Yossi Loya

21.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
265 papers, 15.8k citations indexed

About

Yossi Loya is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Yossi Loya has authored 265 papers receiving a total of 15.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 227 papers in Ecology, 126 papers in Oceanography and 116 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Yossi Loya's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (216 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (95 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (93 papers). Yossi Loya is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (216 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (95 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (93 papers). Yossi Loya collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Australia. Yossi Loya's co-authors include Eugene Rosenberg, Baruch Rinkevich, Maoz Fine, Ariel Kushmaro, Kazuhiko Sakai, Robert van Woesik, Yehuda Benayahu, Esti Kramarsky‐Winter, K. Yamazato and Y. Nakano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yossi Loya

263 papers receiving 15.0k citations

Hit Papers

Coral bleaching: the winners and the lo... 1972 2026 1990 2008 2001 2006 2015 1972 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Coral bleaching: the winners and the losers
    2001 1.2k citations Yossi Loya, Kazuhiko Sakai et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  2. The Coral Probiotic Hypothesis
    2006 500 citations Yossi Loya et al. profile →
  3. Toxicopathological Effects of the Sunscreen UV Filter, Oxybenzone (Benzophenone-3), on Coral Planulae and Cultured Primary Cells and Its Environmental Contamination in Hawaii and the U.S. Virgin Islands
    2015 443 citations Craig A. Downs, Esti Kramarsky‐Winter et al. profile →
  4. Community structure and species diversity of hermatypic corals at Eilat, Red Sea
    1972 435 citations Yossi Loya profile →

Peers

Yossi Loya
Bette L. Willis Australia
Michael P. Lesser United States
Christian R. Voolstra Saudi Arabia
Denis Allemand Monaco
Baruch Rinkevich Israel
David J. Miller Australia
David G. Bourne Australia
Mark E. Hay United States
L. Muscatine United States
Ruth D. Gates United States
Bette L. Willis Australia
Yossi Loya
Citations per year, relative to Yossi Loya Yossi Loya (= 1×) peers Bette L. Willis

Countries citing papers authored by Yossi Loya

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yossi Loya

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yossi Loya

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yossi Loya. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yossi Loya 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 Yossi Loya. Yossi Loya 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
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Kramer, Netanel, et al.. (2024). Quantifying attributes of boring bivalve populations in corals using micro-computed tomography. Frontiers in Marine Science. 11. 1 indexed citations
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Shlesinger, Tom, et al.. (2024). Reproductive ecology of fire corals in the northern Red Sea. Coral Reefs. 43(6). 1673–1685.
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Wiedenmann, Jörg, Cecilia D’Angelo, Cassandra E. Benkwitt, et al.. (2023). Reef-building corals farm and feed on their photosynthetic symbionts. Nature. 620(7976). 1018–1024. 43 indexed citations
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Shumway, Sandra E., et al.. (2023). Feeding on the smallest cells: an in situ study of picoplankton capture by bivalve molluscs from oligotrophic waters. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 3 indexed citations
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Ben‐Zvi, Or, et al.. (2022). Coral fluorescence: a prey-lure in deep habitats. Communications Biology. 5(1). 537–537. 11 indexed citations
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Kramer, Netanel, Raz Tamir, Or Ben‐Zvi, et al.. (2021). Efficient light‐harvesting of mesophotic corals is facilitated by coral optical traits. Functional Ecology. 36(2). 406–418. 22 indexed citations
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Alonso, Íñigo, Gal Eyal, Dan Tchernov, et al.. (2021). Repeatable Semantic Reef-Mapping through Photogrammetry and Label-Augmentation. Remote Sensing. 13(4). 659–659. 32 indexed citations
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Ben‐Zvi, Or, et al.. (2020). Experimental evidence of temperature-induced bleaching in two fluorescence morphs of a Red Sea mesophotic coral. Coral Reefs. 40(1). 187–199. 2 indexed citations
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Kramer, Netanel, Raz Tamir, Gal Eyal, & Yossi Loya. (2020). Coral Morphology Portrays the Spatial Distribution and Population Size-Structure Along a 5–100 m Depth Gradient. Frontiers in Marine Science. 7. 39 indexed citations
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Eyal, Gal, Or Ben‐Zvi, Kazuhiko Sakai, et al.. (2020). A unique reproductive strategy in the mushroom coral Fungia fungites. Coral Reefs. 39(6). 1793–1804. 7 indexed citations
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Ben‐Zvi, Or, Raz Tamir, Nir Keren, et al.. (2020). Photophysiology of a mesophotic coral 3 years after transplantation to a shallow environment. Coral Reefs. 39(4). 903–913. 19 indexed citations
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Shlesinger, Tom & Yossi Loya. (2019). Breakdown in spawning synchrony: A silent threat to coral persistence. Science. 365(6457). 1002–1007. 86 indexed citations
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Meron, Dalit, Hiba Waldman Ben‐Asher, Gal Eyal, et al.. (2019). The Algal Symbiont Modifies the Transcriptome of the Scleractinian Coral Euphyllia paradivisa during Heat Stress. Microorganisms. 7(8). 256–256. 11 indexed citations
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Eyal, Gal, Kazuhiko Sakai, Yoko Nozawa, et al.. (2019). Repetitive sex change in the stony coral Herpolitha limax across a wide geographic range. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 2936–2936. 9 indexed citations
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Eyal, Gal, et al.. (2019). Photoacclimation and induction of light-enhanced calcification in the mesophotic coralEuphyllia paradivisa. Royal Society Open Science. 6(2). 180527–180527. 19 indexed citations
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Ben‐Zvi, Or, Gal Eyal, & Yossi Loya. (2019). Response of fluorescence morphs of the mesophotic coral Euphyllia paradivisa to ultra-violet radiation. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5245–5245. 14 indexed citations
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Loya, Yossi, et al.. (2012). Sperm of the Solitary Coral Ctenactis Echinata Exhibit Longer Telomeres than that of Somatic Tissues. Zoological studies. 51(8). 1475–1480. 2 indexed citations
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Kramarsky‐Winter, Esti, et al.. (2009). Cellular responses in the coral Stylophora pistillata exposed to eutrophication from fish mariculture. Evolutionary ecology research. 11(3). 381–401. 9 indexed citations
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Kramarsky‐Winter, Esti, et al.. (2009). Active Nematocyst Isolation Via Nudibranchs. Marine Biotechnology. 11(4). 441–444. 5 indexed citations
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Loya, Yossi, Kazuhiko Sakai, K. Yamazato, et al.. (2001). Coral bleaching: the winners and the losers. Ecology Letters. 4(2). 122–131. 1241 indexed citations breakdown →

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