Chris Wilcox

27.8k citations
171 papers · 19.5k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 54

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Chris Wilcox

165 papers receiving 18.9k citations

Hit Papers

A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world’s oceans—Urgent solutions required 2023 · 215 citations
21520142026201820222.5k5.0k7.5k

Peers

Chris Wilcox
Comparison fields: 5 of 190
  • Pollution 14.1k
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 9.5k
  • Biomaterials 3.3k
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 1.4k
  • Ocean Engineering 1.7k
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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Wilcox

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Chris Wilcox, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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1 202426
2 20235
3 20235
4 202210
5 202254
6 20217
7 202027
8 202091
9 202021
10 201973
11 2019143
12 2019123
13 201861
14 2018154
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Modelling global distribution, risk and mitigation strategies of floating plastic pollution
20162
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Relating plastic in the ocean to ecological harm, a review of recent progress in risk analysis
20161
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Threat of plastic pollution to seabirds is global, pervasive, and increasing
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2015692
18 2015122
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Optimal Management of an Annual Weed: A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach
20072
20 200323

About Chris Wilcox

Chris Wilcox is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 171 papers that have together received 19.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (72 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (41 papers), Marine and fisheries research (34 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (19 papers), Marine animal studies overview (16 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (16 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (14 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (14.1k citations), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (9.5k citations), Biomaterials (3.3k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (1.4k citations) and Ocean Engineering (1.7k citations). Chris Wilcox has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Britta Denise Hardesty, Kara Lavender Law, Jenna Jambeck, Ramáni Narayan, Roland Geyer, Anthony L. Andrady, Erik van Sebille, Qamar Schuyler, C. Josh Donlan and Kathy A. Townsend. Their work appears in journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, Marine Policy, Marine Pollution Bulletin and Frontiers in Marine Science.

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