Carlos Souza

147 total papers · 12.0k total citations
88 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Carlos Souza is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Carlos Souza has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 40 papers in Ecology and 19 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Carlos Souza's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (47 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (31 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (24 papers). Carlos Souza is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (47 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (31 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (24 papers). Carlos Souza collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Carlos Souza's co-authors include Mark A. Cochrane, Dar A. Roberts, Eric A. Davidson, Christopher Barber, Márcio Sales, William F. Laurance, Ane Alencar, Robert M. Ewers, Paul A. Lefebvre and Mark Schulze and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Carlos Souza

86 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

The Amazon basin in trans... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2012 1999 2014 2018 250 500 750
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Amazon basin in transition
    2012 857 citations Eric A. Davidson, Alessandro Araùjo et al. Nature profile →
  2. Positive Feedbacks in the Fire Dynamic of Closed Canopy Tropical Forests
    1999 698 citations Mark A. Cochrane, Ane Alencar et al. Science profile →
  3. Roads, deforestation, and the mitigating effect of protected areas in the Amazon
    2014 409 citations Christopher Barber, Mark A. Cochrane et al. Biological Conservation profile →
  4. Changes in Climate and Land Use Over the Amazon Region: Current and Future Variability and Trends
    2018 330 citations José A. Marengo, Carlos Souza et al. Frontiers in Earth Science profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Carlos Souza 4.4k 2.6k 1.3k 1.1k 581 88 6.3k
Hugh Eva 4.1k 0.9× 2.8k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 407 0.7× 64 6.0k
Philippe Mayaux 4.3k 1.0× 3.3k 1.3× 1.2k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 449 0.8× 76 7.0k
David L. Skole 4.9k 1.1× 2.5k 1.0× 1.3k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 642 1.1× 71 7.3k
Liana O. Anderson 4.9k 1.1× 2.4k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 812 0.8× 382 0.7× 127 6.7k
Edward T. A. Mitchard 3.6k 0.8× 2.9k 1.1× 2.1k 1.6× 2.3k 2.2× 284 0.5× 81 6.7k
Louise Chini 5.6k 1.3× 4.0k 1.5× 1.6k 1.2× 1.6k 1.5× 682 1.2× 38 9.2k
Xiao‐Peng Song 4.2k 1.0× 3.1k 1.2× 700 0.5× 1.7k 1.5× 399 0.7× 78 7.3k
Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro 5.1k 1.2× 4.3k 1.6× 1.2k 0.9× 1.9k 1.8× 378 0.7× 238 8.2k
Wayne Walker 2.7k 0.6× 2.1k 0.8× 1.6k 1.3× 2.1k 1.9× 429 0.7× 59 5.2k
Kurt H. Riitters 5.1k 1.2× 3.7k 1.4× 2.0k 1.6× 1.0k 0.9× 333 0.6× 129 7.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Carlos Souza

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carlos Souza

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Carlos Souza. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Carlos Souza. The network helps show where Carlos Souza may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carlos Souza

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

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