Nuno Queiroz

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Nuno Queiroz is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nuno Queiroz has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 28 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Nuno Queiroz's work include Ichthyology and Marine Biology (38 papers), Marine and fisheries research (31 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (25 papers). Nuno Queiroz is often cited by papers focused on Ichthyology and Marine Biology (38 papers), Marine and fisheries research (31 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (25 papers). Nuno Queiroz collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United Kingdom and Spain. Nuno Queiroz's co-authors include David Sims, Nicolas E. Humphries, Gonzalo Mucientes, António M. Santos, Fernando P. Lima, Lara L. Sousa, Pedro A. Ribeiro, Emily J. Southall, Stephen J. Hawkins and Leslie R. Noble and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nuno Queiroz

61 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Repeated, long-distance migrations by a philopatric predator targeting highly contrasting ecosystems

2015 680 citations Nuno Queiroz, Lara L. Sousa et al. Scientific Reports profile →
Environmental context explains Lévy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators

2010 664 citations Nicolas E. Humphries, Nuno Queiroz et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nuno Queiroz Portugal	27	1.5k	1.4k	1.3k	816	562	63	3.8k
Emily J. Southall United Kingdom	21	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	237 0.4×	33	3.4k
Victoria J. Wearmouth United Kingdom	14	993 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1000 0.8×	910 1.1×	208 0.4×	19	2.9k
Jonathan D. R. Houghton United Kingdom	29	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	510 0.6×	427 0.8×	65	3.3k
David Righton United Kingdom	36	2.2k 1.5×	2.0k 1.4×	2.4k 1.8×	690 0.8×	295 0.5×	97	4.4k
Thomas K. Doyle Ireland	31	729 0.5×	981 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	573 0.7×	580 1.0×	88	4.1k
Michael K. Musyl United States	25	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	837 1.0×	105 0.2×	50	3.5k
Julian D. Metcalfe United Kingdom	37	2.9k 1.9×	2.4k 1.8×	2.3k 1.7×	649 0.8×	313 0.6×	64	4.8k
Dag L. Aksnes Norway	36	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	2.3k 1.8×	541 0.7×	2.0k 3.6×	76	5.6k
J. Rudi Strickler United States	39	1.0k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	638 0.8×	1.8k 3.2×	98	5.2k
Nicolas E. Humphries United Kingdom	25	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	949 0.7×	1.5k 1.8×	156 0.3×	42	3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nuno Queiroz

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Santos, Catarina Pereira, et al.. (2025). Sharks in Cabo Verde, Canarias, Madeira and Azores islands: species richness, conservation status and anthropogenic pressures. Frontiers in Marine Science. 12. 2 indexed citations

Mucientes, Gonzalo, Alexandre Alonso‐Fernández, Marisa Vedor, David Sims, & Nuno Queiroz. (2025). Discovery of a potential open ocean nursery for the endangered shortfin mako shark in a global fishing hotspot. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 2190–2190. 2 indexed citations

Costa, Ivo da, David Sims, Bruno Loureiro, et al.. (2024). Measuring deoxygenation effects on marine predators: A new animal‐attached archival tag recording in situ dissolved oxygen, temperature, fine‐scale movements and behaviour. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(8). 1360–1379. 4 indexed citations

Normande, Iran C., João Carlos Gomes Borges, Fernanda Löffler Niemeyer Attademo, et al.. (2024). Long‐term tracking reveals the influence of body size and habitat type on the home range of Antillean manatees (Trichechus manatus manatus). Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 34(6). 1 indexed citations

Albert, Ole Thomas, Keno Ferter, Robert J. Lennox, et al.. (2024). Seasonal habitat use and diel vertical migration in female spurdog in Nordic waters. Movement Ecology. 12(1). 62–62. 2 indexed citations

Dias, Ester, et al.. (2024). Unravelling the deep: Assessing the bycatch of deep-sea elasmobranchs in crustacean bottom trawl fisheries in Portugal. Marine Policy. 173. 106555–106555. 3 indexed citations

Ellis‐Soto, Diego, Ruth Y. Oliver, Vanessa Brum-Bastos, et al.. (2023). A vision for incorporating human mobility in the study of human–wildlife interactions. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(9). 1362–1372. 15 indexed citations

Waller, Matt, Nuno Queiroz, Ivo da Costa, et al.. (2023). Direct measurement of cruising and burst swimming speeds of the shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) with estimates of field metabolic rate. Journal of Fish Biology. 103(5). 864–883. 13 indexed citations

Mucientes, Gonzalo, Albert Fernández‐Chacón, Nuno Queiroz, David Sims, & David Villegas‐Ríos. (2023). Juvenile survival and movements of two threatened oceanic sharks in the North Atlantic Ocean inferred from tag‐recovery data. Ecology and Evolution. 13(6). e10198–e10198. 6 indexed citations

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Vedor, Marisa, Nuno Queiroz, Gonzalo Mucientes, et al.. (2021). Climate-driven deoxygenation elevates fishing vulnerability for the ocean's widest ranging shark. eLife. 10. 56 indexed citations

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Queiroz, Nuno, et al.. (2020). Quantifying effects of tracking data bias on species distribution models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(1). 170–181. 22 indexed citations

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Baptista, Miguel, Cátia Figueiredo, Tânia Márcia Costa, et al.. (2020). Tissue and gender-related differences in the elemental composition of juvenile ocean sunfish (Mola spp.). Chemosphere. 272. 129131–129131. 1 indexed citations

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Baptista, Miguel, Cátia Figueiredo, José Ricardo Paula, et al.. (2019). Body size and season influence elemental composition of tissues in ocean sunfish Mola mola juveniles. Chemosphere. 223. 714–722. 8 indexed citations

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Sousa, Lara L., Raquel Xavier, Vânia Costa, et al.. (2016). DNA barcoding identifies a cosmopolitan diet in the ocean sunfish. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 28762–28762. 48 indexed citations

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Humphries, Nicolas E., Nuno Queiroz, Nicolas Pade, et al.. (2012). nature09116 Supplementary Information. 1 indexed citations

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Queiroz, Nuno, Nicolas E. Humphries, Leslie R. Noble, António M. Santos, & DW Sims. (2010). Short-term movements and diving behaviour of satellite-tracked blue sharks Prionace glauca in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 406. 265–279. 53 indexed citations

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Brunnschweiler, Juerg M., Nuno Queiroz, & David Sims. (2010). Oceans apart? Short‐term movements and behaviour of adult bull sharks Carcharhinus leucas in Atlantic and Pacific Oceans determined from pop‐off satellite archival tagging. Journal of Fish Biology. 77(6). 1343–1358. 58 indexed citations

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Sims, David, Nuno Queiroz, Nicolas E. Humphries, Fernando P. Lima, & Graeme C. Hays. (2009). Long-Term GPS Tracking of Ocean Sunfish Mola mola Offers a New Direction in Fish Monitoring. PLoS ONE. 4(10). e7351–e7351. 67 indexed citations

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Mucientes, Gonzalo, Nuno Queiroz, Lara L. Sousa, Pedro Tarroso, & David Sims. (2009). Sexual segregation of pelagic sharks and the potential threat from fisheries. Biology Letters. 5(2). 156–159. 175 indexed citations

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Mucientes, Gonzalo, Nuno Queiroz, Simon J. Pierce, Iván Sazima, & Juerg M. Brunnschweiler. (2008). Is Host Ectoparasite Load Related to Echeneid Fish Presence?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2008. 1–4. 4 indexed citations

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