Sean Sloan

7.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
67 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Sean Sloan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Sloan has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 36 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Sean Sloan's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (44 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers) and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (15 papers). Sean Sloan is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (44 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers) and Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation (15 papers). Sean Sloan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Canada and United States. Sean Sloan's co-authors include William F. Laurance, Jeffrey Sayer, David Gaveau, David P. Edwards, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Miriam Goosem, Mason J. Campbell, Mohammed Alamgir, Douglas Sheil and Bruno Locatelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Sean Sloan

65 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A global strategy for road building

2014 599 citations William F. Laurance, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements et al. Nature profile →
Four Decades of Forest Persistence, Clearance and Logging on Borneo

2014 337 citations David Gaveau, Sean Sloan et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests

2024 37 citations Jayden E. Engert, Mason J. Campbell et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Sean Sloan

GPC

ECOLO

NLC

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Jane Southworth United States

Dolors Armenteras Colombia

Márcia N. Macedo United States

Edward L. Webb Singapore

Cécile Girardin United Kingdom

Matthias Baumann Germany

Cristián Echeverría Chile

Claude García France

Holly K. Gibbs United States

Jefferson Fox United States

Jane Southworth United States

Sean Sloan

3.0k ×1.2

GPC

1.7k ×0.8

ECOLO

609 ×1.1

NLC

328 ×0.8

526 ×1.3

MMPL

Citations per year, relative to Sean Sloan Sean Sloan (= 1×) peers Jane Southworth

Countries citing papers authored by Sean Sloan

Since Specialization

Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean Sloan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Sloan

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Engert, Jayden E., Mason J. Campbell, Joshua E. Cinner, et al.. (2024). Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests. Nature. 629(8011). 370–375. 37 indexed citations breakdown →

Padmanaba, Michael, et al.. (2023). Jurisdictional approaches to High Conservation Value area designation using regulatory instruments: an Indonesian pilot project. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11.

Gaveau, David, Adrià Descals, Mohammad Salim, Douglas Sheil, & Sean Sloan. (2021). Refined burned-area mapping protocol using Sentinel-2 data increases estimate of 2019 Indonesian burning. Earth system science data. 13(11). 5353–5368. 40 indexed citations

Alamgir, Mohammed, et al.. (2020). Emerging challenges for sustainable development and forest conservation in Sarawak, Borneo. PLoS ONE. 15(3). e0229614–e0229614. 32 indexed citations

Alamgir, Mohammed, et al.. (2019). High-risk infrastructure projects pose imminent threats to forests in Indonesian Borneo. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 140–140. 81 indexed citations

Alamgir, Mohammed, Sean Sloan, Mason J. Campbell, et al.. (2019). Infrastructure expansion challenges sustainable development in Papua New Guinea. PLoS ONE. 14(7). e0219408–e0219408. 33 indexed citations

Sloan, Sean, Mason J. Campbell, Mohammed Alamgir, et al.. (2019). Trans-national conservation and infrastructure development in the Heart of Borneo. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0221947–e0221947. 26 indexed citations

Rudel, Thomas K., Patrick Meyfroidt, Robin L. Chazdon, et al.. (2019). Whither the forest transition? Climate change, policy responses, and redistributed forests in the twenty-first century. AMBIO. 49(1). 74–84. 82 indexed citations

Resosudarmo, Ida Aju Pradnja, et al.. (2019). Indonesia's land reform: Implications for local livelihoods and climate change. Forest Policy and Economics. 108. 101903–101903. 75 indexed citations

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Sloan, Sean, Mason J. Campbell, Mohammed Alamgir, et al.. (2018). Infrastructure development and contested forest governance threaten the Leuser Ecosystem, Indonesia. Land Use Policy. 77. 298–309. 44 indexed citations

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Alamgir, Mohammed, Mason J. Campbell, Sean Sloan, et al.. (2017). Economic, Socio-Political and Environmental Risks of Road Development in the Tropics. Current Biology. 27(20). R1130–R1140. 160 indexed citations

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Sloan, Sean, Bruno Locatelli, Martin J. Wooster, & David Gaveau. (2017). Fire activity in Borneo driven by industrial land conversion and drought during El Niño periods, 1982–2010. Global Environmental Change. 47. 95–109. 76 indexed citations

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Sloan, Sean. (2016). Tropical Forest Gain and Interactions amongst Agents of Forest Change. Forests. 7(3). 55–55. 14 indexed citations

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Laurance, William F., Sean Sloan, Lingfei Weng, & Jeffrey Sayer. (2015). Estimating the Environmental Costs of Africa’s Massive “Development Corridors”. Current Biology. 25(24). 3202–3208. 132 indexed citations

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Laurance, William F., Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Sean Sloan, et al.. (2014). A global strategy for road building. Nature. 513(7517). 229–232. 599 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gaveau, David, Mohammad Salim, Kristell Hergoualc’h, et al.. (2014). Major atmospheric emissions from peat fires in Southeast Asia during non-drought years: evidence from the 2013 Sumatran fires. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 6112–6112. 258 indexed citations

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Gaveau, David, Sean Sloan, Douglas Sheil, et al.. (2014). Four Decades of Forest Persistence, Clearance and Logging on Borneo. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e101654–e101654. 337 indexed citations breakdown →

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Edwards, David P., Sean Sloan, Lingfei Weng, et al.. (2013). Mining and the African Environment. Conservation Letters. 7(3). 302–311. 178 indexed citations

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Sloan, Sean & Johanne Pelletier. (2012). How accurately may we project tropical forest-cover change? A validation of a forward-looking baseline for REDD. Global Environmental Change. 22(2). 440–453. 60 indexed citations

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Stork, Nigel E., Jonathan A. Coddington, Robert K. Colwell, et al.. (2009). Vulnerability and Resilience of Tropical Forest Species to Land‐Use Change. Conservation Biology. 23(6). 1438–1447. 85 indexed citations

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