David A. Gibbs

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 882 citations indexed

About

David A. Gibbs is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Gibbs has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 882 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in David A. Gibbs's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (5 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (4 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (3 papers). David A. Gibbs is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (5 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (4 papers) and Coastal and Marine Management (3 papers). David A. Gibbs collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. David A. Gibbs's co-authors include Nancy L. Harris, Daniela Requena Suárez, Martin Herold, Sassan Saatchi, Matthew C. Hansen, Alexandra Tyukavina, Richard A. Birdsey, R. A. Houghton, Svetlana Turubanova and Peter Potapov and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Nature Climate Change and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

David A. Gibbs

19 papers receiving 849 citations

Hit Papers

Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 200 400 600
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.

  1. Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes
    2021 675 citations Nancy L. Harris, David A. Gibbs et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David A. Gibbs United States 9 531 233 207 188 76 20 882
Maria Niedertscheider Austria 14 730 1.4× 350 1.5× 158 0.8× 222 1.2× 103 1.4× 16 1.1k
Tamara Fetzel Austria 10 622 1.2× 400 1.7× 174 0.8× 154 0.8× 111 1.5× 10 1.0k
Karen L. Vandecar United States 10 605 1.1× 228 1.0× 146 0.7× 105 0.6× 133 1.8× 11 957
J. Alan Yeakley United States 20 448 0.8× 256 1.1× 318 1.5× 155 0.8× 69 0.9× 46 1.0k
Graciela Tejada Brazil 11 556 1.0× 182 0.8× 126 0.6× 110 0.6× 103 1.4× 18 865
Rémi d’Annunzio Italy 15 640 1.2× 318 1.4× 264 1.3× 178 0.9× 60 0.8× 22 1.1k
Sergey Zudin Finland 13 506 1.0× 172 0.7× 274 1.3× 173 0.9× 87 1.1× 20 873
Henrique Cassol Brazil 11 697 1.3× 253 1.1× 210 1.0× 172 0.9× 115 1.5× 31 1.0k
Paul Scholefield United Kingdom 15 626 1.2× 187 0.8× 139 0.7× 104 0.6× 97 1.3× 27 1.1k
Luciano Marani Brazil 6 483 0.9× 166 0.7× 79 0.4× 66 0.4× 100 1.3× 12 717

Countries citing papers authored by David A. Gibbs

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Fields of papers citing papers by David A. Gibbs

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David A. Gibbs

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David A. Gibbs. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David A. Gibbs 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 David A. Gibbs. David A. Gibbs is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Robinson, Nathaniel, C. Ronnie Drever, David A. Gibbs, et al.. (2025). Protect young secondary forests for optimum carbon removal. Nature Climate Change. 15(7). 793–800. 4 indexed citations
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Gibbs, David A., Giacomo Grassi, Joana Melo, et al.. (2025). Revised and updated geospatial monitoring of 21st century forest carbon fluxes. Earth system science data. 17(3). 1217–1243. 6 indexed citations
3.
Pennino, Michael J., et al.. (2025). ContDataQC: An R package and Shiny app for quality control of continuous water quality sensor data. SoftwareX. 30. 102124–102124.
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Richter, Jessica, et al.. (2024). Spatial Database of Planted Trees (SDPT Version 2.0). 16 indexed citations
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Heinrich, Viola, Joanna I. House, David A. Gibbs, et al.. (2023). Mind the gap: reconciling tropical forest carbon flux estimates from earth observation and national reporting requires transparency. Carbon Balance and Management. 18(1). 22–22. 5 indexed citations
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Sabo, Robert D., Christopher M. Clark, David A. Gibbs, et al.. (2021). Phosphorus Inventory for the Conterminous United States (2002–2012). Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(4). 1–21. 68 indexed citations
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Gibbs, David A., et al.. (2021). Incorporating adaptation and resilience into an integrated watershed and coral reef management plan. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0253343–e0253343. 4 indexed citations
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Harris, Nancy L., David A. Gibbs, Alessandro Baccini, et al.. (2021). Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes. Nature Climate Change. 11(3). 234–240. 675 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bennett, Micah G., et al.. (2021). Response of chlorophyll a to total nitrogen and total phosphorus concentrations in lotic ecosystems: a systematic review. Environmental Evidence. 10(1). 20 indexed citations
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Suárez, Daniela Requena, Danaë M. A. Rozendaal, Veronique De Sy, et al.. (2021). Variation in aboveground biomass in forests and woodlands in Tanzania along gradients in environmental conditions and human use. Environmental Research Letters. 16(4). 44014–44014. 12 indexed citations
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Harris, Nancy L. & David A. Gibbs. (2021). Forests Absorb Twice As Much Carbon As They Emit Each Year. 11 indexed citations
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Gibbs, David A. & Joseph E. Flotemersch. (2019). How environmental futures can inform decision making: A review. Futures. 108. 37–52. 7 indexed citations
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Gibbs, David A. & Jordan M. West. (2019). Resilience assessment of Puerto Rico’s coral reefs to inform reef management. PLoS ONE. 14(11). e0224360–e0224360. 10 indexed citations
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West, Jordan M., Catherine A. Courtney, Anna T. Hamilton, et al.. (2018). Adaptation Design Tool for Climate-Smart Management of Coral Reefs and Other Natural Resources. Environmental Management. 62(4). 644–664. 7 indexed citations
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Gibbs, David A., N. Harris, & Frances Seymour. (2018). By the Numbers: The Value of Tropical Forests in the Climate Change Equation. 13 indexed citations
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Norton, Susan B., J. Angus Webb, Kate A. Schofield, et al.. (2018). Timely delivery of scientific knowledge for environmental management: a Freshwater Science initiative. Freshwater Science. 37(2). 205–207. 3 indexed citations
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Gibbs, David A. & Lin Jiang. (2017). Environmental warming accelerates extinctions but does not alter extinction debt. Basic and Applied Ecology. 24. 30–40. 1 indexed citations
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Gibbs, David A. & Mark E. Hay. (2015). Spatial patterns of coral survivorship: impacts of adult proximity versus other drivers of localized mortality. PeerJ. 3. e1440–e1440. 11 indexed citations
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Miller, Terrence L., et al.. (2013). Experimental infections of Orchitophrya stellarum (Scuticociliata) in American blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) and fiddler crabs (Uca minax). Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 114(3). 346–355. 8 indexed citations
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Benveniste, Etty, et al.. (1989). Human B cell growth factor enhances proliferation and glial fibrillary acidic protein gene expression in rat astrocytes. International Immunology. 1(5). 555–555. 1 indexed citations

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