Alan Grainger

13.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Alan Grainger is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Grainger has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 11 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Alan Grainger's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (28 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (11 papers). Alan Grainger is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (28 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (11 papers). Alan Grainger collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Alan Grainger's co-authors include Oliver L. Phillips, Lera Miles, Barend Erasmus, Rhys E. Green, Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira, Stephen E. Williams, Lesley Hughes, Chris D. Thomas, A. Townsend Peterson and Miguel A. Ortega‐Huerta and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Alan Grainger

68 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit 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 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.

Extinction risk from climate change

2004 5.5k citations Chris D. Thomas, A. Cameron et al. Nature profile →
Dynamics of global forest area: Results from the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015

2015 1.2k citations Alan Grainger et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Grainger

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Grainger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Grainger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alan Grainger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alan Grainger based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alan Grainger. Alan Grainger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Land productivity declines in the GGW while human contributions to restoration far outweighing degradation 2025 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Xiaosong Li, (unknown), Graciela Metternicht, Alan Grainger, Yude Pan, Qi Lu, Amos T. Kabo–bah	1
2	Are Global Environmental Uncertainties Inevitable? Measuring Desertification for the SDGs 2022 ·Sustainability ·Alan Grainger	3
3	Reducing Global Environmental Uncertainties in Reports of Tropical Forest Carbon Fluxes to REDD+ and the Paris Agreement Global Stocktake 2020 ·Remote Sensing ·Alan Grainger, (unknown)	9
4	Designing a new science-policy communication mechanism for the UN Convention to Combat Desertification 2016 ·Environmental Science & Policy ·Mariam Akhtar‐Schuster, Farshad Amiraslani, (unknown), Richard Escadafal, Emil Fulajtár, Alan Grainger, Klaus Kellner, Sadiq Ibrahim Khan, (unknown), (unknown), Lindsay C. Stringer, (unknown), Richard J. Thomas	21
5	Exploring Sustainable Development 2013 ·(unknown), Alan Grainger	16
6	Reducing uncertainty about hybrid lay-scientific concepts 2010 ·Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability ·Alan Grainger	6
7	Biodiversity and REDD at Copenhagen 2009 ·Current Biology ·Alan Grainger, Douglas H. Boucher, Peter C. Frumhoff, William F. Laurance, Thomas Ε. Lovejoy, Jeffrey A. McNeely, (unknown), Peter H. Raven, Navjot S. Sodhi, Oscar Venter, Stuart L. Pimm	64
8	Difficulties in tracking the long-term global trend in tropical forest area 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Alan Grainger	291
9	The influence of end-users on the temporal consistency of an international statistical process: the case of tropical Forest Statistics 2007 ·Journal of Official Statistics ·Alan Grainger	12
10	Will climate change catch us off guard 2004 ·A. Cameron, Chris D. Thomas, Rhys E. Green, Michel Bakkenes, Linda J. Beaumont, Yvonne C. Collingham, Barend Erasmus, (unknown), Alan Grainger, Lee Hannah, Lesley Hughes, Brian Huntley, (unknown), Guy F. Midgley, Lera Miles, (unknown), (unknown), Oliver L. Phillips, Stephen E. Williams	1
11	Extinction risk from climate change breakdown → 2004 ·Nature ·Chris D. Thomas, A. Cameron, Rhys E. Green, Michel Bakkenes, Linda J. Beaumont, Yvonne C. Collingham, Barend Erasmus, Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira, Alan Grainger, Lee Hannah, Lesley Hughes, Brian Huntley, Albert S. van Jaarsveld, Guy F. Midgley, Lera Miles, Miguel A. Ortega‐Huerta, A. Townsend Peterson, Oliver L. Phillips, Stephen E. Williams	5527
12	Multivariate mapping of spatial variation in biodiversity in Peruvian Amazonia 2003 ·Diversity and Distributions ·S.C. Rose, Alan Grainger	5
13	The impact of changes in agricultural technology on long-term trends in deforestation 2003 ·Land Use Policy ·Alan Grainger, Herminia A. Francisco, (unknown)	16
14	Compensating for opportunity costs in forest‐based global climate change mitigation 1997 ·Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology ·Alan Grainger	5
15	An Evaluation of the FAO Tropical Forest Resource Assessment, 1990 1996 ·Geographical Journal ·Alan Grainger	35
16	National Land Use Morphology: Patterns and Possibilities 1995 ·Geography ·Alan Grainger	110
17	Carbon sequestration in tropical Asia: an assessment of technically suitable forest lands using geographic information systems analysis 1993 ·Climate Research ·(unknown), Sandra Brown, Alan Grainger, Ashish Prasad, (unknown)	34
18	Desertification: how people make deserts, how people can stop and why they don't. 1982 ·OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) ·Alan Grainger, Jon Tinker	17
19	The state of the world's tropical forests. 1980 ·Alan Grainger	23
20	THE BAMBURI RECLAMATION PROJECT 1980 ·(unknown), Alan Grainger	10

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