Mikaela Weisse

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 988 citations indexed

About

Mikaela Weisse is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Mikaela Weisse has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 988 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Mikaela Weisse's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers), Forest ecology and management (5 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (5 papers). Mikaela Weisse is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers), Forest ecology and management (5 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (5 papers). Mikaela Weisse collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Italy. Mikaela Weisse's co-authors include Elizabeth Dow Goldman, Fred Stolle, Brookie Guzder-Williams, Christopher F. Brown, Alexander M. Tait, Joseph C. Mazzariello, Valerie J. Pasquarella, Tanya Birch, Kurt Schwehr and Steven P. Brumby and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Global Change Biology and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Mikaela Weisse

21 papers receiving 935 citations

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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 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.

Dynamic World, Near real-time global 10 m land use land cover mapping

2022 547 citations Christopher F. Brown, Steven P. Brumby et al. Scientific Data profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mikaela Weisse United States	10	565	442	290	154	116	21	988
Qing Ying China	12	664 1.2×	386 0.9×	208 0.7×	219 1.4×	77 0.7×	20	954
T. Simoniello Italy	22	490 0.9×	440 1.0×	223 0.8×	170 1.1×	121 1.0×	45	987
A. C. Coutinho Brazil	13	545 1.0×	557 1.3×	202 0.7×	104 0.7×	108 0.9×	33	1.0k
Alexander M. Tait United States	9	471 0.8×	417 0.9×	196 0.7×	268 1.7×	91 0.8×	25	1.0k
Yuean Qiu China	10	575 1.0×	286 0.6×	287 1.0×	205 1.3×	129 1.1×	14	1.0k
Guangbin Lei China	17	620 1.1×	571 1.3×	282 1.0×	212 1.4×	158 1.4×	55	1.0k
Fernando Sedano United States	16	670 1.2×	720 1.6×	340 1.2×	202 1.3×	108 0.9×	29	1.3k
Kenneth Grogan Denmark	12	718 1.3×	660 1.5×	322 1.1×	216 1.4×	185 1.6×	17	1.3k
Ahmad Khan United States	10	711 1.3×	710 1.6×	302 1.0×	221 1.4×	64 0.6×	15	1.4k
Neeti Neeti United States	14	641 1.1×	489 1.1×	270 0.9×	166 1.1×	70 0.6×	22	976

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mikaela Weisse

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mikaela Weisse. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mikaela Weisse based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mikaela Weisse. Mikaela Weisse is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Weisse, Mikaela, et al.. (2024). Extreme wildfires in Canada and their contribution to global loss in tree cover and carbon emissions in 2023. Global Change Biology. 30(6). e17392–e17392. 20 indexed citations

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Brown, Christopher F., Steven P. Brumby, Brookie Guzder-Williams, et al.. (2022). Dynamic World, Near real-time global 10 m land use land cover mapping. Scientific Data. 9(1). 547 indexed citations breakdown →

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Weisse, Mikaela & Elizabeth Dow Goldman. (2021). Just 7 Commodities Replaced an Area of Forest Twice the Size of Germany Between 2001 and 2015. 6 indexed citations

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Reiche, Johannes, Adugna Mullissa, Bart Slagter, et al.. (2021). Forest disturbance alerts for the Congo Basin using Sentinel-1. Environmental Research Letters. 16(2). 24005–24005. 127 indexed citations

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Weisse, Mikaela & Elizabeth Dow Goldman. (2020). We Lost a Football Pitch of Primary Rainforest Every 6 Seconds in 2019. 24 indexed citations

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Goldman, Elizabeth Dow, Mikaela Weisse, Nancy L. Harris, & Martina Schneider. (2020). Estimating the Role of Seven Commodities in Agriculture-Linked Deforestation: Oil Palm, Soy, Cattle, Wood Fiber, Cocoa, Coffee, and Rubber. 43 indexed citations

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Weisse, Mikaela, et al.. (2019). Use of Near-Real-Time Deforestation Alerts. 1 indexed citations

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Weisse, Mikaela & Elizabeth Dow Goldman. (2019). The World Lost a Belgium-sized Area of Primary Rainforests Last Year. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 21 indexed citations

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Finer, Matt, et al.. (2018). Combating deforestation: From satellite to intervention. Science. 360(6395). 1303–1305. 121 indexed citations

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Harris, Nancy L., et al.. (2018). When a Tree Falls, Is It Deforestation?. 1 indexed citations

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Weisse, Mikaela & Elizabeth Dow Goldman. (2018). 2017 Was the Second-Worst Year on Record for Tropical Tree Cover Loss. 13 indexed citations

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Broich, Mark, Mirela G. Tulbure, Arwan Putra Wijaya, Mikaela Weisse, & Fred Stolle. (2017). Quantifying South East Asia's forest degradation using latest generation optical and radar satellite remote sensing. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Weisse, Mikaela, et al.. (2017). Places to Watch: Identifying High-Priority Forest Disturbance from Near–Real Time Satellite Data. 3 indexed citations

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Petersen, Rachael, et al.. (2017). Logging, Mining, And Agricultural Concessions Data Transparency: A Survey Of 14 Forested Countries. 3 indexed citations

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Goldman, Elizabeth Dow & Mikaela Weisse. (2017). Technical Blog: Caveats to the 2016 Tree Cover Loss Data, Explained. 1 indexed citations

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Weisse, Mikaela, et al.. (2017). Indigenous Communities Fend Off Invaders in the Peruvian Amazon. 1 indexed citations

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Weisse, Mikaela & Elizabeth Dow Goldman. (2017). Global Tree Cover Loss Rose 51 Percent in 2016. 10 indexed citations

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Weisse, Mikaela & Lisa Naughton‐Treves. (2016). Conservation Beyond Park Boundaries: The Impact of Buffer Zones on Deforestation and Mining Concessions in the Peruvian Amazon. Environmental Management. 58(2). 297–311. 32 indexed citations

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Weisse, Mikaela & Rachael Petersen. (2015). Brazil and Indonesia Struggling to Reduce Deforestation. 2 indexed citations

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Weisse, Mikaela, et al.. (2014). Who owns paradise? Using web mapping to enhance a geography course exercise about tropical forest conservation. Journal of Maps. 11(3). 525–533. 2 indexed citations

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