Mitchell J. Power

5.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
64 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Mitchell J. Power is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mitchell J. Power has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Atmospheric Science, 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Mitchell J. Power's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (41 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (31 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (15 papers). Mitchell J. Power is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (41 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (31 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (15 papers). Mitchell J. Power collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Mitchell J. Power's co-authors include Patrick J. Bartlein, Jennifer R. Marlon, Sandy P. Harrison, Daniel G. Gavin, Francis E. Mayle, Boris Vannière, Philip E. Higuera, Christopher Carcaillet, Anne‐Laure Daniau and Fortunat Joos and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Nature Geoscience.

In The Last Decade

Mitchell J. Power

60 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia

2008 630 citations Jennifer R. Marlon, Patrick J. Bartlein et al. profile →
Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western USA

2012 435 citations Jennifer R. Marlon, Patrick J. Bartlein et al. profile →
Anthropogenic influence on Amazonian forests in pre‐history: An ecological perspective

2015 86 citations Mitchell J. Power et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Mitchell J. Power	2.0k	1.9k	736	494	379	64	3.1k
Danièle Colombaroli	2.5k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	783 1.1×	425 0.9×	789 2.1×	73	3.8k
Walter Finsinger	2.1k 1.1×	721 0.4×	488 0.7×	210 0.4×	658 1.7×	75	2.8k
Angelica Feurdean	2.4k 1.2×	796 0.4×	787 1.1×	214 0.4×	643 1.7×	104	3.4k
Kurt Nicolussi	2.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.6×	260 0.4×	230 0.5×	643 1.7×	63	3.2k
Christopher Carcaillet	3.4k 1.7×	3.6k 1.9×	1.2k 1.6×	809 1.6×	665 1.8×	129	6.0k
Christelle Hély	1.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	714 1.0×	394 0.8×	285 0.8×	86	3.1k
Boris Vannière	3.8k 1.9×	1.4k 0.7×	861 1.2×	508 1.0×	1.5k 3.9×	118	4.9k
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist	3.4k 1.7×	2.5k 1.3×	424 0.6×	105 0.2×	535 1.4×	103	4.2k
Anne‐Laure Daniau	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	377 0.5×	223 0.5×	335 0.9×	32	2.0k
Sally P. Horn	1.3k 0.6×	621 0.3×	800 1.1×	76 0.2×	506 1.3×	113	2.2k

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Power, Mitchell J., Brian Chase, Lynne J. Quick, et al.. (2025). Evaluating climatic and anthropogenic drivers of fire activity over four millennia at Eilandvlei, southern Cape coast, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 366. 109520–109520.

Brémond, Laurent, Julie C. Aleman, Charly Favier, et al.. (2024). Past fire dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa during the last 25,000 years: Climate change and increasing human impacts. Quaternary International. 711. 49–58. 1 indexed citations

Power, Mitchell J., et al.. (2024). Structure, floristic and diversity from Laguna de San Diego (Samaná, Colombia). Rodriguésia. 75.

Golitko, Mark, et al.. (2024). Waking the “sleeping giant?” Mid- to Late-Holocene environment and fire history in the Aitape area, northern Papua New Guinea. The Holocene. 34(12). 1852–1864.

Leavitt, Peter R., et al.. (2024). Anthropogenic forcing leads to an abrupt shift to phytoplankton dominance in a shallow eutrophic lake. Freshwater Biology. 69(3). 335–350. 8 indexed citations

Maezumi, S. Yoshi, Mitchell J. Power, Richard J. Smith, et al.. (2023). Fire-human-climate interactions in the Bolivian Amazon rainforest ecotone from the Last Glacial Maximum to late Holocene. CentAUR (University of Reading). 2. 3 indexed citations

Davies, Benjamin, Mitchell J. Power, David R. Braun, et al.. (2022). Fire and human management of late Holocene ecosystems in southern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 289. 107600–107600. 15 indexed citations

Davies, Benjamin, Matthew Douglass, David R. Braun, et al.. (2022). From quartz curvature to late Holocene mobility at Spring Cave, Western Cape, South Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 14(4). 1 indexed citations

Vannière, Boris, Danièle Colombaroli, & Mitchell J. Power. (2021). Fire history of an inhabited Earth: Experiences from the PAGES Global Paleofire Working Group. Past Global Change Magazine. 29(1). 24–26. 3 indexed citations

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Carter, Vachel A., Andrea Brunelle, Mitchell J. Power, et al.. (2021). Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 21 indexed citations

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Butcher, Kirsten R., et al.. (2021). Museum Leadership for Engaging, Equitable Education: The Transformative Potential of Digitized Collections for Authentic Learning Experiences. Curator The Museum Journal. 64(2). 383–402. 6 indexed citations

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Souza, Jonas Gregório de, Mark Robinson, S. Yoshi Maezumi, et al.. (2019). Climate change and cultural resilience in late pre-Columbian Amazonia. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(7). 1007–1017. 47 indexed citations

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Power, Mitchell J., et al.. (2018). The impacts of recent drought on fire, forest loss, and regional smoke emissions in lowland Bolivia. Biogeosciences. 15(14). 4317–4331. 9 indexed citations

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Marlon, Jennifer R., Ryan Kelly, Anne‐Laure Daniau, et al.. (2016). Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment-charcoal records to improve data–model comparisons. Biogeosciences. 13(11). 3225–3244. 140 indexed citations

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Maezumi, S. Yoshi, Mitchell J. Power, Francis E. Mayle, Kendra K. McLauchlan, & José Iriarte. (2015). Effects of past climate variability on fire and vegetation in the cerrãdo savanna of the Huanchaca Mesetta, NE Bolivia. Climate of the past. 11(6). 835–853. 18 indexed citations

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Maezumi, S. Yoshi, Mitchell J. Power, Francis E. Mayle, Kendra K. McLauchlan, & José Iriarte. (2015). The effects of past climate variability on fire and vegetation in the cerrãdo savanna ecosystem of the Huanchaca Mesetta, Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, NE Bolivia. 4 indexed citations

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Brücher, Tim, Victor Brovkin, Silvia Kloster, Jennifer R. Marlon, & Mitchell J. Power. (2014). Comparing modelled fire dynamics with charcoal records for the Holocene. Climate of the past. 10(2). 811–824. 33 indexed citations

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Brücher, Tim, Victor Brovkin, Silvia Kloster, Jennifer R. Marlon, & Mitchell J. Power. (2013). Comparing modelled fire dynamics with charcoal records for the Holocene. 1 indexed citations

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Power, Mitchell J., et al.. (2013). Exploring potential drivers of European biomass burning over the Holocene: a data-model analysis. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

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Power, Mitchell J., et al.. (2013). Paleofire regimes in Mediterranean climate regions. Quaternary International. 310. 244–244. 1 indexed citations

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