Amy E. East

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Amy E. East is a scholar working on Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Amy E. East has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Ecology, 28 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 23 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Amy E. East's work include Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (26 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (23 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (14 papers). Amy E. East is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (26 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (23 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (14 papers). Amy E. East collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Amy E. East's co-authors include Joel B. Sankey, Christopher S. Magirl, Andrew C. Ritchie, Jennifer A. Bountry, Jeffrey J. Duda, George R. Pess, Timothy J. Randle, Jonathan A. Warrick, Joshua B. Logan and Mark C. Mastin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Amy E. East

52 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions

2022 130 citations Ting Zhang, Dongfeng Li et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amy E. East United States	19	804	528	380	319	315	57	1.3k
José Antonio Constantine United States	17	782 1.0×	469 0.9×	460 1.2×	258 0.8×	286 0.9×	30	1.2k
Sara L. Rathburn United States	19	1.1k 1.3×	699 1.3×	180 0.5×	420 1.3×	375 1.2×	46	1.6k
Paul F. Hudson United States	19	948 1.2×	612 1.2×	424 1.1×	441 1.4×	321 1.0×	40	1.4k
Joan L. Florsheim United States	20	858 1.1×	530 1.0×	203 0.5×	505 1.6×	170 0.5×	35	1.3k
Karen B. Gran United States	19	1.1k 1.4×	927 1.8×	412 1.1×	286 0.9×	299 0.9×	41	1.6k
Andrew C. Ritchie United States	20	841 1.0×	402 0.8×	488 1.3×	248 0.8×	265 0.8×	82	1.6k
Scott A. Wright United States	23	987 1.2×	446 0.8×	501 1.3×	219 0.7×	181 0.6×	67	1.4k
Theodore S. Melis United States	20	908 1.1×	367 0.7×	175 0.5×	255 0.8×	163 0.5×	54	1.3k
Oscar Orfeo Argentina	18	967 1.2×	452 0.9×	627 1.6×	184 0.6×	249 0.8×	37	1.3k
Mario L. Amsler Argentina	22	1.1k 1.3×	477 0.9×	480 1.3×	320 1.0×	150 0.5×	55	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amy E. East

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20 of 20 papers shown

East, Amy E., et al.. (2025). Post‐Fire Sediment Yield From a Western Sierra Nevada Watershed Burned by the 2021 Caldor Fire. Earth and Space Science. 12(1). 1 indexed citations

East, Amy E., Andrew W. Stevens, Jonathan A. Warrick, et al.. (2025). River Floods Under Wetter Antecedent Conditions Deliver Coarser Sediment to the Coast. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(8).

Gibson, Stanford, et al.. (2024). Major fluvial erosion and a 500‐Mt sediment pulse triggered by lava‐dam failure, Río Coca, Ecuador. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 49(3). 1058–1080. 8 indexed citations

Xenopoulos, Marguerite A., Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Ankur R. Desai, et al.. (2024). AGU Publications Updates Authorship Policy to Foster Greater Equity and Transparency in Global Research Collaborations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(3). 4 indexed citations

East, Amy E., et al.. (2024). Postfire Sediment Mobilization and Its Downstream Implications Across California, 1984–2021. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 129(8). 5 indexed citations

Buscombe, Daniel, Jonathan A. Warrick, Andrew C. Ritchie, et al.. (2024). Remote Sensing Large‐Wood Storage Downstream of Reservoirs During and After Dam Removal: Elwha River, Washington, USA. Earth and Space Science. 11(8). 3 indexed citations

East, Amy E., Joshua B. Logan, Douglas P. Smith, et al.. (2024). Post‐Fire Sediment Yield From a Central California Watershed: Field Measurements and Validation of the WEPP Model. Earth and Space Science. 11(7). 4 indexed citations

Sankey, Joel B., et al.. (2023). Archaeological sites in Grand Canyon National Park along the Colorado River are eroding owing to six decades of Glen Canyon Dam operations. Journal of Environmental Management. 342. 118036–118036. 2 indexed citations

East, Amy E., Amir AghaKouchak, Graziella Caprarelli, et al.. (2023). Fire in the Earth System: Introduction to the Special Collection. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 128(4). 1 indexed citations

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East, Amy E., Mikaël Attal, A.J.F. Hoitink, & O. V. Sergienko. (2023). Celebrating 20 Years of JGR Earth Surface. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 128(12).

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Hatchett, Benjamin J., Kristen Guirguis, Karl Rittger, et al.. (2023). Midwinter Dry Spells Amplify Post‐Fire Snowpack Decline. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(3). 16 indexed citations

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East, Amy E., Mikaël Attal, A.J.F. Hoitink, & O. V. Sergienko. (2022). Thank You to Our 2021 Reviewers, and a New Co‐Reviewing Protocol. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 127(4). 3 indexed citations

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East, Amy E., Mikaël Attal, A.J.F. Hoitink, & O. V. Sergienko. (2022). Strategic Plan for the Journal of Geophysical Research—Earth Surface. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 127(4). 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ting, Dongfeng Li, Amy E. East, et al.. (2022). Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 3(12). 832–851. 130 indexed citations breakdown →

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East, Amy E., et al.. (2021). Watershed Sediment Yield Following the 2018 Carr Fire, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Northern California. Earth and Space Science. 8(9). 27 indexed citations

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Collins, Brian D., et al.. (2020). Linking Mesoscale Meteorology With Extreme Landscape Response: Effects of Narrow Cold Frontal Rainbands (NCFR). Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 125(10). 17 indexed citations

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East, Amy E., Andrew W. Stevens, Andrew C. Ritchie, et al.. (2018). A regime shift in sediment export from a coastal watershed during a record wet winter, California: Implications for landscape response to hydroclimatic extremes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 43(12). 2562–2577. 29 indexed citations

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Greene, H. Gary, J V Barrie, Daniel S. Brothers, et al.. (2018). Slope failure and mass transport processes along the Queen Charlotte Fault Zone, western British Columbia. Geological Society London Special Publications. 477(1). 85–106. 9 indexed citations

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Johnson, Samuel Y., Peter Dartnell, Guy R. Cochrane, et al.. (2015). California State Waters Map Series: Offshore of Refugio Beach, California. Scientific investigations map. 5 indexed citations

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East, Amy E., George R. Pess, Jennifer A. Bountry, et al.. (2014). Large-Scale Dam Removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: River Channel and Floodplain Geomorphic Change. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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