Richard C. Brusca

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Richard C. Brusca is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard C. Brusca has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Ecology, 21 papers in Oceanography and 14 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Richard C. Brusca's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (16 papers), Cephalopods and Marine Biology (9 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (7 papers). Richard C. Brusca is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (16 papers), Cephalopods and Marine Biology (9 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (7 papers). Richard C. Brusca collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Australia. Richard C. Brusca's co-authors include William C. Banta, George D. F. Wilson, Marie A. Simovich, Thomas Orrell, Michael A. Ruggiero, Dennis P.‏ Gordon, Thomas Cavalier‐Smith, Michael D. Guiry, Paul M. Kirk and Thierry Bourgoin and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Global Change Biology and Earth-Science Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Richard C. Brusca

54 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America:... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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.

  1. Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures
    2021 157 citations Michael J. Osland, Philip W. Stevens et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers

Richard C. Brusca
Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla United States
Frederick W Schueler Canada
Vadim E. Panov Russia
Keiron P. P. Fraser United Kingdom
Raisa Nikula New Zealand
Juan Diego Gaitán‐Espitía Chile
Alejandro Bortolus Argentina
Richard R. Kirby United Kingdom
Eric Pante France
Fernando Álvarez Mexico
Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla United States
Richard C. Brusca
Citations per year, relative to Richard C. Brusca Richard C. Brusca (= 1×) peers Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard C. Brusca

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brusca, Richard C.. (2024). A personal reflection on changes in marine science education over the past sixty years. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 81(3). 413–425. 1 indexed citations
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Brusca, Richard C., Gonzalo Giribet, & Wendy Moore. (2022). Invertebrates. Oxford University Press eBooks. 18 indexed citations
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Osland, Michael J., Philip W. Stevens, Margaret M. Lamont, et al.. (2021). Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures. Global Change Biology. 27(13). 3009–3034. 157 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brusca, Richard C., et al.. (2020). The Making of a Marine Biologist: Ed Ricketts. 62(2). 335–372. 2 indexed citations
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Rojas‐Bracho, Lorenzo, Richard C. Brusca, S. Álvarez-Borrego, et al.. (2018). Unsubstantiated Claims Can Lead to Tragic Conservation Outcomes. BioScience. 69(1). 12–14. 11 indexed citations
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Ruggiero, Michael A., Dennis P.‏ Gordon, Thomas Orrell, et al.. (2015). A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0119248–e0119248. 312 indexed citations
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Meyer, Wallace M., Jeff A. Eble, Sandra L. Brantley, et al.. (2015). Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Communities of a Sky Island Mountain Range in Southeastern Arizona, USA: Obtaining a Baseline for Assessing the Effects of Climate Change. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0135210–e0135210. 19 indexed citations
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Brusca, Richard C., et al.. (2010). A Failure to Communicate: Did PrivacyLaws Contribute to the Virginia TechTragedy?. 17(1). 141.
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Brusca, Richard C.. (2002). Desert Ecology: An Introduction to Life in the Arid Southwest, by John Sowell. Natural resources journal. 42(3). 686. 1 indexed citations
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Brusca, Richard C. & James Weinberg. (1987). A new isopod crustacean from Pacific Panama, Excirolana chamensis new species (Isopoda: Flabellifera: Cirolanidae). Contributions in science. 392. 11–17. 6 indexed citations
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Brusca, Richard C.. (1983). Two new idoteid isopods from Baja California and the Gulf of California (Mexico) and an analysis of the evolutionary history the genus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Idotidae). Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 20. 69–79. 4 indexed citations
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Bruce, Niel L., et al.. (1982). THE STATUS OF THE ISOPOD FAMILIES CORALLANIDAE HANSEN, 1890, AND EXCORALLANIDAE STEBBING, 1904 (FLABELLIFERA). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 2(3). 464–468. 7 indexed citations
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Brusca, Richard C., et al.. (1982). Fish Predation: A Preliminary Study of its Role in the Zoogeography and Evolution of Shallow Water Idoteid Isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Idoteidae). Journal of Biogeography. 9(2). 135–135. 54 indexed citations
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Brusca, Richard C. & William C. Banta. (1980). Common intertidal invertebrates of the Gulf of California. University of Arizona Press eBooks. 307 indexed citations
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Brusca, Richard C.. (1977). Range Extensions and New Host Records of Cymothoid Isopods (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Occidental College Scholar (Occidental College). 76(2). 128–131. 9 indexed citations
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Brusca, Richard C., et al.. (1977). The marine isopod crustacea of the Gulf of California. 1, Family Idoteidae. American Museum novitates ; no. 2634. American Museum Novitates. 6 indexed citations
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Brusca, Richard C. & Janet Haig. (1972). Range Extensions of Porcelain and Hermit Crabs in the Gulf of California. Occidental College Scholar (Occidental College). 71(1). 56–56. 2 indexed citations

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