Stephen A. Wood

12.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
69 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Stephen A. Wood is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen A. Wood has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Soil Science, 26 papers in Ecology and 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Stephen A. Wood's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (25 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (11 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (8 papers). Stephen A. Wood is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (25 papers), Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (11 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (8 papers). Stephen A. Wood collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Stephen A. Wood's co-authors include Mark A. Bradford, Emily E. Oldfield, Ruth DeFries, Roseline Remans, William R. Wieder, Daniel S. Maynard, Noah Fierer, Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita, Jessica Fanzo and Cheryl Palm and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Stephen A. Wood

69 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions

2020 632 citations Déborah Bossio, Susan C. Cook‐Patton et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
Global meta-analysis of the relationship between soil organic matter and crop yields

2019 484 citations Emily E. Oldfield, Mark A. Bradford et al. SOIL profile →
Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition

2015 467 citations Mark A. Bradford, Björn Berg et al. Journal of Ecology profile →
How microbes can, and cannot, be used to assess soil health

2020 310 citations Stephen A. Wood et al. profile →
Functional traits in agriculture: agrobiodiversity and ecosystem services

2015 279 citations Stephen A. Wood, Cheryl Palm et al. profile →
The principles of natural climate solutions

2024 50 citations Peter W. Ellis, Stephen A. Wood et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen A. Wood United States	35	2.3k	1.7k	1.3k	1.1k	801	69	5.6k
Mirjam Pulleman Netherlands	36	3.3k 1.4×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	651 0.6×	1.0k 1.3×	72	5.5k
Gaihe Yang China	55	3.3k 1.4×	2.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	656 0.6×	440 0.5×	184	8.1k
Cheryl Palm United States	34	2.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	801 1.0×	74	6.0k
Rachel Creamer Ireland	35	3.1k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	644 0.6×	699 0.9×	101	5.4k
Mateete Bekunda Tanzania	28	2.5k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	2.1k 1.6×	1.0k 0.9×	579 0.7×	80	7.7k
Anthony Whitbread India	35	1.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	153	4.9k
Déborah Bossio United States	33	4.4k 1.9×	3.0k 1.8×	1.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.4×	71	9.3k
Paul L. G. Vlek Germany	52	3.2k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	2.4k 1.8×	1.9k 1.7×	1.2k 1.5×	213	8.2k
Graham K. MacDonald Canada	31	1.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	2.2k 1.6×	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.4×	63	7.7k
Edmundo Barrios Kenya	34	1.5k 0.6×	703 0.4×	1.6k 1.2×	720 0.6×	841 1.0×	82	4.3k

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McClelland, Shelby C., Déborah Bossio, Doria R. Gordon, et al.. (2025). Managing for climate and production goals on crop-lands. Nature Climate Change. 15(6). 642–649. 1 indexed citations

Ellis, Peter W., Stephen A. Wood, Joseph Fargione, et al.. (2024). The principles of natural climate solutions. Nature Communications. 15(1). 547–547. 50 indexed citations breakdown →

Jung, Martin, Timothy Boucher, Stephen A. Wood, et al.. (2024). A global clustering of terrestrial food production systems. PLoS ONE. 19(2). e0296846–e0296846. 4 indexed citations

Lee, Hyesung, Yeon‐Hee Baek, Ju Hwan Kim, et al.. (2023). Trends of polypharmacy among older people in Asia, Australia and the United Kingdom: a multinational population-based study. Age and Ageing. 52(2). 14 indexed citations

Karan, Shivesh Kishore, Dominic Woolf, Elias Azzi, Cecilia Sundberg, & Stephen A. Wood. (2023). Potential for biochar carbon sequestration from crop residues: A global spatially explicit assessment. GCB Bioenergy. 15(12). 1424–1436. 25 indexed citations

Yeo, Samantha, Maya Almaraz, Damien Beillouin, et al.. (2023). Priority science can accelerate agroforestry as a natural climate solution. Nature Climate Change. 13(11). 1179–1190. 50 indexed citations

Steger, Cara, et al.. (2023). Local Ecological Knowledge Indicates Pathways Towards Equitable and Sustainable Management of the Sudano-Guinean Savanna. Human Ecology. 51(6). 1217–1238. 4 indexed citations

Wood, Stephen A., Katharine Hayhoe, Mark A. Bradford, et al.. (2023). Mitigating near-term climate change. Environmental Research Letters. 18(10). 101002–101002. 3 indexed citations

Barrett, Christopher B., Jessica Fanzo, Mario Herrero, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 pandemic lessons for agri-food systems innovation. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 101001–101001. 21 indexed citations

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Wood, Stephen A. & Maria Bowman. (2021). Large-scale farmer-led experiment demonstrates positive impact of cover crops on multiple soil health indicators. Nature Food. 2(2). 97–103. 88 indexed citations

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Barrett, Christopher B., Tim G. Benton, Karen Cooper, et al.. (2020). Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems. Nature Sustainability. 3(12). 974–976. 106 indexed citations

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Bossio, Déborah, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Peter W. Ellis, et al.. (2020). The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions. Nature Sustainability. 3(5). 391–398. 632 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carey, Chelsea J., et al.. (2020). Supporting evidence varies for rangeland management practices that seek to improve soil properties and forage production in California. California Agriculture. 74(2). 101–111. 8 indexed citations

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Oldfield, Emily E., Mark A. Bradford, & Stephen A. Wood. (2019). Global meta-analysis of the relationship between soil organic matter and crop yields. SOIL. 5(1). 15–32. 484 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rasmussen, Laura Vang, Matthew E. Fagan, Amy Ickowitz, et al.. (2019). Forest pattern, not just amount, influences dietary quality in five African countries. Global Food Security. 25. 100331–100331. 34 indexed citations

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Bradford, Mark A., G. F. Veen, Anne Bonis, et al.. (2017). A test of the hierarchical model of litter decomposition. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(12). 1836–1845. 198 indexed citations

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DeFries, Ruth, Pinki Mondal, Deepti Singh, et al.. (2016). Synergies and trade-offs for sustainable agriculture: Nutritional yields and climate-resilience for cereal crops in Central India. Global Food Security. 11. 44–53. 68 indexed citations

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Bradford, Mark A., Björn Berg, Daniel S. Maynard, William R. Wieder, & Stephen A. Wood. (2015). Understanding the dominant controls on litter decomposition. Journal of Ecology. 104(1). 229–238. 467 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tully, Katherine L., Stephen A. Wood, Maya Almaraz, Christopher Neill, & Cheryl Palm. (2015). The effect of mineral and organic nutrient input on yields and nitrogen balances in western Kenya. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 214. 10–20. 22 indexed citations

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Covey, Kristofer, Stephen A. Wood, Robert J. Warren, Xuhui Lee, & Mark A. Bradford. (2012). Elevated methane concentrations in trees of an upland forest. Geophysical Research Letters. 39(15). 100 indexed citations

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