Robert Walker

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 861 citations indexed

About

Robert Walker is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Walker has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 861 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Soil Science and 5 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Robert Walker's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (5 papers). Robert Walker is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (5 papers). Robert Walker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Austria. Robert Walker's co-authors include Marcellus M. Caldas, Peter Richards, Eugênio Arima, Luc Anselin, Emilio F. Morán, Stephen G. Perz, Philip M. Fearnside, Cynthia Simmons, Gabriel Cardoso Carrero and A. K. O. Homma and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecological Economics, World Development and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Robert Walker

15 papers receiving 790 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.

Statistical confirmation of indirect land use change in the Brazilian Amazon

2011 267 citations Eugênio Arima, Peter Richards et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Walker United States	9	628	291	225	169	115	15	861
Peter Richards United States	17	507 0.8×	281 1.0×	193 0.9×	161 1.0×	107 0.9×	27	978
Eugênio Arima United States	11	593 0.9×	193 0.7×	165 0.7×	118 0.7×	84 0.7×	14	754
Eustáquio J. Reis Brazil	12	575 0.9×	123 0.4×	383 1.7×	145 0.9×	117 1.0×	38	870
Joyotee Smith Indonesia	14	567 0.9×	181 0.6×	216 1.0×	128 0.8×	70 0.6×	29	882
Roberto Porro Brazil	14	541 0.9×	233 0.8×	122 0.5×	115 0.7×	112 1.0×	57	747
A. White Canada	13	808 1.3×	188 0.6×	225 1.0×	109 0.6×	110 1.0×	25	1.0k
Timothy S. Thomas United States	14	331 0.5×	166 0.6×	217 1.0×	199 1.2×	102 0.9×	55	876
L. Putzel Indonesia	17	545 0.9×	156 0.5×	119 0.5×	79 0.5×	155 1.3×	43	821
Paul Burgers Netherlands	5	628 1.0×	187 0.6×	160 0.7×	84 0.5×	132 1.1×	14	823
Jon C. Lovett United Kingdom	9	888 1.4×	177 0.6×	289 1.3×	96 0.6×	204 1.8×	14	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Walker

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15 of 15 papers shown

Simmons, Cynthia, et al.. (2023). Forest Transition and Fuzzy Environments in Neoliberal Mexico. Land. 12(4). 840–840. 1 indexed citations

Carrero, Gabriel Cardoso, Robert Walker, Cynthia Simmons, & Philip M. Fearnside. (2022). Land grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon: Stealing public land with government approval. Land Use Policy. 120. 106133–106133. 29 indexed citations

Lasco, Rodel D., et al.. (2021). Fragmentation Trajectories as a Review of Existing and Proposed Single-valued Fragmentation Indices. Journal of Environmental Science and Management. 24(2). 30–30. 1 indexed citations

Walker, Robert. (2017). Ocekadi: hidrelétricas, conflitos socioambientais e resistência na Bacia do Tapajós ed. by Daniela Fernandes Alarcon, Brent Millikan, Mauricio Torres. Journal of Latin American geography. 16(1). 205–207. 1 indexed citations

Richards, Peter, Robert Walker, & Eugênio Arima. (2014). Spatially complex land change: The Indirect effect of Brazil's agricultural sector on land use in Amazonia. Global Environmental Change. 29. 1–9. 116 indexed citations

Arima, Eugênio, Peter Richards, Robert Walker, & Marcellus M. Caldas. (2011). Statistical confirmation of indirect land use change in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters. 6(2). 24010–24010. 267 indexed citations breakdown →

Perz, Stephen G., Robert Walker, & Marcellus M. Caldas. (2006). Beyond Population and Environment: Household Life Cycle Demography and Land Use Allocation among Small Farm Colonists in the Amazon. Human Ecology. 24(6). 8 indexed citations

Perz, Stephen G., Robert Walker, & Marcellus M. Caldas. (2006). Beyond Population and Environment: Household Demographic Life Cycles and Land Use Allocation Among Small Farms in the Amazon. Human Ecology. 34(6). 829–849. 45 indexed citations

Walker, Robert, et al.. (2002). Land Use and Land Cover Change in Forest Frontiers: The Role of Household Life Cycles. International Regional Science Review. 25(2). 169–199. 93 indexed citations

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Walker, Robert, Emilio F. Morán, & Luc Anselin. (2001). Deforestation and Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: External Capital and Household Processes. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Walker, Robert, Emilio F. Morán, & Luc Anselin. (2000). Deforestation and Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: External Capital and Household Processes. World Development. 28(4). 683–699. 224 indexed citations

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Homma, A. K. O., et al.. (1996). Razões de risco e rentabilidade na destruição de recursos florestais: o caso de castanhais em lotes de colonos no Sul do Pará.. Americanae (AECID Library). 27(3). 515–535. 6 indexed citations

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Walker, Robert. (1996). Land Use Dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon. Ecological Economics. 18(1). 1–2. 9 indexed citations

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Walker, Robert. (1987). Regional development and renewable resource exploitation. Ecological Modelling. 37(3-4). 303–316. 1 indexed citations

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Walker, Robert. (1987). Land Use Transition and Deforestation in Developing Countries. Geographical Analysis. 19(1). 18–30. 59 indexed citations

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