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D-Index
74
Citations
20664
World Ranking
1115
National Ranking
419

Ruth D. Gates 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 Ruth D. Gates sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 206 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ruth D. Gates 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 Ruth D. Gates sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ruth D. Gates was affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily focused on coral and marine ecosystems, with extensive contributions within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. The scientist's work also spanned related subfields such as ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, biotechnology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The main topics covered in their research included coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal plant biology, marine and fisheries research, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine sponges and natural products, ocean acidification effects and responses, and coastal and marine management.

Some of the frequent publication venues for this scientist were bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Coral Reefs, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Scientific Reports, and Molecular Ecology.

Frequent coauthors in their research included Crawford Drury, Ross Cunning, Hollie M. Putnam, Raphael Ritson-Williams, and Elizabeth A. Lenz.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by this scientist were:

  • Dynamic symbioses reveal pathways to coral survival through prolonged heatwaves (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Divergent symbiont communities determine the physiology and nutrition of a reef coral across a light-availability gradient (2020, The ISME Journal)
  • Coral bleaching response is unaltered following acclimatization to reefs with distinct environmental conditions (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Coral community resilience to successive years of bleaching in Kāne'ohe Bay, Hawai'i (2020, Coral Reefs)
  • Coral Bleaching Susceptibility Is Predictive of Subsequent Mortality Within but Not Between Coral Species (2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)

Ruth D. Gates' research contributed primarily to understanding coral bleaching responses, coral physiology, and resilience under changing environmental conditions, integrating fields such as marine biology and ecology with a focus on global and planetary environmental changes.

Best Publications

  • The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

    Patrick J. Keeling;Patrick J. Keeling;Fabien Burki;Heather M. Wilcox;Bassem Allam

  • Building coral reef resilience through assisted evolution

    Madeleine J. H. van Oppen;James K. Oliver;Hollie M. Putnam;Ruth D. Gates

  • Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally

    David A. Gill;Michael B. Mascia;Gabby N. Ahmadia;Louise Glew

  • Temperature Stress Causes Host Cell Detachment in Symbiotic Cnidarians: Implications for Coral Bleaching

    Ruth D. Gates;Garen Baghdasarian;Leonard Muscatine

  • The Effect of Ocean Acidification on Calcifying Organisms in Marine Ecosystems: An Organism to Ecosystem Perspective

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;James P. Barry;Peter J. Edmunds;Ruth D. Gates

  • The coral core microbiome identifies rare bacterial taxa as ubiquitous endosymbionts

    Tracy D Ainsworth;Lutz Krause;Thomas Bridge;Gergely Torda

  • A new Symbiodinium clade (Dinophyceae) from soritid foraminifera in Hawai'i.

    Xavier Pochon;Ruth D. Gates

  • Shifting paradigms in restoration of the world's coral reefs

    Madeleine Jh van Oppen;Madeleine Jh van Oppen;Ruth D Gates;Linda L Blackall;Neal Cantin

  • Ocean solutions to address climate change and its effects on marine ecosystems

    Jean Pierre Gattuso;Jean Pierre Gattuso;Jean Pierre Gattuso;Alexandre K. Magnan;Alexandre K. Magnan;Laurent Bopp;Laurent Bopp;William W.L. Cheung

  • Are infectious diseases really killing corals? Alternative interpretations of the experimental and ecological data

    Michael P. Lesser;John C. Bythell;Ruth D. Gates;Ron W. Johnstone

  • Functional diversity in coral–dinoflagellate symbiosis

    Michael Stat;Emily Morris;Ruth D. Gates

  • The Physiological Mechanisms of Acclimatization in Tropical Reef Corals

    Ruth D. Gates;Peter J. Edmunds

  • The future of coral reefs: a microbial perspective.

    Tracy D. Ainsworth;Rebecca Vega Thurber;Ruth D. Gates

  • Conservation genetics and the resilience of reef-building corals.

    Madeleine J. H. Van Oppen;Ruth D. Gates

  • Defining the core microbiome in corals' microbial soup

    Alejandra Hernandez-Agreda;Ruth D. Gates;Tracy D. Ainsworth

  • Integrating structure-from-motion photogrammetry with geospatial software as a novel technique for quantifying 3D ecological characteristics of coral reefs

    Jhr Burns;D Delparte;RD Gates;M Takabayashi

  • Photoacclimatization by the coral Montastraea cavernosa in the mesophotic zone: light, food, and genetics

    Michael P. Lesser;Marc Slattery;Michael Stat;Michiko Ojimi

  • The Coral Trait Database, a curated database of trait information for coral species from the global oceans

    Joshua S. Madin;Kristen D. Anderson;Magnus Heide Andreasen;Tom C.L. Bridge;Tom C.L. Bridge

  • Clade D Symbiodinium in Scleractinian Corals: A “Nugget” of Hope, a Selfish Opportunist, an Ominous Sign, or All of the Above?

    Michael Stat;Ruth D. Gates

  • Protein expression and genetic structure of the coral Porites lobata in an environmentally extreme Samoan back reef: does host genotype limit phenotypic plasticity?

    D. J. Barshis;J. H. Stillman;R. D. Gates;R. J. Toonen

  • Response of two species of Indo-Pacific corals, Porites cylindrica and Stylophora pistillata, to short-term thermal stress: The host does matter in determining the tolerance of corals to bleaching

    W.K. Fitt;R.D. Gates;O. Hoegh-Guldberg;J.C. Bythell

Frequent Co-Authors

Hollie M. Putnam
Hollie M. Putnam University of Rhode Island
Michael Stat
Michael Stat University of Newcastle Australia
Peter J. Edmunds
Peter J. Edmunds California State University, Northridge
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg University of Queensland
Tracy D. Ainsworth
Tracy D. Ainsworth University of New South Wales
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen
Madeleine J. H. van Oppen University of Melbourne
Robert J. Toonen
Robert J. Toonen University of Hawaii at Manoa
Michael P. Lesser
Michael P. Lesser University of New Hampshire
Tung-Yung Fan
Tung-Yung Fan National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
Debashish Bhattacharya
Debashish Bhattacharya Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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