Brian Beckage

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Brian Beckage is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Beckage has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 39 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 20 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Brian Beckage's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (35 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (21 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers). Brian Beckage is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (35 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (21 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers). Brian Beckage collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Sweden. Brian Beckage's co-authors include James S. Clark, William Platt, Louis J. Gross, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Bruce L. Haines, Barton D. Clinton, Timothy D. Perkins, Daniel G. Gavin, Jonathan M. Winter and Thomas G. Siccama and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Brian Beckage

90 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate–social system

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Beckage United States	38	2.3k	2.2k	1.2k	870	721	94	4.4k
Μαργαρίτα Αριανούτσου Greece	30	1.8k 0.8×	2.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	917 1.1×	378 0.5×	84	4.3k
Michael D. Morecroft United Kingdom	39	1.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.5×	568 0.8×	86	5.0k
Jon Moen Sweden	38	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	1.0k 1.5×	108	4.8k
Patrick J. Baker Australia	37	2.2k 1.0×	2.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	623 0.7×	1.4k 1.9×	138	4.7k
Drew W. Purves United Kingdom	43	3.0k 1.3×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	557 0.8×	70	5.1k
Timothy J. Killeen United States	32	2.1k 0.9×	2.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	991 1.4×	65	5.7k
Zehao Shen China	31	1.4k 0.6×	3.0k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	133	6.3k
Kerstin Wiegand Germany	37	3.0k 1.3×	2.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.7×	1.2k 1.4×	358 0.5×	99	5.7k
Marielos Peña‐Claros Netherlands	39	3.3k 1.4×	3.4k 1.5×	1.0k 0.8×	895 1.0×	415 0.6×	102	5.5k
Mark S. Ashton United States	38	2.2k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	639 0.7×	242 0.3×	152	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Beckage

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Beckage

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Beckage

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Constantino, Sara M., et al.. (2025). Climate change and opinion dynamics models: Linking individual, social, and institutional level changes. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 64. 101528–101528. 2 indexed citations

Beckage, Brian, Lisa Chase, David Conner, et al.. (2024). Regional food system sustainability: Using team science to develop an indicator-based assessment framework. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1–24.

Eyster, Harold N., et al.. (2024). Space‐for‐time substitutions exaggerate urban bird–habitat ecological relationships. Journal of Animal Ecology. 93(12). 1854–1867. 3 indexed citations

Eyster, Harold N. & Brian Beckage. (2023). Arboreal Urban Cooling Is Driven by Leaf Area Index, Leaf Boundary Layer Resistance, and Dry Leaf Mass per Leaf Area: Evidence from a System Dynamics Model. Atmosphere. 14(3). 552–552. 12 indexed citations

Winter, Jonathan M., et al.. (2023). Twenty-first century increases in total and extreme precipitation across the Northeastern USA. Climatic Change. 176(6). 14 indexed citations

Beckage, Brian, et al.. (2023). Integrating climate change into projections of soil carbon sequestration from regenerative agriculture. PLOS Climate. 2(3). e0000130–e0000130. 3 indexed citations

Zia, Asim, Andrew W. Schroth, Jory S. Hecht, et al.. (2022). Climate Change‐Legacy Phosphorus Synergy Hinders Lake Response to Aggressive Water Policy Targets. Earth s Future. 10(5). 13 indexed citations

Molofsky, Jane, Daniel Park, David M. Richardson, et al.. (2022). Optimal differentiation to the edge of trait space (EoTS). Evolutionary Ecology. 36(5). 743–752. 3 indexed citations

Beckage, Brian, et al.. (2021). Prevalence of Face Mask Wearing in Northern Vermont in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Public Health Reports. 136(4). 451–456. 17 indexed citations

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Pereira, Laura, David R. Morrow, Valentina Aquila, et al.. (2021). From fAIrplay to climate wars: making climate change scenarios more dynamic, creative, and integrative. Ecology and Society. 26(4). 9 indexed citations

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Braun, Benjamin, et al.. (2020). Simulating phase transitions and control measures for network epidemics caused by infections with presymptomatic, asymptomatic, and symptomatic stages. PLoS ONE. 15(9). e0238412–e0238412. 14 indexed citations

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Perkins, Timothy D., et al.. (2019). Long‐term monitoring reveals forest tree community change driven by atmospheric sulphate pollution and contemporary climate change. Diversity and Distributions. 26(3). 270–283. 8 indexed citations

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Divíšek, Jan, Milan Chytrý, Brian Beckage, et al.. (2018). Similarity of introduced plant species to native ones facilitates naturalization, but differences enhance invasion success. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4631–4631. 166 indexed citations

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Huang, Huei‐Ping, et al.. (2018). Simulating Extreme Precipitation in the Lake Champlain Basin using a Regional Climate Model: Limitations and Uncertainties. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018.

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Bucini, Gabriela, Brian Beckage, & Louis J. Gross. (2017). Climate seasonality, fire and global patterns of tree cover. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Beckage, Brian, et al.. (2017). Small-scale genotypic richness stabilizes plot biomass and increases phenotypic variance in the invasive grass Phalaris arundinacea. Journal of Plant Ecology. 11(1). 47–55. 6 indexed citations

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Beckage, Brian, et al.. (2012). Individual variation and weak neutrality as determinants of forest diversity. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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Beckage, Brian, Louis J. Gross, William Platt, William Godsoe, & Daniel Simberloff. (2012). perspective: Individual variation and weak neutrality as determinants of forest diversity. Frontiers of Biogeography. 3(4). 5 indexed citations

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Tang, Guoping & Brian Beckage. (2010). Projecting the distribution of forests in New England in response to climate change. Diversity and Distributions. 16(1). 144–158. 57 indexed citations

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Beckage, Brian, Lawrence Joseph, Patrick Bélisle, David B. Wolfson, & William Platt. (2007). Bayesian change‐point analyses in ecology. New Phytologist. 174(2). 456–467. 47 indexed citations

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