Peter Newton

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
142 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Peter Newton is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Newton has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 23 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Peter Newton's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (15 papers) and Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (12 papers). Peter Newton is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (31 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (15 papers) and Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (12 papers). Peter Newton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Peter Newton's co-authors include Arun Agrawal, Johan A. Oldekop, John F. Brotchie, Daniel C. Miller, Lee Frankel‐Goldwater, Nicole Civita, Reem Hajjar, Martin Bell, Carlos A. Peres and Lini Wollenberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Cleaner Production and Energy Policy.

In The Last Decade

Peter Newton

129 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation

2018 330 citations Éric F. Lambin, Holly K. Gibbs et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
What Is Regenerative Agriculture? A Review of Scholar and Practitioner Definitions Based on Processes and Outcomes

2020 242 citations Peter Newton et al. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Newton United States	33	1.3k	672	567	565	366	142	3.5k
Joe Morris United Kingdom	35	2.4k 1.9×	687 1.0×	507 0.9×	446 0.8×	406 1.1×	89	5.3k
Guy M. Robinson Australia	28	1.0k 0.8×	348 0.5×	337 0.6×	586 1.0×	216 0.6×	151	3.5k
Anil Graves United Kingdom	32	1.9k 1.5×	591 0.9×	335 0.6×	359 0.6×	193 0.5×	78	4.3k
Ian Hodge United Kingdom	30	1.2k 1.0×	876 1.3×	848 1.5×	954 1.7×	138 0.4×	118	3.9k
Gordon M. Hickey Canada	32	989 0.8×	425 0.6×	337 0.6×	620 1.1×	280 0.8×	152	3.2k
Clive Potter United Kingdom	33	982 0.8×	467 0.7×	376 0.7×	1.6k 2.9×	223 0.6×	83	3.8k
David C. Little United Kingdom	43	2.3k 1.9×	1.9k 2.9×	355 0.6×	476 0.8×	378 1.0×	140	9.0k
Allan Curtis Australia	34	1.9k 1.5×	707 1.1×	727 1.3×	1.4k 2.4×	209 0.6×	170	4.9k
Janaki R.R. Alavalapati United States	32	1.5k 1.2×	278 0.4×	877 1.5×	303 0.5×	415 1.1×	106	3.2k
Mario Giampietro Spain	43	818 0.7×	722 1.1×	641 1.1×	741 1.3×	493 1.3×	189	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Newton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Newton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Newton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Newton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Newton 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 Peter Newton. Peter Newton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Newton, Peter, et al.. (2025). Food systems narratives in Colombia: embracing diverse perspectives can enable hybrid innovation pathways that address food system challenges. Agriculture and Human Values. 42(3). 1457–1476.

Massaro, Emanuele, Peter Newton, Grégoire Dubois, et al.. (2025). A 45-year global analysis of the spatial human forest nexus. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).

Newton, Peter, et al.. (2025). The impact of land tenure on deforestation and reforestation in Quilombola territories from 1985 to 2020 in Brazil. World Development Sustainability. 6. 100221–100221.

Brooks, Cassandra M., et al.. (2025). Community-based natural resource management in coastal communities: The contribution of mangroves to household livelihoods in southern Thailand. Environmental Development. 57. 101340–101340.

Newton, Peter, et al.. (2025). Innovation systems for emerging food technologies: evidence from the development of cultured proteins in Thailand. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 9.

Burgess, Matthew G., Leaf Van Boven, Gernot Wagner, et al.. (2024). Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies. Nature Climate Change. 14(2). 134–142. 21 indexed citations

Newton, Peter, et al.. (2023). A monitoring, reporting and verification system for low carbon agriculture: A case study from Brazil. Environmental Science & Policy. 140. 286–296. 19 indexed citations

Piotto, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Property size and forest cover were key determinants of forest restoration in Southern Bahia in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Land Use Policy. 134. 106879–106879. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Sam, et al.. (2023). Formalizing tenure of Indigenous lands improved forest outcomes in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. PNAS Nexus. 2(1). pgac287–pgac287. 18 indexed citations

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Bailey, Karen M., et al.. (2021). Woodlot management and livelihoods in a tropical conservation landscape. AMBIO. 50(7). 1351–1363. 5 indexed citations

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Hajjar, Reem, Johan A. Oldekop, P. Cronkleton, et al.. (2020). A global analysis of the social and environmental outcomes of community forests. Nature Sustainability. 4(3). 216–224. 126 indexed citations

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Newton, Peter, et al.. (2020). The Number and Spatial Distribution of Forest-Proximate People Globally. One Earth. 3(3). 363–370. 91 indexed citations

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Lambin, Éric F., Holly K. Gibbs, Robert Heilmayr, et al.. (2018). The role of supply-chain initiatives in reducing deforestation. Nature Climate Change. 8(2). 109–116. 330 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gil, Juliana, Avery Cohn, John Duncan, Peter Newton, & Sonja Vermeulen. (2017). The resilience of integrated agricultural systems to climate change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 8(4). 60 indexed citations

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Glackin, Stephen & Peter Newton. (2016). Regenerating cities: Creating the opportunity for greyfield precinct infill development. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Hajjar, Reem, Johan A. Oldekop, P. Cronkleton, et al.. (2016). The data not collected on community forestry. Conservation Biology. 30(6). 1357–1362. 56 indexed citations

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Newton, Peter. (2009). Housing and the environment. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 6 indexed citations

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Newton, Peter, Sajal Bhatia, Stuart Cameron, et al.. (2002). Human settlements: Australia state of the environment report, 2001. Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine. 38(2). 263–8. 25 indexed citations

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Brotchie, John F., Peter Newton, Peter Dobkin Hall, & J. M. Dickey. (1999). East west perspectives on 21st century urban development : sustainable eastern and western cities in the new millennium. UCL Discovery (University College London). 37 indexed citations

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Newton, Peter. (1988). Microcomputer Applications for Urban Infrastructure Planning. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 15(3). 255–268. 1 indexed citations

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