Ruth DeFries
Impact in
- Global and Planetary Change top 0.01%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Ecology top 0.01%
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
Papers in
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- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 55
- Fire effects on ecosystems 45
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 42
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 23
- Climate variability and models 23
- Ecology 106
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 56
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation 24
- Co-authors
- Matthew C. Hansen (33 shared papers)J. R. Townshend (12 shared papers)G. J. Collatz (20 shared papers)Gregory P. Asner (6 shared papers)Jonathan A. Foley (6 shared papers)Douglas C. Morton (21 shared papers)Navin Ramankutty (6 shared papers)R. A. Sohlberg (10 shared papers)
- Journals
- Environmental Research Letters (20 papers)Remote Sensing of Environment (12 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (9 papers)Science (8 papers)International Journal of Remote Sensing (8 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesIndiaUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
Ruth DeFries
250 papers receiving 45.9k citations
Ruth DeFries's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 198
- Global and Planetary Change 30.4k
- Ecology 16.8k
- Ecological Modeling 2.8k
- Nature and Landscape Conservation 6.1k
- Atmospheric Science 8.4k
Countries citing papers authored by Ruth DeFries
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Ruth DeFries, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Global Consequences of Land Use Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 9495 |
| 2 | Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009) Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 2156 |
| 3 | Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 1900 |
| 4 | Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 1596 |
| 5 | A global overview of the conservation status of tropical dry forests Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 1040 |
| 6 | CO2 emissions from forest loss Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 1009 |
| 7 | Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 1006 |
| 8 | Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 925 |
| 9 | The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 920 |
| 10 | The Amazon basin in transition Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 878 |
| 11 | NDVI-derived land cover classifications at a global scale Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 861 |
| 12 | Global Percent Tree Cover at a Spatial Resolution of 500 Meters: First Results of the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields Algorithm Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 840 |
| 13 | A human-driven decline in global burned area Hit paper breakdown → | 2017 | 789 |
| 14 | Land-use choices: balancing human needs and ecosystem function Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 680 |
| 15 | Global distribution of C3and C4vegetation: Carbon cycle implications Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 664 |
| 16 | Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 558 |
| 17 | Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 500 |
| 18 | 2002 | 490 | |
| 19 | 2007 | 483 | |
| 20 | Assessing variability and long-term trends in burned area by merging multiple satellite fire products Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 481 |
About Ruth DeFries
Ruth DeFries is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, having authored 258 papers that have together received 48.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (56 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (55 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (45 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (42 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (23 papers), Climate variability and models (23 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (30.4k citations), Ecology (16.8k citations), Ecological Modeling (2.8k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (6.1k citations) and Atmospheric Science (8.4k citations). Ruth DeFries has collaborated with scholars based in United States, India and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Matthew C. Hansen, J. R. Townshend, G. J. Collatz, Gregory P. Asner, Jonathan A. Foley, Douglas C. Morton, Navin Ramankutty, R. A. Sohlberg, Guido R. van der Werf and James T. Randerson. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, Remote Sensing of Environment, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science and International Journal of Remote Sensing.
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