Christopher Thomas

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Christopher Thomas is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Thomas has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Christopher Thomas's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (10 papers), Malaria Research and Control (9 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (7 papers). Christopher Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (10 papers), Malaria Research and Control (9 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (7 papers). Christopher Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Christopher Thomas's co-authors include Daniel J. Lang, Arnim Wiek, Matthias Bergmann, Pim Martens, Michael Stauffacher, Mark Swilling, Peter Moll, Steve W. Lindsay, Éric Deleersnijder and Linda J. Saif and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Thomas

51 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science: practice, principles, and challenges

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Thomas United States	26	1.3k	755	517	453	393	53	3.8k
Tina Phillips United States	19	912 0.7×	1.7k 2.3×	452 0.9×	1.1k 2.4×	580 1.5×	31	7.2k
Jennifer Shirk United States	9	664 0.5×	1.3k 1.7×	360 0.7×	744 1.6×	374 1.0×	13	5.1k
Rick Bonney United States	25	1.3k 1.0×	2.9k 3.9×	575 1.1×	1.4k 3.0×	697 1.8×	34	10.1k
Rebecca Jordan United States	34	764 0.6×	625 0.8×	288 0.6×	815 1.8×	619 1.6×	112	5.0k
Heidi L. Ballard United States	24	777 0.6×	895 1.2×	324 0.6×	1.0k 2.3×	584 1.5×	57	5.1k
Andrea Wiggins United States	23	485 0.4×	988 1.3×	345 0.7×	858 1.9×	227 0.6×	52	5.3k
Jonathan Adams United Kingdom	30	616 0.5×	1.7k 2.2×	233 0.5×	690 1.5×	95 0.2×	88	6.3k
Steve Kelling United States	33	991 0.7×	3.3k 4.3×	218 0.4×	335 0.7×	189 0.5×	64	6.7k
Jason F. Shogren United States	61	2.1k 1.6×	1.6k 2.1×	541 1.0×	1.4k 3.0×	1.4k 3.5×	356	13.7k
Xuemei Bai China	50	6.5k 4.9×	1.8k 2.3×	537 1.0×	1.2k 2.6×	1.1k 2.9×	203	14.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Thomas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Thomas

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Thomas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christopher Thomas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christopher Thomas 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 Christopher Thomas. Christopher Thomas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Virgilio, Giovanni Di, Fei Ji, Jason P. Evans, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of CORDEX ERA5-forced NARCliM2.0 regional climate models over Australia using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model version 4.1.2. Geoscientific model development. 18(3). 703–724. 4 indexed citations

Virgilio, Giovanni Di, Jason P. Evans, Fei Ji, et al.. (2025). Design, evaluation, and future projections of the NARCliM2.0 CORDEX-CMIP6 Australasia regional climate ensemble. Geoscientific model development. 18(3). 671–702. 4 indexed citations

Samrat, Nahidul Hoque, Brett Candy, Owen Lewis, et al.. (2025). Observation impact evaluation through data denial experiments in the Met Office global numerical weather prediction system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 151(771).

Thomas, Christopher, et al.. (2024). “In the Greater Context of the Field”: What Undergraduate Reflections on the Research Process Tell us about Information Literacy. portal Libraries and the Academy. 24(2). 405–426. 2 indexed citations

Lambrechts, Jonathan, et al.. (2023). How fine is fine enough? Effect of mesh resolution on hydrodynamic simulations in coral reef environments. Ocean Modelling. 186. 102254–102254. 6 indexed citations

Figueiredo, Joana, Christopher Thomas, Éric Deleersnijder, et al.. (2021). Global warming decreases connectivity among coral populations. Nature Climate Change. 12(1). 83–87. 48 indexed citations

Ajayi, Temitayo, Christopher Thomas, & Andrew J. Schaefer. (2021). The Gap Function: Evaluating Integer Programming Models over Multiple Right-Hand Sides. Operations Research. 70(2). 1259–1270. 3 indexed citations

Madin, Joshua S., Vivian R. Cumbo, Mark W. Denny, et al.. (2017). Coral larvae are poor swimmers and require fine-scale reef structure to settle. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2249–2249. 82 indexed citations

Grech, Alana, Rob Coles, Len McKenzie, et al.. (2016). Spatial patterns of seagrass dispersal and settlement. Diversity and Distributions. 22(11). 1150–1162. 44 indexed citations

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Thomas, Christopher, Tom C. L. Bridge, Joana Figueiredo, Éric Deleersnijder, & Emmanuel Hanert. (2015). Connectivity between submerged and near‐sea‐surface coral reefs: can submerged reef populations act as refuges?. Diversity and Distributions. 21(10). 1254–1266. 36 indexed citations

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Williams, Hefin Wyn, et al.. (2015). Climate suitability for European ticks: assessing species distribution models against null models and projection under AR5 climate. Parasites & Vectors. 8(1). 440–440. 48 indexed citations

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Thomas, Christopher, Dónall Eoin Cross, & Claus Bøgh. (2013). Landscape Movements of Anopheles gambiae Malaria Vector Mosquitoes in Rural Gambia. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e68679–e68679. 44 indexed citations

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Hanert, Emmanuel, Éric Deleersnijder, Thierry Fichefet, et al.. (2012). SLIM: a multi-scale model of the land-sea continuum. Flanders Marine Institute (Flanders Marine Institute). 14. 9603.

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Liu, Shuai, et al.. (2012). Global Bounded Consensus of Multiagent Systems With Nonidentical Nodes and Time Delays. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics). 42(5). 1480–1488. 46 indexed citations

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Thomas, Christopher, Amit Sheth, & William S. York. (2006). Modular Ontology Design Using Canonical Building Blocks in the Biochemistry Domain. Journal of Bioresource Management. 115–127. 13 indexed citations

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Han, Myung Guk, Sonia Cheetham, Marli S.P. Azevedo, Christopher Thomas, & Linda J. Saif. (2005). Immune responses to bovine norovirus-like particles with various adjuvants and analysis of protection in gnotobiotic calves. Vaccine. 24(3). 317–326. 25 indexed citations

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Sahoo, Satya S., Christopher Thomas, Amit Sheth, Cory Henson, & William S. York. (2005). GLYDE—an expressive XML standard for the representation of glycan structure. Carbohydrate Research. 340(18). 2802–2807. 44 indexed citations

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Hoet, Armando E., Jeffrey Smiley, Christopher Thomas, et al.. (2003). Association of enteric shedding of bovine torovirus (Breda virus) and other enteropathogens with diarrhea in veal calves. American Journal of Veterinary Research. 64(4). 485–490. 28 indexed citations

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Thomas, Christopher, David C. James, Robert P. Jenkins, et al.. (2001). Glioblastoma-related gene mutations and over-expression of functional epidermal growth factor receptors in SKMG-3 glioma cells. Acta Neuropathologica. 101(6). 605–615. 25 indexed citations

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Twiss, Sean D., Patrick P. Pomeroy, Christopher Thomas, & J. P. Mills. (2000). Remote Estimation of Grey Seal Length, Width, and Body Mass from Aerial Photography. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 66(7). 859–866. 7 indexed citations

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