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93

Environmental Sciences

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42
Citations
30221
World Ranking
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National Ranking
2570

Alexandra Tyukavina publications per year

2012: 2 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 6 publications 2016: 5 publications 2017: 10 publications 2018: 16 publications 2019: 7 publications 2020: 6 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 3 publications 2025: 5 publications
2012 2025

86 publications in total across all disciplines

Alexandra Tyukavina publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2027

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where Alexandra Tyukavina sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 82 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Alexandra Tyukavina D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2027

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where Alexandra Tyukavina sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Alexandra Tyukavina is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics including Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Forest ecology and management, Fire effects on ecosystems, and Climate change impacts on agriculture.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexandra Tyukavina include Matthew C. Hansen, Peter Potapov, Amy Pickens, Svetlana Turubanova, and Xiao-Peng Song.

They have published extensively in several journals with multiple contributions to Remote Sensing of Environment. Other notable venues for their publications include Nature Food, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, Nature Sustainability, and Remote Sensing.

Some of their recent papers are as follows:

  • Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century (2021, Nature Food)
  • Mapping and sampling to characterize global inland water dynamics from 1999 to 2018 with full Landsat time-series (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • The Global 2000-2020 Land Cover and Land Use Change Dataset Derived From the Landsat Archive: First Results (2022, Frontiers in Remote Sensing)

Best Publications

  • High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

    M.C. Hansen;P.V. Potapov;R. Moore;M. Hancher

  • An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm

    Eric Dinerstein;David Olson;Anup Joshi;Carly Vynne

  • Classifying drivers of global forest loss

    Philip G. Curtis;Christy M. Slay;Nancy L. Harris;Alexandra Tyukavina

  • Global land change from 1982 to 2016.

    Xiao Peng Song;Matthew C. Hansen;Stephen V. Stehman;Peter V. Potapov

  • Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data

    Peter Potapov;Xinyuan Li;Andres Hernandez-Serna;Alexandra Tyukavina

  • Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century

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  • Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes

    Nancy L. Harris;David A. Gibbs;Alessandro Baccini;Richard A. Birdsey

  • The Global 2000-2020 Land Cover and Land Use Change Dataset Derived From the Landsat Archive: First Results

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  • Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

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  • Mapping and monitoring deforestation and forest degradation in Sumatra (Indonesia) using Landsat time series data sets from 1990 to 2010

    Belinda Arunarwati Margono;Belinda Arunarwati Margono;Svetlana Turubanova;Ilona Zhuravleva;Peter Potapov

  • Mapping and sampling to characterize global inland water dynamics from 1999 to 2018 with full Landsat time-series

    Amy H. Pickens;Matthew C. Hansen;Matthew Hancher;Stephen V. Stehman

  • Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation.

    Xiao Peng Song;Xiao Peng Song;Matthew C. Hansen;Peter Potapov;Bernard Adusei

  • Global Trends of Forest Loss Due to Fire From 2001 to 2019

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  • Eastern Europe's forest cover dynamics from 1985 to 2012 quantified from the full Landsat archive

    P.V. Potapov;S.A. Turubanova;A. Tyukavina;A.M. Krylov

  • Congo Basin forest loss dominated by increasing smallholder clearing.

    Alexandra Tyukavina;Matthew C. Hansen;Peter Potapov;Diana Parker

  • Humid tropical forest disturbance alerts using Landsat data

    Matthew C Hansen;Alexander Krylov;Alexandra Tyukavina;Peter V Potapov

  • Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia

    Svetlana Turubanova;Peter V Potapov;Alexandra Tyukavina;Matthew C Hansen

  • Landsat Analysis Ready Data for Global Land Cover and Land Cover Change Mapping

    Peter Potapov;Matthew C. Hansen;Indrani Kommareddy;Anil Kommareddy

  • The fate of tropical forest fragments.

    Matthew C. Hansen;Lei Wang;Xiao-Peng Song;Xiao-Peng Song;Alexandra Tyukavina

  • Types and rates of forest disturbance in Brazilian Legal Amazon, 2000-2013.

    Alexandra Tyukavina;Matthew C. Hansen;Peter V. Potapov;Stephen V. Stehman

  • Aboveground carbon loss in natural and managed tropical forests from 2000 to 2012

    A Tyukavina;A Baccini;M C Hansen;P V Potapov

  • Monitoring conterminous United States (CONUS) land cover change with Web-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD)

    M.C. Hansen;Alexey Egorov;P.V. Potapov;S.V. Stehman

  • Near doubling of Brazil’s intensive row crop area since 2000

    Viviana Zalles;Matthew C. Hansen;Peter V. Potapov;Stephen V. Stehman

  • Can carbon emissions from tropical deforestation drop by 50% in 5 years?

    Daniel J. Zarin;Nancy L. Harris;Alessandro Baccini;Dmitry Aksenov

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Potapov
Peter Potapov University of Maryland, College Park
Matthew C. Hansen
Matthew C. Hansen University of Maryland, College Park
Svetlana Turubanova
Svetlana Turubanova University of Maryland, College Park
Stephen V. Stehman
Stephen V. Stehman SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Scott J. Goetz
Scott J. Goetz Northern Arizona University
Alessandro Baccini
Alessandro Baccini Boston University
Richard A. Houghton
Richard A. Houghton Woods Hole Research Center
John R. Townshend
John R. Townshend University of Maryland, College Park
Eric Vermote
Eric Vermote Goddard Space Flight Center
Nancy Lee Harris
Nancy Lee Harris World Resources Institute

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