Christy M. Slay

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
6 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Christy M. Slay is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christy M. Slay has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 2 papers in Insect Science and 2 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Christy M. Slay's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (2 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (2 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (2 papers). Christy M. Slay is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (2 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (2 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (2 papers). Christy M. Slay collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Netherlands. Christy M. Slay's co-authors include Alexandra Tyukavina, Matthew C. Hansen, Nancy L. Harris, Philip G. Curtis, Sytze de Bruin, Mary Farina, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, Sassan Saatchi, Daniela Requena Suárez and Richard A. Birdsey and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Climate Change and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Christy M. Slay

6 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Classifying drivers of global forest loss 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2021 400 800 1.2k
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. Classifying drivers of global forest loss
    2018 1.4k citations Philip G. Curtis, Christy M. Slay et al. Science profile →
  2. Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes
    2021 675 citations Nancy L. Harris, David A. Gibbs et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christy M. Slay United States 4 1.4k 648 417 330 233 6 2.1k
Sandro Federici Italy 18 1.2k 0.9× 601 0.9× 345 0.8× 543 1.6× 367 1.6× 36 2.0k
Ben de Jong Mexico 26 1.4k 1.0× 566 0.9× 847 2.0× 461 1.4× 241 1.0× 77 2.4k
Jean‐François Bastin Belgium 17 1.5k 1.1× 701 1.1× 639 1.5× 432 1.3× 145 0.6× 39 2.5k
Peter W. Ellis United States 20 916 0.6× 522 0.8× 283 0.7× 276 0.8× 139 0.6× 40 1.7k
Marcelo Rezende Italy 5 1.0k 0.7× 408 0.6× 394 0.9× 205 0.6× 129 0.6× 6 1.6k
Veronique De Sy Netherlands 20 1.6k 1.1× 786 1.2× 311 0.7× 515 1.6× 390 1.7× 37 2.5k
Javier Cabello Spain 24 1.3k 0.9× 793 1.2× 252 0.6× 246 0.7× 200 0.9× 79 2.0k
Mary Farina United States 9 1.3k 0.9× 491 0.8× 459 1.1× 419 1.3× 192 0.8× 14 1.9k
Paulo Maurı́cio Lima de Alencastro Graça Brazil 27 1.2k 0.8× 601 0.9× 442 1.1× 414 1.3× 147 0.6× 69 1.9k
Verena C. Griess Canada 27 1.0k 0.7× 549 0.8× 685 1.6× 317 1.0× 156 0.7× 68 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Christy M. Slay

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christy M. Slay

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Christy M. Slay. 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 Christy M. Slay. The network helps show where Christy M. Slay may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christy M. Slay

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

All Works

6 of 6 papers shown
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Sims, Michelle, Maxim Neumann, Lindsey Sloat, et al.. (2025). Global drivers of forest loss at 1 km resolution. Environmental Research Letters. 20(7). 74027–74027. 3 indexed citations
2.
Hoch, Hannelore, et al.. (2024). From the dark side of paradise: a new natural replication of cave planthopper evolution from Hawaiian lava tubes (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 202(3). 2 indexed citations
3.
Harris, Nancy L., David A. Gibbs, Alessandro Baccini, et al.. (2021). Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes. Nature Climate Change. 11(3). 234–240. 675 indexed citations breakdown →
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Harris, Nancy L., et al.. (2020). Agriculture Drove Recent Record-Breaking Tree Cover Loss. 2 indexed citations
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Curtis, Philip G., Christy M. Slay, Nancy L. Harris, Alexandra Tyukavina, & Matthew C. Hansen. (2018). Classifying drivers of global forest loss. Science. 361(6407). 1108–1111. 1424 indexed citations breakdown →
6.
Stephenson, Steven L., et al.. (2007). CAVE CRICKETS (ORTHOPTERA:RHAPHIDOPHORIDAE) AS VECTORS OFDICTYOSTELIDS (PROTISTA: DICTYOSTELIIDA). Entomological News. 118(3). 292–295. 6 indexed citations

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