Susan Schwinning

3.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
8 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Susan Schwinning is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Susan Schwinning has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Susan Schwinning's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (3 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (2 papers). Susan Schwinning is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (6 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (3 papers) and Rangeland and Wildlife Management (2 papers). Susan Schwinning collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Argentina. Susan Schwinning's co-authors include David T. Tissue, William T. Pockman, Travis E. Huxman, Jake F. Weltzin, Kiona Ogle, Keirith Snyder, Darren R. Sandquist, A. Joshua Leffler, Daniel L. Potts and Anna A. Sher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Oecologia.

In The Last Decade

Susan Schwinning

8 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

2004 979 citations Travis E. Huxman, Melinda D. Smith et al. Nature profile →
Precipitation pulses and carbon fluxes in semiarid and arid ecosystems

2004 952 citations Travis E. Huxman, Keirith Snyder et al. Oecologia profile →
Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments

2004 587 citations Peter Chesson, Renate L. E. Gebauer et al. Oecologia profile →

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Countries citing papers authored by Susan Schwinning

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Susan Schwinning

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Susan Schwinning

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Seedling Responses to Water Pulses in Shrubs with Contrasting Histories of Grassland Encroachment 2014 ·PLoS ONE ·Steven R. Woods, Steven R. Archer, Susan Schwinning	10
2	Modeling forage mediated aggregation in a gregarious ruminant 2012 ·Oikos ·Garrett M. Street, Floyd W. Weckerly, Susan Schwinning	5
3	Early taproot development of a xeric shrub (Larrea tridentata) is optimized within a narrow range of soil moisture 2010 ·Plant Ecology ·Steven R. Woods, Steven R. Archer, Susan Schwinning	9
4	Sensitivity of the Colorado Plateau to Change: Climate, Ecosystems, and Society 2008 ·Ecology and Society ·Susan Schwinning, Jayne Belnap, D. R. Bowling, James R. Ehleringer	85
5	Precipitation pulses and carbon fluxes in semi-arid ecosystems 2004 ·Oecologia ·Travis E. Huxman, Keirith Snyder, David T. Tissue, A. Joshua Leffler, Kiona Ogle, William T. Pockman, Darren R. Sandquist, Daniel L. Potts, Susan Schwinning	15
6	Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency breakdown → 2004 ·Nature ·Travis E. Huxman, Melinda D. Smith, Philip A. Fay, Alan K. Knapp, M. Rebecca Shaw, Michael E. Loik, Stanley D. Smith, David T. Tissue, John C. Zak, Jake F. Weltzin, William T. Pockman, Osvaldo E. Sala, Brent M. Haddad, John Harte, George W. Koch, Susan Schwinning, Eric E. Small, David G. Williams	979
7	Precipitation pulses and carbon fluxes in semiarid and arid ecosystems breakdown → 2004 ·Oecologia ·Travis E. Huxman, Keirith Snyder, David T. Tissue, A. Joshua Leffler, Kiona Ogle, William T. Pockman, Darren R. Sandquist, Daniel L. Potts, Susan Schwinning	952
8	Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments breakdown → 2004 ·Oecologia ·Peter Chesson, Renate L. E. Gebauer, Susan Schwinning, Nancy J. Huntly, Kerstin Wiegand, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Anna A. Sher, Ariel Novoplansky, Jake F. Weltzin	587

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