Christine Santora

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Christine Santora is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine Santora has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 4 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Christine Santora's work include Marine and fisheries research (6 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (4 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (4 papers). Christine Santora is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (6 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (4 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (4 papers). Christine Santora collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Christine Santora's co-authors include Ellen K. Pikitch, Elizabeth A. Babcock, Andrew Bakun, Marc Mangel, Keith Sainsbury, David O. Conover, Ramón Bonfil, P Livingston, John G. Pope and Paul K. Dayton and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, ICES Journal of Marine Science and Fish and Fisheries.

In The Last Decade

Christine Santora

9 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Ecosystem-Based Fishery M... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management
    2004 1.7k citations Ellen K. Pikitch, Christine Santora et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christine Santora United States 8 1.9k 1.4k 736 315 284 9 2.3k
Fiona Gell United Kingdom 11 1.7k 0.9× 1.8k 1.3× 582 0.8× 464 1.5× 270 1.0× 22 2.3k
M.K. McAllister United Kingdom 15 2.2k 1.1× 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.5× 276 0.9× 238 0.8× 27 2.7k
Burr Heneman United States 5 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 549 0.7× 265 0.8× 204 0.7× 7 1.8k
P Livingston United States 17 2.3k 1.2× 1.5k 1.1× 930 1.3× 299 0.9× 348 1.2× 50 2.8k
Cody Szuwalski United States 24 2.0k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 1.1k 1.5× 205 0.7× 255 0.9× 53 2.5k
Alida Bundy Canada 32 2.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 651 0.9× 431 1.4× 303 1.1× 67 2.6k
ED Houde United States 17 2.2k 1.1× 1.5k 1.0× 1.0k 1.4× 261 0.8× 561 2.0× 24 2.9k
Valerio Bartolino Sweden 27 1.5k 0.8× 995 0.7× 688 0.9× 152 0.5× 290 1.0× 75 2.0k
Melita Samoilys Kenya 20 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 502 0.7× 348 1.1× 177 0.6× 49 1.8k
Simon P. R. Greenstreet United Kingdom 23 1.6k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 792 1.1× 198 0.6× 348 1.2× 40 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Christine Santora

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christine Santora

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Christine Santora. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Christine Santora. The network helps show where Christine Santora may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christine Santora

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christine Santora. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christine Santora based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christine Santora. Christine Santora is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Gownaris, Natasha J., Christine Santora, John B. Davis, & Ellen K. Pikitch. (2019). Gaps in Protection of Important Ocean Areas: A Spatial Meta-Analysis of Ten Global Mapping Initiatives. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. 23 indexed citations
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Pikitch, Ellen K., Konstantine J. Rountos, Timothy E. Essington, et al.. (2012). The global contribution of forage fish to marine fisheries and ecosystems. Fish and Fisheries. 15(1). 43–64. 348 indexed citations
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Bakun, Andrew, Elizabeth A. Babcock, & Christine Santora. (2009). Regulating a complex adaptive system via its wasp-waist: grappling with ecosystem-based management of the New England herring fishery. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 66(8). 1768–1775. 28 indexed citations
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Bakun, Andrew, et al.. (2009). Issues of ecosystem-based management of forage fisheries in “open” non-stationary ecosystems: the example of the sardine fishery in the Gulf of California. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 20(1). 9–29. 52 indexed citations
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Babcock, Elizabeth A., Ellen K. Pikitch, Murdoch K. McAllister, Panayiota Apostolaki, & Christine Santora. (2005). A perspective on the use of spatialized indicators for ecosystem-based fishery management through spatial zoning. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 62(3). 469–476. 98 indexed citations
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Corkeron, Peter, Ellen K. Pikitch, Christine Santora, et al.. (2004). Fishery management and culling [5] (multiple letters). 306(5703). 1891–1892. 2 indexed citations
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Santora, Christine, et al.. (2004). Managing offshore wind developments in the United States: Legal, environmental and social considerations using a case study in Nantucket Sound. Ocean & Coastal Management. 47(3-4). 141–164. 12 indexed citations
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Pikitch, Ellen K., Christine Santora, Elizabeth A. Babcock, et al.. (2004). Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management. Science. 305(5682). 346–347. 1732 indexed citations breakdown →
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Santora, Christine. (2003). Management of Turtle Bycatch: Can Endangered Species Be Protected while Minimizing Socioeconomic Impacts?. Coastal Management. 31(4). 423–434. 16 indexed citations

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