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Social Sciences and Humanities
Canada
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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98
Citations
38350
World Ranking
107
National Ranking
8

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D-Index
100
Citations
39929
World Ranking
1502
National Ranking
43

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award

Overview

U. Rashid Sumaila is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on marine and fisheries research. Their academic work spans several key subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Economics and Econometrics, and Oceanography.

The primary topics addressed in their research include:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies

Sumaila's work has been published extensively in a range of scientific journals and venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Marine Policy (21 publications)
  • npj Ocean Sustainability (16 publications)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science (9 publications)
  • Nature Food (8 publications)
  • Science (5 publications)

They have contributed to recent influential papers such as:

  • Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution, 2020, Science
  • Blue food demand across geographic and temporal scales, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Viewpoint: Rigorous monitoring is necessary to guide food system transformation in the countdown to the 2030 global goals, 2021, Food Policy
  • Climate change, tropical fisheries and prospects for sustainable development, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Marine high temperature extremes amplify the impacts of climate change on fish and fisheries, 2021, Science Advances

Sumaila collaborates frequently with a set of coauthors, including:

  • William W. L. Cheung (35 joint publications)
  • Ibrahim Issifu (21 joint publications)
  • Colette C. C. Wabnitz (19 joint publications)
  • Vicky W. Y. Lam (16 joint publications)
  • Daniel J. Skerritt (16 joint publications)

In addition to journal articles, Sumaila has contributed to books published by recognized academic publishers. These include:

  • Hot Water Rising: The Impact of Climate Change on Indonesia's Fisheries and Coastal Communities, World Bank eBooks, 2023
  • A Research Agenda for Sustainable Ocean Governance, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025

Best Publications

  • Towards sustainability in world fisheries

    Daniel Pauly;Villy Christensen;Sylvie Guénette;Tony J. Pitcher

  • Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st Century

    Henrique M. Pereira;Paul W. Leadley;Vania Proenca;Rob Alkemade

  • Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios

    J. P. Gattuso;J. P. Gattuso;A. Magnan;R. Bille;W. W. L. Cheung

  • Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution

    Winnie W. Y. Lau;Yonathan Shiran;Richard M. Bailey;Ed Cook

  • A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

    Derek P. Tittensor;Derek P. Tittensor;Matt Walpole;Samantha L. L. Hill;Daniel G. Boyce;Daniel G. Boyce

  • An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean

    Benjamin S. Halpern;Catherine Longo;Darren Hardy;Karen L. McLeod

  • Climate change impacts on the biophysics and economics of world fisheries

    U. Rashid Sumaila;William W. L. Cheung;Vicky W. Y. Lam;Daniel Pauly

  • Marine reserves can mitigate and promote adaptation to climate change.

    Callum M. Roberts;Bethan C. O’Leary;Douglas J. McCauley;Philippe Maurice Cury

  • Management Effectiveness of the World's Marine Fisheries

    Camilo Mora;Ransom A. Myers;Marta Coll;Simone Libralato

  • Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs

    Joshua E. Cinner;Cindy Huchery;M. Aaron MacNeil;M. Aaron MacNeil;M. Aaron MacNeil;Nicholas A.J. Graham;Nicholas A.J. Graham

  • The global contribution of forage fish to marine fisheries and ecosystems

    Ellen K Pikitch;Konstantine J Rountos;Timothy E Essington;Christine Santora

  • Contribution of marine fisheries to worldwide employment

    Lydia C L Teh;U R Sumaila

  • Women and fisheries: Contribution to food security and local economies

    Sarah Harper;Dirk Zeller;Melissa Hauzer;Daniel Pauly

  • Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy

    Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor;Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor;Jessica Blythe;Jennifer J. Silver

  • A bottom-up re-estimation of global fisheries subsidies

    U. Rashid Sumaila;Ahmed S. Khan;Andrew J. Dyck;Reg Watson

  • Global scope and economics of illegal fishing

    U.R. Sumaila;J. Alder;H. Keith

  • Just Transformations to Sustainability

    Nathan J. Bennett;Jessica Blythe;Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor;Gerald G. Singh

  • Intergenerational discounting: a new intuitive approach

    Ussif R. Sumaila;Carl Walters

  • Subsidies, buybacks, and sustainable fisheries

    Colin W. Clark;Gordon R. Munro;Ussif Rashid Sumaila

  • Blue food demand across geographic and temporal scales.

    Rosamond L. Naylor;Avinash Kishore;U. Rashid Sumaila;Ibrahim Issifu

  • The economics of fishing the high seas

    Enric Sala;Juan Mayorga;Christopher Costello;David Kroodsma

  • A Global Ex-vessel Fish Price Database: Construction and Applications

    U. Rashid Sumaila;A. Dale Marsden;Reg Watson;Daniel Pauly

Frequent Co-Authors

William W. L. Cheung
William W. L. Cheung University of British Columbia
Daniel Pauly
Daniel Pauly University of British Columbia
Dirk Zeller
Dirk Zeller University of Western Australia
Reg Watson
Reg Watson University of Tasmania
Christina C. Hicks
Christina C. Hicks Lancaster University
David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Nicholas A. J. Graham
Nicholas A. J. Graham Lancaster University
John N. Kittinger
John N. Kittinger Arizona State University
Nathan J. Bennett
Nathan J. Bennett University of British Columbia
Philippe Le Billon
Philippe Le Billon University of British Columbia

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