Sandra Baptista

1.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
9 papers, 998 citations indexed

About

Sandra Baptista is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandra Baptista has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 998 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 2 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 1 paper in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Sandra Baptista's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers), Rural Development and Agriculture (2 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (2 papers). Sandra Baptista is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers), Rural Development and Agriculture (2 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (2 papers). Sandra Baptista collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Argentina. Sandra Baptista's co-authors include Thomas K. Rudel, Kytt MacManus, Susana B. Adamo, Linda Pistolesi, John R. Squires, Laura Schneider, Ruth DeFries, María Uriarte, Susanna B. Hecht and Deborah Lawrence and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology and Society and Land Use Policy.

In The Last Decade

Sandra Baptista

9 papers receiving 950 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. Taking Advantage of the Improved Availability of Census Data: A First Look at the Gridded Population of the World, Version 4
    2015 353 citations Kytt MacManus, Susana B. Adamo et al. Papers in Applied Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sandra Baptista United States 6 636 181 124 124 93 9 998
Yelena Ogneva‐Himmelberger United States 17 545 0.9× 179 1.0× 76 0.6× 136 1.1× 115 1.2× 32 1.1k
Ian Schelly United States 6 617 1.0× 243 1.3× 194 1.6× 174 1.4× 122 1.3× 8 1.1k
Kathleen Hermans Germany 16 766 1.2× 203 1.1× 102 0.8× 130 1.0× 75 0.8× 26 1.3k
M. van Eupen Netherlands 16 608 1.0× 164 0.9× 141 1.1× 91 0.7× 188 2.0× 44 1.1k
Jordan Graesser United States 15 738 1.2× 376 2.1× 84 0.7× 93 0.8× 158 1.7× 24 1.2k
Ines Grigorescu Romania 18 426 0.7× 127 0.7× 56 0.5× 104 0.8× 109 1.2× 71 869
Hannes Geist Germany 5 770 1.2× 195 1.1× 134 1.1× 164 1.3× 64 0.7× 9 1.1k
Monica Dumitrașcu Romania 21 619 1.0× 299 1.7× 74 0.6× 112 0.9× 178 1.9× 89 1.3k
Julia Stürck Netherlands 10 940 1.5× 221 1.2× 82 0.7× 133 1.1× 58 0.6× 11 1.2k
Eric Keys United States 14 568 0.9× 155 0.9× 145 1.2× 86 0.7× 53 0.6× 21 828

Countries citing papers authored by Sandra Baptista

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sandra Baptista

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sandra Baptista. 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 Sandra Baptista. The network helps show where Sandra Baptista may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sandra Baptista

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

All Works

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MacManus, Kytt, et al.. (2015). Taking Advantage of the Improved Availability of Census Data: A First Look at the Gridded Population of the World, Version 4. Papers in Applied Geography. 1(3). 226–234. 353 indexed citations breakdown →
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Winowiecki, Leigh, Sean Smukler, Kenneth E. Shirley, et al.. (2011). Tools for enhancing interdisciplinary communication. Sustainability Science Practice and Policy. 7(1). 74–80. 42 indexed citations
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Baptista, Sandra. (2009). Metropolitan land-change science: A framework for research on tropical and subtropical forest recovery in city-regions. Land Use Policy. 27(2). 139–147. 4 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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Baptista, Sandra. (2008). Forest recovery and just sustainability in the Florianópolis city-region. Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University). 2 indexed citations
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Baptista, Sandra & Thomas K. Rudel. (2006). A re-emerging Atlantic forest? Urbanization, industrialization and the forest transition in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. Environmental Conservation. 33(3). 195–202. 93 indexed citations
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Rudel, Thomas K., Kevin Flesher, Diane C. Bates, Sandra Baptista, & Peter Holmgren. (2000). Tropical deforestation literature: geographical and historical patterns.. 51(203). 11–18. 17 indexed citations

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