Glen M. MacDonald

22.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
207 papers, 13.6k citations indexed

About

Glen M. MacDonald is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Glen M. MacDonald has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 13.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Atmospheric Science, 72 papers in Ecology and 55 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Glen M. MacDonald's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (126 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (59 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (32 papers). Glen M. MacDonald is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (126 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (59 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (32 papers). Glen M. MacDonald collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Glen M. MacDonald's co-authors include L. C. Smith, Julian M. Szeicz, Yongwei Sheng, Roslyn A. Case, Les C. Cwynar, Katrina A. Moser, David W. Beilman, Chris P. S. Larsen, L. D. Hinzman and K. V. Kremenetski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Glen M. MacDonald

204 papers receiving 12.7k 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.

Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries

1997 850 citations Glen M. MacDonald et al. profile →
Disappearing Arctic Lakes

2005 771 citations L. C. Smith, Yongwei Sheng et al. profile →
Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw

2020 405 citations Gustaf Hugelius, Julie Loisel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Recent global decline in endorheic basin water storages

2018 350 citations Jida Wang, Chunqiao Song et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Glen M. MacDonald

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Climate change and California sustainability—Challenges and solutions 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Janet Franklin, Glen M. MacDonald	6
2	Significant challenges to the sustainability of the California coast considering climate change 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Karen M. Thorne, Glen M. MacDonald, Francisco P. Chávez, Richard F. Ambrose, Patrick L. Barnard	4
3	Drought-vulnerable vegetation increases exposure of disadvantaged populations to heatwaves under global warming: A case study from Los Angeles 2023 ·Sustainable Cities and Society ·Chunyu Dong, Yan Yu, (unknown), Kairong Lin, Xiaohong Chen, Gregory S. Okin, Thomas W. Gillespie, (unknown), Glen M. MacDonald	24
4	Drivers of California’s changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis 2023 ·International Journal of Wildland Fire ·Glen M. MacDonald, (unknown), Carolyn A. F. Enquist, (unknown), John B. Bradford, David D. Breshears, Timothy J. Brown, Daniel R. Cayan, Chunyu Dong, Donald A. Falk, Erica Fleishman, Alexander Gershunov, Molly E. Hunter, Rachel A. Loehman, Phillip J. van Mantgem, Beth Rose Middleton, Hugh D. Safford, Mark W. Schwartz, Valérie Trouet	21
5	Contemporary Salt-Marsh Foraminifera from Southern California and Implications for Reconstructing Late Holocene Sea-Level Changes 2023 ·The Journal of Foraminiferal Research ·Simona Avnaim‐Katav, Ed Garrett, W. Roland Gehrels, Lauren N. Brown, T. Rockwell, Alexander R. Simms, (unknown), Glen M. MacDonald	2
6	A diatom-inferred water-depth transfer function from a single lake in the northern California Coast Range 2023 ·Journal of Paleolimnology ·(unknown), Matthew E. Kirby, (unknown), (unknown), Glen M. MacDonald	1
7	Increasing Salt Marsh Elevation Using Sediment Augmentation: Critical Insights from Surface Sediments and Sediment Cores 2023 ·Environmental Management ·(unknown), Lauren N. Brown, Richard F. Ambrose, Christine R. Whitcraft, Karen M. Thorne, (unknown), Douglas E. Hammond, Glen M. MacDonald	1
8	Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw breakdown → 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Gustaf Hugelius, Julie Loisel, Sarah Chadburn, Robert B. Jackson, Miriam C. Jones, Glen M. MacDonald, Maija E. Marushchak, David Olefeldt, Maara Packalen, Matthias Siewert, Claire C. Treat, Merritt R. Turetsky, Carolina Voigt, Zicheng Yu	405
9	U.S. Pacific coastal wetland resilience and vulnerability to sea-level rise 2018 ·Science Advances ·Karen M. Thorne, Glen M. MacDonald, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, Richard F. Ambrose, Kevin J. Buffington, Bruce D. Dugger, Chase M. Freeman, Christopher N. Janousek, Lauren N. Brown, Jordan A. Rosencranz, James R. Holmquist, John P. Smol, Kathryn E. Hargan, John Y. Takekawa	211
10	Simulated impact of paleoclimate change on Fremont Native American maize farming in Utah, 850–1449 CE, using crop and climate models 2018 ·Quaternary International ·(unknown), Juraj Balkovič, Tamás Krisztin, Glen M. MacDonald	13
11	Global Vegetation Variability and its Response to Elevated CO 2 , Global Warming, and Climate Variability - A Study Using the Offline SSiB4/TRIFFID Model and Satellite Data 2018 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Yahui Liu, Yongkang Xue, Glen M. MacDonald, Peter M. Cox, (unknown)	2
12	Recent global decline in endorheic basin water storages breakdown → 2018 ·Nature Geoscience ·Jida Wang, Chunqiao Song, J. T. Reager, Fangfang Yao, J. S. Famiglietti, Yongwei Sheng, Glen M. MacDonald, Fanny Brun, Hannes Müller Schmied, Richard A. Marston, Yoshihide Wada	350
13	Evidence for coseismic subsidence events in a southern California coastal saltmarsh 2017 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), (unknown), Matthew E. Kirby, Katherine M. Scharer, (unknown), Eileen Hemphill‐Haley, Simona Avnaim‐Katav, Glen M. MacDonald, Scott W. Starratt, (unknown)	14
14	Little Ice Age climatic erraticism as an analogue for future enhanced hydroclimatic variability across the American Southwest 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Julie Loisel, Glen M. MacDonald, (unknown)	16
15	Analysis of Climate and Vegetation Characteristics along the Savanna-Desert Ecotone in Mali Using MODIS Data 2009 ·GIScience & Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Yongkang Xue, Glen M. MacDonald, (unknown), Yifan Yu, Fernando De Sales, Paul A. Levine, Seydou Doumbia, Charles E. Taylor	11
16	Rising minimum flows in northern Eurasian rivers suggest a growing influence of groundwater in the high-latitude water cycle 2007 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·L. C. Smith, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Glen M. MacDonald, A. I. Shiklomanov, Richard B. Lammers	11
17	A Holocene Record of Climate Change from the Sierra Nevada, CA, USA: A Paleolimnological Perspective of California Drought 2004 ·AGUFM ·Katrina A. Moser, Glen M. MacDonald, (unknown), Aaron P. Potito, David F. Porinchu	1
18	A 403-Year Record of July Temperatures and Treeline Dynamics of Pinus sylvestris from the Kola Peninsula, Northwest Russia 2000 ·Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research ·Bruce R. Gervais, Glen M. MacDonald	19
19	Distributions of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) and other Freshwater Midges with Respect to Treeline, Northwest Territories, Canada 1995 ·Arctic and Alpine Research ·(unknown), Glen M. MacDonald	1
20	Methods in Quaternary Ecology #2. Palynology 1988 ·Geoscience Canada ·Glen M. MacDonald	5

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