Ranjan Muthukrishnan

814 total citations
26 papers, 332 citations indexed

About

Ranjan Muthukrishnan is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Ranjan Muthukrishnan has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 332 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 9 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Ranjan Muthukrishnan's work include Marine and coastal plant biology (8 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (7 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers). Ranjan Muthukrishnan is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal plant biology (8 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (7 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers). Ranjan Muthukrishnan collaborates with scholars based in United States, U.S. Virgin Islands and Australia. Ranjan Muthukrishnan's co-authors include Daniel J. Larkin, Peggy Fong, James D. Forester, Peter B. Reich, Rebecca Montgomery, Adrian D. Hegeman, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, Adam S. Davis, Peggy Fong and Shannon E. Pittman and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Global Change Biology and Ecology Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ranjan Muthukrishnan

24 papers receiving 326 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ranjan Muthukrishnan United States 10 182 88 79 78 68 26 332
Sumit Homechaudhuri India 11 140 0.8× 25 0.3× 76 1.0× 146 1.9× 22 0.3× 69 469
Bertrand Jacquemin France 8 149 0.8× 152 1.7× 107 1.4× 72 0.9× 54 0.8× 10 360
Sarah R. Carrino‐Kyker United States 11 112 0.6× 18 0.2× 25 0.3× 88 1.1× 227 3.3× 30 386
Martha S. Calderón Peru 11 128 0.7× 168 1.9× 21 0.3× 18 0.2× 52 0.8× 42 338
G. Martin South Africa 13 167 0.9× 13 0.1× 43 0.5× 154 2.0× 151 2.2× 59 499
Sandra A. Moody United Kingdom 7 117 0.6× 25 0.3× 27 0.3× 15 0.2× 178 2.6× 8 380
Sarah R. Bray United States 6 165 0.9× 6 0.1× 48 0.6× 142 1.8× 159 2.3× 8 394
Selim Z. Heneidy Egypt 11 57 0.3× 10 0.1× 42 0.5× 62 0.8× 157 2.3× 23 335
Huijie Gan United States 10 160 0.9× 6 0.1× 22 0.3× 42 0.5× 128 1.9× 14 341
O. Anas United States 8 111 0.6× 36 0.4× 13 0.2× 28 0.4× 268 3.9× 10 359

Countries citing papers authored by Ranjan Muthukrishnan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ranjan Muthukrishnan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ranjan Muthukrishnan. 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 Ranjan Muthukrishnan. The network helps show where Ranjan Muthukrishnan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ranjan Muthukrishnan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ranjan Muthukrishnan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ranjan Muthukrishnan 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 Ranjan Muthukrishnan. Ranjan Muthukrishnan 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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Muthukrishnan, Ranjan, Tara M. Smiley, Pascal O. Title, et al.. (2025). Chasing the Niche: Escaping Climate Change Threats in Place, Time, and Space. Global Change Biology. 31(4). e70167–e70167.
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Fong, Caitlin R., Tyler B. Smith, Ranjan Muthukrishnan, & Peggy Fong. (2023). A persistent green macroalgal mat shifts ecological functioning and composition of associated species on an Eastern Tropical Pacific coral reef. Marine Environmental Research. 188. 105952–105952. 1 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Abigail, et al.. (2022). Are lakes a public good or exclusive resource? Towards value-based management for aquatic invasive species. Environmental Science & Policy. 139. 130–138. 3 indexed citations
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Gill, Nathan S., Adam L. Mahood, Courtney L. Meier, et al.. (2021). Six central questions about biological invasions to which NEON data science is poised to contribute. Ecosphere. 12(9). 11 indexed citations
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Houser, Matthew, Abigail Sullivan, Tara M. Smiley, et al.. (2021). What fosters the success of a transdisciplinary environmental research institute? Reflections from an interdisciplinary research cohort. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 9(1). 4 indexed citations
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Muthukrishnan, Ranjan, et al.. (2020). Desiccation tolerance of the invasive alga starry stonewort (Nitellopsis obtusa) as an indicator of overland spread risk. Journal of Aquatic Plant Management. 58. 7–18. 6 indexed citations
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Muthukrishnan, Ranjan, et al.. (2020). Little giants: a rapidly invading seagrass alters ecosystem functioning relative to native foundation species. Marine Biology. 167(6). 14 indexed citations
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Muthukrishnan, Ranjan & Daniel J. Larkin. (2020). Invasive species and biotic homogenization in temperate aquatic plant communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(4). 656–667. 40 indexed citations
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Willette, Demian A., et al.. (2019). Growth and recovery after small-scale disturbance of a rapidly-expanding invasive seagrass in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 523. 151265–151265. 11 indexed citations
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Muthukrishnan, Ranjan, Adam S. Davis, Nicholas R. Jordan, & James D. Forester. (2018). Invasion complexity at large spatial scales is an emergent property of interactions among landscape characteristics and invader traits. PLoS ONE. 13(5). e0195892–e0195892. 9 indexed citations
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Muthukrishnan, Ranjan & Peggy Fong. (2018). Rapid recovery of a coral dominated Eastern Tropical Pacific reef after experimentally produced anthropogenic disturbance. Marine Environmental Research. 139. 79–86. 2 indexed citations
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Muthukrishnan, Ranjan, et al.. (2018). Prediction of starry stonewort (Nitellopsis obtusa) invasion risk in upper Midwest (USA) lakes using ecological niche models. Aquatic Botany. 151. 43–50. 8 indexed citations
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Muthukrishnan, Ranjan, et al.. (2018). Environmental filtering and competitive exclusion drive biodiversity‐invasibility relationships in shallow lake plant communities. Journal of Ecology. 106(5). 2058–2070. 30 indexed citations
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Muthukrishnan, Ranjan, et al.. (2017). Lack of Impacts during Early Establishment Highlights a Short-Term Management Window for Minimizing Invasions from Perennial Biomass Crops. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8. 767–767. 5 indexed citations
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Muthukrishnan, Ranjan, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, & Peggy Fong. (2016). Mechanisms of resilience: empirically quantified positive feedbacks produce alternate stable states dynamics in a model of a tropical reef. Journal of Ecology. 104(6). 1662–1672. 26 indexed citations
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Fong, Peggy, et al.. (2016). Size matters: experimental partitioning of the strength of fish herbivory on a fringing coral reef in Moorea, French Polynesia. Marine Ecology. 37(5). 933–942. 8 indexed citations
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Muthukrishnan, Ranjan & Peggy Fong. (2014). Multiple anthropogenic stressors exert complex, interactive effects on a coral reef community. Coral Reefs. 33(4). 911–921. 38 indexed citations

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