Z. Villegas

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 930 citations indexed

About

Z. Villegas is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Z. Villegas has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 930 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 2 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Z. Villegas's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers), Forest ecology and management (3 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (3 papers). Z. Villegas is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (6 papers), Forest ecology and management (3 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (3 papers). Z. Villegas collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Bolivia. Z. Villegas's co-authors include Marielos Peña‐Claros, Alfredo Alarcón, Lourens Poorter, Ute Sass‐Klaassen, Frank J. Sterck, Esther Fichtler, Bonifacio Mostacedo, William Pariona, Claudio Leaño and Alejandro Alarcón and has published in prestigious journals such as New Phytologist, Conservation Biology and Forest Ecology and Management.

In The Last Decade

Z. Villegas

8 papers receiving 879 citations

Hit Papers

The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance f... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species
    2009 519 citations Lourens Poorter, Alfredo Alarcón et al. New Phytologist profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Z. Villegas Netherlands 5 629 573 202 130 128 8 930
Tomás A. Easdale New Zealand 12 468 0.7× 734 1.3× 137 0.7× 104 0.8× 157 1.2× 20 976
M. N. Nur Supardi Malaysia 10 493 0.8× 779 1.4× 159 0.8× 138 1.1× 161 1.3× 15 1.1k
Alfredo Alarcón Netherlands 8 722 1.1× 940 1.6× 268 1.3× 187 1.4× 163 1.3× 9 1.3k
M. Genoveva Gatti Argentina 17 482 0.8× 529 0.9× 163 0.8× 275 2.1× 151 1.2× 25 917
Marisol Toledo Netherlands 13 571 0.9× 754 1.3× 126 0.6× 107 0.8× 171 1.3× 26 1.0k
Luzmila Arroyo Bolivia 7 921 1.5× 1.1k 1.9× 146 0.7× 195 1.5× 236 1.8× 9 1.5k
Paulo César Botosso Brazil 14 371 0.6× 365 0.6× 298 1.5× 88 0.7× 68 0.5× 47 641
Tatsuhiro Ohkubo Japan 18 398 0.6× 683 1.2× 86 0.4× 196 1.5× 195 1.5× 52 1.0k
Sophan Chhin United States 17 598 1.0× 563 1.0× 373 1.8× 87 0.7× 100 0.8× 52 798
John S. Kush United States 18 588 0.9× 481 0.8× 130 0.6× 110 0.8× 251 2.0× 72 830

Countries citing papers authored by Z. Villegas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Z. Villegas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Z. Villegas. 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 Z. Villegas. The network helps show where Z. Villegas may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Z. Villegas

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

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Villegas, Z. & Bonifacio Mostacedo. (2011). Diagnóstico de la situación actual sobre políticas, información, avances y necesidades futuras sobre MRV en Bolivia. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) eBooks. 1 indexed citations
2.
Poorter, Lourens, Alfredo Alarcón, Esther Fichtler, et al.. (2009). The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species. New Phytologist. 185(2). 481–492. 519 indexed citations breakdown →
3.
Villegas, Z., et al.. (2009). La visión agrarista de los actores de la deforestación en Bolivia. Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). 12(27). 33–47. 1 indexed citations
4.
Villegas, Z., Marielos Peña‐Claros, Bonifacio Mostacedo, et al.. (2008). Silvicultural treatments enhance growth rates of future crop trees in a tropical dry forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 258(6). 971–977. 97 indexed citations
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Peña‐Claros, Marielos, Todd S. Fredericksen, Alejandro Alarcón, et al.. (2008). Beyond reduced-impact logging: Silvicultural treatments to increase growth rates of tropical trees. Forest Ecology and Management. 256(7). 1458–1467. 190 indexed citations
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Peña‐Claros, Marielos, Z. Villegas, Lourens Poorter, et al.. (2007). Letters to the editor about the contents of past issues and comments on topics of current concern toFrontiersreaders. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 5(5). 237–240. 2 indexed citations
7.
Wyman, Miriam, et al.. (2007). Land-use / Land-cover Change in Yucatán State, Mexico: An examination of political, socioeconomic, and biophysical drivers in Peto and Tzucacab. Ethnobotany Research and Applications. 5. 59–59. 10 indexed citations
8.
Steininger, Marc K., Compton J. Tucker, Peter J. Ersts, et al.. (2001). Clearance and Fragmentation of Tropical Deciduous Forest in the Tierras Bajas, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Conservation Biology. 15(4). 856–866. 110 indexed citations

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