Christopher Doropoulos

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Christopher Doropoulos is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Doropoulos has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Ecology, 50 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 49 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Christopher Doropoulos's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (67 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (47 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (47 papers). Christopher Doropoulos is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (67 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (47 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (47 papers). Christopher Doropoulos collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Netherlands. Christopher Doropoulos's co-authors include Peter J. Mumby, George Roff, Yves‐Marie Bozec, Russell C. Babcock, Guillermo Díaz-Pulido, Adriana Vergés, Yimnang Golbuu, Glenn A. Hyndes, Mathew A. Vanderklift and Mirta Zupan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Doropoulos

70 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Long-term empirical evidence of ocean warming leading to tropicalization of fish communities, increased herbivory, and loss of kelp

2016 347 citations Adriana Vergés, Christopher Doropoulos et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Doropoulos Australia	30	2.4k	1.7k	1.6k	427	244	75	2.8k
Daniela M. Ceccarelli Australia	24	3.1k 1.3×	2.3k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	618 1.4×	368 1.5×	63	3.5k
Alistair J. Cheal Australia	26	2.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	487 1.1×	161 0.7×	39	2.6k
William F. Precht United States	28	3.5k 1.4×	2.1k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	247 0.6×	274 1.1×	71	3.8k
James R. Guest United Kingdom	31	3.0k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	390 0.9×	173 0.7×	82	3.3k
James T. Kerry Australia	11	2.0k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	241 0.6×	165 0.7×	12	2.3k
Rohan Arthur India	26	1.6k 0.7×	874 0.5×	965 0.6×	383 0.9×	132 0.5×	67	2.0k
Rob Coles Australia	29	2.1k 0.9×	810 0.5×	1.8k 1.1×	261 0.6×	298 1.2×	73	2.6k
Bernat Hereu Spain	31	2.4k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	294 0.7×	220 0.9×	74	3.1k
Mary K. Donovan United States	19	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	923 0.6×	263 0.6×	212 0.9×	43	2.0k
Drosos Koutsoubas Greece	27	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	871 0.5×	434 1.0×	218 0.9×	89	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Doropoulos

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Doropoulos

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20 of 20 papers shown

Doropoulos, Christopher, Mariana Álvarez‐Noriega, Katharina Fabricius, et al.. (2025). Impact of environmental gradients on juvenile coral demography across the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait. Coral Reefs. 44(6). 1875–1891.

Gouezo, Marine, Peter L. Harrison, George Roff, et al.. (2025). Coral larval enhancement with and without nets yields similar recruitment during slack current releases. Restoration Ecology. 34(1). 1 indexed citations

Doropoulos, Christopher, George Roff, Marine Gouezo, et al.. (2025). Larval seedboxes: A modular and effective tool for scaling coral reef restoration. Ecological Applications. 35(7). e70140–e70140.

Doropoulos, Christopher, et al.. (2025). Effects of shading aquaculture pools on coral larvae health and production. Aquaculture. 609. 742953–742953.

Harrison, Peter L., et al.. (2025). Early‐stage coral survivorship using wild larval assemblages on coral seeding devices for reef restoration. Restoration Ecology. 33(3). 3 indexed citations

Vozzo, Maria L., Christina A. Buelow, Michael Sievers, et al.. (2024). Achieving at-scale seascape restoration by optimising cross-habitat facilitative processes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 6 indexed citations

Thomson, Damian P., et al.. (2024). High rates of erosion on a wave‐exposed fringing coral reef. Limnology and Oceanography. 69(6). 1439–1449. 2 indexed citations

Madin, Joshua S., Mike McWilliam, Kate M. Quigley, et al.. (2023). Selecting coral species for reef restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(8). 1537–1544. 20 indexed citations

Gouezo, Marine, et al.. (2023). Underwater macrophotogrammetry to monitor in situ benthic communities at submillimetre scale. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(9). 2494–2509. 5 indexed citations

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Ricardo, Gerard F., et al.. (2023). Fertilisation kinetics among common Indo-Pacific broadcast spawning corals with distinct and shared functional traits. Coral Reefs. 42(6). 1351–1363. 4 indexed citations

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Gouezo, Marine, Katharina Fabricius, Peter L. Harrison, Yimnang Golbuu, & Christopher Doropoulos. (2021). Optimizing coral reef recovery with context-specific management actions at prioritized reefs. Journal of Environmental Management. 295. 113209–113209. 24 indexed citations

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Doropoulos, Christopher, et al.. (2020). Depth gradients drive changes in early successional community composition and associated coral larvae settlement interactions. Marine Biology. 167(5). 12 indexed citations

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Saunders, Megan I., Christopher Doropoulos, Elisa Bayraktarov, et al.. (2020). Bright Spots in Coastal Marine Ecosystem Restoration. Current Biology. 30(24). R1500–R1510. 133 indexed citations

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Hock, Karlo, Christopher Doropoulos, Rebecca Gorton, Scott A. Condie, & Peter J. Mumby. (2019). Split spawning increases robustness of coral larval supply and inter-reef connectivity. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3463–3463. 40 indexed citations

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Mazor, Tessa, Christopher Doropoulos, Florian Schwarzmueller, et al.. (2018). Global mismatch of policy and research on drivers of biodiversity loss. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(7). 1071–1074. 129 indexed citations

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Doropoulos, Christopher, et al.. (2018). Coralline algal metabolites induce settlement and mediate the inductive effect of epiphytic microbes on coral larvae. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 17557–17557. 73 indexed citations

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Vergés, Adriana, Christopher Doropoulos, Hamish A. Malcolm, et al.. (2016). Long-term empirical evidence of ocean warming leading to tropicalization of fish communities, increased herbivory, and loss of kelp. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(48). 13791–13796. 347 indexed citations breakdown →

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Roff, George, Christopher Doropoulos, Alice Rogers, et al.. (2016). The Ecological Role of Sharks on Coral Reefs. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 31(5). 395–407. 235 indexed citations

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Ortiz, Juan Carlos, Yves‐Marie Bozec, Nicholas H. Wolff, Christopher Doropoulos, & Peter J. Mumby. (2014). Global disparity in the ecological benefits of reducing carbon emissions for coral reefs. Nature Climate Change. 4(12). 1090–1094. 50 indexed citations

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Vergés, Adriana, Mathew A. Vanderklift, Christopher Doropoulos, & Glenn A. Hyndes. (2011). Spatial Patterns in Herbivory on a Coral Reef Are Influenced by Structural Complexity but Not by Algal Traits. PLoS ONE. 6(2). e17115–e17115. 87 indexed citations

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