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D-Index
48
Citations
9574
World Ranking
5501
National Ranking
2013

Tom Evans 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 Tom Evans sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 145 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Tom Evans 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 Tom Evans sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tom Evans is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and has a research focus primarily in Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research covers multiple topics with notable emphasis on Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, Agricultural Risk and Resilience, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Urban Transport and Accessibility.

Evans has contributed to a variety of publication venues, publishing most frequently in World Development, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Climate Risk Management, Agricultural Systems, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Frequent co-authors in their research include K. K. Caylor, Andrew Zimmer, Natasha Krell, Corrie Hannah, and Kurt B. Waldman.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Smallholder farmers' use of mobile phone services in central Kenya, 2020, Climate and Development
  • How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity, 2021, Nature
  • Urban resilience and green infrastructure systems: towards a multidimensional evaluation, 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • Barriers to urban agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2020, Food Policy
  • Farmer forecasts: Impacts of seasonal rainfall expectations on agricultural decision-making in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2020, Climate Risk Management

Best Publications

  • The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems

    James E. M. Watson;James E. M. Watson;Tom Evans;Oscar Venter;Brooke Williams;Brooke Williams

  • A Review and Assessment of Land-Use Change Models Dynamics of Space, Time, and Human Choice

    Chetan Agarwal;Glen M. Green;J. Morgan Grove;Tom P. Evans

  • Global urban population exposure to extreme heat.

    Cascade Tuholske;Kelly Caylor;Chris Funk;Andrew Verdin

  • Modification of forests by people means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

    H.S. Grantham;A. Duncan;T. Evans;K.R. Jones

  • Multi-scale analysis of a household level agent-based model of landcover change.

    Tom P. Evans;Hugh Kelley

  • Crop diversification as a smallholder livelihood strategy within semi-arid agricultural systems near Mount Kenya

    Paul F. McCord;Michael Cox;Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh;Tom Evans

  • Scale-Dependent Relationships between Population and Environment in Northeastern Thailand

    Stephen J. Walsh;Tom P. Evans;William F. Welsh;Barbara Entwisle

  • Adaptation, culture, and the energy transition in American coal country

    Sanya Carley;Tom P. Evans;David M. Konisky

  • Beyond land cover change: Towards a new generation of Land Use Models

    Peter H. Verburg;Peter H. Verburg;Peter Alexander;Tom Evans;Nicholas R. Magliocca

  • Agent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United States

    Steven M. Manson;Tom Evans

  • A dynamic model of household decision-making and parcel level landcover change in the eastern Amazon

    Tom P Evans;Aaron Manire;Fabio de Castro;Eduardo Brondizio

  • How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity

    Xiao Feng;Cory Merow;Zhihua Liu;Daniel S. Park

  • The water-energy-food security nexus through the lenses of the value chain and the Institutional Analysis and Development frameworks.

    Sergio Villamayor-Tomas;Philipp Grundmann;Graham Epstein;Tom Evans

  • Land use change: complexity and comparisons

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;Barbara Entwisle;Stephen J. Walsh;Li An

  • Debates—Perspectives on socio-hydrology: Socio-hydrologic modeling: Tradeoffs, hypothesis testing, and validation

    Tara J. Troy;Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman;Tom P. Evans

  • Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626.

    Sean L. Maxwell;Sean L. Maxwell;Tom Evans;James E. M. Watson;James E. M. Watson;Alexandra Morel;Alexandra Morel

  • Geographic information systems, spatial network analysis, and contraceptive choice

    Barbara Entwisle;Ronald R. Rindfuss;Stephen J. Walsh;Tom P. Evans

  • A framework for evaluating geographic disparities in energy transition vulnerability

    Sanya Carley;Tom P. Evans;Michelle Graff;David M. Konisky

  • Decentralization can help reduce deforestation when user groups engage with local government

    Glenn D. Wright;Krister P. Andersson;Clark C. Gibson;Tom P. Evans

  • Strategic directions for agent-based modeling: avoiding the YAAWN syndrome.

    David O'Sullivan;Tom P Evans;Steven M Manson;Sara S Metcalf

  • Polycentric Transformation in Kenyan Water Governance: A Dynamic Analysis of Institutional and Social-Ecological Change

    Paul McCord;Jampel Dell'Angelo;Elizabeth Baldwin;Tom Evans

  • Carbon stocks in coffee agroforests and mixed dry tropical forests in the western highlands of Guatemala

    Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh;Tom P. Evans;Edwin Castellanos;J. C. Randolph

  • Structuring institutional analysis for urban ecosystems: a key to sustainable urban forest management.

    Sarah K. Mincey;Miranda Hutten;Burnell C. Fischer;Tom P. Evans

Frequent Co-Authors

Kelly K. Caylor
Kelly K. Caylor University of California, Santa Barbara
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton
Kathy Baylis
Kathy Baylis University of California, Santa Barbara
Krister Andersson
Krister Andersson University of Notre Dame
Freddie C. Hamdy
Freddie C. Hamdy University of Oxford
Megan Konar
Megan Konar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Adrian V. S. Hill
Adrian V. S. Hill University of Oxford
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ronald R. Rindfuss
Ronald R. Rindfuss University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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