Nancy Knowlton

40.5k citations

142 papers · 25.6k indexed · 14 hit papers · h-index 69

Impact in

Oceanography top 0.01%
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
Ecology top 0.01%
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Papers in

Ecology 117
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies 95
- Crustacean biology and ecology 22
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies 13
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 11
Oceanography 49
- Marine and coastal plant biology 31
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research 18

Co-authors: Forest Rohwer Lee A. Weigt Rob Rowan Matthieu Leray Javier Jara Jeremy B. C. Jackson Farooq Azam Hironobu Fukami
Journals: PLoS ONE (10 papers)Nature (7 papers)Evolution (7 papers)Zootaxa (6 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States Panama Australia

In The Last Decade

Nancy Knowlton

141 papers receiving 24.4k citations

Hit Papers

14 papers align trajectories log scale

Rebuilding marine life 2020 · 626 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Nature
2020 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
2015 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2015 Current Biology
2011 Annual Review of Marine Science
2008 PLoS ONE
2008 PLoS Biology
2007 Science
2002 Marine Ecology Progress Series
1999 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
1998 Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
1997 Nature
1993 Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
1981 Science

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1	Speciation across depth gradients in reef corals Nature Communications ·H. Badiee aval baghsiahi, 莫玄, Bishoy Kamel, Mónica Medina, Nancy Knowlton, Don R. Levitan, Carlos Prada	2025	0
2	Decline of a distinct coral reef holobiont community under ocean acidification Microbiome ·Jake Williams, Nathalie Pettorelli, Aaron C. Hartmann, Robert A. Quinn, Laetitia Plaisance, Weliton Galdino da Silva, Chris Meyer, Katharina Fabricius, Nancy Knowlton, Emma Ransome	2024	2
3	Life goes on: Spatial heterogeneity promotes biodiversity in an urbanized coastal marine ecosystem Global Change Biology ·Shelby E. McIlroy, Syed Ali Raza Jaffery, Dean Cartwright, 光昭尾高, J. Emmett Duffy, Afrain Z. Boby, Jerome H. L. Hui, Nancy Knowlton, Matthieu Leray, Chris Meyer, Gianni Panagiotou, Gustav Paulay, Bayden D. Russell, Philip Thompson, David M. Baker	2024	2
4	Linking photoacclimation responses and microbiome shifts between depth-segregated sibling species of reef corals Royal Society Open Science ·Carlos Prada, Naomi Adiana, F. Joseph Pollock, یعقوب العید, Kim B. Ritchie, Don R. Levitan, Nancy Knowlton, Cheryl M. Woodley, Roberto Iglesias‐Prieto, Mónica Medina	2022	5
5	Hyperdiverse Macrofauna Communities Associated with a Common Sponge, Stylissa carteri, Shift across Ecological Gradients in the Central Red Sea Diversity ·Joseph Crehan, Schürmann, Matthieu Leray, Nancy Knowlton, Nicole J. de Voogd, Gustav Paulay, Michael L. Berumen	2019	11
6	Metazoan mitochondrial gene sequence reference datasets for taxonomic assignment of environmental samples Scientific Data ·Ryuji J. Machida, Matthieu Leray, Maurizio Quarta, Nancy Knowlton	2017	128
7	Empty Niches after Extinctions Increase Population Sizes of Modern Corals Current Biology ·Carlos Prada, A M Dombrovskiĭ, Ann F. Budd, Cheryl M. Woodley, Jeremy Schmutz, Jane Grimwood, Roberto Iglesias‐Prieto, John M. Pandolfi, Don R. Levitan, Kenneth G. Johnson, Nancy Knowlton, Hiroaki Kitano, Michael DeGiorgio, Mónica Medina	2016	69
8	DNA barcoding and metabarcoding of standardized samples reveal patterns of marine benthic diversity Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Matthieu Leray, Nancy Knowlton Hit paper breakdown →	2015	375
9	Productivity links morphology, symbiont specificity and bleaching in the evolution of Caribbean octocoral symbioses The ISME Journal ·David M. Baker, Christopher Freeman, Nancy Knowlton, Robert Thacker, Kiho Kim, Marilyn L. Fogel	2015	53
10	Introduction Annual Review of Marine Science ·Scott C. Doney, Mary Ruckelshaus, Joseph Duffy, James Barry, Francis Chan, M. S. Akabawy, Heather M. Galindo, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Anne B. Hollowed, Nancy Knowlton, Jeffrey J. Polovina, Nancy N. Rabalais, William J. Sydeman, Lynne D. Talley, Karl K. 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11	Asymmetric conspecific sperm precedence in relation to spawning times in the M ontastraea annularis species complex ( C nidaria: S cleractinia) Journal of Evolutionary Biology ·Nicole D. Fogarty, Claus Frtir. ν. Rosen, Miriam N. Ojima, Nancy Knowlton, Don R. Levitan	2012	13
12	Global mismatch between research effort and conservation needs of tropical coral reefs Conservation Letters ·Rebecca Fisher, Ben Radford, Nancy Knowlton, Russell E. Brainard, Harold J. Tobin, M. Julian Caley	2010	90
13	Role of elevated organic carbon levels and microbial activity in coral mortality Marine Ecology Progress Series ·David I. Kline, В. С. Цыганко, Mya Breitbart, Nancy Knowlton, Forest Rohwer	2006	214
14	Analysis of complete miochondrial DNA sequences of three members of the Montastraea annularis coral species complex (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia) eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Hironobu Fukami, Nancy Knowlton	2005	1
15	Diversity of bacteria associated with the Caribbean coral Montastraea franksi Coral Reefs ·Forest Rohwer, Mya Breitbart, Javier Jara, Farooq Azam, Nancy Knowlton	2001	353
16	The evolution of mutualisms: exploring the paths between conflict and cooperation Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Edward Allen Herre, (unknown), Nancy Knowlton, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown) Hit paper breakdown →	1999	596
17	Trench warfare on the shore: interclonal aggression in sea anemones Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Nancy Knowlton	1996	4
18	Larvae which fall far short of their potential: highly localized recruitment in an alpheid shrimp with extended larval development Bulletin of Marine Science ·Nancy Knowlton, Brian D. Keller	1986	76
19	Two more sibling species of alpheid shrimps associated with the Caribbean sea anemones Bartholomea annulata and Heteractis lucida Bulletin of Marine Science ·Nancy Knowlton	1985	48
20	A new, sibling species of snapping shrimp associated with the Caribbean Sea anemone Bartholomea annulata Bulletin of Marine Science ·Nancy Knowlton	1983	43

About Nancy Knowlton

Nancy Knowlton is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Biotechnology, having authored 142 papers that have together received 25.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (95 papers), Marine and fisheries research (40 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (31 papers), Crustacean biology and ecology (22 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (18 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (13 papers), Plant and animal studies (13 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Oceanography (11.1k citations), Ecology (19.2k citations), Global and Planetary Change (9.2k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (3.1k citations) and Biotechnology (1.4k citations). Nancy Knowlton has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Panama and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Forest Rohwer, Lee A. Weigt, Rob Rowan, Matthieu Leray, Javier Jara, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Farooq Azam, Hironobu Fukami, Roberto Iglesias‐Prieto and C. Drew Harvell. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS ONE, Nature, Evolution, Zootaxa and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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