Ian Schelly

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ian Schelly is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Schelly has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 2 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 1 paper in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Ian Schelly's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 papers). Ian Schelly is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 papers). Ian Schelly collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Ian Schelly's co-authors include Douglas C. Morton, Praveen Noojipady, Nathalie F. Walker, Lisa Rausch, Holly K. Gibbs, Paulo Barreto, Jacob Munger, Britaldo Soares‐Filho, Holly Gibbs and Tyler J. Lark and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Remote Sensing and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ian Schelly

7 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Brazil's Soy Moratorium 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2015 100 200 300 400
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. Brazil's Soy Moratorium
    2015 472 citations Holly K. Gibbs, Lisa Rausch et al. Science profile →
  2. A new urban landscape in East–Southeast Asia, 2000–2010
    2015 378 citations Anton Schneider, Andrew J. Tatem et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ian Schelly 617 243 194 174 122 8 1.1k
Avery Cohn 519 0.8× 275 1.1× 210 1.1× 165 0.9× 111 0.9× 27 1.1k
Rüdiger Schaldach 525 0.9× 252 1.0× 224 1.2× 126 0.7× 183 1.5× 42 1.2k
María Piquer‐Rodríguez 647 1.0× 382 1.6× 236 1.2× 147 0.8× 84 0.7× 28 1.2k
Sven Günter 903 1.5× 337 1.4× 131 0.7× 243 1.4× 90 0.7× 79 1.7k
Dénis Sonwa 1.1k 1.7× 407 1.7× 222 1.1× 172 1.0× 103 0.8× 112 2.1k
Lilibeth A. Acosta 882 1.4× 189 0.8× 167 0.9× 247 1.4× 85 0.7× 38 1.4k
Vincent Gitz 450 0.7× 274 1.1× 129 0.7× 198 1.1× 109 0.9× 53 1.2k
Mark Brady 514 0.8× 225 0.9× 310 1.6× 291 1.7× 84 0.7× 51 1.3k
Almeida Sitoe 598 1.0× 245 1.0× 151 0.8× 83 0.5× 134 1.1× 53 1.1k
Hannes Geist 770 1.2× 195 0.8× 134 0.7× 164 0.9× 64 0.5× 9 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Ian Schelly

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ian Schelly

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ian Schelly. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ian Schelly. The network helps show where Ian Schelly may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Schelly

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

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
1.
Schelly, Ian, Lisa Rausch, & Holly K. Gibbs. (2021). Brazil’s Cattle Sector Played Large Role in Fires During 2020 Moratorium. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4.
2.
Lark, Tyler J., Ian Schelly, & Holly Gibbs. (2021). Accuracy, Bias, and Improvements in Mapping Crops and Cropland across the United States Using the USDA Cropland Data Layer. Remote Sensing. 13(5). 968–968. 82 indexed citations
3.
Rausch, Lisa, Holly K. Gibbs, Ian Schelly, et al.. (2019). Soy expansion in Brazil's Cerrado. Conservation Letters. 12(6). 93 indexed citations
4.
Lark, Tyler J., et al.. (2018). Accelerated Conversion of Native Prairie to Cropland in Minnesota. Environmental Conservation. 46(2). 155–162. 24 indexed citations
5.
Schneider, Anton, Andrew J. Tatem, Bin Tan, et al.. (2015). A new urban landscape in East–Southeast Asia, 2000–2010. Environmental Research Letters. 10(3). 34002–34002. 378 indexed citations breakdown →
6.
Gibbs, Holly, Lisa Rausch, Jacob Munger, et al.. (2015). Brazil's Soy Moratorium: supply-chain governance is needed to avoid deforestation.. 347(6220). 377–378. 29 indexed citations
7.
Gibbs, Holly K., Lisa Rausch, Jacob Munger, et al.. (2015). Brazil's Soy Moratorium. Science. 347(6220). 377–378. 472 indexed citations breakdown →
8.
Schneider, Aaron, Andrew J. Tatem, Bin Tan, et al.. (2015). A New Urban Landscape in East–Southeast Asia, 2000–2010. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank). 1 indexed citations

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