Donald McKenzie

7.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Donald McKenzie is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald McKenzie has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 23 papers in Atmospheric Science and 21 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Donald McKenzie's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (52 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers). Donald McKenzie is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (52 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (16 papers). Donald McKenzie collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Canada. Donald McKenzie's co-authors include David L. Peterson, Jeremy S. Littell, A. L. Westerling, C. Alina Cansler, Charles B. Halpern, Donald A. Falk, Philip W. Mote, Ze’ev Gedalof, Carol Miller and Maureen C. Kennedy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Donald McKenzie

71 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Climate and wildfire area burned in western U.S. ecoprovinces, 1916–2003

2009 846 citations Jeremy S. Littell, Donald McKenzie et al. Ecological Applications profile →
Climatic Change, Wildfire, and Conservation

2004 501 citations Donald McKenzie, David L. Peterson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Donald McKenzie United States	34	4.1k	1.9k	1.4k	941	791	71	5.0k
Daniel G. Gavin United States	30	3.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	3.0k 3.1×	770 1.0×	89	4.9k
Eric J. Gustafson United States	37	4.1k 1.0×	2.2k 1.2×	2.6k 1.9×	577 0.6×	307 0.4×	105	5.9k
Steven G. Cumming Canada	26	1.7k 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	717 0.5×	421 0.4×	306 0.4×	71	2.5k
Matthew B. Dickinson United States	29	1.8k 0.4×	716 0.4×	679 0.5×	314 0.3×	173 0.2×	78	2.3k
David L. Verbyla United States	29	2.3k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	426 0.3×	2.4k 2.5×	217 0.3×	59	4.4k
William Platt United States	45	4.3k 1.0×	3.2k 1.7×	5.0k 3.6×	653 0.7×	175 0.2×	128	7.7k
Richard F. Miller United States	39	4.3k 1.0×	4.8k 2.6×	3.2k 2.3×	406 0.4×	514 0.6×	124	6.0k
David Jones United Kingdom	48	4.1k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	450 0.3×	2.2k 2.3×	138 0.2×	246	7.7k
Marc Macias‐Fauria United Kingdom	30	2.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	2.6k 2.7×	268 0.3×	65	4.7k
Giuseppe Amatulli United States	20	940 0.2×	648 0.4×	487 0.4×	302 0.3×	201 0.3×	37	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Donald McKenzie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Donald McKenzie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donald McKenzie

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Shankar, Uma, Donald McKenzie, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, et al.. (2019). Evaluating wildfire emissions projection methods in comparisons of simulated and observed air quality. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(23). 15157–15181. 1 indexed citations

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Cansler, C. Alina, Donald McKenzie, & Charles B. Halpern. (2018). Fire enhances the complexity of forest structure in alpine treeline ecotones. Ecosphere. 9(2). 33 indexed citations

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Littell, Jeremy S., Donald McKenzie, Ho Yi Wan, & Samuel A. Cushman. (2018). Climate Change and Future Wildfire in the Western United States: An Ecological Approach to Nonstationarity. Earth s Future. 6(8). 1097–1111. 120 indexed citations

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Cansler, C. Alina, Donald McKenzie, & Charles B. Halpern. (2016). Area burned in alpine treeline ecotones reflects region-wide trends. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25(12). 1209–1220. 14 indexed citations

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Stavros, E. Natasha, John T. Abatzoglou, Narasimhan K. Larkin, Donald McKenzie, & E. Ashley Steel. (2014). Climate and very large wildland fires in the contiguous western USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 23(7). 899–914. 73 indexed citations

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McKenzie, Donald, Uma Shankar, Robert E. Keane, et al.. (2014). Smoke consequences of new wildfire regimes driven by climate change. Earth s Future. n/a–n/a. 1 indexed citations

7.

Wilsey, Chad B., Joshua J. Lawler, Edwin P. Maurer, et al.. (2013). Tools for Assessing Climate Impacts on Fish and Wildlife. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. 4(1). 220–241. 7 indexed citations

8.

McKenzie, Donald, Nancy H. F. French, & Roger D. Ottmar. (2012). National database for calculating fuel available to wildfires. Eos. 93(6). 57–58. 11 indexed citations

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McKenzie, Donald, et al.. (2012). Carbon dynamics of forests in Washington, USA: 21st century projections based on climate‐driven changes in fire regimes. Ecological Applications. 22(5). 1589–1611. 21 indexed citations

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French, Nancy H. F., William J. de Groot, Liza K. Jenkins, et al.. (2011). Model comparisons for estimating carbon emissions from North American wildland fire. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116. 111 indexed citations

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Baron, Jill S., Lance Gunderson, Craig D. Allen, et al.. (2009). Options for National Parks and Reserves for Adapting to Climate Change. Environmental Management. 44(6). 1033–1042. 97 indexed citations

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Littell, Jeremy S., Donald McKenzie, David L. Peterson, & A. L. Westerling. (2009). Climate and wildfire area burned in western U.S. ecoprovinces, 1916–2003. Ecological Applications. 19(4). 1003–1021. 846 indexed citations breakdown →

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McKenzie, Donald, et al.. (2009). Global warming and stress complexes in forests of western North America. 8. 319–338. 27 indexed citations

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Chen, Jack, J. Avise, Brian Lamb, et al.. (2008). The effects of global changes upon regional ozone pollution in the United States. 4 indexed citations

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Falk, Donald A., Carol Miller, Donald McKenzie, & Anne E. Black. (2007). Cross-Scale Analysis of Fire Regimes. Ecosystems. 10(5). 809–823. 179 indexed citations

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McKenzie, Donald, Charles B. Halpern, & Cara R. Nelson. (2000). Overstory influences on herb and shrub communities in mature forests of western Washington, U.S.A.. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 30(10). 1655–1666. 84 indexed citations

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McKenzie, Donald, Charles B. Halpern, & Cara R. Nelson. (2000). Overstory influences on herb and shrub communities in mature forests of western Washington, U.S.A.. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 30(10). 1655–1666. 75 indexed citations

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McKenzie, Donald. (1998). Fire, vegetation, and scale: Toward optimal models for the Pacific Northwest. Northwest Science. 72. 49–65. 7 indexed citations

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McKenzie, Donald, Ernesto Alvarado, & David L. Peterson. (1996). Predicting the effect of fire on large-scale vegetation patterns in North America. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 7 indexed citations

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McKenzie, Donald, et al.. (1986). The random bond Ising model on the Bethe lattice. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 19(18). 3883–3890. 2 indexed citations

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