Ruth Reef

7.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
72 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Ruth Reef is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Reef has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Ecology, 20 papers in Oceanography and 19 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ruth Reef's work include Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (51 papers), Coastal and Marine Dynamics (17 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (15 papers). Ruth Reef is often cited by papers focused on Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (51 papers), Coastal and Marine Dynamics (17 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (15 papers). Ruth Reef collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Ruth Reef's co-authors include Catherine E. Lovelock, Ilka C. Feller, Donald R. Cahoon, Ken W. Krauss, Neil Saintilan, María Fernanda Adame, Mark Schuerch, Robert J. Nicholls, Sally Brown and Daniël Lincke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Reef

69 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

Future response of global coastal wetlands ... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2018 2015 2013 2010 2016 200 400 600
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. Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise
    2018 706 citations Mark Schuerch, Thomas Spencer et al. Nature profile →
  2. The vulnerability of Indo-Pacific mangrove forests to sea-level rise
    2015 616 citations Catherine E. Lovelock, Donald R. Cahoon et al. Nature profile →
  3. How mangrove forests adjust to rising sea level
    2013 503 citations Ken W. Krauss, Karen L. McKee et al. New Phytologist profile →
  4. Nutrition of mangroves
    2010 462 citations Ruth Reef, Ilka C. Feller et al. Tree Physiology profile →
  5. Global coastal wetland change under sea-level rise and related stresses: The DIVA Wetland Change Model
    2016 269 citations Mark Schuerch, Robert J. Nicholls 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
Ruth Reef Australia 32 4.2k 1.6k 1.1k 975 892 72 5.1k
Víctor H. Rivera‐Monroy United States 40 4.7k 1.1× 1.6k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 783 0.9× 99 5.8k
Kerrylee Rogers Australia 39 5.4k 1.3× 2.6k 1.6× 1.5k 1.3× 1.1k 1.1× 533 0.6× 120 6.5k
Michael J. Osland United States 32 3.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 796 0.7× 708 0.7× 421 0.5× 69 3.6k
Neil Saintilan Australia 45 6.4k 1.5× 2.5k 1.5× 1.9k 1.7× 1.2k 1.2× 666 0.7× 181 7.5k
Ilka C. Feller United States 48 7.0k 1.7× 2.0k 1.2× 1.3k 1.1× 1.7k 1.7× 2.1k 2.4× 127 8.0k
Thomas J. Smith United States 24 2.9k 0.7× 855 0.5× 562 0.5× 687 0.7× 565 0.6× 36 3.3k
Jeffrey J. Kelleway Australia 25 3.1k 0.8× 932 0.6× 686 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 245 0.3× 52 3.6k
Ken W. Krauss United States 50 8.1k 1.9× 3.2k 1.9× 1.9k 1.7× 1.4k 1.4× 1.6k 1.8× 164 9.3k
Karen Diele United Kingdom 23 2.9k 0.7× 508 0.3× 917 0.8× 697 0.7× 409 0.5× 65 3.4k
Janine B. Adams South Africa 40 3.5k 0.8× 829 0.5× 1.5k 1.4× 1.9k 2.0× 424 0.5× 223 5.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ruth Reef

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruth Reef

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Reef, Ruth, et al.. (2025). Wave Attenuation by Australian Temperate Mangroves. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 13(2). 382–382.
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Lovelock, Catherine E., et al.. (2025). Dynamics of surface accretion and surface elevation differ between river and tide dominated settings in tropical mangroves. Limnology and Oceanography. 70(5). 1424–1437. 1 indexed citations
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Reef, Ruth, et al.. (2024). Forest zone and root compartments outweigh long-term nutrient enrichment in structuring arid mangrove root microbiomes. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 7. 3 indexed citations
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Hendy, Ian, Michael S. Watt, Ruth Reef, et al.. (2024). Current Status of Remote Sensing for Studying the Impacts of Hurricanes on Mangrove Forests in the Coastal United States. Remote Sensing. 16(19). 3596–3596. 9 indexed citations
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Tran, Thuong V., Ruth Reef, Xuan Zhu, & Andrew Gunn. (2024). Characterising the distribution of mangroves along the southern coast of Vietnam using multi-spectral indices and a deep learning model. The Science of The Total Environment. 923. 171367–171367. 18 indexed citations
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Carvalho, Rafael C., et al.. (2023). Morphological evolution of a complex drift‐aligned prograded barrier. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 49(2). 728–745.
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Krauss, Ken W., Catherine E. Lovelock, Luzhen Chen, et al.. (2022). Mangroves provide blue carbon ecological value at a low freshwater cost. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 17636–17636. 20 indexed citations
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Tran, Thuong V., Ruth Reef, & Xuan Zhu. (2022). A Review of Spectral Indices for Mangrove Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing. 14(19). 4868–4868. 102 indexed citations
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Lane, Ruth, et al.. (2021). Coastal wetland management in the Great Barrier Reef: Farmer perceptions. Geographical Research. 59(4). 537–553. 7 indexed citations
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Hague, Ben S., Shayne McGregor, Bradley F. Murphy, Ruth Reef, & David Jones. (2020). Sea Level Rise Driving Increasingly Predictable Coastal Inundation in Sydney, Australia. Earth s Future. 8(9). 32 indexed citations
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Xu, Cailin, Vanessa Wong, & Ruth Reef. (2020). Effect of inundation on greenhouse gas emissions from temperate coastal wetland soils with different vegetation types in southern Australia. The Science of The Total Environment. 763. 142949–142949. 35 indexed citations
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Schuerch, Mark, Thomas Spencer, Stijn Temmerman, et al.. (2018). Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise. Nature. 561(7722). 231–234. 706 indexed citations breakdown →
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Adame, María Fernanda, Sam Cherian, Ruth Reef, & Ben Stewart‐Koster. (2017). Mangrove root biomass and the uncertainty of belowground carbon estimations. Forest Ecology and Management. 403. 52–60. 97 indexed citations
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Reef, Ruth, Martijn Slot, Uzi Motro, et al.. (2016). The effects of CO2 and nutrient fertilisation on the growth and temperature response of the mangrove Avicennia germinans. Photosynthesis Research. 129(2). 159–170. 39 indexed citations
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Lovelock, Catherine E., Donald R. Cahoon, Daniel A. Friess, et al.. (2015). The vulnerability of Indo-Pacific mangrove forests to sea-level rise. Nature. 526(7574). 559–563. 616 indexed citations breakdown →
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Krauss, Ken W., Karen L. McKee, Catherine E. Lovelock, et al.. (2013). How mangrove forests adjust to rising sea level. New Phytologist. 202(1). 19–34. 503 indexed citations breakdown →
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Reef, Ruth, Ilka C. Feller, & Catherine E. Lovelock. (2010). Nutrition of mangroves. Tree Physiology. 30(9). 1148–1160. 462 indexed citations breakdown →

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