Stefano Potter

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 731 citations indexed

About

Stefano Potter is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefano Potter has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 731 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Stefano Potter's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (15 papers), Climate change and permafrost (12 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (9 papers). Stefano Potter is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (15 papers), Climate change and permafrost (12 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (9 papers). Stefano Potter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Stefano Potter's co-authors include Brendan M. Rogers, Merritt R. Turetsky, Michelle C. Mack, Xanthe J. Walker, Jill F. Johnstone, S. J. Goetz, Edward A. G. Schuur, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Nicola J. Day and Christopher Ebert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Environmental Science & Technology and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Stefano Potter

23 papers receiving 724 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.

Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils

2019 339 citations Xanthe J. Walker, Jennifer L. Baltzer et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefano Potter United States	9	537	316	203	91	79	24	731
Patient Mindje Kayumba China	15	412 0.8×	132 0.4×	127 0.6×	49 0.5×	117 1.5×	28	631
Bo Tao United States	8	464 0.9×	150 0.5×	156 0.8×	55 0.6×	58 0.7×	13	649
Yanli Zhuang China	13	271 0.5×	175 0.6×	110 0.5×	60 0.7×	78 1.0×	23	540
Zhengxiang Zhang China	14	525 1.0×	226 0.7×	467 2.3×	29 0.3×	166 2.1×	44	817
Ennio Ferrari Italy	17	774 1.4×	390 1.2×	84 0.4×	58 0.6×	101 1.3×	40	939
Matthew G. Fearon United States	9	651 1.2×	367 1.2×	220 1.1×	43 0.5×	188 2.4×	17	865
А. А. Дымов Russia	15	257 0.5×	196 0.6×	139 0.7×	255 2.8×	36 0.5×	63	535
Dennis W. Hallema United States	15	547 1.0×	116 0.4×	191 0.9×	173 1.9×	105 1.3×	27	812
Se-Yeun Lee United States	11	555 1.0×	289 0.9×	170 0.8×	38 0.4×	93 1.2×	16	936
Mei Zhou China	14	262 0.5×	143 0.5×	171 0.8×	133 1.5×	77 1.0×	39	529

Countries citing papers authored by Stefano Potter

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefano Potter

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Walker, Xanthe J., et al.. (2026). Increased deciduous tree dominance reduces wildfire carbon losses in boreal forests. Nature Climate Change. 16(2). 187–192.

Walker, Xanthe J., et al.. (2025). Increasing wildfire frequency decreases carbon storage and leads to regeneration failure in Alaskan boreal forests. Fire Ecology. 21(1). 57–57. 1 indexed citations

Watts, Jennifer D., Stefano Potter, Brendan M. Rogers, et al.. (2025). Regional Hotspots of Change in Northern High Latitudes Informed by Observations From Space. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(2). 2 indexed citations

Marshall, Gareth J., Robert Baxter, Stefano Potter, et al.. (2024). Annual and Seasonal Patterns of Burned Area Products in Arctic-Boreal North America and Russia for 2001–2020. Remote Sensing. 16(17). 3306–3306. 2 indexed citations

Burrell, Arden, Stefano Potter, Logan T. Berner, et al.. (2024). The predictability of near‐term forest biomass change in boreal North America. Ecosphere. 15(1). 1 indexed citations

Rogers, Brendan M., et al.. (2024). Geographically divergent trends in snow disappearance timing and fire ignitions across boreal North America. Biogeosciences. 21(1). 109–129. 6 indexed citations

Rodenhizer, Heidi, et al.. (2024). A Comparison of Satellite Imagery Sources for Automated Detection of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps. Remote Sensing. 16(13). 2361–2361. 5 indexed citations

Ramage, Justine, McKenzie A. Kuhn, Anna‐Maria Virkkala, et al.. (2024). The Net GHG Balance and Budget of the Permafrost Region (2000–2020) From Ecosystem Flux Upscaling. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 38(4). 25 indexed citations

Zolkos, Scott, Stefano Potter, Brendan M. Rogers, et al.. (2024). Substantial Mercury Releases and Local Deposition from Permafrost Peatland Wildfires in Southwestern Alaska. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(46). 20654–20664. 1 indexed citations

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Sistla, Seeta A., et al.. (2023). Carbon emissions and radiative forcings from tundra wildfires in the Yukon–Kuskokwim River Delta, Alaska. Biogeosciences. 20(8). 1537–1557. 7 indexed citations

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Watts, Jennifer D., Brendan M. Rogers, Mark Carroll, et al.. (2023). Using High‐Resolution Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Track Dynamic Seasonality in Small Water Bodies. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(7). 28 indexed citations

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Phillips, Carly, et al.. (2022). The costs and benefits of fire management for carbon mitigation in Alaska through 2100. Environmental Research Letters. 17(10). 105001–105001. 3 indexed citations

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Walker, Xanthe J., Brendan M. Rogers, Sander Veraverbeke, et al.. (2020). Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions. Nature Climate Change. 10(12). 1130–1136. 119 indexed citations

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Dieleman, Catherine M., Brendan M. Rogers, Stefano Potter, et al.. (2020). Wildfire combustion and carbon stocks in the southern Canadian boreal forest: Implications for a warming world. Global Change Biology. 26(11). 6062–6079. 55 indexed citations

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Potter, Stefano, Brendan M. Rogers, & Catherine M. Dieleman. (2020). ABoVE: Spatial Estimates of Carbon Combustion from Wildfires across SK, Canada, 2015. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 1 indexed citations

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Potter, Stefano, Kylen Solvik, Angela Erb, et al.. (2019). Climate change decreases the cooling effect from postfire albedo in boreal North America. Global Change Biology. 26(3). 1592–1607. 36 indexed citations

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Walker, Xanthe J., Jennifer L. Baltzer, Steven G. Cumming, et al.. (2019). Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils. Nature. 572(7770). 520–523. 339 indexed citations breakdown →

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Walker, Xanthe J., Jennifer L. Baltzer, Laura Bourgeau‐Chavez, et al.. (2019). ABoVE: Synthesis of Burned and Unburned Forest Site Data, AK and Canada, 1983-2016. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 10 indexed citations

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Watts, Jennifer D., Susan M. Natali, Stefano Potter, & Brendan M. Rogers. (2019). Gridded Winter Soil CO2 Flux Estimates for pan-Arctic and Boreal Regions, 2003-2100. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 2 indexed citations

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Garrison, G. R., et al.. (1958). Sound Absorption at 50 to 500 kc from Transmission Measurements in the Sea. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 30(9). 871–875. 4 indexed citations

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