Claire M. Belcher

4.4k total citations
92 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Claire M. Belcher is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Claire M. Belcher has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 36 papers in Atmospheric Science and 18 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Claire M. Belcher's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (52 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (30 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (15 papers). Claire M. Belcher is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (52 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (30 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (15 papers). Claire M. Belcher collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Claire M. Belcher's co-authors include Jennifer C. McElwain, Guillermo Rein, Victoria A. Hudspith, Rory M. Hadden, Jon M. Yearsley, Byron B. Lamont, Tianhua He, Andrew C. Scott, Dylan W. Schwilk and Juli G. Pausas and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Claire M. Belcher

89 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Claire M. Belcher United Kingdom 32 1.4k 914 528 524 399 92 2.7k
Ian J. Glasspool United Kingdom 27 716 0.5× 1.2k 1.3× 969 1.8× 251 0.5× 233 0.6× 48 2.9k
Christelle Hély France 30 1.8k 1.3× 1.6k 1.7× 285 0.5× 714 1.4× 593 1.5× 86 3.1k
Daniel G. Gavin United States 30 3.0k 2.2× 3.0k 3.2× 420 0.8× 1.1k 2.1× 1.0k 2.6× 89 4.9k
F. J. Kruger South Africa 32 445 0.3× 263 0.3× 389 0.7× 485 0.9× 453 1.1× 78 3.5k
Jocelyn Turnbull United States 28 2.0k 1.5× 2.3k 2.5× 365 0.7× 726 1.4× 80 0.2× 86 3.9k
Chen China 23 401 0.3× 741 0.8× 357 0.7× 331 0.6× 102 0.3× 391 2.5k
Marko Scholze Sweden 27 2.1k 1.5× 1.5k 1.6× 89 0.2× 756 1.4× 264 0.7× 72 3.1k
Danny McCarroll United Kingdom 49 4.1k 2.9× 6.7k 7.3× 563 1.1× 651 1.2× 899 2.3× 160 7.5k
Neil C. Mitchell United Kingdom 39 339 0.2× 2.2k 2.4× 135 0.3× 649 1.2× 266 0.7× 162 4.6k
Sarah J. Feakins United States 32 709 0.5× 2.7k 2.9× 699 1.3× 1.2k 2.3× 84 0.2× 85 3.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claire M. Belcher

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Belcher, Claire M., et al.. (2025). Fuel moisture and flammability of leaf litter in British forest plantations and their implications for wildfire risk. Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research. 99(1).
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Belcher, Claire M., Gareth D. Clay, Stefan H. Doerr, et al.. (2025). Unprecedented UK heatwave harmonised drivers of fuel moisture creating extreme temperate wildfire risk. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 727–727. 1 indexed citations
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Limpens, Juul, Claire M. Belcher, Richard C. Chiverrell, et al.. (2025). Potable water sources in a contaminated temperate peatland resistant to acute impacts but vulnerable to legacy effects of extreme wildfire. University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 1(1). 11001–11001.
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Belcher, Claire M., et al.. (2025). A flammability phenology for dry mixed heaths and its implications for modelling fire behaviour. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 34(8). 1 indexed citations
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Santín, Cristina, Claire M. Belcher, Gareth D. Clay, et al.. (2024). Vegetation phenology as a key driver for fire occurrence in the UK and comparable humid temperate regions. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 33(10). 6 indexed citations
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Kobziar, Leda N., J. Kevin Hiers, Claire M. Belcher, et al.. (2024). Principles of fire ecology. Fire Ecology. 20(1). 12 indexed citations
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McElwain, Jennifer C., Kamila Kwaśniewska, Richard Nair, et al.. (2024). Functional traits of fossil plants. New Phytologist. 242(2). 392–423. 7 indexed citations
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Belcher, Claire M., Angela Gallego‐Sala, Graeme T. Swindles, et al.. (2024). Tropical peat composition may provide a negative feedback on fire occurrence and severity. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7363–7363. 2 indexed citations
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Hesselbo, Stephen P., et al.. (2023). Environmental changes during the onset of the Late Pliensbachian Event (Early Jurassic) in the Cardigan Bay Basin, Wales. Climate of the past. 19(5). 979–997. 7 indexed citations
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Hesselbo, Stephen P., et al.. (2021). Wildfire activity enhanced during phases of maximum orbital eccentricity and precessional forcing in the Early Jurassic. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 22 indexed citations
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Hu, Dawei, M. Rami Alfarra, Kate Szpek, et al.. (2021). Physical and chemical properties of black carbon and organic matter from different combustion and photochemical sources using aerodynamic aerosol classification. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(21). 16161–16182. 18 indexed citations
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Vorontsova, Maria S., et al.. (2021). Shade alters the growth and architecture of tropical grasses by reducing root biomass. Biotropica. 53(4). 1052–1062. 11 indexed citations
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Belcher, Claire M., et al.. (2018). What Can Charcoal Reflectance Tell Us About Energy Release in Wildfires and the Properties of Pyrogenic Carbon?. Frontiers in Earth Science. 6. 39 indexed citations
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Roos, Christopher I., Andrew C. Scott, Claire M. Belcher, et al.. (2016). Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1696). 20150469–20150469. 45 indexed citations
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Prat‐Guitart, Nuria, Guillermo Rein, Rory M. Hadden, Claire M. Belcher, & Jon M. Yearsley. (2016). Effects of spatial heterogeneity in moisture content on the horizontal spread of peat fires. The Science of The Total Environment. 572. 1422–1430. 45 indexed citations
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Prat‐Guitart, Nuria, Claire M. Belcher, Rory M. Hadden, Guillermo Rein, & Jon M. Yearsley. (2015). Influence of a step-change increase of peat moisture content on the horizontal propagation of smouldering fires. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11570. 2 indexed citations
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Zaccone, Claudio, Guillermo Rein, Valeria D’Orazio, et al.. (2014). Smouldering fire signatures in peat and their implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 137. 134–146. 60 indexed citations
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Morgan, J., N. A. Artemieva, Claire M. Belcher, et al.. (2013). K-Pg Wildfires: modeling, experiments and observations. EPSC. 1 indexed citations

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