Standout 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests
    2009 5.6k citations Craig D. Allen, Alison K. Macalady et al. Forest Ecology and Management profile →
  2. Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?
    2008 3.3k citations Nate G. McDowell, William T. Pockman et al. New Phytologist profile →
  3. On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die‐off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene
    2015 1.9k citations Craig D. Allen, David D. Breshears et al. Ecosphere profile →
  4. Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought
    2005 1.7k citations David D. Breshears, Neil S. Cobb et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality
    2012 1.5k citations Park Williams, Craig D. Allen et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  6. APPLIED HISTORICAL ECOLOGY: USING THE PAST TO MANAGE FOR THE FUTURE
    1999 1.1k citations Thomas W. Swetnam, Craig D. Allen et al. Ecological Applications profile →
  7. Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience
    2016 986 citations Jill F. Johnstone, Craig D. Allen et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment profile →
  8. Drought-induced shift of a forest–woodland ecotone: Rapid landscape response to climate variation
    1998 864 citations Craig D. Allen, David D. Breshears Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION OF SOUTHWESTERN PONDEROSA PINE ECOSYSTEMS: A BROAD PERSPECTIVE
    2002 745 citations Craig D. Allen, Melissa Savage et al. Ecological Applications profile →
  10. Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide
    2015 656 citations Amy C. Bennett, N. G. McDowell et al. Nature Plants profile →
  11. Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate
    2015 639 citations William R. L. Anderegg, Jeffrey A. Hicke et al. New Phytologist profile →
  12. Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming
    2015 563 citations N. G. McDowell, Craig D. Allen Nature Climate Change profile →
  13. The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States
    2016 408 citations James S. Clark, Louis R. Iverson et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  14. Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf area
    2017 372 citations Sarah Greenwood, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  15. Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests
    2022 362 citations William M. Hammond, Park Williams et al. Nature Communications profile →
  16. Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide
    2022 272 citations Henrik Hartmann, Ana Bastos et al. Annual Review of Plant Biology profile →
  17. Structural overshoot of tree growth with climate variability and the global spectrum of drought‐induced forest dieback
    2017 271 citations Alistair S. Jump, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  18. Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening
    2024 57 citations Yuchao Yan, Shilong Piao et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Immediate Impact

52 from Science/Nature 192 hit
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Citing Papers

Warming accelerates global drought severity
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137 intermediate papers

Works of Craig D. Allen being referenced

Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening
2024 Hit
Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests
2022 Hit
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Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Craig D. Allen 22.9k 13.0k 10.8k 7.8k 4.5k 158 28.9k
Nate G. McDowell 22.5k 1.0× 11.1k 0.9× 11.5k 1.1× 5.2k 0.7× 7.5k 1.7× 210 28.2k
David D. Breshears 20.8k 0.9× 11.0k 0.8× 9.8k 0.9× 7.1k 0.9× 4.9k 1.1× 180 28.4k
I. Colin Prentice 18.8k 0.8× 7.1k 0.5× 11.4k 1.0× 9.2k 1.2× 3.7k 0.8× 99 33.7k
I. Colin Prentice 12.8k 0.6× 5.5k 0.4× 9.8k 0.9× 5.8k 0.7× 4.8k 1.1× 263 24.4k
Benjamin Smith 13.1k 0.6× 5.2k 0.4× 5.7k 0.5× 5.5k 0.7× 2.6k 0.6× 202 20.5k
Nina Buchmann 15.5k 0.7× 9.5k 0.7× 5.8k 0.5× 8.0k 1.0× 7.7k 1.7× 352 29.4k
Stephen Sitch 23.7k 1.0× 4.6k 0.4× 10.3k 0.9× 7.1k 0.9× 4.5k 1.0× 263 31.0k
Todd E. Dawson 15.3k 0.7× 6.5k 0.5× 8.7k 0.8× 5.2k 0.7× 8.2k 1.8× 276 26.5k
Alan K. Knapp 15.5k 0.7× 12.2k 0.9× 3.7k 0.3× 11.4k 1.5× 7.0k 1.5× 303 28.9k
Herman H. Shugart 9.5k 0.4× 8.1k 0.6× 3.6k 0.3× 6.3k 0.8× 2.2k 0.5× 273 17.6k

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