Peter L. Tyack

26.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
254 papers, 17.0k citations indexed

About

Peter L. Tyack is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter L. Tyack has authored 254 papers receiving a total of 17.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 243 papers in Ecology, 178 papers in Oceanography and 105 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Peter L. Tyack's work include Marine animal studies overview (241 papers), Underwater Acoustics Research (172 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (105 papers). Peter L. Tyack is often cited by papers focused on Marine animal studies overview (241 papers), Underwater Acoustics Research (172 papers) and Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (105 papers). Peter L. Tyack collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. Peter L. Tyack's co-authors include Mark Johnson, Peter T. Madsen, Patrick J. O. Miller, Walter Zimmer, Natacha Aguilar de Soto, Douglas P. Nowacek, Susan E. Parks, Brandon L. Southall, Len Thomas and David Moretti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Peter L. Tyack

246 papers receiving 15.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A digital acoustic recording tag for measuring the response of wild marine mammals to sound

2003 671 citations Mark Johnson, Peter L. Tyack profile →
MARINE MAMMAL NOISE-EXPOSURE CRITERIA: INITIAL SCIENTIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS

2008 481 citations Peter L. Tyack et al. profile →
Overview

2007 463 citations Peter L. Tyack et al. Aquatic Mammals profile →
Estimating animal population density using passive acoustics

2012 463 citations Len Thomas, David Moretti et al. profile →
Measuring acoustic habitats

2014 379 citations Nathan D. Merchant, Kurt M. Fristrup et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Marine Mammal Noise Exposure Criteria: Updated Scientific Recommendations for Residual Hearing Effects

2019 267 citations Douglas P. Nowacek, Peter L. Tyack et al. Aquatic Mammals profile →
Understanding the combined effects of multiple stressors: A new perspective on a longstanding challenge

2022 109 citations Enrico Pirotta, Len Thomas et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter L. Tyack United States	69	15.2k	9.6k	8.0k	3.4k	2.3k	254	17.0k
Peter T. Madsen Denmark	62	9.5k 0.6×	6.3k 0.7×	3.8k 0.5×	2.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	231	10.6k
Mark Johnson United States	52	7.8k 0.5×	5.2k 0.5×	2.9k 0.4×	2.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	182	9.4k
Randall S. Wells United States	61	9.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.2×	3.3k 0.4×	1.8k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	286	11.6k
Len Thomas United Kingdom	51	12.8k 0.8×	2.8k 0.3×	2.2k 0.3×	1.5k 0.4×	1.8k 0.8×	178	15.3k
Whitlow W. L. Au United States	48	7.1k 0.5×	5.4k 0.6×	3.2k 0.4×	1.5k 0.5×	823 0.4×	256	8.0k
John Calambokidis United States	55	7.7k 0.5×	3.8k 0.4×	1.5k 0.2×	2.6k 0.8×	695 0.3×	205	8.9k
Daniel P. Costa United States	82	17.9k 1.2×	3.9k 0.4×	1.1k 0.1×	3.6k 1.1×	3.7k 1.6×	498	22.2k
Jay Barlow United States	51	7.6k 0.5×	3.6k 0.4×	1.8k 0.2×	1.6k 0.5×	867 0.4×	229	8.3k
Paul M. Thompson United Kingdom	55	6.9k 0.5×	1.8k 0.2×	1.9k 0.2×	1.2k 0.3×	1.0k 0.4×	171	8.1k
Lars Bejder Australia	50	6.7k 0.4×	1.5k 0.2×	2.6k 0.3×	1.1k 0.3×	1.3k 0.5×	162	8.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter L. Tyack

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Samarra, Filipa I. P., Paul J. Wensveen, Petter H. Kvadsheim, et al.. (2025). Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) Acoustic Responses to Naval Sonar. Aquatic Mammals. 51(5). 38–55.

Hermannsen, Line, Kristian Beedholm, Jakob Tougaard, et al.. (2025). High-frequency vessel noise can mask porpoise echolocation. Journal of Experimental Biology. 228(6). 2 indexed citations

Dick, Frederic, Oriol Talló-Parra, Anthony N. Price, et al.. (2024). Monitoring Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Welfare During a Functional Neuroimaging Study. Aquatic Mammals. 50(6). 495–525.

Pirotta, Enrico, Peter L. Tyack, John W. Durban, et al.. (2024). Decreasing body size is associated with reduced calving probability in critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Royal Society Open Science. 11(2). 240050–240050. 10 indexed citations

Pirotta, Enrico, Robert S. Schick, Philip K. Hamilton, et al.. (2023). Estimating the effects of stressors on the health, survival and reproduction of a critically endangered, long‐lived species. Oikos. 2023(5). 18 indexed citations

Gillespie, Douglas, et al.. (2022). Comparison of the marine soundscape before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in dolphin habitat in Sarasota Bay, FL. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 152(6). 3170–3185. 3 indexed citations

Kainerstorfer, Jana M., Jörn M. Horschig, Katsufumi Sato, et al.. (2021). When the human brain goes diving: using near-infrared spectroscopy to measure cerebral and systemic cardiovascular responses to deep, breath-hold diving in elite freedivers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1831). 20200349–20200349. 22 indexed citations

García‐Párraga, Daniel, et al.. (2020). Effects of 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging exposure on the behavior and orientation of homing pigeons Columba livia domestica. PLoS ONE. 15(12). e0241280–e0241280.

Hoop, Julie van der, et al.. (2019). Foraging rates of ram‐filtering North Atlantic right whales. Functional Ecology. 33(7). 1290–1306. 34 indexed citations

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Tyack, Peter L. & Len Thomas. (2019). Using dose–response functions to improve calculations of the impact of anthropogenic noise. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 29(S1). 242–253. 13 indexed citations

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Sayigh, Laela S., et al.. (2016). The Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database: An online, freely accessible resource. Proceedings of meetings on acoustics. 40013–40013. 39 indexed citations

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Tyack, Peter L., et al.. (2016). Experimental field studies to measure behavioral responses of cetaceans to sonar. Endangered Species Research. 31. 293–315. 71 indexed citations

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Miller, Patrick J. O., Petter H. Kvadsheim, Frans‐Peter A. Lam, et al.. (2015). First indications that northern bottlenose whales are sensitive to behavioural disturbance from anthropogenic noise. Royal Society Open Science. 2(6). 140484–140484. 65 indexed citations

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Wiggins, Geraínt A., Peter L. Tyack, Constance Scharff, & Martin Rohrmeier. (2015). The evolutionary roots of creativity: mechanisms and motivations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 370(1664). 20140099–20140099. 34 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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Costa, Daniel P., Erica Fleishman, Mark A. Hindell, et al.. (2013). Using short-term measures of behaviour to estimate long-term fitness of southern elephant seals. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 496. 99–108. 139 indexed citations

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DiMarzio, Nancy, David Moretti, Jessica Ward, et al.. (2008). Passive Acoustic Measurement of Dive Vocal Behavior and Group Size of Blainville's Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) in the Tongue of the Ocean (TOTO). Canadian acoustics. 36(1). 166–172. 17 indexed citations

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Madsen, Peter T., et al.. (2008). Clicking for calamari: Toothed whales can echolocate squid. Aquatic Biology. 141–150. 1 indexed citations

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Ward, Jessica, Ronald Morrissey, David Moretti, et al.. (2008). Passive acoustic detection and localization of Mesoplodon densirostris (Blainville's beaked whale) vocalizations using distributed bottom-mounted hydrophones in conjunction with a Digital Tag (DTAG) recording. Canadian acoustics. 36(1). 60–66. 44 indexed citations

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Waal, Frans Β. Μ. de & Peter L. Tyack. (2003). Animal Social Complexity. Harvard University Press eBooks. 318 indexed citations

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