William C. Leggett

12.2k citations
160 papers · 9.5k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 55
Topics
Fish Ecology and Management Studies (125 papers)Marine and fisheries research (103 papers)Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (35 papers)

In The Last Decade

William C. Leggett

158 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

Trophic Cascades in a Formerly Cod-Dominated Ecosystem199420262004201520051994250500750

Peers

William C. Leggett
Comparison fields: 5 of 129
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 5.9k
  • Global and Planetary Change 5.8k
  • Ecology 4.2k
  • Aquatic Science 2.4k
  • Oceanography 1.3k
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Fields of papers citing papers by William C. Leggett

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William C. Leggett

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#WorkIndexed citations
1 3
2 31
3 6
4 4
5 97
6 156
7 29
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Trophic Cascades in a Formerly Cod-Dominated Ecosystembreakdown →
922
9 41
10 141
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The relation between otolith size and larval size at hatching for Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua*
11
12 23
13 117
14 203
15 7
16 94
17 38
18 168
19 121
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Water temperature and the migrations of American shad
95

About William C. Leggett

William C. Leggett is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 160 papers that have together received 9.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (125 papers), Marine and fisheries research (103 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (35 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (5.9k citations), Aquatic Science (2.4k citations) and Global and Planetary Change (5.8k citations). William C. Leggett has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Kenneth T. Frank, Brian Petrie, R. Christopher Chambers, Jae S. Choi, George A. Rose, Daniel Boisclair, James E. Carscadden, John Mark Hanson, Thomas A. Johnston and Louis Fortier. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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