Nick Porch

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Nick Porch is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Porch has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 22 papers in Ecology and 19 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Nick Porch's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (11 papers) and Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution (10 papers). Nick Porch is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (11 papers) and Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution (10 papers). Nick Porch collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Germany. Nick Porch's co-authors include David K. Yeates, Margaret Byrne, J. Scott Keogh, Leo Joseph, Jane Melville, Steven J. Cooper, M. A. J. Williams, K.‐H. Wyrwoll, Stephen C. Donnellan and Michael Kearney and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Nick Porch

46 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

  1. Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota
    2008 580 citations Margaret Byrne, David K. Yeates et al. Molecular Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nick Porch Australia 18 624 583 565 503 374 49 2.0k
Lea de Nascimento Spain 20 216 0.3× 469 0.8× 519 0.9× 258 0.5× 432 1.2× 65 1.6k
Jim I. Mead United States 29 1.4k 2.2× 1.2k 2.1× 385 0.7× 254 0.5× 524 1.4× 136 2.7k
Hikaru Takahara Japan 21 290 0.5× 430 0.7× 381 0.7× 338 0.7× 237 0.6× 67 1.9k
Kale Sniderman Australia 21 448 0.7× 301 0.5× 680 1.2× 313 0.6× 358 1.0× 42 1.6k
Carolina Villagrán Chile 28 614 1.0× 717 1.2× 843 1.5× 164 0.3× 600 1.6× 59 2.6k
Thomas von Rintelen Germany 27 395 0.6× 1.3k 2.2× 500 0.9× 585 1.2× 660 1.8× 106 2.5k
W. Geoffrey Spaulding United States 15 463 0.7× 661 1.1× 231 0.4× 317 0.6× 191 0.5× 28 1.7k
Russell W. Graham United States 22 800 1.3× 864 1.5× 264 0.5× 189 0.4× 379 1.0× 58 1.8k
Robert S. Feranec United States 23 1.3k 2.0× 1.3k 2.2× 191 0.3× 159 0.3× 162 0.4× 61 2.1k
Gilbert J. Price Australia 23 968 1.6× 691 1.2× 235 0.4× 78 0.2× 196 0.5× 96 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Nick Porch

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nick Porch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Nick Porch. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Nick Porch. The network helps show where Nick Porch may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Porch

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Weston, Michael A., et al.. (2024). Seasonal Changes of Surface-Active Beach Invertebrate Assemblages in Southern Central Victoria, Australia. Estuaries and Coasts. 47(4). 1052–1063. 2 indexed citations
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Gibb, Heloise, Dennis M. Black, Nick Porch, et al.. (2023). Rainforest litter invertebrates decimated by high severity burns during Australia's gigafires. Austral Ecology. 48(7). 1328–1343. 7 indexed citations
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Allen, Melinda S., et al.. (2022). Lost bioscapes: Floristic and arthropod diversity coincident with 12th century Polynesian settlement, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0265224–e0265224. 6 indexed citations
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Porch, Nick, et al.. (2021). Hooves on the Beach; Horses Disrupt the Sand Matrix and Might Alter Invertebrate Assemblages on Beaches. Environmental Management. 67(2). 398–411. 2 indexed citations
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Porch, Nick. (2020). A new and likely extinct species of Antilissus Sharp, 1879 (Coleoptera: Zopheridae: Colydiinae) from Makauwahi Cave, Kauai, Hawaiian Islands. Zootaxa. 4868(1). zootaxa.4868.1.8–zootaxa.4868.1.8. 1 indexed citations
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Cooke, Raylene, et al.. (2020). Photography can determine the sex of a predator with limited sexual dimorphism: A case study of the powerful owl. Global Ecology and Conservation. 22. e00959–e00959. 3 indexed citations
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Maddison, David R., Kojun Kanda, Olivia Boyd, et al.. (2018). Phylogeny of the beetle supertribe Trechitae (Coleoptera: Carabidae): Unexpected clades, isolated lineages, and morphological convergence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 132. 151–176. 35 indexed citations
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Schlacher, Thomas A., Ben L. Gilby, Nick Porch, et al.. (2017). Algal subsidies enhance invertebrate prey for threatened shorebirds: A novel conservation tool on ocean beaches?. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 191. 28–38. 39 indexed citations
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Porch, Nick, et al.. (2017). New Pycnomerus Erichson (Coleoptera: Zopheridae: Pycnomerini) from Rimatara, French Polynesia. Zootaxa. 4237(1). zootaxa.4237.1.8–zootaxa.4237.1.8. 6 indexed citations
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Schlacher, Thomas A., Nick Porch, Rod M. Connolly, et al.. (2016). The Early Shorebird Will Catch Fewer Invertebrates on Trampled Sandy Beaches. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0161905–e0161905. 48 indexed citations
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Driscoll, Don A., et al.. (2015). Plantations, not farmlands, cause biotic homogenisation of ground-active beetles in south-eastern Australia. Biological Conservation. 186. 1–11. 10 indexed citations
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Sniderman, Kale, Gregory J. Jordan, & Nick Porch. (2012). 487 Plio-Pleistocene climate, vegetation, and biogeography in southern Australia. 58. 220. 1 indexed citations
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Hawlitschek, Oliver, Nick Porch, Lars Hendrich, & Michael Balke. (2011). Ecological Niche Modelling and nDNA Sequencing Support a New, Morphologically Cryptic Beetle Species Unveiled by DNA Barcoding. PLoS ONE. 6(2). e16662–e16662. 54 indexed citations
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Byrne, Margaret, David K. Yeates, Leo Joseph, et al.. (2008). Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota. Molecular Ecology. 17(20). 4398–4417. 580 indexed citations breakdown →
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Holdaway, Simon & Nick Porch. (1995). Cyclical patterns in the Pleistocene human occupation of Southwest Tasmania. Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania. 30(2). 74–82. 50 indexed citations

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