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Daniel G. Brown 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 Daniel G. Brown sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 215 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Daniel G. Brown 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 Daniel G. Brown sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Daniel G. Brown is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research focuses broadly on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant number of publications in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Artificial Intelligence, Soil Science, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

Their work primarily addresses topics including Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development; Land Rights and Reforms; Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Land Use and Ecosystem Services; Topic Modeling; Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture; and Energy and Environment Impacts.

Frequent co-authors of Daniel G. Brown include Arun Agrawal, Jonathan A. Sullivan, Tim G. Williams, Seth D. Guikema, and Chuan Liao.

Daniel G. Brown has published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), UNC Libraries, Global Environmental Change, and Environmental Research Letters. These publication outlets reflect a mixture of preprints, institutional repositories, and peer-reviewed journals relevant to environmental and agricultural sciences.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel G. Brown include:

  • Integrating Equity Considerations into Agent-Based Modeling: A Conceptual Framework and Practical Guidance, 2022, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  • Resilience and equity: Quantifying the distributional effects of resilience-enhancing strategies in a smallholder agricultural system, 2020, Agricultural Systems
  • Carbon emissions from the global land rush and potential mitigation, 2021, Nature Food
  • Linking model design and application for transdisciplinary approaches in social-ecological systems, 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • Spatial patterns of large-scale land transactions and their potential socio-environmental outcomes in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Liberia, and Peru, 2020, Land Degradation and Development

Daniel G. Brown has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008 and again in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Using neural networks and GIS to forecast land use changes: a Land Transformation Model

    Bryan C Pijanowski;Daniel G Brown;Bradley A Shellito;Gaurav A Manik

  • Rural land-use trends in the conterminous United States, 1950-2000

    Daniel G. Brown;S Kenneth M. Johnson;Thomas R. Loveland;David M. Theobald

  • Mapping community determinants of heat vulnerability.

    Colleen E. Reid;Marie S. O'Neill;Carina J. Gronlund;Shannon J. Brines

  • Path dependence and the validation of agent-based spatial models of land use

    Daniel G. Brown;Scott E. Page;Rick L. Riolo;Moira L. Zellner

  • Spatial process and data models: Toward integration of agent-based models and GIS

    Daniel G. Brown;Rick L. Riolo;Derek T. Robinson;Michael J. North

  • Modeling the relationships between land use and land cover on private lands in the Upper Midwest, USA

    D. G. Brown;B. C. Pijanowski;Jiunn-Der Duh

  • Availability of recreational resources and physical activity in adults

    Ana V. Diez Roux;Kelly R. Evenson;Aileen P. McGinn;Daniel G. Brown

  • Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local diversity.

    Andrew Gonzalez;Bradley J. Cardinale;Ginger R. H. Allington;Jarrett Byrnes

  • Comparison of empirical methods for building agent-based models in land use science

    Derek T. Robinson;Daniel G. Brown;Dawn C. Parker;Pepijn Schreinemachers

  • Effects of Heterogeneity in Residential Preferences on an Agent-Based Model of Urban Sprawl

    Daniel G. Brown;Derek T. Robinson

  • Predicting vegetation types at treeline using topography and biophysical disturbance variables

    Daniel G. Brown

  • Carbon stored in human settlements: the conterminous United States

    Galina Churkina;Daniel G. Brown;Gregory A. Keoleian

  • Empirical characterisation of agent behaviours in socio-ecological systems

    Alex Smajgl;Daniel G. Brown;Diego Valbuena;Marco G. A. Huigen

  • A review of current calibration and validation practices in land-change modeling

    Jasper van Vliet;Arnold K. Bregt;Daniel G. Brown;Hedwig van Delden

  • Using the ODD Protocol for Describing Three Agent-Based Social Simulation Models of Land-Use Change

    Gary Polhill;Dawn Cassandra Parker;Daniel Brown;Volker Grimm

  • Agent-based and analytical modeling to evaluate the effectiveness of greenbelts

    Daniel G. Brown;Daniel G. Brown;Scott E. Page;Rick L. Riolo;William Rand

  • Neighborhood resources for physical activity and healthy foods and their association with insulin resistance.

    Amy H. Auchincloss;Ana V. Diez Roux;Daniel G. Brown;Christine A. Erdmann

  • An agent-based model of income inequalities in diet in the context of residential segregation.

    Amy H. Auchincloss;Rick L. Riolo;Daniel G. Brown;Jeremy Cook

  • Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Change

    Daniel G. Brown;Robert Walker;Steven Manson;Karen Seto

  • Climate adaptation, local institutions, and rural livelihoods: A comparative study of herder communities in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China

    Jun Wang;Daniel G. Brown;Arun Agrawal

  • Supervised classification of types of glaciated landscapes using digital elevation data

    Daniel G. Brown;David P. Lusch;Kenneth A. Duda

  • Land Use and Land Cover Change

    Daniel Brown;Colin Polsky;Paul V. Bolstad;Samuel D. Brody

  • Mapping Community Determinants of Heat Vulnerability

    C Reid;M O'Neill;S Brines;C Gronlund

Frequent Co-Authors

Rick L. Riolo
Rick L. Riolo University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Arun Agrawal
Arun Agrawal University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marie S. O'Neill
Marie S. O'Neill University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William S. Currie
William S. Currie University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tatiana Filatova
Tatiana Filatova Delft University of Technology
Ana V. Diez Roux
Ana V. Diez Roux Drexel University
Nancy H. F. French
Nancy H. F. French Michigan Technological University
Eric J. Gustafson
Eric J. Gustafson US Forest Service
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Richard B. Rood
Richard B. Rood University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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