Dave van Wees

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 691 citations indexed

About

Dave van Wees is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Dave van Wees has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 691 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Dave van Wees's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (18 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (4 papers). Dave van Wees is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (18 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (4 papers). Dave van Wees collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Dave van Wees's co-authors include Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson, Douglas C. Morton, Yang Chen, Niels Andela, Emilio Chuvieco, Rubén Ramo, Ioannis Bistinas, Ekhi Roteta and Aitor Bastarrika and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Dave van Wees

23 papers receiving 666 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

African burned area and fire carbon emissions are strongly impacted by small fires undetected by coarse resolution satellite data

2021 194 citations Dave van Wees, Emilio Chuvieco et al. profile →
Global rise in forest fire emissions linked to climate change in the extratropics

2024 51 citations Matthew W. Jones, Sander Veraverbeke et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dave van Wees Netherlands	11	580	210	181	59	55	25	691
S. M. Leite Portugal	11	584 1.0×	269 1.3×	71 0.4×	29 0.5×	46 0.8×	15	677
Patrick T. Brown United States	11	417 0.7×	267 1.3×	61 0.3×	18 0.3×	52 0.9×	23	672
Michael Goss United States	7	462 0.8×	252 1.2×	62 0.3×	51 0.9×	28 0.5×	12	573
Ginny Marshall Canada	7	729 1.3×	185 0.9×	200 1.1×	119 2.0×	50 0.9×	10	815
Cordy Tymstra Canada	8	573 1.0×	101 0.5×	167 0.9×	98 1.7×	43 0.8×	12	638
Ronan Paugam United Kingdom	15	857 1.5×	464 2.2×	125 0.7×	150 2.5×	99 1.8×	25	988
Swen Brands Spain	16	934 1.6×	702 3.3×	56 0.3×	27 0.5×	84 1.5×	31	1.1k
Nicholas J. Nauslar United States	13	472 0.8×	200 1.0×	71 0.4×	93 1.6×	44 0.8×	22	521
Nadia Politi Greece	12	380 0.7×	199 0.9×	49 0.3×	13 0.2×	63 1.1×	24	501
J. J. Hollis Australia	11	589 1.0×	80 0.4×	157 0.9×	164 2.8×	51 0.9×	19	659

Countries citing papers authored by Dave van Wees

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dave van Wees

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Dave van Wees. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Dave van Wees. The network helps show where Dave van Wees may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dave van Wees

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dave van Wees. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dave van Wees based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Dave van Wees. Dave van Wees is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Roche, Didier M., Florence Mazier, Jens‐Christian Svenning, et al.. (2025). On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared. PLoS ONE. 20(10). e0328218–e0328218.

Werf, Guido R. van der, James T. Randerson, Dave van Wees, et al.. (2025). Landscape fire emissions from the 5th version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5). Scientific Data. 12(1). 1870–1870.

Velde, Ivar R. van der, Guido R. van der Werf, Dave van Wees, et al.. (2024). Small Fires, Big Impact: Evaluating Fire Emission Estimates in Southern Africa Using New Satellite Imagery of Burned Area and Carbon Monoxide. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(12). 9 indexed citations

Jones, Matthew W., Sander Veraverbeke, Niels Andela, et al.. (2024). Global rise in forest fire emissions linked to climate change in the extratropics. Science. 386(6719). eadl5889–eadl5889. 51 indexed citations breakdown →

Feng, Yu, Philippe Ciais, Jean‐Pierre Wigneron, et al.. (2024). Global patterns and drivers of tropical aboveground carbon changes. Nature Climate Change. 14(10). 1064–1070. 10 indexed citations

MacDonald, Katharine, Didier M. Roche, Florence Mazier, et al.. (2023). Hunter-gatherer impact on European interglacial vegetation: A modelling approach. Quaternary Science Reviews. 324. 108439–108439. 6 indexed citations

Russell‐Smith, Jeremy, Cameron Yates, Jay D. Evans, et al.. (2023). Dynamic savanna burning emission factors based on satellite data using a machine learning approach. Earth System Dynamics. 14(5). 1039–1064. 12 indexed citations

Ciais, Philippe, et al.. (2023). High-resolution data reveal a surge of biomass loss from temperate and Atlantic pine forests, contextualizing the 2022 fire season distinctiveness in France. Biogeosciences. 20(18). 3803–3825. 9 indexed citations

Chen, Yang, Joanne Hall, Dave van Wees, et al.. (2023). Multi-decadal trends and variability in burned area from the fifth version of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5). Earth system science data. 15(11). 5227–5259. 74 indexed citations

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Janßen, Thomas, Matthew W. Jones, D Finney, et al.. (2023). Extratropical forests increasingly at risk due to lightning fires. Nature Geoscience. 16(12). 1136–1144. 40 indexed citations

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Wees, Dave van, Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson, et al.. (2022). Global biomass burning fuel consumption and emissions at 500 m spatial resolution based on the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED). Geoscientific model development. 15(22). 8411–8437. 70 indexed citations

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Wees, Dave van, Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson, et al.. (2021). The role of fire in global forest loss dynamics. Global Change Biology. 27(11). 2377–2391. 101 indexed citations

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Werf, Guido R. van der, James T. Randerson, Louis Giglio, et al.. (2020). Fire - climate interactions in a warming world. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 1 indexed citations

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Kukavskaya, Elena A., Michelle C. Mack, Trofim C. Maximov, et al.. (2020). Carbon emissions from wildfires in larch forest ecosystems of Northeast Siberia. 2 indexed citations

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Wees, Dave van & Guido R. van der Werf. (2020). The contribution of fire to a global increase in forest loss. 3 indexed citations

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Wees, Dave van & Guido R. van der Werf. (2019). Modelling African biomass burning emissions and the effect of spatial resolution. 1 indexed citations

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Wees, Dave van & Guido R. van der Werf. (2019). Modelling biomass burning emissions and the effect of spatial resolution: a case study for Africa based on the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED). Geoscientific model development. 12(11). 4681–4703. 18 indexed citations

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Marle, Margreet van, Dave van Wees, R. A. Houghton, Alexander A. Nassikas, & Guido R. van der Werf. (2017). Increasing efficiency of CO 2 uptake by combined land-ocean sink. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Boom, B. A., A. Bertolini, E. Hennes, et al.. (2017). Nano-G accelerometer using geometric anti-springs. IEEE Conference Proceedings. 2017. 36. 1 indexed citations

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Boom, B. A., A. Bertolini, E. Hennes, et al.. (2017). Nano-G accelerometer using geometric anti-springs. VU Research Portal. 33–36. 33 indexed citations

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