Karen Anderson

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
156 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Karen Anderson is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen Anderson has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Ecology, 56 papers in Environmental Engineering and 42 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Karen Anderson's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (42 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (27 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (25 papers). Karen Anderson is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (42 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (27 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (25 papers). Karen Anderson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Karen Anderson's co-authors include Kevin J. Gaston, Richard E. Brazier, Stephan Harrison, Andrew M. Cunliffe, Steven Hancock, Darren Jones, Holly Croft, E.J. Milton, Daniel T. C. Cox and Nikolaus J. Kuhn and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Karen Anderson

149 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karen Anderson United Kingdom	40	2.8k	2.1k	1.7k	1.2k	647	156	6.5k
Kaiguang Zhao United States	44	2.3k 0.8×	3.7k 1.7×	3.7k 2.2×	954 0.8×	1.2k 1.9×	123	7.5k
John R. Jensen United States	36	5.0k 1.8×	2.9k 1.3×	3.8k 2.3×	2.0k 1.6×	683 1.1×	113	10.1k
Heiko Balzter United Kingdom	41	2.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.3×	3.1k 1.8×	1.1k 0.9×	950 1.5×	182	6.4k
Guangjian Yan China	43	4.0k 1.4×	6.6k 3.1×	4.1k 2.4×	2.9k 2.3×	762 1.2×	238	9.8k
Massimo Menenti Netherlands	49	3.4k 1.2×	4.4k 2.1×	6.8k 4.0×	2.7k 2.2×	325 0.5×	318	10.7k
Ruiliang Pu United States	51	4.5k 1.6×	2.8k 1.3×	2.9k 1.7×	1.5k 1.2×	410 0.6×	157	7.6k
T. M. Lillesand United States	24	4.4k 1.6×	2.7k 1.3×	3.6k 2.1×	1.7k 1.4×	807 1.2×	41	10.2k
Tomislav Hengl Netherlands	35	3.0k 1.1×	5.6k 2.6×	3.2k 1.9×	1.7k 1.4×	1.2k 1.8×	107	12.8k
Simon Ilyushchenko United States	5	4.6k 1.6×	2.6k 1.2×	5.1k 3.0×	1.9k 1.6×	774 1.2×	6	9.7k
Mike Dixon United States	8	4.4k 1.5×	2.5k 1.2×	5.0k 2.9×	2.1k 1.7×	767 1.2×	10	9.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen Anderson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Anderson, Karen, Robert J. W. Brewin, Markus Mueller, et al.. (2024). The dark side of Earth observation. Nature Sustainability. 7(3). 224–227. 4 indexed citations

Harrison, Stephan, et al.. (2024). Alpine vegetation community patterns in the Khumbu region, Nepalese Himalaya. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 56(1). 2 indexed citations

Roland, Thomas P., Dan J. Charman, Karen Anderson, et al.. (2024). Sustained greening of the Antarctic Peninsula observed from satellites. Nature Geoscience. 17(11). 1121–1126. 13 indexed citations

Anderson, Karen, et al.. (2023). New topic horizons for drone systems and applications. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. 1–7.

Gatis, Naomi, Karen Anderson, Emilie Grand‐Clement, et al.. (2023). Peatland restoration increases water storage and attenuates downstream stormflow but does not guarantee an immediate reversal of long-term ecohydrological degradation. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 15865–15865. 9 indexed citations

Luscombe, David J., Naomi Gatis, Karen Anderson, Donna Carless, & Richard E. Brazier. (2023). Rapid, repeatable landscape‐scale mapping of tree, hedgerow, and woodland habitats (THaW), using airborne LiDAR and spaceborne SAR data. Ecology and Evolution. 13(5). e10103–e10103. 10 indexed citations

Harrison, Stephan, et al.. (2022). Himalayan alpine ecohydrology: An urgent scientific concern in a changing climate. AMBIO. 52(2). 390–410. 10 indexed citations

Cunliffe, Andrew M., Robert Clement, Stephen Sitch, et al.. (2022). Strong Correspondence in Evapotranspiration and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Between Different Eddy Covariance Systems Enables Quantification of Landscape Heterogeneity in Dryland Fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(8). 16 indexed citations

Liu, Zixia, Martin J. Osborne, Karen Anderson, et al.. (2021). Characterizing the performance of a POPS miniaturized optical particle counter when operated on a quadcopter drone. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(9). 6101–6118. 16 indexed citations

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Anderson, Karen, et al.. (2020). Vegetation expansion in the subnival Hindu Kush Himalaya. Global Change Biology. 26(3). 1608–1625. 108 indexed citations

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Cox, Daniel T. C., et al.. (2019). Skewed contributions of individual trees to indirect nature experiences. Landscape and Urban Planning. 185. 28–34. 21 indexed citations

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Anderson, Karen, et al.. (2019). Structure from motion photogrammetry in ecology: Does the choice of software matter?. Ecology and Evolution. 9(23). 12964–12979. 19 indexed citations

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Duffy, James P., Jamie D. Shutler, Matthew J. Witt, Leon DeBell, & Karen Anderson. (2018). Tracking Fine-Scale Structural Changes in Coastal Dune Morphology Using Kite Aerial Photography and Uncertainty-Assessed Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry. Remote Sensing. 10(9). 1494–1494. 30 indexed citations

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Fawcett, Dominic, et al.. (2018). UAV-based structural and spectral data for the assessment and monitoring of oil palm biomass. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 19797. 1 indexed citations

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Casalegno, Stefano, Karen Anderson, Steven Hancock, & Kevin J. Gaston. (2017). Improving models of urban greenspace: from vegetation surface cover to volumetric survey, using waveform laser scanning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 8(11). 1443–1452. 29 indexed citations

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Porcar‐Castell, Albert, Micol Rossini, Lars Eklundh, et al.. (2015). EUROSPEC: at the interface between remote-sensing and ecosystem CO ₂ flux measurements in Europe. Biogeosciences. 12(20). 6103–6124. 53 indexed citations

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James, M. R., John Quinton, Karen Anderson, et al.. (2014). Comparing and combining terrestrial laser scanning with ground-and UAV-based imaging for national-level assessment of soil erosion. EGUGA. 7709. 2 indexed citations

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Grand‐Clement, Emilie, et al.. (2014). Restoration of shallow peatlands on Exmoor (UK): initial effects on water quality. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 7926. 1 indexed citations

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Bennie, Jonathan & Karen Anderson. (2008). Measuring peatland morphology and eco-hydrological condition with laser scanning and spatial statistics. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Cohen, Warren B., et al.. (1998). An efficient and accurate method for mapping forest clearcuts in the Pacific Northwest using Landsat imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 64(4). 293–300. 199 indexed citations

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