Michael R. Coughlan

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 785 citations indexed

About

Michael R. Coughlan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael R. Coughlan has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 785 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Michael R. Coughlan's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (22 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (6 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (5 papers). Michael R. Coughlan is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (22 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (6 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (5 papers). Michael R. Coughlan collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. Michael R. Coughlan's co-authors include Aaron M. Petty, Tara Renae McGee, Mário Pereira, Vittorio Leone, Gavriil Xanthopoulos, Paulo M. Fernandes, Joana Parente, Douglas Paton, Luís Mário Ribeiro and Sarah McCaffrey and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael R. Coughlan

39 papers receiving 754 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.

Defining Extreme Wildfire Events: Difficulties, Challenges, and Impacts

2018 338 citations Fantina Tedim, Vittorio Leone et al. Fire profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael R. Coughlan United States	14	641	155	138	131	125	39	785
Jennifer B. Wurtzel Australia	4	520 0.8×	171 1.1×	71 0.5×	260 2.0×	49 0.4×	5	721
Virginia Iglesias United States	19	570 0.9×	164 1.1×	130 0.9×	503 3.8×	73 0.6×	31	943
Blaž Komac Slovenia	17	297 0.5×	89 0.6×	154 1.1×	136 1.0×	25 0.2×	82	807
Duarte Oom Portugal	17	1.0k 1.6×	408 2.6×	184 1.3×	212 1.6×	191 1.5×	25	1.1k
Álvaro González‐Reyes Chile	19	649 1.0×	133 0.9×	59 0.4×	513 3.9×	35 0.3×	41	945
Cameron Yates Australia	18	1.1k 1.7×	708 4.6×	167 1.2×	213 1.6×	63 0.5×	35	1.4k
Christophe Neff Germany	5	358 0.6×	152 1.0×	90 0.7×	317 2.4×	27 0.2×	13	615
Nathan Mietkiewicz United States	12	880 1.4×	316 2.0×	162 1.2×	141 1.1×	186 1.5×	14	1.0k
Rachel A. Loehman United States	21	1.1k 1.8×	620 4.0×	168 1.2×	206 1.6×	103 0.8×	55	1.3k
Michela Mariani Australia	17	429 0.7×	297 1.9×	82 0.6×	383 2.9×	19 0.2×	43	914

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Chapman, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Motivating parents to protect their children from wildfire smoke: the impact of air quality index infographics. Environmental Research Communications. 6(7). 75001–75001. 3 indexed citations

Lucash, Melissa S., et al.. (2024). Prescribed fire placement matters more than increasing frequency and extent in a simulated Pacific Northwest landscape. Ecosphere. 15(4). 4 indexed citations

Huber‐Stearns, Heidi, et al.. (2023). Documenting Twenty Years of the Contracted Labor-Intensive Forestry Workforce on National Forest System Lands in the United States. Journal of Forestry. 121(5-6). 457–469. 4 indexed citations

Johnston, James D., et al.. (2023). Exceptional variability in historical fire regimes across a western Cascades landscape, Oregon, USA. Ecosphere. 14(12). 9 indexed citations

Silva, Lucas C. R., Mary Christina Wood, Bart R. Johnson, et al.. (2022). A generalizable framework for enhanced natural climate solutions. Plant and Soil. 479(1-2). 3–24. 14 indexed citations

Westphal, Lynne M., Michael J. Dockry, Laura S. Kenefic, et al.. (2022). USDA Forest Service Employee Diversity During a Period of Workforce Contraction. Journal of Forestry. 120(4). 434–452. 20 indexed citations

Roos, Christopher I., Alan P. Sullivan, S. Yoshi Maezumi, et al.. (2022). A collaborative agenda for archaeology and fire science. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(7). 835–839. 13 indexed citations

Huber‐Stearns, Heidi, et al.. (2021). Perceptions of wildland fire smoke : literature review and synthesis. Scholars' Bank (University of Oregon). 2 indexed citations

Gragson, Ted L., Michael R. Coughlan, & David S. Leigh. (2020). Contingency and Agency in the Mountain Landscapes of the Western Pyrenees: A Place-Based Approach to the Long Anthropocene. Sustainability. 12(9). 3882–3882. 4 indexed citations

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Tedim, Fantina, Vittorio Leone, Malik Amraoui, et al.. (2018). Defining Extreme Wildfire Events: Difficulties, Challenges, and Impacts. Fire. 1(1). 9–9. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

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Coughlan, Michael R. & Donald R. Nelson. (2018). Influences of Native American land use on the Colonial Euro-American settlement of the South Carolina Piedmont. PLoS ONE. 13(3). e0195036–e0195036. 18 indexed citations

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Coughlan, Michael R., et al.. (2018). A Global Analysis of Hunter-Gatherers, Broadcast Fire Use, and Lightning-Fire-Prone Landscapes. Fire. 1(3). 41–41. 24 indexed citations

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Coughlan, Michael R., et al.. (2017). Historical Land Use Dynamics in the Highly Degraded Landscape of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. Land. 6(2). 32–32. 22 indexed citations

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Roos, Christopher I., Andrew C. Scott, Claire M. Belcher, et al.. (2016). Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1696). 20150469–20150469. 45 indexed citations

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Coughlan, Michael R.. (2016). Wildland Arson as Clandestine Resource Management: A Space–Time Permutation Analysis and Classification of Informal Fire Management Regimes in Georgia, USA. Environmental Management. 57(5). 1077–1087. 11 indexed citations

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Coughlan, Michael R.. (2015). Traditional fire-use, landscape transition, and the legacies of social theory past. AMBIO. 44(8). 705–717. 16 indexed citations

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Coughlan, Michael R.. (2013). Errakina: Pastoral Fire Use and Landscape Memory In the Basque Region of the French Western Pyrenees. Journal of Ethnobiology. 33(1). 86–104. 24 indexed citations

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Coughlan, Michael R. & Aaron M. Petty. (2012). Linking humans and fire: a proposal for a transdisciplinary fire ecology. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 21(5). 477–487. 52 indexed citations

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Coughlan, Michael R. & Aaron M. Petty. (2012). Fire as a dimension of historical ecology: a response to Bowman et al. (2011). Journal of Biogeography. 40(5). 1010–1012. 9 indexed citations

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Coughlan, Michael R.. (2003). Large Diameter Trees and the Political Culture of "Restoration": A Case Study with the Grand Canyon Forest Partnership, Flagstaff, Arizona. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 15. 48–71. 9 indexed citations

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