Christopher Anderson

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
110 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Christopher Anderson is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Anderson has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Ecology, 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 16 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Christopher Anderson's work include Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (20 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (18 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (16 papers). Christopher Anderson is often cited by papers focused on Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (20 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (18 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (16 papers). Christopher Anderson collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Malawi. Christopher Anderson's co-authors include William J. Mitsch, Blanca Bernal, Amanda M. Nahlik, Li Zhang, Ülo Mander, Sven Erik Jørgensen, Hans Brix, B. Graeme Lockaby, Raymond W. Arritt and María E. Hernández and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Anderson

100 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Wetlands, carbon, and climate change 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 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 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.

  1. Wetlands, carbon, and climate change
    2012 828 citations Christopher Anderson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher Anderson United States 23 1.4k 1.1k 544 508 504 110 3.1k
Dan Zhu China 31 817 0.6× 1.5k 1.3× 162 0.3× 1.4k 2.7× 138 0.3× 137 4.2k
Shuai Wang China 32 683 0.5× 743 0.7× 202 0.4× 310 0.6× 378 0.8× 127 3.3k
Guillermo Mendoza United States 23 1.2k 0.8× 2.6k 2.3× 418 0.8× 255 0.5× 664 1.3× 41 4.4k
Patrick J. Sullivan United States 33 1.2k 0.9× 948 0.8× 255 0.5× 52 0.1× 200 0.4× 127 3.1k
Alain N. Rousseau Canada 31 708 0.5× 1.1k 1.0× 646 1.2× 468 0.9× 1.7k 3.4× 193 3.2k
Deepak R. Mishra United States 37 1.6k 1.2× 1.2k 1.0× 700 1.3× 409 0.8× 805 1.6× 137 4.0k
A. Anthony Bloom United States 37 806 0.6× 3.4k 3.0× 450 0.8× 2.0k 4.0× 128 0.3× 124 4.5k
M. Ruiperez González Netherlands 5 947 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 219 0.4× 546 1.1× 545 1.1× 12 4.2k
J.G.B. Leenaars Netherlands 13 1.1k 0.8× 1.4k 1.2× 221 0.4× 620 1.2× 659 1.3× 37 5.2k
Laurel G. Larsen United States 30 1.3k 1.0× 978 0.9× 393 0.7× 436 0.9× 779 1.5× 67 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Anderson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Anderson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Anderson

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Narine, Lana L., et al.. (2025). Synergistic use of ICESat-2 lidar data and Sentinel-2 imagery for assessing hurricane-driven forest changes. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 197(12). 1310–1310.
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Anderson, Christopher, et al.. (2025). Salinity Variability in Tidal Creeks and the Role of Watershed Development. Estuaries and Coasts. 48(4). 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Gregory, et al.. (2024). Stakeholder perceptions of coastal environmental stressors in the Florida panhandle. Ocean & Coastal Management. 250. 107008–107008. 1 indexed citations
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Ives, Christopher D., Christopher Anderson, Paola Arias‐Arévalo, et al.. (2024). The role of religion in shaping the values of nature. Ecology and Society. 29(2). 8 indexed citations
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Alexander, Heather D., et al.. (2023). Midstory removal of encroaching species has minimal impacts on fuels and fire behavior regardless of burn season in a degraded pine-oak mixture. Forest Ecology and Management. 544. 121157–121157. 6 indexed citations
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Bian, Zihao, Hanqin Tian, Shufen Pan, et al.. (2023). Soil legacy nutrients contribute to the decreasing stoichiometric ratio of N and P loading from the Mississippi River Basin. Global Change Biology. 29(24). 7145–7158. 7 indexed citations
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Moore, Katherine Sledge, et al.. (2023). Salinity fluctuations due to urbanization of coastal environments and their potential effect on the genetic divergence of the Gulf killifish (Fundulus grandis). Environmental Biology of Fishes. 106(7). 1539–1550. 1 indexed citations
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Anderson, Christopher, et al.. (2020). Fostering Critical Thinking Through A Service-Learning, Combined Sewer Analysis Project In An Undergraduate Course in Hydrologic Engineering. Papers on Engineering Education Repository (American Society for Engineering Education). 23.614.1–23.614.14. 3 indexed citations
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Anderson, Christopher, et al.. (2019). Applying Public Participation Geographic Information Systems for Coastal Wading Bird Conservation. Coastal Management. 47(2). 227–243. 3 indexed citations
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Anderson, Christopher, et al.. (2016). Barack Obama, Neural Networks, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of the World. 24(11). 124–133. 3 indexed citations
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Greninger, Alexander L., Samia N. Naccache, Kevin Messacar, et al.. (2015). A novel outbreak enterovirus D68 strain associated with acute flaccid myelitis cases in the USA (2012–14): a retrospective cohort study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 15(6). 671–682. 280 indexed citations
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Anderson, Christopher & B. Graeme Lockaby. (2010). Research Gaps Related to Forest Management and Stream Sediment in the United States. Environmental Management. 47(2). 303–313. 63 indexed citations
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Rozzi, Ricardo, et al.. (2008). Filosofía Ambiental de Campo y Conservación Biocultural. Environmental Ethics. 30(9999). 115–128. 5 indexed citations
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Yuan, Huiling, et al.. (2006). Extreme precipitation events and bias correction of PQPF during the HMT 2005-2006 winter campaign. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations
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Takle, Eugene S., Manoj K. Jha, & Christopher Anderson. (2005). Hydrological cycle in the upper Mississippi River basin: 20th century simulations by multiple GCMs. Geophysical Research Letters. 32(18). 21 indexed citations
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Anderson, Christopher. (1994). White House plans environmental summit. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 263(5154). 1675–1083. 1 indexed citations
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Anderson, Christopher, et al.. (1954). Analysis of Mixtures of White Phosphorus, Phosphorus Oxychloride, and Phosphorus Trichloride. Analytical Chemistry. 26(5). 933–934. 3 indexed citations

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