Matthew C. Hansen

339 total papers · 56.2k total citations
208 papers, 38.5k citations indexed

About

Matthew C. Hansen is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew C. Hansen has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 38.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 129 papers in Ecology and 72 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Matthew C. Hansen's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (101 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (72 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (63 papers). Matthew C. Hansen is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (101 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (72 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (63 papers). Matthew C. Hansen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Matthew C. Hansen's co-authors include Peter Potapov, Ruth DeFries, Alexandra Tyukavina, J. R. Townshend, Stephen V. Stehman, Svetlana Turubanova, Thomas R. Loveland, R. A. Sohlberg, S. J. Goetz and Anil Kommareddy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Matthew C. Hansen

198 papers receiving 36.7k citations

Hit Papers

High-Resolution Global Ma... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2013 2000 2018 2018 2010 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change
    2013 7.9k citations Matthew C. Hansen, Peter Potapov et al. Science profile →
  2. Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach
    2000 1.9k citations Matthew C. Hansen, Ruth DeFries et al. International Journal of Remote Sensing profile →
  3. Classifying drivers of global forest loss
    2018 1.4k citations Philip G. Curtis, Christy M. Slay et al. Science profile →
  4. Global land change from 1982 to 2016
    2018 1.4k citations Xiao‐Peng Song, Matthew C. Hansen et al. Nature profile →
  5. Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century
    2010 990 citations Ruth DeFries, Thomas K. Rudel et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  6. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change
    2012 906 citations Joanna I. House, Julia Pongratz et al. Biogeosciences profile →
  7. Global Percent Tree Cover at a Spatial Resolution of 500 Meters: First Results of the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields Algorithm
    2003 838 citations Matthew C. Hansen, Ruth DeFries et al. Earth Interactions profile →
  8. A review of large area monitoring of land cover change using Landsat data
    2012 827 citations Matthew C. Hansen, Thomas R. Loveland Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  9. Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data
    2020 765 citations Peter Potapov, Andrés Hernández-Serna et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  10. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography
    2020 751 citations Ralph Dubayah, J. B. Blair et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
  11. Primary forest cover loss in Indonesia over 2000–2012
    2014 712 citations Belinda Arunarwati Margono, Peter Potapov et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  12. Quantification of global gross forest cover loss
    2010 683 citations Matthew C. Hansen, Stephen V. Stehman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  13. Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes
    2021 650 citations Nancy L. Harris, David A. Gibbs et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  14. INCREASING ISOLATION OF PROTECTED AREAS IN TROPICAL FORESTS OVER THE PAST TWENTY YEARS
    2005 568 citations Ruth DeFries, Andrew J. Hansen et al. Ecological Applications profile →
  15. Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century
    2021 547 citations Peter Potapov, Svetlana Turubanova et al. Nature Food profile →
  16. The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013
    2017 542 citations Peter Potapov, Matthew C. Hansen et al. Science Advances profile →
  17. Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Tropical Regions
    2012 501 citations Nancy L. Harris, Sandra Brown et al. Science profile →
  18. Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy
    2019 327 citations Zhe Zhu, Michael A. Wulder et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  19. Mapping and sampling to characterize global inland water dynamics from 1999 to 2018 with full Landsat time-series
    2020 325 citations Amy Pickens, Matthew C. Hansen et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  20. Environmental science: Agree on biodiversity metrics to track from space
    2015 302 citations Andrew K. Skidmore, Nathalie Pettorelli et al. Nature profile →
  21. The Global 2000-2020 Land Cover and Land Use Change Dataset Derived From the Landsat Archive: First Results
    2022 273 citations Peter Potapov, Matthew C. Hansen et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
  22. Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation
    2021 265 citations Xiao‐Peng Song, Matthew C. Hansen et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
  23. Congo Basin forest loss dominated by increasing smallholder clearing
    2018 213 citations Alexandra Tyukavina, Matthew C. Hansen et al. Science Advances profile →
  24. Global Trends of Forest Loss Due to Fire From 2001 to 2019
    2022 183 citations Alexandra Tyukavina, Peter Potapov et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
  25. GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space
    2022 135 citations Ralph Dubayah, John Armston et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Matthew C. Hansen 24.1k 19.3k 9.3k 5.5k 5.1k 208 38.5k
Ruth DeFries 30.2k 1.3× 16.8k 0.9× 6.5k 0.7× 6.1k 1.1× 8.3k 1.6× 258 47.4k
Stephen V. Stehman 16.3k 0.7× 14.2k 0.7× 6.7k 0.7× 3.4k 0.6× 3.2k 0.6× 193 27.1k
S. J. Goetz 17.0k 0.7× 12.9k 0.7× 7.8k 0.8× 6.3k 1.1× 6.6k 1.3× 240 29.2k
Compton J. Tucker 31.0k 1.3× 28.7k 1.5× 12.1k 1.3× 5.4k 1.0× 11.1k 2.2× 252 50.7k
Jianguo Wu 21.6k 0.9× 10.2k 0.5× 7.6k 0.8× 6.2k 1.1× 3.8k 0.7× 327 37.1k
Thomas R. Loveland 14.1k 0.6× 12.3k 0.6× 5.2k 0.6× 3.0k 0.5× 3.9k 0.8× 129 22.6k
Martin Herold 14.9k 0.6× 10.9k 0.6× 7.7k 0.8× 3.6k 0.7× 3.8k 0.8× 363 24.3k
Navin Ramankutty 24.5k 1.0× 14.0k 0.7× 4.9k 0.5× 4.8k 0.9× 6.4k 1.3× 166 49.6k
Peter Potapov 14.4k 0.6× 10.8k 0.6× 4.8k 0.5× 3.5k 0.6× 2.2k 0.4× 128 22.8k
Éric F. Lambin 23.3k 1.0× 10.6k 0.5× 3.3k 0.4× 2.7k 0.5× 3.2k 0.6× 250 36.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew C. Hansen

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