Carlos Souza

12.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
88 papers, 6.4k 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 6.4k 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, Paul A. Lefebvre, Mark Schulze and Robert M. Ewers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Carlos Souza

87 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

The Amazon basin in transition

2012 861 citations Eric A. Davidson, Alessandro Araùjo et al. Nature profile →
Positive Feedbacks in the Fire Dynamic of Closed Canopy Tropical Forests

1999 698 citations Mark A. Cochrane, Ane Alencar et al. Science profile →
Roads, deforestation, and the mitigating effect of protected areas in the Amazon

2014 414 citations Christopher Barber, Mark A. Cochrane et al. Biological Conservation profile →
Changes in Climate and Land Use Over the Amazon Region: Current and Future Variability and Trends

2018 334 citations José A. Marengo, Carlos Souza et al. Frontiers in Earth Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carlos Souza United States	42	4.4k	2.6k	1.3k	1.1k	582	88	6.4k
Hugh Eva Italy	33	4.1k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	407 0.7×	64	6.0k
Philippe Mayaux Italy	39	4.3k 1.0×	3.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	449 0.8×	76	7.0k
David L. Skole United States	37	4.9k 1.1×	2.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	643 1.1×	71	7.3k
Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro Brazil	44	5.1k 1.2×	4.3k 1.6×	1.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.8×	381 0.7×	238	8.2k
Liana O. Anderson Brazil	38	5.0k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	828 0.8×	384 0.7×	129	6.8k
Edward T. A. Mitchard United Kingdom	32	3.6k 0.8×	2.9k 1.1×	2.1k 1.6×	2.4k 2.2×	288 0.5×	81	6.8k
Wayne Walker United States	30	2.8k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.9×	429 0.7×	59	5.3k
Xiao‐Peng Song United States	38	4.3k 1.0×	3.1k 1.2×	708 0.5×	1.7k 1.6×	402 0.7×	80	7.5k
Kurt H. Riitters United States	43	5.1k 1.2×	3.8k 1.4×	2.0k 1.6×	1.0k 0.9×	333 0.6×	129	7.8k
Jane Southworth United States	37	3.0k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	609 0.5×	449 0.4×	328 0.6×	115	4.9k

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

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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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20 of 20 papers shown

Lathuillière, Michael J., et al.. (2025). International reliance on Brazil’s water through soy and beef supply chains. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Souza, Carlos, et al.. (2025). HDAC6: Tumor Progression and Beyond. Current Cancer Drug Targets. 26(1). 47–63. 1 indexed citations

Souza, Carlos, et al.. (2024). Mapping Selective Logging in the Amazon with Artificial Intelligence and Sentinel-2. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. XLVIII-3-2024. 121–126. 1 indexed citations

Souza, Carlos, et al.. (2024). Amazon severe drought in 2023 triggered surface water loss. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 41002–41002. 6 indexed citations

Souza, Carlos, et al.. (2022). Mapping Roads in the Brazilian Amazon with Artificial Intelligence and Sentinel-2. Remote Sensing. 14(15). 3625–3625. 22 indexed citations

Silva, Sonaira Souza da, et al.. (2021). Roads in the Southwestern Amazon, State of Acre, between 2007 and 2019. Land. 10(2). 106–106. 18 indexed citations

Sales, Márcio, Sytze de Bruin, Carlos Souza, & Martin Herold. (2021). Land Use and Land Cover Area Estimates From Class Membership Probability of a Random Forest Classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–11. 34 indexed citations

Nunes, Sâmia, et al.. (2020). Unmasking secondary vegetation dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters. 15(3). 34057–34057. 69 indexed citations

Marengo, José A., Carlos Souza, Kirsten Thonicke, et al.. (2018). Changes in Climate and Land Use Over the Amazon Region: Current and Future Variability and Trends. Frontiers in Earth Science. 6. 334 indexed citations breakdown →

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Azevedo, Tasso, Carlos Souza, Julia Z. Shimbo, & Ane Alencar. (2018). MapBiomas initiative: Mapping annual land cover and land use changes in Brazil from 1985 to 2017.. AGUFM. 2018. 8 indexed citations

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Souza, Carlos. (2016). Monitoring of Forest Degradation: A Review of Methods in the Amazon Basin. 171–194. 1 indexed citations

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Souza, Carlos, et al.. (2013). Temporal patterns of road network development in the Brazilian Amazon. Regional Environmental Change. 13(5). 927–937. 46 indexed citations

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Barber, Christopher, Mark A. Cochrane, Carlos Souza, & Adalberto Veríssimo. (2012). Dynamic performance assessment of protected areas. Biological Conservation. 149(1). 6–14. 53 indexed citations

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Davidson, Eric A., Alessandro Araùjo, Paulo Artaxo, et al.. (2012). The Amazon basin in transition. Nature. 481(7381). 321–328. 861 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rodrigues, Ana S. L., Robert M. Ewers, Luke Parry, et al.. (2009). Boom-and-Bust Development Patterns Across the Amazon Deforestation Frontier. Science. 324(5933). 1435–1437. 215 indexed citations

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Arima, Eugênio, Robert Walker, Márcio Sales, Carlos Souza, & Stephen G. Perz. (2008). The Fragmentation of Space in the Amazon Basin. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 74(6). 699–709. 60 indexed citations

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Barreto, Paulo, et al.. (2006). Human Pressure on the Brazilian Amazon Forests. 44 indexed citations

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Souza, Carlos, et al.. (2004). Impactos da exploração madeireira e do fogo em florestas de transição da Amazônia Legal. Scientia Forestalis. 10 indexed citations

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Souza, Carlos & Dar A. Roberts. (2004). Mapping forest degradation in the Amazon region with Ikonos images. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 26(3). 425–429. 54 indexed citations

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Souza, Carlos, Paulo Barreto, Adalberto Veríssimo, Eugênio Arima, & Robert Schneider. (2000). Amazonia sustentavel : limitantes e oportunidades para o desenvolvimento rural. 1–71. 37 indexed citations

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