W Kay

426 total citations · 1 hit paper
3 papers, 240 citations indexed

About

W Kay is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, W Kay has authored 3 papers receiving a total of 240 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 2 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 2 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in W Kay's work include Marine animal studies overview (2 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (2 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (1 paper). W Kay is often cited by papers focused on Marine animal studies overview (2 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (2 papers) and Avian ecology and behavior (1 paper). W Kay collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Argentina and Netherlands. W Kay's co-authors include Rory P. Wilson, Luca Börger, Agustina Gómez‐Laich, Hannah J. Williams, Urška Demšar, Jonathan R. Potts, Allert I. Bijleveld, Alice M. Trevail, Novella Franconi and Sophie de Grissac and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Animal Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution and PeerJ.

In The Last Decade

W Kay

3 papers receiving 237 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research

2019 201 citations Hannah J. Williams, Lucy A. Taylor et al. Journal of Animal Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W Kay United Kingdom	3	163	79	55	36	30	3	240
Rachael Griffiths Netherlands	3	156 1.0×	68 0.9×	68 1.2×	36 1.0×	55 1.8×	4	277
Holly M. English United Kingdom	7	154 0.9×	80 1.0×	46 0.8×	39 1.1×	29 1.0×	11	271
Lacey F. Hughey United States	7	171 1.0×	70 0.9×	56 1.0×	52 1.4×	40 1.3×	12	289
Roeland A. Bom Netherlands	7	209 1.3×	93 1.2×	54 1.0×	39 1.1×	48 1.6×	24	283
Richard Gunner United Kingdom	6	173 1.1×	98 1.2×	59 1.1×	19 0.5×	31 1.0×	12	229
Anouk Spelt United Kingdom	4	249 1.5×	108 1.4×	63 1.1×	44 1.2×	50 1.7×	6	338
Matthew Rutishauser United States	8	231 1.4×	73 0.9×	49 0.9×	13 0.4×	46 1.5×	9	321
Casey L. Brown United States	8	356 2.2×	56 0.7×	67 1.2×	63 1.8×	52 1.7×	18	450
Hendrik Edelhoff Germany	6	188 1.2×	48 0.6×	55 1.0×	81 2.3×	34 1.1×	10	264
Phil Hopkins United Kingdom	6	117 0.7×	67 0.8×	36 0.7×	13 0.4×	23 0.8×	8	211

Countries citing papers authored by W Kay

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Fields of papers citing papers by W Kay

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W Kay

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

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3 of 3 papers shown

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Williams, Hannah J., Lucy A. Taylor, Simon Benhamou, et al.. (2019). Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(1). 186–206. 201 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kay, W, Ben Evans, Rory P. Wilson, et al.. (2019). Minimizing the impact of biologging devices: Using computational fluid dynamics for optimizing tag design and positioning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(8). 1222–1233. 32 indexed citations

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Wilson, Rory P., Nikolai Liebsch, Agustina Gómez‐Laich, et al.. (2015). Options for modulating intra-specific competition in colonial pinnipeds: the case of harbour seals ( Phoca vitulina ) in the Wadden Sea. PeerJ. 3. e957–e957. 7 indexed citations

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