Jessica C. A. Baker

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

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Jessica C. A. Baker is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jessica C. A. Baker has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jessica C. A. Baker's work include Climate variability and models (19 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (8 papers). Jessica C. A. Baker is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (19 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (8 papers). Jessica C. A. Baker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and Germany. Jessica C. A. Baker's co-authors include Dominick V. Spracklen, Manuel Gloor, Luis Garcia‐Carreras, John H. Marsham, Roel Brienen, Wolfgang Buermann, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Guaciara M. Santos, Caio A. S. Coelho and Jochen Schöngart and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Jessica C. A. Baker

33 papers receiving 998 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.

Tropical deforestation causes large reductions in observed precipitation

2023 141 citations Jessica C. A. Baker, Dominick V. Spracklen et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jessica C. A. Baker United Kingdom	16	781	395	189	145	123	35	1.0k
Alison J. O’Donnell Australia	16	671 0.9×	310 0.8×	222 1.2×	172 1.2×	97 0.8×	26	852
Baird Langenbrunner United States	12	946 1.2×	577 1.5×	152 0.8×	108 0.7×	201 1.6×	25	1.2k
Álvaro González‐Reyes Chile	19	649 0.8×	513 1.3×	133 0.7×	199 1.4×	72 0.6×	41	945
Haibo Du China	19	626 0.8×	426 1.1×	232 1.2×	178 1.2×	88 0.7×	66	961
Katja Trachte Germany	15	432 0.6×	354 0.9×	132 0.7×	91 0.6×	55 0.4×	38	688
Eddy Robertson United Kingdom	16	866 1.1×	379 1.0×	199 1.1×	73 0.5×	70 0.6×	32	1.1k
Silvia Terzago Italy	16	579 0.7×	639 1.6×	136 0.7×	95 0.7×	182 1.5×	32	1.0k
Rocío Urrutia‐Jalabert Chile	12	673 0.9×	514 1.3×	175 0.9×	241 1.7×	114 0.9×	23	979
Roberto Serrano‐Notivoli Spain	23	889 1.1×	632 1.6×	143 0.8×	164 1.1×	212 1.7×	78	1.3k
Daniele Peano Italy	13	823 1.1×	514 1.3×	123 0.7×	46 0.3×	150 1.2×	23	1.0k

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Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat, Emanuel Gloor, Jessica C. A. Baker, et al.. (2025). Tree ring isotopes reveal an intensification of the hydrological cycle in the Amazon. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 453–453. 2 indexed citations

Reddington, Carly, Edward Butt, Jessica C. A. Baker, et al.. (2025). Tropical deforestation is associated with considerable heat-related mortality. Nature Climate Change. 15(9). 992–999. 3 indexed citations

Kubota, Paulo Y., et al.. (2024). Numerical assessment of changes in land–atmosphere interactions during the rainy season in South America using an updated vegetation map. International Journal of Climatology. 44(10). 3278–3294.

Maeda, Eduardo Eiji, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Jessica C. A. Baker, et al.. (2023). Land use still matters after deforestation. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 5 indexed citations

Robertson, Eddy, Robin Chadwick, Douglas I. Kelley, et al.. (2023). Observed and simulated local climate responses to tropical deforestation. Environmental Research Letters. 18(10). 104004–104004. 6 indexed citations

Li, Yue, Jessica C. A. Baker, Paulo Brando, et al.. (2023). Future increases in Amazonia water stress from CO2 physiology and deforestation. Nature Water. 1(9). 769–777. 9 indexed citations

Baker, Jessica C. A., et al.. (2023). Tropical deforestation causes large reductions in observed precipitation. Nature. 615(7951). 270–275. 141 indexed citations breakdown →

He, Xinyue, Alan D. Ziegler, Paul R. Elsen, et al.. (2023). Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots. One Earth. 6(3). 303–315. 36 indexed citations

Baker, Jessica C. A., Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Manuel Gloor, et al.. (2022). The Changing Amazon Hydrological Cycle—Inferences From Over 200 Years of Tree‐Ring Oxygen Isotope Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(10). 11 indexed citations

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Cavalcanti, Iracema F. A., et al.. (2022). Surface and atmospheric patterns for early and late rainy season onset years in South America. Climate Dynamics. 59(9-10). 2815–2830. 3 indexed citations

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Baker, Jessica C. A., Luis Garcia‐Carreras, Manuel Gloor, et al.. (2021). Evapotranspiration in the Amazon: spatial patterns, seasonality, and recent trends in observations, reanalysis, and climate models. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(4). 2279–2300. 48 indexed citations

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Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat, Manuel Gloor, Arnoud Boom, et al.. (2021). Tree-ring oxygen isotopes record a decrease in Amazon dry season rainfall over the past 40 years. Climate Dynamics. 59(5-6). 1401–1414. 15 indexed citations

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Coelho, Caio A. S., Paulo Y. Kubota, Iracema F. A. Cavalcanti, et al.. (2021). Assessing the representation of South American monsoon features in Brazil and U.K. climate model simulations. CentAUR (University of Reading). 1(1). 18 indexed citations

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Baker, Jessica C. A. & Dominick V. Spracklen. (2019). Climate Benefits of Intact Amazon Forests and the Biophysical Consequences of Disturbance. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 2. 75 indexed citations

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Esquivel‐Muelbert, Adriane, Amy C. Bennett, Martin J. P. Sullivan, et al.. (2019). A Spatial and Temporal Risk Assessment of the Impacts of El Niño on the Tropical Forest Carbon Cycle: Theoretical Framework, Scenarios, and Implications. Atmosphere. 10(10). 588–588. 4 indexed citations

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Baker, Jessica C. A., Emanuel Gloor, Dominick V. Spracklen, et al.. (2019). Seasonal and Inter-annual Variation of Evapotranspiration in Amazonia Based on Precipitation, River Discharge and Gravity Anomaly Data. Frontiers in Earth Science. 7. 43 indexed citations

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Baker, Jessica C. A., Manuel Gloor, Arnoud Boom, et al.. (2018). Questioning the Influence of Sunspots on Amazon Hydrology: Even a Broken Clock Tells the Right Time Twice a Day. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(3). 1419–1422. 12 indexed citations

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Pattnayak, Kanhu Charan, Emanuel Gloor, Julia C. Tindall, et al.. (2018). Adding new evidence to the attribution puzzle of the recent water shortage over São Paulo (Brazil). Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 70(1). 1481690–1481690. 15 indexed citations

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Baker, Jessica C. A., Guaciara M. Santos, Manuel Gloor, & Roel Brienen. (2017). Does Cedrela always form annual rings? Testing ring periodicity across South America using radiocarbon dating. Trees. 31(6). 1999–2009. 54 indexed citations

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Gloor, Manuel, Jonathan Barichivich, Guy Ziv, et al.. (2015). Recent Amazon climate as background for possible ongoing and future changes of Amazon humid forests. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 29(9). 1384–1399. 116 indexed citations

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