Benjamin E. Schaffer

412 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 312 citations indexed

About

Benjamin E. Schaffer is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin E. Schaffer has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 312 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 1 paper in Health. Recurrent topics in Benjamin E. Schaffer's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (4 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (3 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (3 papers). Benjamin E. Schaffer is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (4 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (3 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (3 papers). Benjamin E. Schaffer collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and China. Benjamin E. Schaffer's co-authors include Anna T. Trugman, Matteo Detto, Megan K. Bartlett, David Medvigy, William R. L. Anderegg, Stephen W. Pacala, Christopher R. Schwalm, I. Rodriguez‐Iturbe, Xin‐ping Wang and Zhenlei Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology Letters and Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin E. Schaffer

6 papers receiving 311 citations

Hit Papers

Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought‐kill and r... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought‐kill and recovery patterns
    2018 252 citations Anna T. Trugman, Matteo Detto et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin E. Schaffer United States 5 258 158 150 59 42 6 312
Martin Hertel Germany 5 259 1.0× 147 0.9× 103 0.7× 58 1.0× 53 1.3× 6 321
Elizabeth Stockton United States 3 272 1.1× 149 0.9× 111 0.7× 83 1.4× 51 1.2× 5 325
Matthew Brookhouse Australia 13 227 0.9× 173 1.1× 116 0.8× 27 0.5× 73 1.7× 29 323
Timothy Thrippleton Switzerland 11 202 0.8× 69 0.4× 219 1.5× 38 0.6× 46 1.1× 15 337
Verónica Cruz‐Alonso Spain 9 191 0.7× 82 0.5× 172 1.1× 35 0.6× 72 1.7× 26 319
AP O'Grady Australia 4 314 1.2× 121 0.8× 107 0.7× 52 0.9× 87 2.1× 5 352
Dejan Firm Slovenia 8 217 0.8× 108 0.7× 216 1.4× 42 0.7× 74 1.8× 10 389
Fedör Tatarinov Israel 7 217 0.8× 96 0.6× 110 0.7× 46 0.8× 33 0.8× 10 270
Monika Frehner Switzerland 7 204 0.8× 79 0.5× 160 1.1× 32 0.5× 52 1.2× 27 319
Eric A. Miller United States 8 283 1.1× 275 1.7× 140 0.9× 25 0.4× 99 2.4× 19 493

Countries citing papers authored by Benjamin E. Schaffer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benjamin E. Schaffer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin E. Schaffer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Benjamin E. Schaffer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Benjamin E. Schaffer 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 Benjamin E. Schaffer. Benjamin E. Schaffer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

6 of 6 papers shown
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Espinoza, Baltazar, Aniruddha Adiga, Srinivasan Venkatramanan, et al.. (2023). Coupled models of genomic surveillance and evolving pandemics with applications for timely public health interventions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(48). e2305227120–e2305227120. 6 indexed citations
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Durán, Orencio, Benjamin E. Schaffer, & I. Rodriguez‐Iturbe. (2020). Stochastic dynamics of barrier island elevation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(1). 14 indexed citations
3.
Schaffer, Benjamin E. & I. Rodriguez‐Iturbe. (2018). Water-limited vegetated ecosystems driven by stochastic rainfall: feedbacks and bimodality. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 474(2214). 20170649–20170649. 2 indexed citations
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Trugman, Anna T., Matteo Detto, Megan K. Bartlett, et al.. (2018). Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought‐kill and recovery patterns. Ecology Letters. 21(10). 1552–1560. 252 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Xin‐ping, Benjamin E. Schaffer, Zhenlei Yang, & I. Rodriguez‐Iturbe. (2017). Probabilistic model predicts dynamics of vegetation biomass in a desert ecosystem in NW China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(25). E4944–E4950. 24 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Benjamin E., Jan M. Nordbotten, & I. Rodriguez‐Iturbe. (2015). Plant biomass and soil moisture dynamics: analytical results. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 471(2183). 20150179–20150179. 14 indexed citations

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