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.
High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change
20138.0k citationsMatthew C. Hansen, Peter Potapov et al.profile →
Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach
20001.9k citationsMatthew C. Hansen, J. R. Townshend et al.profile →
Classifying drivers of global forest loss
20181.4k citationsNancy L. Harris, Alexandra Tyukavina et al.profile →
Global land change from 1982 to 2016
20181.4k citationsXiao‐Peng Song, Matthew C. Hansen et al.profile →
Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century
2010996 citationsMaría Uriarte, Matthew C. Hansen et al.profile →
Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change
2012911 citationsMatthew C. Hansen et al.profile →
Global Percent Tree Cover at a Spatial Resolution of 500 Meters: First Results of the MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields Algorithm
2003838 citationsMatthew C. Hansen, J. R. Townshend et al.profile →
A review of large area monitoring of land cover change using Landsat data
2012832 citationsMatthew C. Hansen et al.Remote Sensing of Environmentprofile →
Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data
2020789 citationsPeter Potapov, Andrés Hernández-Serna et al.Remote Sensing of Environmentprofile →
The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography
2020764 citationsRalph Dubayah, J. B. Blair et al.SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaprofile →
Primary forest cover loss in Indonesia over 2000–2012
2014714 citationsPeter Potapov, Svetlana Turubanova et al.profile →
Quantification of global gross forest cover loss
2010686 citationsMatthew C. Hansen, Stephen V. Stehman et al.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesprofile →
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes
2021675 citationsNancy L. Harris, Temilola Fatoyinbo et al.profile →
INCREASING ISOLATION OF PROTECTED AREAS IN TROPICAL FORESTS OVER THE PAST TWENTY YEARS
2005570 citationsMatthew C. Hansen et al.profile →
Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century
2021564 citationsPeter Potapov, Svetlana Turubanova et al.Nature Foodprofile →
The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013
2017554 citationsPeter Potapov, Matthew C. Hansen et al.Science Advancesprofile →
Baseline Map of Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Tropical Regions
2012502 citationsNancy L. Harris, Matthew C. Hansen et al.profile →
Humid tropical forest clearing from 2000 to 2005 quantified by using multitemporal and multiresolution remotely sensed data
2008500 citationsMatthew C. Hansen, Stephen V. Stehman et al.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesprofile →
Mapping and sampling to characterize global inland water dynamics from 1999 to 2018 with full Landsat time-series
2020330 citationsAmy Pickens, Matthew C. Hansen et al.Remote Sensing of Environmentprofile →
Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy
2019327 citationsMatthew C. Hansen, Sean P. Healey et al.Remote Sensing of Environmentprofile →
Environmental science: Agree on biodiversity metrics to track from space
2015302 citationsMatthew C. Hansen et al.profile →
The Global 2000-2020 Land Cover and Land Use Change Dataset Derived From the Landsat Archive: First Results
2022287 citationsPeter Potapov, Matthew C. Hansen et al.SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaprofile →
Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation
2021277 citationsXiao‐Peng Song, Matthew C. Hansen et al.Nature Sustainabilityprofile →
Congo Basin forest loss dominated by increasing smallholder clearing
2018216 citationsAlexandra Tyukavina, Matthew C. Hansen et al.Science Advancesprofile →
Global Trends of Forest Loss Due to Fire From 2001 to 2019
2022187 citationsAlexandra Tyukavina, Peter Potapov et al.SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaprofile →
GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space
2022137 citationsRalph Dubayah, John Armston et al.Environmental Research Lettersprofile →
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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthew C. Hansen
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Zalles, Viviana, Nancy L. Harris, Fred Stolle, & Matthew C. Hansen. (2024). Forest definitions require a re-think. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1).7 indexed citations
Dubayah, Ralph, John Armston, Sean P. Healey, et al.. (2022). GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space. Environmental Research Letters. 17(9). 95001–95001.137 indexed citations breakdown →
Song, Xiao‐Peng, Matthew C. Hansen, Peter Potapov, et al.. (2021). Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation. Nature Sustainability. 4(9). 784–792.277 indexed citations breakdown →
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Potapov, Peter, Svetlana Turubanova, Matthew C. Hansen, et al.. (2021). Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century. Nature Food. 3(1). 19–28.564 indexed citations breakdown →
Hernández-Serna, Andrés, Matthew C. Hansen, Peter Potapov, & Viviana Zalles. (2019). Monitoring tree height, loss, and gain in South America using Lidar and Landsat data for 1985-2018.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019.1 indexed citations
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Song, Xiang, Matthew C. Hansen, S. V. Stehman, et al.. (2018). A satellite data record of annual global land cover and long-term change 1982-2016. AGUFM. 2018.2 indexed citations
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Potapov, Peter, Matthew C. Hansen, Lars Laestadius, et al.. (2017). The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013. Science Advances. 3(1). e1600821–e1600821.554 indexed citations breakdown →
Molinario, Giuseppe, Matthew C. Hansen, & Peter Potapov. (2016). High resolution satellite remote sensing used in a stratified random sampling scheme to quantify the constituent land cover components of the shifting cultivation mosaic of the Democratic Republic of Congo. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016.1 indexed citations
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Zalles, Viviana, Temilola Fatoyinbo, Marc Simard, et al.. (2015). Mangrove Blue Carbon stocks and change estimation from PolInSAR, Lidar and High Resolution Stereo Imagery combined with Forest Cover change mapping. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015.1 indexed citations
19.
Hansen, Matthew C., et al.. (2011). Google Earth Engine: a new cloud-computing platform for global-scale earth observation data and analysis. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011.50 indexed citations
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Hansen, Matthew C., Stephen V. Stehman, & Peter Potapov. (2010). Quantification of global gross forest cover loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(19). 8650–8655.686 indexed citations breakdown →
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