Sophie Bestley

2.3k total citations
54 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Sophie Bestley is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sophie Bestley has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 20 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Sophie Bestley's work include Marine animal studies overview (27 papers), Marine and fisheries research (23 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (19 papers). Sophie Bestley is often cited by papers focused on Marine animal studies overview (27 papers), Marine and fisheries research (23 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (19 papers). Sophie Bestley collaborates with scholars based in Australia, France and United Kingdom. Sophie Bestley's co-authors include Mark A. Hindell, Ian D. Jonsen, Toby A. Patterson, John Gunn, Robert Harcourt, Simon Wotherspoon, Clive R. McMahon, Stuart Corney, Jean‐Benoît Charrassin and Christophe Guinet and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sophie Bestley

51 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sophie Bestley Australia 22 1.1k 529 388 380 313 54 1.4k
Samantha E. Simmons United States 23 1.6k 1.5× 569 1.1× 376 1.0× 489 1.3× 324 1.0× 32 1.9k
Luis A. Hückstädt United States 22 1.3k 1.2× 512 1.0× 390 1.0× 259 0.7× 248 0.8× 67 1.6k
Cédric Cotté France 22 1.3k 1.2× 826 1.6× 455 1.2× 894 2.4× 206 0.7× 44 1.9k
Stephen P. Kirkman South Africa 21 1.2k 1.1× 516 1.0× 267 0.7× 214 0.6× 185 0.6× 64 1.4k
Phil Lovell United Kingdom 14 860 0.8× 357 0.7× 314 0.8× 201 0.5× 305 1.0× 18 1.1k
Wayne L. Perryman United States 21 1.3k 1.2× 317 0.6× 379 1.0× 448 1.2× 229 0.7× 38 1.5k
Michael Sumner Australia 23 1.4k 1.3× 537 1.0× 398 1.0× 297 0.8× 232 0.7× 44 1.7k
David J. Yurkowski Canada 23 1.0k 1.0× 406 0.8× 432 1.1× 161 0.4× 225 0.7× 75 1.3k
Joachim Plötz Germany 24 1.4k 1.3× 419 0.8× 350 0.9× 334 0.9× 230 0.7× 78 1.7k
Carla Freitas Norway 19 944 0.9× 443 0.8× 279 0.7× 148 0.4× 414 1.3× 40 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Sophie Bestley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sophie Bestley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sophie Bestley

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McMahon, Clive R., Fabien Roquet, Christophe Guinet, et al.. (2025). An enduring, 20-year, multidisciplinary seal-borne ocean sensor research collaboration in the Southern Ocean. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 13(1).
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Westwood, Karen J., Annie Foppert, Simon W. Wright, et al.. (2024). Drivers of phytoplankton distribution, abundance and community composition off East Antarctica, from 55-80°E (CCAMLR Division 58.4.2 East). Frontiers in Marine Science. 11. 2 indexed citations
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Costantini, David, Sophie Bestley, Mark A. Hindell, et al.. (2023). Environmental Drivers of Growth and Oxidative Status during Early Life in a Long-Lived Antarctic Seabird, the Adélie Penguin. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 96(3). 177–191. 1 indexed citations
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Raclot, Thierry, Sophie Bestley, Christophe Barbraud, et al.. (2023). Body condition and corticosterone stress response, as markers to investigate effects of human activities on Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 4 indexed citations
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Bestley, Sophie, et al.. (2023). Spatial link between Adélie penguin foraging effort and krill swarm abundance and distribution. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 8 indexed citations
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Schallenberg, Christina, Robert F. Strzepek, Sophie Bestley, Bożena Wojtasiewicz, & Thomas W. Trull. (2022). Iron Limitation Drives the Globally Extreme Fluorescence/Chlorophyll Ratios of the Southern Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(12). 23 indexed citations
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Hindell, Mark A., Clive R. McMahon, Simon Wotherspoon, et al.. (2022). Elephant seal foraging success is enhanced in Antarctic coastal polynyas. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1967). 20212452–20212452. 12 indexed citations
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Portela, Esther, Stephen R. Rintoul, Laura Herráiz‐Borreguero, et al.. (2022). Controls on Dense Shelf Water Formation in Four East Antarctic Polynyas. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(12). 9 indexed citations
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Portela, Esther, Stephen R. Rintoul, Sophie Bestley, et al.. (2021). Seasonal Transformation and Spatial Variability of Water Masses Within MacKenzie Polynya, Prydz Bay. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(12). 10 indexed citations
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Salton, M.R.J., Sophie Bestley, Nick Gales, & Robert Harcourt. (2021). Environmental drivers of foraging behaviour during long-distance foraging trips of male Antarctic fur seals. Animal Behaviour. 183. 103–116. 4 indexed citations
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Corney, Stuart, et al.. (2020). Circumpolar projections of Antarctic krill growth potential. Nature Climate Change. 10(6). 568–575. 50 indexed citations
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Green, David B., Sophie Bestley, Rowan Trebilco, et al.. (2020). Modelled mid‐trophic pelagic prey fields improve understanding of marine predator foraging behaviour. Ecography. 43(7). 1014–1026. 18 indexed citations
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Clarke, Laurence J., L. Suter, Robert A. King, et al.. (2020). Bacterial epibiont communities of panmictic Antarctic krill are spatially structured. Molecular Ecology. 30(4). 1042–1052. 7 indexed citations
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Trebilco, Rowan, et al.. (2019). Mesopelagic community structure on the Southern Kerguelen Axis. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 5 indexed citations
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Bestley, Sophie, et al.. (2019). A quantitative, hierarchical approach for detecting drift dives and tracking buoyancy changes in southern elephant seals. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8936–8936. 10 indexed citations
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Bestley, Sophie, Virginia Andrews‐Goff, Esmee van Wijk, et al.. (2019). New insights into prime Southern Ocean forage grounds for thriving Western Australian humpback whales. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13988–13988. 35 indexed citations
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McMahon, Clive R., Mark A. Hindell, Jean‐Benoît Charrassin, et al.. (2019). Finding mesopelagic prey in a changing Southern Ocean. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 19013–19013. 21 indexed citations
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Schallenberg, Christina, Sophie Bestley, Andreas Klocker, et al.. (2018). Sustained Upwelling of Subsurface Iron Supplies Seasonally Persistent Phytoplankton Blooms Around the Southern Kerguelen Plateau, Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(8). 5986–6003. 49 indexed citations
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Meiners, Klaus M, Stefanie Arndt, Sophie Bestley, et al.. (2017). Antarctic pack ice algal distribution: Floe‐scale spatial variability and predictability from physical parameters. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(14). 7382–7390. 26 indexed citations

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