Viola Heinrich

959 total citations · 2 hit papers
16 papers, 477 citations indexed

About

Viola Heinrich is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Viola Heinrich has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 477 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 4 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 4 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Viola Heinrich's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (5 papers). Viola Heinrich is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (5 papers). Viola Heinrich collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and Germany. Viola Heinrich's co-authors include Luiz E. O. C. Aragão, Thais M. Rosan, Stephen Sitch, Celso H. L. Silva, Joanna I. House, Tristram C. Hales, Liana O. Anderson, Henrique Cassol, Ricardo Dalagnol and Carlos Alberto Silva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Viola Heinrich

14 papers receiving 468 citations

Hit Papers

Large carbon sink potential of secondary forests in the B... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2023 50 100 150
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. Large carbon sink potential of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon to mitigate climate change
    2021 173 citations Viola Heinrich, Ricardo Dalagnol et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. The carbon sink of secondary and degraded humid tropical forests
    2023 90 citations Viola Heinrich, Christelle Vancutsem et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Viola Heinrich United Kingdom 8 355 126 100 90 46 16 477
Jim Penman Netherlands 4 363 1.0× 115 0.9× 79 0.8× 111 1.2× 96 2.1× 4 472
Wesley A. Campanharo Brazil 8 273 0.8× 96 0.8× 121 1.2× 59 0.7× 23 0.5× 18 370
Sá Nogueira Lisboa Mozambique 11 210 0.6× 81 0.6× 112 1.1× 66 0.7× 25 0.5× 26 388
Seth R. Gorelik United States 6 287 0.8× 71 0.6× 87 0.9× 47 0.5× 52 1.1× 8 404
Daniel Furlan Amaral Brazil 4 364 1.0× 63 0.5× 136 1.4× 58 0.6× 31 0.7× 7 441
Samantha Yeo United States 8 236 0.7× 55 0.4× 112 1.1× 51 0.6× 31 0.7× 10 355
Philip Mundhenk Germany 8 235 0.7× 144 1.1× 77 0.8× 105 1.2× 26 0.6× 11 357
Aurora Miho Yanai Brazil 12 354 1.0× 82 0.7× 101 1.0× 41 0.5× 75 1.6× 20 472
Günay Çakır Türkiye 12 310 0.9× 85 0.7× 165 1.6× 108 1.2× 21 0.5× 26 439
Tania Fernández Mexico 6 297 0.8× 56 0.4× 143 1.4× 49 0.5× 30 0.7× 11 432

Countries citing papers authored by Viola Heinrich

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Fields of papers citing papers by Viola Heinrich

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Viola Heinrich

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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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
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Obermeier, Wolfgang A., Clemens Schwingshackl, Raphael Ganzenmüller, et al.. (2025). Differences and uncertainties in land-use CO2 flux estimates. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(11). 747–766.
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Gibbs, David A., Giacomo Grassi, Joana Melo, et al.. (2025). Revised and updated geospatial monitoring of 21st century forest carbon fluxes. Earth system science data. 17(3). 1217–1243. 6 indexed citations
4.
Besnard, Simon, Viola Heinrich, Nuno Carvalhais, et al.. (2025). Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(10). 1848–1860. 1 indexed citations
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Baker, Jessica C. A., Marcos Adami, Celso H. L. Silva, et al.. (2025). Climate benefits of Amazon secondary forests—recent advances and research needs. Environmental Research Letters. 20(4). 43001–43001.
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Chazdon, Robin L., Nico Blüthgen, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Viola Heinrich, & Frans Bongers. (2025). Drivers and benefits of natural regeneration in tropical forests. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 1(5). 298–314. 2 indexed citations
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Cheesman, Alexander W., Paulo Artaxo, Gerd Folberth, et al.. (2024). Reduced productivity and carbon drawdown of tropical forests from ground-level ozone exposure. Nature Geoscience. 17(10). 1003–1007. 8 indexed citations
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Hogan, J. Aaron, Jeremy W. Lichstein, Eileen H. Helmer, et al.. (2024). Anthromes and forest carbon responses to global change. Plants People Planet. 7(4). 1027–1042. 2 indexed citations
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Heinrich, Viola, Christelle Vancutsem, Ricardo Dalagnol, et al.. (2023). The carbon sink of secondary and degraded humid tropical forests. Nature. 615(7952). 436–442. 90 indexed citations breakdown →
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Heinrich, Viola, Joanna I. House, David A. Gibbs, et al.. (2023). Mind the gap: reconciling tropical forest carbon flux estimates from earth observation and national reporting requires transparency. Carbon Balance and Management. 18(1). 22–22. 5 indexed citations
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Rosan, Thais M., Stephen Sitch, Lina M. Mercado, et al.. (2022). Fragmentation-Driven Divergent Trends in Burned Area in Amazonia and Cerrado. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5. 24 indexed citations
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Fawcett, Dominic, Stephen Sitch, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2022). Declining Amazon biomass due to deforestation and subsequent degradation losses exceeding gains. Global Change Biology. 29(4). 1106–1118. 36 indexed citations
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Heinrich, Viola, Ricardo Dalagnol, Henrique Cassol, et al.. (2021). Large carbon sink potential of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon to mitigate climate change. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1785–1785. 173 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rosan, Thais M., Kees Klein Goldewijk, Raphael Ganzenmüller, et al.. (2021). A multi-data assessment of land use and land cover emissions from Brazil during 2000–2019. Environmental Research Letters. 16(7). 74004–74004. 39 indexed citations
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Silva, Celso H. L., Viola Heinrich, Igor S. Broggio, et al.. (2020). Benchmark maps of 33 years of secondary forest age for Brazil. Scientific Data. 7(1). 269–269. 80 indexed citations
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Young, Matthew, Viola Heinrich, Emily Black, & Dagmawi Asfaw. (2020). Optimal spatial scales for seasonal forecasts over Africa. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 94023–94023. 7 indexed citations

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