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78
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37306
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1042
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457

Emilio F. Moran 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 Emilio F. Moran sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 260 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Emilio F. Moran 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 Emilio F. Moran sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • Complexity of coupled human and natural systems

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

  • Change detection techniques

    D. Lu;P. Mausel;E. Moran

  • Forest transitions: towards a global understanding of land use change

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

  • Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World

    Jianguo Liu;Vanessa Hull;Mateus Batistella;Ruth DeFries

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

    Dengsheng Lu;Qi Chen;Guangxing Wang;Lijuan Liu

  • Human Adaptability: An Introduction To Ecological Anthropology

    Emilio F. Moran

  • Developing the Amazon

    Emilio F. Moran

  • Sustainable hydropower in the 21st century

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

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

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

  • People and pixels : linking remote sensing and social science

    Liverman D;Moran Ef;Rindfuss Rr;Stern Pc

  • INTEGRATING AMAZONIAN VEGETATION, LAND-USE, AND SATELLITE DATA

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

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

    Dengsheng Lu;Paul Mausel;Eduardo Brondı́zio;Emilio Moran

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

    Robert Walker;Emilio Moran;Luc Anselin

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

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

  • 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

  • Deforestation and Land Use in the Brazilian Amazon

    Emilio F. Moran

  • Linear mixture model applied to Amazonian vegetation classification

    Dengsheng Lu;Emilio Moran;Mateus Batistella;Mateus Batistella

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

    Dengsheng Lu;Qi Chen;Guangxing Wang;Emilio Moran

  • 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

  • Developing the Amazon.

    Stephen L. Nugent;Emilio F. Moran

Frequent Co-Authors

Mateus Batistella
Mateus Batistella Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Dengsheng Lu
Dengsheng Lu Fujian Normal University
Eduardo S. Brondizio
Eduardo S. Brondizio Indiana University
Jianguo Liu
Jianguo Liu Michigan State University
Billie Turner
Billie Turner Arizona State University
Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Ronald R. Rindfuss
Ronald R. Rindfuss University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Barbara Entwisle
Barbara Entwisle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sandra L. Hofferth
Sandra L. Hofferth University of Maryland, College Park
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University

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