Ankur R. Desai

23.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
207 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Ankur R. Desai is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ankur R. Desai has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 64 papers in Atmospheric Science and 52 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ankur R. Desai's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (91 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (61 papers) and Climate variability and models (44 papers). Ankur R. Desai is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (91 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (61 papers) and Climate variability and models (44 papers). Ankur R. Desai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Ankur R. Desai's co-authors include K. J. Davis, Paul V. Bolstad, Bruce D. Cook, David Y. Hollinger, D. J. Moore, Eileen V. Carey, Christopher M. Gough, Asko Noormets, Jiquan Chen and Alan Barr and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Ankur R. Desai

199 papers receiving 8.6k citations

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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.

Comprehensive comparison of gap-filling techniques for eddy covariance net carbon fluxes

2007 696 citations David Y. Hollinger, Andrew D. Richardson et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →
Global estimates of evapotranspiration and gross primary production based on MODIS and global meteorology data

2010 496 citations Ankur R. Desai et al. profile →
Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence is strongly correlated with terrestrial photosynthesis for a wide variety of biomes: First global analysis based on OCO‐2 and flux tower observations

2018 331 citations Ankur R. Desai, David Y. Hollinger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ankur R. Desai United States	49	6.2k	3.0k	2.2k	1.1k	1.1k	207	8.8k
V. K. Dadhwal India	43	4.0k 0.7×	2.7k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.9k 1.7×	702 0.7×	341	7.5k
Wenping Yuan China	49	6.6k 1.1×	4.3k 1.5×	2.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.7×	1.2k 1.1×	287	9.9k
Jason Beringer Australia	54	6.4k 1.0×	2.8k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	2.6k 2.3×	962 0.9×	176	9.5k
Georg Wohlfahrt Austria	51	7.1k 1.2×	2.2k 0.8×	2.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	2.0k 1.9×	163	9.2k
M. Altaf Arain Canada	52	5.5k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	2.4k 1.1×	2.1k 1.9×	840 0.8×	163	9.8k
Lianhong Gu United States	50	6.7k 1.1×	3.0k 1.0×	2.7k 1.2×	903 0.8×	2.8k 2.6×	132	9.2k
Tilden P. Meyers United States	52	7.3k 1.2×	1.9k 0.7×	3.9k 1.8×	2.0k 1.8×	2.0k 1.9×	117	10.2k
Paul C. Stoy United States	43	6.8k 1.1×	2.0k 0.7×	2.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	145	8.1k
Brian Wardlow United States	42	5.6k 0.9×	4.5k 1.5×	1.9k 0.9×	2.2k 2.0×	1.4k 1.3×	109	8.8k
Roberto Colombo Italy	47	3.9k 0.6×	4.2k 1.4×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	1.7k 1.6×	150	6.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ankur R. Desai

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Xenopoulos, Marguerite A., Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Ankur R. Desai, et al.. (2024). AGU Publications Updates Authorship Policy to Foster Greater Equity and Transparency in Global Research Collaborations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(3). 4 indexed citations

Zheng, Ting, et al.. (2024). Variability in Forest Plant Traits Along the Western Ghats of India and Their Environmental Drivers at Different Resolutions. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(3). 2 indexed citations

Huntzinger, D. N., Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Ankur R. Desai, & Marguerite A. Xenopoulos. (2023). Shining a Spotlight on Our 2022 Reviewers for JGR: Biogeosciences. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(4). 2 indexed citations

Xenopoulos, Marguerite A., Ben Bond‐Lamberty, D. N. Huntzinger, et al.. (2023). Update on Our Action Plan for Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity in Publishing at JGR: Biogeosciences. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(8). 2 indexed citations

Desai, Ankur R., et al.. (2022). Scaling Land‐Atmosphere Interactions: Special or Fundamental?. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(10). 5 indexed citations

Desai, Ankur R., et al.. (2022). Quantifying the Natural Climate Solution Potential of Agricultural Systems by Combining Eddy Covariance and Remote Sensing. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(9). 10 indexed citations

Desai, Ankur R., Marguerite A. Xenopoulos, & D. N. Huntzinger. (2022). Letter of Appreciation to Our 2021 Reviewers. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(4). 1 indexed citations

Xenopoulos, Marguerite A., Ankur R. Desai, & D. N. Huntzinger. (2022). Past to Present: An Update to the Aims and Scope of JGR: Biogeosciences. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(6). 1 indexed citations

Metzger, Stefan, David Durden, Matthias Sühring, et al.. (2021). Novel approach to observing system simulation experiments improves information gain of surface–atmosphere field measurements. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(11). 6929–6954. 6 indexed citations

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Tadesse, Tsegaye, David Y. Hollinger, Yared Bayissa, et al.. (2020). Forest Drought Response Index (ForDRI): A New Combined Model to Monitor Forest Drought in the Eastern United States. Remote Sensing. 12(21). 3605–3605. 3 indexed citations

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Burdun, Iuliia, Michel Bechtold, Valentina Sagris, et al.. (2020). Satellite Determination of Peatland Water Table Temporal Dynamics by Localizing Representative Pixels of A SWIR-Based Moisture Index. Remote Sensing. 12(18). 2936–2936. 28 indexed citations

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Xu, Ke, Matthias Sühring, Stefan Metzger, David Durden, & Ankur R. Desai. (2020). Can Data Mining Help Eddy Covariance See the Landscape? A Large-Eddy Simulation Study. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 176(1). 85–103. 16 indexed citations

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Wu, Chaoyang, Xiaoyue Wang, Huanjiong Wang, et al.. (2018). Publisher Correction: Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming. Nature Climate Change. 9(2). 177–177. 3 indexed citations

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Stoy, Paul C., Michael W. Binford, Ankur R. Desai, et al.. (2018). Toward a Social-Ecological Theory of Forest Macrosystems for Improved Ecosystem Management. Forests. 9(4). 200–200. 9 indexed citations

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Wu, Chaoyang, Xiaoyue Wang, Huanjiong Wang, et al.. (2018). Contrasting responses of autumn-leaf senescence to daytime and night-time warming. Nature Climate Change. 8(12). 1092–1096. 196 indexed citations

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Metzger, Stefan, David Durden, Cove Sturtevant, et al.. (2017). eddy4R: A community-extensible processing, analysis and modeling framework for eddy-covariance data based on R, Git, Docker and HDF5. 3 indexed citations

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Metzger, Stefan, David Durden, Cove Sturtevant, et al.. (2017). eddy4R 0.2.0: a DevOps model for community-extensible processing and analysis of eddy-covariance data based on R, Git, Docker, and HDF5. Geoscientific model development. 10(9). 3189–3206. 32 indexed citations

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Whelan, Mary, T. W. Hilton, Joseph A. Berry, et al.. (2016). Carbonyl sulfide exchange in soils for better estimates of ecosystem carbon uptake. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(6). 3711–3726. 55 indexed citations

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Xu, Ke, Stefan Metzger, & Ankur R. Desai. (2016). Upscaling tower-observed turbulent exchange at fine spatio-temporal resolution using environmental response functions. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 232. 10–22. 54 indexed citations

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Xu, Ke, Stefan Metzger, & Ankur R. Desai. (2015). Mapping surface-atmosphere exchange by using environmental response function for both turbulent and storage eddy-covariance fluxes. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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