John K. Carlson

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

John K. Carlson is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Aquatic Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John K. Carlson has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 59 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 38 papers in Aquatic Science. Recurrent topics in John K. Carlson's work include Ichthyology and Marine Biology (99 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (80 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (51 papers). John K. Carlson is often cited by papers focused on Ichthyology and Marine Biology (99 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (80 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (51 papers). John K. Carlson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. John K. Carlson's co-authors include Colin A. Simpfendorfer, Glenn R. Parsons, George H. Burgess, Enric Cortés, Dana M. Bethea, Nicholas K. Dulvy, Ivy E. Baremore, Peter M. Kyne, Alexia Morgan and Sonja V. Fordham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John K. Carlson

122 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays

2021 480 citations Nathan Pacoureau, Cassandra L. Rigby et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John K. Carlson United States	39	3.4k	1.8k	1.3k	1.2k	296	125	3.9k
Peter M. Kyne Australia	26	2.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	840 0.7×	430 1.5×	116	2.7k
Fábio Hissa Vieira Hazin Brazil	27	1.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	809 0.6×	867 0.7×	192 0.6×	182	2.4k
David A. Ebert United States	35	3.7k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	1.5k 1.3×	518 1.8×	186	4.3k
George H. Burgess United States	29	2.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	766 0.6×	964 0.8×	285 1.0×	73	2.8k
Naércio A. Menezes Brazil	29	3.0k 0.9×	736 0.4×	825 0.6×	2.5k 2.1×	297 1.0×	112	3.7k
Demian D. Chapman United States	35	3.4k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.8k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 3.4×	99	4.3k
Ali Serhan Tarkan Türkiye	24	1.5k 0.4×	427 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	228 0.8×	168	2.2k
Wann‐Nian Tzeng Taiwan	32	2.0k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	713 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	238 0.8×	124	3.3k
Douglas F. Markle United States	25	1.6k 0.5×	981 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	748 0.6×	196 0.7×	76	2.5k
Salvador J. Jorgensen United States	23	1.5k 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	281 0.2×	149 0.5×	52	2.3k

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Cardeñosa, Diego, Zhuang Luo, Kyumin Lee, et al.. (2025). Integrating portable qPCR and image recognition to combat illegal trade in sharks and rays. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 38629–38629.

Dedman, Simon, et al.. (2025). Predictive Modeling of Juvenile Smalltooth Sawfish Habitats: Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation. Ecology and Evolution. 15(1). e70592–e70592. 1 indexed citations

Dulvy, Nicholas K., Nathan Pacoureau, Jay H. Matsushiba, et al.. (2024). Ecological erosion and expanding extinction risk of sharks and rays. Science. 386(6726). eadn1477–eadn1477. 15 indexed citations

Cortés, Enric, Rui Coelho, Omar Defeo, et al.. (2024). Blue shark (Prionace glauca) movements, habitat use, and vertical overlap with longline fishing gears in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Marine Biology. 171(5). 1 indexed citations

Brewster, Lauran R., et al.. (2024). Age and growth estimates for the nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) over 17 years in Bimini, The Bahamas. Frontiers in Marine Science. 11. 3 indexed citations

Kyne, Peter M., et al.. (2023). A tangled web: global review of fishing interactions with rhino rays. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 34(1). 131–160. 6 indexed citations

Pacoureau, Nathan, John K. Carlson, Holly K. Kindsvater, et al.. (2023). Conservation successes and challenges for wide-ranging sharks and rays. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(5). e2216891120–e2216891120. 41 indexed citations

Grubbs, R. Dean, et al.. (2023). Observations of fin injury closure in Great Hammerheads and implications for the use of fin-mounted geolocators. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health. 35(2). 53–63. 4 indexed citations

Carlson, John K., et al.. (2023). Age, growth and maturity of the yellow stingray (Urobatis jamaicensis), a biannually reproductive tropical batoid. Journal of Fish Biology. 102(6). 1281–1295. 2 indexed citations

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Carlson, John K. & Ivy E. Baremore. (2021). Growth dynamics of the spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna) off the United States southeast and Gulf of Mexico coasts: a comparison of methods. AquaDocs (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). 3 indexed citations

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Carlson, John K., et al.. (2021). Age validation of great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran), determined by bomb radiocarbon analysis. AquaDocs (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). 2 indexed citations

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Pacoureau, Nathan, Cassandra L. Rigby, Peter M. Kyne, et al.. (2021). Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays. Nature. 589(7843). 567–571. 480 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morgan, Alexia, et al.. (2021). Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Finfish Bycatch in the U.S. Atlantic Bottom Longline Shark Fishery. AquaDocs (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).

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Whitney, Nicholas M., Karissa O. Lear, John Morris, et al.. (2021). Connecting post-release mortality to the physiological stress response of large coastal sharks in a commercial longline fishery. PLoS ONE. 16(9). e0255673–e0255673. 24 indexed citations

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Curtis, Tobey H., Camilla T. McCandless, John K. Carlson, et al.. (2014). Seasonal Distribution and Historic Trends in Abundance of White Sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, in the Western North Atlantic Ocean. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e99240–e99240. 92 indexed citations

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Carlson, John K., et al.. (2012). Relative abundance and size of coastal sharks derived from commercial shark longline catch and effort data. Journal of Fish Biology. 80(5). 1749–1764. 67 indexed citations

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Chapman, Demian D., Colin A. Simpfendorfer, Tonya R. Wiley, et al.. (2011). Genetic Diversity Despite Population Collapse in a Critically Endangered Marine Fish: The Smalltooth Sawfish (Pristis pectinata). Journal of Heredity. 102(6). 643–652. 41 indexed citations

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Sulikowski, James A., et al.. (2007). Age, growth and maturity of the roundel skate, Raja texana, from the Gulf of Mexico, USA. Marine and Freshwater Research. 58(1). 41–53. 34 indexed citations

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Gelsleichter, Jim, Charles A. Manire, N.J. Szabo, et al.. (2005). Organochlorine Concentrations in Bonnethead Sharks (Sphyrna tiburo) from Four Florida Estuaries. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 48(4). 474–483. 56 indexed citations

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Carlson, John K. & Ivy E. Baremore. (2003). Changes in biological parameters of Atlantic sharpnose shark Rhizoprionodon terraenovae in the Gulf of Mexico: evidence for density-dependent growth and maturity?. Marine and Freshwater Research. 54(3). 227–234. 98 indexed citations

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