Sylvia Wood

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

About

Sylvia Wood is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvia Wood has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Sylvia Wood's work include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (6 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers). Sylvia Wood is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (6 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers). Sylvia Wood collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Sylvia Wood's co-authors include Fabrice DeClerck, John S. Richardson, Anthony P. Farrell, William R. Driedzic, Justin A. Johnson, Mark Mulligan, Sarah K. Jones, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla and Chris M. Wood and has published in prestigious journals such as BioScience, Ecological Applications and Journal of Experimental Biology.

In The Last Decade

Sylvia Wood

32 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Distilling the role of ecosystem services in the Sustainable Development Goals

2017 384 citations Sylvia Wood, Sarah K. Jones et al. Ecosystem Services profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sylvia Wood Canada	18	644	612	212	162	149	32	1.5k
Sharif A. Mukul Australia	24	1.0k 1.6×	427 0.7×	280 1.3×	159 1.0×	57 0.4×	89	1.8k
Claire Brown United States	23	806 1.3×	503 0.8×	124 0.6×	380 2.3×	72 0.5×	51	2.0k
Estelle Balian France	16	638 1.0×	760 1.2×	469 2.2×	174 1.1×	216 1.4×	24	1.7k
Matt Finer United States	13	697 1.1×	517 0.8×	412 1.9×	71 0.4×	50 0.3×	16	1.8k
Jan Staes Belgium	19	780 1.2×	315 0.5×	132 0.6×	233 1.4×	147 1.0×	40	1.3k
Håkan Berg Sweden	25	453 0.7×	426 0.7×	98 0.5×	169 1.0×	160 1.1×	61	1.7k
Lilik Budi Prasetyo Indonesia	19	445 0.7×	685 1.1×	85 0.4×	213 1.3×	39 0.3×	262	1.7k
Trevor Ward Australia	21	807 1.3×	908 1.5×	189 0.9×	340 2.1×	58 0.4×	48	1.6k
WRI	4	993 1.5×	691 1.1×	568 2.7×	317 2.0×	137 0.9×	8	2.1k
Eugênio Arima United States	22	1.4k 2.2×	643 1.1×	347 1.6×	253 1.6×	42 0.3×	61	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Sylvia Wood

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sylvia Wood

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sylvia Wood. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sylvia Wood. The network helps show where Sylvia Wood may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvia Wood

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Carmeliet, Jan, et al.. (2025). Understanding cooling potential of urban trees in a typical North America neighborhood. Building and Environment. 282. 113303–113303. 4 indexed citations

Wood, Sylvia, et al.. (2025). Local impact of trees on thermal comfort of pedestrians in streets. Urban Climate. 61. 102417–102417. 3 indexed citations

Wood, Sylvia, et al.. (2024). Optimal representation of tree foliage for local urban climate modeling. Sustainable Cities and Society. 115. 105857–105857. 9 indexed citations

Oehri, Jacqueline, et al.. (2024). Rapid evaluation of habitat connectivity change to safeguard multispecies persistence in human-transformed landscapes. Biodiversity and Conservation. 33(14). 4043–4071. 4 indexed citations

Wynes, Seth, Jennifer Garard, Midori Aoyagi, et al.. (2022). Climate Action Failure Highlighted as Leading Global Risk by Both Scientists and Business Leaders. Earth s Future. 10(10). 2 indexed citations

Wood, Sylvia, Kyle T. Martins, Fanny Maure, et al.. (2022). Missing Interactions: The Current State of Multispecies Connectivity Analysis. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10. 26 indexed citations

Garschagen, Matthias, Sylvia Wood, Jennifer Garard, Maria Ivanova, & Amy Luers. (2020). Too Big to Ignore: Global Risk Perception Gaps Between Scientists and Business Leaders. Earth s Future. 8(3). 10 indexed citations

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

Wood, Sylvia, Mahbubul Alam, & Jérôme Dupras. (2019). Multiple Pathways to More Sustainable Diets: Shifts in Diet Composition, Caloric Intake and Food Waste. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 3. 13 indexed citations

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Wood, Sylvia, et al.. (2019). Water quality trading schemes as a form of state intervention: Two case studies of state-market hybridization from Canada and New Zealand. Ecosystem Services. 36. 100890–100890. 16 indexed citations

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Wood, Sylvia, Sarah K. Jones, Justin A. Johnson, et al.. (2017). Distilling the role of ecosystem services in the Sustainable Development Goals. Ecosystem Services. 29. 70–82. 384 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wood, Sylvia, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, & Oliver T. Coomes. (2016). Cropping history trumps fallow duration in long‐term soil and vegetation dynamics of shifting cultivation systems. Ecological Applications. 27(2). 519–531. 19 indexed citations

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Kanter, David, Mark Musumba, Sylvia Wood, et al.. (2016). Evaluating agricultural trade-offs in the age of sustainable development. Agricultural Systems. 163. 73–88. 226 indexed citations

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Negassa, Asfaw, Bekele Shiferaw, Jawoo Koo, et al.. (2013). The potential for wheat production in Africa: analysis of biophysical suitability and economic profitability. 46 indexed citations

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Marczak, Laurie B., et al.. (2010). Are forested buffers an effective conservation strategy for riparian fauna? An assessment using meta‐analysis. Ecological Applications. 20(1). 126–134. 114 indexed citations

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Wood, Sylvia & John S. Richardson. (2010). Evidence for ecosystem engineering in a lentic habitat by tadpoles of the western toad. Aquatic Sciences. 72(4). 499–508. 8 indexed citations

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Wood, Sylvia. (1994). Monophyly and Comparisons Between Trees. Cladistics. 10(4). 339–346. 7 indexed citations

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Wood, Sylvia, R. Leenen, Edgar Pullicino, & Maurizio Elia. (1988). Effect of short-term starvation on the release of glutamine by human muscle.. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society. 9–9. 2 indexed citations

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Farrell, Anthony P., Sylvia Wood, Tom Hart, & William R. Driedzic. (1985). Myocardial Oxygen Consumption in the Sea Raven, Hemitripterus Americanus : The Effects of Volume Loading, Pressure Loading and Progressive Hypoxia. Journal of Experimental Biology. 117(1). 237–250. 57 indexed citations

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Farrell, Anthony P., et al.. (1983). Cardiac Performance in thein SituPerfused Fish Heart During Extracellular Acidosis: Interactive Effects of Adrenaline. Journal of Experimental Biology. 107(1). 415–429. 55 indexed citations

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