Ricardo Grau

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Ricardo Grau is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ricardo Grau has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Atmospheric Science and 3 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ricardo Grau's work include Tree-ring climate responses (4 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers). Ricardo Grau is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (4 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers). Ricardo Grau collaborates with scholars based in Argentina, United States and Switzerland. Ricardo Grau's co-authors include Tobias Kuemmerle, Leandro Macchi, Éric F. Lambin, Thomas K. Rudel, Patrick Meyfroidt, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Sandra Baptista, Ruth DeFries, Amy Ickowitz and Laura Schneider and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Global Environmental Change and Ecology and Society.

In The Last Decade

Ricardo Grau

13 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated ar... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2015 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005
    2009 443 citations Thomas K. Rudel, Laura Schneider et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective
    2015 415 citations Peter H. Verburg, N. D. Crossman et al. Anthropocene profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ricardo Grau Argentina 11 1.0k 370 296 233 184 13 1.5k
Peter Bezák Slovakia 13 938 0.9× 265 0.7× 290 1.0× 237 1.0× 100 0.5× 17 1.5k
Dietrich Schmidt‐Vogt China 21 761 0.7× 346 0.9× 239 0.8× 197 0.8× 288 1.6× 54 1.6k
Marcos Antônio Pedlowski Brazil 20 1.1k 1.0× 395 1.1× 183 0.6× 148 0.6× 147 0.8× 46 1.5k
José Volante Argentina 18 840 0.8× 303 0.8× 317 1.1× 107 0.5× 152 0.8× 40 1.3k
Koen P. Overmars Netherlands 18 1.4k 1.4× 422 1.1× 274 0.9× 259 1.1× 162 0.9× 24 2.0k
Mark Brady Sweden 21 514 0.5× 225 0.6× 310 1.0× 183 0.8× 155 0.8× 51 1.3k
Michelle Venter Australia 9 1.0k 1.0× 517 1.4× 190 0.6× 227 1.0× 120 0.7× 11 1.7k
Edward A. Ellis Mexico 19 1.3k 1.2× 389 1.1× 238 0.8× 193 0.8× 84 0.5× 43 1.7k
Trevor Birkenholtz United States 16 537 0.5× 212 0.6× 258 0.9× 147 0.6× 141 0.8× 30 1.6k
Emma H. van der Zanden Netherlands 19 1.3k 1.3× 448 1.2× 213 0.7× 355 1.5× 369 2.0× 23 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ricardo Grau

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ricardo Grau

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ricardo Grau. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ricardo Grau. The network helps show where Ricardo Grau may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ricardo Grau

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

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Adler, Carolina, Jörg Balsiger, Adrienne Grêt‐Regamey, et al.. (2020). Making Connections for Our Changing Mountains: Future Directions for the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI). Mountain Research and Development. 40(3). 7 indexed citations
2.
Wilson, Sarah Jane, John Schelhas, Ricardo Grau, A. Sofía Nanni, & Sean Sloan. (2017). Forest ecosystem-service transitions: the ecological dimensions of the forest transition. Ecology and Society. 22(4). 62 indexed citations
3.
Gasparri, Ignácio, et al.. (2017). Air quality loss in urban centers of the Argentinean Dry Chaco: Wind and dust control as two scientifically neglected ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services. 24. 234–240. 12 indexed citations
4.
Marinaro, Sofía & Ricardo Grau. (2015). Comparison of animal biodiversity in three livestock systems of open environments of the semi-arid Chaco of Argentina. The Rangeland Journal. 37(5). 497–505. 12 indexed citations
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Verburg, Peter H., N. D. Crossman, Erle C. Ellis, et al.. (2015). Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective. Anthropocene. 12. 29–41. 415 indexed citations breakdown →
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Álvarez-Berríos, Nora L., Daniel Redo, T. Mitchell Aide, Matthew L. Clark, & Ricardo Grau. (2013). Land Change in the Greater Antilles between 2001 and 2010. Land. 2(2). 81–107. 30 indexed citations
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Grau, Ricardo, Tobias Kuemmerle, & Leandro Macchi. (2013). Beyond ‘land sparing versus land sharing’: environmental heterogeneity, globalization and the balance between agricultural production and nature conservation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 5(5). 477–483. 182 indexed citations
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Lambin, Éric F., Holly K. Gibbs, Laerte Guimarães Ferreira, et al.. (2013). Estimating the world's potentially available cropland using a bottom-up approach. Global Environmental Change. 23(5). 892–901. 263 indexed citations
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Carilla, Julieta & Ricardo Grau. (2011). Tendencias sucesionales de los bosques montanos subtropicales del noroeste argentino. Bosque (Valdivia). 32(2). 97–111. 10 indexed citations
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Bravo, Sandra, Carlos Kunst, Ricardo Grau, & Ezequiel Aráoz. (2010). Fire–rainfall relationships in Argentine Chaco savannas. Journal of Arid Environments. 74(10). 1319–1323. 53 indexed citations
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Rudel, Thomas K., Laura Schneider, María Uriarte, et al.. (2009). Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(49). 20675–20680. 443 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bravo, Sandra, Carlos Kunst, & Ricardo Grau. (2008). Suitability of the native woody species of the Chaco region, Argentina, for use in dendroecological studies of fire regimes. Dendrochronologia. 26(1). 43–52. 13 indexed citations
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Lupo, Liliana C., et al.. (2006). Climate and human impact during the past 2000 years as recorded in the Lagunas de Yala, Jujuy, northwestern Argentina. Quaternary International. 158(1). 30–43. 20 indexed citations

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