.. (2023). The future of global river health monitoring. PLOS Water. 2(9). e0000101–e0000101. 11 indexed citations
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Messager, Mathis, et al.. (2022). Course‐based undergraduate research to advance environmental education, science, and resource management. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 20(7). 431–440. 3 indexed citations
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Lehner, Bernhard, et al.. (2022). Global hydro-environmental lake characteristics at high spatial resolution. Scientific Data. 9(1). 50 indexed citations
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Messager, Mathis, et al.. (2021). Fenced off: Measuring growing restrictions on resource access for smallholders in the Argentine Chaco. Applied Geography. 134. 102530–102530. 9 indexed citations
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Messager, Mathis, Bernhard Lehner, Nicolas Lamouroux, et al.. (2021). Global prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams. Nature. 594(7863). 391–397. 344 indexed citations breakdown →
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Olden, Julian D., et al.. (2021). Hydrologic classification of Tanzanian rivers to support national water resource policy. Ecohydrology. 14(4). 5 indexed citations
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Sarremejane, Romain, Mathis Messager, & Thibault Datry. (2021). Drought in intermittent river and ephemeral stream networks. Ecohydrology. 15(5). 28 indexed citations
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Messager, Mathis, Ian Davies, & Phillip S. Levin. (2021). Development and validation of in-situ and laboratory X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy methods for moss biomonitoring of metal pollution. MethodsX. 8. 101319–101319. 6 indexed citations
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Messager, Mathis, et al.. (2021). Fine-scale assessment of inequities in inland flood vulnerability. Applied Geography. 133. 102492–102492. 33 indexed citations
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Couto, Thiago B. A., Mathis Messager, & Julian D. Olden. (2021). Safeguarding migratory fish via strategic planning of future small hydropower in Brazil. Nature Sustainability. 4(5). 409–416. 65 indexed citations
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Messager, Mathis, Ian Davies, & Phillip S. Levin. (2020). Low-cost biomonitoring and high-resolution, scalable models of urban metal pollution. The Science of The Total Environment. 767. 144280–144280. 17 indexed citations
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Messager, Mathis & Julian D. Olden. (2019). Phenotypic variability of rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus) at the leading edge of its riverine invasion. Freshwater Biology. 64(6). 1196–1209. 17 indexed citations
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Messager, Mathis & Julian D. Olden. (2018). Individual‐based models forecast the spread and inform the management of an emerging riverine invader. Diversity and Distributions. 24(12). 1816–1829. 30 indexed citations
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Ruhí, Albert, Mathis Messager, & Julian D. Olden. (2018). Tracking the pulse of the Earth’s fresh waters. Nature Sustainability. 1(4). 198–203. 75 indexed citations

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