Simon D. Donner

9.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
91 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Simon D. Donner is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon D. Donner has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 27 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Simon D. Donner's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (37 papers), Marine and fisheries research (21 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (18 papers). Simon D. Donner is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (37 papers), Marine and fisheries research (21 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (18 papers). Simon D. Donner collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Simon D. Donner's co-authors include Christopher J. Kucharik, Michael Oppenheimer, Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg, William Skirving, Sophie Webber, Christopher M. Little, Milind Kandlikar, Seth Wynes, Navin Ramankutty and Elena M. Bennett and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Simon D. Donner

91 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals

2013 673 citations Simon D. Donner et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands

2008 671 citations Stuart A. Sandin, Jennifer E. Smith et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon D. Donner Canada	37	3.4k	2.8k	1.8k	794	716	91	6.4k
Anson W. Mackay United Kingdom	34	1.9k 0.5×	1.9k 0.7×	709 0.4×	639 0.8×	564 0.8×	112	7.2k
David G. Angeler Sweden	41	2.5k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	614 0.4×	1.2k 1.5×	564 0.8×	185	5.8k
C. Max Finlayson Australia	51	6.3k 1.8×	5.1k 1.8×	1.6k 0.9×	716 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	212	11.3k
Daniel L. Childers United States	49	4.9k 1.4×	3.9k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	931 1.2×	450 0.6×	131	9.3k
Timothy K. Kratz United States	38	3.8k 1.1×	3.4k 1.2×	2.6k 1.5×	2.4k 3.0×	1.3k 1.8×	75	9.7k
Emma L. Johnston Australia	52	3.9k 1.2×	3.0k 1.1×	3.1k 1.8×	390 0.5×	460 0.6×	203	9.1k
James R. Miller United States	42	1.9k 0.6×	4.0k 1.4×	601 0.3×	310 0.4×	741 1.0×	139	7.4k
Susan Gross Solomon Canada	10	1.3k 0.4×	4.0k 1.4×	690 0.4×	389 0.5×	691 1.0×	32	8.3k
Mary Ruckelshaus United States	45	5.6k 1.6×	5.9k 2.1×	2.4k 1.4×	293 0.4×	536 0.7×	98	11.7k
Kathleen C. Weathers United States	55	3.8k 1.1×	3.8k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	2.7k 3.4×	1.5k 2.1×	174	11.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon D. Donner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon D. Donner

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20 of 20 papers shown

Donner, Simon D., et al.. (2025). Headwinds to understanding stress response physiology: A systematic review reveals mismatch between real and simulated marine heatwaves on coral reefs. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 100094–100094. 1 indexed citations

Asner, Gregory P., et al.. (2025). Six decades of global coral bleaching monitoring: a review of methods and call for enhanced standardization and coordination. Frontiers in Marine Science. 12. 1 indexed citations

Lachs, Liam, Simon D. Donner, Alasdair J. Edwards, Yimnang Golbuu, & James R. Guest. (2025). Higher spatial resolution is not always better: evaluating satellite-sensed sea surface temperature products for a west Pacific coral reef system. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 1321–1321. 1 indexed citations

Li, Xinru, et al.. (2024). The Loss of Beneficial Thermal Priming on Global Coral Reefs. Global Change Biology. 30(12). e17592–e17592. 2 indexed citations

Spencer, Tom, Alexandre Magnan, Simon D. Donner, et al.. (2024). Habitability of low-lying socio-ecological systems under a changing climate. Climatic Change. 177(1). 4 indexed citations

Li, Xinru & Simon D. Donner. (2023). Assessing Future Projections of Warm‐Season Marine Heatwave Characteristics With Three CMIP6 Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(5). 8 indexed citations

Cornwall, Christopher E., Steeve Comeau, Simon D. Donner, et al.. (2023). Coral adaptive capacity insufficient to halt global transition of coral reefs into net erosion under climate change. Global Change Biology. 29(11). 3010–3018. 12 indexed citations

Donner, Simon D., et al.. (2023). Increase in the extent of mass coral bleaching over the past half-century, based on an updated global database. PLoS ONE. 18(2). e0281719–e0281719. 27 indexed citations

Li, Xinru & Simon D. Donner. (2022). Lengthening of warm periods increased the intensity of warm-season marine heatwaves over the past 4 decades. Climate Dynamics. 59(9-10). 2643–2654. 17 indexed citations

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Curran, Kent E., Simon D. Donner, Catherine Jordan, et al.. (2021). Integrating Programmatic Expertise from across the US and Canada to Model and Guide Leadership Training for Graduate Students in Sustainability. Sustainability. 13(16). 8950–8950. 8 indexed citations

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Wynes, Seth, Matt Motta, & Simon D. Donner. (2021). Understanding the climate responsibility associated with elections. One Earth. 4(3). 363–371. 16 indexed citations

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Cannon, Sara E., et al.. (2021). Coral reefs in the Gilbert Islands of Kiribati: Resistance, resilience, and recovery after more than a decade of multiple stressors. PLoS ONE. 16(8). e0255304–e0255304. 27 indexed citations

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Wynes, Seth, John Kotcher, & Simon D. Donner. (2021). Can citizen pressure influence politicians’ communication about climate change? Results from a field experiment. Climatic Change. 168(1-2). 6–6. 1 indexed citations

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Hassan, Marwan A., et al.. (2018). Development and Application of a Large‐Scale, Physically Based, Distributed Suspended Sediment Transport Model on the Fraser River Basin, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 123(10). 2481–2508. 10 indexed citations

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Donner, Simon D., et al.. (2016). A study on the recovery of Tobago's coral reefs following the 2010 mass bleaching event. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 104(1-2). 198–206. 14 indexed citations

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Logan, Cheryl A., John P. Dunne, C. Mark Eakin, & Simon D. Donner. (2013). Incorporating adaptive responses into future projections of coral bleaching. Global Change Biology. 20(1). 125–139. 166 indexed citations

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Basu, N. B., S. Vijaya Bhaskara Rao, Gianluca Botter, et al.. (2011). Spatiotemporal averaging of instream solute removal dynamics. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 7 indexed citations

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Donner, Simon D.. (2011). An evaluation of the effect of recent temperature variability on the prediction of coral bleaching events. Ecological Applications. 21(5). 1718–1730. 85 indexed citations

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Logan, Cheryl A., Simon D. Donner, C. Mark Eakin, & John P. Dunne. (2010). Modeling the effects of climate change and acidification on global coral reefs. AGUFM. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Sandin, Stuart A., Jennifer E. Smith, Edward E. DeMartini, et al.. (2008). Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands. PLoS ONE. 3(2). e1548–e1548. 671 indexed citations breakdown →

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