Crystal N. H. McMichael

3.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
81 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Crystal N. H. McMichael is a scholar working on History, Atmospheric Science and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Crystal N. H. McMichael has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in History, 27 papers in Atmospheric Science and 22 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Crystal N. H. McMichael's work include Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (53 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (22 papers). Crystal N. H. McMichael is often cited by papers focused on Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (53 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (22 papers). Crystal N. H. McMichael collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Panama. Crystal N. H. McMichael's co-authors include Mark B. Bush, Dolores R. Piperno, Miles R. Silman, Marco F. Raczka, Michael Palace, William D. Gosling, Andrew R. Zimmerman, Sassan Saatchi, Alexander Correa‐Metrio and Sandra Dı́az and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Crystal N. H. McMichael

77 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

2021 475 citations Erle C. Ellis, Nicolas Gauthier et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Anthropogenic influence on Amazonian forests in pre‐history: An ecological perspective

2015 86 citations Mark B. Bush, Crystal N. H. McMichael et al. Journal of Biogeography profile →
Amazonia and the Anthropocene: What was the spatial extent and intensity of human landscape modification in the Amazon Basin at the end of prehistory?

2015 75 citations Dolores R. Piperno, Crystal N. H. McMichael et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Crystal N. H. McMichael Netherlands	28	1.1k	806	550	535	483	81	2.5k
Francis E. Mayle United Kingdom	38	1.3k 1.2×	668 0.8×	1.1k 2.0×	2.3k 4.3×	619 1.3×	90	4.2k
Bronwen S. Whitney United Kingdom	21	568 0.5×	258 0.3×	287 0.5×	562 1.1×	340 0.7×	38	1.4k
S. Yoshi Maezumi United Kingdom	18	380 0.4×	559 0.7×	290 0.5×	531 1.0×	216 0.4×	37	1.4k
Heinz Veit Switzerland	26	401 0.4×	226 0.3×	398 0.7×	1.1k 2.0×	229 0.5×	65	1.9k
Mitchell J. Power United States	22	282 0.3×	1.9k 2.4×	736 1.3×	2.0k 3.8×	156 0.3×	64	3.1k
Dunia H. Urrego United Kingdom	20	250 0.2×	362 0.4×	426 0.8×	679 1.3×	117 0.2×	40	1.4k
Anna Roosevelt United States	15	704 0.7×	209 0.3×	266 0.5×	135 0.3×	166 0.3×	41	1.4k
Nicholas P. Dunning United States	30	439 0.4×	268 0.3×	621 1.1×	711 1.3×	136 0.3×	89	2.8k
Lars Östlund Sweden	28	91 0.1×	1.2k 1.5×	674 1.2×	622 1.2×	423 0.9×	96	2.8k
Mark Robinson United Kingdom	18	441 0.4×	157 0.2×	164 0.3×	118 0.2×	155 0.3×	39	1.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bush, Mark B., David Neill, Bryan G. Valencia, et al.. (2025). Ecological legacies and recent footprints of the Amazon’s Lost City. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7408–7408.

León‐Yánez, Susana, et al.. (2024). Past Fire and Vegetation Change in the Hyperdiverse Forests of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Plants. 13(15). 2048–2048.

Peterson, Larry C., et al.. (2024). Climate, vegetation, and fire, during the last deglaciation in northwestern Amazonia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 332. 108662–108662. 3 indexed citations

McMichael, Crystal N. H., et al.. (2024). Heat, hydroclimate and herbivory: A late-pleistocene record of environmental change from tropical western Africa. Quaternary International. 717. 109636–109636.

Sarmiento, Fausto O., Mark B. Bush, Crystal N. H. McMichael, et al.. (2024). Ecological Legacies and Ethnotourism: Bridging Science and Community in Ecuador’s Amazonia. Sustainability. 16(11). 4664–4664. 1 indexed citations

McMichael, Crystal N. H., William D. Gosling, André Braga Junqueira, et al.. (2023). Spatial and temporal abilities of proxies used to detect pre-Columbian Indigenous human activity in Amazonian ecosystems. Quaternary Science Reviews. 321. 108354–108354. 3 indexed citations

McMichael, Crystal N. H., et al.. (2023). Amazonian pollen assemblages reflect biogeographic gradients and forest cover. Journal of Biogeography. 50(11). 1926–1938. 7 indexed citations

Valencia, Renato, et al.. (2022). Long‐term fire and vegetation change in northwestern Amazonia. Biotropica. 55(1). 197–209. 12 indexed citations

Bush, Mark B., et al.. (2022). Early to mid-Holocene human activity exerted gradual influences on Amazonian forest vegetation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1849). 20200498–20200498. 21 indexed citations

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Bush, Mark B., Angela Rozas-Dávila, Marco F. Raczka, et al.. (2022). A palaeoecological perspective on the transformation of the tropical Andes by early human activity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1849). 20200497–20200497. 20 indexed citations

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Ellis, Erle C., Nicolas Gauthier, Kees Klein Goldewijk, et al.. (2021). People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(17). 475 indexed citations breakdown →

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Piperno, Dolores R., Crystal N. H. McMichael, Nigel C. A. Pitman, et al.. (2021). A 5,000-year vegetation and fire history for tierra firme forests in the Medio Putumayo-Algodón watersheds, northeastern Peru. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(40). 26 indexed citations

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McMichael, Crystal N. H.. (2020). Ecological legacies of past human activities in Amazonian forests. New Phytologist. 229(5). 2492–2496. 42 indexed citations

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Åkesson, Christine M., et al.. (2020). Long‐term ecological legacies in western Amazonia. Journal of Ecology. 109(1). 432–446. 35 indexed citations

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Castilla-Beltrán, Álvaro, H. Hooghiemstra, Menno L. P. Hoogland, et al.. (2020). Ecological responses to land use change in the face of European colonization of Haytí island. Quaternary Science Reviews. 241. 106407–106407. 11 indexed citations

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Raczka, Marco F., et al.. (2018). Palm Phytoliths of Mid-Elevation Andean Forests. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 6. 36 indexed citations

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McMichael, Crystal N. H.. (2015). Book Review: Cultural Forests of the Amazon: A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes [Review of: W. Balée (2013). University of Alabama Press, 2014. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-8173-7; Ebook ISBN 978-0-0173-8655-9. Biological Conservation. 182. 286–287. 1 indexed citations

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McMichael, Crystal N. H.. (2014). Book review. Biological Conservation. 182. 286–287. 1 indexed citations

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Braswell, B. H., Michael Palace, Mark B. Bush, et al.. (2012). Detection of Amazonian Black Earth Sites using Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Bush, Mark B., Miles R. Silman, Crystal N. H. McMichael, & Sassan Saatchi. (2008). Fire, climate change and biodiversity in Amazonia: a Late-Holocene perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 363(1498). 1795–1802. 138 indexed citations

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