My research is covered in major international outlets, including The New York Times, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, NPR, BBC, National Geographic, Scientific American, and other leading outlets across 20+ countries (e.g., Agencia EFE, Le Monde, Die Zeit, and Der Spiegel). Coverage includes print, radio, TV, and film, featuring dedicated segments in the documentary Ocean with David Attenborough; national public radio in the USA, Australia, Canada, and Germany; and the Freakonomics podcast. My work has also inspired a joke on Late Night with Seth Meyers and appeared as a question on a German prime-time trivia show (Wer weiß denn sowas? on ARD). Five papers rank in the top 0.01–0.5% of all ~30 million research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric, a leading global index of research visibility.

Detailed Coverage by Publication

Raynor, et al. (2025): Top 0.5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric. Selected coverage includes: The New York Times, NPR (Weekend Edition), The Conversation, Deutsche Welle, Agencia EFE (world’s largest Spanish-language wire service, with wide international syndication), Deutschlandfunk (Germany), GEO (Germany), Le Temps (Switzerland), Oceanographic Magazine (UK), Space.com, Phys.org, and Carbon Pulse (UK), with additional feature coverage in 50+ outlets across 20+ countries.

Paolo, Kroodsma, Raynor, et al. (2024): Top 0.03% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric. Selected coverage includes: Financial Times, The Economist, NPR (Short Wave), BBC, The Guardian, Nature News, Smithsonian Magazine, New Scientist, The Verge, Tech Crunch, Space.com, Le Monde (France), Die Zeit (Germany), El Tiempo (Colombia), and elDiario.es (Spain); broadcast coverage from The Weather Channel, ABC TV and radio (Australia), and Times Radio (UK). Complete collated coverage available here.

Medoff, Lynham, and Raynor (2022): Top 0.2% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric. Selected coverage includes: a feature in the documentary Ocean with David Attenborough; print coverage from Bloomberg, BBC, The Guardian, National Geographic, Nature News, Science News, AAAS, Popular Science, Der Spiegel (Germany), ABC (Australia), Mongabay, and several local media outlets; broadcast coverage from Science Friday, Hawaii Public Radio, and German Public Radio (Deutschlandfunk)

Raynor, Grainger, and Parker (2021): Top 0.01% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric. Selected coverage includes: The Atlantic, The Economist, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, BBC, and the Freakonomics podcast; additional coverage in Ars Technica, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, ScienceNews, Daily Mail (UK), DerStandard (Austria), El País (Spain), FRB (France), and FOX6 News Milwaukee (print, TV), with broadcast coverage from CBC Radio (Quirks and Quarks, Canada) and ABC Radio National (Late Night Live, Australia)

Lynham, Nikolaev, Raynor, et al. (2020): Top 0.01% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric. Selected coverage includes: National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, Mongabay

Additional interviews: Important not Important podcast, Our Shared Seas, Nautilus