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D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
50
Citations
8562
World Ranking
3881
National Ranking
294

Line K. Bay publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 126 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Line K. Bay D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Line K. Bay sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Line K. Bay is affiliated with the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with extensive work in subfields such as ecology, global and planetary change, oceanography, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their scientific contributions emphasize coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and fisheries research, marine and coastal plant biology, marine biology and ecology research, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, ichthyology and marine biology, and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Line K. Bay include Véronique J. L. Mocellin, Emily J. Howells, Kate M. Quigley, Madeleine J. H. van Oppen, and Carly J. Randall.

The most common venues for their publications are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Coral Reefs, Molecular Ecology, Frontiers in Marine Science, and PLoS ONE.

Recent papers by Line K. Bay illustrate a focus on coral genetics, restoration, and thermal tolerance:

  • Population genetics of the coral Acropora millepora: Toward genomic prediction of bleaching (2020) published in Science
  • Interventions to help coral reefs under global change-A complex decision challenge (2020) published in PLoS ONE
  • Reduced thermal tolerance in a coral carrying CRISPR-induced mutations in the gene for a heat-shock transcription factor (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Substrate stabilisation and small structures in coral restoration: State of knowledge, and considerations for management and implementation (2020) published in PLoS ONE
  • Coral restoration and adaptation in Australia: The first five years (2022) published in PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Genomic determinants of coral heat tolerance across latitudes

    Groves B. Dixon;Sarah W. Davies;Galina V. Aglyamova;Eli Meyer

  • Coral thermal tolerance shaped by local adaptation of photosymbionts

    E. J. Howells;V. H. Beltran;V. H. Beltran;N. W. Larsen;L. K. Bay;L. K. Bay

  • Rapid adaptive responses to climate change in corals

    Gergely Torda;Jennifer M. Donelson;Manuel Aranda;Daniel J. Barshis

  • Genes for de novo biosynthesis of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are widespread in animals.

    Naoki Kabeya;Miguel M. Fonseca;David E. K. Ferrier;Juan Carlos Navarro

  • Nutrient Availability and Metabolism Affect the Stability of Coral–Symbiodiniaceae Symbioses

    Luke A. Morris;Luke A. Morris;Christian R. Voolstra;Kate M. Quigley;David G. Bourne;David G. Bourne

  • Population genetics of the coral Acropora millepora: Toward genomic prediction of bleaching

    Zachary L. Fuller;Veronique J. L. Mocellin;Luke A. Morris;Luke A. Morris;Neal Cantin

  • New interventions are needed to save coral reefs

    Ken Anthony;Line K Bay;Robert Costanza;Jennifer Firn

  • Sexual production of corals for reef restoration in the Anthropocene

    Carly J. Randall;Andrew P. Negri;Kate M. Quigley;Taryn Foster

  • Historical thermal regimes define limits to coral acclimatization

    Emily J. Howells;Ray Berkelmans;Madeleine J. H. van Oppen;Madeleine J. H. van Oppen;Bette L. Willis

  • High genetic diversities and complex genetic structure in an Indo-Pacific tropical reef fish ( Chlorurus sordidus ): evidence of an unstable evolutionary past?

    L. K. Bay;J. H. Choat;L. van Herwerden;D. R. Robertson

  • Role of gene body methylation in acclimatization and adaptation in a basal metazoan

    Groves Dixon;Yi Liao;Line K. Bay;Mikhail V. Matz

  • The relationship between population genetic structure and pelagic larval duration in coral reef fishes on the Great Barrier Reef

    L. K. Bay;R. H. Crozier;M. J. Caley

  • CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in a reef-building coral

    Phillip A Cleves;Marie E Strader;Line K Bay;John R Pringle

  • Deep-sequencing method for quantifying background abundances of Symbiodinium types: exploring the rare Symbiodinium biosphere in reef-building corals

    Kate M. Quigley;Sarah W. Davies;Carly D. Kenkel;Bette L. Willis

  • Complex diel cycles of gene expression in coral-algal symbiosis.

    O. Levy;O. Levy;P. Kaniewska;S. Alon;E. Eisenberg

  • Interventions to help coral reefs under global change-A complex decision challenge.

    Kenneth R. N. Anthony;Kenneth R. N. Anthony;Kate J. Helmstedt;Line K. Bay;Pedro Fidelman

  • FRoM MIcRobES To PEoPlE: TRAcTAblE bENEFITS oF No-TAkE AREAS FoR coRAl REEFS

    Nicholas A.J. Graham;Tracy D. Ainsworth;Andrew H. Baird;Natalie C. Ban

  • Adaptation to reef habitats through selection on the coral animal and its associated microbiome

    Madeleine J. H. van Oppen;Madeleine J. H. van Oppen;Pim Bongaerts;Pim Bongaerts;Pedro Frade;Lesa M. Peplow

  • Recovery from bleaching is mediated by threshold densities of background thermo-tolerant symbiont types in a reef-building coral.

    Line K. Bay;Line K. Bay;Jason Doyle;Murray Logan;Raymond Berkelmans

  • Coral restoration and adaptation in Australia: The first five years

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  • Habitat selection and aggression as determinants of spatial segregation among damselfish on a coral reef

    L.K. Bay;G.P. Jones;M.I. McCormick

  • Data from: Genomic determinants of coral heat tolerance across latitudes

    Groves B. Dixon;Sarah W. Davies;Galina A. Aglyamova;Eli Meyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Bette L. Willis
Bette L. Willis James Cook University
Mikhail V. Matz
Mikhail V. Matz The University of Texas at Austin
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen University of Melbourne
Morgan S. Pratchett
Morgan S. Pratchett James Cook University
David G. Bourne
David G. Bourne James Cook University
Andrew H. Baird
Andrew H. Baird James Cook University
Kenneth R. N. Anthony
Kenneth R. N. Anthony Australian Institute of Marine Science
Mark I. McCormick
Mark I. McCormick Southern Cross University
Andrew Heyward
Andrew Heyward Australian Institute of Marine Science
Nicole S. Webster
Nicole S. Webster University of Queensland

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Andrew C. Baker

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Michael L. Berumen

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