Lucy Amissah

938 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 116 citations indexed

About

Lucy Amissah is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucy Amissah has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 116 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 4 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 2 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Lucy Amissah's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (3 papers), Forest ecology and management (2 papers) and Plant and animal studies (2 papers). Lucy Amissah is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (3 papers), Forest ecology and management (2 papers) and Plant and animal studies (2 papers). Lucy Amissah collaborates with scholars based in Ghana, Netherlands and Mexico. Lucy Amissah's co-authors include Lourens Poorter, Rodrigo Muñoz, Miguel Martínez‐Ramos, Masha T. van der Sande, Jorge A. Meave, Frans Bongers, Tomonari Matsuo, Susan G. W. Laurance, Iris Hordijk and Marielos Peña‐Claros and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

In The Last Decade

Lucy Amissah

7 papers receiving 114 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.

Successional theories

2023 75 citations Lourens Poorter, Lucy Amissah et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →

Peers

Lucy Amissah

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Victoria Reynolds Australia

Shauna‐Lee Chai Canada

Felipe Arreola-Villa Mexico

Jessica Needham United States

Matías G. Goldenberg Argentina

Krishna Hari Gautam Japan

Tanvir Ahmed Shovon Canada

Valérie Raevel France

Catherine E. Waite United Kingdom

Irena A. Koelemeijer Sweden

Victoria Reynolds Australia

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68 ×1.0

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40 ×0.6

GPC

38 ×1.5

EEBS

35 ×1.4

ECOLO

32 ×1.8

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Citations per year, relative to Lucy Amissah Lucy Amissah (= 1×) peers Victoria Reynolds

Countries citing papers authored by Lucy Amissah

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lucy Amissah

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucy Amissah

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Poorter, Lourens, Wil de Jong, Madelon Lohbeck, et al.. (2025). Dissecting forest transition: Contribution of mature forests, second-growth forests and tree plantations to tree cover dynamics in the tropics. Land Use Policy. 153. 107545–107545. 3 indexed citations

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Matsuo, Tomonari, et al.. (2025). Breaking down to build up: litter decomposition drives soil organic carbon accumulation in young secondary forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology. 41.

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Ribeiro, Natasha, Amanda Armstrong, Ana I. Ribeiro‐Barros, et al.. (2025). Seasonal spatial-temporal trends of vegetation recovery in burned areas across Africa. PLoS ONE. 20(2). e0316472–e0316472. 2 indexed citations

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Breugel, Michiel van, Frans Bongers, Natalia Norden, et al.. (2024). Feedback loops drive ecological succession: towards a unified conceptual framework. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 99(3). 928–949. 15 indexed citations

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Matsuo, Tomonari, et al.. (2024). Drivers of biomass stocks and productivity of tropical secondary forests. Ecology. 106(1). e4488–e4488. 4 indexed citations

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Poorter, Lourens, Lucy Amissah, Frans Bongers, et al.. (2023). Successional theories. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 98(6). 2049–2077. 75 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amissah, Lucy, et al.. (2011). Wildfire incidence and management in the forest transition zone of Ghana: Farmer’s perspectives. 26(1). 16 indexed citations

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Amissah, Lucy, et al.. (2009). Indigenous fire management practices in Ghana.. 23. 131–135. 1 indexed citations

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