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D-Index
40
Citations
6401
World Ranking
6109
National Ranking
2079

Mark J. Butler publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark J. Butler sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 123 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark J. Butler 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 Mark J. Butler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mark J. Butler is affiliated with Florida International University in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with 57 and 26 publications respectively. Within these, specific focus is observed in subfields such as Applied Psychology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Hypertension
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Harvard Data Science Review
  • BMJ Open

Their work addresses a range of main topics, which include:

  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Some of the recent published papers are:

  • Assessment of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hospitalization and Mortality in Patients With COVID-19 in New York City (2020, JAMA Network Open)
  • Development and Evaluation of a Tailored Mobile Health Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence in Black Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes: Pilot Randomized Feasibility Trial (2020, JMIR mhealth and uhealth)
  • Morning Blood Pressure Surge and Cardiovascular Disease Events and All-Cause Mortality in Blacks (2020, Hypertension)
  • Stress and Depression Are Associated With Life's Simple 7 Among African Americans With Hypertension: Findings From the Jackson Heart Study (2021, American Journal of Hypertension)
  • Telephone-based depression self-management in Hispanic adults with epilepsy: a pilot randomized controlled trial (2021, Translational Behavioral Medicine)

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Karina W. Davidson
  • Thevaa Chandereng
  • Ciarán P Friel
  • Ying Kuen Cheung
  • Stefani D'Angelo

Best Publications

  • Life‐History Evolution in Guppies. VII. The Comparative Ecology of High‐ and Low‐Predation Environments

    David Reznick;Mark J. Butler;Helen Rodd

  • LIFE‐HISTORY EVOLUTION IN GUPPIES (POECILIA RETICULATA) 6. DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY AS A MECHANISM FOR NATURAL SELECTION

    David N. Reznick;Mark J. Butler;F. Helen Rodd;Patrick Ross

  • Ecology: Avoidance of disease by social lobsters

    Donald C. Behringer;Mark J. Butler;Jeffrey D. Shields

  • Cascading Disturbances in Florida Bay, USA: Cyanobacteria Blooms, Sponge Mortality, And Implications For Juvenile Spiny Lobsters Panulirus Argus

    Mark J Butler Iv;John H. Hunt;William F. Herrnkind;Michael J. Childress

  • Sperm economy and limitation in spiny lobsters

    A. B. MacDiarmid;Mark J. Butler

  • An analysis of the mechanisms governing species replacements in crayfish

    Mark J. Butler;Roy A. Stein

  • Larval Connectivity and the International Management of Fisheries

    Andrew S. Kough;Claire B. Paris;Mark J. Butler

  • Behavior constrains the dispersal of long-lived spiny lobster larvae

    Mark J. Butler;Claire B. Paris;Jason S. Goldstein;Hirokazu Matsuda

  • Thinking and managing outside the box: coalescing connectivity networks to build region-wide resilience in coral reef ecosystems

    R. S. Steneck;C. B. Paris;S. N. Arnold;M. C. Ablan-Lagman

  • Factors Affecting the Recruitment of Juvenile Caribbean Spiny Lobsters Dwelling in Macroalgae

    Mark J. Butler Iv;William F. Herrnkind;John H. Hunt

  • Role of physical refugia: implications from a mass sponge die-off in a lobster nursery in Florida

    William F. Herrnkind;Mark J. Butler;John H. Hunt;Michael Childress

  • Population dynamics of juvenile Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, in Florida Bay, Florida

    David Forcucci;Mark J. Butler Iv;John H. Hunt

  • The cause and consequence of ontogenetic changes in social aggregation in New Zealand spiny lobsters

    Mark J. Butler Iv;Alistair B. MacDiarmid;John D. Booth

  • Laboratory predation on the Trinidadian guppy: implications for the size-selective predation hypothesis and guppy life history evolution

    Hayden T. Mattingly;Mark J. Butler

  • Juvenile and adult ecology.

    Mark J. Butler;Robert S. Steneck;William F. Herrnkind

  • The Complete Development of Larval Caribbean Spiny Lobster Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804) in Culture

    Jason S. Goldstein;H. Matsuda;T. Takenouchi;Mark J. Butler

  • Adaptive strategies that reduce predation on Caribbean spiny lobster postlarvae during onshore transport

    Charles A. Acosta;Mark J. Butler

  • Role of mangrove habitat as a nursery for juvenile spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, in Belize.

    Charles A. Acosta;Mark J. Butler

  • Transmission of Panulirus argus virus 1 (PaV1) and its effect on the survival of juvenile Caribbean spiny lobster.

    Mark J. Butler;Donald C. Behringer;Jeffrey D. Shields

  • Settlement of Spiny Lobster, Panulirus Argus (Latreille, 1804), in Florida: Pattern Without Predictability?

    William F. Herrnkind;Mark J. Butler

Frequent Co-Authors

William F. Herrnkind
William F. Herrnkind Florida State University
Claire B. Paris
Claire B. Paris University of Miami
Richard F. Preziosi
Richard F. Preziosi Plymouth University
Robert S. Steneck
Robert S. Steneck University of Maine
Peter F. Sale
Peter F. Sale University of Windsor
David N. Reznick
David N. Reznick University of California, Riverside
Jelle Atema
Jelle Atema Boston University
Kimberly S. Reece
Kimberly S. Reece Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Harold G. Marshall
Harold G. Marshall Old Dominion University
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs Old Dominion University

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