Sheena Talma

870 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 228 citations indexed

About

Sheena Talma is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Sheena Talma has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 228 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Ecology, 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Sheena Talma's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (9 papers), Coastal and Marine Management (6 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (6 papers). Sheena Talma is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (9 papers), Coastal and Marine Management (6 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (6 papers). Sheena Talma collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Seychelles and United States. Sheena Talma's co-authors include Lucy C. Woodall, Paris V. Stefanoudis, Rui Freitas, T. E. Angela L. Quiros, Luiz A. Rocha, Hudson T. Pinheiro, Robson G. Santos, Bart Shepherd, Ronaldo B. Francini‐Filho and João Batista Teixeira and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Sheena Talma

13 papers receiving 224 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.

Plastic pollution on the world’s coral reefs

2023 122 citations Hudson T. Pinheiro, Chancey MacDonald et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sheena Talma United Kingdom	6	69	68	58	52	41	14	228
Emily C. Melvin United States	4	63 0.9×	222 3.3×	61 1.1×	29 0.6×	165 4.0×	7	391
T. E. Angela L. Quiros Philippines	6	143 2.1×	69 1.0×	34 0.6×	49 0.9×	39 1.0×	10	274
Xenia I. Loizidou Cyprus	10	35 0.5×	189 2.8×	93 1.6×	29 0.6×	104 2.5×	15	372
Lena Gipperth Sweden	7	49 0.7×	214 3.1×	44 0.8×	78 1.5×	140 3.4×	20	415
Elizabeth O. Ruff United States	7	35 0.5×	326 4.8×	69 1.2×	83 1.6×	258 6.3×	12	470
Sarah L. Hemstock United Kingdom	8	32 0.5×	115 1.7×	19 0.3×	34 0.7×	34 0.8×	31	312
Dae-In Lee South Korea	9	53 0.8×	100 1.5×	70 1.2×	49 0.9×	43 1.0×	52	321
Marianne Wootton United Kingdom	7	60 0.9×	334 4.9×	12 0.2×	46 0.9×	235 5.7×	10	478
Sarawut Srithongouthai Thailand	10	74 1.1×	123 1.8×	10 0.2×	74 1.4×	103 2.5×	24	350
Do-Hee Lee South Korea	15	39 0.6×	148 2.2×	4 0.1×	43 0.8×	30 0.7×	35	509

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sheena Talma

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

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14 of 14 papers shown

Vierros, Marjo, et al.. (2025). Measuring the Success of Ocean Capacity Initiatives. Oceanography. 38(1). 1 indexed citations

Samimi‐Namin, Kaveh, Lucy C. Woodall, Paris V. Stefanoudis, Sheena Talma, & Bert W. Hoeksema. (2025). Aggregations of free-living corals facilitate reef expansion at upper mesophotic depth off Poivre Island, Seychelles. Marine Biodiversity. 55(5).

Harden‐Davies, Harriet, et al.. (2024). First to finish, what comes next? Putting Capacity Building and the Transfer of Marine Technology under the BBNJ Agreement into practice. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 5 indexed citations

Pinheiro, Hudson T., Chancey MacDonald, Robson G. Santos, et al.. (2023). Plastic pollution on the world’s coral reefs. Nature. 619(7969). 311–316. 122 indexed citations breakdown →

Stefanoudis, Paris V., et al.. (2023). Trait-based approaches reveal that deep reef ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean are functionally distinct. The Science of The Total Environment. 872. 162111–162111. 11 indexed citations

Talma, Sheena, et al.. (2023). Cetaceans of the Saya de Malha bank region, Indian Ocean: A candidate Important Marine Mammal Area. Regional Studies in Marine Science. 66. 103164–103164. 2 indexed citations

Harden‐Davies, Harriet, Diva J. Amon, Judith Gobin, et al.. (2022). How can a new UN ocean treaty change the course of capacity building?. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 32(5). 907–912. 24 indexed citations

Pickett, Brandon D., Sheena Talma, Daniel Ence, et al.. (2022). Genome assembly of the roundjaw bonefish (Albula glossodonta), a vulnerable circumtropical sportfish. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2022. 1–29. 1 indexed citations

Stefanoudis, Paris V., et al.. (2022). Trait-Based Approaches Reveal that Deeper Reef Ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean are Functionally Distinct. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Harden‐Davies, Harriet, Diva J. Amon, Marjo Vierros, et al.. (2022). Capacity development in the Ocean Decade and beyond: Key questions about meanings, motivations, pathways, and measurements. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12. 100138–100138. 21 indexed citations

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Bodin, Nathalie, et al.. (2022). Evaluating the Feasibility of Sustainable Seafood Labelling Programmes in Small Island Developing States: A Pilot Study of Artisanal Fisheries in Seychelles. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. 3 indexed citations

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Stefanoudis, Paris V., Sheena Talma, Kevin Mearns, et al.. (2022). Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean. Conservation Letters. 16(1). 9 indexed citations

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Woodall, Lucy C., et al.. (2021). Co-development, co-production and co-dissemination of scientific research: a case study to demonstrate mutual benefits. Biology Letters. 17(4). 20200699–20200699. 21 indexed citations

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Stefanoudis, Paris V., Sheena Talma, Kaveh Samimi‐Namin, & Lucy C. Woodall. (2020). Deep reef ecosystems of the Western Indian Ocean: addressing the great unknown. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 5 indexed citations

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