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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 42 7234 6954 2570 2393 82 30221

Alexandra Tyukavina publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Alexandra Tyukavina between 2012 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Alexandra Tyukavina published across 14 years, from 2012 to 2025, averaging 6.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2018. 8 of the 86 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2012 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 16. Peak 16 publications in 2018. 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

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Alexandra Tyukavina: publications per year, 2012 to 2025
Year Publications
2012 2
2013 4
2014 4
2015 6
2016 5
2017 10
2018 16
2019 7
2020 6
2021 10
2022 5
2023 3
2024 3
2025 5
Total 86
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Alexandra Tyukavina publications per year - data summary

  • Alexandra Tyukavina, a Environmental Sciences scholar from University of Maryland, College Park, has 86 publications recorded across 14 years, from 2012 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 2012 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2018, with 16 publications.
  • The least productive year with any output is 2012, with 2 publications.
  • The rate of publication averages 6.1 papers per year over the whole span, or 6.1 per year counting only the 14 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 26 publications, 30% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 2012-2016: 21 publications (4.2 per year); 2017-2021: 49 publications (9.8 per year); 2022-2025: 16 publications (4.0 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is broadly steady.

Alexandra Tyukavina publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexandra Tyukavina sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 81–90 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 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.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361 82
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Alexandra Tyukavina publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 9,676 Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 66 ranges running from 41–50 to 690+ publications.
  • Alexandra Tyukavina, a Environmental Sciences scholar from University of Maryland, College Park, records 82 publications - the 6th percentile of the discipline.
  • 6% of ranked Environmental Sciences scientists score the same or lower than Alexandra Tyukavina, and about 94% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 161–170 publications range, and Alexandra Tyukavina ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 121–130 publications, holding 617 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 67% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 201–210 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 690 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

Alexandra Tyukavina D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexandra Tyukavina sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 42 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
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.

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305 42
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Alexandra Tyukavina D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 9,676 Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 97 ranges running from 30 to 126+ D-Index.
  • Alexandra Tyukavina, a Environmental Sciences scholar from University of Maryland, College Park, records 42 D-Index - the 25th percentile of the discipline.
  • 25% of ranked Environmental Sciences scientists score the same or lower than Alexandra Tyukavina, and about 75% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 51 D-Index range, and Alexandra Tyukavina ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 45 D-Index, holding 348 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 59% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 54 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more, 92 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Research.com Recognitions

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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

  • 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

  • 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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