Richard Winterbottom

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Richard Winterbottom is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Winterbottom has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 55 papers in Aquatic Science and 35 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Richard Winterbottom's work include Ichthyology and Marine Biology (74 papers), Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (54 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (26 papers). Richard Winterbottom is often cited by papers focused on Ichthyology and Marine Biology (74 papers), Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (54 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (26 papers). Richard Winterbottom collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. Richard Winterbottom's co-authors include Alan R. Emery, Mary Burridge, Francesco Santini, James C. Tyler, Deborah A. McLennan, Marit Christensen, David W. Greenfield, Robert C. Anderson, Antony S. Harold and Robert Hanner and has published in prestigious journals such as Evolution, Marine Ecology Progress Series and Journal of Biogeography.

In The Last Decade

Richard Winterbottom

88 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

A descriptive synonymy of the striated muscles of the tel... 1974 2026 1991 2008 1974 1980 100 200 300 400
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. A descriptive synonymy of the striated muscles of the teleostei
    1974 462 citations Richard Winterbottom profile →
  2. Annals Of The South African Museum 83 (1) 1980
    1980 225 citations Richard Winterbottom et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Winterbottom Canada 21 1.3k 628 587 383 341 93 1.8k
James C. Tyler United States 19 1.1k 0.8× 444 0.7× 335 0.6× 478 1.2× 254 0.7× 74 1.4k
Theodore W. Pietsch United States 27 1.3k 1.0× 701 1.1× 520 0.9× 252 0.7× 495 1.5× 134 2.1k
William N. Eschmeyer United States 12 1.4k 1.1× 889 1.4× 822 1.4× 281 0.7× 440 1.3× 37 2.5k
Terry Grande United States 11 1.2k 0.9× 707 1.1× 442 0.8× 235 0.6× 505 1.5× 23 1.8k
Lance Grande United States 32 2.4k 1.8× 919 1.5× 424 0.7× 1.6k 4.2× 317 0.9× 74 3.2k
Prosanta Chakrabarty United States 25 1.6k 1.2× 953 1.5× 623 1.1× 498 1.3× 569 1.7× 102 2.6k
Teruya Uyeno Japan 18 1.1k 0.8× 644 1.0× 428 0.7× 125 0.3× 396 1.2× 43 1.7k
Hans‐Peter Schultze United States 28 1.7k 1.3× 461 0.7× 195 0.3× 1.7k 4.5× 227 0.7× 91 2.6k
P. H. Greenwood United Kingdom 22 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.8× 1.0k 1.7× 208 0.5× 163 0.5× 58 2.1k
Shelton P. Applegate Mexico 10 895 0.7× 519 0.8× 240 0.4× 376 1.0× 158 0.5× 23 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Winterbottom

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Winterbottom

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Winterbottom, Richard & Richard L. Pyle. (2022). A new species of Trimma (Pisces: Gobiidae) from the deep reefs of Palau, western Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa. 5094(4). 595–600. 3 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard. (2021). A new species of Trimma (Pisces: Gobiidae) from western Thailand, north-eastern Indian Ocean. Zootaxa. 4915(2). zootaxa.4915.2.6–zootaxa.4915.2.6. 1 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard. (2020). A new species of Trimma (Pisces: Gobiidae) from the northern Palauan Islands, western Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa. 4808(3). zootaxa.4808.3.12–zootaxa.4808.3.12. 1 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard & Mark V. Erdmann. (2018). Two new species of blue-eyed Trimma (Pisces; Gobiidae) from New Guinea. Zootaxa. 4444(4). 471–483. 1 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard. (2017). Two new species of Trimma (Pisces; Gobiidae) from Fiji, south-western Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa. 4269(4). 559–570. 1 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard & Mark V. Erdmann. (2015). New species of Trimma (Actinopterygii, Gobiidae) from Indonesia, with comments on head papillae nomenclature. Zootaxa. 3973(2). 201–26. 6 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard, et al.. (2014). A cornucopia of cryptic species - a DNA barcode analysis of the gobiid fish genus Trimma (Percomorpha, Gobiiformes). ZooKeys. 381(381). 79–111. 51 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard, Mark V. Erdmann, & Ni Kadek Dita Cahyani. (2014). Trimma helenae (Pisces; Gobioidei), a new species of gobiid fish from Indonesia. Zootaxa. 3760(3). 420–8. 1 indexed citations
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Greenfield, David W. & Richard Winterbottom. (2012). Two new dwarfgobies from the Southwestern Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota). Zootaxa. 3572(1). 4 indexed citations
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Harold, Antony S., Richard Winterbottom, Philip L. Munday, & Robert Chapman. (2008). Phylogenetic relationships of Indo-Pacific coral gobies of the genus Gobiodon (Teleostei: Gobiidae), based on morphological and molecular data. Bulletin of Marine Science. 82(1). 119–136. 15 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard, et al.. (2008). Short lifespan and high mortality in the western Pacific coral reef goby Trimma nasa. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 366. 203–208. 21 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard. (1992). Evolution of Naso thynnoides and the status of N. minor (Acanthuridae: Actinopterygii). Japanese Journal of Ichthyology. 38(4). 375–378. 1 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard, Alan R. Emery, & Erling Holm. (1989). An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 29 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard & Alan R. Emery. (1985). Review of the gobioid fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 22 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard. (1980). Systematics, osteology and the phylogenetic relationships of fishes of the Ostariophysan subfamily Anostominae (Characoidei, Anostominae). Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 26 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard. (1974). A new species of anostomid characoid fish, Anostomus spiloclistron, from the Nickerie river system of western Surinam (Pisces, Cypriniformes, Anostomidae). Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 21(283). 153–163. 3 indexed citations
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Winterbottom, Richard. (1974). A descriptive synonymy of the striated muscles of the teleostei. 125. 225–317. 462 indexed citations breakdown →

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