Foster Brown

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Foster Brown is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Foster Brown has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 20 papers in Ecology and 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Foster Brown's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (19 papers), Forest ecology and management (11 papers) and Environmental and biological studies (10 papers). Foster Brown is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (19 papers), Forest ecology and management (11 papers) and Environmental and biological studies (10 papers). Foster Brown collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and Peru. Foster Brown's co-authors include Wilfrid Schroeder, Steven C. Wofsy, Luiz Antônio Martinelli, Carlos Souza, Carlos A. Nobre, Michael Keller, Marcos Daisuke Oyama, José A. Marengo, Javier Tomasella and Gilvan Sampaio and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Clinical Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Foster Brown

54 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

The Amazon basin in transition

2012 861 citations Eric A. Davidson, Alessandro Araùjo et al. Nature profile →
The Drought of Amazonia in 2005

2008 545 citations Carlos A. Nobre, Gilvan Sampaio et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Foster Brown Brazil	21	2.0k	822	720	390	244	56	2.8k
David Ray United States	14	2.2k 1.1×	823 1.0×	949 1.3×	362 0.9×	179 0.7×	29	2.8k
Peter Schlesinger United States	13	2.5k 1.3×	985 1.2×	798 1.1×	221 0.6×	250 1.0×	20	3.4k
Rosa María Román-Cuesta United States	28	2.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	755 1.0×	341 0.9×	417 1.7×	60	3.1k
Brent M. Haddad United States	15	1.4k 0.7×	688 0.8×	672 0.9×	313 0.8×	114 0.5×	32	2.7k
Peter Holmgren Sweden	17	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	540 0.8×	180 0.5×	431 1.8×	26	2.8k
Manoel Cardoso Brazil	19	1.5k 0.8×	639 0.8×	304 0.4×	277 0.7×	175 0.7×	33	2.2k
Egídio Arai Brazil	22	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	344 0.5×	240 0.6×	392 1.6×	61	2.6k
Divino Vicente Silvério Brazil	22	1.6k 0.8×	700 0.9×	939 1.3×	215 0.6×	162 0.7×	54	2.3k
Emanuel Gloor United Kingdom	29	2.2k 1.1×	818 1.0×	897 1.2×	1.0k 2.6×	355 1.5×	55	3.3k
Mitchel P. McClaran United States	30	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.8×	1.1k 1.5×	409 1.0×	285 1.2×	98	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Foster Brown

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Fields of papers citing papers by Foster Brown

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Foster Brown

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Foster Brown. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Foster Brown 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 Foster Brown. Foster Brown 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

Ribeiro, Sabina Cerruto, Henrique Augusto Mews, Richarlly da Costa Silva, et al.. (2022). Primary modes of tree mortality in southwestern Amazon forests. Trees Forests and People. 7. 100180–100180. 1 indexed citations

Perz, Stephen G., et al.. (2021). Participatory Action Research for Conservation and Development: Experiences from the Amazon. Sustainability. 14(1). 233–233. 17 indexed citations

Silva, Sonaira Souza da, Igor Oliveira, Thiago Fonseca Morello, et al.. (2021). Burning in southwestern Brazilian Amazonia, 2016–2019. Journal of Environmental Management. 286. 112189–112189. 26 indexed citations

Ribeiro, Sabina Cerruto, N. Galia Selaya, Stephen G. Perz, et al.. (2020). Aligning conservation and development goals with rural community priorities: capacity building for forest health monitoring in an extractive reserve in Brazil. Ecology and Society. 25(3). 9 indexed citations

Reis, João, et al.. (2019). A near real time monitoring and warning system for wildfire prevention in the Acre state. Biodiversidade Brasileira. 9(1). 236–236. 1 indexed citations

Silva, Sonaira Souza da, Philip M. Fearnside, Paulo Maurı́cio Lima de Alencastro Graça, et al.. (2018). Dynamics of forest fires in the southwestern Amazon. Forest Ecology and Management. 424. 312–322. 103 indexed citations

Brown, Foster, et al.. (2018). Re-thinking socio-economic impact assessments of disasters: The 2015 flood in Rio Branco, Brazilian Amazon. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 31. 212–219. 21 indexed citations

Lapola, David M., Patrícia Pinho, Carlos A. Quesada, et al.. (2018). Limiting the high impacts of Amazon forest dieback with no-regrets science and policy action. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(46). 11671–11679. 40 indexed citations

Selaya, N. Galia, Pieter A. Zuidema, Christopher Baraloto, et al.. (2017). Economically important species dominate aboveground carbon storage in forests of southwestern Amazonia. Ecology and Society. 22(2). 13 indexed citations

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Aragão, Luiz E. O. C., José Marengo, Peter M. Cox, et al.. (2016). Assessing the Influence of Climate Extremes on Ecosystems and Human Health in Southwestern Amazon Supported by the PULSE-Brazil Platform. American Journal of Climate Change. 5(3). 399–416. 8 indexed citations

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Davidson, Eric A., Alessandro Araùjo, Paulo Artaxo, et al.. (2012). The Amazon basin in transition. Nature. 481(7381). 321–328. 861 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shimabukuro, Yosio Edemir, Valdete Duarte, Egídio Arai, et al.. (2009). Fraction images derived from Terra Modis data for mapping burnt areas in Brazilian Amazonia. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 30(6). 1537–1546. 49 indexed citations

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Ranzi, Alceu, Reinaldo J. F. Feres, & Foster Brown. (2007). Internet software programs aid in search for Amazonian geoglyphs. Eos. 88(21). 226–229. 20 indexed citations

14.

Vieira, Simone Aparecida, Plínio Barbosa de Camargo, Diogo Selhorst, et al.. (2004). Forest structure and carbon dynamics in Amazonian tropical rain forests. Oecologia. 140(3). 468–479. 152 indexed citations

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Salimon, Cleber Ibraim & Foster Brown. (2000). Secondary forests in western Amazonia: significant sinks for carbon released from deforestation?. Interciencia. 25(4). 198–202. 17 indexed citations

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Barrett, Jeffrey S., Jun Yu, Ram P. Kapil, et al.. (1999). Disposition and exposure of the fibrinogen receptor antagonist XV459 on αIIBβ3 binding sites in the guinea pig. Biopharmaceutics & Drug Disposition. 20(6). 309–318. 6 indexed citations

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Martinelli, Luiz Antônio, Foster Brown, Marcelo Zacharias Moreira, et al.. (1998). Stable carbon isotope ratio of tree leaves, boles and fine litter in a tropical forest in Rondônia, Brazil. Oecologia. 114(2). 170–179. 86 indexed citations

18.

Brown, Foster, et al.. (1998). Successful Treatment of Enterobacter Meningitis with Ciprofloxacin. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 26(1). 206–207. 4 indexed citations

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Nepstad, Daniel C., Carlos Augusto Klink, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, et al.. (1997). Land-use in Amazonia and the cerrado of Brasil.. Americanae (AECID Library). 49. 73–86. 41 indexed citations

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Brown, Foster, et al.. (1992). Carbon Storage and Land-use in Extractive Reserves, Acre, Brazil. Environmental Conservation. 19(4). 307–315. 32 indexed citations

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