Christopher G. Mull

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 693 citations indexed

About

Christopher G. Mull is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Aquatic Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher G. Mull has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 693 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 5 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Aquatic Science. Recurrent topics in Christopher G. Mull's work include Ichthyology and Marine Biology (19 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (13 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (5 papers). Christopher G. Mull is often cited by papers focused on Ichthyology and Marine Biology (19 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (13 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (5 papers). Christopher G. Mull collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Christopher G. Mull's co-authors include Christopher G. Lowe, Nicholas K. Dulvy, Kelly A. Young, Kady Lyons, Lindsay N. K. Davidson, Kara E. Yopak, Arne Ø. Mooers, Tyler S. Kuhn, Jeffrey B. Joy and Neil C. Aschliman and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Current Biology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Christopher G. Mull

18 papers receiving 686 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.

Global priorities for conserving the evolutionary history of sharks, rays and chimaeras

2018 224 citations Christopher G. Mull, Tyler S. Kuhn et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher G. Mull United States	13	463	190	143	137	130	22	693
John A. Macdonald New Zealand	12	278 0.6×	344 1.8×	56 0.4×	88 0.6×	119 0.9×	26	652
Elton Pinto Colares Brazil	17	111 0.2×	411 2.2×	229 1.6×	176 1.3×	73 0.6×	46	730
Russell H. Lowers United States	17	205 0.4×	225 1.2×	184 1.3×	35 0.3×	87 0.7×	30	624
Brian Bagatto United States	16	213 0.5×	331 1.7×	86 0.6×	82 0.6×	52 0.4×	30	690
Casey A. Mueller United States	15	230 0.5×	393 2.1×	51 0.4×	137 1.0×	124 1.0×	34	671
Miguel Baptista Portugal	17	147 0.3×	448 2.4×	110 0.8×	151 1.1×	285 2.2×	39	793
Julius Nielsen Denmark	11	219 0.5×	182 1.0×	75 0.5×	31 0.2×	151 1.2×	23	507
Karen M. Dean United States	17	108 0.2×	186 1.0×	236 1.7×	25 0.2×	68 0.5×	38	684
Nicholas C. Wegner United States	19	576 1.2×	446 2.3×	27 0.2×	169 1.2×	280 2.2×	46	869
Jorge Calvo Argentina	21	345 0.7×	696 3.7×	94 0.7×	309 2.3×	406 3.1×	46	1.1k

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Dulvy, Nicholas K., Hollie Booth, Sonja V. Fordham, et al.. (2026). Bending back the curve of shark and ray biodiversity loss. 2(2). 92–115.

Mull, Christopher G., et al.. (2025). Deep-sea mining risks for sharks, rays, and chimaeras. Current Biology. 35(21). 5353–5362.e3. 2 indexed citations

Horswill, Catharine, Holly K. Kindsvater, Nicholas K. Dulvy, et al.. (2025). Imputation of Fisheries Reference Points for Endangered Data‐Poor Fishes, With Application to Rhino Rays. Fish and Fisheries. 26(5). 848–865. 1 indexed citations

Klinard, Natalie V., Christopher G. Mull, Michael R. Heithaus, & M. Aaron MacNeil. (2025). Defining ecological roles of sharks on coral reefs. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 100(6). 2707–2725.

Brooks, George C., et al.. (2025). Fundamental constraints on vertebrate life history are shaped by aquatic–terrestrial transitions and reproductive mode. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(5). 857–866.

Radford, Craig A., et al.. (2023). Quantitative assessment of inner ear variation in elasmobranchs. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 11939–11939. 6 indexed citations

Mull, Christopher G., Nathan Pacoureau, Sebastián A. Pardo, et al.. (2022). Sharkipedia: a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-series. Scientific Data. 9(1). 559–559. 19 indexed citations

Lyons, Kady, Dovi Kacev, & Christopher G. Mull. (2021). An inconvenient tooth: Evaluating female choice in multiple paternity using an evolutionarily and ecologically important vertebrate clade. Molecular Ecology. 30(7). 1574–1593. 17 indexed citations

Mull, Christopher G., Kara E. Yopak, & Nicholas K. Dulvy. (2020). Maternal Investment, Ecological Lifestyle, and Brain Evolution in Sharks and Rays. The American Naturalist. 195(6). 1056–1069. 27 indexed citations

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Kindsvater, Holly K., Christopher G. Mull, Sebastián A. Pardo, Nathan Pacoureau, & Nicholas K. Dulvy. (2020). Sharkipedia: Elasmobranch Traits and Trends Global Database. Summit (Simon Fraser University).

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Yopak, Kara E., Bailey C. McMeans, Christopher G. Mull, et al.. (2019). Comparative Brain Morphology of the Greenland and Pacific Sleeper Sharks and its Functional Implications. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 10022–10022. 17 indexed citations

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Lyons, Kady, Jennifer S. Bigman, Dovi Kacev, et al.. (2019). Bridging disciplines to advance elasmobranch conservation: applications of physiological ecology. Conservation Physiology. 7(1). coz011–coz011. 9 indexed citations

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Mull, Christopher G., Tyler S. Kuhn, Neil C. Aschliman, et al.. (2018). Global priorities for conserving the evolutionary history of sharks, rays and chimaeras. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(2). 288–298. 224 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kacev, Dovi, et al.. (2017). An Introduction to Modelling Abundance and Life History Parameters in Shark Populations. Advances in marine biology. 78. 45–87. 3 indexed citations

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Lyons, Kady, et al.. (2017). Who's My Daddy? Considerations for the influence of sexual selection on multiple paternity in elasmobranch mating systems. Ecology and Evolution. 7(15). 5603–5612. 24 indexed citations

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Lyons, Kady, Aaron B. Carlisle, Christopher G. Mull, et al.. (2013). Effects of trophic ecology and habitat use on maternal transfer of contaminants in four species of young of the year lamniform sharks. Marine Environmental Research. 90. 27–38. 65 indexed citations

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Mull, Christopher G., et al.. (2013). Evidence of Maternal Offloading of Organic Contaminants in White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias). PLoS ONE. 8(4). e62886–e62886. 59 indexed citations

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Abdullah, Maryam M., Wendy A. Goldberg, K. Alison Clarke‐Stewart, et al.. (2011). Heavy Metal in Children’s Tooth Enamel: Related to Autism and Disruptive Behaviors?. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 42(6). 929–936. 78 indexed citations

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Mull, Christopher G., Christopher G. Lowe, & Kelly A. Young. (2009). Seasonal reproduction of female round stingrays (Urobatis halleri): Steroid hormone profiles and assessing reproductive state. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 166(2). 379–387. 52 indexed citations

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Mull, Christopher G., Christopher G. Lowe, & Kelly A. Young. (2008). Photoperiod and water temperature regulation of seasonal reproduction in male round stingrays (Urobatis halleri). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 151(4). 717–725. 48 indexed citations

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