Stephen R. Palumbi

55.0k total citations · 16 hit papers
233 papers, 38.4k citations indexed

About

Stephen R. Palumbi is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen R. Palumbi has authored 233 papers receiving a total of 38.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Ecology, 99 papers in Oceanography and 79 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Stephen R. Palumbi's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (110 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (76 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (54 papers). Stephen R. Palumbi is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (110 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (76 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (54 papers). Stephen R. Palumbi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Stephen R. Palumbi's co-authors include Jeremy B. C. Jackson, A. P. Martin, W. Owen McMillan, Thomas F. Duda, Barbara K. Mable, Craig Moritz, David M. Hillis, Malin L. Pinsky, Carl Folke and Thomas A. Oliver and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stephen R. Palumbi

231 papers receiving 36.4k citations

Hit Papers

Impacts of Biodiversity L... 1985 2026 1998 2012 2006 2003 1996 1989 2017 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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.

  1. Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services
    2006 3.1k citations Boris Worm, Edward B. Barbier et al. Science profile →
  2. Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs
    2003 2.8k citations Carl Folke, Jeremy B. C. Jackson et al. Science profile →
  3. Nucleic acids II: the polymerase chain reaction
    1996 1.7k citations Stephen R. Palumbi et al. profile →
  4. The simple fool's guide to PCR
    1989 1.6k citations Henrietta Brown Croom, Ana Isabel Martı́n et al. The Journal of Urology profile →
  5. Coral reefs in the Anthropocene
    2017 1.4k citations Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Stephen R. Palumbi et al. profile →
  6. GENETIC DIVERGENCE, REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION, AND MARINE SPECIATION
    1994 1.3k citations Stephen R. Palumbi profile →
  7. Mitochondrial DNA and two perspectives on evolutionary genetics
    1985 986 citations Stephen R. Palumbi et al. profile →
  8. Body size, metabolic rate, generation time, and the molecular clock.
    1993 985 citations Stephen R. Palumbi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Humans as the World's Greatest Evolutionary Force
    2001 902 citations Stephen R. Palumbi Science profile →
  10. POPULATION GENETICS, DEMOGRAPHIC CONNECTIVITY, AND THE DESIGN OF MARINE RESERVES
    2003 902 citations Stephen R. Palumbi profile →
  11. Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean
    2015 887 citations Douglas J. McCauley, Malin L. Pinsky et al. Science profile →
  12. Designing marine reserve networks for both conservation and fisheries management
    2010 663 citations Stephen R. Palumbi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  13. Genomic basis for coral resilience to climate change
    2013 658 citations Daniel J. Barshis, Thomas A. Oliver et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  14. Mechanisms of reef coral resistance to future climate change
    2014 600 citations Stephen R. Palumbi, Daniel J. Barshis et al. Science profile →
  15. PLUGGING A HOLE IN THE OCEAN: THE EMERGING SCIENCE OF MARINE RESERVES1
    2003 527 citations Stephen R. Palumbi et al. profile →
  16. Bacterial community dynamics are linked to patterns of coral heat tolerance
    2017 423 citations Maren Ziegler, François Seneca et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephen R. Palumbi United States 92 23.4k 14.3k 12.0k 9.9k 7.4k 233 38.4k
Nancy­ Knowlton­ United States 69 19.2k 0.8× 9.2k 0.6× 11.1k 0.9× 2.4k 0.2× 2.9k 0.4× 142 25.6k
David R. Bellwood Australia 85 25.1k 1.1× 17.4k 1.2× 9.8k 0.8× 1.8k 0.2× 1.5k 0.2× 351 32.1k
J. Emmett Duffy United States 65 14.9k 0.6× 10.6k 0.7× 8.1k 0.7× 1.6k 0.2× 1.5k 0.2× 173 28.5k
Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg Australia 96 37.6k 1.6× 19.7k 1.4× 23.8k 2.0× 1.2k 0.1× 2.0k 0.3× 351 49.6k
Steven D. Gaines United States 91 18.8k 0.8× 15.5k 1.1× 10.9k 0.9× 2.9k 0.3× 1.1k 0.1× 262 31.0k
Geoffrey P. Jones Australia 71 16.7k 0.7× 13.9k 1.0× 6.1k 0.5× 1.8k 0.2× 1.0k 0.1× 399 22.1k
Jeremy B. C. Jackson United States 58 21.1k 0.9× 15.6k 1.1× 12.3k 1.0× 1.2k 0.1× 890 0.1× 141 29.9k
David M. Lodge United States 79 27.0k 1.2× 10.4k 0.7× 4.7k 0.4× 2.9k 0.3× 5.9k 0.8× 236 43.5k
Hans‐Otto Pörtner Germany 89 21.5k 0.9× 16.4k 1.1× 15.6k 1.3× 1.7k 0.2× 1.7k 0.2× 420 34.4k
Laurent Excoffier Switzerland 85 19.0k 0.8× 6.0k 0.4× 3.2k 0.3× 45.6k 4.6× 18.0k 2.4× 185 70.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen R. Palumbi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen R. Palumbi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stephen R. Palumbi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stephen R. Palumbi 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 Stephen R. Palumbi. Stephen R. Palumbi 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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López-Nandam, Elora H., et al.. (2023). Mutations in coral soma and sperm imply lifelong stem cell renewal and cell lineage selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(1991). 20221766–20221766. 9 indexed citations
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Evensen, Nicolas R., Thomas A. Oliver, Stephen R. Palumbi, et al.. (2023). The Coral Bleaching Automated Stress System (CBASS): A low‐cost, portable system for standardized empirical assessments of coral thermal limits. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 21(7). 421–434. 27 indexed citations
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Shaver, Elizabeth C., Elizabeth Mcleod, Margaux Y. Hein, et al.. (2022). A roadmap to integrating resilience into the practice of coral reef restoration. Global Change Biology. 28(16). 4751–4764. 56 indexed citations
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McManus, Lisa C., Daniel L. Forrest, Edward W. Tekwa, et al.. (2021). Evolution and connectivity influence the persistence and recovery of coral reefs under climate change in the Caribbean, Southwest Pacific, and Coral Triangle. Global Change Biology. 27(18). 4307–4321. 59 indexed citations
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Wilder, Aryn P., Stephen R. Palumbi, David O. Conover, & Nina Overgaard Therkildsen. (2020). Footprints of local adaptation span hundreds of linked genes in the Atlantic silverside genome. Evolution Letters. 4(5). 430–443. 36 indexed citations
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Taylor, Ryan W., Nathan K. Truelove, Elizabeth A. Hadly, et al.. (2019). Empowering conservation practice with efficient and economical genotyping from poor quality samples. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(6). 853–859. 44 indexed citations
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López-Nandam, Elora H. & Stephen R. Palumbi. (2019). Somatic Mutations and Genome Stability Maintenance in Clonal Coral Colonies. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(3). 828–838. 10 indexed citations
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Therkildsen, Nina Overgaard, Aryn P. Wilder, David O. Conover, et al.. (2019). Contrasting genomic shifts underlie parallel phenotypic evolution in response to fishing. Science. 365(6452). 487–490. 113 indexed citations
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Ziegler, Maren, François Seneca, Lauren K. Yum, Stephen R. Palumbi, & Christian R. Voolstra. (2017). Bacterial community dynamics are linked to patterns of coral heat tolerance. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14213–14213. 423 indexed citations breakdown →
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McCauley, Douglas J., Malin L. Pinsky, Stephen R. Palumbi, et al.. (2015). Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean. Science. 347(6219). 1255641–1255641. 887 indexed citations breakdown →
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Palumbi, Stephen R., Daniel J. Barshis, Nikki Traylor‐Knowles, & Rachael A. Bay. (2014). Mechanisms of reef coral resistance to future climate change. Science. 344(6186). 895–898. 600 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pinsky, Malin L., Olaf P. Jensen, D. Ricard, & Stephen R. Palumbi. (2011). Unexpected patterns of fisheries collapse in the world's oceans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(20). 8317–8322. 186 indexed citations
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Sivasundar, Arjun & Stephen R. Palumbi. (2010). Parallel amino acid replacements in the rhodopsins of the rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) associated with shifts in habitat depth. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23(6). 1159–1169. 27 indexed citations
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Palumbi, Stephen R.. (2008). Speciation and the evolution of gamete recognition genes: pattern and process. Heredity. 102(1). 66–76. 136 indexed citations
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Alter, S. Elizabeth, Eric Rynes, & Stephen R. Palumbi. (2007). DNA evidence for historic population size and past ecosystem impacts of gray whales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(38). 15162–15167. 117 indexed citations
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Worm, Boris, Edward B. Barbier, Nicola Beaumont, et al.. (2007). Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Worm, Boris, Edward B. Barbier, Nicola Beaumont, et al.. (2006). Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services. Science. 314(5800). 787–790. 3141 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hellberg, Michael E., Ronald S. Burton, Joseph E. Neigel, & Stephen R. Palumbi. (2002). Genetic assessment of connectivity among marine populations. Bulletin of Marine Science. 70(1). 273–290. 367 indexed citations
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Croom, Henrietta Brown, et al.. (1989). The simple fool's guide to PCR. The Journal of Urology. 159(4). 1161–2. 1626 indexed citations breakdown →

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