Elizabeth A. Law

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Elizabeth A. Law is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Elizabeth A. Law has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Ecology and 15 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Elizabeth A. Law's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (35 papers), Forest Management and Policy (18 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (15 papers). Elizabeth A. Law is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (35 papers), Forest Management and Policy (18 papers) and Economic and Environmental Valuation (15 papers). Elizabeth A. Law collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Elizabeth A. Law's co-authors include Kerrie A. Wilson, Brett A. Bryan, Erik Meijaard, Matthew J. Struebig, Truly Santika, Sugeng Budiharta, Rachel Friedman, Marc Ancrenaz, Sandra Dı́az and Rafael Villar and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Elizabeth A. Law

45 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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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.

Global climatic drivers of leaf size

2017 647 citations Ian J. Wright, Ning Dong et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elizabeth A. Law Australia	26	1.5k	781	609	465	359	45	2.6k
Claude García France	22	2.2k 1.5×	787 1.0×	582 1.0×	358 0.8×	403 1.1×	90	3.7k
Nicolas Dendoncker Belgium	29	1.4k 0.9×	627 0.8×	478 0.8×	279 0.6×	279 0.8×	77	2.6k
Rinku Roy Chowdhury United States	27	1.9k 1.3×	582 0.7×	327 0.5×	422 0.9×	321 0.9×	50	3.0k
WRI	4	993 0.7×	691 0.9×	568 0.9×	292 0.6×	317 0.9×	8	2.1k
Jacob Phelps United Kingdom	27	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.6×	506 0.8×	634 1.4×	492 1.4×	54	3.7k
Jacqueline Loos Germany	25	1.1k 0.7×	610 0.8×	571 0.9×	200 0.4×	386 1.1×	81	2.5k
Cibele Queiroz Sweden	17	1.3k 0.9×	520 0.7×	384 0.6×	214 0.5×	328 0.9×	27	2.1k
Lisa A. Schulte United States	33	1.6k 1.1×	916 1.2×	957 1.6×	207 0.4×	241 0.7×	116	3.5k
Ilse R. Geijzendorffer France	28	1.4k 1.0×	665 0.9×	429 0.7×	229 0.5×	309 0.9×	50	2.4k
Jane Turpie South Africa	32	1.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	705 1.2×	559 1.2×	623 1.7×	93	3.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Struebig, Matthew J., et al.. (2024). Connectivity conservation to mitigate climate and land-cover change impacts on Borneo. Biological Conservation. 299. 110838–110838. 2 indexed citations

Shumi, Girma, Elizabeth A. Law, Felipe Benra, et al.. (2024). Future ecosystem service provision under land-use change scenarios in southwestern Ethiopia. Ecosystems and People. 20(1). 5 indexed citations

Benra, Felipe, Joern Fischer, Tolera Senbeto Jiren, et al.. (2024). A social-ecological approach to support equitable land use decision-making. AMBIO. 53(12). 1752–1767. 1 indexed citations

Law, Elizabeth A., Girma Shumi, Patrícia Rodrigues, et al.. (2023). Spatial predictions for the distribution of woody plant species under different land-use scenarios in southwestern Ethiopia. Landscape Ecology. 38(5). 1249–1263. 4 indexed citations

Fischer, Joern, et al.. (2023). Drivers of ecosystem service specialization in a smallholder agricultural landscape of the Global South: a case study in Ethiopia. Ecology and Society. 28(3). 6 indexed citations

Friedman, Rachel, Jonathan R. Rhodes, Angela J. Dean, et al.. (2020). Analyzing procedural equity in government-led community-based forest management. Ecology and Society. 25(3). 25 indexed citations

Santika, Truly, Sugeng Budiharta, Elizabeth A. Law, et al.. (2020). Interannual climate variation, land type and village livelihood effects on fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Global Environmental Change. 64. 102129–102129. 34 indexed citations

Meijaard, Erik, Truly Santika, Kerrie A. Wilson, et al.. (2020). Toward improved impact evaluation of community forest management in Indonesia. Conservation Science and Practice. 3(1). 28 indexed citations

Santika, Truly, Kerrie A. Wilson, Sugeng Budiharta, et al.. (2019). Heterogeneous impacts of community forestry on forest conservation and poverty alleviation: Evidence from Indonesia. People and Nature. 1(2). 204–219. 80 indexed citations

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Marcos-Martínez, Raymundo, Brett A. Bryan, K. Schwabe, et al.. (2019). Projected social costs of CO2 emissions from forest losses far exceed the sequestration benefits of forest gains under global change. Ecosystem Services. 37. 100935–100935. 15 indexed citations

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Friedman, Rachel, Elizabeth A. Law, Nathan Bennett, et al.. (2018). How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research. Environmental Research Letters. 13(5). 53001–53001. 145 indexed citations

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Martinez‐Harms, María José, Brett A. Bryan, Spencer A. Wood, et al.. (2018). Inequality in access to cultural ecosystem services from protected areas in the Chilean biodiversity hotspot. The Science of The Total Environment. 636. 1128–1138. 45 indexed citations

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Simmons, B. Alexander, Raymundo Marcos-Martínez, Elizabeth A. Law, Brett A. Bryan, & Kerrie A. Wilson. (2018). Frequent policy uncertainty can negate the benefits of forest conservation policy. Environmental Science & Policy. 89. 401–411. 42 indexed citations

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Simmons, B. Alexander, et al.. (2018). Effectiveness of regulatory policy in curbing deforestation in a biodiversity hotspot. Environmental Research Letters. 13(12). 124003–124003. 25 indexed citations

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Wright, Ian J., Ning Dong, Vincent Maire, et al.. (2017). Global climatic drivers of leaf size. Science. 357(6354). 917–921. 647 indexed citations breakdown →

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Law, Elizabeth A., Paul J. Ferraro, Peter Arcese, et al.. (2017). Projecting the performance of conservation interventions. Biological Conservation. 215. 142–151. 28 indexed citations

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Evans, Megan, et al.. (2016). Better planning outcomes requires clear consideration of costs, condition and conservation benefits, and access to the best available data: Reply to Gosper et al., 2016. Biological Conservation. 200. 242–243. 1 indexed citations

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Evans, Megan, et al.. (2015). Clear consideration of costs, condition and conservation benefits yields better planning outcomes. Biological Conservation. 191. 716–727. 39 indexed citations

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Bryan, Brett A., Martin Nolan, Thomas D. Harwood, et al.. (2014). Supply of carbon sequestration and biodiversity services from Australia's agricultural land under global change. Global Environmental Change. 28. 166–181. 60 indexed citations

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McFadden, Mark, et al.. (2001). All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Online Delivery of Education and Training. Review of Research.. 24 indexed citations

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