Susanna B. Hecht

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Susanna B. Hecht is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Susanna B. Hecht has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Susanna B. Hecht's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (36 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (18 papers) and Agriculture and Rural Development Research (10 papers). Susanna B. Hecht is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (36 papers), Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (18 papers) and Agriculture and Rural Development Research (10 papers). Susanna B. Hecht collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Susanna B. Hecht's co-authors include Alexander Cockburn, Miguel A. Altieri, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Sassan Saatchi, Altieri, Susan Kandel, Herman Rosa, Ileana Pitombeira Gomes, Anthony Β. Anderson and Peter H. May and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

Susanna B. Hecht

78 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005

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Author						Papers	Cites
Susanna B. Hecht	2.2k	1.5k	583	511	483	83	4.2k
Oliver T. Coomes	2.9k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	771 1.3×	477 0.9×	616 1.3×	115	5.0k
B. Belcher	2.7k 1.2×	737 0.5×	465 0.8×	545 1.1×	478 1.0×	71	4.2k
Allan Curtis	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	707 1.2×	863 1.7×	455 0.9×	170	4.9k
Sara Scherr	1.8k 0.8×	836 0.6×	527 0.9×	599 1.2×	539 1.1×	80	3.8k
Jean‐Christophe Castella	2.7k 1.2×	825 0.6×	823 1.4×	535 1.0×	516 1.1×	134	4.8k
Christine Padoch	2.1k 1.0×	802 0.6×	685 1.2×	338 0.7×	545 1.1×	79	3.5k
Thomas Sikor	2.2k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	385 0.7×	593 1.2×	257 0.5×	66	3.9k
Ian Hodge	1.2k 0.6×	954 0.7×	876 1.5×	624 1.2×	607 1.3×	118	3.9k
Geoff A. Wilson	1.8k 0.8×	2.3k 1.6×	393 0.7×	667 1.3×	802 1.7×	75	5.1k
Sheona Shackleton	2.3k 1.0×	724 0.5×	534 0.9×	753 1.5×	853 1.8×	106	4.9k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hecht, Susanna B., et al.. (2025). Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World: Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics. The AAG Review of Books. 14(1). 51–62.

Hecht, Susanna B., Marianne Schmink, Rebecca Neaera Abers, et al.. (2024). Amazonia in motion: Changing politics, development strategies, peoples, landscapes and livelihoods. Acta Amazonica. 54(spe1).

Costa, Francisco de Assis, Eduardo Delgado Assad, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, et al.. (2024). Complex, diverse and changing agribusiness and livelihood systems in the Amazon. Acta Amazonica. 54(spe1). 3 indexed citations

Cuba, Nicholas, Laura Aileen Sauls, Anthony Bebbington, et al.. (2022). Emerging hot spot analysis to indicate forest conservation priorities and efficacy on regional to continental scales: a study of forest change in Selva Maya 2000–2020. Environmental Research Communications. 4(7). 71004–71004. 8 indexed citations

Bebbington, Denise Humphreys, Anthony Bebbington, Laura Aileen Sauls, et al.. (2021). ‘Tradescapes’ in the forest: framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 53. 29–36. 5 indexed citations

Hecht, Susanna B.. (2020). Why the Brazilian Amazon Burns. Current History. 119(814). 60–65. 7 indexed citations

Hecht, Susanna B., Kathleen D. Morrison, & Christine Padoch. (2014). The Social Lives of Forests: Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 22 indexed citations

Hecht, Susanna B.. (2011). The new Amazon geographies: insurgent citizenship, “Amazon Nation” and the politics of environmentalisms. Journal of Cultural Geography. 28(1). 203–223. 38 indexed citations

Hecht, Susanna B. & Alexander Cockburn. (2010). The Fate of the Forest. 58 indexed citations

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Hecht, Susanna B.. (2008). The Last Unfinished Page of Genesis: Euclides da Cunha and the Amazon. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(1).

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Hecht, Susanna B.. (2004). The Last Unfinished Page of Genesis: Euclides Da Cunha and the Amazon. Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies). 32. 43–69. 7 indexed citations

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Norgaard, Richard B., Thomas Sikor, Miguel A. Altieri, et al.. (1999). AGROECOLOGIA “Bases científicas para una agricultura sustentable”. 80 indexed citations

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Edén, Michael, Susanna B. Hecht, & Alexander Cockburn. (1991). The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon. Geographical Journal. 157(2). 211–211. 20 indexed citations

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Altieri, Miguel A. & Susanna B. Hecht. (1990). Agroecology and small farm development.. CRC Press eBooks. 198 indexed citations

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Nabhan, Gary Paul, et al.. (1990). New crops for small farmers in marginal lands? Wild chiles as a case study.. 19–26. 6 indexed citations

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Altieri, et al.. (1990). Agricultural development systems in Latin America: a historical perspective.. 73–81. 1 indexed citations

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Hecht, Susanna B., et al.. (1990). The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon.. Systematic Botany. 15(3). 512–512. 392 indexed citations

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Hecht, Susanna B.. (1989). The Sacred Cow. NACLA Report on the Americas. 23(1). 23–39. 2 indexed citations

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Hecht, Susanna B.. (1986). Regional Development: Some Comments on the Discourse in Latin America. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 4(2). 201–209. 4 indexed citations

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Hecht, Susanna B.. (1983). La deforestación en la cuenca del Amazonas: magnitud dinámica y efectos sobre los recursos edaficos. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 171–212. 1 indexed citations

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