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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 37 6211 5768 2971 2708 108 6439

Stephen G. Perz publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Stephen G. Perz between 1994 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Stephen G. Perz published across 32 years, from 1994 to 2025, averaging 4.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 13 publications in 2013. 8 of the 143 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1994 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 13. Peak 13 publications in 2013. 1994: 1 publication 1995: 0 publications 1996: 1 publication 1997: 1 publication 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 6 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 7 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 6 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 11 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 7 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 13 publications 2014: 9 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 4 publications 2019: 4 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 5 publications 2022: 3 publications 2023: 2 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 2 publications
1994 2025

143 publications in total across all disciplines

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Stephen G. Perz: publications per year, 1994 to 2025
Year Publications
1994 1
1995 0
1996 1
1997 1
1998 0
1999 0
2000 6
2001 1
2002 7
2003 5
2004 2
2005 6
2006 2
2007 11
2008 6
2009 5
2010 7
2011 5
2012 7
2013 13
2014 9
2015 5
2016 6
2017 6
2018 4
2019 4
2020 5
2021 5
2022 3
2023 2
2024 6
2025 2
Total 143
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Stephen G. Perz publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen G. Perz sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 104–113 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 108 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406 108
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Stephen G. Perz D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen G. Perz sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 37 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272 37
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Overview

Stephen G. Perz is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with a notable focus on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Building and Construction, and Ecology. Their work addresses topics including Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Mining and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Water Governance and Infrastructure, Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, and Economic and Environmental Valuation.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Stephen G. Perz include:

  • Participatory Action Research for Conservation and Development: Experiences from the Amazon, 2021, published in Sustainability
  • Environmental crimes in extractive activities: Explanations for low enforcement effectiveness in the case of illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru, 2020, published in The Extractive Industries and Society
  • Roads, deforestation and the mitigating effect of the Chico Mendes extractive reserve in the southwestern Amazon, 2020, published in Trees Forests and People
  • The effects of climate change variability on rural livelihoods in Madre de Dios, Peru, 2020, published in Regional Environmental Change
  • Aligning conservation and development goals with rural community priorities: capacity building for forest health monitoring in an extractive reserve in Brazil, 2020, published in Ecology and Society

The venues where Perz frequently publishes include:

  • Sustainability
  • Trees Forests and People
  • Ecology and Society
  • Journal of Latin American Geography
  • The Extractive Industries and Society

Stephen G. Perz collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Foster Brown, Marliz Arteaga, Martha Cecilia Rosero-Peña, Sinomar Ferreira da Fonseca, and Andrea Baudoin Farah. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse range of studies primarily focusing on environmental and social issues related to resource management and conservation efforts.

Their research involves empirical and participatory methodologies aimed at integrating conservation and development goals with local community priorities. The focus on the Amazon region and areas such as Madre de Dios, Peru, highlight concerns over environmental crimes, deforestation, and climate change impacts on rural livelihoods.

Best Publications

  • An Exploratory Framework for the Empirical Measurement of Resilience

    G. S. Cumming;G. Barnes;S. Perz;M. Schmink

  • Land Use and Land Cover Change in Forest Frontiers: The Role of Household Life Cycles

    Robert Walker;Stephen Perz;Marcellus Marcellus Caldas;Luiz Guilherme Teixeira Silva

  • Road investments, spatial spillovers, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Alexander Pfaff;Juan Robalino;Robert Walker;Steven Aldrich

  • Grand Theory and Context‐Specificity in the Study of Forest Dynamics: Forest Transition Theory and Other Directions

    Stephen G. Perz

  • Secondary forest expansion in the Brazilian Amazon and the refinement of forest transition theory

    Stephen G. Perz;David L. Skole

  • Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation

    Marcellus Caldas;Robert Walker;Eugenio Yatsuda Arima;Stephen Perz

  • Household demographic factors as life cycle determinants of land use in the Amazon.

    Stephen G. Perz

  • Household Life Cycles and Secondary Forest Cover Among Small Farm Colonists in the Amazon

    Stephen G Perz;Robert T Walker

  • Roads as drivers of change: Trajectories across the Tri-National Frontier in MAP, the Southwestern Amazon

    Jane Southworth;Matt Marsik;Youliang Qiu;Stephen Perz

  • Loggers and Forest Fragmentation: Behavioral Models of Road Building in the Amazon Basin

    Eugenio Y. Arima;Robert T. Walker;Stephen G. Perz;Marcellus Caldas

  • Contentious Land Change in the Amazon's Arc of Deforestation

    Stephen Aldrich;Robert Walker;Cynthia Simmons;Marcellus Caldas

  • Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon: Smallholders, Ranchers and Frontier Stratification

    Stephen P. Aldrich;Robert T. Walker;Eugenio Y. Arima;Marcellus M. Caldas

  • Protecting the Amazon with protected areas

    Robert Walker;Nathan J. Moore;Eugenio Yatsuda Arima;Stephen Perz

  • Population, Land Use and Deforestation in the Pan Amazon Basin: a Comparison of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú and Venezuela

    Stephen G. Perz;Carlos Aramburú;Jason Bremner

  • Social determinants of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon

    Stephen G Perz;David L Skole

  • Social Determinants and Land Use Correlates of Agricultural Technology Adoption in a Forest Frontier: A Case Study in the Brazilian Amazon

    Stephen G. Perz

  • The Fragmentation of Space in the Amazon Basin: Emergent Road Networks

    Eugenio Yatsuda Arima;Robert T. Walker;Marcio Sales;Carlos Souza

  • Beyond Population and Environment: Household Demographic Life Cycles and Land Use Allocation Among Small Farms in the Amazon

    Stephen G. Perz;Robert T. Walker;Marcellus M. Caldas

  • Doing it for Themselves: Direct Action Land Reform in the Brazilian Amazon

    Cynthia Simmons;Robert Walker;Stephen Perz;Stephen Aldrich

  • The Changing Social Contexts of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Stephen G. Perz

  • Are Agricultural Production and Forest Conservation Compatible? Agricultural Diversity, Agricultural Incomes and Primary Forest Cover Among Small Farm Colonists in the Amazon

    Stephen G. Perz

  • Trans-boundary infrastructure and land cover change: Highway paving and community-level deforestation in a tri-national frontier in the Amazon

    Stephen G. Perz;Youliang Qiu;Yibin Xia;Jane Southworth

  • CONTRIBUTIONS OF RACIAL-ETHNIC RECLASSIFICATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES TO INDIGENOUS POPULATION RESURGENCE : The Case of Brazil

    Stephen G. Perz;Jonathan Warren;David P. Kennedy

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Walker
Robert Walker University of Florida
Jane Southworth
Jane Southworth University of Florida
Christopher Baraloto
Christopher Baraloto Florida International University
Alexander Shenkin
Alexander Shenkin Northern Arizona University
Rafael Muñoz-Carpena
Rafael Muñoz-Carpena University of Florida
Carlos M. Souza
Carlos M. Souza Amazon Institute of People and the Environment
Marcos Silveira
Marcos Silveira Universidade Federal do Acre
Alexander Pfaff
Alexander Pfaff Duke University
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
David L. Skole
David L. Skole Michigan State University

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