Maureen C. Kennedy

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Maureen C. Kennedy is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Maureen C. Kennedy has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Maureen C. Kennedy's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (38 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (14 papers). Maureen C. Kennedy is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (38 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (14 papers). Maureen C. Kennedy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Canada. Maureen C. Kennedy's co-authors include Susan J. Prichard, Morris C. Johnson, Donald McKenzie, E. David Ford, Richard Betts, Katherine Strattman, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Dan H. Shugar, Alexandre Bevington and Umesh K. Haritashya and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change and BioScience.

In The Last Decade

Maureen C. Kennedy

50 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990

2020 372 citations Dan H. Shugar, Aaron Burr et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maureen C. Kennedy United States	22	1.1k	514	406	365	252	51	1.7k
Joaquín Bedia Spain	25	1.6k 1.5×	378 0.7×	544 1.3×	238 0.7×	335 1.3×	47	2.0k
R. Chelsea Nagy United States	15	1.1k 1.1×	535 1.0×	170 0.4×	293 0.8×	234 0.9×	23	1.5k
Brian Buma United States	25	1.4k 1.3×	648 1.3×	386 1.0×	696 1.9×	195 0.8×	76	1.9k
Chantelle Burton United Kingdom	14	1.2k 1.1×	350 0.7×	347 0.9×	184 0.5×	148 0.6×	29	1.5k
Mauro E. González Chile	23	1.4k 1.3×	618 1.2×	429 1.1×	671 1.8×	202 0.8×	68	2.0k
Daniel A. Bishop United States	16	1.1k 1.0×	210 0.4×	581 1.4×	280 0.8×	131 0.5×	26	1.4k
Ze’ev Gedalof Canada	18	1.3k 1.2×	525 1.0×	748 1.8×	475 1.3×	190 0.8×	36	1.8k
M. S. R. Murthy India	22	1.0k 0.9×	698 1.4×	296 0.7×	271 0.7×	287 1.1×	64	1.7k
Alan Swanson United States	14	811 0.8×	528 1.0×	270 0.7×	501 1.4×	139 0.6×	24	1.5k
Winslow D. Hansen United States	22	1.1k 1.1×	571 1.1×	265 0.7×	445 1.2×	139 0.6×	41	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maureen C. Kennedy

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Meigs, Garrett W., Derek J. Churchill, Jonathan T. Kane, et al.. (2024). Learning from wildfires: A scalable framework to evaluate treatment effects on burn severity. Ecosphere. 15(12). 5 indexed citations

Prichard, Susan J., et al.. (2023). Evaluating Close-Range Photogrammetry for 3D Understory Fuel Characterization and Biomass Prediction in Pine Forests. Remote Sensing. 15(19). 4837–4837. 4 indexed citations

Ren, Jianning, Erin J. Hanan, Jeffrey A. Hicke, et al.. (2023). Bark Beetle Effects on Fire Regimes Depend on Underlying Fuel Modifications in Semiarid Systems. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(1).

Kennedy, Maureen C., et al.. (2023). Model analysis of post-fire management and potential reburn fire behavior. Journal of Environmental Management. 351. 119664–119664. 1 indexed citations

Ren, Jianning, Erin J. Hanan, John T. Abatzoglou, et al.. (2022). Projecting Future Fire Regimes in a Semiarid Watershed of the Inland Northwestern United States: Interactions Among Climate Change, Vegetation Productivity, and Fuel Dynamics. Earth s Future. 10(3). 11 indexed citations

Hanan, Erin J., Maureen C. Kennedy, Jianning Ren, Morris C. Johnson, & Alistair M. S. Smith. (2022). Missing Climate Feedbacks in Fire Models: Limitations and Uncertainties in Fuel Loadings and the Role of Decomposition in Fine Fuel Accumulation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(3). 23 indexed citations

Kennedy, Maureen C., R. R. Bart, C. Tague, & J. Choate. (2021). Does hot and dry equal more wildfire? Contrasting short‐ and long‐term climate effects on fire in the Sierra Nevada, CA. Ecosphere. 12(7). 18 indexed citations

Shugar, Dan H., Aaron Burr, Umesh K. Haritashya, et al.. (2020). Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990. Nature Climate Change. 10(10). 939–945. 372 indexed citations breakdown →

Johnson, Morris C., et al.. (2020). Effects of post-fire management on dead woody fuel dynamics and stand structure in a severely burned mixed-conifer forest, in northeastern Washington State, USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 470-471. 118190–118190. 14 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Maureen C.. (2020). mkenn/GlacialLakeMC: GlacialLakeMC. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Hanan, Erin J., Jianning Ren, C. Tague, et al.. (2020). How climate change and fire exclusion drive wildfire regimes at actionable scales. Environmental Research Letters. 16(2). 24051–24051. 52 indexed citations

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Johnson, Morris C. & Maureen C. Kennedy. (2019). Altered vegetation structure from mechanical thinning treatments changed wildfire behaviour in the wildland–urban interface on the 2011 Wallow Fire, Arizona, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 28(3). 216–229. 14 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Maureen C. & Susan J. Prichard. (2017). Choose your neighborhood wisely: implications of subsampling and autocorrelation structure in simultaneous autoregression models for landscape ecology. Landscape Ecology. 32(5). 945–952. 7 indexed citations

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Ottmar, Roger D., Andrew T. Hudak, Susan J. Prichard, et al.. (2015). Pre-fire and post-fire surface fuel and cover measurements collected in the south-eastern United States for model evaluation and development – RxCADRE 2008, 2011 and 2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25(1). 10–24. 34 indexed citations

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Prichard, Susan J., Eva C. Karau, Roger D. Ottmar, et al.. (2014). Evaluation of the CONSUME and FOFEM fuel consumption models in pine and mixed hardwood forests of the eastern United States. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 44(7). 784–795. 19 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Maureen C. & E. David Ford. (2011). Using Multicriteria Analysis of Simulation Models to Understand Complex Biological Systems. BioScience. 61(12). 994–1004. 16 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Maureen C., E. David Ford, & T. M. Hinckley. (2009). Defining how aging Pseudotsuga and Abies compensate for multiple stresses through multi-criteria assessment of a functional-structural model. Tree Physiology. 30(1). 3–22. 10 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Maureen C.. (2009). Functional–structural models optimize the placement of foliage units for multiple whole‐canopy functions. Ecological Research. 25(4). 723–732. 29 indexed citations

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Collins, Rose C. & Maureen C. Kennedy. (2008). Serving families who have served: providing family therapy and support in interdisciplinary polytrauma rehabilitation. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 64(8). 993–1003. 36 indexed citations

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Ishii, Hiroaki, E. David Ford, & Maureen C. Kennedy. (2007). Physiological and ecological implications of adaptive reiteration as a mechanism for crown maintenance and longevity. Tree Physiology. 27(3). 455–462. 41 indexed citations

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