Cynthia Simmons

2.7k total citations
41 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Cynthia Simmons is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Cynthia Simmons has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 22 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 18 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Cynthia Simmons's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (22 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (18 papers). Cynthia Simmons is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (22 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (18 papers). Cynthia Simmons collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Mexico. Cynthia Simmons's co-authors include Robert Walker, Marcellus M. Caldas, Stephen G. Perz, Stephen Aldrich, Eugênio Arima, Eugênio Arima, Ritaumaria Pereira, Charles H. Wood, John O. Browder and Ricardo Shirota and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and World Development.

In The Last Decade

Cynthia Simmons

40 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cynthia Simmons United States 19 855 438 228 195 153 41 1.2k
John O. Browder United States 21 879 1.0× 371 0.8× 135 0.6× 224 1.1× 242 1.6× 34 1.4k
Peter Klepeis United States 17 862 1.0× 278 0.6× 106 0.5× 186 1.0× 202 1.3× 24 1.2k
Andréa Aguiar Azevedo Brazil 10 977 1.1× 305 0.7× 163 0.7× 338 1.7× 241 1.6× 18 1.4k
Maria DiGiano United States 11 747 0.9× 225 0.5× 115 0.5× 219 1.1× 195 1.3× 16 1.1k
Jean-Laurent Pfund Indonesia 11 1.1k 1.2× 289 0.7× 90 0.4× 150 0.8× 296 1.9× 14 1.4k
Julie G. Zaehringer Switzerland 23 778 0.9× 249 0.6× 93 0.4× 162 0.8× 206 1.3× 51 1.2k
Jon C. Lovett United Kingdom 9 888 1.0× 177 0.4× 96 0.4× 289 1.5× 133 0.9× 14 1.2k
D. Edmunds Indonesia 11 753 0.9× 233 0.5× 106 0.5× 129 0.7× 118 0.8× 24 1.2k
Patrick Bottazzi Switzerland 19 378 0.4× 279 0.6× 108 0.5× 163 0.8× 102 0.7× 37 853
Levania Santoso United Kingdom 5 727 0.9× 186 0.4× 74 0.3× 196 1.0× 129 0.8× 7 915

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cynthia Simmons

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cynthia Simmons

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Walker, Robert, et al.. (2025). Biocultural Geographies: Stewardship, Indigenous Territories, and Conservation in Ecuador’s Amazon. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 115(10). 2483–2501.
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Simmons, Cynthia, et al.. (2023). Forest Transition and Fuzzy Environments in Neoliberal Mexico. Land. 12(4). 840–840. 1 indexed citations
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Aldrich, Stephen, et al.. (2020). Agronomic or contentious land change? A longitudinal analysis from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon. PLoS ONE. 15(1). e0227378–e0227378. 7 indexed citations
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Simmons, Cynthia, et al.. (2018). Discipline and Develop: Destruction of the Brazil Nut Forest in the Lower Amazon Basin. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 109(1). 242–265. 9 indexed citations
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Walker, Robert, Cynthia Simmons, Stephen Aldrich, et al.. (2011). The Amazonian Theater of Cruelty. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 101(5). 1156–1170. 9 indexed citations
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Aldrich, Stephen, Robert Walker, Cynthia Simmons, Marcellus M. Caldas, & Stephen G. Perz. (2011). Contentious Land Change in the Amazon's Arc of Deforestation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102(1). 103–128. 92 indexed citations
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Caldas, Marcellus M., Cynthia Simmons, Robert Walker, et al.. (2010). Settlement Formation and Land Cover and Land Use Change: A Case Study in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Latin American geography. 9(1). 125–144. 21 indexed citations
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Walker, Robert, John O. Browder, Eugênio Arima, et al.. (2008). Ranching and the new global range: Amazônia in the 21st century. Geoforum. 40(5). 732–745. 135 indexed citations
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Simmons, Cynthia, Robert Walker, Eugênio Arima, Stephen Aldrich, & Marcellus M. Caldas. (2007). Amazon Land Wars in the South of Para. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 97(3). 2 indexed citations
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Simmons, Cynthia, Robert Walker, Eugênio Arima, Stephen Aldrich, & Marcellus M. Caldas. (2007). The Amazon Land War in the South of Pará. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 97(3). 567–592. 71 indexed citations
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Caldas, Marcellus M., Robert Walker, Eugênio Arima, et al.. (2007). Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 97(1). 86–110. 137 indexed citations
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Simmons, Cynthia, Marcellus M. Caldas, Stephen Aldrich, Robert Walker, & Stephen G. Perz. (2007). Spatial Processes in Scalar Context: Development and Security in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Latin American geography. 6(1). 125–148. 10 indexed citations
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Caldas, Marcellus M., Robert Walker, Eugênio Arima, et al.. (2007). Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Colonization in the Amazon Basin. 97(1). 12 indexed citations
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Arima, Eugênio, Cynthia Simmons, Robert Walker, & Mark A. Cochrane. (2007). FIRE IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON: A SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODEL FOR POLICY IMPACT ANALYSIS*. Journal of Regional Science. 47(3). 541–567. 43 indexed citations
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Simmons, Cynthia. (2004). The Political Economy of Land Conflict in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 94(1). 183–206. 74 indexed citations
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Simmons, Cynthia. (2002). The Local Articulation of Policy Conflict: Land Use, Environment, and Amerindian Rights in Eastern Amazonia. The Professional Geographer. 54(2). 241–258. 5 indexed citations
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Simmons, Cynthia, Robert Walker, & Charles H. Wood. (2002). Tree planting by small producers in the tropics: A comparative study of Brazil and Panama. Agroforestry Systems. 56(2). 89–105. 58 indexed citations
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Simmons, Cynthia, et al.. (2002). Urban rural linkages and environmental change: Addressing the human dynamics of urban ecologies. Urban Ecosystems. 6(1-2). 5–8. 3 indexed citations
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Simmons, Cynthia & Sabrina P. Ramet. (2001). Gender Politics in the Western Balkans: Women and Society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States. The Slavic and East European Journal. 45(1). 166–166. 3 indexed citations

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