Thomas A. Worthington

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
62 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas A. Worthington is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas A. Worthington has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 22 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Thomas A. Worthington's work include Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (24 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (20 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 papers). Thomas A. Worthington is often cited by papers focused on Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (24 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (20 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 papers). Thomas A. Worthington collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Thomas A. Worthington's co-authors include Nicholas Murray, Mark Spalding, Shannon K. Brewer, Peter Bunting, Richard Lucas, Catherine E. Lovelock, Paul S. Kemp, Megan I. Saunders, Valerie Hagger and Nathan Thomas and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas A. Worthington

57 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth’s tidal wetlands

2022 274 citations Nicholas Murray, Thomas A. Worthington et al. Science profile →
Global Mangrove Extent Change 1996–2020: Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0

2022 250 citations Peter Bunting, Åke Rosenqvist et al. Remote Sensing profile →
Drivers of global mangrove loss and gain in social-ecological systems

2022 112 citations Valerie Hagger, Thomas A. Worthington et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas A. Worthington United Kingdom	25	1.4k	628	433	195	189	62	2.0k
Richard A. MacKenzie United States	23	1.3k 1.0×	424 0.7×	209 0.5×	232 1.2×	294 1.6×	69	1.8k
Roger B. Griffis United States	12	659 0.5×	675 1.1×	306 0.7×	232 1.2×	83 0.4×	26	1.5k
Donald R. Schoolmaster United States	16	950 0.7×	374 0.6×	382 0.9×	98 0.5×	154 0.8×	35	1.7k
Jan‐Olaf Meynecke Australia	15	1.6k 1.1×	698 1.1×	303 0.7×	404 2.1×	141 0.7×	49	2.0k
Thomas E. Dahl United States	8	1.1k 0.8×	544 0.9×	331 0.8×	75 0.4×	105 0.6×	11	1.5k
Patricia Moreno‐Casasola Mexico	28	1.1k 0.8×	485 0.8×	542 1.3×	306 1.6×	378 2.0×	121	2.4k
Lara Van Niekerk South Africa	24	922 0.7×	827 1.3×	334 0.8×	458 2.3×	170 0.9×	65	1.7k
Martin R. Perrow United Kingdom	27	1.2k 0.9×	398 0.6×	972 2.2×	282 1.4×	60 0.3×	44	2.1k
Denice H. Wardrop United States	22	987 0.7×	585 0.9×	364 0.8×	347 1.8×	45 0.2×	43	1.7k
Jiang Jiang United States	27	716 0.5×	877 1.4×	251 0.6×	59 0.3×	162 0.9×	56	1.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tiggeloven, Timothy, et al.. (2026). Mangrove restoration and coastal flood adaptation: A global perspective on the potential for hybrid coastal defenses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 123(4). e2510980123–e2510980123.

Simpson, Stefanie, Lindsey S. Smart, Emily Landis, et al.. (2025). The Blue Carbon Cost Tool – understanding market potential and investment requirements for high-quality coastal wetland projects. Frontiers in Marine Science. 12.

Mair, Louise, Daniele Baisero, Monika Böhm, et al.. (2025). Mapping area of habitat for inland wetland species. Conservation Biology. 40(1). e70163–e70163.

Zhang, Zhen, Nicholas Murray, Xiao‐Peng Song, et al.. (2025). Unexpected canopy gain in Earth’s mangrove forests linked to natural expansion and regrowth. California Digital Library.

Adame, María Fernanda, Nadia S. Santini, Alma Vázquez‐Lule, et al.. (2024). The role of blue carbon in reversing mangrove degradation trends in Mexico. Biological Conservation. 298. 110775–110775. 2 indexed citations

Worthington, Thomas A., Mark Spalding, Emily Landis, et al.. (2024). The distribution of global tidal marshes from Earth observation data. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(8). 18 indexed citations

Smith, Rebecca K., William H. Morgan, Tatsuya Amano, et al.. (2023). Co‐designing a toolkit for evidence‐based decision making in conservation: Processes and lessons. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). 4 indexed citations

Sievers, Michael, Christopher J. Brown, Jennifer McGowan, et al.. (2023). Co-occurrence of biodiversity, carbon storage, coastal protection, and fish and invertebrate production to inform global mangrove conservation planning. The Science of The Total Environment. 904. 166357–166357. 17 indexed citations

McDonald, Robert I., Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, David N. Bresch, et al.. (2023). Global protection from tropical cyclones by coastal ecosystems—past, present, and under climate change. Environmental Research Letters. 18(12). 124023–124023. 7 indexed citations

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Hagger, Valerie, Thomas A. Worthington, Catherine E. Lovelock, et al.. (2022). Drivers of global mangrove loss and gain in social-ecological systems. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6373–6373. 112 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bunting, Peter, Åke Rosenqvist, Lammert Hilarides, et al.. (2022). Global Mangrove Extent Change 1996–2020: Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0. Remote Sensing. 14(15). 3657–3657. 250 indexed citations breakdown →

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White, Thomas, Silviu O. Petrovan, Hollie Booth, et al.. (2022). Determining the economic costs and benefits of conservation actions: A decision support framework. Conservation Science and Practice. 4(12). 9 indexed citations

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Murray, Nicholas, Peter Bunting, Robert Canto, et al.. (2022). coastTrain: A Global Reference Library for Coastal Ecosystems. Remote Sensing. 14(22). 5766–5766. 6 indexed citations

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Murray, Nicholas, Thomas A. Worthington, Peter Bunting, et al.. (2022). High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth’s tidal wetlands. Science. 376(6594). 744–749. 274 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gutiérrez‐Cánovas, Cayetano, Thomas A. Worthington, David G. Noble, et al.. (2021). Populations of high‐value predators reflect the traits of their prey. Ecography. 44(5). 690–702. 9 indexed citations

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Zeng, Yiwen, Tasya Vadya Sarira, L. Román Carrasco, et al.. (2020). Economic and social constraints on reforestation for climate mitigation in Southeast Asia. Nature Climate Change. 10(9). 842–844. 70 indexed citations

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Grabowski, Timothy B., et al.. (2017). Effects of Temperature, Total Dissolved Solids, and Total Suspended Solids on Survival and Development Rate of Larval Arkansas River Shiner. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. 8(1). 79–88. 24 indexed citations

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Worthington, Thomas A., et al.. (2017). Passive Integrated Transponder Tags: Review of Studies on Warmwater Fishes With Notes on Additional Species. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. 8(2). 353–364. 33 indexed citations

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Worthington, Thomas A., et al.. (2014). Interacting Effects of Discharge and Channel Morphology on Transport of Semibuoyant Fish Eggs in Large, Altered River Systems. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e96599–e96599. 26 indexed citations

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Brewer, Shannon K., et al.. (2013). The influence of coarse‐scale environmental features on current and predicted future distributions of narrow‐range endemic crayfish populations. Freshwater Biology. 58(6). 1071–1088. 26 indexed citations

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