Susan C. Cook‐Patton

7.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
53 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Susan C. Cook‐Patton is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Susan C. Cook‐Patton has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 22 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 14 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Susan C. Cook‐Patton's work include Forest Management and Policy (19 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (12 papers). Susan C. Cook‐Patton is often cited by papers focused on Forest Management and Policy (19 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (15 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (12 papers). Susan C. Cook‐Patton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Susan C. Cook‐Patton's co-authors include Bronson W. Griscom, Peter W. Ellis, Taryn L. Bauerle, Joseph Fargione, Jonathan Sanderman, Stephen A. Wood, John D. Parker, Pete Smith, Anurag A. Agrawal and I.M. Emmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Susan C. Cook‐Patton

50 papers receiving 2.8k 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 →
The global potential for increased storage of carbon on land

2022 143 citations Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Peter W. Ellis et al. profile →
The principles of natural climate solutions

2024 50 citations Peter W. Ellis, Stephen A. Wood et al. Nature Communications profile →
Accounting for albedo change to identify climate-positive tree cover restoration

2024 49 citations Peter W. Ellis, Samantha Yeo 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
Susan C. Cook‐Patton United States	27	1.3k	842	599	550	443	53	2.9k
Paula Meli Brazil	24	1.8k 1.3×	956 1.1×	1.1k 1.8×	417 0.8×	342 0.8×	67	3.6k
Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi India	18	2.3k 1.7×	1.1k 1.3×	440 0.7×	330 0.6×	406 0.9×	48	3.2k
Pua Bar Israel	32	1.1k 0.8×	760 0.9×	615 1.0×	593 1.1×	396 0.9×	73	2.6k
Agnieszka E. Latawiec Poland	26	1.4k 1.0×	766 0.9×	697 1.2×	521 0.9×	159 0.4×	74	3.2k
Bronson W. Griscom United States	30	2.2k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	971 1.6×	624 1.1×	614 1.4×	52	4.1k
Fei Lu China	28	2.2k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	379 0.6×	829 1.5×	532 1.2×	67	4.0k
Jean‐François Bastin Belgium	17	1.5k 1.1×	701 0.8×	639 1.1×	221 0.4×	432 1.0×	39	2.5k
Jinfeng Chang China	34	1.2k 0.9×	887 1.1×	180 0.3×	602 1.1×	509 1.1×	105	3.1k
Pavel Cudlín Czechia	28	946 0.7×	749 0.9×	444 0.7×	365 0.7×	284 0.6×	146	2.5k
Lydia Olander United States	28	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	667 1.1×	1.1k 2.1×	286 0.6×	51	3.6k

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Chang, Charlotte H., et al.. (2025). New opportunities and challenges for conservation evidence synthesis from advances in natural language processing. Conservation Biology. 39(2). e14464–e14464.

Robinson, Nathaniel, C. Ronnie Drever, David A. Gibbs, et al.. (2025). Protect young secondary forests for optimum carbon removal. Nature Climate Change. 15(7). 793–800. 4 indexed citations

Zhu, Yakun, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Wenjuan Sun, et al.. (2025). Land availability and policy commitments limit global climate mitigation from forestation. Science. 389(6763). 931–934. 3 indexed citations

Smith, Jeffrey R., Evelyn M. Beaury, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, & Jonathan M. Levine. (2025). Variable impacts of land-based climate mitigation on habitat area for vertebrate diversity. Science. 387(6732). 420–425. 3 indexed citations

Cook‐Patton, Susan C., Édouard L. Davin, Eduardo Eiji Maeda, et al.. (2024). Natural forest regeneration is projected to reduce local temperatures. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 10 indexed citations

Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina J., et al.. (2024). Informing forest carbon inventories under the Paris Agreement using ground‐based forest monitoring data. Plants People Planet. 7(1). 105–116. 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 →

Cook‐Patton, Susan C., Owen T. Lewis, Nick Brown, et al.. (2023). Young mixed planted forests store more carbon than monocultures—a meta-analysis. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 6. 29 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

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Bukoski, Jacob J., et al.. (2023). Quantifying the Effect Size of Management Actions on Aboveground Carbon Stocks in Forest Plantations. Current Forestry Reports. 9(3). 131–148. 8 indexed citations

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Cook‐Patton, Susan C., et al.. (2023). Diversity stabilizes but does not increase sapling survival in a tree diversity experiment. Restoration Ecology. 31(5). 3 indexed citations

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Ashton, Mark S., et al.. (2022). Tropical surface gold mining: A review of ecological impacts and restoration strategies. Land Degradation and Development. 33(18). 3661–3674. 32 indexed citations

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Anderson‐Teixeira, Kristina J., Valentine Herrmann, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, et al.. (2021). Carbon cycling in mature and regrowth forests globally. Environmental Research Letters. 16(5). 53009–53009. 56 indexed citations

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Noon, Monica, Allie Goldstein, Juan Carlos Ledezma, et al.. (2021). Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems. Nature Sustainability. 5(1). 37–46. 109 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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Cook‐Patton, Susan C., et al.. (2016). Spillover of a biological control agent ( Chrysolina quadrigemina ) onto native St. Johnswort ( Hypericum punctatum ). PeerJ. 4. e1886–e1886. 10 indexed citations

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Cook‐Patton, Susan C., Daniel L. Weller, Torben C. Rick, & John D. Parker. (2014). Ancient experiments: forest biodiversity and soil nutrients enhanced by Native American middens. Landscape Ecology. 29(6). 979–987. 25 indexed citations

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Cook‐Patton, Susan C.. (2012). ESA's Second Emerging Issues Conference. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 93(3). 253–255. 1 indexed citations

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Cook‐Patton, Susan C. & Anurag A. Agrawal. (2011). Relatedness predicts phenotypic plasticity in plants better than weediness. Evolutionary ecology research. 13(5). 527–542. 9 indexed citations

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McArt, Scott H., Susan C. Cook‐Patton, & Jennifer S. Thaler. (2011). Relationships between arthropod richness, evenness, and diversity are altered by complementarity among plant genotypes. Oecologia. 168(4). 1013–1021. 29 indexed citations

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