Simon Brewer

16.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
145 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Simon Brewer is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Brewer has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Atmospheric Science, 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 24 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Simon Brewer's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (70 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (31 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 papers). Simon Brewer is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (70 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (31 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 papers). Simon Brewer collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Simon Brewer's co-authors include Joël Guiot, Basil Davis, Philip E. Dennison, Max A. Moritz, Tony Stevenson, Rachid Cheddadi, Jacques‐Louis de Beaulieu, Patrick J. Bartlein, Haibin Wu and Odile Peyron and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Simon Brewer

136 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Glacial Refugia: Hotspots But Not Melting Pots of Genetic Diversity

2003 1.4k citations Simon Brewer et al. profile →
Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984–2011

2014 1.0k citations Simon Brewer et al. profile →
The temperature of Europe during the Holocene reconstructed from pollen data

2003 806 citations Basil Davis, Simon Brewer et al. profile →
Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: a global synthesis

2010 503 citations Patrick J. Bartlein, Simon Brewer et al. Climate Dynamics profile →
Reconciling divergent trends and millennial variations in Holocene temperatures

2018 280 citations Patrick J. Bartlein, Simon Brewer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Brewer United States	49	5.1k	2.7k	2.1k	1.4k	1.3k	145	9.7k
Glen M. MacDonald United States	62	9.4k 1.8×	4.0k 1.5×	4.4k 2.1×	964 0.7×	787 0.6×	207	13.6k
Julio L. Betancourt United States	60	6.5k 1.3×	8.9k 3.3×	5.0k 2.4×	1.9k 1.4×	2.0k 1.5×	156	17.5k
Jed O. Kaplan Switzerland	56	8.3k 1.6×	7.7k 2.8×	3.6k 1.7×	1.8k 1.3×	742 0.6×	149	15.3k
Joël Guiot France	66	12.3k 2.4×	3.7k 1.4×	2.8k 1.3×	3.2k 2.2×	992 0.8×	210	15.5k
Gabriel J. Bowen United States	54	5.3k 1.0×	2.9k 1.1×	5.9k 2.8×	2.8k 2.0×	634 0.5×	195	12.5k
Jürgen Böhner Germany	37	3.2k 0.6×	3.4k 1.2×	2.4k 1.1×	273 0.2×	1.3k 1.0×	98	9.8k
Sandy P. Harrison United Kingdom	83	15.7k 3.1×	10.0k 3.7×	4.7k 2.2×	2.0k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	296	22.8k
Ulf Büntgen Switzerland	68	11.1k 2.2×	9.2k 3.4×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	366	15.5k
Mathias Vuille United States	63	11.0k 2.1×	5.7k 2.1×	3.1k 1.5×	1.6k 1.1×	738 0.6×	156	14.8k
Thomas Hickler Germany	53	2.9k 0.6×	4.9k 1.8×	2.7k 1.3×	367 0.3×	1.6k 1.2×	184	10.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Brewer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Brewer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Brewer

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20 of 20 papers shown

Brewer, Simon, et al.. (2024). The Fremont Frontier: Living at the Margins of Maize Farming. American Antiquity. 89(3). 440–458. 4 indexed citations

Wan, Neng, et al.. (2023). Spatial access to Emergency General Surgery (EGS) services and EGS bypass behaviours in California. Annals of GIS. 29(1). 75–85. 3 indexed citations

Cova, Thomas J., et al.. (2022). Perceived Recovery Trajectories in Post-Earthquake Nepal – A Visual Exploration With Self Organizing Maps. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 111–121. 1 indexed citations

Qiu, Chunjing, Philippe Ciais, Dan Zhu, et al.. (2021). Large historical carbon emissions from cultivated northern peatlands. Science Advances. 7(23). 52 indexed citations

Codding, Brian F., et al.. (2021). Socioecological Dynamics Structuring the Spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region. Environmental Archaeology. 27(4). 434–446. 10 indexed citations

Carter, Vachel A., Andrea Brunelle, Mitchell J. Power, et al.. (2021). Legacies of Indigenous land use shaped past wildfire regimes in the Basin-Plateau Region, USA. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 21 indexed citations

Li, Jiada, et al.. (2020). Is Clustering Time-Series Water Depth Useful? An Exploratory Study for Flooding Detection in Urban Drainage Systems. Water. 12(9). 2433–2433. 15 indexed citations

Brewer, Simon, et al.. (2020). Decomposing Habitat Suitability Across the Forager to Farmer Transition. Environmental Archaeology. 27(4). 420–433. 17 indexed citations

Jameel, Yusuf, et al.. (2018). Isotopic reconnaissance of urban water supply system dynamics. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(11). 6109–6125. 19 indexed citations

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Carter, Vachel A., Andrea Brunelle, Thomas A. Minckley, et al.. (2017). Climate variability and fire effects on quaking aspen in the central Rocky Mountains, USA. Journal of Biogeography. 44(6). 1280–1293. 14 indexed citations

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Marlon, Jennifer R., Ryan Kelly, Anne‐Laure Daniau, et al.. (2016). Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment-charcoal records to improve data–model comparisons. Biogeosciences. 13(11). 3225–3244. 140 indexed citations

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Davis, Basil, Achille Mauri, Simon Brewer, et al.. (2011). The equable climate problem during Interglacial warming. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 2 indexed citations

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Henrot, Alexandra, Louis François, Simon Brewer, & Guy Munhoven. (2009). Impacts of land surface properties and atmospheric CO ₂ on the Last Glacial Maximum climate: a factor separation analysis. Climate of the past. 5(2). 183–202. 9 indexed citations

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Brewer, Simon, Samuel Alleaume, Joël Guiot, & Antoine Nicault. (2007). Historical droughts in Mediterranean regions during the last 500 years: a data/model approach. Climate of the past. 3(2). 355–366. 32 indexed citations

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Wu, Haibin, Joël Guiot, Simon Brewer, & Zhengtang Guo. (2007). Climatic changes in Eurasia and Africa at the last glacial maximum and mid-Holocene: reconstruction from pollen data using inverse vegetation modelling. Climate Dynamics. 29(2-3). 211–229. 207 indexed citations

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Ramstein, Gilles, Masa Kageyama, Joël Guiot, et al.. (2007). How cold was Europe at the Last Glacial Maximum? A synthesis of the progress achieved since the first PMIP model-data comparison. Climate of the past. 3(2). 331–339. 80 indexed citations

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Brewer, Simon, et al.. (2007). Mid-Holocene climate change in Europe: a data-model comparison. Climate of the past. 3(3). 499–512. 65 indexed citations

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Brewer, Simon, Samuel Alleaume, Joël Guiot, & Antoine Nicault. (2006). Historical droughts in Mediterranean regions during the last 500 years: a data/model approach. 5 indexed citations

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Brewer, Simon, Joël Guiot, & F. Jason Torre. (2006). Mid-Holocene climate change in Europe: a data-model comparison. 67 indexed citations

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Brewer, Simon, Basil Davis, Joël Guiot, Steve Juggins, & Tony Stevenson. (2003). The temperature of Europe during the Holocene reconstructed from pollen data. EAEJA. 5907. 2 indexed citations

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