William Costa

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 890 citations indexed

About

William Costa is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, William Costa has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 890 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 2 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 1 paper in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in William Costa's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (2 papers) and Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis (1 paper). William Costa is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (2 papers) and Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis (1 paper). William Costa collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and Switzerland. William Costa's co-authors include Britaldo Soares‐Filho, Raoni Rajão, Ane Alencar, Michael T. Coe, Márcia N. Macedo, Hermann Rodrigues, Ubirajara Oliveira, Letícia Gomes, Mercedes Bustamante and Heloísa S. Miranda and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Forest Ecology and Management and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

William Costa

6 papers receiving 859 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.

Cracking Brazil's Forest Code

2014 797 citations Britaldo Soares‐Filho, Raoni Rajão et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Costa Brazil	5	583	204	172	163	156	7	890
Letícia de Barros Viana Hissa Brazil	7	612 1.0×	225 1.1×	171 1.0×	114 0.7×	92 0.6×	10	798
Britaldo Soares Filho Brazil	11	651 1.1×	133 0.7×	217 1.3×	160 1.0×	105 0.7×	17	919
Sónia Maria Carvalho Ribeiro Brazil	21	744 1.3×	157 0.8×	155 0.9×	111 0.7×	111 0.7×	52	1.0k
Miguel Calmon United States	14	691 1.2×	88 0.4×	148 0.9×	230 1.4×	133 0.9×	27	1.0k
Rafaella Almeida Silvestrini Brazil	7	636 1.1×	212 1.0×	174 1.0×	123 0.8×	72 0.5×	11	821
Daniel Redo Puerto Rico	11	828 1.4×	129 0.6×	391 2.3×	238 1.5×	127 0.8×	13	1.2k
Jana Špulerová Slovakia	16	650 1.1×	91 0.4×	188 1.1×	118 0.7×	178 1.1×	42	1.0k
Susan Chomba Kenya	10	576 1.0×	83 0.4×	138 0.8×	194 1.2×	107 0.7×	15	894
José Volante Argentina	18	840 1.4×	116 0.6×	303 1.8×	151 0.9×	107 0.7×	40	1.3k
Oswaldo de Carvalho Brazil	10	901 1.5×	204 1.0×	367 2.1×	299 1.8×	107 0.7×	15	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by William Costa

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Costa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Costa

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Costa, William, Britaldo Soares‐Filho, & Rodrigo Affonso de Albuquerque Nóbrega. (2022). Can the Brazilian National Logistics Plan Induce Port Competitiveness by Reshaping the Port Service Areas?. Sustainability. 14(21). 14567–14567. 3 indexed citations

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Nóbrega, Rodrigo Affonso de Albuquerque, et al.. (2020). Una perspectiva ambiental en el planeamiento de la ferrovía bioceánica: modelamiento cuantitativo de escenarios. Revista Ibero-Americana de Ciências Ambientais. 11(3). 454–468.

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Oliveira, Ubirajara, Britaldo Soares‐Filho, William Costa, et al.. (2020). Modeling fuel loads dynamics and fire spread probability in the Brazilian Cerrado. Forest Ecology and Management. 482. 118889–118889. 47 indexed citations

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Ribeiro, Sónia Maria Carvalho, Britaldo Soares Filho, William Costa, et al.. (2018). Can multifunctional livelihoods including recreational ecosystem services (RES) and non timber forest products (NTFP) maintain biodiverse forests in the Brazilian Amazon?. Ecosystem Services. 31. 517–526. 29 indexed citations

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May, Peter H., et al.. (2017). Adaptive Forest Governance in Northwestern Mato Grosso, Brazil: Pilot project outcomes across agrarian reform landscapes. Environmental Policy and Governance. 27(5). 453–471. 9 indexed citations

6.

Soares‐Filho, Britaldo, Raoni Rajão, Márcia N. Macedo, et al.. (2014). Cracking Brazil's Forest Code. Science. 344(6182). 363–364. 797 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Zwahlen, Jurg, et al.. (2013). Development of Busek 0.5N Green Monopropellant Thruster. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 5 indexed citations

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