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Thomas C. Brown 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 Thomas C. Brown sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 102 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas C. Brown 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 Thomas C. Brown sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas C. Brown is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans several focused areas, including Water Science and Technology, Ocean Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

Key topics in their work include Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Water resources management and optimization, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Tree-ring climate responses, and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies.

Brown has contributed to a range of recent scientific publications. These include:

  • Inequality hinders group efforts to avoid environmental disasters, 2021, Q Open
  • Degraded mapping of disparity tuning in visual cortex explains deficits in binocular depth perception, 2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Projections of Freshwater Use in the United States Under Climate Change, 2022, Earth s Future
  • Impacts of Climate Change on Hydroclimatic Conditions of U.S. National Forests and Grasslands, 2021, Forests
  • POSB413 Demographic Characteristics and Disease Subtypes of Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia across Large Community Health Systems in the US, 2022, Value in Health

Several collaborative relationships have been established in their career. Frequent coauthors include Travis Warziniack, Mazdak Arabi, Pamela Froemke, Rohini Ghosh, and Shaunie Rasmussen. Brown's work is present across multiple publication venues such as Earth s Future, Forests, Q Open, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Value in Health.

Best Publications

  • A primer on nonmarket valuation

    Patricia A. Champ;Kevin J. Boyle;Thomas C. Brown

  • Explaining the Discrepancy between Intentions and Actions: The Case of Hypothetical Bias in Contingent Valuation

    Icek Ajzen;Thomas C. Brown;Franklin Carvajal

  • The Concept of Value in Resource Allocation

    Thomas C. Brown;B. M. Anderson

  • Using donation mechanisms to value nonuse benefits from public goods

    Patricia A. Champ;Richard C. Bishop;Thomas C. Brown;Daniel W. McCollum

  • Which response format reveals the truth about donations to a public good

    Thomas C. Brown;Patricia A. Champ;Richard C. Bishop;Daniel W. McCollum

  • Information Bias in Contingent Valuation: Effects of Personal Relevance, Quality of Information, and Motivational Orientation

    Icek Ajzen;Thomas C. Brown;Lori H. Rosenthal

  • Forest Practices As Nonpoint Sources of Pollution in North America

    Dan Binkley;Thomas C. Brown

  • Defining, valuing and providing ecosystem goods and services

    Thomas C. Brown;John C. Bergstrom;John B. Loomis

  • An Experimental Examination of Intrinsic Values as a Source of the WTA-WTP Disparity

    Rebecca R. Boyce;Thomas C. Brown;Gary H. McClelland;George L. Peterson

  • Why the WTA-WTP disparity matters

    Thomas C Brown;Robin Gregory

  • Predicting scenic beauty of timber stands

    Thomas C. Brown;Terry C. Daniel

  • Improving Validity Experiments of Contingent Valuation Methods: Results of Efforts to Reduce the Disparity of Hypothetical and Actual Willingness to Pay

    John Loomis;Thomas Brown;Beatrice Lucero;George Peterson

  • The complementary relationship in estimation of regional evapotranspiration: An enhanced advection‐aridity model

    Michael T. Hobbins;Jorge A. Ramírez;Thomas C. Brown

  • Adaptation to Future Water Shortages in the United States Caused by Population Growth and Climate Change

    Thomas C. Brown;Vinod Mahat;Jorge A. Ramirez

  • Testing the Effectiveness of Certainty Scales, Cheap Talk, and Dissonance-Minimization in Reducing Hypothetical Bias in Contingent Valuation Studies

    Mark Morrison;Thomas C. Brown

  • Further tests of entreaties to avoid hypothetical bias in referendum contingent valuation

    Thomas C Brown;Icek Ajzen;Daniel Hrubes

  • Is motion more important than it sounds?: The medium of presentation in environment perception research

    John Hetherington;Terry C. Daniel;Thomas C. Brown

  • Evaluating the Validity of the Dichotomous Choice Question Format in Contingent Valuation

    John Loomis;Thomas Brown;Beatrice Lucero;George Peterson

  • Loss aversion without the endowment effect, and other explanations for the WTA–WTP disparity

    Thomas C. Brown

  • Modeling Forest Scenic Beauty: Concepts and Application to Ponderosa Pine

    Thomas C. Brown;Terry C. Daniel

  • The complementary relationship in estimation of regional evapotranspiration: The Complementary Relationship Areal Evapotranspiration and Advection-Aridity models

    Michael T. Hobbins;Jorge A. Ramírez;Thomas C. Brown;Lodevicus H. J. M. Claessens

  • Contingent Valuation and Incentives

    Patricia A. Champ;Nicholas E. Flores;Thomas C. Brown;James Chivers

Frequent Co-Authors

John B. Loomis
John B. Loomis Colorado State University
Richard C. Bishop
Richard C. Bishop University of Wisconsin–Madison
Icek Ajzen
Icek Ajzen University of Massachusetts Amherst
David M. Theobald
David M. Theobald Colorado State University
Robin Gregory
Robin Gregory University of British Columbia
Michael J. Manfredo
Michael J. Manfredo Colorado State University
Mark Morrison
Mark Morrison University of Queensland
Jack L. Knetsch
Jack L. Knetsch Simon Fraser University
Dan Binkley
Dan Binkley Colorado State University
Mazdak Arabi
Mazdak Arabi Colorado State University

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