Carolina Levis

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 772 citations indexed

About

Carolina Levis is a scholar working on History, Global and Planetary Change and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Carolina Levis has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 772 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in History, 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Carolina Levis's work include Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (19 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (14 papers) and Indigenous Health and Education (6 papers). Carolina Levis is often cited by papers focused on Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (19 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (14 papers) and Indigenous Health and Education (6 papers). Carolina Levis collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Netherlands and United States. Carolina Levis's co-authors include Charles R. Clément, Bernardo M. Flores, Flávia R. C. Costa, Rubana Palhares Alves, Marielos Peña‐Claros, Juliana Schietti, José Iriarte, Frans Bongers, Bruno Garcia Luize and Juliana Lins and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Journal of Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Carolina Levis

23 papers receiving 750 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.

How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests

2018 192 citations Carolina Levis, Bernardo M. Flores et al. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation

2024 38 citations Carolina Levis, Bernardo M. Flores et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carolina Levis Brazil	13	351	328	174	138	124	23	772
Eglée L. Zent Venezuela	12	37 0.1×	215 0.7×	149 0.9×	155 1.1×	144 1.2×	35	660
Gene C. Wilken United States	11	58 0.2×	97 0.3×	105 0.6×	112 0.8×	73 0.6×	18	518
Dániel Babai Hungary	18	12 0.0×	305 0.9×	249 1.4×	296 2.1×	137 1.1×	43	961
Francis Kahn Peru	19	75 0.2×	263 0.8×	348 2.0×	278 2.0×	728 5.9×	74	1.4k
Guilherme G. Mazzochini Brazil	10	31 0.1×	212 0.6×	57 0.3×	144 1.0×	155 1.3×	24	496
Han Overman United States	9	23 0.1×	306 0.9×	36 0.2×	232 1.7×	44 0.4×	13	598
Adriano Jerozolimski Brazil	7	30 0.1×	171 0.5×	17 0.1×	227 1.6×	53 0.4×	8	421
Tatiana Schor Brazil	11	23 0.1×	114 0.3×	35 0.2×	176 1.3×	18 0.1×	53	484
Cyril Bernard France	8	22 0.1×	233 0.7×	47 0.3×	285 2.1×	131 1.1×	13	654
Anders Sirén Finland	13	27 0.1×	256 0.8×	11 0.1×	275 2.0×	79 0.6×	27	575

Countries citing papers authored by Carolina Levis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carolina Levis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carolina Levis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Carolina Levis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Carolina Levis 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 Carolina Levis. Carolina Levis 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

Zank, Sofia, et al.. (2025). Ethnobiology! Until when will the colonialist legacy be reinforced?. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 21(1). 1–1. 8 indexed citations

Levis, Carolina, Bernardo M. Flores, João Vitor Campos‐Silva, et al.. (2024). Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(5). 866–879. 38 indexed citations breakdown →

Levis, Carolina, Ane Alencar, Agustín Fuentes, et al.. (2024). Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon. Science. 386(6727). 1229–1232. 11 indexed citations

Ferreira, Maria Julia, Carolina Levis, Leonardo da Silva Chaves, Charles R. Clément, & Gustavo Taboada Soldati. (2022). Indigenous and Traditional Management Creates and Maintains the Diversity of Ecosystems of South American Tropical Savannas. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10. 11 indexed citations

Clément, Charles R., Alejandro Casas, Fabiola Parra, et al.. (2021). Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics. Quaternary. 4(1). 4–4. 61 indexed citations

Levis, Carolina, Fabrício Beggiato Baccaro, Fernando O. G. Figueiredo, et al.. (2021). Eighty-four per cent of all Amazonian arboreal plant individuals are useful to humans. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0257875–e0257875. 15 indexed citations

Levis, Carolina, Bernardo M. Flores, Carolina T. Freitas, et al.. (2021). Collaborative management as a way to enhance Araucaria Forest resilience. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 19(2). 131–142. 17 indexed citations

Flores, Bernardo M. & Carolina Levis. (2021). Human-food feedback in tropical forests. Science. 372(6547). 1146–1147. 12 indexed citations

Giehl, Eduardo Luís Hettwer, et al.. (2020). Pre-colonial Amerindian legacies in forest composition of southern Brazil. PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0235819–e0235819. 19 indexed citations

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Levis, Carolina, Marielos Peña‐Claros, Charles R. Clément, et al.. (2020). Pre-Columbian soil fertilization and current management maintain food resource availability in old-growth Amazonian forests. Plant and Soil. 450(1-2). 29–48. 15 indexed citations

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Flores, Bernardo M., et al.. (2019). Growth rings of Brazil nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) as a living record of historical human disturbance in Central Amazonia. PLoS ONE. 14(4). e0214128–e0214128. 30 indexed citations

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Ferreira, Maria Julia, Carolina Levis, José Iriarte, & Charles R. Clément. (2019). Legacies of intensive management in forests around pre-columbian and modern settlements in the Madeira-Tapajós interfluve, Amazonia. Acta Botanica Brasilica. 33(2). 212–220. 11 indexed citations

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Maezumi, S. Yoshi, Daiana Travassos Alves, Mark Robinson, et al.. (2018). The legacy of 4,500 years of polyculture agroforestry in the eastern Amazon. Nature Plants. 4(8). 540–547. 151 indexed citations

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Levis, Carolina, Bernardo M. Flores, Priscila Ambrósio Moreira, et al.. (2018). How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 5. 192 indexed citations breakdown →

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Macário, Kita, Rita Scheel-Ybert, Eduardo Queiroz Alves, et al.. (2017). Charcoal chronology of the Amazon forest: A record of biodiversity preserved by ancient fires. Quaternary Geochronology. 41. 180–186. 12 indexed citations

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Schietti, Juliana, Thaíse Emilio, Priscila Figueira de Souza, et al.. (2016). Forest structure along a 600 km transect of natural disturbances and seasonality gradients in central‐southern Amazonia. Journal of Ecology. 104(5). 1335–1346. 28 indexed citations

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Alves, Rubana Palhares, Carolina Levis, & Charles R. Clément. (2016). Use and Management of Piquiá Suggest in situ Domestication along the Lower Tapajós River, Brazilian Amazonia1. Economic Botany. 70(2). 198–202. 9 indexed citations

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Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat, Juliana Schietti, Gabriel M. Moulatlet, et al.. (2013). Soil physical restrictions and hydrology regulate stand age and wood biomass turnover rates of Purus–Madeira interfluvial wetlands in Amazonia. Biogeosciences. 10(11). 7759–7774. 30 indexed citations

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Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat, Juliana Schietti, Gabriel M. Moulatlet, et al.. (2013). Productivity of aboveground coarse wood biomass and stand age related to soil hydrology of Amazonian forests in the Purus-Madeira interfluvial area. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 6 indexed citations

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Levis, Carolina, Priscila Figueira de Souza, Juliana Schietti, et al.. (2012). Historical Human Footprint on Modern Tree Species Composition in the Purus-Madeira Interfluve, Central Amazonia. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e48559–e48559. 76 indexed citations

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