Standout Papers

China and India lead in g... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2019 2008 2007 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management
    2019 2.1k citations Chi Chen, Taejin Park et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
  2. Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States
    2008 918 citations T. P. Barnett, David W. Pierce et al. Science profile →
  3. Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation
    2007 719 citations Govindasamy Bala, Ken Caldeira et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Immediate Impact

3 by Nobel laureates 41 from Science/Nature 90 hit
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Citing Papers

Evidence of human influence on Northern Hemisphere snow loss
2024 HitNature
Accounting for albedo change to identify climate-positive tree cover restoration
2024 Hit
59 intermediate papers

Works of Govindasamy Bala being referenced

Why must a solar forcing be larger than a CO 2 forcing to cause the same global mean surface temperature change?
2016
Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation
2007 Hit
and 20 more

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Govindasamy Bala 7.9k 4.5k 1.8k 1.6k 974 144 10.3k
René Garreaud 8.1k 1.0× 9.0k 2.0× 1.7k 1.0× 1.5k 0.9× 779 0.8× 186 13.8k
Seita Emori 9.6k 1.2× 7.1k 1.6× 1.1k 0.6× 1.5k 0.9× 717 0.7× 99 13.2k
Stefan Hagemann 10.9k 1.4× 8.6k 1.9× 1.2k 0.7× 3.5k 2.1× 1.4k 1.4× 165 14.8k
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen 8.1k 1.0× 7.0k 1.6× 757 0.4× 2.0k 1.2× 590 0.6× 138 11.1k
Sharon E. Nicholson 11.3k 1.4× 8.5k 1.9× 2.5k 1.4× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 142 15.4k
Philip W. Mote 6.7k 0.8× 6.2k 1.4× 1.6k 0.9× 2.5k 1.6× 462 0.5× 84 10.1k
Samuel Levis 11.1k 1.4× 7.3k 1.6× 2.6k 1.5× 1.7k 1.0× 1.6k 1.7× 81 15.1k
Julie M. Arblaster 11.4k 1.4× 9.4k 2.1× 996 0.6× 788 0.5× 513 0.5× 118 14.3k
José A. Marengo 11.4k 1.4× 6.6k 1.5× 3.3k 1.9× 3.6k 2.2× 1.2k 1.2× 205 17.2k
Jan Polcher‬ 6.1k 0.8× 3.9k 0.9× 808 0.5× 1.7k 1.0× 978 1.0× 129 7.6k

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