Peter B. Best

4.2k total citations
104 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Peter B. Best is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter B. Best has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Ecology, 42 papers in Oceanography and 29 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Peter B. Best's work include Marine animal studies overview (93 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (30 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (29 papers). Peter B. Best is often cited by papers focused on Marine animal studies overview (93 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (30 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (29 papers). Peter B. Best collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Poland. Peter B. Best's co-authors include D. M. Schell, Pieter A. Folkens, Charles W. Potter, A. Rus Hoelzel, Desray Reeb, Simon H. Elwen, Meredith Thornton, Heinz Rüther, Jaco Barendse and Robert L. Brownell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Peter B. Best

101 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Peter B. Best 2.7k 1.1k 809 748 361 104 2.9k
Bruce R. Mate 3.0k 1.1× 1.4k 1.4× 945 1.2× 1.0k 1.3× 277 0.8× 94 3.4k
Douglas P. DeMaster 2.7k 1.0× 577 0.5× 756 0.9× 1.1k 1.4× 403 1.1× 91 3.2k
Robert Suydam 2.7k 1.0× 630 0.6× 1.1k 1.4× 538 0.7× 457 1.3× 109 3.4k
M. Bradley Hanson 1.9k 0.7× 612 0.6× 506 0.6× 547 0.7× 224 0.6× 79 2.3k
Alexandre N. Zerbini 2.9k 1.1× 1.4k 1.4× 1.0k 1.2× 987 1.3× 226 0.6× 135 3.3k
Sascha K. Hooker 2.4k 0.9× 811 0.8× 493 0.6× 700 0.9× 344 1.0× 53 2.7k
Marilyn E. Dahlheim 1.7k 0.6× 697 0.7× 410 0.5× 387 0.5× 231 0.6× 53 1.9k
Stephen Leatherwood 2.3k 0.9× 624 0.6× 384 0.5× 600 0.8× 538 1.5× 49 2.6k
Robert L. Brownell 3.6k 1.3× 1.3k 1.2× 826 1.0× 933 1.2× 560 1.6× 168 4.2k
Robert L. Pitman 3.7k 1.4× 1.1k 1.1× 686 0.8× 1.1k 1.5× 704 2.0× 93 4.3k

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All Works

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Vermeulen, Els, C.D.W. Wilkinson, Peter B. Best, & Ken Findlay. (2025). Four decades of annual monitoring reveal declining reproductive success of a migratory baleen whale. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 34713–34713. 1 indexed citations
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Best, Peter B. & Bruce R. Mate. (2023). Sighting history and observations of southern right whales following satellite tagging off South Africa. ˜The œjournal of cetacean research and management. Special issue. 9(2). 111–114. 3 indexed citations
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Best, Peter B., Rebecca A Rademeyer, Chris Burton, et al.. (2023). The abundance of blue whales on the Madagascar Plateau, December 1996. ˜The œjournal of cetacean research and management. Special issue. 5(3). 253–260. 2 indexed citations
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Plön, Stephanie, Peter B. Best, Pádraig J. Duignan, et al.. (2023). Population structure of pygmy (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf (Kogia sima) sperm whales in the Southern Hemisphere may reflect foraging ecology and dispersal patterns. Advances in marine biology. 96. 85–114. 5 indexed citations
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Photopoulou, Theoni, et al.. (2017). Evidence for a postreproductive phase in female false killer whales Pseudorca crassidens. Frontiers in Zoology. 14(1). 30–30. 19 indexed citations
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Best, Peter B. & Theoni Photopoulou. (2016). Identifying the “demon whale-biter”: Patterns of scarring on large whales attributed to a cookie-cutter shark Isistius sp. PLoS ONE. 11(4). e0152643–e0152643. 27 indexed citations
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Carvalho, Inês, Tim Collins, Jaco Barendse, et al.. (2014). Does temporal and spatial segregation explain the complex population structure of humpback whales on the coast of West Africa?. Marine Biology. 161(4). 805–819. 15 indexed citations
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Barendse, Jaco, Peter B. Best, Inês Carvalho, & Cristina Pomilla. (2013). Mother Knows Best: Occurrence and Associations of Resighted Humpback Whales Suggest Maternally Derived Fidelity to a Southern Hemisphere Coastal Feeding Ground. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e81238–e81238. 36 indexed citations
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Reeb, Desray, et al.. (2010). Fungi associated with the skin of a southern right whale ( Eubalaena australis ) from South Africa. Mycology: An International Journal on Fungal Biology. 1(3). 155–162. 8 indexed citations
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Rosenbaum, Howard C., Cristina Pomilla, Martín Mendez, et al.. (2009). Population Structure of Humpback Whales from Their Breeding Grounds in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. PLoS ONE. 4(10). e7318–e7318. 94 indexed citations
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Árnason, Úlfur & Peter B. Best. (2008). Phylogenetic relationships within the Mysticeti (whalebone whales) based upon studies of highly repetitive DNA in all extant species. Hereditas. 114(3). 263–269. 6 indexed citations
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Reeb, Desray, Peter B. Best, & Susan H. Kidson. (2007). Structure of the integument of southern right whales, Eubalaena australis. The Anatomical Record. 290(6). 596–613. 49 indexed citations
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Patenaude, Nathalie J., Catherine M. Schaeff, John Bannister, et al.. (2007). Mitochondrial DNA Diversity and Population Structure among Southern Right Whales (Eubalaena australis). Journal of Heredity. 98(2). 147–157. 57 indexed citations
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Seger, Jon, Victoria J. Rowntree, Susan G. Barco, et al.. (2005). Population histories of right whales (Cetacea:Eubalaena) inferred from mitochondrial sequence diversities and divergences of their whale lice (Amphipoda:Cyamus). Molecular Ecology. 14(11). 3439–3456. 35 indexed citations
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Cassens, Insa, Koen Van Waerebeek, Peter B. Best, et al.. (2004). Evidence for male dispersal along the coasts but no migration in pelagic waters in dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus). Molecular Ecology. 14(1). 107–121. 55 indexed citations
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Rosenbaum, H. C., Robert L. Brownell, Moira W. Brown, et al.. (2000). World‐wide genetic differentiation of Eubalaena: questioning the number of right whale species. Molecular Ecology. 9(11). 1793–1802. 86 indexed citations
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Harley, Eric H., et al.. (1995). Systematics of Cetaceans Using Restriction Site Mapping of Mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 4(1). 10–19. 18 indexed citations
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Kock, Anrich, et al.. (1994). Persistent organochlorine residues in small cetaceans from the east and west coasts of southern Africa. The Science of The Total Environment. 154(2-3). 153–162. 51 indexed citations
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Best, Peter B.. (1969). Distribution and movements. 141 indexed citations

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