Rafael S. Oliveira

16.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
202 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Rafael S. Oliveira is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael S. Oliveira has authored 202 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 86 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 57 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Rafael S. Oliveira's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (86 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (60 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (44 papers). Rafael S. Oliveira is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (86 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (60 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (44 papers). Rafael S. Oliveira collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Australia and United States. Rafael S. Oliveira's co-authors include Cleiton B. Eller, Hans Lambers, Todd E. Dawson, Stephen S. O. Burgess, Paulo Bittencourt, Marina Hirota, Fernanda Barros, Daniel C. Nepstad, Lucy Rowland and Patrick E. Hayes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rafael S. Oliveira

187 papers receiving 8.2k 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 Drought of Amazonia in 2005

2008 545 citations Rafael S. Oliveira et al. profile →
Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation

2015 493 citations Lucy Rowland, Antônio C. L. da Costa et al. profile →
Linking plant hydraulics and the fast–slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems

2021 189 citations Rafael S. Oliveira, Fernanda Barros et al. New Phytologist profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rafael S. Oliveira Brazil	48	5.0k	2.7k	2.7k	1.9k	1.7k	202	8.4k
Rosie A. Fisher United States	39	6.5k 1.3×	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	2.4k 1.3×	1.8k 1.0×	96	8.1k
George W. Koch United States	44	6.2k 1.2×	3.3k 1.2×	2.6k 1.0×	2.7k 1.4×	2.5k 1.5×	123	9.9k
Kiona Ogle United States	40	4.7k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	2.4k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	115	7.0k
Michael E. Loik United States	36	3.5k 0.7×	2.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	85	6.2k
Adam G. West South Africa	31	4.8k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	2.7k 1.5×	2.1k 1.2×	68	7.5k
Claus Beier Denmark	47	4.0k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	2.6k 1.5×	131	7.9k
Stanley D. Smith United States	49	5.2k 1.0×	2.6k 0.9×	3.3k 1.2×	1.9k 1.0×	2.8k 1.7×	109	9.1k
Augusto C. Franco Brazil	52	4.6k 0.9×	4.3k 1.6×	3.4k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.1×	170	8.9k
B. E. Ewers United States	46	6.3k 1.2×	2.3k 0.8×	2.6k 1.0×	3.2k 1.7×	1.6k 0.9×	123	8.2k
Jianyang Xia China	51	4.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	3.3k 2.0×	167	8.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Rafael S. Oliveira

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rafael S. Oliveira

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pilon, Natashi A. L., et al.. (2025). Legally protected, practically overlooked: The neglect of diffuse seeps in the conservation of Cerrado non-floodplain wetlands. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 23(3). 151–156. 1 indexed citations

Silva, Mateus, et al.. (2025). COSST: A tool to facilitate seed provenancing for climate‐smart ecosystem restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(3). 677–688.

Restrepo‐Coupé, Natalia, Kleber Silva Campos, Luciana F. Alves, et al.. (2024). Contrasting carbon cycle responses to dry (2015 El Niño) and wet (2008 La Niña) extreme events at an Amazon tropical forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 353. 110037–110037. 8 indexed citations

Silva, Mateus, Lucy Rowland, Rafael S. Oliveira, R. Toby Pennington, & Peter W. Moonlight. (2024). Elevation modulates the impacts of climate change on the Brazilian Cerrado flora. Diversity and Distributions. 30(5). 6 indexed citations

Penha, Deliane, Mauro Brum, Luciana F. Alves, et al.. (2024). Preserving isohydricity: vertical environmental variability explains Amazon forest water-use strategies. Tree Physiology. 44(8). 2 indexed citations

Emilio, Thaíse, et al.. (2023). Anatomical traits related to leaf and branch hydraulic functioning on Amazonian savanna plants. AoB Plants. 15(3). plad018–plad018. 8 indexed citations

Borges, Welitom Rodrigues, et al.. (2023). Groundwater Level Variation Analysis Using Hydrogeophysical Methods in an Area of Campo Sujo in Cerrado, Chapada dos Veadeiros Region, Goiás. 41(1).

Binks, Oliver, Lucas A. Cernusak, Michael J. Liddell, et al.. (2023). Vapour pressure deficit modulates hydraulic function and structure of tropical rainforests under nonlimiting soil water supply. New Phytologist. 240(4). 1405–1420. 12 indexed citations

Steele‐Dunne, Susan, et al.. (2022). The influence of vegetation water dynamics on the ASCAT backscatter–incidence angle relationship in the Amazon. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(11). 2997–3019. 10 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Carlos Roberto, Gustavo B. Paterno, Demétrio Luís Guadagnin, et al.. (2021). Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. 19(2). 121–130. 19 indexed citations

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Coopman, Rafael E., Hoa Thi Nguyen, Maurizio Mencuccini, et al.. (2021). Harvesting water from unsaturated atmospheres: deliquescence of salt secreted onto leaf surfaces drives reverse sap flow in a dominant arid climate mangrove, Avicennia marina. New Phytologist. 231(4). 1401–1414. 35 indexed citations

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Amazonas, Nino Tavares, David I. Forrester, Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida, et al.. (2021). Light- and nutrient-related relationships in mixed plantations of Eucalyptus and a high diversity of native tree species. New Forests. 52(5). 807–828. 5 indexed citations

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Steele‐Dunne, Susan, et al.. (2021). The influence of vegetation water dynamics on the ASCAT backscatter-incidence angle relationship in the Amazon. 1 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Rafael S., et al.. (2020). The Neglected Reverse Water Pathway: Atmosphere–Plant–Soil Continuum. Trends in Plant Science. 25(11). 1073–1075. 16 indexed citations

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Sakschewski, Boris, Werner von Bloh, Markus Drüke, et al.. (2020). Variable tree rooting strategies improve tropical productivity and evapotranspiration in a dynamic global vegetation model. 9 indexed citations

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Flores, Bernardo M., Michele de Sá Dechoum, Isabel Belloni Schmidt, et al.. (2020). Tropical riparian forests in danger from large savanna wildfires. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(2). 419–430. 33 indexed citations

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Rowland, Lucy, Antônio C. L. da Costa, Rafael S. Oliveira, et al.. (2020). The response of carbon assimilation and storage to long‐term drought in tropical trees is dependent on light availability. Functional Ecology. 35(1). 43–53. 21 indexed citations

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Mori, Gustavo Maruyama, Dong‐Ha Oh, Maheshi Dassanayake, et al.. (2019). Molecular responses to freshwater limitation in the mangrove tree Avicennia germinans (Acanthaceae). Molecular Ecology. 29(2). 344–362. 9 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Rafael S., Flávia R. C. Costa, Paulo Bittencourt, et al.. (2018). Embolism resistance drives the distribution of Amazonian rainforest tree species along hydro‐topographic gradients. New Phytologist. 221(3). 1457–1465. 124 indexed citations

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Zemunik, Graham, Hans Lambers, Benjamin L. Turner, Étienne Laliberté, & Rafael S. Oliveira. (2017). High abundance of non-mycorrhizal plant species in severely phosphorus-impoverished Brazilian campos rupestres. Plant and Soil. 424(1-2). 255–271. 29 indexed citations

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