Vinay Udyawer

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Vinay Udyawer is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Vinay Udyawer has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Ecology, 25 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Vinay Udyawer's work include Marine animal studies overview (19 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (14 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (14 papers). Vinay Udyawer is often cited by papers focused on Marine animal studies overview (19 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (14 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (14 papers). Vinay Udyawer collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and New Caledonia. Vinay Udyawer's co-authors include Michelle R. Heupel, Colin A. Simpfendorfer, Hamish A. Campbell, Charlie Huveneers, Matthew D. Taylor, Russell C. Babcock, Xavier Hoenner, Fabrice R. A. Jaine, Robert Harcourt and Stephanie Brodie and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Vinay Udyawer

37 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Continental-scale animal tracking reveals functional movement classes across marine taxa

2018 297 citations Stephanie Brodie, Elodie J. I. Lédée et al. Scientific Reports profile →
Australia’s continental-scale acoustic tracking database and its automated quality control process

2018 237 citations Xavier Hoenner, Charlie Huveneers et al. Scientific Data profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vinay Udyawer Australia	14	379	357	318	109	100	42	1.0k
Xavier Hoenner Australia	9	336 0.9×	345 1.0×	253 0.8×	55 0.5×	97 1.0×	15	902
Stephen R. Midway United States	17	512 1.4×	420 1.2×	322 1.0×	66 0.6×	51 0.5×	85	1.2k
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti Russia	22	363 1.0×	442 1.2×	477 1.5×	134 1.2×	68 0.7×	79	1.4k
Kathleen M. C. Tjørve Norway	15	295 0.8×	361 1.0×	164 0.5×	193 1.8×	130 1.3×	37	1.2k
Daniel C. Gledhill Australia	10	303 0.8×	472 1.3×	433 1.4×	58 0.5×	119 1.2×	16	965
Maritza Sepúlveda Chile	21	324 0.9×	841 2.4×	417 1.3×	229 2.1×	85 0.8×	90	1.3k
Woodrow Burchett United States	11	242 0.6×	311 0.9×	210 0.7×	254 2.3×	117 1.2×	20	1.1k
Mitchell J. Eaton United States	16	239 0.6×	366 1.0×	278 0.9×	77 0.7×	110 1.1×	47	1.0k
Vianey Leos‐Barajas United States	12	272 0.7×	373 1.0×	189 0.6×	103 0.9×	29 0.3×	24	683
Keith B. Ferdinands Australia	9	215 0.6×	245 0.7×	224 0.7×	66 0.6×	46 0.5×	21	641

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vinay Udyawer

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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.

Goiran, Claire, et al.. (2025). Wiggle and glide: fine-scale telemetry reveals unique diving strategies in benthic-foraging sea snakes. Movement Ecology. 13(1). 62–62.

Udyawer, Vinay, et al.. (2024). The influence of crocodile density on the prevalence of human attacks. People and Nature. 6(5). 1922–1932. 3 indexed citations

Ferreira, Luciana C., Curt Jenner, Micheline Jenner, et al.. (2024). Predicting suitable habitats for foraging and migration in Eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whales from satellite tracking data. Movement Ecology. 12(1). 42–42. 1 indexed citations

Wolanski, Eric, Rachel Groom, Kay Critchell, et al.. (2023). Improving certainty in marine ecosystems: A biophysical modelling approach in the remote, data-limited Gulf of Carpentaria. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 283. 108254–108254. 4 indexed citations

Shine, Richard, et al.. (2023). Sexual dimorphism in aipysurine sea snakes (Elapidae, Hydrophiinae). Royal Society Open Science. 10(12). 231261–231261. 3 indexed citations

Udyawer, Vinay, et al.. (2023). The southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) remains an important disperser of native plants in fragmented rainforest landscapes. Austral Ecology. 48(4). 787–802. 2 indexed citations

García, Erica A., et al.. (2023). A review of the life history and ecology of euryhaline and estuarine sharks and rays. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 34(1). 65–89. 6 indexed citations

Somaweera, Ruchira, et al.. (2023). Apparent coordinated and communal hunting behaviours by Erabu sea krait Laticauda semifactiata. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 21471–21471. 2 indexed citations

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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

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Goiran, Claire, et al.. (2022). Sea snake diversity at the Entrecasteaux atolls, Coral Sea, as revealed by video observations at unbaited stations. Coral Reefs. 41(6). 1551–1556. 1 indexed citations

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Speed, Conrad W., Nerida G. Wilson, Ruchira Somaweera, et al.. (2022). Video surveys of sea snakes in the mesophotic zone shed light on trends in populations. Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. 1 indexed citations

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Shine, Richard, Vinay Udyawer, & Claire Goiran. (2020). Antipredator tactics: a kin‐selection benefit for defensive spines in coral catfish?. Oikos. 130(2). 240–247. 1 indexed citations

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Schlaff, Audrey, Michelle R. Heupel, Vinay Udyawer, & Colin A. Simpfendorfer. (2020). Sex-based differences in movement and space use of the blacktip reef shark, Carcharhinus melanopterus. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0231142–e0231142. 12 indexed citations

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Udyawer, Vinay, Claire Goiran, Olivier Château, & Richard Shine. (2020). Swim with the tide: Tactics to maximize prey detection by a specialist predator, the greater sea snake (Hydrophis major). PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0239920–e0239920. 11 indexed citations

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Udyawer, Vinay, et al.. (2018). Rates of population differentiation and speciation are decoupled in sea snakes. Biology Letters. 14(10). 20180563–20180563. 14 indexed citations

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Hoenner, Xavier, Charlie Huveneers, Andre Steckenreuter, et al.. (2018). Australia’s continental-scale acoustic tracking database and its automated quality control process. Scientific Data. 5(1). 170206–170206. 237 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brodie, Stephanie, Elodie J. I. Lédée, Michelle R. Heupel, et al.. (2018). Continental-scale animal tracking reveals functional movement classes across marine taxa. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 3717–3717. 297 indexed citations breakdown →

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Udyawer, Vinay, Colin A. Simpfendorfer, & Michelle R. Heupel. (2015). Diel patterns in three-dimensional use of space by sea snakes. Animal Biotelemetry. 3(1). 17 indexed citations

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Udyawer, Vinay, Mark Read, Mark Hamann, Colin A. Simpfendorfer, & Michelle R. Heupel. (2015). Effects of environmental variables on the movement and space use of coastal sea snakes over multiple temporal scales. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 473. 26–34. 26 indexed citations

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