Jennifer K. Balch

16.8k total citations · 10 hit papers
92 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Jennifer K. Balch is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Jennifer K. Balch has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 38 papers in Ecology and 31 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Jennifer K. Balch's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (71 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (29 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers). Jennifer K. Balch is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (71 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (29 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers). Jennifer K. Balch collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Jennifer K. Balch's co-authors include Bethany A. Bradley, John T. Abatzoglou, Adam L. Mahood, Emily J. Fusco, Paulo Brando, R. Chelsea Nagy, Carla M. D’Antonio, Daniel C. Nepstad, Michael T. Coe and Park Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jennifer K. Balch

90 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2012 2019 2017 2014 250 500 750
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. The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth
    2011 894 citations David M. J. S. Bowman, Jennifer K. Balch et al. profile →
  2. The Amazon basin in transition
    2012 861 citations Jennifer K. Balch et al. Nature profile →
  3. Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California
    2019 697 citations Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou et al. Earth s Future profile →
  4. Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States
    2017 677 citations Jennifer K. Balch, Bethany A. Bradley et al. profile →
  5. Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions
    2014 592 citations Jennifer K. Balch, Ane Alencar et al. profile →
  6. Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes
    2017 557 citations Jennifer K. Balch, Max A. Moritz et al. profile →
  7. Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid westernUSA(1980–2009)
    2012 540 citations Jennifer K. Balch, Bethany A. Bradley et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  8. Understanding and managing connected extreme events
    2020 416 citations Jennifer K. Balch et al. profile →
  9. U.S. fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s
    2022 159 citations Virginia Iglesias, Jennifer K. Balch et al. profile →
  10. Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire
    2022 147 citations Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Abatzoglou et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jennifer K. Balch United States 38 7.1k 3.1k 2.3k 1.3k 1.0k 92 8.8k
Meg A. Krawchuk United States 34 6.6k 0.9× 3.5k 1.1× 2.1k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 1.4k 1.4× 77 8.2k
Alexandra D. Syphard United States 45 6.1k 0.9× 2.6k 0.8× 1.9k 0.8× 682 0.5× 1.3k 1.3× 98 7.8k
Max A. Moritz United States 50 9.6k 1.3× 4.0k 1.3× 2.3k 1.0× 1.8k 1.4× 2.0k 2.0× 125 11.3k
Mark A. Cochrane United States 50 10.1k 1.4× 5.0k 1.6× 3.3k 1.4× 1.5k 1.2× 1.3k 1.2× 136 12.9k
Crystal A. Kolden United States 42 6.7k 0.9× 2.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 115 7.8k
A. L. Westerling United States 36 8.8k 1.2× 3.1k 1.0× 1.8k 0.7× 2.7k 2.1× 1.6k 1.6× 60 10.1k
Marc‐André Parisien Canada 46 6.3k 0.9× 2.8k 0.9× 1.3k 0.5× 1.2k 0.9× 1.6k 1.6× 114 7.0k
Sally Archibald South Africa 43 5.6k 0.8× 3.4k 1.1× 3.8k 1.6× 1.1k 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 108 8.2k
Penelope Morgan United States 44 7.7k 1.1× 4.6k 1.5× 2.9k 1.2× 966 0.7× 1.4k 1.4× 112 8.9k
Jeremy Russell‐Smith Australia 48 5.8k 0.8× 4.3k 1.4× 3.3k 1.4× 722 0.6× 839 0.8× 187 8.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jennings, Lydia L., Katherine D. Jones, Andrew Martinez, et al.. (2025). Governance of Indigenous data in open earth systems science. Nature Communications. 16(1). 572–572. 4 indexed citations
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Mahood, Adam L., Jennifer K. Balch, David M. Barnard, Katharine N. Suding, & Jeanne C. Chambers. (2025). Non-native grass invasion drives biodiversity loss after a single fire in a semi-arid shrubland. Biological Conservation. 310. 111400–111400. 1 indexed citations
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McGlinchy, Joseph, et al.. (2025). A review of UAS-based estimation of forest traits and characteristics in landscape ecology. Landscape Ecology. 40(2). 1 indexed citations
4.
Chapman, Teresa B., et al.. (2024). Mapping Quaking Aspen Using Seasonal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Composite Imagery across the Southern Rockies, USA. Remote Sensing. 16(9). 1619–1619. 2 indexed citations
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Balch, Jennifer K. & Adam L. Mahood. (2024). Drought-fuelled overnight burning propels large fires in North America. Nature. 627(8003). 273–274. 1 indexed citations
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McConnell, Kathryn, Elizabeth Fussell, Jack DeWaard, et al.. (2024). Rare and highly destructive wildfires drive human migration in the U.S.. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6631–6631. 8 indexed citations
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Mahood, Adam L., Maxwell B. Joseph, Michael J. Koontz, et al.. (2023). Ten simple rules for working with high resolution remote sensing data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3.
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Stavros, E. Natasha, Virginia Iglesias, Michael Byrne, et al.. (2023). Environmental Resilience Technology: Sustainable Solutions Using Value-Added Analytics in a Changing World. Applied Sciences. 13(19). 11034–11034. 1 indexed citations
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Balch, Jennifer K., John T. Abatzoglou, Maxwell B. Joseph, et al.. (2022). Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire. Nature. 602(7897). 442–448. 147 indexed citations breakdown →
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Koontz, Michael J., Megan E. Cattau, Joseph McGlinchy, et al.. (2022). Democratizing macroecology: Integrating unoccupied aerial systems with the National Ecological Observatory Network. Ecosphere. 13(8). 3 indexed citations
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Mahood, Adam L., Michael J. Koontz, & Jennifer K. Balch. (2022). Fuel connectivity, burn severity, and seed bank survivorship drive ecosystem transformation in a semiarid shrubland. Ecology. 104(3). e3968–e3968. 8 indexed citations
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Juang, Caroline S., Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, et al.. (2022). Rapid Growth of Large Forest Fires Drives the Exponential Response of Annual Forest‐Fire Area to Aridity in the Western United States. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(5). e2021GL097131–e2021GL097131. 91 indexed citations
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Mahood, Adam L., et al.. (2021). Interannual climate variability mediates changes in carbon and nitrogen pools caused by annual grass invasion in a semiarid shrubland. Global Change Biology. 28(1). 267–284. 17 indexed citations
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Balch, Jennifer K., Virginia Iglesias, Anna Braswell, et al.. (2020). Social‐Environmental Extremes: Rethinking Extraordinary Events as Outcomes of Interacting Biophysical and Social Systems. Earth s Future. 8(7). 32 indexed citations
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Williams, Park, John T. Abatzoglou, Alexander Gershunov, et al.. (2019). Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California. Earth s Future. 7(8). 892–910. 697 indexed citations breakdown →
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Abatzoglou, John T., Jennifer K. Balch, Bethany A. Bradley, & Crystal A. Kolden. (2018). Human-related ignitions concurrent with high winds promote large wildfires across the USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 27(6). 377–386. 67 indexed citations
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Dadashi, Sepideh, Jennifer K. Balch, & Bethany A. Bradley. (2017). Annual fire event maps for the U.S. (2001-2016) based on the MODIS Burned Area product (MCD64A1 Collection 5.1). OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 2 indexed citations
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Balch, Jennifer K., R. Chelsea Nagy, Sally Archibald, et al.. (2016). Global combustion: the connection between fossil fuel and biomass burning emissions (1997–2010). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1696). 20150177–20150177. 18 indexed citations
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Carvalho, Karine S., Jennifer K. Balch, & Paulo Moutinho. (2011). O papel da formiga saúva (Atta spp.) na recuperação da vegetação pós-fogo em floresta de transição amazônica. Acta Amazonica. 42(1). 2 indexed citations
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Carvalho, Karine S., Ane Alencar, Jennifer K. Balch, & Paulo Moutinho. (2011). Leafcutter Ant Nests Inhibit Low-Intensity Fire Spread in the Understory of Transitional Forests at the Amazon's Forest-Savanna Boundary. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2012. 1–7. 17 indexed citations

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