James Jacobson

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

James Jacobson is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, James Jacobson has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 4 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in James Jacobson's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (3 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (3 papers) and Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies (3 papers). James Jacobson is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (3 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (3 papers) and Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies (3 papers). James Jacobson collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Cuba. James Jacobson's co-authors include David Knapp, Gregory P. Asner, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, Joseph Mascaro, J. K. Clark, R. Flint Hughes, George Powell, Ruth Emerson, Izak P. J. Smit and Roberta E. Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecological Applications and Forest Ecology and Management.

In The Last Decade

James Jacobson

15 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300 400 500
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. High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon
    2010 515 citations Gregory P. Asner, George Powell et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Jacobson United States 9 609 596 551 458 96 15 1.2k
Charles H. Perry United States 23 651 1.1× 877 1.5× 451 0.8× 269 0.6× 155 1.6× 56 1.6k
Yifan Yu United States 14 529 0.9× 834 1.4× 574 1.0× 618 1.3× 46 0.5× 24 1.4k
Nadine Laporte United States 10 283 0.5× 589 1.0× 452 0.8× 334 0.7× 68 0.7× 14 1.0k
Pierre Ploton France 13 626 1.0× 416 0.7× 392 0.7× 585 1.3× 83 0.9× 24 1.1k
Teresa J. Eyre Australia 17 377 0.6× 306 0.5× 593 1.1× 228 0.5× 181 1.9× 43 867
Steven L. Garman United States 18 615 1.0× 606 1.0× 546 1.0× 184 0.4× 134 1.4× 36 1.2k
J. Zweede United States 11 434 0.7× 760 1.3× 414 0.8× 271 0.6× 42 0.4× 22 1.1k
Marc Steininger United States 4 382 0.6× 644 1.1× 871 1.6× 314 0.7× 464 4.8× 6 1.4k
Christine Estreguil Italy 16 271 0.4× 1.2k 2.0× 1.0k 1.8× 223 0.5× 180 1.9× 29 1.7k
Grégoire Vincent France 23 692 1.1× 591 1.0× 643 1.2× 653 1.4× 110 1.1× 66 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by James Jacobson

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Jacobson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by James Jacobson. 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 James Jacobson. The network helps show where James Jacobson may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Jacobson

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

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Asner, Gregory P., J. K. Clark, Joseph Mascaro, et al.. (2012). High-resolution mapping of forest carbon stocks in the Colombian Amazon. Biogeosciences. 9(7). 2683–2696. 105 indexed citations
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Asner, Gregory P., R. Flint Hughes, Joseph Mascaro, et al.. (2011). High‐resolution carbon mapping on the million‐hectare Island of Hawaii. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 9(8). 434–439. 86 indexed citations
3.
Smit, Izak P. J., Gregory P. Asner, Navashni Govender, et al.. (2010). Effects of fire on woody vegetation structure in African savanna. Ecological Applications. 20(7). 1865–1875. 142 indexed citations
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Asner, Gregory P., George Powell, Joseph Mascaro, et al.. (2010). High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(38). 16738–16742. 515 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wessels, Konrad, Renaud Mathieu, Barend Erasmus, et al.. (2010). Impact of communal land use and conservation on woody vegetation structure in the Lowveld savannas of South Africa. Forest Ecology and Management. 261(1). 19–29. 58 indexed citations
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Asner, Gregory P., Shaun R. Levick, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, et al.. (2009). Large-scale impacts of herbivores on the structural diversity of African savannas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(12). 4947–4952. 224 indexed citations
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Pasion, Leonard R., et al.. (2008). Cooperative Inversion of Time Domain Electromagnetic and Magnetometer Data for The Discrimination of Unexploded Ordnance. Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. 13(3). 193–210. 11 indexed citations
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Bobbio, Stephen M., et al.. (2002). Membrane based actuator-integrated force arrays. 845–846. 1 indexed citations
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Bobbio, Stephen M., et al.. (2002). Integrated force arrays. 149–154. 22 indexed citations
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Bobbio, Stephen M., Thomas Dubois, Stephen W. Smith, et al.. (1996). <title>Integrated force array: positioning drive applications</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2722. 123–134. 3 indexed citations
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Bobbio, Stephen M., et al.. (1995). Measured forces and displacements of integrated force arrays. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2642. 52–52. 2 indexed citations
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Jacobson, James, et al.. (1995). Integrated force arrays: theory and modeling of static operation. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. 4(3). 139–150. 16 indexed citations
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Bobbio, Stephen M., et al.. (1995). <title>Integrated force arrays: scaling methods for extended range and force</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2448. 158–174. 1 indexed citations
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Jacobson, James, et al.. (1994). On the spatial resolution of two-dimensional doping profiles as measured using secondary ion mass spectrometry tomography. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures Processing Measurement and Phenomena. 12(1). 116–124. 1 indexed citations
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Jacobson, James. (1974). <title>Hard Surface Masks</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 55. 66–67. 1 indexed citations

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