Mark J. Lara

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Mark J. Lara is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark J. Lara has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Atmospheric Science, 9 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Mark J. Lara's work include Climate change and permafrost (31 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (24 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 papers). Mark J. Lara is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (31 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (24 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (9 papers). Mark J. Lara collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Mark J. Lara's co-authors include C. E. Tweedie, Guido Grosse, Feng Sheng Hu, Ingmar Nitze, A. David McGuire, M. Torre Jorgenson, Christian Andresen, Gerald V. Frost, A. D. McGuire and Hélène Genet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Mark J. Lara

29 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost

2022 188 citations Mark J. Lara, Gerald V. Frost et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark J. Lara United States	18	895	284	200	68	48	33	1.0k
Neal J. Pastick United States	16	520 0.6×	212 0.7×	247 1.2×	89 1.3×	52 1.1×	27	733
Vladimir Elsakov Russia	10	399 0.4×	434 1.5×	212 1.1×	54 0.8×	23 0.5×	33	684
Z. A. Mekonnen United States	16	682 0.8×	283 1.0×	460 2.3×	48 0.7×	38 0.8×	31	1000
A. Balser United States	6	650 0.7×	196 0.7×	87 0.4×	118 1.7×	57 1.2×	9	754
Richard Thoman United States	18	737 0.8×	137 0.5×	551 2.8×	39 0.6×	51 1.1×	33	1.0k
M. L. Chipman United States	12	693 0.8×	179 0.6×	543 2.7×	52 0.8×	121 2.5×	20	904
Verity Salmon United States	17	845 0.9×	419 1.5×	206 1.0×	100 1.5×	16 0.3×	39	1.1k
Н. Г. Москаленко Russia	8	643 0.7×	139 0.5×	81 0.4×	65 1.0×	20 0.4×	10	702
Monique M. P. D. Heijmans Netherlands	10	528 0.6×	129 0.5×	109 0.5×	32 0.5×	31 0.6×	19	603
Eric S. Klein United States	16	571 0.6×	298 1.0×	195 1.0×	94 1.4×	9 0.2×	30	718

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lara, Mark J., et al.. (2025). A 20 m spatial resolution peatland extent map of Alaska. Scientific Data. 12(1). 226–226.

Liu, Lin, et al.. (2025). Quantifying retrogressive thaw slump mass wasting and carbon mobilisation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau using multi-modal remote sensing. The cryosphere. 19(10). 4855–4873.

Yang, Dedi, Logan T. Berner, Andrew M. Cunliffe, et al.. (2025). Ecological Insights from Transferable Plant Biomass Mapping across the Arctic using Highresolution Structure-from-Motion and LiDAR Data.

Nitze, Ingmar, Konrad Heidler, T. L. Holzer, et al.. (2025). DARTS: Multi-year database of AI-detected retrogressive thaw slumps in the circum-arctic permafrost region. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1512–1512. 2 indexed citations

Nitze, Ingmar, Jurjen van der Sluijs, Lingcao Huang, et al.. (2024). A Labeling Intercomparison of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps by a Diverse Group of Domain Experts. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 36(1). 83–92. 9 indexed citations

Michaelides, Roger, et al.. (2024). Tundra fires and surface subsidence increase spectral diversity on the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 45006–45006. 1 indexed citations

Fraterrigo, Jennifer M., et al.. (2023). Nitrogen fixing shrubs advance the pace of tall-shrub expansion in low-Arctic tundra. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Qingyuan, Mark J. Lara, Zhengpeng Li, et al.. (2023). Impacts of abiotic and biotic factors on tundra productivity near Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Environmental Research Letters. 18(9). 94070–94070.

Mekonnen, Z. A., W. J. Riley, R. F. Grant, et al.. (2021). Topographical Controls on Hillslope‐Scale Hydrology Drive Shrub Distributions on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(2). 17 indexed citations

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Chen, Yaping, Ryan Kelly, Hélène Genet, et al.. (2021). Resilience and sensitivity of ecosystem carbon stocks to fire-regime change in Alaskan tundra. The Science of The Total Environment. 806(Pt 4). 151482–151482. 7 indexed citations

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Lara, Mark J., Yaping Chen, & Benjamin Jones. (2021). Recent warming reverses forty-year decline in catastrophic lake drainage and hastens gradual lake drainage across northern Alaska. Environmental Research Letters. 16(12). 124019–124019. 19 indexed citations

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Jones, Benjamin, Christopher D. Arp, Guido Grosse, et al.. (2020). Identifying historical and future potential lake drainage events on the western Arctic coastal plain of Alaska. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 31(1). 110–127. 35 indexed citations

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Lara, Mark J., A. David McGuire, E. S. Euskirchen, et al.. (2020). Local-scale Arctic tundra heterogeneity affects regional-scale carbon dynamics. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4925–4925. 33 indexed citations

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Hu, Feng Sheng, et al.. (2020). Divergent shrub‐cover responses driven by climate, wildfire, and permafrost interactions in Arctic tundra ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 27(3). 652–663. 45 indexed citations

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Salmon, Verity, Amy Breen, Jitendra Kumar, et al.. (2019). Alder Distribution and Expansion Across a Tundra Hillslope: Implications for Local N Cycling. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 1099–1099. 48 indexed citations

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Lara, Mark J., Ingmar Nitze, Guido Grosse, Philip D. Martin, & A. D. McGuire. (2018). Reduced arctic tundra productivity linked with landform and climate change interactions. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2345–2345. 101 indexed citations

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Lara, Mark J., Ingmar Nitze, Guido Grosse, & A. David McGuire. (2018). Tundra landform and vegetation productivity trend maps for the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180058–180058. 32 indexed citations

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Lara, Mark J., Hélène Genet, A. David McGuire, et al.. (2015). Thermokarst rates intensify due to climate change and forest fragmentation in an Alaskan boreal forest lowland. Global Change Biology. 22(2). 816–829. 65 indexed citations

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Lara, Mark J.. (2012). Implications of decade time scale Arctic plant community change on ecosystem function. scholarworks - UTEP (The University of Texas at El Paso). 1 indexed citations

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Hollister, Robert D., et al.. (2012). Tundra vegetation change near Barrow, Alaska (1972–2010). Environmental Research Letters. 7(1). 15508–15508. 60 indexed citations

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