Mike McWilliam

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Mike McWilliam is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike McWilliam has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Oceanography and 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Mike McWilliam's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (14 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (9 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (9 papers). Mike McWilliam is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (14 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (9 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (9 papers). Mike McWilliam collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Mike McWilliam's co-authors include Mia O. Hoogenboom, Morgan S. Pratchett, Terry P. Hughes, Andrew H. Baird, Andrew S. Hoey, Sean R. Connolly, Scott F. Heron, Gang Liu, William Skirving and Rachel Pears and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Mike McWilliam

15 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages

2018 1.2k citations Terry P. Hughes, James T. Kerry et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mike McWilliam Australia	11	1.4k	882	875	160	113	16	1.6k
Jessica Stella Australia	11	1.3k 1.0×	788 0.9×	816 0.9×	116 0.7×	102 0.9×	14	1.5k
Andreas Dietzel Australia	6	1.5k 1.1×	984 1.1×	949 1.1×	147 0.9×	142 1.3×	10	1.8k
Rachel Pears Australia	12	1.3k 0.9×	923 1.0×	716 0.8×	207 1.3×	158 1.4×	22	1.6k
Mary K. Donovan United States	19	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	923 1.1×	263 1.6×	212 1.9×	43	2.0k
James T. Kerry Australia	11	2.0k 1.4×	1.3k 1.5×	1.2k 1.4×	241 1.5×	165 1.5×	12	2.3k
Stephanie Schopmeyer United States	21	1.4k 1.0×	692 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	123 0.8×	143 1.3×	29	1.6k
Jamison M. Gove United States	24	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	949 1.1×	193 1.2×	162 1.4×	48	1.9k
Mebrahtu Ateweberhan United Kingdom	18	1.7k 1.2×	1.2k 1.4×	1.0k 1.2×	146 0.9×	264 2.3×	28	1.9k
Yimnang Golbuu United States	33	2.3k 1.7×	1.5k 1.7×	1.4k 1.6×	208 1.3×	264 2.3×	86	2.6k
Luke Smith Australia	21	1.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.5×	939 1.1×	353 2.2×	109 1.0×	38	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Mike McWilliam

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mike McWilliam

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mike McWilliam

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

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16 of 16 papers shown

McWilliam, Mike, et al.. (2025). Coral bleaching and crown-of-thorns starfish modulate long-term changes in coral cover and composition across reef zones at Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs.

Bellwood, David R., Simon J. Brandl, Mike McWilliam, et al.. (2024). Studying functions on coral reefs: past perspectives, current conundrums, and future potential. Coral Reefs. 43(2). 281–297. 13 indexed citations

McWilliam, Mike, Xiaolei Yu, Lei Jiang, et al.. (2024). Loss of Coral Trait Diversity and Impacts on Reef Fish Assemblages on Recovering Reefs. Ecology and Evolution. 14(11). e70510–e70510. 1 indexed citations

Madin, Joshua S., Mike McWilliam, Kate M. Quigley, et al.. (2023). Selecting coral species for reef restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(8). 1537–1544. 20 indexed citations

Roach, Ty N. F., Mike McWilliam, Carlo Caruso, et al.. (2023). Fine-scale variability in coral bleaching and mortality during a marine heatwave. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 17 indexed citations

Anderson, Kristen D., C. H. Wayman, Scott F. Heron, et al.. (2023). Branching coral growth and visual health during bleaching and recovery on the central Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs. 42(5). 1113–1129. 4 indexed citations

Bridge, Tom C. L., Andrew H. Baird, John M. Pandolfi, Mike McWilliam, & Mikołaj K. Zapalski. (2022). Functional consequences of Palaeozoic reef collapse. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 1386–1386. 20 indexed citations

McWilliam, Mike, María Dornelas, Mariana Álvarez‐Noriega, et al.. (2022). Net effects of life‐history traits explain persistent differences in abundance among similar species. Ecology. 104(1). e3863–e3863. 8 indexed citations

Roach, Ty N. F., Carlo Caruso, Catherine M. Foley, et al.. (2021). A Field Primer for Monitoring Benthic Ecosystems using Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 7 indexed citations

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Chase, Tory J., Morgan S. Pratchett, Mike McWilliam, et al.. (2020). Damselfishes alleviate the impacts of sediments on host corals. Royal Society Open Science. 7(4). 192074–192074. 18 indexed citations

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Pratchett, Morgan S., Mike McWilliam, & Bernhard Riegl. (2020). Contrasting shifts in coral assemblages with increasing disturbances. Coral Reefs. 39(3). 783–793. 46 indexed citations

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McWilliam, Mike, Morgan S. Pratchett, Mia O. Hoogenboom, & Terry P. Hughes. (2020). Deficits in functional trait diversity following recovery on coral reefs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1918). 20192628–20192628. 76 indexed citations

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McWilliam, Mike, et al.. (2019). Plasticity in Three-Dimensional Geometry of Branching Corals Along a Cross-Shelf Gradient. Diversity. 11(3). 44–44. 21 indexed citations

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Hughes, Terry P., James T. Kerry, Andrew H. Baird, et al.. (2018). Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages. Nature. 556(7702). 492–496. 1203 indexed citations breakdown →

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McWilliam, Mike, Tory J. Chase, & Mia O. Hoogenboom. (2018). Neighbor Diversity Regulates the Productivity of Coral Assemblages. Current Biology. 28(22). 3634–3639.e3. 27 indexed citations

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McWilliam, Mike, Mia O. Hoogenboom, Andrew H. Baird, et al.. (2018). Biogeographical disparity in the functional diversity and redundancy of corals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(12). 3084–3089. 115 indexed citations

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