Christopher Barber

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Christopher Barber is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Barber has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Christopher Barber's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers). Christopher Barber is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers). Christopher Barber collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Argentina. Christopher Barber's co-authors include Mark A. Cochrane, William F. Laurance, Carlos Souza, Philip M. Fearnside, Sammya D’Angelo, Scott Bergen, Patricia Delamônica, Ashton Shortridge, Dar A. Roberts and João Victor Siqueira and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Barber

13 papers receiving 1.6k 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 Future of the Brazilian Amazon

2001 636 citations William F. Laurance, Mark A. Cochrane 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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Barber United States	10	1.1k	733	324	218	168	14	1.7k
Ulrich Walz Germany	18	1.6k 1.4×	612 0.8×	389 1.2×	175 0.8×	220 1.3×	57	2.0k
Jeanine M. Rhemtulla Canada	24	1.4k 1.2×	528 0.7×	495 1.5×	165 0.8×	111 0.7×	47	2.1k
Manoel Cardoso Brazil	19	1.5k 1.3×	639 0.9×	304 0.9×	167 0.8×	175 1.0×	33	2.2k
Benjamin M. Sleeter United States	24	1.2k 1.1×	599 0.8×	197 0.6×	135 0.6×	199 1.2×	52	1.7k
René Beuchle Italy	20	1.2k 1.1×	910 1.2×	331 1.0×	114 0.5×	354 2.1×	33	1.9k
Rebecca K. Runting Australia	22	1.1k 1.0×	720 1.0×	211 0.7×	250 1.1×	105 0.6×	46	1.9k
Marcelo Rezende Italy	5	1.0k 0.9×	408 0.6×	394 1.2×	129 0.6×	205 1.2×	6	1.6k
Javier Cabello Spain	24	1.3k 1.1×	793 1.1×	252 0.8×	200 0.9×	246 1.5×	79	2.0k
Andreas Brink Italy	15	987 0.9×	663 0.9×	214 0.7×	94 0.4×	208 1.2×	28	1.5k
Kristi L. Sayler United States	17	1.1k 1.0×	589 0.8×	173 0.5×	115 0.5×	175 1.0×	29	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Barber

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Barber

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Barber

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

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14 of 14 papers shown

Healey, Nathan C., et al.. (2025). Resiliency of land change monitoring efforts to input data resampling. Frontiers in Remote Sensing. 6.

Auch, Roger F., Danika Wellington, Janis L. Taylor, et al.. (2022). Conterminous United States Land-Cover Change (1985–2016): New Insights from Annual Time Series. Land. 11(2). 298–298. 23 indexed citations

Friedl, M. A., Curtis E. Woodcock, Pontus Olofsson, et al.. (2022). Medium Spatial Resolution Mapping of Global Land Cover and Land Cover Change Across Multiple Decades From Landsat. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 40 indexed citations

Zhou, Qiang, Christopher Barber, & George Xian. (2020). Methods of Rapid Quality Assessment for National-Scale Land Surface Change Monitoring. Remote Sensing. 12(16). 2524–2524. 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Qiang, et al.. (2020). Training Data Selection for Annual Land Cover Classification for the Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) Initiative. Remote Sensing. 12(4). 699–699. 24 indexed citations

Barber, Christopher, Mark A. Cochrane, Carlos Souza, & William F. Laurance. (2014). Roads, deforestation, and the mitigating effect of protected areas in the Amazon. Biological Conservation. 177. 203–209. 414 indexed citations breakdown →

Souza, Carlos, João Victor Siqueira, Márcio Sales, et al.. (2013). Ten-Year Landsat Classification of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Brazilian Amazon. Remote Sensing. 5(11). 5493–5513. 212 indexed citations

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

Fearnside, Philip M., William F. Laurance, Mark A. Cochrane, et al.. (2012). The future of Amazonia: models to predict the consequences of future infrastructure in Brazil's multi-annual plans. ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University). 3 indexed citations

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Fearnside, Philip M., William F. Laurance, Mark A. Cochrane, et al.. (2012). O FUTURO DA AMAZÔNIA: MODELOS PARA PREVER AS CONSEQÜÊNCIAS DA INFRAESTRUTURA FUTURA NOS PLANOS PLURIANUAIS. Novos Cadernos NAEA. 15(1). 6 indexed citations

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Cochrane, Mark A. & Christopher Barber. (2008). Climate change, human land use and future fires in the Amazon. Global Change Biology. 15(3). 601–612. 194 indexed citations

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Malmström, Carolyn M., et al.. (2008). Using Remote Sensing to Evaluate the Influence of Grassland Restoration Activities on Ecosystem Forage Provisioning Services. Restoration Ecology. 17(4). 526–538. 36 indexed citations

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Barber, Christopher & Ashton Shortridge. (2005). Lidar Elevation Data for Surface Hydrologic Modeling: Resolution and Representation Issues. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 32(4). 401–410. 45 indexed citations

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Laurance, William F., Mark A. Cochrane, Scott Bergen, et al.. (2001). The Future of the Brazilian Amazon. Science. 291(5503). 438–439. 636 indexed citations breakdown →

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