Scott C. Stark

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Scott C. Stark is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott C. Stark has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 29 papers in Ecology and 23 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Scott C. Stark's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (22 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (16 papers). Scott C. Stark is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (22 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (16 papers). Scott C. Stark collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Australia. Scott C. Stark's co-authors include Ian Snape, Maren Friesen, Stephanie S. Porter, Eric von Wettberg, Esperanza Martı́nez-Romero, Joel L. Sachs, Juliana Schietti, Damian B. Gore, S. R. Saleska and Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Scott C. Stark

74 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott C. Stark United States	31	1.1k	1.0k	891	715	525	78	3.0k
Richard A. Hallett United States	27	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	909 1.0×	332 0.5×	737 1.4×	72	3.1k
Keith E. Schilling United States	43	1.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	469 0.5×	1.4k 2.0×	215 0.4×	214	6.6k
Jeroen Staelens Belgium	32	1.0k 0.9×	657 0.7×	639 0.7×	270 0.4×	680 1.3×	67	3.0k
Lauric Cécillon France	30	531 0.5×	944 0.9×	329 0.4×	468 0.7×	609 1.2×	59	3.6k
Sylvie A. Quideau Canada	35	947 0.8×	1.6k 1.6×	737 0.8×	327 0.5×	616 1.2×	134	3.9k
Michelle L. Haddix United States	29	752 0.7×	2.3k 2.3×	473 0.5×	455 0.6×	797 1.5×	47	5.7k
Beate Michalzik Germany	27	897 0.8×	1.8k 1.8×	454 0.5×	281 0.4×	552 1.1×	83	4.7k
Huifeng Hu China	34	1.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	424 0.6×	600 1.1×	97	4.2k
Haihua Shen China	35	1.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	908 1.0×	390 0.5×	774 1.5×	96	4.0k
Vanessa Bailey United States	32	814 0.7×	1.9k 1.9×	273 0.3×	528 0.7×	862 1.6×	97	5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott C. Stark

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Kramer, David, Bruce Nelson, Tyeen Taylor, et al.. (2025). Seasonal and intracanopy shifts in the fates of absorbed photons in central Amazonian forests: implications for leaf fluorescence and photosynthesis. New Phytologist. 248(1). 76–91. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Marielle N., Gabriela Zuquim, Hanna Tuomisto, et al.. (2025). Forest structure predicts plant and animal species diversity and composition changes in an Amazonian forest. Biodiversity and Conservation. 34(11). 3865–3888.

Brum, Mauro, Raimundo Cosme de Oliveira, Luciana F. Alves, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the integration of above- and below-ground tree carbon-hydraulic traits in Amazonian trees across hydrological niches. Tree Physiology. 45(7). 1 indexed citations

Stark, Scott C., et al.. (2025). Science-based communication and education needed to improve forest carbon science, policy, and management outcomes. Environmental Research Letters. 20(2). 24044–24044. 1 indexed citations

Stark, Scott C., Antônio Donato Nobre, Luz Adriana Cuartas, et al.. (2024). Amazon forest biogeography predicts resilience and vulnerability to drought. Nature. 631(8019). 111–117. 35 indexed citations

Brum, Mauro, Luciana F. Alves, Raimundo Cosme de Oliveira, et al.. (2023). Tree hydrological niche acclimation through ontogeny in a seasonal Amazon forest. Plant Ecology. 224(12). 1059–1073. 4 indexed citations

Costa, Flávia R. C., Juliana Schietti, Scott C. Stark, & Marielle N. Smith. (2022). The other side of tropical forest drought: do shallow water table regions of Amazonia act as large‐scale hydrological refugia from drought?. New Phytologist. 237(3). 714–733. 79 indexed citations

Nunes, Matheus Henrique, José Luís Camargo, Grégoire Vincent, et al.. (2022). Forest fragmentation impacts the seasonality of Amazonian evergreen canopies. Nature Communications. 13(1). 917–917. 60 indexed citations

Stark, Scott C., David D. Breshears, Susan Aragón, et al.. (2020). Reframing tropical savannization: linking changes in canopy structure to energy balance alterations that impact climate. Ecosphere. 11(9). 26 indexed citations

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Almeida, Danilo Roberti Alves de, Scott C. Stark, Gang Shao, et al.. (2019). Optimizing the Remote Detection of Tropical Rainforest Structure with Airborne Lidar: Leaf Area Profile Sensitivity to Pulse Density and Spatial Sampling. Remote Sensing. 11(1). 92–92. 88 indexed citations

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Smith, Marielle N., Scott C. Stark, Tyeen Taylor, et al.. (2019). Seasonal and drought‐related changes in leaf area profiles depend on height and light environment in an Amazon forest. New Phytologist. 222(3). 1284–1297. 81 indexed citations

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Shao, Gang, Scott C. Stark, Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida, & Marielle N. Smith. (2018). Towards high throughput assessment of canopy dynamics: The estimation of leaf area structure in Amazonian forests with multitemporal multi-sensor airborne lidar. Remote Sensing of Environment. 221. 1–13. 30 indexed citations

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Alves, Luciana F., Marcos Longo, Scott C. Stark, et al.. (2018). Multi-year Legacy Impacts Following Droughts in a Seasonal Amazon Forest. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Stark, Scott C., et al.. (2016). A permeable reactive barrier (PRB) media sequence for the remediation of heavy metal and hydrocarbon contaminated water: A field assessment at Casey Station, Antarctica. Chemosphere. 147. 368–375. 47 indexed citations

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Schietti, Juliana, Thaíse Emilio, Priscila Figueira de Souza, et al.. (2016). Forest structure along a 600 km transect of natural disturbances and seasonality gradients in central‐southern Amazonia. Journal of Ecology. 104(5). 1335–1346. 28 indexed citations

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Wu, Jianshuang, Natalia Restrepo‐Coupé, Matthew Hayek, et al.. (2013). Tropical forest phenology and metabolism: Integrated analysis of tower-mounted camera images and tower derived GPP for interpreting ecosystem scale processes. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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White, Duanne, et al.. (2011). Products and stability of phosphate reactions with lead under freeze–thaw cycling in simple systems. Environmental Pollution. 159(12). 3496–3503. 22 indexed citations

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Townsend, Ashley T., et al.. (2006). Trace metal characterisation of marine sediment reference materials MESS-3 and PACS-2 in dilute HCl extracts. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 54(2). 236–239. 30 indexed citations

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Snape, Ian, et al.. (2004). Characterisation of the dilute HCl extraction method for the identification of metal contamination in Antarctic marine sediments. Chemosphere. 57(6). 491–504. 128 indexed citations

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Stark, Jonathan S., Ian Snape, Martin J. Riddle, & Scott C. Stark. (2004). Constraints on spatial variability in soft-sediment communities affected by contamination from an Antarctic waste disposal site. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 50(3). 276–290. 39 indexed citations

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