W. James Cooper

5.5k total citations
27 papers, 985 citations indexed

About

W. James Cooper is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics and Aquatic Science. According to data from OpenAlex, W. James Cooper has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 985 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 10 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Aquatic Science. Recurrent topics in W. James Cooper's work include Ichthyology and Marine Biology (11 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (9 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (7 papers). W. James Cooper is often cited by papers focused on Ichthyology and Marine Biology (11 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (9 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (7 papers). W. James Cooper collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. W. James Cooper's co-authors include Mark W. Westneat, R. Craig Albertson, Kevin J. Parsons, Richard W. Blob, Ivan Lee, Kamel Fezzaa, Oliver Betz, Lydia L. Smith, Scott J. Steppan and Kenneth A. Mann and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Developmental Biology.

In The Last Decade

W. James Cooper

26 papers receiving 963 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
W. James Cooper United States 17 412 257 245 217 215 27 985
Julia J. Day United Kingdom 24 735 1.8× 502 2.0× 389 1.6× 440 2.0× 29 0.1× 59 1.5k
Christian S. Wirkner Germany 19 163 0.4× 414 1.6× 233 1.0× 298 1.4× 26 0.1× 65 1.0k
Matthew A. Kolmann United States 17 455 1.1× 174 0.7× 56 0.2× 196 0.9× 58 0.3× 49 665
Nathan J. Kley United States 15 373 0.9× 140 0.5× 67 0.3× 408 1.9× 66 0.3× 25 859
Jessica H. Arbour United States 14 361 0.9× 155 0.6× 139 0.6× 336 1.5× 183 0.9× 30 767
Ingmar Werneburg Germany 26 887 2.2× 267 1.0× 180 0.7× 1.3k 6.2× 325 1.5× 104 2.0k
Tanja Schulz‐Mirbach Germany 21 675 1.6× 523 2.0× 84 0.3× 97 0.4× 34 0.2× 34 1.1k
Héctor Botella Spain 17 426 1.0× 113 0.4× 41 0.2× 586 2.7× 126 0.6× 60 957
Patricia L. R. Brennan United States 23 142 0.3× 547 2.1× 317 1.3× 134 0.6× 122 0.6× 62 1.3k
C. Tristan Stayton United States 19 340 0.8× 287 1.1× 178 0.7× 773 3.6× 449 2.1× 30 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by W. James Cooper

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. James Cooper

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

All Works

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Olson, M. Brady, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Polychlorinated Biphenyls on the Development of Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Biomedicines. 12(9). 2068–2068. 1 indexed citations
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Cooper, W. James, et al.. (2024). The effects of diatom polyunsaturated aldehydes on embryonic and larval zebrafish (Danio rerio). Ecotoxicology. 34(2). 292–303. 1 indexed citations
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Murray, Christopher S., et al.. (2023). The combined effects of acidification and acute warming on the embryos of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii). Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 3 indexed citations
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Cooper, W. James, et al.. (2021). Phylogeny of the damselfishes (Pomacentridae) and patterns of asymmetrical diversification in body size and feeding ecology. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0258889–e0258889. 26 indexed citations
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Sweet, Elly M., et al.. (2019). Thyroid hormone modulation during zebrafish development recapitulates evolved diversity in danionin jaw protrusion mechanics. Evolution & Development. 21(5). 231–246. 23 indexed citations
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McMenamin, Sarah K., Casey Carter, & W. James Cooper. (2017). Thyroid Hormone Stimulates the Onset of Adult Feeding Kinematics in Zebrafish. Zebrafish. 14(6). 517–525. 19 indexed citations
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Pabic, Pierre Le, W. James Cooper, & Thomas F. Schilling. (2016). Developmental basis of phenotypic integration in two Lake Malawi cichlids. EvoDevo. 7(1). 3–3. 19 indexed citations
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Smith, Andrew, Nathan Nelson-Maney, Kevin J. Parsons, W. James Cooper, & R. Craig Albertson. (2015). Body Shape Evolution in Sunfishes: Divergent Paths to Accelerated Rates of Speciation in the Centrarchidae. Evolutionary Biology. 42(3). 283–295. 20 indexed citations
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Cooper, W. James, R. Craig Albertson, Richard E. Jacob, & Mark W. Westneat. (2014). Re-description and Reassignment of the DamselfishAbudefduf luridus(Cuvier, 1830) Using Both Traditional and Geometric Morphometric Approaches. Copeia. 2014(3). 473–480. 6 indexed citations
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Albertson, R. Craig, W. James Cooper, & Kenneth A. Mann. (2012). More than Meets the Eye: Functionally Salient Changes in Internal Bone Architecture Accompany Divergence in Cichlid Feeding Mode. PubMed. 2012. 1–9. 7 indexed citations
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Parsons, Kevin J., Viktoria Andreeva, W. James Cooper, Pamela C. Yelick, & R. Craig Albertson. (2011). Morphogenesis of the Zebrafish Jaw: Development Beyond the Embryo. Methods in cell biology. 101. 225–248. 15 indexed citations
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Cooper, W. James, et al.. (2011). Functional and Genetic Integration in the Skulls of Lake Malawi Cichlids. Evolutionary Biology. 38(3). 316–334. 58 indexed citations
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Parsons, Kevin J., W. James Cooper, & R. Craig Albertson. (2011). Modularity of the Oral Jaws Is Linked to Repeated Changes in the Craniofacial Shape of African Cichlids. PubMed. 2011. 1–10. 52 indexed citations
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Albertson, R. Craig, et al.. (2010). Bentho-pelagic divergence of cichlid feeding architecture has been consistent and prodigious during multiple adaptive radiations within African rift-lakes. PLoS ONE. 3(5). 3 indexed citations
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Parsons, Kevin J., W. James Cooper, & R. Craig Albertson. (2009). Limits of Principal Components Analysis for Producing a Common Trait Space: Implications for Inferring Selection, Contingency, and Chance in Evolution. PLoS ONE. 4(11). e7957–e7957. 21 indexed citations
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Cooper, W. James & Mark W. Westneat. (2009). Form and function of damselfish skulls: rapid and repeated evolution into a limited number of trophic niches. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9(1). 24–24. 130 indexed citations
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Cooper, W. James & R. Craig Albertson. (2008). Quantification and variation in experimental studies of morphogenesis. Developmental Biology. 321(2). 295–302. 26 indexed citations
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Cooper, W. James, Lydia L. Smith, & Mark W. Westneat. (2008). Exploring the radiation of a diverse reef fish family: Phylogenetics of the damselfishes (Pomacentridae), with new classifications based on molecular analyses of all genera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52(1). 1–16. 98 indexed citations
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Westneat, Mark W., Oliver Betz, Richard W. Blob, et al.. (2003). Tracheal Respiration in Insects Visualized with Synchrotron X-ray Imaging. Science. 299(5606). 558–560. 202 indexed citations

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