Stephen J. Beckett

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Stephen J. Beckett is a scholar working on Plant Science, Insect Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen J. Beckett has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Plant Science, 15 papers in Insect Science and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Stephen J. Beckett's work include Insect Pest Control Strategies (14 papers), Insect and Pesticide Research (10 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers). Stephen J. Beckett is often cited by papers focused on Insect Pest Control Strategies (14 papers), Insect and Pesticide Research (10 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers). Stephen J. Beckett collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Stephen J. Beckett's co-authors include Andrew J. R. Watts, Tamara S. Galloway, Ceri Lewis, Rhys M. Goodhead, Julian Moger, Charles R. Tyler, Joshua S. Weitz, Richard Morton, Hywel T. P. Williams and David Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Stephen J. Beckett

35 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

Uptake and Retention of Microplastics by the Shore Crab Carcinus maenas

2014 593 citations Andrew J. R. Watts, Ceri Lewis et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
Improved community detection in weighted bipartite networks

2016 340 citations Stephen J. Beckett Royal Society Open Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen J. Beckett United States	20	581	452	373	327	274	38	1.8k
Luna Kamau Kenya	26	217 0.4×	891 2.0×	70 0.2×	177 0.5×	130 0.5×	78	3.5k
Thomas Bøhn Norway	27	604 1.0×	644 1.4×	63 0.2×	981 3.0×	159 0.6×	82	2.7k
Abu Hassan Ahmad Malaysia	22	65 0.1×	268 0.6×	51 0.1×	357 1.1×	120 0.4×	98	1.4k
Hubertus J. E. Beaumont Netherlands	15	286 0.5×	160 0.4×	50 0.1×	722 2.2×	141 0.5×	15	1.8k
Zohar Pasternak Israel	24	296 0.5×	280 0.6×	62 0.2×	697 2.1×	110 0.4×	54	2.0k
Joshua O’Brien United States	13	57 0.1×	117 0.3×	63 0.2×	293 0.9×	407 1.5×	16	1.1k
José Iannacone‍ Peru	15	144 0.2×	194 0.4×	30 0.1×	574 1.8×	84 0.3×	386	1.3k
Sharon Bewick United States	19	166 0.3×	71 0.2×	7 0.0×	289 0.9×	140 0.5×	62	1.4k
William R. Harcombe United States	27	139 0.2×	233 0.5×	12 0.0×	680 2.1×	403 1.5×	50	3.1k
Uno Wennergren Sweden	20	29 0.0×	253 0.6×	42 0.1×	540 1.7×	393 1.4×	55	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen J. Beckett

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20 of 20 papers shown

Beckett, Stephen J., et al.. (2025). Eco-evolutionary dynamics of temperate phages in periodic environments. Virus Evolution. 11(1). veaf019–veaf019. 1 indexed citations

Dushoff, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). Infections are not alike: The effects of covariation between individual susceptibility and transmissibility on epidemic dynamics. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 613. 112211–112211.

Sinclair, Alyssa H., et al.. (2023). Scenario-based messages on social media motivate COVID-19 information seeking.. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 13(1). 124–135. 1 indexed citations

Sinclair, Alyssa H., et al.. (2023). Reasons for Receiving or Not Receiving Bivalent COVID-19 Booster Vaccinations Among Adults — United States, November 1–December 10, 2022. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 72(3). 73–75. 22 indexed citations

Sinclair, Alyssa H., Aroon T. Chande, Lavanya Rishishwar, et al.. (2023). Communicating COVID-19 exposure risk with an interactive website counteracts risk misestimation. PLoS ONE. 18(10). e0290708–e0290708. 2 indexed citations

Lopman, Benjamin A., Kayoko Shioda, Quan Nguyen, et al.. (2021). A framework for monitoring population immunity to SARS-CoV-2. Annals of Epidemiology. 63. 75–78. 9 indexed citations

Chande, Aroon T., Mallory Harris, Quan Nguyen, et al.. (2020). Real-time, interactive website for US-county-level COVID-19 event risk assessment. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(12). 1313–1319. 38 indexed citations

Weitz, Joshua S., Stephen J. Beckett, Ashley R. Coenen, et al.. (2020). Modeling shield immunity to reduce COVID-19 epidemic spread. Nature Medicine. 26(6). 849–854. 143 indexed citations

Talmy, David, et al.. (2019). Contrasting Controls on Microzooplankton Grazing and Viral Infection of Microbial Prey. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. 18 indexed citations

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Barone, Benedetto, Ashley R. Coenen, Stephen J. Beckett, et al.. (2019). The ecological and biogeochemical state of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre is linked to sea surface height. Journal of Marine Research. 77(2). 215–245. 34 indexed citations

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Beckett, Stephen J. & Joshua S. Weitz. (2018). The Effect of Strain Level Diversity on Robust Inference of Virus-Induced Mortality of Phytoplankton. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 1850–1850. 8 indexed citations

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Beckett, Stephen J. & Joshua S. Weitz. (2017). Disentangling niche competition from grazing mortality in phytoplankton dilution experiments. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0177517–e0177517. 7 indexed citations

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Weitz, Joshua S., Stephen J. Beckett, Jennifer R. Brum, B. B. Cael, & Jonathan Dushoff. (2017). Lysis, lysogeny and virus–microbe ratios. Nature. 549(7672). E1–E3. 55 indexed citations

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Lee, Byung‐Ho, Jeong‐Oh Yang, Stephen J. Beckett, & Yonglin Ren. (2016). Preliminary trials of the ethanedinitrile fumigation of logs for eradication of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and its vector insect Monochamus alternatus. Pest Management Science. 73(7). 1446–1452. 19 indexed citations

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Beckett, Stephen J.. (2016). Improved community detection in weighted bipartite networks. Royal Society Open Science. 3(1). 140536–140536. 340 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cowley, Lauren A., Stephen J. Beckett, Margo Chase‐Topping, et al.. (2015). Analysis of whole genome sequencing for the Escherichia coli O157:H7 typing phages. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 271–271. 27 indexed citations

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Watts, Andrew J. R., Ceri Lewis, Rhys M. Goodhead, et al.. (2014). Uptake and Retention of Microplastics by the Shore Crab Carcinus maenas. Environmental Science & Technology. 48(15). 8823–8830. 593 indexed citations breakdown →

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Beckett, Stephen J. & Hywel T. P. Williams. (2013). Coevolutionary diversification creates nested-modular structure in phage–bacteria interaction networks. Interface Focus. 3(6). 20130033–20130033. 71 indexed citations

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Baker, Geoff, et al.. (2012). Are the European snails, Theba pisana (Müller, 1774) (Helicidae), Cernuella virgata (da Costa, 1778) and Cochlicella acuta (Müller, 1774) (Hygromiidae) attracted by potential food odours?. Crop Protection. 42. 88–93. 11 indexed citations

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Beckett, Stephen J.. (2010). Protecting and disinfesting stored products by drying and cooling, and disinfesting stored products during handling by mechanical treatments. Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (Julius Kühn-Institut). 219–228. 2 indexed citations

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