Shawn Gerrity

564 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 433 citations indexed

About

Shawn Gerrity is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Shawn Gerrity has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 433 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Oceanography, 7 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Shawn Gerrity's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (5 papers), Marine and fisheries research (5 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (5 papers). Shawn Gerrity is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (5 papers), Marine and fisheries research (5 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (5 papers). Shawn Gerrity collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Australia and United States. Shawn Gerrity's co-authors include David R. Schiel, Tommaso Alestra, Mads S. Thomsen, Leigh W. Tait, Stacie A. Lilley, Paul M. South, Luca Mondardini, Colin Jones, Peter Ruggiero and Phoebe L. Zarnetske and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Marine Ecology Progress Series and Oikos.

In The Last Decade

Shawn Gerrity

11 papers receiving 424 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.

Local Extinction of Bull Kelp (Durvillaea spp.) Due to a Marine Heatwave

2019 223 citations Mads S. Thomsen, Luca Mondardini et al. Frontiers in Marine Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shawn Gerrity New Zealand	7	276	264	127	73	45	12	433
Marlous Derksen‐Hooijberg Netherlands	8	203 0.7×	320 1.2×	119 0.9×	59 0.8×	30 0.7×	9	401
Julianna J. Renzi United States	9	139 0.5×	288 1.1×	134 1.1×	81 1.1×	19 0.4×	12	376
Sinéad M. Crotty United States	13	115 0.4×	320 1.2×	78 0.6×	126 1.7×	64 1.4×	18	391
Eric Van Dyke United States	5	113 0.4×	239 0.9×	98 0.8×	57 0.8×	35 0.8×	6	312
Renee K. Gruber Australia	11	400 1.4×	394 1.5×	90 0.7×	74 1.0×	34 0.8×	18	515
Alexander J. Forde United States	2	108 0.4×	369 1.4×	85 0.7×	117 1.6×	57 1.3×	3	423
D.C.R. Hermus Netherlands	6	483 1.8×	457 1.7×	100 0.8×	80 1.1×	18 0.4×	8	576
Eunice H. Pinn United Kingdom	14	207 0.8×	308 1.2×	172 1.4×	23 0.3×	29 0.6×	32	453
Sander Holthuijsen Netherlands	13	366 1.3×	461 1.7×	328 2.6×	55 0.8×	37 0.8×	29	657
Drew M. Talley United States	10	125 0.5×	230 0.9×	102 0.8×	27 0.4×	22 0.5×	14	345

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shawn Gerrity

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shawn Gerrity. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shawn Gerrity 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 Shawn Gerrity. Shawn Gerrity is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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12 of 12 papers shown

Gerrity, Shawn, et al.. (2025). Recreational fishing effects on New Zealand abalone (pāua, Haliotis iris) after five years of fishery closure: a matrix-based approach. Marine Environmental Research. 210. 107276–107276.

Gerrity, Shawn & David R. Schiel. (2024). Assessing methods of enhancement for New Zealand blackfoot abalone ( Haliotis iris ) populations affected by mass mortality. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 59(1). 235–262. 1 indexed citations

Mangan, Stephanie, Leigh W. Tait, Shawn Gerrity, & David R. Schiel. (2023). Loss and replacement of macroalgal standing stock and productivity after a major environmental disturbance. Ecosphere. 14(10). 4 indexed citations

Schiel, David R., Shawn Gerrity, & Shane Orchard. (2023). Allocations, quota and abalone fishery management: the Tragedy of the commons revisited. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 59(1). 61–78. 2 indexed citations

Orchard, Shane, Shawn Gerrity, & David R. Schiel. (2023). Re-thinking recreational fishing – how a natural disaster presents insights and opportunities for achieving sustainability and equity objectives. Marine Policy. 159. 105916–105916. 3 indexed citations

Schiel, David R., Shawn Gerrity, Shane Orchard, et al.. (2021). Cataclysmic Disturbances to an Intertidal Ecosystem: Loss of Ecological Infrastructure Slows Recovery of Biogenic Habitats and Diversity. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9. 17 indexed citations

Orchard, Shane, et al.. (2021). Threshold Effects of Relative Sea-Level Change in Intertidal Ecosystems: Empirical Evidence from Earthquake-Induced Uplift on a Rocky Coast. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 302–320. 12 indexed citations

Thomsen, Mads S., et al.. (2020). Earthquake-driven destruction of an intertidal habitat cascade. Aquatic Botany. 164. 103217–103217. 12 indexed citations

Gerrity, Shawn, et al.. (2020). Earthquake effects on abalone habitats and populations in southern New Zealand. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 656. 153–161. 9 indexed citations

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Schiel, David R., Tommaso Alestra, Shawn Gerrity, et al.. (2019). The Kaikōura earthquake in southern New Zealand: Loss of connectivity of marine communities and the necessity of a cross‐ecosystem perspective. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 29(9). 1520–1534. 39 indexed citations

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Thomsen, Mads S., Luca Mondardini, Tommaso Alestra, et al.. (2019). Local Extinction of Bull Kelp (Durvillaea spp.) Due to a Marine Heatwave. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. 223 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hacker, Sally D., Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Eric W. Seabloom, et al.. (2011). Subtle differences in two non‐native congeneric beach grasses significantly affect their colonization, spread, and impact. Oikos. 121(1). 138–148. 111 indexed citations

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