Most cited papers in Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
What are the most cited papers in Fish biology, ecology, and behavior?
The most cited paper in Fish biology, ecology, and behavior is "Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity" (Carina Hoorn, Frank P. Wesselingh, Hans ter Steege et al., 2010), with 2,430 citations. Next come "ALLOMETRY AND SIZE IN ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY" (2,332) and "Coral Point Count with Excel extensions (CPCe): A Visual Basic program for the determination of coral and substrate coverage using random point count methodology" (1,791).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 461 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity Carina Hoorn, Frank P. Wesselingh, Hans ter Steege et al. · Science | 11 Nov 2010 | 2,430 |
| 2 | ALLOMETRY AND SIZE IN ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY Stephen Jay Gould · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | Nov 1966 | 2,332 |
| 3 | Coral Point Count with Excel extensions (CPCe): A Visual Basic program for the determination of coral and substrate coverage using random point count methodology Kevin E. Kohler, Shaun M. Gill · Computers & Geosciences | Mar 2006 | 1,791 |
| 4 | Principles of rhythmic motor pattern generation Eve E. Marder, RL Calabrese · Physiological Reviews | Jul 1996 | 1,330 |
| 5 | Phylogeny and classification of neotropical fishes Luiz Roberto Malabarba, Maria Claudia Malabarba | 1998 | 1,329 |
| 6 | Body Form, Locomotion and Foraging in Aquatic Vertebrates Paul W. Webb · American Zoologist | Feb 1984 | 1,131 |
| 7 | The behaviour and ecology of the zebrafish, Danio rerio Rowena Spence, Gabriele Gerlach, Christian Lawrence et al. · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | 17 Dec 2007 | 1,129 |
| 8 | Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology A. Hallam · Earth-Science Reviews | Dec 1972 | 1,105 |
| 9 | Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis Nicholas K. Dulvy et al. · Current Biology | 6 Sep 2021 | 1,082 |
| 10 | Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification Thomas J. Near, Ron I. Eytan, Alex Dornburg et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 Aug 2012 | 1,008 |
| 11 | Whole-genome duplication in teleost fishes and its evolutionary consequences Stella M.K. Glasauer, Stephan C. F. Neuhauss · Molecular Genetics and Genomics | 4 Aug 2014 | 1,004 |
| 12 | Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes Ricardo Betancur‐R, EDWARD O. WILEY, Gloria Arratia et al. · BMC Evolutionary Biology | 6 Jul 2017 | 997 |
| 13 | Trading-off fish biodiversity, food security, and hydropower in the Mekong River Basin Guy Ziv, Eric Baran, So Nam et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 5 Mar 2012 | 964 |
| 14 | Foraging Efficiency and Body Size: A Study of Optimal Diet and Habitat Use by Bluegills Gary G. Mittelbach · Ecology | Oct 1981 | 924 |
| 15 | Normal table of postembryonic zebrafish development: Staging by externally visible anatomy of the living fish David M. Parichy, Michael R. Elizondo, Margaret G. Mills et al. · Developmental Dynamics | 4 Nov 2009 | 917 |
| 16 | River dynamics and the diversity of Amazon lowland forest Jukka S. Salo, Risto Kalliola, Ilmari Häkkinen et al. · Nature | Jul 1986 | 883 |
| 17 | The Tree of Life and a New Classification of Bony Fishes Ricardo Betancur‐R et al. · PLoS Currents | 2013 | 860 |
| 18 | Current knowledge on non‐native freshwater fish introductions Rodolphe E. Gozlan, J. Robert Britton, I. G. Cowx et al. · Journal of Fish Biology | Mar 2010 | 854 |
| 19 | Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse, Eugenio Yatsuda Arima, Thomas Dunne et al. · Nature | Jun 2017 | 840 |
| 20 | nacre encodes a zebrafish microphthalmia-related protein that regulates neural-crest-derived pigment cell fate James A. Lister, Christie P. Robertson, Thierry Lepage et al. · Development | Sep 1999 | 840 |
| 21 | A review of fish swimming mechanics and behaviour in altered flows James C. Liao · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | May 2007 | 838 |
| 22 | African cichlid fish: a model system in adaptive radiation research Ole Seehausen · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 9 May 2006 | 810 |
| 23 | Dams and the fish fauna of the Neotropical region: impacts and management related to diversity and fisheries Ângelo Antônio Agostinho, FM. Pelicice, Luiz Carlos Gomes · Brazilian Journal of Biology | Nov 2008 | 792 |
| 24 | THE FUNCTIONING and SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LATERAL‐LINE ORGANS Sven Dijkgraaf · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | Feb 1963 | 784 |
| 25 | Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Divergence and Phylogenetic Relationships among Eight Chromosome Races of the Sceloporus Grammicus Complex (Phrynosomatidae) in Central Mexico Elorri Arevalo, S. K. Davis, Jack W. Sites · Systematic Biology | Sep 1994 | 777 |
| 26 | Major patterns of higher teleostean phylogenies: a new perspective based on 100 complete mitochondrial DNA sequences Masaki U. Miya, Hirohiko Takeshima, Hiromitsu Endo et al. · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 10 Dec 2002 | 763 |
| 27 | Homing by path integration in a mammal Marie-Luise Mittelstaedt, H Mittelstaedt · Die Naturwissenschaften | Nov 1980 | 762 |
| 28 | Competition in Tropical Stream Fishes: Support for the Competitive Exclusion Principle Thomas M. Zaret, A. Stanley Rand · Ecology | Mar 1971 | 761 |
| 29 | Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish Marta Barluenga, Kai N. Stölting, Walter Salzburger et al. · Nature | Feb 2006 | 719 |
| 30 | Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America Roberto Esser dos Reis, James S. Albert, Fábio Di Dario et al. · Journal of Fish Biology | 17 Jun 2016 | 706 |
| 31 | A Classification of Major Naturally-Occurring Amazonian Lowland Wetlands Wolfgang Johannes Junk, María Teresa Fernández Piedade, Jochen Schöngart et al. · Wetlands | 7 Jul 2011 | 706 |
| 32 | Andean tectonics as a cause for changing drainage patterns in Miocene northern South America Carina Hoorn, Javier Guerrero, Gustavo A. Sarmiento et al. · Geology | 1995 | 689 |
| 33 | Shifting roles of heterotrophy and autotrophy in coral energetics under varying turbidity Kenneth R. N. Anthony, Katharina Fabricius · Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | Sep 2000 | 683 |
| 34 | Feeding with microbial flocs by tilapia in minimal discharge bio-flocs technology ponds Yoram Avnimelech · Aquaculture | 30 Nov 2006 | 682 |
| 35 | Atlantic reef fish biogeography and evolution Sergio R. Floeter, Luiz Alves Rocha, David Ross Robertson et al. · Journal of Biogeography | 9 Oct 2007 | 667 |
| 36 | Explaining Leptokurtic Movement Distributions: Intrapopulation Variation in Boldness and Exploration Douglas F. Fraser, James F. Gilliam, Michael J. Daley et al. · The American Naturalist | Aug 2001 | 661 |
| 37 | Ecological Impacts of Non-native Freshwater Fishes Julien Cucherousset, Julian D. Olden · Fisheries | May 2011 | 660 |
| 38 | Patterns of variation in life history among South American fishes in seasonal environments Kirk Owen Winemiller · Oecologia | Oct 1989 | 659 |
| 39 | An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales Günther Grill, Bernhard Lehner, Alexander E. Lumsdon et al. · Environmental Research Letters | 2015 | 653 |
| 40 | Interrelationships of the ostariophysan fishes (Teleostei) Sara V. Fink, William L. Fink · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | Aug 1981 | 646 |
| 41 | Comprehensive phylogeny of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) based on transcriptomic and genomic data Lily C. Hughes et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 14 May 2018 | 639 |
| 42 | Critical swimming speed: its ecological relevance Itai Plaut · Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology | Dec 2001 | 639 |
| 43 | Secondary Production in Inland Waters Thomas Franklin Waters · Advances in ecological research/Advances in Ecological Research | 1977 | 636 |
| 44 | Importance of the riparian zone to the conservation and management of freshwater fish: a review Bradley J. Pusey, Angela H. Arthington · Marine and Freshwater Research | 14 Apr 2003 | 635 |
| 45 | Zebrafish in The Wild: A Review of Natural History And New Notes from The Field Raymond E. Engeszer, Larissa B. Patterson, Andrew A. Rao et al. · Zebrafish | Mar 2007 | 627 |
| 46 | The vulnerability of Amazon freshwater ecosystems Leandro Castello, David Gibbs McGrath, Laura L. Hess et al. · Conservation Letters | 2013 | 627 |
| 47 | Synaptic plasticity in a cerebellum-like structure depends on temporal order Curtis C. Bell, Victor Z. Han, Yoshiko Sugawara et al. · Nature | May 1997 | 626 |
| 48 | Whole-genome sequences of Malawi cichlids reveal multiple radiations interconnected by gene flow Milan Malinsky, Hannes Svardal, Alexandra M. Tyers et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution | 19 Nov 2018 | 624 |
| 49 | Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples Matt Finer, Clinton N. Jenkins, Stuart L. Pimm et al. · PLoS ONE | 12 Aug 2008 | 612 |
| 50 | Biodiversity and its conservation in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil Wolfgang Johannes Junk, Cátia Nunes da Cunha, Karl Matthias Wantzen et al. · Aquatic Sciences | 11 Aug 2006 | 608 |
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