Kathleen Buckingham

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 818 citations indexed

About

Kathleen Buckingham is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathleen Buckingham has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 818 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Kathleen Buckingham's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers), Forest Management and Policy (6 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 papers). Kathleen Buckingham is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers), Forest Management and Policy (6 papers) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 papers). Kathleen Buckingham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Brazil. Kathleen Buckingham's co-authors include Paul Jepson, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Robin L. Chazdon, Chetan Kumar, Sarah Jane Wilson, Yiping Lou, Liangru Wu, Lesley Head and Catherine Phillips and has published in prestigious journals such as Land Use Policy, AMBIO and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

In The Last Decade

Kathleen Buckingham

26 papers receiving 770 citations

Hit Papers

When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definition... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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. When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration
    2016 373 citations Robin L. Chazdon, Pedro H. S. Brancalion et al. AMBIO profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kathleen Buckingham United Kingdom 14 395 160 142 136 77 28 818
Mark Wishnie United States 13 451 1.1× 141 0.9× 269 1.9× 420 3.1× 52 0.7× 17 1.1k
Ulrich Schraml Germany 17 630 1.6× 98 0.6× 142 1.0× 88 0.6× 27 0.4× 44 904
Austin Himes United States 11 372 0.9× 87 0.5× 70 0.5× 151 1.1× 22 0.3× 33 741
Paola Gatto Italy 18 501 1.3× 189 1.2× 147 1.0× 51 0.4× 17 0.2× 45 1.2k
Kati Vierikko Finland 20 758 1.9× 296 1.9× 199 1.4× 93 0.7× 38 0.5× 35 1.3k
Lisa Biber‐Freudenberger Germany 17 349 0.9× 117 0.7× 421 3.0× 94 0.7× 20 0.3× 47 1.1k
Ann Van Herzele Belgium 19 853 2.2× 225 1.4× 94 0.7× 89 0.7× 35 0.5× 39 1.6k
Simone Athayde United States 14 330 0.8× 121 0.8× 197 1.4× 173 1.3× 43 0.6× 45 1.0k
Sarah Walker United States 13 424 1.1× 112 0.7× 200 1.4× 143 1.1× 14 0.2× 40 1.1k
Rodrigo A. Estévez Chile 12 304 0.8× 104 0.7× 360 2.5× 238 1.8× 35 0.5× 36 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Kathleen Buckingham

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kathleen Buckingham

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kathleen Buckingham

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Buckingham, Kathleen, et al.. (2021). Using machine learning to identify incentives in forestry policy: Towards a new paradigm in policy analysis. Forest Policy and Economics. 134. 102624–102624. 21 indexed citations
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Buckingham, Kathleen, et al.. (2020). Identifying social media user demographics and topic diversity with computational social science: a case study of a major international policy forum. Journal of Computational Social Science. 3(1). 167–188. 19 indexed citations
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Buckingham, Kathleen, et al.. (2020). The untapped potential of mining news media events for understanding environmental change. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 45. 92–99. 13 indexed citations
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Buckingham, Kathleen, et al.. (2018). Mapping Social Landscapes: A Guide to Identifying the Networks, Priorities, and Values of Restoration Actors. 8 indexed citations
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Head, Lesley, Jennifer Atchison, Catherine Phillips, & Kathleen Buckingham. (2017). Vegetal Politics. 1 indexed citations
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Chazdon, Robin L., Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Kathleen Buckingham, et al.. (2016). When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration. AMBIO. 45(5). 538–550. 373 indexed citations breakdown →
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Buckingham, Kathleen, et al.. (2016). Restoring Africa’s Degraded Lands by Improving Farmers’ Rights. 1 indexed citations
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Buckingham, Kathleen & Aaron Reuben. (2015). Forest Landscape Restoration Is More than Planting Trees: 3 Case Studies from the Western US. 1 indexed citations
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Hanson, Craig, et al.. (2015). The Restoration Diagnostic. 13 indexed citations
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Buckingham, Kathleen, Lars Laestadius, & Aurélio Padovezi. (2014). Taking Culture into Account in Restoring China’s Loess Plateau. 1 indexed citations
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Head, Lesley, Jennifer Atchison, Catherine Phillips, & Kathleen Buckingham. (2014). Vegetal politics: belonging, practices and places. Social & Cultural Geography. 15(8). 861–870. 68 indexed citations
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Buckingham, Kathleen & Paul Jepson. (2014). The Legitimacy of Bamboo Certification: Unpacking the Controversy and the Implications for a “Treelike” Grass. Society & Natural Resources. 28(6). 575–592. 5 indexed citations
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Buckingham, Kathleen & Paul Jepson. (2014). Whose sustainability counts? Reflections on an Indian oasis and the drive for certified bamboo. Asian Geographer. 31(2). 97–113. 5 indexed citations
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Buckingham, Kathleen, Liangru Wu, & Yiping Lou. (2013). Can’t See the (Bamboo) Forest for the Trees: Examining Bamboo’s Fit Within International Forestry Institutions. AMBIO. 43(6). 770–778. 36 indexed citations
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Buckingham, Kathleen, et al.. (2013). Environmental Reviews and Case Studies: Diplomats and Refugees: Panda Diplomacy, Soft “Cuddly” Power, and the New Trajectory in Panda Conservation. Environmental Practice. 15(3). 262–270. 22 indexed citations
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Buckingham, Kathleen & Paul Jepson. (2013). Forest certification with Chinese characteristics: state engagement with non-state market-driven governance. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 54(3). 280–299. 20 indexed citations
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Buckingham, Kathleen, Paul Jepson, Liangru Wu, et al.. (2011). The Potential of Bamboo is Constrained by Outmoded Policy Frames. AMBIO. 40(5). 544–548. 65 indexed citations
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Jepson, Paul, Maan Barua, & Kathleen Buckingham. (2011). What is a conservation actor?. Conservation and Society. 9(3). 229–229. 41 indexed citations
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Lou, Yiping, et al.. (2010). Bamboo and climate change mitigation.. 50 indexed citations
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Jepson, Paul, Maan Barua, Richard J. Ladle, & Kathleen Buckingham. (2010). Towards an intradisciplinary bio‐geography: a response to Lorimer’s ‘lively biogeographies’ of Asian elephant conservation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 36(1). 170–174. 5 indexed citations

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