Rebecca Weeks

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Rebecca Weeks is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Rebecca Weeks has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Ecology, 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Rebecca Weeks's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (31 papers), Marine and fisheries research (21 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (10 papers). Rebecca Weeks is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (31 papers), Marine and fisheries research (21 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (10 papers). Rebecca Weeks collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Rebecca Weeks's co-authors include Robert L. Pressey, Stacy D. Jupiter, Alan T. White, Rafael A. Magris, Natalie C. Ban, Morena Mills, Garry R. Russ, Angel C. Alcala, Georgina G. Gurney and Alison L. Green and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Conservation Biology and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Rebecca Weeks

44 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Coral reef conservation in the Anthropocene: Confronting spatial mismatches and prioritizing functions

2019 202 citations David R. Bellwood, Morgan S. Pratchett et al. Biological Conservation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rebecca Weeks Australia	26	1.8k	1.5k	628	450	377	45	2.4k
Amelia Wenger Australia	28	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	421 0.7×	436 1.0×	556 1.5×	51	2.6k
Vivitskaia Tulloch Australia	26	1.4k 0.7×	928 0.6×	386 0.6×	434 1.0×	336 0.9×	51	2.0k
Tundi Agardy United States	22	2.2k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 2.0×	462 1.0×	296 0.8×	44	2.9k
Octavio Aburto‐Oropeza United States	32	2.8k 1.5×	2.2k 1.5×	616 1.0×	707 1.6×	755 2.0×	105	3.7k
Jorge G. Álvarez‐Romero Australia	23	1.2k 0.7×	996 0.7×	426 0.7×	430 1.0×	244 0.6×	43	1.8k
Gabriel Reygondeau Canada	35	2.0k 1.1×	2.2k 1.5×	567 0.9×	1.2k 2.7×	418 1.1×	70	3.7k
Cameron H. Ainsworth United States	26	1.5k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	330 0.5×	515 1.1×	552 1.5×	75	2.6k
Richard Kenchington Australia	21	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	901 1.4×	656 1.5×	219 0.6×	58	2.4k
Jon Day Australia	25	2.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	1.6k 2.6×	482 1.1×	312 0.8×	71	3.2k
Carlos F. Gaymer Chile	27	1.2k 0.7×	992 0.7×	415 0.7×	721 1.6×	194 0.5×	73	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Rebecca Weeks

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rebecca Weeks

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rebecca Weeks

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pienkowski, Thomas, Arundhati Jagadish, Carla L. Archibald, et al.. (2024). Forecasting adoption with epidemiological models can enable adaptively scaling out conservation. One Earth. 7(10). 1820–1832. 3 indexed citations

Cork, Steven J., Jorge G. Álvarez‐Romero, Elena M. Bennett, et al.. (2023). Exploring Alternative Futures in the Anthropocene. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 48(1). 25–54. 31 indexed citations

Cheok, Jessica, Rebecca Weeks, Tiffany H. Morrison, & Robert L. Pressey. (2020). Scalar capital as ingredient of success in conservation governance: evidence from Melanesia. Global Environmental Change. 62. 102057–102057. 4 indexed citations

Weeks, Rebecca, et al.. (2020). The relative conservation impact of strategies that prioritize biodiversity representation, threats, and protection costs. Conservation Science and Practice. 2(8). 12 indexed citations

Weeks, Rebecca, Robert L. Pressey, Aaron J. Adams, et al.. (2020). Habitat-dependent outdoor recreation and conservation organizations can enable recreational fishers to contribute to conservation of coastal marine ecosystems. Global Ecology and Conservation. 24. e01342–e01342. 18 indexed citations

Bode, Michael, et al.. (2019). The context dependence of frontier versus wilderness conservation priorities. Conservation Letters. 12(3). 20 indexed citations

Bellwood, David R., Morgan S. Pratchett, Tiffany H. Morrison, et al.. (2019). Coral reef conservation in the Anthropocene: Confronting spatial mismatches and prioritizing functions. Biological Conservation. 236. 604–615. 202 indexed citations breakdown →

Weeks, Rebecca, P. S. Anderson, Keith Davidson, & David McKee. (2018). The Use of a Quadcopter-Mounted Hyper-Spectral Spectrometer for Examining Reflectance in Scottish Coastal Waters. 8826–8829. 1 indexed citations

Adams, Vanessa M., Morena Mills, Rebecca Weeks, et al.. (2018). Implementation strategies for systematic conservation planning. AMBIO. 48(2). 139–152. 54 indexed citations

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Diedrich, Amy, et al.. (2018). A Systematic Review of the Socioeconomic Factors that Influence How Marine Protected Areas Impact on Ecosystems and Livelihoods. Society & Natural Resources. 32(1). 4–20. 36 indexed citations

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Weeks, Rebecca. (2017). Incorporating seascape connectivity in conservation prioritisation. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0182396–e0182396. 65 indexed citations

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Cheok, Jessica, Robert L. Pressey, Rebecca Weeks, Jeremy VanDerWal, & Collin Storlie. (2017). The plans they are a‐changin’: More frequent iterative adjustment of regional priorities in the transition to local actions can benefit implementation. Diversity and Distributions. 24(1). 48–57. 5 indexed citations

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Weeks, Rebecca & Vanessa M. Adams. (2017). Research priorities for conservation and natural resource management in Oceania's small‐island developing states. Conservation Biology. 32(1). 72–83. 16 indexed citations

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Goetze, Jordan S., Joachim Claudet, Fraser A. Januchowski‐Hartley, et al.. (2017). Demonstrating multiple benefits from periodically harvested fisheries closures. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(3). 1102–1113. 24 indexed citations

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Cheok, Jessica, Robert L. Pressey, Rebecca Weeks, Serge Andréfouët, & James Moloney. (2016). Sympathy for the Devil: Detailing the Effects of Planning-Unit Size, Thematic Resolution of Reef Classes, and Socioeconomic Costs on Spatial Priorities for Marine Conservation. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0164869–e0164869. 25 indexed citations

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Bode, Michael, David H. Williamson, Rebecca Weeks, et al.. (2016). Planning Marine Reserve Networks for Both Feature Representation and Demographic Persistence Using Connectivity Patterns. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0154272–e0154272. 16 indexed citations

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Jupiter, Stacy D., Philippa J. Cohen, Rebecca Weeks, Alifereti Tawake, & Hugh Govan. (2014). Locally-managed marine areas: multiple objectives and diverse strategies. Pacific Conservation Biology. 20(2). 165–179. 166 indexed citations

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Weeks, Rebecca, Garry R. Russ, Abner A. Bucol, & Angel C. Alcala. (2010). Incorporating local tenure in the systematic design of marine protected area networks. Conservation Letters. 3(6). 445–453. 42 indexed citations

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Weeks, Rebecca, Garry R. Russ, Abner A. Bucol, & Angel C. Alcala. (2010). Shortcuts for marine conservation planning: The effectiveness of socioeconomic data surrogates. Biological Conservation. 143(5). 1236–1244. 51 indexed citations

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Weeks, Rebecca, Garry R. Russ, Angel C. Alcala, & Alan T. White. (2009). Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas in the Philippines for Biodiversity Conservation. Conservation Biology. 24(2). 531–540. 147 indexed citations

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