Oliver T. Coomes

10.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
115 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Oliver T. Coomes is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver T. Coomes has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 33 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 23 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Oliver T. Coomes's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (54 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (27 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (15 papers). Oliver T. Coomes is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (54 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (27 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (15 papers). Oliver T. Coomes collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Japan and United States. Oliver T. Coomes's co-authors include Yoshito Takasaki, Bradford L. Barham, Navin Ramankutty, Arild Angelsen, Éric F. Lambin, Frédéric Achard, Emilio F. Morán, Thomas K. Rudel, Jianchu Xu and Glenn Hyman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Oliver T. Coomes

113 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change

2005 1.0k citations Oliver T. Coomes et al. profile →
The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon

2010 453 citations Oliver T. Coomes et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Oliver T. Coomes Canada	37	2.9k	1.1k	771	735	628	115	5.0k
Jean‐Christophe Castella France	28	2.7k 0.9×	825 0.8×	823 1.1×	338 0.5×	554 0.9×	134	4.8k
Susanna B. Hecht United States	30	2.2k 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	583 0.8×	448 0.6×	445 0.7×	83	4.2k
Sheona Shackleton South Africa	38	2.3k 0.8×	724 0.7×	534 0.7×	527 0.7×	431 0.7×	106	4.9k
Sara Scherr United States	29	1.8k 0.6×	836 0.8×	527 0.7×	641 0.9×	541 0.9×	80	3.8k
Eva Wollenberg United States	33	2.4k 0.8×	692 0.6×	1.4k 1.8×	632 0.9×	932 1.5×	108	5.5k
B. Belcher Indonesia	27	2.7k 0.9×	737 0.7×	465 0.6×	729 1.0×	344 0.5×	71	4.2k
Allan Curtis Australia	34	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	707 0.9×	727 1.0×	258 0.4×	170	4.9k
Holly K. Gibbs United States	21	2.7k 0.9×	793 0.7×	1.3k 1.7×	783 1.1×	463 0.7×	41	4.4k
Ashwini Chhatre United States	28	3.1k 1.1×	622 0.6×	646 0.8×	875 1.2×	392 0.6×	68	4.5k
Jefferson Fox United States	40	3.6k 1.3×	893 0.8×	1.6k 2.1×	340 0.5×	830 1.3×	126	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Oliver T. Coomes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver T. Coomes

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All Works

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Abizaid, Christian, Yoshito Takasaki, & Oliver T. Coomes. (2024). COVID-19 y medidas de protección adoptadas en comunidades rurales amazónicas durante los primeros meses de la pandemia. Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública. 41(3). 239–46. 1 indexed citations

Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T. Coomes, & Christian Abizaid. (2024). Pervasive Indigenous and local knowledge of tropical wild species. AMBIO. 54(4). 680–695.

Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T. Coomes, & Christian Abizaid. (2023). Tropical Forests Provide Gendered Insurance against Illness. Land Economics. 100(2). 314–332. 1 indexed citations

Martin, Dominic A., Jorge C. Llopis, Oliver T. Coomes, et al.. (2023). Drivers and consequences of archetypical shifting cultivation transitions. People and Nature. 5(2). 529–541. 13 indexed citations

Kalácska, Margaret, J. Pablo Arroyo‐Mora, Oliver T. Coomes, Yoshito Takasaki, & Christian Abizaid. (2022). Multi-Temporal Surface Water Classification for Four Major Rivers from the Peruvian Amazon. Data. 7(1). 6–6. 8 indexed citations

Takasaki, Yoshito, Oliver T. Coomes, Christian Abizaid, & Margaret Kalácska. (2022). Landscape-scale concordance between local ecological knowledge for tropical wild species and remote sensing of land cover. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(40). e2116446119–e2116446119. 8 indexed citations

Coomes, Oliver T., et al.. (2021). Smallholder agriculture results in stable forest cover in riverine Amazonia. Environmental Research Letters. 17(1). 14024–14024. 4 indexed citations

Kalácska, Margaret, et al.. (2020). A Python Algorithm for Shortest-Path River Network Distance Calculations Considering River Flow Direction. Data. 5(1). 8–8. 4 indexed citations

Coomes, Oliver T., et al.. (2019). Agricultural innovation and environmental change on the floodplains of the Congo River. Geographical Journal. 186(1). 16–30. 3 indexed citations

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Webb, Jena, Oliver T. Coomes, Donna Mergler, & Nancy A. Ross. (2017). Levels of 1-hydroxypyrene in urine of people living in an oil producing region of the Andean Amazon (Ecuador and Peru). International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. 91(1). 105–115. 16 indexed citations

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Arroyo‐Mora, J. Pablo, et al.. (2016). A cost path and network analysis methodology to calculate distances along a complex river network in the Peruvian Amazon. Applied Geography. 73. 13–25. 22 indexed citations

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Webb, Jena, Oliver T. Coomes, Nancy A. Ross, & Donna Mergler. (2016). Mercury concentrations in urine of amerindian populations near oil fields in the peruvian and ecuadorian amazon. Environmental Research. 151. 344–350. 23 indexed citations

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Wood, Sylvia, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, & Oliver T. Coomes. (2016). Cropping history trumps fallow duration in long‐term soil and vegetation dynamics of shifting cultivation systems. Ecological Applications. 27(2). 519–531. 19 indexed citations

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Webb, Jena, et al.. (2015). Mercury Contamination in an Indicator Fish Species from Andean Amazonian Rivers Affected by Petroleum Extraction. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 95(3). 279–285. 18 indexed citations

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Coomes, Oliver T., Tim R. Moore, Jaclyn Paterson, et al.. (2012). Academic Performance Indicators for Departments of Geography in the United States and Canada. The Professional Geographer. 65(3). 433–450. 12 indexed citations

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McSweeney, Kendra & Oliver T. Coomes. (2011). Climate-related disaster opens a window of opportunity for rural poor in northeastern Honduras. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(13). 5203–5208. 87 indexed citations

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Takasaki, Yoshito, Bradford L. Barham, & Oliver T. Coomes. (2001). Rapid Rural Appraisal in Humid Tropical Forests: An Asset Possession-Based Approach and Validation Methods for Wealth Assessment Among Forest Peasant Households. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Takasaki, Yoshito, Bradford L. Barham, & Oliver T. Coomes. (2001). Amazonian Peasants, Rain Forest Use, and Income Generation: The Role of Wealth and Geographical Factors. Society & Natural Resources. 14(4). 291–308. 67 indexed citations

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Coomes, Oliver T., et al.. (1995). Uso de recursos por los ribereños en la Reserva Nacional Pacaya-Samiria : datos de una encuesta reciente e implicaciones para el manejo del área protegida. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5 indexed citations

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Coomes, Oliver T.. (1994). Making a living in the Amazon rain forest : peasants, land, and economy in the Tahuayo River Basin of northeastern Peru. UMI eBooks. 23 indexed citations

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