R. A. Houghton

74.2k total citations · 23 hit papers
197 papers, 29.8k citations indexed

About

R. A. Houghton is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, R. A. Houghton has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 29.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 38 papers in Atmospheric Science and 32 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in R. A. Houghton's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (97 papers), Forest Management and Policy (38 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (38 papers). R. A. Houghton is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (97 papers), Forest Management and Policy (38 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (38 papers). R. A. Houghton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. R. A. Houghton's co-authors include J. L. Hackler, Sandra Brown, S. J. Goetz, K. T. Lawrence, George M. Woodwell, Robert K. Dixon, J. Wiśniewski, A. M. Solomon, Alexander A. Nassikas and David L. Skole and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

R. A. Houghton

196 papers receiving 27.5k citations

Hit Papers

Carbon Pools and Flux of Global Forest Ecosystems 1983 2026 1997 2011 1994 2007 2012 2005 1999 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. Carbon Pools and Flux of Global Forest Ecosystems
    1994 2.6k citations R. A. Houghton et al. Science profile →
  2. Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO 2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks
    2007 1.5k citations Josep G. Canadell, Corinne Le Quéré et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Estimated carbon dioxide emissions from tropical deforestation improved by carbon-density maps
    2012 1.3k citations S. J. Goetz, Ralph Dubayah et al. profile →
  4. Aboveground Forest Biomass and the Global Carbon Balance
    2005 950 citations R. A. Houghton Global Change Biology profile →
  5. The U.S. Carbon Budget: Contributions from Land-Use Change
    1999 843 citations R. A. Houghton et al. Science profile →
  6. Revised estimates of the annual net flux of carbon to the atmosphere from changes in land use and land management 1850–2000
    2003 770 citations R. A. Houghton profile →
  7. Balancing the Global Carbon Budget
    2007 743 citations R. A. Houghton profile →
  8. FOREST CARBON SINKS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
    2002 679 citations Richard A. Birdsey, Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  9. Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes
    2021 675 citations Richard A. Birdsey, Sytze de Bruin et al. profile →
  10. Changes in the Carbon Content of Terrestrial Biota and Soils between 1860 and 1980: A Net Release of CO"2 to the Atmosphere
    1983 668 citations R. A. Houghton, Berrien Moore et al. profile →
  11. Revised estimates of the annual net flux of carbon to the atmosphere from changes in land use and land management 1850-2000
    2003 659 citations R. A. Houghton profile →
  12. The annual net flux of carbon to the atmosphere from changes in land use 1850–1990*
    1999 591 citations R. A. Houghton profile →
  13. Annual fluxes of carbon from deforestation and regrowth in the Brazilian Amazon
    2000 576 citations R. A. Houghton et al. profile →
  14. Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss
    2017 551 citations R. A. Houghton et al. Science profile →
  15. Satellite-observed photosynthetic trends across boreal North America associated with climate and fire disturbance
    2005 545 citations S. J. Goetz, Andrew G. Bunn et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  16. Importance of biomass in the global carbon cycle
    2009 530 citations R. A. Houghton, S. J. Goetz et al. profile →
  17. Distribution of aboveground live biomass in the Amazon basin
    2007 524 citations Sassan Saatchi, R. A. Houghton et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  18. Update on CO2 emissions
    2010 445 citations R. A. Houghton, Gregg Marland et al. profile →
  19. Global and regional fluxes of carbon from land use and land cover change 1850–2015
    2017 386 citations R. A. Houghton, Alexander A. Nassikas profile →
  20. National contributions to climate change due to historical emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide since 1850
    2023 271 citations Thomas Gasser, R. A. Houghton et al. profile →
  21. Forest expansion dominates China’s land carbon sink since 1980
    2022 223 citations Philippe Ciais, Shilong Piao et al. profile →
  22. The enduring world forest carbon sink
    2024 202 citations Yude Pan, Richard A. Birdsey et al. profile →
  23. The global potential for increased storage of carbon on land
    2022 143 citations R. A. Houghton et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
R. A. Houghton United States 83 19.6k 8.0k 7.5k 6.2k 4.9k 197 29.8k
Josep G. Canadell Australia 83 19.0k 1.0× 8.2k 1.0× 4.5k 0.6× 5.1k 0.8× 9.3k 1.9× 210 37.2k
Sandra Brown United States 65 14.8k 0.8× 6.5k 0.8× 13.3k 1.8× 6.0k 1.0× 1.5k 0.3× 133 25.2k
Yadvinder Malhi United Kingdom 98 20.8k 1.1× 9.9k 1.2× 12.0k 1.6× 3.5k 0.6× 5.6k 1.1× 428 33.8k
Gordon B. Bonan United States 85 27.6k 1.4× 9.7k 1.2× 5.6k 0.7× 5.8k 0.9× 14.1k 2.9× 177 41.0k
I. Colin Prentice Sweden 63 18.8k 1.0× 9.2k 1.2× 7.1k 0.9× 2.1k 0.3× 11.4k 2.3× 99 33.8k
Stephen W. Pacala United States 82 12.5k 0.6× 5.9k 0.7× 11.5k 1.5× 2.7k 0.4× 3.6k 0.7× 182 26.7k
Christopher J. Kucharik United States 54 12.0k 0.6× 6.7k 0.8× 3.3k 0.4× 3.4k 0.6× 2.3k 0.5× 157 21.8k
Jiquan Chen United States 80 15.5k 0.8× 8.6k 1.1× 6.7k 0.9× 3.5k 0.6× 4.2k 0.9× 500 26.3k
Michael T. Coe United States 58 12.9k 0.7× 6.1k 0.8× 3.9k 0.5× 1.9k 0.3× 2.7k 0.6× 110 21.0k
Rik Leemans Netherlands 55 10.6k 0.5× 7.1k 0.9× 6.2k 0.8× 1.6k 0.3× 2.8k 0.6× 206 23.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. A. Houghton

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nyawira, Sylvia S., Martin Herold, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, et al.. (2024). Pantropical CO2 emissions and removals for the AFOLU sector in the period 1990–2018. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 29(2). 4 indexed citations
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Gong, Weishu, Chengquan Huang, R. A. Houghton, et al.. (2022). Carbon fluxes from contemporary forest disturbances in North Carolina evaluated using a grid-based carbon accounting model and fine resolution remote sensing products. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100042–100042. 6 indexed citations
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Gasser, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Historical CO 2 emissions from land use and land cover change and their uncertainty. Biogeosciences. 17(15). 4075–4101. 143 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, Natasha MacBean, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2018). Gross and net land cover changes in the main plant functional types derived from the annual ESA CCI land cover maps (1992–2015). Earth system science data. 10(1). 219–234. 222 indexed citations
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Marle, Margreet van, Dave van Wees, R. A. Houghton, Alexander A. Nassikas, & Guido R. van der Werf. (2017). Increasing efficiency of CO 2 uptake by combined land-ocean sink. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Román-Cuesta, Rosa María, Martin Herold, Mariana C. Rufino, et al.. (2016). Multi-gas and multi-source comparisons of six land use emission datasets andAFOLU estimates in the Fifth Assessment Report, for the tropics for2000–2005. Biogeosciences. 13(20). 5799–5819. 9 indexed citations
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Houghton, R. A., Guido R. van der Werf, Ruth DeFries, et al.. (2012). Chapter G2 Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change. 48 indexed citations
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Pan, Yude, Richard A. Birdsey, Jingyun Fang, et al.. (2011). A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests. Science. 333(6045). 988–993. 8 indexed citations
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Searchinger, Timothy D., Ralph E. Heimlich, R. A. Houghton, et al.. (2008). Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change. Science. 319(5867). 1238–1240. 84 indexed citations
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Dubayah, Ralph, Kathleen M. Bergen, F. G. HALL, et al.. (2008). Global Vegetation Structure from NASA's DESDynI Mission: An Overview. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 8 indexed citations
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Ito, Akihiko, Joyce E. Penner, Michael J. Prather, et al.. (2008). Can we reconcile differences in estimates of carbon fluxes from land-use change and forestry for the 1990s?. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 8(12). 3291–3310. 21 indexed citations
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Canadell, Josep G., Corinne Le Quéré, Michael Raupach, et al.. (2007). Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO 2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(47). 18866–18870. 1490 indexed citations breakdown →
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Saatchi, Sassan, R. A. Houghton, Regina Célia dos Santos Alvalá, João Vitor Soares, & Yifan Yu. (2007). Distribution of aboveground live biomass in the Amazon basin. Global Change Biology. 13(4). 816–837. 524 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ciais, P., Shilong Piao, Nicolas Viovy, et al.. (2006). Top-down and bottom-up carbon budgets of North America, Europe and Asia. AGUFM. 2006. 1 indexed citations
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Hurtt, G. C., Steve Frolking, Matthew G. Fearon, et al.. (2006). The underpinnings of land‐use history: three centuries of global gridded land‐use transitions, wood‐harvest activity, and resulting secondary lands. Global Change Biology. 12(7). 1208–1229. 393 indexed citations
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Bradley, Bethany A., R. A. Houghton, John F. Mustard, & Steven P. Hamburg. (2006). Invasive grass reduces aboveground carbon stocks in shrublands of the Western US. Global Change Biology. 12(10). 1815–1822. 148 indexed citations
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Goetz, S. J., Andrew G. Bunn, Greg Fiske, & R. A. Houghton. (2005). Satellite-observed photosynthetic trends across boreal North America associated with climate and fire disturbance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(38). 13521–13525. 545 indexed citations breakdown →
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Houghton, R. A.. (2003). Why are estimates of the terrestrial carbon balance so different?. Global Change Biology. 9(4). 500–509. 322 indexed citations
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STONE, T. A., Peter Schlesinger, R. A. Houghton, & George M. Woodwell. (1994). Map of the vegetation of South America based on satellite imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 60(5). 541–551. 112 indexed citations
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Houghton, R. A.. (1990). The future role of tropical forests in affecting the carbon dioxide concentration of the atmosphere.. AMBIO. 19(4). 204–209. 75 indexed citations

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