Claude Vidal

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Claude Vidal is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Claude Vidal has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 11 papers in Environmental Engineering and 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Claude Vidal's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (11 papers), Forest ecology and management (10 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (9 papers). Claude Vidal is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (11 papers), Forest ecology and management (10 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (9 papers). Claude Vidal collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Switzerland and Austria. Claude Vidal's co-authors include Romain Bertrand, Jonathan Lenoir, Christian Piedallu, Jean‐Claude Pierrat, Jean‐Claude Gégout, Patrice de Ruffray, Adrian Lanz, Klemens Schadauer, Icíar Alberdi and John Redmond and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Forest Science and Journal of Forestry.

In The Last Decade

Claude Vidal

18 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Changes in plant community composition lag behind climate warming in lowland forests

2011 664 citations Romain Bertrand, Jonathan Lenoir et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Claude Vidal Italy	12	771	561	419	338	301	19	1.3k
Christopher M. Oswalt United States	17	859 1.1×	661 1.2×	296 0.7×	484 1.4×	76 0.3×	45	1.4k
Martin Ehbrecht Germany	20	865 1.1×	575 1.0×	120 0.3×	384 1.1×	463 1.5×	44	1.4k
Abd Rahman Kassim Malaysia	18	829 1.1×	721 1.3×	137 0.3×	266 0.8×	169 0.6×	32	1.3k
Abel Monteagudo United Kingdom	17	1.7k 2.2×	1.2k 2.1×	250 0.6×	432 1.3×	317 1.1×	23	2.3k
Rolando Pérez United States	17	1.6k 2.1×	927 1.7×	313 0.7×	442 1.3×	389 1.3×	28	2.1k
Maurizio Marchi Italy	16	406 0.5×	361 0.6×	260 0.6×	247 0.7×	94 0.3×	58	857
Steven L. Garman United States	18	615 0.8×	606 1.1×	134 0.3×	546 1.6×	184 0.6×	36	1.2k
Kristen M. Waring United States	20	689 0.9×	936 1.7×	139 0.3×	517 1.5×	202 0.7×	63	1.5k
Garrett W. Meigs United States	23	772 1.0×	1.5k 2.8×	273 0.7×	1.1k 3.1×	206 0.7×	37	1.9k
Buhang Li China	19	887 1.2×	417 0.7×	167 0.4×	288 0.9×	69 0.2×	54	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claude Vidal

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19 of 19 papers shown

Vidal, Claude. (2016). National Forest Inventories Assessment of Wood Availability and Use. Springer eBooks. 71 indexed citations

Mantau, Udo, Thomas Gschwantner, Alessandro Paletto, et al.. (2016). From inventory to consumer biomass availability—the ITOC model. Annals of Forest Science. 73(4). 885–894. 7 indexed citations

Gschwantner, Thomas, Adrian Lanz, Claude Vidal, et al.. (2016). Comparison of methods used in European National Forest Inventories for the estimation of volume increment: towards harmonisation. Annals of Forest Science. 73(4). 807–821. 38 indexed citations

Kuliešis, Andrius, Stein Michael Tomter, Claude Vidal, & Adrian Lanz. (2016). Estimates of stem wood increments in forest resources: comparison of different approaches in forest inventory: consequences for international reporting: case studyof European forests. Annals of Forest Science. 73(4). 857–869. 8 indexed citations

Vidal, Claude, et al.. (2016). The role of European National Forest Inventories for international forestry reporting. Annals of Forest Science. 73(4). 793–806. 65 indexed citations

Alberdi, Icíar, Christoph Fischer, Patrizia Gasparini, et al.. (2016). Towards harmonized assessment of European forest availability for wood supply in Europe. Forest Policy and Economics. 70. 20–29. 36 indexed citations

Redmond, John, et al.. (2016). National Forest Inventories. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 88 indexed citations

Packalen, Tuula, Ola Sallnäs, Olli Salminen, et al.. (2014). The European Forestry Dynamics Model (EFDM). Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 15 indexed citations

Hervé, Jean‐Christophe, et al.. (2014). L’inventaire des ressources forestières en France : un nouveau regard sur de nouvelles forêts. Revue Forestière Française. Fr.], ISSN 0035–Fr.], ISSN 0035. 13 indexed citations

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Schadauer, Klemens, et al.. (2012). An Enquiry on Forest Areas Reported to the Global Forest Resources Assessment—Is Harmonization Needed?. Forest Science. 58(3). 201–213. 10 indexed citations

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Ståhl, Göran, Emil Cienciala, Gherardo Chirici, et al.. (2012). Bridging National and Reference Definitions for Harmonizing Forest Statistics. Forest Science. 58(3). 214–223. 41 indexed citations

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Bertrand, Romain, Jonathan Lenoir, Christian Piedallu, et al.. (2011). Changes in plant community composition lag behind climate warming in lowland forests. Nature. 479(7374). 517–520. 664 indexed citations breakdown →

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McRoberts, Ronald E., Erkki Tomppo, Klemens Schadauer, et al.. (2009). Harmonizing National Forest Inventories. Journal of Forestry. 107(4). 179–187. 60 indexed citations

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Vidal, Claude, et al.. (2009). Mapping Martinique's forests and other natural lands for land planning and development. 79. 2 indexed citations

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Gschwantner, Thomas, Klemens Schadauer, Claude Vidal, et al.. (2009). Common tree definitions for national forest inventories in Europe. Silva Fennica. 43(2). 84 indexed citations

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Vidal, Claude, et al.. (2009). Multi-class SVM for forestry classification. 13. 1673–1676. 5 indexed citations

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Vidal, Claude, Adrian Lanz, Erkki Tomppo, et al.. (2008). Establishing forest inventory reference definitions for forest and growing stock: a study towards common reporting. Silva Fennica. 42(2). 54 indexed citations

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Vidal, Claude, et al.. (2007). A new flexible forest inventory in France. 77. 9 indexed citations

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Martín, Francisco López, et al.. (2001). Scale Effects on Scale Tests of Crown Walls. 1696–1709.

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