Molly E. Brown

12.1k citations

142 papers · 8.0k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 39

Impact in

Ecological Modeling top 0.5%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Papers in ⓘ

Global and Planetary Change 49
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 12
- Climate variability and models 11
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 9
Soil Science 18
- Agricultural risk and resilience 18

Co-authors: Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón (9 shared papers)Compton J. Tucker (4 shared papers)Éric Vermote (2 shared papers)Nazmi Saleous (1 shared paper)Robert Mahoney (1 shared paper)D. A. Slayback (1 shared paper)Chang‐Hoi Ho (3 shared papers)Sujong Jeong (3 shared papers)
Journals: Environmental Research Letters (7 papers)Remote Sensing of Environment (7 papers)Population and Environment (4 papers)Eos (4 papers)Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Switzerland

In The Last Decade

Molly E. Brown

137 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Detecting change-point, trend, and seasonality in satellite time series data to track abrupt changes and nonlinear dynamics: A Bayesian ensemble algorithm 2019 · 309 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2019 Remote Sensing of Environment
2014 Nature Communications
2011 Global Change Biology
2005 International Journal of Remote Sensing

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1	An extended AVHRR 8‐km NDVI dataset compatible with MODIS and SPOT vegetation NDVI data International Journal of Remote Sensing ·Compton J. Tucker, Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón, Molly E. Brown, D. A. Slayback, Edwin W. Pak, Robert Mahoney, Éric Vermote, Nazmi Saleous Hit paper breakdown →	2005	1931
2	Phenology shifts at start vs. end of growing season in temperate vegetation over the Northern Hemisphere for the period 1982-2008 Global Change Biology ·Sujong Jeong, Chang‐Hoi Ho, Hyeon‐Ju Gim, Molly E. Brown Hit paper breakdown →	2011	870
3	Warming of the Indian Ocean threatens eastern and southern African food security but could be mitigated by agricultural development Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Chris Funk, Michael D. Dettinger, Joel Michaelsen, J. P. Verdin, Molly E. Brown, Mathew Barlow, Andrew Hoell	2008	379
4	Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops Nature Communications ·Toshichika Iizumi, Jing‐Jia Luo, Andrew J. Challinor, Gen Sakurai, Masayuki Yokozawa, Hirofumi Sakuma, Molly E. Brown, Toshio Yamagata Hit paper breakdown →	2014	311
5	Detecting change-point, trend, and seasonality in satellite time series data to track abrupt changes and nonlinear dynamics: A Bayesian ensemble algorithm Remote Sensing of Environment ·Kaiguang Zhao, Michael A. Wulder, Tongxi Hu, Ryan M. Bright, Qiusheng Wu, Haiming Qin, Yang Li, Elizabeth Myers Toman, Bani K. Mallick, Xuesong Zhang, Molly E. Brown Hit paper breakdown →	2019	309
6	Evaluation of the consistency of long-term NDVI time series derived from AVHRR,SPOT-vegetation, SeaWiFS, MODIS, and Landsat ETM+ sensors IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Molly E. Brown, Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón, Kamel Didan, J. T. Morisette, Compton J. Tucker	2006	295
7	Declining global per capita agricultural production and warming oceans threaten food security Food Security ·Chris Funk, Molly E. Brown	2009	175
8	Generating a long-term land data record from the AVHRR and MODIS Instruments J. A. Pedelty, Sadashiva Devadiga, Edward J. Masuoka, Molly E. Brown, Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón, Compton J. Tucker, Éric Vermote, Stephen D. Prince, Jyotheshwar Nagol, Christopher O. Justice, David P. Roy, Junchang Ju, Crystal Schaaf, Jicheng Liu, J. L. Privette, Ana Pinheiro	2007	159
9	Multiscale geostatistical analysis of AVHRR, SPOT-VGT, and MODIS global NDVI products Remote Sensing of Environment ·Elena Tarnavsky, Sébastien Garrigues, Molly E. Brown	2007	150
10	Global phenological response to climate change in crop areas using satellite remote sensing of vegetation, humidity and temperature over 26years Remote Sensing of Environment ·Molly E. Brown, Kirsten M. de Beurs, Michael Marshall	2012	146
11	Prediction of seasonal climate-induced variations in global food production Nature Climate Change ·Toshichika Iizumi, Hirofumi Sakuma, Masayuki Yokozawa, Jing‐Jia Luo, Andrew J. Challinor, Molly E. Brown, Gen Sakurai, Toshio Yamagata	2013	135
12	Obesity Stigma in Sexual Relationships Obesity Research ·Eunice Y. Chen, Molly E. Brown	2005	125
13	The response of African land surface phenology to large scale climate oscillations Remote Sensing of Environment ·Molly E. Brown, Kirsten M. de Beurs, Anton Vrieling	2010	118
14	Evaluation of multi-sensor semi-arid crop season parameters based on NDVI and rainfall Remote Sensing of Environment ·Molly E. Brown, Kirsten M. de Beurs	2008	104
15	Mapping the effects of drought on child stunting Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Matthew Cooper, Molly E. Brown, Stefan Hochrainer‐Stigler, Georg Ch. Pflug, Ian McCallum, Steffen Fritz, Julie A. Silva, Alex Zvoleff	2019	101
16	Intra-seasonal NDVI change projections in semi-arid Africa Remote Sensing of Environment ·Chris Funk, Molly E. Brown	2006	99
17	Sustainable food systems and nutrition in the 21st century: a report from the 22nd annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Jessica Fanzo, Coral Rudie, Iman Sigman, Steven Grinspoon, Tim G. Benton, Molly E. Brown, Namukolo Covic, Kathleen V. Fitch, Christopher D. Golden, Delia Grace, Marie‐France Hivert, Peter Huybers, Lindsay M. Jaacks, William A. Masters, Nicholas Nisbett, Ruth Richardson, Chelsea R. Singleton, Patrick Webb, Walter C. Willett	2021	93
18	Forest cover associated with improved child health and nutrition: evidence from the Malawi Demographic and Health Survey and satellite data Global Health Science and Practice ·Kiersten Johnson, Anila Jacob, Molly E. Brown	2013	91
19	Variability of African farming systems from phenological analysis of NDVI time series Climatic Change ·Anton Vrieling, Kirsten M. de Beurs, Molly E. Brown	2011	86
20	Markets, Climate Change, and Food Security in West Africa Environmental Science & Technology ·Molly E. Brown, Beat Hintermann, Nathaniel Higgins	2009	86

About Molly E. Brown

Molly E. Brown is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Atmospheric Science, having authored 142 papers that have together received 8.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (29 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (25 papers), Agricultural risk and resilience (18 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (13 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (12 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (11 papers), Climate variability and models (11 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (935 citations), Global and Planetary Change (4.2k citations), Ecology (3.3k citations), Atmospheric Science (1.7k citations) and Environmental Engineering (1.1k citations). Molly E. Brown has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón, Compton J. Tucker, Éric Vermote, Nazmi Saleous, Robert Mahoney, D. A. Slayback, Chang‐Hoi Ho, Sujong Jeong, Hyeon‐Ju Gim and Chris Funk. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, Remote Sensing of Environment, Population and Environment, Eos and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

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