Rodrigo Beas‐Luna

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 799 citations indexed

About

Rodrigo Beas‐Luna is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Rodrigo Beas‐Luna has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 799 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Oceanography, 20 papers in Ecology and 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Rodrigo Beas‐Luna's work include Marine and coastal plant biology (26 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (11 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (10 papers). Rodrigo Beas‐Luna is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal plant biology (26 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (11 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (10 papers). Rodrigo Beas‐Luna collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, United States and Canada. Rodrigo Beas‐Luna's co-authors include Gabriela Montaño‐Moctezuma, Julio Lorda, Guillermo Torres‐Moye, Nur Arafeh‐Dalmau, David S. Schoeman, José Antonio Martínez, Kyle C. Cavanaugh, Tom W. Bell, Max C. N. Castorani and Daniel C. Reed and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rodrigo Beas‐Luna

33 papers receiving 785 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The value of ecosystem services in global marine kelp forests

2023 149 citations Aaron M. Eger, Ezequiel M. Marzinelli et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rodrigo Beas‐Luna Mexico	11	561	534	287	84	49	37	799
Eli Rinde Norway	19	882 1.6×	751 1.4×	311 1.1×	86 1.0×	45 0.9×	40	1.1k
Laura Tamburello Italy	20	574 1.0×	491 0.9×	281 1.0×	72 0.9×	42 0.9×	30	808
Steve Dudgeon United States	14	571 1.0×	451 0.8×	258 0.9×	44 0.5×	64 1.3×	24	795
Jan Freiwald United States	11	345 0.6×	491 0.9×	310 1.1×	50 0.6×	80 1.6×	18	665
Devin A. Lyons Canada	14	412 0.7×	345 0.6×	277 1.0×	37 0.4×	75 1.5×	21	629
Stuart Banks Ecuador	13	474 0.8×	682 1.3×	398 1.4×	47 0.6×	101 2.1×	22	846
Bradley T. Furman United States	17	528 0.9×	515 1.0×	227 0.8×	47 0.6×	29 0.6×	54	712
Francisco R. Barboza Germany	14	372 0.7×	335 0.6×	236 0.8×	31 0.4×	31 0.6×	38	598
Mireia Valle Spain	13	343 0.6×	360 0.7×	245 0.9×	89 1.1×	37 0.8×	21	588
Yang Amri Affendi Malaysia	13	574 1.0×	814 1.5×	433 1.5×	85 1.0×	70 1.4×	32	966

Countries citing papers authored by Rodrigo Beas‐Luna

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rodrigo Beas‐Luna

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rodrigo Beas‐Luna. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rodrigo Beas‐Luna 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 Rodrigo Beas‐Luna. Rodrigo Beas‐Luna 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

Cruz, Fabiola Lafarga‐De la, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of Candidatus Xenohaliotis californiensis (CXc) and its associated phage pCXc in black abalone of Baja California, Mexico. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 163. 25–38.

Ramírez‐Álvarez, Nancy, et al.. (2024). Kelp forest food webs as hot spots for the accumulation of microplastic and polybrominated diphenyl ether pollutants. Environmental Research. 257. 119299–119299. 5 indexed citations

Beas‐Luna, Rodrigo, Ricardo Searcy‐Bernal, Fiorenza Micheli, et al.. (2024). Growth of juvenile red abalone ( Haliotis rufescens ) co‐cultivated with two densities of warty sea cucumber ( Apostichopus parvimensis ). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 59(1). 183–197.

Malpica‐Cruz, Luis, et al.. (2024). Revealing genetic patterns across ecoregions in the northeastern Pacific of California and Baja California. Journal of Biogeography. 51(11). 2298–2311. 2 indexed citations

Beas‐Luna, Rodrigo, et al.. (2023). Growth and survival of juvenile red abalone ( Haliotis rufescens ) fed invasive macroalgae. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 59(1). 88–100. 2 indexed citations

Fenberg, Phillip B., Rodrigo Beas‐Luna, Boris Igić, et al.. (2023). Predator‐induced defences under tropicalisation: A biogeographic approach. Journal of Biogeography. 50(12). 2148–2159. 4 indexed citations

Eger, Aaron M., Ezequiel M. Marzinelli, Rodrigo Beas‐Luna, et al.. (2023). The value of ecosystem services in global marine kelp forests. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1894–1894. 149 indexed citations breakdown →

Dawson, Michael N, Lauren M. Schiebelhut, Rodrigo Beas‐Luna, et al.. (2023). A Decade of Death and Other Dynamics: Deepening Perspectives on the Diversity and Distribution of Sea Stars and Wasting. Biological Bulletin. 244(3). 143–163. 7 indexed citations

Ladah, Lydia B., Julio Lorda, Rodrigo Beas‐Luna, et al.. (2023). Small-scale spatiotemporal thermal regimes drive patterns of zooplankton abundance in a kelp forest. Continental Shelf Research. 257. 104957–104957. 2 indexed citations

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Sandoval‐Gil, Jose Miguel, et al.. (2023). Shading by giant kelp canopy can restrict the invasiveness of Undaria pinnatifida (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae). Journal of Phycology. 59(3). 552–569. 1 indexed citations

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Hoyos‐Padilla, Mauricio, Chugey A. Sepúlveda, Edgar E. Becerril‐García, et al.. (2021). An exploration of the population characteristics and behaviours of the white shark in Guadalupe Island, Mexico (2014–2019): Observational data from cage diving vessels. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 31(12). 3480–3491. 4 indexed citations

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Beas‐Luna, Rodrigo, et al.. (2021). Forecasting ocean acidification impacts on kelp forest ecosystems. PLoS ONE. 16(4). e0236218–e0236218. 10 indexed citations

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Malpica‐Cruz, Luis, Alicia Abadía‐Cardoso, Rodrigo Beas‐Luna, et al.. (2021). Empowering fishers for Great White Shark stewardship: Reply to Madigan et al. 2021. Conservation Letters. 14(4). 3 indexed citations

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Beas‐Luna, Rodrigo, Fiorenza Micheli, C. Brock Woodson, et al.. (2020). Geographic variation in responses of kelp forest communities of the California Current to recent climatic changes. Global Change Biology. 26(11). 6457–6473. 85 indexed citations

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Abadía‐Cardoso, Alicia, Mauricio Hoyos‐Padilla, Gavin J. P. Naylor, et al.. (2020). The Smallest Known Free-Living White Shark Carcharodon carcharias (Lamniformes: Lamnidae): Ecological and Management Implications. Copeia. 108(1). 39–39. 10 indexed citations

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Lonhart, Steve I., et al.. (2019). Shifts in the distribution and abundance of coastal marine species along the eastern Pacific Ocean during marine heatwaves from 2013 to 2018. Marine Biodiversity Records. 12(1). 64 indexed citations

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Arafeh‐Dalmau, Nur, Gabriela Montaño‐Moctezuma, José Antonio Martínez, et al.. (2019). Extreme Marine Heatwaves Alter Kelp Forest Community Near Its Equatorward Distribution Limit. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. 160 indexed citations

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Beas‐Luna, Rodrigo, Luis E. Calderón‐Aguilera, Lydia B. Ladah, et al.. (2018). A mass-balanced food web model for a kelp forest ecosystem near its southern distributional limit in the northern hemisphere. Food Webs. 17. e00091–e00091. 11 indexed citations

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Beas‐Luna, Rodrigo, Márk Novák, Mark H. Carr, et al.. (2014). An Online Database for Informing Ecological Network Models: http://kelpforest.ucsc.edu. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e109356–e109356. 13 indexed citations

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Beas‐Luna, Rodrigo & Lydia B. Ladah. (2014). Latitudinal, seasonal, and small-scale spatial differences of the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, and an herbivore at their southern range limit in the northern hemisphere. Botanica Marina. 57(2). 73–83. 12 indexed citations

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