Nathan D. Merchant

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Nathan D. Merchant is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan D. Merchant has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Oceanography, 44 papers in Ecology and 27 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Nathan D. Merchant's work include Underwater Acoustics Research (45 papers), Marine animal studies overview (44 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (27 papers). Nathan D. Merchant is often cited by papers focused on Underwater Acoustics Research (45 papers), Marine animal studies overview (44 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (27 papers). Nathan D. Merchant collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Nathan D. Merchant's co-authors include Paul M. Thompson, Tim R. Barton, Adrian Farcas, Philippe Blondel, Matthew J. Witt, Enrico Pirotta, Susan E. Parks, Stephen D. Simpson, Andrew N. Radford and Peter L. Tyack and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Nathan D. Merchant

47 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Measuring acoustic habitats

2014 379 citations Nathan D. Merchant, Kurt M. Fristrup et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

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OCEAN

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Christine Erbe Australia

Jakob Tougaard Denmark

William T. Ellison United States

Ann E. Bowles United States

Megan F. McKenna United States

Robert D. McCauley Australia

Philippe Blondel United Kingdom

Gordon D. Hastie United Kingdom

David Moretti United States

Leila Hatch United States

Christine Erbe Australia

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan D. Merchant

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Jong, Karen de, Cathryn Clarke Murray, Sarah A. Bailey, et al.. (2025). Trade-offs and synergies in the management of environmental pressures: a case study on ship noise mitigation. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 218. 118073–118073. 1 indexed citations

Heywood, Karen J., et al.. (2023). Gliders for passive acoustic monitoring of the oceanic environment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 13 indexed citations

Putland, Rosalyn L., Joost Brinkkemper, Christ A. F. de Jong, et al.. (2023). The underwater soundscape of the North Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 198. 115891–115891. 6 indexed citations

Merchant, Nathan D., et al.. (2023). AMBIENT NOISE IN THE WESTERN ENGLISH CHANNEL TEMPORAL VARIABILITY DUE TO SHIPPING AND BIOLOGICAL SOURCES.

Merchant, Nathan D., Rosalyn L. Putland, M. André, et al.. (2022). A decade of underwater noise research in support of the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Ocean & Coastal Management. 228. 106299–106299. 30 indexed citations

Wright, Andrew, Denise Risch, Nathan D. Merchant, et al.. (2022). Recommended metrics for quantifying underwater noise impacts on North Atlantic right whales. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 175. 113361–113361. 7 indexed citations

Putland, Rosalyn L., et al.. (2022). Multi-site validation of shipping noise maps using field measurements. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 179. 113733–113733. 19 indexed citations

Farcas, Adrian, Claire Powell, Kate L. Brookes, & Nathan D. Merchant. (2020). Validated shipping noise maps of the Northeast Atlantic. The Science of The Total Environment. 735. 139509–139509. 50 indexed citations

Thompson, Paul M., Isla M. Graham, Barbara Cheney, et al.. (2020). Balancing risks of injury and disturbance to marine mammals when pile driving at offshore windfarms. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2). 10 indexed citations

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Merchant, Nathan D., Mathias H. Andersson, Neil Holdsworth, et al.. (2020). Impulsive noise pollution in the Northeast Atlantic: Reported activity during 2015–2017. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 152. 110951–110951. 20 indexed citations

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Farcas, Adrian, et al.. (2018). Guiding principles for assessing the impact of underwater noise. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(6). 2531–2536. 31 indexed citations

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Putland, Rosalyn L., Nathan D. Merchant, Adrian Farcas, & Craig A. Radford. (2017). Vessel noise cuts down communication space for vocalizing fish and marine mammals. Global Change Biology. 24(4). 1708–1721. 101 indexed citations

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Merchant, Nathan D., et al.. (2017). Marine Noise Budgets in Practice. Conservation Letters. 11(3). 36 indexed citations

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Jones, Esther L., Gordon D. Hastie, Sophie Smout, et al.. (2017). Seals and shipping: quantifying population risk and individual exposure to vessel noise. Journal of Applied Ecology. 54(6). 1930–1940. 25 indexed citations

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Nedelec, Sophie L., James Campbell, Andrew N. Radford, Stephen D. Simpson, & Nathan D. Merchant. (2016). Particle motion: the missing link in underwater acoustic ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 7(7). 836–842. 166 indexed citations

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Williams, Rob, Andrew Wright, Erin Ashe, et al.. (2015). Impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine life: Publication patterns, new discoveries, and future directions in research and management. Ocean & Coastal Management. 115. 17–24. 246 indexed citations

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Merchant, Nathan D., Enrico Pirotta, Tim R. Barton, & Paul M. Thompson. (2015). Soundscape and Noise Exposure Monitoring in a Marine Protected Area Using Shipping Data and Time-Lapse Footage. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 875. 705–712. 6 indexed citations

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Merchant, Nathan D., Kurt M. Fristrup, Mark Johnson, et al.. (2014). Measuring acoustic habitats. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6(3). 257–265. 379 indexed citations breakdown →

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Merchant, Nathan D., Enrico Pirotta, Tim R. Barton, & Paul M. Thompson. (2013). Monitoring ship noise to assess the impact of coastal developments on marine mammals. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 78(1-2). 85–95. 138 indexed citations

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Merchant, Nathan D., Matthew J. Witt, Philippe Blondel, Brendan J. Godley, & George Smith. (2012). Assessing sound exposure from shipping in coastal waters using a single hydrophone and Automatic Identification System (AIS) data. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 64(7). 1320–1329. 94 indexed citations

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