A. J. Rigden

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

A. J. Rigden is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, A. J. Rigden has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Environmental Engineering and 9 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in A. J. Rigden's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (8 papers). A. J. Rigden is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (8 papers). A. J. Rigden collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. A. J. Rigden's co-authors include Dan Li, Guido D. Salvucci, Weilin Liao, Peter Huybers, Daniel J. Short Gianotti, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Xiaoping Liu, Sergey Malyshev, Elena Shevliakova and Dagang Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

A. J. Rigden

30 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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 threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Urban heat island: Aerodynamics or imperviousness?

2019 288 citations Dan Li, Weilin Liao et al. profile →
Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change

2022 260 citations A. J. Rigden et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. J. Rigden United States	20	1.1k	625	449	306	293	30	1.8k
Jatin Kala Australia	27	1.4k 1.2×	533 0.9×	801 1.8×	217 0.7×	238 0.8×	61	2.0k
C. Milesi United States	20	1.1k 1.0×	617 1.0×	298 0.7×	1.1k 3.5×	313 1.1×	42	2.1k
Albin Hammerle Austria	26	1.3k 1.2×	384 0.6×	613 1.4×	355 1.2×	365 1.2×	51	1.8k
Zhixiang Zhou China	27	757 0.7×	444 0.7×	204 0.5×	484 1.6×	315 1.1×	74	1.8k
Zhihua Pan China	24	743 0.6×	414 0.7×	313 0.7×	225 0.7×	431 1.5×	106	1.8k
Brady S. Hardiman United States	24	1.4k 1.2×	641 1.0×	260 0.6×	608 2.0×	179 0.6×	55	2.2k
Songhan Wang China	21	901 0.8×	293 0.5×	324 0.7×	560 1.8×	288 1.0×	54	1.5k
Zoltán Barcza Hungary	24	1.3k 1.1×	233 0.4×	514 1.1×	498 1.6×	320 1.1×	65	1.8k
Ethan Coffel United States	16	928 0.8×	214 0.3×	462 1.0×	141 0.5×	162 0.6×	27	1.6k
Binhui Liu China	24	935 0.8×	289 0.5×	414 0.9×	662 2.2×	301 1.0×	64	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. J. Rigden

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20 of 20 papers shown

AghaKouchak, Amir, et al.. (2025). Disparities in the impact of drought on agriculture across countries. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 13465–13465. 3 indexed citations

Rigden, A. J., Christopher D. Golden, Duo Chan, & Peter Huybers. (2024). Climate change linked to drought in Southern Madagascar. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 13 indexed citations

Perlman, Rachel, et al.. (2023). Field assessment of metal and base cation accumulation in green stormwater infrastructure soils. The Science of The Total Environment. 875. 162500–162500. 8 indexed citations

Rigden, A. J., et al.. (2023). US crop yield losses from hydroclimatic hazards. Environmental Research Letters. 19(1). 14005–14005. 8 indexed citations

Krueger, Erik S., Matthew R. Levi, Kevin O. Achieng, et al.. (2022). Using soil moisture information to better understand and predict wildfire danger: a review of recent developments and outstanding questions. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 32(2). 111–132. 28 indexed citations

Proctor, Jonathan, A. J. Rigden, Duo Chan, & Peter Huybers. (2022). More accurate specification of water supply shows its importance for global crop production. Nature Food. 3(9). 753–763. 45 indexed citations

Rigden, A. J., Christopher D. Golden, & Peter Huybers. (2022). Retrospective Predictions of Rice and Other Crop Production in Madagascar Using Soil Moisture and an NDVI-Based Calendar from 2010–2017. Remote Sensing. 14(5). 1223–1223. 12 indexed citations

Henningsen, Arne, Bo Markussen, Meredith T. Niles, et al.. (2021). Climate impacts and adaptation in US dairy systems 1981–2018. Nature Food. 2(11). 894–901. 30 indexed citations

Rigden, A. J., et al.. (2020). Microwave Retrievals of Soil Moisture Improve Grassland Wildfire Predictions. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(23). 20 indexed citations

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Rigden, A. J., et al.. (2020). Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric evaporative demand is important for accurately predicting US maize yields. Nature Food. 1(2). 127–133. 180 indexed citations

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Moon, Minkyu, Dan Li, Weilin Liao, A. J. Rigden, & M. A. Friedl. (2020). Modification of surface energy balance during springtime: The relative importance of biophysical and meteorological changes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 284. 107905–107905. 49 indexed citations

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Li, Dan, et al.. (2019). Contrasting Evaporative Responses of Ecosystems to Heatwaves Traced to the Opposing Roles of Vapor Pressure Deficit and Surface Resistance. Water Resources Research. 55(6). 4550–4563. 39 indexed citations

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Rigden, A. J., et al.. (2018). A precarious water balance for U.S. maize yield. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Liao, Weilin, A. J. Rigden, & Dan Li. (2018). Attribution of Local Temperature Response to Deforestation. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(5). 1572–1587. 71 indexed citations

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Rigden, A. J., Guido D. Salvucci, Dara Entekhabi, & Daniel J. Short Gianotti. (2018). Partitioning Evapotranspiration Over the Continental United States Using Weather Station Data. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(18). 9605–9613. 24 indexed citations

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Gentine, Pierre, et al.. (2016). Evaporation estimates using weather station data and boundary layer theory. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(22). 56 indexed citations

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Rigden, A. J. & Guido D. Salvucci. (2016). Stomatal response to humidity and CO₂ implicated in recent decline in US evaporation. Global Change Biology. 23(3). 1140–1151. 69 indexed citations

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Rigden, A. J. & Guido D. Salvucci. (2015). Evapotranspiration based on equilibrated relative humidity (ETRHEQ): Evaluation over the continental U.S.. Water Resources Research. 51(4). 2951–2973. 53 indexed citations

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Gill, Allison L., Amanda S. Gallinat, Rebecca Sanders‐DeMott, et al.. (2015). Changes in autumn senescence in northern hemisphere deciduous trees: a meta-analysis of autumn phenology studies. Annals of Botany. 116(6). 875–888. 250 indexed citations

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Koster, Randal D., Guido D. Salvucci, A. J. Rigden, et al.. (2015). The pattern across the continental United States of evapotranspiration variability associated with water availability. Frontiers in Earth Science. 3. 14 indexed citations

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