Christopher Costello

16.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
138 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Christopher Costello is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Costello has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 68 papers in Ecology and 38 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Christopher Costello's work include Marine and fisheries research (66 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (49 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (37 papers). Christopher Costello is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (66 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (49 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (37 papers). Christopher Costello collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Christopher Costello's co-authors include Steven D. Gaines, Stephen Polasky, John Lynham, Sarah E. Lester, Daniel Ovando, Crow White, Ray Hilborn, David A. Siegel, Carol McAusland and Olivier Deschênes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Costello

136 papers receiving 7.5k citations

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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.

Tracking the global footprint of fisheries

2018 705 citations David A. Kroodsma, Juan Mayorga et al. Science profile →
Can Catch Shares Prevent Fisheries Collapse?

2008 611 citations Christopher Costello, Steven D. Gaines et al. Science profile →
Status and Solutions for the World’s Unassessed Fisheries

2012 598 citations Christopher Costello, Daniel Ovando et al. Science profile →
Global fishery prospects under contrasting management regimes

2016 450 citations Christopher Costello, Daniel Ovando et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Costello United States	45	5.1k	3.9k	1.7k	1.4k	1.3k	138	7.9k
James N. Sanchirico United States	38	3.4k 0.7×	3.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	816 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	130	5.9k
Tim M. Daw Sweden	42	4.5k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	635 0.4×	648 0.5×	92	7.2k
Natalie C. Ban Canada	50	4.0k 0.8×	4.4k 1.1×	2.7k 1.6×	783 0.5×	598 0.5×	155	8.1k
Mary Ruckelshaus United States	45	5.9k 1.1×	5.6k 1.4×	2.4k 1.5×	2.4k 1.7×	1.0k 0.8×	98	11.7k
Henrik Österblom Sweden	41	3.5k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	644 0.4×	303 0.2×	103	6.4k
Jon Norberg Sweden	32	5.4k 1.0×	3.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.3×	768 0.6×	49	11.4k
Stefan Gelcich Chile	47	3.5k 0.7×	3.3k 0.9×	2.1k 1.3×	470 0.3×	558 0.4×	194	7.2k
Christina C. Hicks United Kingdom	42	3.4k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	589 0.4×	606 0.5×	92	6.6k
Phillip S. Levin United States	48	5.0k 1.0×	4.0k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	2.4k 1.6×	214 0.2×	167	8.3k
William W. L. Cheung Canada	49	7.6k 1.5×	6.1k 1.6×	1.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	291 0.2×	126	11.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Costello

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Costello

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Costello

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Agostini, Vera N., Erik Olsen, Edward H. Allison, et al.. (2025). Charting a science course for the sustainable transformation of aquatic food systems. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 82(1).

Oyanedel, Rodrigo, et al.. (2022). Assessing the drivers of vessel tracking systems adoption for improved small-scale fisheries management. Ocean & Coastal Management. 226. 106265–106265. 9 indexed citations

Villaseñor‐Derbez, Juan Carlos, et al.. (2021). Self-financed marine protected areas. Environmental Research Letters. 16(12). 125001–125001. 12 indexed citations

McDonald, Gavin, Christopher Costello, Jennifer Bone, et al.. (2021). Reply to Swartz et al.: Challenges and opportunities for identifying forced labor using satellite-based fishing vessel monitoring. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(19). 4 indexed citations

Villaseñor‐Derbez, Juan Carlos, John Lynham, & Christopher Costello. (2020). Environmental market design for large-scale marine conservation. Nature Sustainability. 3(3). 234–240. 12 indexed citations

McDonald, Gavin, Christopher Costello, Jennifer Bone, et al.. (2020). Satellites can reveal global extent of forced labor in the world’s fishing fleet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(3). 52 indexed citations

Cabral, Reniel B., Benjamin S. Halpern, Sarah E. Lester, et al.. (2019). Designing MPAs for food security in open-access fisheries. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8033–8033. 38 indexed citations

Kroodsma, David A., Juan Mayorga, Timothy Hochberg, et al.. (2018). Tracking the global footprint of fisheries. Science. 359(6378). 904–908. 705 indexed citations breakdown →

Burgess, Matthew G., Brandon Owashi, Lindsey E. Peavey Reeves, et al.. (2018). Protecting marine mammals, turtles, and birds by rebuilding global fisheries. Science. 359(6381). 1255–1258. 35 indexed citations

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Villaseñor‐Derbez, Juan Carlos, Sean P. Fitzgerald, Stuart Fulton, et al.. (2018). A user-friendly tool to evaluate the effectiveness of no-take marine reserves. PLoS ONE. 13(1). e0191821–e0191821. 14 indexed citations

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Cabral, Reniel B., Juan Mayorga, Michaela Clemence, et al.. (2018). Rapid and lasting gains from solving illegal fishing. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(4). 650–658. 89 indexed citations

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Dee, Laura E., Michel De Lara, Christopher Costello, & Steven D. Gaines. (2017). To what extent can ecosystem services motivate protecting biodiversity?. Ecology Letters. 20(8). 935–946. 36 indexed citations

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Barner, Allison K., Jane Lubchenco, Christopher Costello, et al.. (2015). Solutions for Recovering and Sustaining the Bounty of the Ocean: Combining Fishery Reforms, Rights-Based Fisheries Management, and Marine Reserves. Oceanography. 25(2). 252–263. 37 indexed citations

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Rassweiler, Andrew, Christopher Costello, Ray Hilborn, & David A. Siegel. (2014). Integrating scientific guidance into marine spatial planning. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 281(1781). 20132252–20132252. 59 indexed citations

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Kaffine, Daniel & Christopher Costello. (2011). Unitization of Spatially Connected Renewable Resources. The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 11(1). 24 indexed citations

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McGough, Bruce, Andrew J. Plantinga, & Christopher Costello. (2009). Optimally Managing a Stochastic Renewable Resource under General Economic Conditions. The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 9(1). 14 indexed citations

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Blackwood, Julie C., Alan Hastings, & Christopher Costello. (2009). Cost-effective management of invasive species using linear-quadratic control. Ecological Economics. 69(3). 519–527. 67 indexed citations

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Siegel, David A., Satoshi Mitarai, Christopher Costello, et al.. (2008). The stochastic nature of larval connectivity among nearshore marine populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(26). 8974–8979. 323 indexed citations

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Deacon, Robert T., Dominic P. Parker, & Christopher Costello. (2008). Improving Efficiency by Assigning Harvest Rights to Fishery Cooperatives: Evidence From the Chignik Salmon Co-op. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 10 indexed citations

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Coggins, Jay S., et al.. (2007). Dynamic Environmental Policy with Strategic Firms: Prices Versus Quantities. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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