Stephen D. Cairns

284 total papers · 8.5k total citations
184 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Stephen D. Cairns is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen D. Cairns has authored 184 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Ecology, 75 papers in Oceanography and 65 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Stephen D. Cairns’s work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (135 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (59 papers) and Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology (51 papers). Stephen D. Cairns is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (135 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (59 papers) and Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology (51 papers). Stephen D. Cairns collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Stephen D. Cairns's co-authors include André Freiwald, J. Murray Roberts, Andrew J. Wheeler, Marcelo Visentini Kitahara, Frederick M. Bayer, David J. Miller, Jarosław Stolarski, Sandra Romano, George D. Stanley and Lance Morgan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen D. Cairns

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

Stephen D. Cairns

180 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen D. Cairns

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Stephen D. Cairns

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