Villy Christensen

31.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
198 papers, 20.8k citations indexed

About

Villy Christensen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Villy Christensen has authored 198 papers receiving a total of 20.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 164 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 114 papers in Ecology and 36 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Villy Christensen's work include Marine and fisheries research (148 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (103 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (56 papers). Villy Christensen is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (148 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (103 papers) and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (56 papers). Villy Christensen collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Spain. Villy Christensen's co-authors include Daniel Pauly, Carl J. Walters, Rainer Froese, Francisco Torres, Anne Johanne Tang Dalsgaard, Reg Watson, Sylvie Guénette, Marta Coll, Dirk Zeller and U. Rashid Sumaila and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Villy Christensen

194 papers receiving 19.2k citations

Hit Papers

Fishing Down Marine Food ... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1998 2002 2003 1995 1992 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. Fishing Down Marine Food Webs
    1998 3.4k citations Daniel Pauly, Villy Christensen et al. Science profile →
  2. Towards sustainability in world fisheries
    2002 2.2k citations Daniel Pauly, Villy Christensen et al. profile →
  3. Ecopath with Ecosim: methods, capabilities and limitations
    2003 1.4k citations Villy Christensen, Carl J. Walters profile →
  4. Primary production required to sustain global fisheries
    1995 1.4k citations Daniel Pauly, Villy Christensen profile →
  5. ECOPATH II — a software for balancing steady-state ecosystem models and calculating network characteristics
    1992 1.1k citations Villy Christensen, Daniel Pauly profile →
  6. Structuring dynamic models of exploited ecosystems from trophic mass-balance assessments
    1997 755 citations Carl J. Walters, Villy Christensen et al. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries profile →
  7. The Mediterranean Sea under siege: spatial overlap between marine biodiversity, cumulative threats and marine reserves
    2011 485 citations Marta Coll, Chiara Piroddi et al. profile →
  8. Best practice in Ecopath with Ecosim food-web models for ecosystem-based management
    2016 384 citations Johanna J. Heymans, Marta Coll et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Villy Christensen 15.9k 12.8k 4.5k 3.3k 2.0k 198 20.8k
Reg Watson 18.3k 1.2× 16.7k 1.3× 4.9k 1.1× 5.6k 1.7× 4.8k 2.4× 188 28.8k
Carl J. Walters 17.2k 1.1× 12.3k 1.0× 10.5k 2.4× 1.8k 0.5× 2.2k 1.1× 279 24.3k
Karin E. Limburg 12.5k 0.8× 7.4k 0.6× 3.7k 0.8× 2.2k 0.7× 4.5k 2.3× 140 21.5k
Charles H. Peterson 12.1k 0.8× 12.6k 1.0× 3.9k 0.9× 8.0k 2.5× 2.0k 1.0× 159 21.7k
Simon Jennings 16.7k 1.1× 15.1k 1.2× 6.1k 1.4× 5.0k 1.5× 1.9k 1.0× 209 22.2k
Boris Worm 13.5k 0.9× 15.2k 1.2× 7.9k 1.8× 6.9k 2.1× 2.4k 1.2× 143 27.2k
Marta Coll 9.8k 0.6× 8.5k 0.7× 3.1k 0.7× 2.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 295 14.3k
Nicholas A. J. Graham 13.4k 0.8× 16.7k 1.3× 4.3k 1.0× 5.7k 1.8× 2.3k 1.2× 240 20.7k
Alistair J. Hobday 13.5k 0.8× 11.9k 0.9× 3.6k 0.8× 9.4k 2.9× 2.2k 1.1× 319 22.1k
Fiorenza Micheli 13.8k 0.9× 16.7k 1.3× 3.7k 0.8× 9.4k 2.9× 4.2k 2.1× 257 25.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Villy Christensen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Novaglio, Camilla, Julia L. Blanchard, Daniele Bianchi, et al.. (2025). A Skill Assessment Framework for the Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project. Earth s Future. 13(4). 1 indexed citations
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Speller, Camilla, et al.. (2025). Unsettling the record: modelling the devastating cumulative effects of selected environmental stressors and loss of human life caused by colonization in Burrard Inlet, Canada. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1930). 20240040–20240040. 2 indexed citations
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Steenbeek, Jeroen, Pablo Ortega, Raffaele Bernardello, et al.. (2024). Making Ecosystem Modeling Operational–A Novel Distributed Execution Framework to Systematically Explore Ecological Responses to Divergent Climate Trajectories. Earth s Future. 12(3). 5 indexed citations
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Puente, Santiago de la, et al.. (2024). A Fish-Focused Menu: An Interdisciplinary Reconstruction of Ancestral Tsleil-Waututh Diets. Journal of Ethnobiology. 44(3). 247–263. 1 indexed citations
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Paskulin, Lindsey, et al.. (2023). Archaeology demonstrates sustainable ancestral Coast Salish salmon stewardship over thousands of years. PLoS ONE. 18(8). e0289797–e0289797. 4 indexed citations
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Licandeo, Roberto, Santiago de la Puente, Villy Christensen, Ray Hilborn, & Carl J. Walters. (2023). A delay‐differential model for representing small pelagic fish stock dynamics and its application for assessing alternative management strategies under environmental uncertainty. Fish and Fisheries. 24(4). 544–566. 6 indexed citations
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Gregr, Edward J., Villy Christensen, Linda M. Nichol, et al.. (2020). Cascading social-ecological costs and benefits triggered by a recovering keystone predator. Science. 368(6496). 1243–1247. 60 indexed citations
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Coll, Marta, Ekin Akoğlu, Francisco Arreguı́n-Sánchez, et al.. (2015). Modelling dynamic ecosystems: venturing beyond boundaries with the Ecopath approach. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 25(2). 413–424. 68 indexed citations
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Christensen, Villy, Marta Coll, Chiara Piroddi, et al.. (2014). A century of fish biomass decline in the ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 512. 155–166. 126 indexed citations
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Österblom, Henrik, Andrew Merrie, Marc Métian, et al.. (2013). Modeling Social–Ecological Scenarios in Marine Systems. BioScience. 63(9). 735–744. 42 indexed citations
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Coll, Marta, et al.. (2012). Ecosystem effects of bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus thynnus aquaculture in the NW Mediterranean Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 456. 215–231. 16 indexed citations
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Walters, Carl J., Villy Christensen, William Walters, & Kenneth A. Rose. (2010). Representation of multistanza life histories in Ecospace models for spatial organization of ecosystem trophic interaction patterns. 86(2). 439–459. 44 indexed citations
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Walters, Carl J., et al.. (2008). An Ecosim Model for Exploring Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Management Options: Implications of Including Multistanza Life-History Models for Policy Predictions. Bulletin of Marine Science. 83(1). 251–271. 85 indexed citations
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Sherman, Kenneth, Michael P. Sissenwine, Villy Christensen, et al.. (2005). A global movement toward an ecosystem approach to management of marine resources. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 300. 275–279. 78 indexed citations
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Christensen, Villy & Daniel Pauly. (1996). Ecological modeling for all. AquaDocs (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). 19(2). 25–26. 6 indexed citations
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Pauly, Daniel & Villy Christensen. (1996). Rehabilitating fished ecosystems: insights from the past. AquaDocs (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). 19(3). 13–14. 5 indexed citations
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Christensen, Villy & Daniel Pauly. (1995). Fish production, catches and the carrying capacity of the world oceans. AquaDocs (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). 18(3). 34–40. 71 indexed citations
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Bakun, Andrew, Villy Christensen, Caroline A. Curtis, et al.. (1992). The climate and eastern ocean systems project. AquaDocs (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). 15(4). 26–30. 1 indexed citations
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Christensen, Villy, et al.. (1983). A combined fish larval, phytoplankton and oceanographic survey in the Skagerrak and the Kattegat in April 1983. Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 3 indexed citations

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