Peter W. Ellis

8.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
40 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Peter W. Ellis is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter W. Ellis has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 7 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Peter W. Ellis's work include Forest Management and Policy (21 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (18 papers) and Forest ecology and management (9 papers). Peter W. Ellis is often cited by papers focused on Forest Management and Policy (21 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (18 papers) and Forest ecology and management (9 papers). Peter W. Ellis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Australia. Peter W. Ellis's co-authors include Bronson W. Griscom, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Jonathan Sanderman, Joseph Fargione, Francis E. Putz, Stephen A. Wood, Déborah Bossio, Robert J. Zomer, Pete Smith and I.M. Emmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Peter W. Ellis

39 papers receiving 1.7k 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 soil carbon in natural climate solutions

2020 632 citations Déborah Bossio, Susan C. Cook‐Patton et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
The global potential for increased storage of carbon on land

2022 143 citations Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Alessandro Baccini et al. profile →
The principles of natural climate solutions

2024 50 citations Peter W. Ellis, Stephen A. Wood et al. Nature Communications profile →
Accounting for albedo change to identify climate-positive tree cover restoration

2024 49 citations Natalia Hasler, C. A. Williams et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter W. Ellis United States	20	916	522	457	283	276	40	1.7k
Guodong Han China	13	801 0.9×	456 0.9×	331 0.7×	172 0.6×	156 0.6×	33	1.4k
S. Spawn United States	16	876 1.0×	607 1.2×	176 0.4×	157 0.6×	250 0.9×	30	1.7k
Jessica Bellarby United Kingdom	15	617 0.7×	671 1.3×	580 1.3×	148 0.5×	278 1.0×	19	1.9k
Tyler J. Lark United States	17	880 1.0×	712 1.4×	259 0.6×	198 0.7×	342 1.2×	39	1.9k
Marcelo Rezende Italy	5	1.0k 1.1×	408 0.8×	177 0.4×	394 1.4×	205 0.7×	6	1.6k
Ernesto F. Viglizzo Argentina	21	847 0.9×	457 0.9×	397 0.9×	216 0.8×	167 0.6×	49	1.8k
Silvia Secchi United States	24	685 0.7×	369 0.7×	347 0.8×	147 0.5×	187 0.7×	69	2.0k
Martin Thurner Germany	13	1.0k 1.1×	693 1.3×	442 1.0×	406 1.4×	347 1.3×	24	1.9k
Anne-Gäelle Ausseil New Zealand	23	689 0.8×	352 0.7×	278 0.6×	176 0.6×	146 0.5×	59	1.5k
Yanzheng Yang China	21	897 1.0×	571 1.1×	294 0.6×	362 1.3×	188 0.7×	89	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter W. Ellis

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Daigneault, Adam, et al.. (2025). A globally relevant data-driven assessment of carbon leakage from forestry. Environmental Research Letters. 20(11). 114022–114022. 1 indexed citations

Streck, Charlotte, Sara Minoli, Stephanie Roe, et al.. (2025). Considering durability in carbon dioxide removal strategies for climate change mitigation. Climate Policy. 26(3). 493–501.

Fesenmyer, Kurt A., Erin E. Poor, Joseph W. Veldman, et al.. (2025). Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4572–4572. 4 indexed citations

Miteva, Daniela A., et al.. (2025). Community sawmills can save forests: Forest regrowth and avoided deforestation due to vertical integration of wood production in Mexican community forests. Ecological Economics. 236. 108658–108658. 1 indexed citations

Slagter, Bart, Kurt A. Fesenmyer, Matthew G. Hethcoat, et al.. (2024). Monitoring road development in Congo Basin forests with multi-sensor satellite imagery and deep learning. Remote Sensing of Environment. 315. 114380–114380. 6 indexed citations

Ellis, Peter W., et al.. (2024). Potential Reductions in Carbon Emissions from Indonesian Forest Concessions Through Use of Reduced-Impact Logging Practices. Forests. 15(12). 2198–2198. 2 indexed citations

Ellis, Peter W., Stephen A. Wood, Joseph Fargione, et al.. (2024). The principles of natural climate solutions. Nature Communications. 15(1). 547–547. 50 indexed citations breakdown →

Hasler, Natalia, C. A. Williams, Peter W. Ellis, et al.. (2024). Accounting for albedo change to identify climate-positive tree cover restoration. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2275–2275. 49 indexed citations breakdown →

Oakleaf, James R., Christina M. Kennedy, Nicholas H. Wolff, et al.. (2024). Mapping global land conversion pressure to support conservation planning. Scientific Data. 11(1). 830–830. 3 indexed citations

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Wood, Stephen A., Katharine Hayhoe, Mark A. Bradford, et al.. (2023). Mitigating near-term climate change. Environmental Research Letters. 18(10). 101002–101002. 3 indexed citations

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Putz, Francis E., Claudia Romero, Plínio Sist, et al.. (2022). Sustained timber yield claims, considerations, and tradeoffs for selectively logged forests. PNAS Nexus. 1(3). pgac102–pgac102. 15 indexed citations

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Bossio, Déborah, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Peter W. Ellis, et al.. (2020). The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions. Nature Sustainability. 3(5). 391–398. 632 indexed citations breakdown →

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Miteva, Daniela A., Peter W. Ellis, Edward A. Ellis, & Bronson W. Griscom. (2019). The role of property rights in shaping the effectiveness of protected areas and resisting forest loss in the Yucatan Peninsula. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0215820–e0215820. 25 indexed citations

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Putz, Francis E., Tracy Baker, Bronson W. Griscom, et al.. (2019). Intact Forest in Selective Logging Landscapes in the Tropics. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 2. 26 indexed citations

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Buřivalová, Zuzana, Purnomo Purnomo, Timothy Boucher, et al.. (2019). Using soundscapes to investigate homogenization of tropical forest diversity in selectively logged forests. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(11). 2493–2504. 35 indexed citations

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Ellis, Edward A., et al.. (2019). Reduced-impact logging practices reduce forest disturbance and carbon emissions in community managed forests on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management. 437. 396–410. 38 indexed citations

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Hagen, Stephen, Franklin B. Sullivan, T. Pearson, et al.. (2018). Automated method for measuring the extent of selective logging damage with airborne LiDAR data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 139. 228–240. 19 indexed citations

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Hagen, Stephen, Franklin B. Sullivan, T. Pearson, et al.. (2017). CMS: LiDAR Data for Forested Sites on Borneo Island, Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2014. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 2 indexed citations

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Griscom, Bronson W., et al.. (2016). Synthesizing Global and Local Datasets to Estimate Jurisdictional Forest Carbon Fluxes in Berau, Indonesia. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0146357–e0146357. 8 indexed citations

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Griscom, Bronson W., Peter W. Ellis, & Francis E. Putz. (2013). Carbon emissions performance of commercial logging in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Global Change Biology. 20(3). 923–937. 72 indexed citations

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