Robert W. Gray

1.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Robert W. Gray is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert W. Gray has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Robert W. Gray's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (22 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (8 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (4 papers). Robert W. Gray is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (22 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (8 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (4 papers). Robert W. Gray collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Robert W. Gray's co-authors include Lori D. Daniels, Robert E. Keane, Francisco Seijo, Scott L. Stephens, Neil Burrows, Kevin Tolhurst, Lifu Shu, Alexander Buyantuyev, Shirong Liu and Jan W. van Wagtendonk and has published in prestigious journals such as Optics Express, Ecological Applications and Physics Letters A.

In The Last Decade

Robert W. Gray

40 papers receiving 970 citations

Hit Papers

Adapting western North American forests to climate change... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2023 50 100 150 200
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. Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions
    2021 209 citations Susan J. Prichard, Paul F. Hessburg et al. Ecological Applications profile →
  2. Abrupt, climate-induced increase in wildfires in British Columbia since the mid-2000s
    2023 75 citations Mathieu Bourbonnais, Lori D. Daniels et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert W. Gray United States 14 704 298 192 120 92 43 1.0k
Jean‐Baptiste Filippi France 21 615 0.9× 91 0.3× 23 0.1× 130 1.1× 236 2.6× 62 1.1k
Marc Padilla United States 17 1.6k 2.3× 1.0k 3.4× 68 0.4× 175 1.5× 240 2.6× 24 2.0k
Bruce Wilson United States 18 324 0.5× 380 1.3× 357 1.9× 70 0.6× 57 0.6× 69 973
Nan Wang China 19 558 0.8× 164 0.6× 16 0.1× 78 0.7× 180 2.0× 87 1.3k
A. Amengual Spain 22 650 0.9× 99 0.3× 55 0.3× 21 0.2× 401 4.4× 65 1.3k
Stefania Di Tommaso France 17 340 0.5× 510 1.7× 35 0.2× 22 0.2× 138 1.5× 33 1.1k
Tingting Shi China 13 701 1.0× 433 1.5× 24 0.1× 82 0.7× 263 2.9× 67 1.2k
Chandra Prakash Singh India 18 284 0.4× 302 1.0× 232 1.2× 74 0.6× 178 1.9× 91 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert W. Gray

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert W. Gray

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert W. Gray

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hessburg, Paul F., Werner A. Kurz, Susan J. Prichard, et al.. (2025). The western North American forestland carbon sink: will our climate commitments go up in smoke?. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 23(8).
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Daniels, Lori D., Kelsey Copes‐Gerbitz, Mike Flannigan, et al.. (2024). The 2023 wildfires in British Columbia, Canada: impacts, drivers, and transformations to coexist with wildfire. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 55. 1–18. 7 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Kira M., Kelsey Copes‐Gerbitz, Mathieu Bourbonnais, et al.. (2024). Boundary spanners catalyze cultural and prescribed fire in western Canada. FACETS. 9. 1–11. 3 indexed citations
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Prichard, Susan J., R. Brion Salter, Paul F. Hessburg, Nicholas A. Povak, & Robert W. Gray. (2023). The REBURN model: simulating system-level forest succession and wildfire dynamics. Fire Ecology. 19(1). 9 indexed citations
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Povak, Nicholas A., Paul F. Hessburg, R. Brion Salter, Robert W. Gray, & Susan J. Prichard. (2023). System-level feedbacks of active fire regimes in large landscapes. Fire Ecology. 19(1). 16 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Kira M., Amy Cardinal Christianson, Robert W. Gray, & Lori D. Daniels. (2022). Western Canada’s new wildfire reality needs a new approach to fire management. Environmental Research Letters. 17(6). 61001–61001. 27 indexed citations
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Prichard, Susan J., Paul F. Hessburg, R. Keala Hagmann, et al.. (2021). Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions. Ecological Applications. 31(8). e02433–e02433. 209 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stephens, Scott L., Neil Burrows, Alexander Buyantuyev, et al.. (2014). Temperate and boreal forest mega‐fires: characteristics and challenges. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(2). 115–122. 279 indexed citations
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Gray, Robert W., et al.. (2012). An analytic expression for the field dependence of Zernike polynomials in rotationally symmetric optical systems. Optics Express. 20(15). 16436–16436. 47 indexed citations
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Daniels, Lori D., et al.. (2011). Direct and indirect impacts of climate change on forests: three case studies from British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology. 33(2). 108–116. 36 indexed citations
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Gray, Robert W., et al.. (2008). The maintenance of key biodiversity attributes through ecosystem restoration operations. 189. 49–56. 1 indexed citations
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Gray, Robert W.. (1995). Exact Transformation Equations for Fuller's World Map. Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 32(3). 17–25. 17 indexed citations
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Gray, Robert W., et al.. (1992). The q-analogue quantized radiation field and its uncertainty relations. Physics Letters A. 164(3-4). 237–242. 36 indexed citations
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Gray, Robert W., et al.. (1982). The Crystal structure of 2‐Diisopropylamino‐3,7‐dehydrotropone. Helvetica Chimica Acta. 65(3). 1045–1049. 1 indexed citations
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Gray, Robert W., et al.. (1977). Die Konstitution des Loroglossins. 163. Mitt. über organische Naturstoffe. Helvetica Chimica Acta. 60(4). 1304–1311. 9 indexed citations
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Gray, Robert W., et al.. (1976). Contribution to the Problem of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions at Small‐Ring Carbon Atoms Occurring with Retention of Configuration. Helvetica Chimica Acta. 59(5). 1547–1552. 22 indexed citations
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Gray, Robert W., et al.. (1976). Über die Konstitution von Loroglossin. Vorläufige Mitteilung. Helvetica Chimica Acta. 59(2). 645–649. 9 indexed citations
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Sataloff, Joseph, et al.. (1966). Incidence of Hearing Loss Among Job Applicants. Archives of Environmental Health An International Journal. 12(2). 235–236. 1 indexed citations

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