Bruce C. Forbes

13.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
107 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Bruce C. Forbes is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce C. Forbes has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Atmospheric Science, 41 papers in General Health Professions and 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Bruce C. Forbes's work include Climate change and permafrost (60 papers), Indigenous Studies and Ecology (41 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (29 papers). Bruce C. Forbes is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (60 papers), Indigenous Studies and Ecology (41 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (29 papers). Bruce C. Forbes collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United States and United Kingdom. Bruce C. Forbes's co-authors include Marc Macias‐Fauria, Timo Kumpula, Pentti Zetterberg, Florian Stammler, Julienne Strœve, Nancy J. Turner, Michael B. Mascia, Tracy Dobson, Leah S. Horowitz and J. Peter Brosius and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Bruce C. Forbes

102 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Conservation and the Social Sciences

2003 505 citations Bruce C. Forbes et al. profile →
The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world

2019 337 citations Eric Post, Richard B. Alley et al. Science Advances profile →
Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome

2020 265 citations Logan T. Berner, Richard Massey et al. Nature Communications profile →
New climate models reveal faster and larger increases in Arctic precipitation than previously projected

2021 195 citations Michelle McCrystall, Julienne Strœve et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruce C. Forbes Finland	35	2.7k	1.5k	1.2k	1.0k	576	107	4.9k
Henry P. Huntington United States	39	1.6k 0.6×	2.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.8×	1.7k 2.9×	130	5.5k
Gary P. Kofinas United States	23	463 0.2×	711 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	614 0.6×	695 1.2×	56	3.0k
Jon Moen Sweden	38	1.0k 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	482 0.5×	203 0.4×	108	4.8k
Robert W. Corell United States	10	960 0.4×	574 0.4×	1.9k 1.6×	404 0.4×	1.6k 2.8×	20	4.6k
Christian Nellemann Norway	33	253 0.1×	2.0k 1.4×	727 0.6×	710 0.7×	402 0.7×	61	3.7k
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele de Strihou Belgium	21	1.1k 0.4×	568 0.4×	1.9k 1.6×	102 0.1×	551 1.0×	57	4.3k
David Dunkerley Australia	38	702 0.3×	1.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	107 0.1×	255 0.4×	140	4.2k
James R. Miller United States	42	2.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	4.0k 3.4×	76 0.1×	375 0.7×	139	7.4k
Andrew Kliskey United States	24	223 0.1×	600 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	409 0.4×	683 1.2×	98	2.7k
Thomas F. Stocker Switzerland	16	1.3k 0.5×	414 0.3×	2.5k 2.1×	96 0.1×	745 1.3×	22	4.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Eilola, Salla, Tim Horstkotte, Bruce C. Forbes, et al.. (2024). Perceptions on and impacts of environmental changes under multiple stressors: a case study from two communities in northern Fennoscandia. Regional Environmental Change. 24(2). 1 indexed citations

Laptander, Roza, Florian Stammler, Bruce C. Forbes, & Sari Stark. (2024). Ways of identifying lichen and plant species by the Nenets reindeer herders in Yamal. Arctic Science. 10(4). 713–730. 1 indexed citations

Ménard, Cécile B., Sirpa Rasmus, Ioanna Merkouriadi, et al.. (2024). Exploring the decision-making process in model development: focus on the Arctic snowpack. The cryosphere. 18(10). 4671–4686.

Ramirez, Juan Ignacio, Maja K. Sundqvist, Robert G. Björk, et al.. (2024). Reindeer grazing reduces climate‐driven vegetation changes and shifts trophic interactions in the Fennoscandian tundra. Oikos. 2024(11). 3 indexed citations

Forbes, Bruce C. & Florian Stammler. (2023). Innovation exceeds fear of climate change in Greenland. Nature Climate Change. 13(7). 603–605. 1 indexed citations

McCrystall, Michelle, Julienne Strœve, Mark C. Serreze, Bruce C. Forbes, & James A. Screen. (2021). New climate models reveal faster and larger increases in Arctic precipitation than previously projected. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6765–6765. 195 indexed citations breakdown →

Serreze, Mark C., A. P. Barrett, Matthew L. Druckenmiller, et al.. (2021). Arctic rain on snow events: bridging observations to understand environmental and livelihood impacts. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 105009–105009. 39 indexed citations

Epstein, Howard E., Donald A. Walker, Gerald V. Frost, et al.. (2020). Spatial patterns of arctic tundra vegetation properties on different soils along the Eurasia Arctic Transect, and insights for a changing Arctic. Environmental Research Letters. 16(1). 14008–14008. 10 indexed citations

Berner, Logan T., Richard Massey, Patrick Jantz, et al.. (2020). Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4621–4621. 265 indexed citations breakdown →

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Post, Eric, Richard B. Alley, Torben R. Christensen, et al.. (2019). The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world. Science Advances. 5(12). eaaw9883–eaaw9883. 337 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nilsson, Annika E., Marcus Carson, Bruce C. Forbes, et al.. (2019). Towards improved participatory scenario methodologies in the Arctic. Polar Geography. 44(2). 75–89. 28 indexed citations

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Kolari, Tiina H. M., Timo Kumpula, Mariana Verdonen, Bruce C. Forbes, & Teemu Tahvanainen. (2019). Reindeer grazing controls willows but has only minor effects on plant communities in Fennoscandian oroarctic mires. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 51(1). 506–520. 16 indexed citations

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Loranty, M. M., Benjamin W. Abbott, Daan Blok, et al.. (2018). Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 2 indexed citations

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Loranty, M. M., Benjamin W. Abbott, Daan Blok, et al.. (2018). Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions. Biogeosciences. 15(17). 5287–5313. 161 indexed citations

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Forbes, Bruce C., Marc Macias‐Fauria, & Pentti Zetterberg. (2009). Russian Arctic warming and ‘greening’ are closely tracked by tundra shrub willows. Global Change Biology. 16(5). 1542–1554. 425 indexed citations

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Walker, Donald A., Marina Leibman, Bruce C. Forbes, & Howard E. Epstein. (2008). Cumulative effects of rapid climate and land-use changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008.

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Forbes, Bruce C., et al.. (2006). Reindeer management in northernmost Europe: linking practical and scientific knowledge in social-ecological systems. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 65 indexed citations

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Forbes, Bruce C.. (2004). The Challenges of modernity for reindeer management : integration and sustainable development in Europe's subarctic and boreal regions : RENMAN - final report. 1 indexed citations

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Forbes, Bruce C., et al.. (1999). Comparative Ordination of Low Arctic Vegetation Recovering from Disturbance: Reconciling Two Contrasting Approaches for Field Data Collection. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 31(4). 389–399. 11 indexed citations

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Sippola, Anna‐Liisa, et al.. (1995). Northern Wilderness Areas: Ecology, Sustainability, Values. International Conference on Northern Wilderness Areas, December 7-9, 1994, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. 2 indexed citations

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