Stuart E. Bunn

33.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
240 papers, 22.6k citations indexed

About

Stuart E. Bunn is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stuart E. Bunn has authored 240 papers receiving a total of 22.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 175 papers in Ecology, 160 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 55 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Stuart E. Bunn's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (151 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (54 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (53 papers). Stuart E. Bunn is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (151 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (54 papers) and Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (53 papers). Stuart E. Bunn collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and China. Stuart E. Bunn's co-authors include Angela H. Arthington, Peter M. Davies, C. J. Vörösmarty, Pamela Green, Peter B. McIntyre, David Dudgeon, Catherine Reidy Liermann, Mark O. Gessner, Caroline A Sullivan and Alexander Prusevich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Stuart E. Bunn

236 papers receiving 21.4k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

2010 5.3k citations Stuart E. Bunn et al. profile →
Basic Principles and Ecological Consequences of Altered Flow Regimes for Aquatic Biodiversity

2002 2.5k citations Stuart E. Bunn, Angela H. Arthington profile →
The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA): a new framework for developing regional environmental flow standards

2009 1.2k citations N. LeRoy Poff, Brian D. Richter et al. Freshwater Biology profile →
THE CHALLENGE OF PROVIDING ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW RULES TO SUSTAIN RIVER ECOSYSTEMS

2006 923 citations Angela H. Arthington, Stuart E. Bunn et al. profile →
Lipid corrections in carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses: comparison of chemical extraction and modelling methods

2008 628 citations Timothy D. Jardine, Stuart E. Bunn et al. profile →
The Brisbane Declaration and Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows (2018)

2018 297 citations Angela H. Arthington, Anik Bhaduri et al. profile →
How important are terrestrial organic carbon inputs for secondary production in freshwater ecosystems?

2017 274 citations Michael T. Brett, Stuart E. Bunn et al. Freshwater Biology profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Stuart E. Bunn	13.9k	11.3k	7.7k	4.9k	2.8k	240	22.6k
Mark O. Gessner	13.8k 1.0×	8.8k 0.8×	4.4k 0.6×	3.3k 0.7×	4.3k 1.6×	153	23.5k
Angela H. Arthington	12.6k 0.9×	13.0k 1.2×	6.5k 0.8×	4.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	183	20.6k
J. David Allan	13.5k 1.0×	11.9k 1.0×	6.0k 0.8×	3.3k 0.7×	3.7k 1.3×	110	19.9k
Klement Tockner	15.0k 1.1×	9.0k 0.8×	6.2k 0.8×	5.1k 1.1×	3.1k 1.1×	215	23.9k
James R. Karr	15.0k 1.1×	13.4k 1.2×	5.6k 0.7×	4.2k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	111	22.4k
Robert J. Naiman	22.9k 1.6×	16.4k 1.4×	7.9k 1.0×	7.3k 1.5×	4.3k 1.5×	220	34.1k
N. LeRoy Poff	26.4k 1.9×	23.8k 2.1×	13.4k 1.7×	9.2k 1.9×	3.4k 1.2×	174	41.4k
Margaret A. Palmer	12.5k 0.9×	7.6k 0.7×	5.2k 0.7×	5.9k 1.2×	3.3k 1.2×	188	21.4k
Caroline A Sullivan	5.9k 0.4×	5.4k 0.5×	4.5k 0.6×	2.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	73	14.2k
Brian D. Richter	10.3k 0.7×	9.0k 0.8×	10.8k 1.4×	4.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	83	18.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Stuart E. Bunn

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Stuart E. Bunn's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Stuart E. Bunn with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Stuart E. Bunn more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Stuart E. Bunn

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Stuart E. Bunn. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Stuart E. Bunn. The network helps show where Stuart E. Bunn may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stuart E. Bunn

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Udyawer, Vinay, Craig R. White, R. Keller Kopf, et al.. (2025). Quantifying the ecological role of crocodiles: a 50-year review of metabolic requirements and nutrient contributions in northern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2042). 20242260–20242260.

Guo, Fen, Brian Fry, J. Huang, et al.. (2023). Assessment of the impact of dams on aquatic food webs using stable isotopes: Current progress and future challenges. The Science of The Total Environment. 904. 167097–167097. 13 indexed citations

Udyawer, Vinay, Timothy D. Jardine, Yusuke Fukuda, et al.. (2022). Dietary shifts may underpin the recovery of a large carnivore population. Biology Letters. 18(4). 20210676–20210676. 6 indexed citations

Guo, Fen, et al.. (2021). The dark side of rocks: An underestimated high‐quality food resource in river ecosystems. Journal of Ecology. 109(6). 2395–2404. 14 indexed citations

Bhaduri, Anik, et al.. (2021). Operationalizing Water Security Concept in Water Investment Planning: Case Study of São Francisco River Basin. Water. 13(24). 3658–3658. 5 indexed citations

Maher, Damien T., et al.. (2021). Soil greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical coastal wetlands and alternative agricultural land uses. Biogeosciences. 18(18). 5085–5096. 20 indexed citations

Maher, Damien T., et al.. (2021). Greenhouse gas emissions from tropical coastal wetlands and their alternative agricultural lands: Where significant mitigation gains lie. 3 indexed citations

Pusey, Bradley J., Timothy D. Jardine, Leah Beesley, et al.. (2020). Carbon sources supporting Australia’s most widely distributed freshwater fish, Nematalosa erebi (Günther) (Clupeidae: Dorosomatinae). Marine and Freshwater Research. 72(2). 288–298. 4 indexed citations

Guo, Fen, Stuart E. Bunn, Michael T. Brett, et al.. (2018). Feeding strategies for the acquisition of high‐quality food sources in stream macroinvertebrates: Collecting, integrating, and mixed feeding. Limnology and Oceanography. 63(5). 1964–1978. 69 indexed citations

10.

Brett, Michael T., Stuart E. Bunn, Sudeep Chandra, et al.. (2017). How important are terrestrial organic carbon inputs for secondary production in freshwater ecosystems?. Freshwater Biology. 62(5). 833–853. 274 indexed citations breakdown →

11.

McIntosh, Brian S., et al.. (2014). Leadership in learning: collaborative approaches to building the water sector of the future: Embracing a time of change and challenge. Water. 41(2). 156–161. 1 indexed citations

12.

Bates, Bryson C., Stuart E. Bunn, Malcolm Cox, et al.. (2011). National climate change adaptation research plan: Freshwater biodiversity. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 3 indexed citations

13.

Jardine, Timothy D., Richard J. Hunt, Bradley J. Pusey, & Stuart E. Bunn. (2011). A non-lethal sampling method for stable carbon and nitrogen isotope studies of tropical fishes. Marine and Freshwater Research. 62(1). 83–90. 73 indexed citations

14.

Poff, N. LeRoy, Brian D. Richter, Angela H. Arthington, et al.. (2009). The ecological limits of hydrologic alteration (ELOHA): a new framework for developing regional environmental flow standards. Freshwater Biology. 55(1). 147–170. 1208 indexed citations breakdown →

15.

Fellows, C. S., et al.. (2008). Benthic metabolism in two turbid dryland rivers. Freshwater Biology. 54(2). 236–253. 37 indexed citations

16.

Baker, Andrew, Jane M. Hughes, John Dean, & Stuart E. Bunn. (2004). Mitochondrial DNA reveals phylogenetic structuring and cryptic diversity in Australian freshwater macroinvertebrate assemblages. Marine and Freshwater Research. 55(6). 629–640. 46 indexed citations

17.

Cottingham, P, Stuart E. Bunn, & Gwendolyn P. Quinn. (2002). Using ecological knowledge to underpin river rehabilitation. Water. 29(8). 33–36. 1 indexed citations

18.

Thoms, Martin C., et al.. (2002). Physical and ecological associations in dryland refugia: waterholes of the Cooper Creek, Australia. Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia). 77–84. 11 indexed citations

19.

Bunn, Stuart E.. (2002). Healthy River Ecosystems: vision or reality?. Water. 2002(2). 1–11. 2 indexed citations

20.

Bunn, Stuart E., et al.. (1989). Larval descriptions of the Hydrobiosidae, Philopotamidae, Hydropsychidae and some Ecnomidae (Trichoptera) from South-western Australia, with notes on Biology. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 40(6). 631–643. 8 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact