Rob Skakun

554 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 280 citations indexed

About

Rob Skakun is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Skakun has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 280 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rob Skakun's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (11 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (5 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers). Rob Skakun is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (11 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (5 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers). Rob Skakun collaborates with scholars based in Canada and Ireland. Rob Skakun's co-authors include John M. Little, Ellen Whitman, Marc‐André Parisien, Ronald J. Hall, Juha M. Metsaranta, Guillermo Castilla, André Beaudoin, Robert Fraser, Robert J. Landry and Piyush Jain and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Remote Sensing and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Rob Skakun

12 papers receiving 275 citations

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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.

Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season in Canada

2024 89 citations Piyush Jain, Quinn E. Barber 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
Rob Skakun Canada	8	222	108	67	56	36	12	280
Magdalini Pleniou Greece	9	303 1.4×	140 1.3×	48 0.7×	56 1.0×	56 1.6×	16	344
Àngel Cunill Camprubí Spain	6	218 1.0×	56 0.5×	50 0.7×	34 0.6×	39 1.1×	11	240
Peter Englefield Canada	8	425 1.9×	178 1.6×	103 1.5×	97 1.7×	54 1.5×	10	473
Casey Teske United States	9	340 1.5×	135 1.3×	48 0.7×	47 0.8×	60 1.7×	13	361
Raphaël D. Chavardès Canada	12	325 1.5×	104 1.0×	156 2.3×	32 0.6×	49 1.4×	24	378
Roberto Boca United States	5	191 0.9×	69 0.6×	27 0.4×	33 0.6×	51 1.4×	9	204
Joanne Hall United States	12	429 1.9×	189 1.8×	135 2.0×	67 1.2×	40 1.1×	23	488
Teresa J. Calado Portugal	7	429 1.9×	85 0.8×	103 1.5×	59 1.1×	97 2.7×	9	460
Qichao Yao China	9	255 1.1×	61 0.6×	102 1.5×	18 0.3×	45 1.3×	22	311
Hélène Fargeon France	6	355 1.6×	75 0.7×	59 0.9×	36 0.6×	79 2.2×	8	418

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rob Skakun

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

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Hethcoat, Matthew G., et al.. (2024). Unrecorded Tundra Fires in Canada, 1986–2022. Remote Sensing. 16(2). 230–230. 3 indexed citations

2.

Jain, Piyush, Quinn E. Barber, Stephen Taylor, et al.. (2024). Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season in Canada. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6764–6764. 89 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Skakun, Rob, Guillermo Castilla, & Piyush Jain. (2024). Mapping wildfires in Canada with Landsat MSS to extend the National Burned Area Composite (NBAC) time series back to 1972. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 33(12). 2 indexed citations

4.

Skakun, Rob, et al.. (2022). Extending the National Burned Area Composite Time Series of Wildfires in Canada. Remote Sensing. 14(13). 3050–3050. 26 indexed citations

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Beaudoin, André, Ronald J. Hall, Guillermo Castilla, et al.. (2022). Improved k-NN Mapping of Forest Attributes in Northern Canada Using Spaceborne L-Band SAR, Multispectral and LiDAR Data. Remote Sensing. 14(5). 1181–1181. 12 indexed citations

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Castilla, Guillermo, Ronald J. Hall, Rob Skakun, et al.. (2022). The Multisource Vegetation Inventory (MVI): A Satellite-Based Forest Inventory for the Northwest Territories Taiga Plains. Remote Sensing. 14(5). 1108–1108. 12 indexed citations

7.

Skakun, Rob, Ellen Whitman, John M. Little, & Marc‐André Parisien. (2021). Area burned adjustments to historical wildland fires in Canada. Environmental Research Letters. 16(6). 64014–64014. 26 indexed citations

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Hall, Ronald J., Rob Skakun, Juha M. Metsaranta, et al.. (2020). Generating annual estimates of forest fire disturbance in Canada: the National Burned Area Composite. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 29(10). 878–891. 60 indexed citations

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Guindon, Luc, Sylvie Gauthier, Marc‐André Parisien, et al.. (2020). Trends in wildfire burn severity across Canada, 1985 to 2015. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 51(9). 1230–1244. 36 indexed citations

10.

Chen, Hao, et al.. (2019). Mapping Forest Height from TanDEM-X Interferometric Coherence Data in Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 45(3-4). 290–307. 7 indexed citations

11.

Castilla, Guillermo, et al.. (2016). Four National Maps of Broad Forest Type Provide Inconsistent Answers to the Question of What Burns in Canada. Remote Sensing. 8(7). 539–539. 3 indexed citations

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Arsenault, E., Ronald J. Hall, Rob Skakun, & Michael Michaelian. (2006). CHARACTERIZING ASPEN DIEBACK SEVERITY USING MULTIDATE LANDSAT DATA IN WESTERN CANADIAN FORESTS. 4 indexed citations

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