2026 Alexandra Tyukavina: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Rising Stars	40	633	633	93	93	82	25049
Environmental Sciences	42	7232	6952	2570	2393	82	30221

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

12531
Citations
An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm

Eric Dinerstein;David Olson;Anup Joshi;Carly Vynne

2267
Citations
Classifying drivers of global forest loss

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

2207
Citations
Global land change from 1982 to 2016.

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

1945
Citations
Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data

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

1232
Citations
Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century

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1136
Citations
Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes

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

1066
Citations
The Global 2000-2020 Land Cover and Land Use Change Dataset Derived From the Landsat Archive: First Results

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599
Citations
Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

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552
Citations
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

508
Citations
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

452
Citations
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

417
Citations
Global Trends of Forest Loss Due to Fire From 2001 to 2019

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386
Citations
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

382
Citations
Congo Basin forest loss dominated by increasing smallholder clearing.

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

332
Citations
Humid tropical forest disturbance alerts using Landsat data

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

321
Citations
Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia

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

284
Citations
Landsat Analysis Ready Data for Global Land Cover and Land Cover Change Mapping

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

269
Citations
The fate of tropical forest fragments.

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

242
Citations
Types and rates of forest disturbance in Brazilian Legal Amazon, 2000-2013.

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

239
Citations
Aboveground carbon loss in natural and managed tropical forests from 2000 to 2012

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

204
Citations
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

187
Citations
Near doubling of Brazil’s intensive row crop area since 2000

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

185
Citations
Can carbon emissions from tropical deforestation drop by 50% in 5 years?

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

169
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Potapov University of Maryland, College Park

Matthew C. Hansen University of Maryland, College Park

Svetlana Turubanova University of Maryland, College Park

Stephen V. Stehman SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Scott J. Goetz Northern Arizona University

Alessandro Baccini Boston University

Richard A. Houghton Woods Hole Research Center

John R. Townshend University of Maryland, College Park

Eric Vermote Goddard Space Flight Center

Nancy Lee Harris World Resources Institute

External Links

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