Topic · Ichthyology and Marine Biology
Most cited papers in Ichthyology and Marine Biology
What are the most cited papers in Ichthyology and Marine Biology?
The most cited paper in Ichthyology and Marine Biology is "DNA barcoding Australia's fish species" (Robert DeC. Ward, Tyler Zemlak, Bronwyn H Innes et al., 2005), with 4,368 citations. Next come "ALLOMETRY AND SIZE IN ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY" (2,332) and "Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays" (2,066).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 443 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DNA barcoding Australia's fish species Robert DeC. Ward, Tyler Zemlak, Bronwyn H Innes et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 15 Sep 2005 | 4,368 |
| 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 | Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays Nicholas K. Dulvy et al. · eLife | 21 Jan 2014 | 2,066 |
| 4 | The effects of fishing on sharks, rays, and chimaeras (chondrichthyans), and the implications for marine ecosystems John D. Stevens · ICES Journal of Marine Science | Jun 2000 | 1,730 |
| 5 | Activating Mutations of the Stimulatory G Protein in the McCune–Albright Syndrome Lee Scott Weinstein, Andrew Shenker, Pablo V. Gejman et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 12 Dec 1991 | 1,716 |
| 6 | Shallow population histories in deep evolutionary lineages of marine fishes: insights from sardines and anchovies and lessons for conservation W. Stewart Grant · Journal of Heredity | Sep 1998 | 1,696 |
| 7 | Cascading Effects of the Loss of Apex Predatory Sharks from a Coastal Ocean Ransom A. Myers, Julia K. Baum, Travis D. Shepherd et al. · Science | 30 Mar 2007 | 1,381 |
| 8 | Phylogeny and classification of neotropical fishes Luiz Roberto Malabarba, Maria Claudia Malabarba | 1998 | 1,329 |
| 9 | Statistical ecology: a primer on Methods and Computing Charles E. McCulloch · Mathematical Biosciences | Aug 1989 | 1,233 |
| 10 | Collapse and Conservation of Shark Populations in the Northwest Atlantic Julia K. Baum, Ransom A. Myers, Daniel G. Kehler et al. · Science | 16 Jan 2003 | 1,200 |
| 11 | AMNIOTE PHYLOGENY AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FOSSILS Jacques Henri Maurice Gauthier, Arnold G. Kluge, Timothy Rowe · Cladistics | Jun 1988 | 1,091 |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef: differential susceptibilities among taxa Paul Marshall, Andrew H. Baird · Coral Reefs | 27 Jul 2000 | 1,058 |
| 14 | Understanding impacts of fisheries bycatch on marine megafauna Rebecca L. Lewison, Larry B. Crowder, Alan Read et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 18 Sep 2004 | 1,037 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes Daniel L. Rabosky, Jonathan Chang, Pascal O. Title et al. · Nature | Jul 2018 | 1,002 |
| 17 | Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes Ricardo Betancur‐R, EDWARD O. WILEY, Gloria Arratia et al. · BMC Evolutionary Biology | 6 Jul 2017 | 997 |
| 18 | Patterns and ecosystem consequences of shark declines in the ocean Francesco Ferretti, Boris Worm, Gregory L. Britten et al. · Ecology Letters | 26 May 2010 | 983 |
| 19 | Standardized diet compositions and trophic levels of sharks Enric Cortés · ICES Journal of Marine Science | Oct 1999 | 973 |
| 20 | Tongues, tentacles and trunks: the biomechanics of movement in muscular-hydrostats William M. Kier, Kathleen K. Smith · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | Apr 1985 | 918 |
| 21 | The Tree of Life and a New Classification of Bony Fishes Ricardo Betancur‐R et al. · PLoS Currents | 2013 | 860 |
| 22 | Repeated, long-distance migrations by a philopatric predator targeting highly contrasting ecosystems James S. E. Lea, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Nuno C. Queiroz et al. · Scientific Reports | 9 Jun 2015 | 859 |
| 23 | The Evolution of Dinosaurs Paul C. Sereno · Science | 25 Jun 1999 | 835 |
| 24 | Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays Nathan Pacoureau, Cassandra L. Rigby, Peter M. Kyne et al. · Nature | 27 Jan 2021 | 824 |
| 25 | Self-recruitment in a coral reef fish population Geoffrey Paul Jones, Maria J. Milicich, Michael J. Emslie et al. · Nature | Dec 1999 | 790 |
| 26 | You can swim but you can't hide: the global status and conservation of oceanic pelagic sharks and rays Nicholas K. Dulvy, Julia K. Baum, Shelley Clarke et al. · Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems | 22 May 2008 | 785 |
| 27 | Analysis of the influence of substrate variables on coral reef fish communities Brian E. Luckhurst, Kirsten Luckhurst · Marine Biology | 1978 | 784 |
| 28 | THE FUNCTIONING and SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LATERAL‐LINE ORGANS Sven Dijkgraaf · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | Feb 1963 | 784 |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils Per G. P. Ericson, Cajsa Lisa Anderson, Tom Britton et al. · Biology Letters | 9 Aug 2006 | 761 |
| 31 | Molecular Phylogeny of the Animal Kingdom Katharine G. Field, Gary J. Olsen, David J. W. Lane et al. · Science | 12 Feb 1988 | 753 |
| 32 | Shark nursery areas: concepts, definition, characterization and assumptions Michelle RaNae Heupel, JK Carlson, Colin Ashley Simpfendorfer · Marine Ecology Progress Series | 14 May 2007 | 749 |
| 33 | Elephant shark genome provides unique insights into gnathostome evolution Byrappa Venkatesh et al. · Nature | 7 Jan 2014 | 738 |
| 34 | Biology of Marine Mammals M.B. Santos Vázquez · Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology | Jun 2000 | 734 |
| 35 | Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish Marta Barluenga, Kai N. Stölting, Walter Salzburger et al. · Nature | Feb 2006 | 719 |
| 36 | The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution Chris T. Amemiya et al. · Nature | Apr 2013 | 702 |
| 37 | Regional Management Units for Marine Turtles: A Novel Framework for Prioritizing Conservation and Research across Multiple Scales Bryan P. Wallace et al. · PLoS ONE | 17 Dec 2010 | 687 |
| 38 | Atlantic reef fish biogeography and evolution Sergio R. Floeter, Luiz Alves Rocha, David Ross Robertson et al. · Journal of Biogeography | 9 Oct 2007 | 667 |
| 39 | Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: critique and cladistic analysis Jeffrey A. Wilson · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | 13 Sep 2002 | 651 |
| 40 | 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 |
| 41 | Mortality, growth and reproduction in scleractinian corals following bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef AH Baird, PA Marshall · Marine Ecology Progress Series | 2002 | 632 |
| 42 | Global catches, exploitation rates, and rebuilding options for sharks Boris Worm, Brendal Davis, Lisa Elena Kettemer et al. · Marine Policy | Mar 2013 | 627 |
| 43 | 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 |
| 44 | Early Evolution and Higher-Level Phylogeny of Sauropod Dinosaurs Jeffrey A. Wilson, Paul C. Sereno · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | 15 Jun 1998 | 624 |
| 45 | An exceptionally well-preserved theropod dinosaur from the Yixian Formation of China Peiji Chen, Zhi-Ming Dong, Shuonan Zhen · Nature | 1998 | 624 |
| 46 | The global economic cost of sea lice to the salmonid farming industry Mark J. Costello · Journal of Fish Diseases | 2009 | 587 |
| 47 | Two feathered dinosaurs from northeastern China Qiang Ji, Philip J. Currie, Mark Allen Norell et al. · Nature | Jun 1998 | 587 |
| 48 | Phylogenies without roots? A plea for the use of vouchers in molecular phylogenetic studies Fredrik Pleijel, Ulf Jondelius, Erika Norlinder et al. · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 25 Mar 2008 | 584 |
| 49 | Viviparity: The Maternal-Fetal Relationship in Fishes John P. Wourms · American Zoologist | May 1981 | 579 |
| 50 | RECRUITMENT FAILURE, LIFE HISTORIES, AND LONG-TERM DECLINE OF CARIBBEAN CORALS Terry P. Hughes, Jason Elliot Tanner · Ecology | Aug 2000 | 575 |
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