Kendrick J. Brown

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Kendrick J. Brown is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kendrick J. Brown has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Atmospheric Science, 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kendrick J. Brown's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (21 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (10 papers). Kendrick J. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (21 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (10 papers). Kendrick J. Brown collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Denmark. Kendrick J. Brown's co-authors include Richard J. Hebda, Daniel G. Gavin, Patrick J. Bartlein, Douglas J. Hallett, Megan Walsh, Jennifer R. Marlon, Eric C. Grimm, Joseph J. Donovan, Mikael Ohlson and Richard E. Brandt and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Pollution and Journal of Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Kendrick J. Brown

32 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Anticipating the consequences of climate change for Canada’s boreal forest ecosystems

2013 449 citations Kendrick J. Brown et al. Environmental Reviews profile →
Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western USA

2012 435 citations Jennifer R. Marlon, Patrick J. Bartlein et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kendrick J. Brown Canada	21	1.3k	1.2k	649	315	312	37	2.1k
David B. McWethy United States	21	1.4k 1.0×	748 0.6×	801 1.2×	290 0.9×	488 1.6×	58	2.1k
Chris P. S. Larsen United States	17	990 0.8×	657 0.6×	450 0.7×	241 0.8×	348 1.1×	36	1.4k
Christy E. Briles United States	17	1.1k 0.8×	759 0.6×	429 0.7×	346 1.1×	223 0.7×	24	1.5k
Juan Carlos Aravena Chile	28	1.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	407 0.6×	118 0.4×	587 1.9×	70	2.5k
Matthew Forrest Germany	18	1.6k 1.2×	837 0.7×	465 0.7×	193 0.6×	253 0.8×	46	2.0k
Christelle Hély France	30	1.8k 1.4×	1.6k 1.3×	714 1.1×	394 1.3×	593 1.9×	86	3.1k
Yongping Shen China	22	1.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.7×	348 0.5×	172 0.5×	124 0.4×	71	2.9k
Mariano Masiokas Argentina	30	1.1k 0.8×	2.3k 1.9×	300 0.5×	292 0.9×	198 0.6×	50	2.8k
Amy Hessl United States	27	1.8k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	567 0.9×	322 1.0×	740 2.4×	64	2.4k
Kristen M. Krumhardt United States	20	920 0.7×	833 0.7×	499 0.8×	117 0.4×	154 0.5×	41	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Kendrick J. Brown

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kendrick J. Brown

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kendrick J. Brown

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Brown, Kendrick J., Juha M. Metsaranta, David Paré, et al.. (2026). Examining post-fire environmental change and succession in Canada. Environmental Reviews.

Perrakis, Daniel D. B., et al.. (2025). Assessing wildfire potential in a coastal forest watershed, British Columbia, Canada. Forest Ecology and Management. 590. 122796–122796.

Hebda, Richard J. & Kendrick J. Brown. (2024). Climate, wildfire, and volcanic ash drivers of ecosystem change in high mountain forests, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 54(10). 1085–1099.

Brown, Kendrick J., et al.. (2024). Past wildfire effects on terrestrial vegetation and biogeochemistry in a drinking water supply catchment. Quaternary Science Reviews. 340. 108663–108663.

Brown, Kendrick J., et al.. (2024). Holocene vegetation and wildfire disturbance in boreal central Yukon, Canada. Arctic Science. 10(4). 596–610. 1 indexed citations

Fletcher, Tamara, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Kendrick J. Brown, et al.. (2019). Evidence for fire in the Pliocene Arctic in response to amplified temperature. Climate of the past. 15(3). 1063–1081. 18 indexed citations

Fletcher, Tamara, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Kendrick J. Brown, et al.. (2018). The role of elevated atmospheric CO ₂ and increased fire in Arcticamplification of temperature during the Early to mid-Pliocene. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 3 indexed citations

Brown, Kendrick J., et al.. (2017). Changing climate, vegetation, and fire disturbance in a sub-boreal pine-dominated forest, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 47(5). 615–627. 22 indexed citations

Brown, Kendrick J. & Gerrit Schoups. (2015). Multi-millennial streamflow dynamics in two forested watersheds on Vancouver Island, Canada. Quaternary Research. 83(3). 415–426. 6 indexed citations

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Walsh, Megan, Jennifer R. Marlon, Simon Goring, Kendrick J. Brown, & Daniel G. Gavin. (2015). A Regional Perspective on Holocene Fire–Climate–Human Interactions in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 105(6). 1135–1157. 48 indexed citations

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Brown, Kendrick J. & Thomas Giesecke. (2013). Holocene fire disturbance in the boreal forest of central Sweden. Boreas. 43(3). 639–651. 37 indexed citations

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Marlon, Jennifer R., Patrick J. Bartlein, Daniel G. Gavin, et al.. (2012). Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western USA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(9). E535–43. 435 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ohlson, Mikael, Kendrick J. Brown, H. J. B. Birks, et al.. (2011). Invasion of Norway spruce diversifies the fire regime in boreal European forests. Journal of Ecology. 99(2). 395–403. 77 indexed citations

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Grimm, Eric C., Joseph J. Donovan, & Kendrick J. Brown. (2011). A high-resolution record of climate variability and landscape response from Kettle Lake, northern Great Plains, North America. Quaternary Science Reviews. 30(19-20). 2626–2650. 71 indexed citations

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Bøggild, Carl Egede, Richard E. Brandt, Kendrick J. Brown, & Stephen G. Warren. (2010). The ablation zone in northeast Greenland: ice types, albedos and impurities. Journal of Glaciology. 56(195). 101–113. 142 indexed citations

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Ohlson, Mikael, et al.. (2009). The charcoal carbon pool in boreal forest soils. Nature Geoscience. 2(10). 692–695. 137 indexed citations

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Pasternack, G. B. & Kendrick J. Brown. (2005). Natural and anthropogenic geochemical signatures of floodplain and deltaic sedimentary strata, Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, California, USA. Environmental Pollution. 141(2). 295–309. 22 indexed citations

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Brown, Kendrick J., James S. Clark, Eric C. Grimm, et al.. (2005). Fire cycles in North American interior grasslands and their relation to prairie drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(25). 8865–8870. 98 indexed citations

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Brown, Kendrick J. & Richard J. Hebda. (2002). Ancient Fires on Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada: A Change in Causal Mechanisms at about 2,000 ybp. Environmental Archaeology. 7(1). 1–12. 2 indexed citations

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Brown, Kendrick J., et al.. (1999). Surface pollen spectra from southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany. 77(6). 786–799. 24 indexed citations

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