Malcolm P. North

13.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
171 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Malcolm P. North is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Malcolm P. North has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 144 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 98 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 77 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Malcolm P. North's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (123 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (71 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (53 papers). Malcolm P. North is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (123 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (71 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (53 papers). Malcolm P. North collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Malcolm P. North's co-authors include Brandon M. Collins, Matthew D. Hurteau, Scott L. Stephens, Harold S. J. Zald, Jamie M. Lydersen, Jerry F. Franklin, Jiquan Chen, Andrew N. Gray, Brian B. Oakley and Peter Z. Fulé and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Malcolm P. North

169 papers receiving 8.1k citations

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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.

Reform forest fire management

2015 371 citations Malcolm P. North, Scott L. Stephens et al. profile →
Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates

2013 361 citations Scott L. Stephens, Malcolm P. North et al. profile →
Drought, Tree Mortality, and Wildfire in Forests Adapted to Frequent Fire

2017 259 citations Scott L. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins et al. profile →
Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions

2021 209 citations Susan J. Prichard, Paul F. Hessburg et al. Ecological Applications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Malcolm P. North United States	55	6.9k	3.9k	3.6k	819	715	171	8.5k
James A. Lutz United States	43	4.6k 0.7×	2.5k 0.6×	2.7k 0.7×	928 1.1×	907 1.3×	146	6.1k
Penelope Morgan United States	44	7.7k 1.1×	4.6k 1.2×	2.9k 0.8×	966 1.2×	983 1.4×	112	8.9k
John B. Bradford United States	49	5.8k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	4.0k 1.1×	1.6k 2.0×	697 1.0×	191	8.0k
William L. Baker United States	47	5.8k 0.8×	4.0k 1.0×	3.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.6×	309 0.4×	136	7.6k
Robert E. Keane United States	46	6.4k 0.9×	4.0k 1.0×	3.8k 1.1×	932 1.1×	816 1.1×	162	9.9k
W. Wallace Covington United States	48	6.5k 0.9×	3.9k 1.0×	4.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	251 0.4×	128	7.9k
Peter Z. Fulé United States	56	10.3k 1.5×	5.5k 1.4×	5.8k 1.6×	2.3k 2.8×	522 0.7×	239	12.1k
Paulo M. Fernandes Portugal	47	6.7k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	546 0.7×	650 0.9×	203	7.8k
Linda A. Joyce United States	31	3.8k 0.6×	2.1k 0.5×	2.0k 0.5×	897 1.1×	443 0.6×	76	6.0k
Margaret M. Moore United States	36	4.3k 0.6×	2.5k 0.7×	3.3k 0.9×	874 1.1×	220 0.3×	93	5.6k

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Shive, Kristen L., et al.. (2025). Perspectives: The pace and scale challenge: Leveraging wildfire footprints to increase forest resilience to future high-severity fire. Forest Ecology and Management. 603. 123443–123443.

Cansler, C. Alina, et al.. (2024). When do contemporary wildfires restore forest structures in the Sierra Nevada?. Fire Ecology. 20(1). 7 indexed citations

North, Malcolm P., Sarah M. Bisbing, Paul F. Hessburg, et al.. (2024). Strategic fire zones are essential to wildfire risk reduction in the Western United States. Fire Ecology. 20(1). 15 indexed citations

Chen, Jiquan, K.T. Paw U, Malcolm P. North, & Jerry F. Franklin. (2024). The contributions of microclimatic information in advancing ecosystem science. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 355. 110105–110105. 9 indexed citations

Jonko, Alexandra, A. L. Atchley, Mike A. Battaglia, et al.. (2024). How will future climate change impact prescribed fire across the contiguous United States?. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 10 indexed citations

Cansler, C. Alina, et al.. (2023). Consistently heterogeneous structures observed at multiple spatial scales across fire-intact reference sites. Forest Ecology and Management. 550. 121478–121478. 14 indexed citations

Kane, Van R., et al.. (2023). Where are the large trees? A census of Sierra Nevada large trees to determine their frequency and spatial distribution across three large landscapes. Forest Ecology and Management. 546. 121351–121351. 5 indexed citations

Kerhoulas, Lucy P., et al.. (2022). Conifer water-use patterns across temporal and topographic gradients in the southern Sierra Nevada. Tree Physiology. 43(2). 210–220. 4 indexed citations

Prichard, Susan J., Paul F. Hessburg, R. Keala Hagmann, et al.. (2021). Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions. Ecological Applications. 31(8). e02433–e02433. 209 indexed citations breakdown →

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Koontz, Michael J., Andrew M. Latimer, Leif A. Mortenson, Christopher J. Fettig, & Malcolm P. North. (2021). Cross-scale interaction of host tree size and climatic water deficit governs bark beetle-induced tree mortality. Nature Communications. 12(1). 129–129. 70 indexed citations

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Sousa, Daniel, Joshua B. Fisher, Ryan Pavlick, et al.. (2021). Tree Canopies Reflect Mycorrhizal Composition. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(10). 20 indexed citations

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Zald, Harold S. J., et al.. (2021). Climate‐Driven Tree Mortality and Fuel Aridity Increase Wildfire's Potential Heat Flux. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(24). 41 indexed citations

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North, Malcolm P., R.A. York, Brandon M. Collins, et al.. (2021). Pyrosilviculture Needed for Landscape Resilience of Dry Western United States Forests. Journal of Forestry. 119(5). 520–544. 112 indexed citations

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North, Malcolm P., et al.. (2020). Changing climate reallocates the carbon debt of frequent‐fire forests. Global Change Biology. 26(11). 6180–6189. 34 indexed citations

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Mortenson, Leif A., Christopher J. Fettig, Michael J. Koontz, Andrew M. Latimer, & Malcolm P. North. (2020). Drone-derived data supporting "Cross-scale interaction of host tree size and climatic water deficit governs bark beetle-induced tree mortality". OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Latimer, Andrew M., Leif A. Mortenson, Malcolm P. North, Michael J. Koontz, & Christopher J. Fettig. (2019). local-structure-wpb-severity. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Rizzo, David M., et al.. (2005). Patterns of Mortality in an Old-Growth Mixed-Conifer Forest of the Southern Sierra Nevada, California. Forest Science. 51(3). 266–275. 47 indexed citations

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Chen, Jiquan, Bo Song, Mark Rudnicki, et al.. (2004). Spatial Relationship of Biomass and Species Distribution in an Old-Growth Pseudotsuga-Tsuga Forest. Forest Science. 50(3). 364–375. 33 indexed citations

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North, Malcolm P., James M. Trappe, & Jerry F. Franklin. (1997). Standing Crop and Animal Consumption of Fungal Sporocarps in Pacific Northwest Forests. Ecology. 78(5). 1543–1543. 4 indexed citations

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North, Malcolm P. & James M. Trappe. (1994). Small mammal exclosures for studies of hypogeous fungi. Mycologia. 86(4). 586–587. 3 indexed citations

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