Melanie McField

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Melanie McField is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Melanie McField has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Ecology, 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Melanie McField's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (27 papers), Marine and fisheries research (18 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (11 papers). Melanie McField is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (27 papers), Marine and fisheries research (18 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (11 papers). Melanie McField collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and United Kingdom. Melanie McField's co-authors include Richard D. Norris, Jessica Carilli, Sheila Walsh, Bryan A. Black, Dave Goulson, J.P. van der Sluijs, Lennard Pisa, Jean‐Marc Bonmatin, Luc Belzunces and Craig A. Downs and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Melanie McField

36 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target invertebrates

2014 690 citations Lennard Pisa, Luc Belzunces et al. Environmental Science and Pollution Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melanie McField United States	18	1.1k	783	758	567	473	36	2.1k
John D. Parker United States	31	2.1k 1.9×	496 0.6×	644 0.8×	762 1.3×	951 2.0×	68	3.5k
Phillip J. Haubrock Czechia	27	1.9k 1.7×	536 0.7×	609 0.8×	99 0.2×	413 0.9×	143	2.7k
Sara Fratini Italy	25	1.7k 1.5×	112 0.1×	477 0.6×	466 0.8×	144 0.3×	89	2.1k
Elizabeta Briski Germany	25	1.3k 1.2×	201 0.3×	1.1k 1.4×	497 0.9×	148 0.3×	90	2.0k
Elisabeth Hornung Hungary	21	550 0.5×	216 0.3×	254 0.3×	133 0.2×	282 0.6×	58	1.3k
Tomas Jönsson Sweden	21	1.1k 1.0×	275 0.4×	436 0.6×	189 0.3×	984 2.1×	48	2.2k
Konstantin B. Gongalsky Russia	20	725 0.7×	386 0.5×	495 0.7×	61 0.1×	722 1.5×	78	1.8k
Jes Hines Germany	24	827 0.8×	483 0.6×	440 0.6×	79 0.1×	862 1.8×	56	2.3k
Kyle F. Edwards United States	26	1.3k 1.2×	177 0.2×	382 0.5×	1.4k 2.5×	366 0.8×	45	2.6k
Kelly A. Carscadden United States	5	793 0.7×	187 0.2×	572 0.8×	162 0.3×	638 1.3×	12	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Melanie McField

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melanie McField

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pearce‐Kelly, Paul, Andrew H. Altieri, John F. Bruno, et al.. (2025). Considerations for determining warm-water coral reef tipping points. Earth System Dynamics. 16(1). 275–292. 1 indexed citations

McField, Melanie, Iliana Chollett, C. Mark Eakin, et al.. (2024). Underlying drivers of coral reef vulnerability to bleaching in the Mesoamerican Reef. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1452–1452. 2 indexed citations

Canty, Steven W. J., A. Justin Nowakowski, Courtney Cox, et al.. (2024). Interplay of management and environmental drivers shifts size structure of reef fish communities. Global Change Biology. 30(4). e17257–e17257. 4 indexed citations

Delevaux, Jade, et al.. (2024). Social–ecological benefits of land–sea planning at multiple scales in Mesoamerica. Nature Sustainability. 7(5). 545–557. 7 indexed citations

Nowakowski, A. Justin, Steven W. J. Canty, Nathan Bennett, et al.. (2023). Co-benefits of marine protected areas for nature and people. Nature Sustainability. 6(10). 1210–1218. 34 indexed citations

Ochoa, Gabriela, et al.. (2022). Management responses in Belize and Honduras, as stony coral tissue loss disease expands its prevalence in the Mesoamerican reef. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. 9 indexed citations

Valdivia, Abel, Richard B. Aronson, Karl D. Castillo, et al.. (2022). Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef. PLoS ONE. 17(1). e0249155–e0249155. 19 indexed citations

Kjerfve, Björn, et al.. (2021). Coral reef health in the Gulf of Honduras in relation to fluvial runoff, hurricanes, and fishing pressure. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 172. 112865–112865. 8 indexed citations

Pittman, Simon J., Christopher F.G. Jeffrey, Jerald S. Ault, et al.. (2020). Development of a reef fish biological condition gradient model with quantitative decision rules for the protection and restoration of coral reef ecosystems. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 159. 111387–111387. 13 indexed citations

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Chollett, Iliana, et al.. (2019). Three decades of heat stress exposure in Caribbean coral reefs: a new regional delineation to enhance conservation. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11013–11013. 73 indexed citations

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Pisa, Lennard, Dave Goulson, En‐Cheng Yang, et al.. (2017). An update of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment (WIA) on systemic insecticides. Part 2: impacts on organisms and ecosystems. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 28(10). 11749–11797. 228 indexed citations

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Cox, Courtney, et al.. (2016). Establishment of marine protected areas alone does not restore coral reef communities in Belize. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 563. 65–79. 45 indexed citations

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Rocha, Luiz A., Claudia R. Rocha, Carole C. Baldwin, Lee A. Weigt, & Melanie McField. (2015). Invasive lionfish preying on critically endangered reef fish. Coral Reefs. 34(3). 803–806. 44 indexed citations

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Pisa, Lennard, Luc Belzunces, Jean‐Marc Bonmatin, et al.. (2014). Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target invertebrates. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 22(1). 68–102. 690 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rodríguez-Martínez, Rosa E., et al.. (2014). Assessment of Acropora palmata in the Mesoamerican Reef System. PLoS ONE. 9(4). e96140–e96140. 56 indexed citations

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Arkema, Katie K., Gregory M. Verutes, Joanna R. Bernhardt, et al.. (2014). Assessing habitat risk from human activities to inform coastal and marine spatial planning: a demonstration in Belize. Environmental Research Letters. 9(11). 114016–114016. 75 indexed citations

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Cox, Courtney, Corbin D. Jones, John P. Wares, et al.. (2012). Genetic testing reveals some mislabeling but general compliance with a ban on herbivorous fish harvesting in Belize. Conservation Letters. 6(2). 132–140. 35 indexed citations

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Carilli, Jessica, Richard D. Norris, Bryan A. Black, Sheila Walsh, & Melanie McField. (2009). Local Stressors Reduce Coral Resilience to Bleaching. PLoS ONE. 4(7). e6324–e6324. 222 indexed citations

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McField, Melanie, et al.. (2009). An EcoHealth Report Card for the Mesoamerican Reef. 1 indexed citations

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McField, Melanie, Pamela Hallock, & Walter C. Jaap. (2001). Multivariate Analysis of Reef Community Structure in the Belize Barrier Reef Complex. Bulletin of Marine Science. 69(2). 745–758. 12 indexed citations

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