Michael Sinclair

4.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
57 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Michael Sinclair is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Sinclair has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Oceanography and 11 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Michael Sinclair's work include Marine and fisheries research (31 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (17 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (9 papers). Michael Sinclair is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (31 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (17 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (9 papers). Michael Sinclair collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Israel and United States. Michael Sinclair's co-authors include T. D. Iles, JP Glaister, Andrea Ghermandi, M. John Tremblay, John W. Loder, Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Hein Rune Skjoldal, G. Valdimarsson, Jorge Csirke and Ragnar Árnason and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Michael Sinclair

55 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Marine Populations: An Essay on Population Regulation and Speciation

1989 540 citations JP Glaister, Michael Sinclair Estuaries profile →
Atlantic Herring: Stock Discreteness and Abundance

1982 493 citations T. D. Iles, Michael Sinclair profile →
Passive crowdsourcing of social media in environmental research: A systematic map

2019 271 citations Andrea Ghermandi, Michael Sinclair Global Environmental Change profile →
Economic values for ecosystem services: A global synthesis and way forward

2024 61 citations Andrea Ghermandi, Michael Sinclair et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Sinclair Canada	30	2.5k	1.2k	1.0k	866	318	57	3.5k
Lara J. Hansen United States	17	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	297 0.3×	242 0.8×	41	3.3k
L.E. Beckley Australia	36	2.3k 0.9×	2.2k 1.9×	1.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	276 0.9×	143	4.0k
Jacqueline McGlade United Kingdom	26	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	1.0k 1.0×	272 0.3×	426 1.3×	60	4.0k
SD Frusher Australia	39	2.4k 1.0×	2.9k 2.4×	1.0k 1.0×	942 1.1×	313 1.0×	137	4.5k
Emily S. Darling United States	40	3.2k 1.3×	4.1k 3.4×	1.1k 1.0×	1.8k 2.0×	372 1.2×	65	6.4k
Ian Donohue Ireland	32	1.1k 0.5×	2.1k 1.7×	1.3k 1.2×	515 0.6×	202 0.6×	80	3.9k
Patricia A. Soranno United States	40	1.0k 0.4×	1.9k 1.5×	1.6k 1.5×	1.1k 1.3×	166 0.5×	116	5.2k
Josep Lloret Spain	33	2.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	865 0.8×	340 0.4×	151 0.5×	102	3.1k
Crow White United States	28	2.3k 0.9×	2.3k 1.9×	561 0.5×	759 0.9×	228 0.7×	61	4.0k
Michelle Marvier United States	28	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	161 0.2×	238 0.7×	58	4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Sinclair

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Sinclair

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Sinclair

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ghermandi, Andrea, Johannes Langemeyer, Derek Van Berkel, et al.. (2023). Social media data for environmental sustainability: A critical review of opportunities, threats, and ethical use. One Earth. 6(3). 236–250. 54 indexed citations

Sinclair, Michael, Marius Mayer, Manuel Woltering, & Andrea Ghermandi. (2020). Using social media to estimate visitor provenance and patterns of recreation in Germany's national parks. Journal of Environmental Management. 263. 110418–110418. 90 indexed citations

Ghermandi, Andrea & Michael Sinclair. (2019). Passive crowdsourcing of social media in environmental research: A systematic map. Global Environmental Change. 55. 36–47. 271 indexed citations breakdown →

Sinclair, Michael, Andrea Ghermandi, & A. M. Sheela. (2018). A crowdsourced valuation of recreational ecosystem services using social media data: An application to a tropical wetland in India. The Science of The Total Environment. 642. 356–365. 86 indexed citations

Sinclair, Michael, et al.. (2017). Organizational Identification: Perspectives of Dispersed Social Workers. Advances in Social Work. 17(2). 285–303. 8 indexed citations

Sinclair, Michael, et al.. (2016). Student Victimization in U.S. Schools: Results from the 2013 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey. Stats in Brief. NCES 2016-145.. National Center for Education Statistics. 2 indexed citations

Sinclair, Michael, et al.. (2016). Police-involved homicide of unarmed Black males: Observations by Black scholars in the midst of the April 2015 Baltimore uprising. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. 26(3-4). 377–389. 16 indexed citations

Sinclair, Michael, Michael Power, Erica Head, et al.. (2015). Eastern Scotian Shelf trophic dynamics: A review of the evidence for diverse hypotheses. Progress In Oceanography. 138. 305–321. 14 indexed citations

Page, Fred H., et al.. (1999). Cod and haddock spawning on Georges Bank in relation to water residence times. Fisheries Oceanography. 8(3). 212–226. 34 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Michael. (1999). Groundfish management in transition within the Scotia–Fundy area of Canada. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 56(6). 1014–1023. 10 indexed citations

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Perry, R. Ian, Gareth Harding, John W. Loder, et al.. (1993). Zooplankton distributions at the Georges Bank frontal system: retention or dispersion?. Continental Shelf Research. 13(4). 357–383. 35 indexed citations

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Tremblay, M. John & Michael Sinclair. (1992). Planktonic Sea Scallop Larvae (Placopecten magellanicus) in the Georges Bank Region: Broadscale Distribution in Relation to Physical Oceanography. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 49(8). 1597–1615. 26 indexed citations

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Bailey, Rebecca & Michael Sinclair. (1990). Marine Populations. An Essay on Population Regulation and Speciation. Journal of Animal Ecology. 59(2). 800–800. 8 indexed citations

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Glaister, JP & Michael Sinclair. (1989). Marine Populations: An Essay on Population Regulation and Speciation. Estuaries. 12(1). 57–57. 540 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smith, Paul E. & Michael Sinclair. (1989). Marine Populations, an Essay on Population Regulation and Speciation. Copeia. 1989(3). 810–810. 31 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Michael, M. John Tremblay, & Patricio Bernal. (1985). El Niño Events and Variability in a Pacific Mackerel (Scomber japonicus) Survival Index: Support for Hjort's Second Hypothesis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 42(3). 602–608. 45 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Michael, Robert O’Boyle, & T. D. Iles. (1983). Consideration of the Stable Age Distribution Assumption in "Analytical" Yield Models. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 40(1). 95–101. 2 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Michael, et al.. (1981). Phytoplankton temporal distributions in estuaries. Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea). 23 indexed citations

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Griffiths, D.K., R.D. Pingree, & Michael Sinclair. (1981). Summer tidal fronts in the near-arctic regions of Foxe Basin and Hudson Bay. Deep Sea Research Part A Oceanographic Research Papers. 28(8). 865–873. 21 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Michael. (1978). Summer Phytoplankton Variability in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 35(9). 1171–1185. 58 indexed citations

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