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D-Index
58
Citations
25008
World Ranking
2493
National Ranking
879

Mark A. Cochrane publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark A. Cochrane sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 164 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Mark A. Cochrane D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mark A. Cochrane sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mark A. Cochrane is affiliated with the University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science with a concentration in Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Atmospheric Science.

Their work covers multiple topics within the environmental sciences, including:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Remote sensing in agriculture
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Remote sensing and LiDAR applications
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Peatlands and wetlands ecology
  • Oil palm production and sustainability

Mark A. Cochrane has contributed publications to several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
  • Global Change Biology
  • Remote Sensing

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Mark A. Cochrane are:

  • Manage fire regimes, not fires, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Factors affecting relative height and ground elevation estimations of GEDI among forest types across the conterminous USA, 2022, GIScience & Remote Sensing
  • Beyond slash-and-burn: The roles of human activities, altered hydrology and fuels in peat fires in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2020, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
  • Evaluating accuracy of four MODIS-derived burned area products for tropical peatland and non-peatland fires, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Using machine learning algorithms to predict groundwater levels in Indonesian tropical peatlands, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Izaya Numata
  • Bambang Hero Saharjo
  • Laura L. B. Graham
  • Andrew J. Elmore
  • Grahame Applegate

Best Publications

  • Fire in the Earth System

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013

    W. Matt Jolly;Mark A. Cochrane;Patrick H. Freeborn;Zachary A. Holden

  • Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire

    Daniel C. Nepstad;Adalberto Verssimo;Ane Alencar;Carlos Nobre

  • Fire science for rainforests

    Mark A. Cochrane

  • The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • The Future of the Brazilian Amazon

    William F. Laurance;Mark A. Cochrane;Scott Bergen;Philip M. Fearnside

  • Positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests

    Mark A. Cochrane;Ane Alencar;Mark D. Schulze;Carlos M. Souza

  • Roads, deforestation, and the mitigating effect of protected areas in the Amazon

    Christopher P. Barber;Mark A. Cochrane;Carlos M. Souza;William F. Laurance

  • Fire as a recurrent event in tropical forests of the eastern Amazon: effects on forest structure, biomass, and species composition.

    Mark A. Cochrane;Mark D. Schulze

  • Human exposure and sensitivity to globally extreme wildfire events.

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Grant J. Williamson;John T. Abatzoglou;Crystal A. Kolden

  • Fire as a large-scale edge effect in Amazonian forests.

    Mark A. Cochrane;William F. Laurance

  • Using vegetation reflectance variability for species level classification of hyperspectral data

    M. A. Cochrane

  • Combining spectral and spatial information to map canopy damage from selective logging and forest fires

    Carlos M. Souza;Dar A. Roberts;Mark A. Cochrane

  • Synergistic Interactions between Habitat Fragmentation and Fire in Evergreen Tropical Forests

    Mark A. Cochrane

  • Ten-Year Landsat Classification of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Carlos M. Souza;João V. Siqueira;Marcio H. Sales;Antônio V. Fonseca

  • Climate change, human land use and future fires in the Amazon

    Mark A. Cochrane;Christopher P. Barber

  • 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

  • Synergisms among Fire, Land Use, and Climate Change in the Amazon

    Mark A. Cochrane;William F. Laurance

  • Fire regimes of Australia: A pyrogeographic model system

    Brett P. Murphy;Brett P. Murphy;Ross A. Bradstock;Matthias M. Boer;John Carter

  • Field measurements of trace gases and aerosols emitted by peat fires in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, during the 2015 El Niño

    Chelsea E. Stockwell;Chelsea E. Stockwell;Thilina Jayarathne;Mark A. Cochrane;Kevin C. Ryan

  • Investigating positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests.

    M. A. Cochrane;A. Alencar;M. D. Schulze;C. M. Souza

Frequent Co-Authors

Jos Barlow
Jos Barlow Lancaster University
Carlos M. Souza
Carlos M. Souza Amazon Institute of People and the Environment
David M. J. S. Bowman
David M. J. S. Bowman University of Tasmania
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Brett P. Murphy
Brett P. Murphy Charles Darwin University
Julio Louzada
Julio Louzada Federal University of Lavras
Grant J. Williamson
Grant J. Williamson University of Tasmania
Robert J. Yokelson
Robert J. Yokelson University of Montana
Jennifer K. Balch
Jennifer K. Balch University of Colorado Boulder
Meg A. Krawchuk
Meg A. Krawchuk Oregon State University

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