David Righton

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

David Righton is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Righton has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 67 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 46 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David Righton's work include Marine and fisheries research (73 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (65 papers) and Marine animal studies overview (24 papers). David Righton is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (73 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (65 papers) and Marine animal studies overview (24 papers). David Righton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden. David Righton's co-authors include Julian D. Metcalfe, David Sims, Graeme C. Hays, Jonathan W. Pitchford, Kim Aarestrup, John K. Pinnegar, Francis Neat, Georg H. Engelhard, Henrik Svedäng and Emily J. Southall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

David Righton

96 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour

2008 727 citations David Sims, Emily J. Southall et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Righton United Kingdom	36	2.4k	2.2k	2.0k	690	598	97	4.4k
Julian D. Metcalfe United Kingdom	37	2.3k 1.0×	2.9k 1.3×	2.4k 1.2×	649 0.9×	492 0.8×	64	4.8k
Howard I. Browman Norway	40	2.1k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	2.2k 1.1×	504 0.7×	785 1.3×	164	4.9k
André M. Boustany United States	28	2.7k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	2.7k 1.4×	234 0.3×	418 0.7×	44	4.4k
Benjamin H. Letcher United States	43	1.3k 0.5×	3.9k 1.8×	3.1k 1.6×	542 0.8×	859 1.4×	124	5.5k
Kazuya Nagasawa Japan	29	1.2k 0.5×	841 0.4×	3.0k 1.5×	414 0.6×	658 1.1×	375	4.0k
Marc Mangel United States	47	2.5k 1.0×	2.9k 1.3×	3.0k 1.5×	402 0.6×	747 1.2×	164	8.4k
A. Peter Klimley United States	38	1.8k 0.8×	3.9k 1.8×	2.7k 1.4×	202 0.3×	660 1.1×	135	5.0k
David L. G. Noakes Canada	44	1.1k 0.5×	3.9k 1.8×	2.7k 1.4×	196 0.3×	1.5k 2.6×	187	5.6k
Guillaume Lecointre France	41	589 0.2×	2.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	2.2k 3.1×	1.1k 1.8×	105	5.6k
Mark V. Abrahams Canada	28	944 0.4×	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	171 0.2×	403 0.7×	53	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by David Righton

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Righton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Righton

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20 of 20 papers shown

Birch, Samantha, Barbara A. Block, David Righton, et al.. (2025). Annual migrations, vertical habitat use and fidelity of Atlantic bluefin tuna tracked from waters off the United Kingdom. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 293–293. 2 indexed citations

Aarestrup, Kim, Francisco Alemany, Henrik Baktoft, et al.. (2025). Use of accelerometry to measure the dynamics of activity patterns of Atlantic bluefin tuna after tagging and release. Movement Ecology. 13(1). 37–37.

Righton, David, Pieterjan Verhelst, & Håkan Westerberg. (2025). The Blueprint of the European Eel Life Cycle: Does Life‐History Strategy Undermine or Provide Hope for Population Recovery?. Fish and Fisheries. 26(4). 505–519. 3 indexed citations

Birch, Samantha, Barbara A. Block, Lucy A. Hawkes, et al.. (2024). Maximising the value of transmitted data from PSATs tracking marine fish: a case study on Atlantic bluefin tuna. Animal Biotelemetry. 12(1). 7 indexed citations

Birch, Samantha, Barbara A. Block, Martin A. Collins, et al.. (2024). High-resolution biologging of an Atlantic bluefin tuna captured and eaten by a supposed orca. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 29352–29352. 2 indexed citations

Wright, Serena, Christopher A. Griffiths, Victoria Bendall, et al.. (2024). Seasonal migrations of the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) in UK and surrounding waters. Movement Ecology. 12(1). 45–45. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Rebecca K., William H. Morgan, Tatsuya Amano, et al.. (2023). Co‐designing a toolkit for evidence‐based decision making in conservation: Processes and lessons. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). 4 indexed citations

Brieuc, Marine Servane Ono, Jan Dierking, Christoph Petereit, et al.. (2023). Evidence of hybridization between genetically distinct Baltic cod stocks during peak population abundance(s). Evolutionary Applications. 16(7). 1359–1376. 4 indexed citations

Teichert, Nils, Kyoko Suzuki, Anthony Acou, et al.. (2023). Biogeographical snapshot of life-history traits of European silver eels: insights from otolith microchemistry. Aquatic Sciences. 85(2). 2 indexed citations

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Wright, Serena, David Righton, Robert J. Schallert, et al.. (2021). Fidelity of yellowfin tuna to seamount and island foraging grounds in the central South Atlantic Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 172. 103513–103513. 15 indexed citations

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Koster, Wayne M., Kim Aarestrup, Kim Birnie‐Gauvin, et al.. (2021). First tracking of the oceanic spawning migrations of Australasian short-finned eels (Anguilla australis). Scientific Reports. 11(1). 22976–22976. 8 indexed citations

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Adam, Timo, Christopher A. Griffiths, Vianey Leos‐Barajas, et al.. (2019). Joint modelling of multi‐scale animal movement data using hierarchical hidden Markov models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(9). 1536–1550. 44 indexed citations

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Barth, Julia M. I., David Villegas‐Ríos, Carla Freitas, et al.. (2019). Disentangling structural genomic and behavioural barriers in a sea of connectivity. Molecular Ecology. 28(6). 1394–1411. 70 indexed citations

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Strøm, John Fredrik, Audun H. Rikardsen, Steven E. Campana, et al.. (2019). Ocean predation and mortality of adult Atlantic salmon. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 7890–7890. 49 indexed citations

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Mangi, Stephen C., Sven Kupschus, Steven Mackinson, et al.. (2018). Progress in designing and delivering effective fishing industry–science data collection in the UK. Fish and Fisheries. 19(4). 622–642. 20 indexed citations

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Sims, David, Emily J. Southall, Nicolas E. Humphries, et al.. (2008). Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour. Nature. 451(7182). 1098–1102. 727 indexed citations breakdown →

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Righton, David, Victoria A. Quayle, Martin Wæver Pedersen, et al.. (2008). Spatial dynamics of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in the North Sea: results from a large-scale electronic tagging programme. Open MIND. 1–32. 1 indexed citations

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Sims, David, Victoria J. Wearmouth, Emily J. Southall, et al.. (2005). Hunt warm, rest cool: bioenergetic strategy underlying diel vertical migration of a benthic shark. Journal of Animal Ecology. 75(1). 176–190. 228 indexed citations

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Righton, David, Julian D. Metcalfe, & P. Connolly. (2001). Different behaviour of North and Irish Sea cod. Nature. 411(6834). 156–156. 61 indexed citations

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Righton, David, et al.. (2000). Behavioural Switching In North Sea Cod: Implications For Foraging Strategy?. Open MIND. 2 indexed citations

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