Sean D. Connell

18.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
258 papers, 13.4k citations indexed

About

Sean D. Connell is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean D. Connell has authored 258 papers receiving a total of 13.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Oceanography, 145 papers in Ecology and 107 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Sean D. Connell's work include Marine and coastal plant biology (109 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (82 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (80 papers). Sean D. Connell is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal plant biology (109 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (82 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (80 papers). Sean D. Connell collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Hong Kong. Sean D. Connell's co-authors include Bayden D. Russell, Tim M. Glasby, Ivan Nagelkerken, Andrew D. Irving, Thomas Wernberg, Jonathan Y.S. Leung, Bronwyn M. Gillanders, Laura J. Falkenberg, Giulia Ghedini and M.G. Chapman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Sean D. Connell

254 papers receiving 12.8k 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.

Global regime shift dynamics of catastrophic sea urchin overgrazing

2014 402 citations SD Ling, Robert E. Scheibling et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
The ‘Great Southern Reef’: social, ecological and economic value of Australia’s neglected kelp forests

2015 309 citations Sean D. Connell, Craig R. Johnson et al. Marine and Freshwater Research profile →
Is Ocean Acidification Really a Threat to Marine Calcifiers? A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis of 980+ Studies Spanning Two Decades

2022 138 citations Jonathan Y.S. Leung, Sean D. Connell et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean D. Connell Australia	64	9.3k	8.3k	5.7k	1.2k	844	258	13.4k
Stephen J. Hawkins United Kingdom	66	9.9k 1.1×	9.2k 1.1×	6.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.6×	1.4k 1.7×	265	15.8k
Simon F. Thrush New Zealand	68	9.4k 1.0×	9.0k 1.1×	7.8k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	999 1.2×	310	15.0k
Susan L. Williams United States	44	9.7k 1.0×	10.2k 1.2×	5.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.5×	1.1k 1.3×	105	16.1k
Paul K. Dayton United States	47	7.4k 0.8×	8.0k 1.0×	6.4k 1.1×	1.9k 1.7×	991 1.2×	84	13.1k
Jason M. Hall‐Spencer United Kingdom	59	8.2k 0.9×	6.3k 0.8×	5.6k 1.0×	480 0.4×	692 0.8×	212	11.9k
Laura Airoldi Italy	52	5.9k 0.6×	6.5k 0.8×	4.2k 0.7×	653 0.6×	1.5k 1.8×	116	10.2k
Magda Vincx Belgium	56	8.2k 0.9×	7.6k 0.9×	3.7k 0.7×	717 0.6×	573 0.7×	366	11.4k
A. Randall Hughes United States	32	7.8k 0.8×	8.5k 1.0×	3.7k 0.6×	1.5k 1.3×	913 1.1×	102	12.6k
Andrew H. Baird Australia	56	7.6k 0.8×	13.3k 1.6×	8.5k 1.5×	1.9k 1.7×	913 1.1×	190	15.0k
Christopher D. G. Harley Canada	44	6.1k 0.7×	6.2k 0.8×	4.7k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	369 0.4×	104	10.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean D. Connell

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Leung, Jonathan Y.S., et al.. (2025). Morphological adjustments enable sea urchins to sustain calcified structure function under ocean acidification. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2059). 20251893–20251893.

Connell, Sean D., et al.. (2025). Comparing the writing styles of highly and rarely cited papers in conservation biology. Biological Conservation. 307. 111125–111125. 1 indexed citations

Lowther, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Animal-borne video highlights diverse prey capture tactics and habitat use in the Australian sea lion. Animal Behaviour. 222. 123108–123108. 1 indexed citations

Payenberg, Tobias H. D., Brian J. Willis, Sean D. Connell, et al.. (2024). Quantification and classification of a giant fluvial-distributive system - the Triassic Mungaroo Formation, NWS, Australia. Earth-Science Reviews. 249. 104676–104676. 2 indexed citations

Dawson, B., Evangeline Mantzioris, Sean D. Connell, et al.. (2024). Fish by-products as reliable proxies to evaluate nutritional fatty acid contents in commercial fish fillets. Food Chemistry. 466. 142223–142223.

Goldenberg, Silvan Urs, et al.. (2024). Can niche plasticity mediate species persistence under ocean acidification?. Journal of Animal Ecology. 93(9). 1380–1391. 2 indexed citations

Ferreira, Camilo M., Sean D. Connell, Silvan Urs Goldenberg, Jonathan Y.S. Leung, & Ivan Nagelkerken. (2024). Resource homogenisation drives niche convergence between generalists and specialists in a future ocean. The Science of The Total Environment. 958. 177862–177862. 2 indexed citations

Nagelkerken, Ivan, Silvan Urs Goldenberg, Camilo M. Ferreira, Hadayet Ullah, & Sean D. Connell. (2020). Trophic pyramids reorganize when food web architecture fails to adjust to ocean change. Science. 369(6505). 829–832. 76 indexed citations

Doubleday, Zoë A. & Sean D. Connell. (2020). Shining a Brighter Light on Solution Science in Ecology. One Earth. 2(1). 16–19. 10 indexed citations

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Connell, Sean D., Christopher E. Cornwall, Kim Currie, et al.. (2019). A unique temperate rocky coastal hydrothermal vent system (Whakaari–White Island, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand): constraints for ocean acidification studies. Marine and Freshwater Research. 71(3). 321–344. 12 indexed citations

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Leung, Jonathan Y.S., Bayden D. Russell, & Sean D. Connell. (2019). Adaptive Responses of Marine Gastropods to Heatwaves. One Earth. 1(3). 374–381. 84 indexed citations

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Connell, Sean D., Zoë A. Doubleday, Christopher D. G. Harley, et al.. (2018). The duality of ocean acidification as a resource and a stressor. Ecology. 99(5). 1005–1010. 52 indexed citations

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Davis, Kay L., Melinda A. Coleman, Sean D. Connell, et al.. (2017). Ecological performance of construction materials subject to ocean climate change. Marine Environmental Research. 131. 177–182. 23 indexed citations

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Pandit, Jay, et al.. (2016). Abstract 12960: Differential Pulse Arrival Time: A Novel Approach to Continuous Cuff-less Blood Pressure Monitoring. Circulation. 134(suppl_1). 1 indexed citations

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Nagelkerken, Ivan & Sean D. Connell. (2015). Global alteration of ocean ecosystem functioning due to increasing human CO ₂ emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(43). 13272–13277. 219 indexed citations

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Ling, SD, Robert E. Scheibling, Andrew Rassweiler, et al.. (2014). Global regime shift dynamics of catastrophic sea urchin overgrazing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 370(1659). 20130269–20130269. 402 indexed citations breakdown →

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Connell, Sean D., MS Foster, & Laura Airoldi. (2013). What are algal turfs? Towards a better description of turfs. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 495. 299–307. 238 indexed citations

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Connell, Sean D. & Bayden D. Russell. (2010). The direct effects of increasing CO ₂ and temperature on non-calcifying organisms: increasing the potential for phase shifts in kelp forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 277(1686). 1409–1415. 262 indexed citations

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Glasby, Tim M. & Sean D. Connell. (1999). Urban structures as marine habitats. AMBIO. 28(7). 595–598. 146 indexed citations

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Connell, Sean D.. (1998). Effects of predators on growth, mortality and abundance of a juvenile reef-fish:evidence from manipulations of predator and prey abundance. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 169. 251–261. 49 indexed citations

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