2026 Emilio F. Moran: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	78	1042	989	457	420	260	37306

Overview

Emilio F. Moran is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics covered by their work include:

Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
Water Governance and Infrastructure
Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Energy and Environment Impacts
Child Nutrition and Water Access
Fish Ecology and Management Studies

Moran has published in various venues, with recurring publications in:

Energy Research & Social Science
The Science of The Total Environment
Scientific Reports
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Journal of Environmental Management

Recent publications include:

"Evolution and effects of the social-ecological system over a millennium in China's Loess Plateau," 2020, Science Advances
"Three decades of land-use and land-cover change in mountain regions of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest," 2020, Landscape and Urban Planning
"Socioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems," 2021, Scientific Reports
"Is hydropower worth it? Exploring amazonian resettlement, human development and environmental costs with the Belo Monte project in Brazil," 2021, Energy Research & Social Science
"Recently constructed hydropower dams were associated with reduced economic production, population, and greenness in nearby areas," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Moran are:

María Claudia López
Igor Cavallini Johansen
Adam Mayer
Ramón Silva
Mateus Batistella

Best Publications

The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths

Eric F. Lambin;B.L. Turner;Helmut J. Geist;Samuel B. Agbola

5057
Citations
Complexity of coupled human and natural systems

Jianguo Liu;Thomas Dietz;Stephen R. Carpenter;Marina Alberti

4320
Citations
Change detection techniques

D. Lu;P. Mausel;E. Moran

4270
Citations
Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change

Thomas K. Rudel;Oliver T. Coomes;Emilio Moran;Frederic Achard

1783
Citations
Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;Mateus Batistella;Ruth DeFries

1142
Citations
A survey of remote sensing-based aboveground biomass estimation methods in forest ecosystems

Dengsheng Lu;Qi Chen;Guangxing Wang;Lijuan Liu

853
Citations
Human Adaptability: An Introduction To Ecological Anthropology

Emilio F. Moran

853
Citations
Developing the Amazon

Emilio F. Moran

827
Citations
Sustainable hydropower in the 21st century

Emilio F. Moran;Maria Claudia Lopez;Nathan Moore;Norbert Müller

700
Citations
Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

T.R. Feldpausch;L. Banin;O.L. Phillips;T.R. Baker

662
Citations
People and pixels : linking remote sensing and social science

Liverman D;Moran Ef;Rindfuss Rr;Stern Pc

620
Citations
INTEGRATING AMAZONIAN VEGETATION, LAND-USE, AND SATELLITE DATA

Emilio F. Moran;Eduardo Brondizio;Paul Mausel;You Wu

573
Citations
Relationships between forest stand parameters and Landsat TM spectral responses in the Brazilian Amazon Basin

Dengsheng Lu;Paul Mausel;Eduardo Brondı́zio;Emilio Moran

500
Citations
Deforestation and Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: External Capital and Household Processes

Robert Walker;Emilio Moran;Luc Anselin

468
Citations
Assessment of atmospheric correction methods for Landsat TM data applicable to Amazon basin LBA research

D. Lu;P. Mausel;E. Brondizio;E. Moran

426
Citations
Effects of soil fertility and land-use on forest succession in Amazônia

Emilio F. Moran;Eduardo S. Brondizio;Joanna M. Tucker;Maria Clara da Silva-Forsberg

423
Citations
Deforestation and Land Use in the Brazilian Amazon

Emilio F. Moran

381
Citations
Linear mixture model applied to Amazonian vegetation classification

Dengsheng Lu;Emilio Moran;Mateus Batistella;Mateus Batistella

367
Citations
Aboveground Forest Biomass Estimation with Landsat and LiDAR Data and Uncertainty Analysis of the Estimates

Dengsheng Lu;Qi Chen;Guangxing Wang;Emilio Moran

333
Citations
Land change science : observing, monitoring and understanding trajectories of change on the Earth's surface

Garik Gutman;Anthony C. Janetos;Christopher O. Justice;Emilio F. Moran

295
Citations
Developing the Amazon.

Stephen L. Nugent;Emilio F. Moran

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mateus Batistella Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation

Dengsheng Lu Fujian Normal University

Eduardo S. Brondizio Indiana University

Jianguo Liu Michigan State University

Billie Turner Arizona State University

Eric F. Lambin Stanford University

Ronald R. Rindfuss University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Barbara Entwisle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sandra L. Hofferth University of Maryland, College Park

Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University

External Links

Personal website of Emilio F. Moran

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