Courtney A. Schultz

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Courtney A. Schultz is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Courtney A. Schultz has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Courtney A. Schultz's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (47 papers), Forest Management and Policy (37 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (14 papers). Courtney A. Schultz is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (47 papers), Forest Management and Policy (37 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (14 papers). Courtney A. Schultz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Courtney A. Schultz's co-authors include Zachary Wurtzebach, Sarah McCaffrey, Theresa Jedd, Cassandra Moseley, Heidi Huber‐Stearns, Martin Nie, Matthew P. Thompson, Brian Buma, A. L. Westerling and Sally Thompson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Conservation Biology and BioScience.

In The Last Decade

Courtney A. Schultz

76 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Rethinking resilience to wildfire

2019 219 citations David B. McWethy, Tania Schoennagel et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Courtney A. Schultz United States	24	1.4k	564	325	324	239	78	1.8k
Jayalaxshmi Mistry United Kingdom	22	1.0k 0.7×	467 0.8×	396 1.2×	325 1.0×	201 0.8×	85	2.0k
Winslow D. Hansen United States	22	1.1k 0.8×	571 1.0×	100 0.3×	445 1.4×	139 0.6×	41	1.5k
Luke Parry United Kingdom	27	1.3k 0.9×	836 1.5×	184 0.6×	572 1.8×	221 0.9×	56	2.5k
Ray Rasker United States	11	995 0.7×	397 0.7×	233 0.7×	156 0.5×	160 0.7×	16	1.4k
Shannon Hagerman Canada	26	828 0.6×	303 0.5×	253 0.8×	398 1.2×	266 1.1×	73	1.7k
Cassandra Moseley United States	23	1.3k 0.9×	253 0.4×	551 1.7×	108 0.3×	186 0.8×	124	1.7k
Igor Lysenko Russia	13	771 0.5×	568 1.0×	67 0.2×	349 1.1×	197 0.8×	34	1.5k
Hannah Brenkert–Smith United States	22	1.4k 1.0×	272 0.5×	889 2.7×	94 0.3×	183 0.8×	46	1.8k
Michael A. Crimmins United States	23	1.8k 1.3×	1.0k 1.8×	87 0.3×	614 1.9×	401 1.7×	76	2.5k
Gregg M. Garfin United States	23	1.1k 0.8×	217 0.4×	296 0.9×	174 0.5×	129 0.5×	91	1.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schultz, Courtney A., et al.. (2025). The role of fuel treatments during incident management. Fire Ecology. 21(1). 1 indexed citations

Rollinson, Christine R., et al.. (2025). Insights Into Nature‐Based Climate Solutions: Managing Forests for Climate Resilience and Carbon Stability. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 130(3). 3 indexed citations

Schultz, Courtney A., et al.. (2025). Governing across jurisdictions in post-wildfire response and recovery: An analysis of the 2022 Hermit's Peak Calf Canyon Wildfire. Journal of Environmental Management. 381. 125272–125272. 1 indexed citations

Beeton, Tyler A., et al.. (2025). Innovation to support wildfire risk-based decision-making: examining the incident strategic alignment process. Fire Ecology. 21(1).

Schultz, Courtney A., et al.. (2025). Complexities in post-wildfire governance: lessons from Colorado’s 2020 wildfires. Fire Ecology. 21(1). 2 indexed citations

Abrams, Jesse, et al.. (2023). The Shared Stewardship Strategy in the Southern United States: Lessons Learned. Journal of Forestry. 121(4). 303–306. 1 indexed citations

Schultz, Courtney A., et al.. (2022). Institutionalizing the United States Forest Service’s Shared Stewardship Strategy in the Western United States. Journal of Forestry. 120(5). 588–603. 8 indexed citations

Schultz, Courtney A., et al.. (2021). Assessment of early implementation of the US Forest Service's shared stewardship strategy. Scholars' Bank (University of Oregon). 3 indexed citations

Schultz, Courtney A., Jesse Abrams, Emily Jane Davis, et al.. (2021). Disturbance shapes the US forest governance frontier: A review and conceptual framework for understanding governance change. AMBIO. 50(12). 2168–2182. 8 indexed citations

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Niemiec, Rebecca M., Richard E. W. Berl, Tara L. Teel, et al.. (2020). Public perspectives and media reporting of wolf reintroduction in Colorado. PeerJ. 8. e9074–e9074. 32 indexed citations

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Carter, Sarah K., David S. Pilliod, Cameron L. Aldridge, et al.. (2020). Bridging the research-management gap: landscape science in practice on public lands in the western United States. Landscape Ecology. 35(3). 545–560. 33 indexed citations

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Schultz, Courtney A., et al.. (2020). Working on institutions while planning for forest resilience: a case study of public land management in the United States. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 64(7). 1291–1311. 10 indexed citations

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Schultz, Courtney A., et al.. (2019). Organizational learning during policy implementation: lessons from U.S. forest planning. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 21(3). 275–287. 15 indexed citations

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McWethy, David B., Tania Schoennagel, Philip E. Higuera, et al.. (2019). Rethinking resilience to wildfire. Nature Sustainability. 2(9). 797–804. 219 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schultz, Courtney A., et al.. (2019). Engaging youth in public lands monitoring: opportunities for enhancing ecological literacy and environmental stewardship. Environmental Education Research. 25(9). 1386–1399. 9 indexed citations

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Stoy, Paul C., Michael W. Binford, Ankur R. Desai, et al.. (2018). Toward a Social-Ecological Theory of Forest Macrosystems for Improved Ecosystem Management. Forests. 9(4). 200–200. 9 indexed citations

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Schultz, Courtney A., Katherine M. Mattor, & Cassandra Moseley. (2016). Aligning policies to support forest restoration and promote organizational change. Forest Policy and Economics. 73. 195–203. 9 indexed citations

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Schultz, Courtney A. & Martin Nie. (2012). Decision-Making Triggers, Adaptive Management, and Natural Resources Law and Planning. Natural resources journal. 52(2). 443. 18 indexed citations

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Nie, Martin & Courtney A. Schultz. (2012). Decision‐Making Triggers in Adaptive Management. Conservation Biology. 26(6). 1137–1144. 50 indexed citations

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Takayama, Leila, Qianying Wang, Courtney A. Schultz, et al.. (2007). Can you talk or only touch-talk. 154–161. 2 indexed citations

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