Stephen Aldrich

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Stephen Aldrich is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Aldrich has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 12 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Stephen Aldrich's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (21 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (14 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (12 papers). Stephen Aldrich is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (21 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (14 papers) and Land Rights and Reforms (12 papers). Stephen Aldrich collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Australia. Stephen Aldrich's co-authors include Robert Walker, Marcellus M. Caldas, Stephen G. Perz, Cynthia Simmons, Eugênio Arima, Eugênio Arima, Dominique Heymann, Elizabeth H. Loh, Matthew A. Dixon and Catherine Machalaba and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Aldrich

33 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Ecology of zoonoses: natural and unnatural histories 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Ecology of zoonoses: natural and unnatural histories
    2012 556 citations William B. Karesh, Andrew P. Dobson et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers

Stephen Aldrich
Michael Epprecht Switzerland
Jonah Busch United States
M. Livermore United Kingdom
Richard D. Horan United States
Patrick R. Roehrdanz United States
Christine Jost United States
Micah B. Hahn United States
R.L. Kruska Kenya
Karl M. Rich United States
Tamara Ben‐Ari France
Michael Epprecht Switzerland
Stephen Aldrich
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Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Aldrich

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Aldrich

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Aldrich

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Aldrich, Stephen, et al.. (2020). Agronomic or contentious land change? A longitudinal analysis from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon. PLoS ONE. 15(1). e0227378–e0227378. 7 indexed citations
2.
Speer‬, James H., et al.. (2020). Sustainability survey to assess student perspectives. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. 21(6). 1151–1167. 11 indexed citations
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Pfaff, Alexander, Juan Robalino, Eustáquio J. Reis, et al.. (2018). Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers. Economics. 12(1). 15 indexed citations
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Pfaff, Alexander, Juan Robalino, Eustáquio J. Reis, et al.. (2017). Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies: learning from Brazil's Amazon in distinguishing frontiers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations
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O’Keefe, Joy M., et al.. (2016). A Presence-Only Model of Suitable Roosting Habitat for the Endangered Indiana Bat in the Southern Appalachians. PLoS ONE. 11(4). e0154464–e0154464. 24 indexed citations
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Aldrich, Stephen. (2014). Decision-making and the environment in the Amazon Land War. Journal of Land Use Science. 10(1). 38–58. 5 indexed citations
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Karesh, William B., Andrew P. Dobson, James O. Lloyd‐Smith, et al.. (2012). Ecology of zoonoses: natural and unnatural histories. The Lancet. 380(9857). 1936–1945. 556 indexed citations breakdown →
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Walker, Robert, Cynthia Simmons, Stephen Aldrich, et al.. (2011). The Amazonian Theater of Cruelty. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 101(5). 1156–1170. 9 indexed citations
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Aldrich, Stephen, Robert Walker, Cynthia Simmons, Marcellus M. Caldas, & Stephen G. Perz. (2011). Contentious Land Change in the Amazon's Arc of Deforestation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102(1). 103–128. 92 indexed citations
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Aldrich, Stephen. (2011). This Land is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil. Journal of Historical Geography. 37(2). 253–254. 8 indexed citations
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WinklerPrins, Antoinette & Stephen Aldrich. (2010). Locating Amazonian Dark Earths: Creating an interactive GIS of known locations. Journal of Latin American geography. 9(3). 33–50. 28 indexed citations
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Aldrich, Stephen, et al.. (2008). Scenarios for the future of synthetic biology. Industrial Biotechnology. 4(1). 39–49. 6 indexed citations
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Simmons, Cynthia, Robert Walker, Eugênio Arima, Stephen Aldrich, & Marcellus M. Caldas. (2007). The Amazon Land War in the South of Pará. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 97(3). 567–592. 71 indexed citations
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Simmons, Cynthia, Robert Walker, Eugênio Arima, Stephen Aldrich, & Marcellus M. Caldas. (2007). Amazon Land Wars in the South of Para. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 97(3). 2 indexed citations
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Simmons, Cynthia, Marcellus M. Caldas, Stephen Aldrich, Robert Walker, & Stephen G. Perz. (2007). Spatial Processes in Scalar Context: Development and Security in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Latin American geography. 6(1). 125–148. 10 indexed citations
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Pfaff, Alexander, Juan Robalino, Robert Walker, et al.. (2007). ROAD INVESTMENTS, SPATIAL SPILLOVERS, AND DEFORESTATION IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON*. Journal of Regional Science. 47(1). 109–123. 183 indexed citations
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Caldas, Marcellus M., Robert Walker, Eugênio Arima, et al.. (2007). Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Colonization in the Amazon Basin. 97(1). 12 indexed citations
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Caldas, Marcellus M., Robert Walker, Eugênio Arima, et al.. (2007). Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 97(1). 86–110. 137 indexed citations
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Aldrich, Stephen, Robert Walker, Eugênio Arima, et al.. (2006). Land‐Cover and Land‐Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon: Smallholders, Ranchers, and Frontier Stratification. Economic Geography. 82(3). 265–288. 84 indexed citations
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Carlson, Robert H., et al.. (2006). GENOME SYNTHESIS AND DESIGN FUTURES: IMPLICATIONS FOR SELECTED SECTORS OF THE US ECONOMY. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

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