Michael DeWitt

1.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
3 papers, 873 citations indexed

About

Michael DeWitt is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael DeWitt has authored 3 papers receiving a total of 873 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Oceanography, 2 papers in Ecology and 1 paper in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Michael DeWitt's work include Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (2 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (2 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (1 paper). Michael DeWitt is often cited by papers focused on Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (2 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (2 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (1 paper). Michael DeWitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Japan. Michael DeWitt's co-authors include Nicholas Clinton, Renata Ferrari, Richard A. Fuller, Stuart Phinn, Nicholas Murray, Mitchell Lyons, David Thau and Joji Ishizaka and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Scientific Data.

In The Last Decade

Michael DeWitt

3 papers receiving 854 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.

The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats

2018 711 citations Nicholas Murray, Stuart Phinn et al. Nature profile →
Globally consistent assessment of coastal eutrophication

2021 137 citations Joji Ishizaka, Nicholas Clinton et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael DeWitt	634	282	248	211	130	3	873
Lin Yuan	774 1.2×	299 1.1×	315 1.3×	177 0.8×	80 0.6×	50	1.0k
Rabindro Nath Samal	409 0.6×	212 0.8×	154 0.6×	242 1.1×	62 0.5×	37	679
Yaner Yan	395 0.6×	252 0.9×	126 0.5×	90 0.4×	52 0.4×	18	681
Heida L. Diefenderfer	514 0.8×	221 0.8×	171 0.7×	168 0.8×	81 0.6×	40	709
Steve Mitchell	392 0.6×	107 0.4×	267 1.1×	204 1.0×	71 0.5×	48	775
Magda C. Sousa	266 0.4×	402 1.4×	197 0.8×	578 2.7×	58 0.4×	55	987
Annette Burden	647 1.0×	222 0.8×	88 0.4×	204 1.0×	52 0.4×	23	956
Ajit K. Pattnaik	482 0.8×	218 0.8×	58 0.2×	264 1.3×	60 0.5×	38	788
Guillaume Brunier	564 0.9×	161 0.6×	505 2.0×	88 0.4×	67 0.5×	20	928

Countries citing papers authored by Michael DeWitt

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael DeWitt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael DeWitt

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

All Works

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3 of 3 papers shown

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Murray, Nicholas, Stuart Phinn, Richard A. Fuller, et al.. (2022). High-resolution global maps of tidal flat ecosystems from 1984 to 2019. Scientific Data. 9(1). 542–542. 25 indexed citations

2.

Ishizaka, Joji, et al.. (2021). Globally consistent assessment of coastal eutrophication. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6142–6142. 137 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Murray, Nicholas, Stuart Phinn, Michael DeWitt, et al.. (2018). The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats. Nature. 565(7738). 222–225. 711 indexed citations breakdown →

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