Christopher Craft

10.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
109 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Christopher Craft is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Craft has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Ecology, 26 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 25 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Christopher Craft's work include Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (79 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (36 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (25 papers). Christopher Craft is often cited by papers focused on Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (79 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (36 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (25 papers). Christopher Craft collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Christopher Craft's co-authors include Stephen W. Broome, Curtis J. Richardson, Ernest D. Seneca, John N. Sacco, J. Patrick Megonigal, Hongyu Guo, John M. Marton, Ellen R. Herbert, Jonathan Clough and Richard Park and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Craft

106 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Estimating Global “Blue Carbon” Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems

2012 1.1k citations Christopher Craft et al. profile →
Forecasting the effects of accelerated sea‐level rise on tidal marsh ecosystem services

2008 611 citations Christopher Craft, Jonathan Clough et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Craft United States	41	5.5k	1.6k	1.2k	1.2k	1.2k	109	6.8k
James T. Morris United States	51	7.1k 1.3×	3.8k 2.3×	1.3k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	149	9.0k
Irving A. Mendelssohn United States	52	6.9k 1.3×	2.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	671 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	153	9.2k
Robert R. Twilley United States	55	8.9k 1.6×	3.5k 2.2×	2.1k 1.8×	1.0k 0.9×	2.7k 2.3×	178	11.2k
Gail L. Chmura Canada	32	5.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	601 0.5×	1.9k 1.7×	83	6.8k
Víctor H. Rivera‐Monroy United States	40	4.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	412 0.4×	1.2k 1.0×	99	5.8k
Mark M. Brinson United States	34	3.5k 0.6×	526 0.3×	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	415 0.4×	78	5.1k
Christian J. Sanders Australia	41	4.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	745 0.6×	767 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	170	5.7k
Linda A. Deegan United States	42	4.1k 0.7×	623 0.4×	1.6k 1.4×	1.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	112	5.8k
J. Patrick Megonigal United States	58	9.3k 1.7×	2.2k 1.3×	3.8k 3.2×	1.8k 1.6×	1.8k 1.5×	182	13.4k
Gregory B. Noe United States	41	2.8k 0.5×	671 0.4×	834 0.7×	946 0.8×	382 0.3×	102	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Craft

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Craft

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Craft

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Xie, Tian, Zhonghua Ning, Baoshan Cui, et al.. (2025). Overlooked discrepancies in protocols undermine coastal restoration practices in China. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).

Pennings, Steven C., et al.. (2025). Decomposing the Tea Bag Index and finding slower organic matter loss rates at higher elevations and deeper soil horizons in a minerogenic salt marsh. Biogeosciences. 22(2). 435–453. 1 indexed citations

Schubauer‐Berigan, Joseph P., et al.. (2024). Resistance and resilience: Tidal freshwater marsh response and recovery to acute and chronic saltwater intrusion. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 307. 108911–108911. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Rachel S., Steven C. Pennings, Merryl Alber, Christopher Craft, & James E. Byers. (2024). The resistance of Georgia coastal marshes to hurricanes. Ecosphere. 15(4). 3 indexed citations

Craft, Christopher, Scott C. Neubauer, James T. Morris, et al.. (2024). Metal accumulation in salt marsh soils along the East Coast of the United States. The Science of The Total Environment. 922. 171025–171025.

Hladik, Christine M., et al.. (2024). Multivariate Analysis of the Community Composition of Tidal Freshwater Forests on the Altamaha River, Georgia. Forests. 15(1). 200–200. 1 indexed citations

Weston, Nathaniel B., et al.. (2023). Recent Acceleration of Wetland Accretion and Carbon Accumulation Along the U.S. East Coast. Earth s Future. 11(3). 19 indexed citations

Craft, Christopher. (2022). Tidal marsh restoration on Sapelo Island: A legacy of R.J. Reynolds, Jr., Eugene Odum and the University of Georgia Marine Institute. Ecological Engineering. 187. 106875–106875. 7 indexed citations

Crotty, Sinéad M., Maitane Olabarrieta, Andrew H. Altieri, et al.. (2020). Sea-level rise and the emergence of a keystone grazer alter the geomorphic evolution and ecology of southeast US salt marshes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(30). 17891–17902. 53 indexed citations

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Li, Shanze, Tian Xie, Steven C. Pennings, et al.. (2019). A comparison of coastal habitat restoration projects in China and the United States. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14388–14388. 28 indexed citations

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Widney, Sarah, et al.. (2019). Chronic but not acute saltwater intrusion leads to large release of inorganic N in a tidal freshwater marsh. The Science of The Total Environment. 695. 133779–133779. 15 indexed citations

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Herbert, Ellen R., Joseph P. Schubauer‐Berigan, & Christopher Craft. (2018). Differential effects of chronic and acute simulated seawater intrusion on tidal freshwater marsh carbon cycling. Biogeochemistry. 138(2). 137–154. 50 indexed citations

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Craft, Christopher. (2016). Climate Change and the Fate of Coastal Wetlands. 33(3). 70–73. 7 indexed citations

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Marton, John M., Irena F. Creed, David B. Lewis, et al.. (2015). Geographically Isolated Wetlands are Important Biogeochemical Reactors on the Landscape. BioScience. 65(4). 408–418. 168 indexed citations

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Drake, Katherine, et al.. (2015). Carbon Sequestration in Tidal Salt Marshes of the Northeast United States. Environmental Management. 56(4). 998–1008. 51 indexed citations

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Craft, Christopher, et al.. (2011). Book reviews: "Learning to solve problems: A handbook for designing problem-solving learning environments," David H. Jonassen. Educational technology: The magazine for managers of change in education. 51(3). 55–57. 46 indexed citations

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Schubauer‐Berigan, Joseph P., et al.. (2011). Effects of five years of nitrogen and phosphorus additions on a Zizaniopsis miliacea tidal freshwater marsh. Aquatic Botany. 95(1). 17–23. 36 indexed citations

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Craft, Christopher, et al.. (2009). SLR and ecosystem services: a response to Kirwan and Guntenspergen. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 7(3). 127–128. 8 indexed citations

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Craft, Christopher. (2007). Freshwater input structures soil properties, vertical accretion, and nutrient accumulation of Georgia and U.S tidal marshes. Limnology and Oceanography. 52(3). 1220–1230. 247 indexed citations

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Craft, Christopher. (1996). Dynamics of nitrogen and phosphorus retention during wetland ecosystem succession. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 4(3). 177–187. 82 indexed citations

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