John O. Niles

3.3k citations

14 papers · 2.4k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 10

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 1%
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 2%
- Forest ecology and management

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 9
- Forest Management and Policy 6
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 2
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 2
- Climate variability and models 2
Nature and Landscape Conservation 3
- Forest ecology and management 3

Co-authors: Sandra Brown Holly Gibbs Jonathan A. Foley Roger A. Pielke Gregg Marland Richard Betts Dev Niyogi J. L. Eastman
Journals: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences (4 papers)Climate Policy (1 paper)Science (1 paper)The Journal of Environment & Development (1 paper)Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

In The Last Decade

John O. Niles

14 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Monitoring and estimating tropical forest carbon stocks: making REDD a reality 2007 · 1.2k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2007 Environmental Research Letters
2002 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

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14 of 14 papers shown

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1	Measuring the Economic Impact of High Speed Rail Construction for California and the Central Valley Region San José State University ScholarWorks (San Jose State University) ·Hilary Nixon, Kimoto Teruyuki, John O. Niles, พัชรินทร์ ศิริสุข	2018	1
2	International forest carbon and the climate change challenge: issues and options. Lydia Olander, William Boyd, Kathleen Lawlor, Miron Urbaniak, John O. Niles	2009	11
3	Monitoring and estimating tropical forest carbon stocks: making REDD a reality Environmental Research Letters ·Holly Gibbs, Sandra Brown, John O. Niles, Jonathan A. Foley Hit paper breakdown →	2007	1210
4	The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy Climate Policy ·Gregg Marland, Roger A. Pielke, Mike Apps, Roni Avissar, Richard Betts, K. J. Davis, Peter C. Frumhoff, Stephen T. Jackson, Linda A. Joyce, Pekka E. Kauppi, John Katzenberger, K.G. MacDicken, Ronald P. Neilson, John O. Niles, Dev Niyogi, Richard J. Norby, Naomi Peña, Neil Sampson, Yongkang Xue	2003	144
5	Understanding and managing leakage in forest–based greenhouse–gas–mitigation projects Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ·Reimund Schwarze, John O. Niles, Nurul Syahira Zawawi	2002	81
6	Potential carbon mitigation and income in developing countries from changes in use and management of agricultural and forest lands Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ·John O. Niles, Sandra Brown, Jules Pretty, Andrew S. Ball, John P. Fay	2002	119
7	Correction for Schwarze et al. , Understanding and managing leakage in forest-based greenhouse-gas-mitigation projects Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ·Reimund Schwarze, John O. Niles, Nurul Syahira Zawawi	2002	6
8	The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system: relevance to climate-change policy beyond the radiative effect of greenhouse gases Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ·Roger A. Pielke, Gregg Marland, Richard Betts, Thomas N. Chase, J. L. Eastman, John O. Niles, Dev Niyogi, Steven W. Running Hit paper breakdown →	2002	622
9	The Value of Careful Carbon Accounting in Wood Products Climatic Change ·John O. Niles, Reimund Schwarze	2001	11
10	The Long-Term Requirement for Clean Development Mechanism Forestry and Economic Liability The Journal of Environment & Development ·Reimund Schwarze, John O. Niles	2000	9
11	Economic Incentives for Rain Forest Conservation Across Scales Science ·Claire Kremen, John O. Niles, Michael Dalton, Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R. Ehrlich, John P. Fay, David Singh Grewal, Moh Iqbal Hanafi	2000	220
12	Conservation in Practice: Overcoming Obstacles to Implementation Conservation Biology ·Erica Fleishman, Gary Wolff, Carol L. Boggs, Paul R. Ehrlich, Alan E. Launer, John O. Niles, Taylor H. Ricketts	1999	9
13	Growth and provenance of Norway maple (Acer platanoides) in lowland Britain Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research ·Gary Kerr, John O. Niles	1998	4
14	Birds and modern forestry Bird Study ·John O. Niles, N. Dellero	1971	1

About John O. Niles

John O. Niles is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Economics and Econometrics and Environmental Engineering, having authored 14 papers that have together received 2.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Forest Management and Policy (6 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (3 papers), Forest ecology and management (3 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (2 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (2 papers), Climate variability and models (2 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (1.7k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (726 citations), Environmental Engineering (801 citations), Forestry (99 citations) and Ecology (618 citations). John O. Niles has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Sandra Brown, Holly Gibbs, Jonathan A. Foley, Roger A. Pielke, Gregg Marland, Richard Betts, Dev Niyogi, J. L. Eastman, Thomas N. Chase and Steven W. Running. Their work appears in journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, Climate Policy, Science, The Journal of Environment & Development and Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research.

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