Atul K. Jain

45.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
211 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Atul K. Jain is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Atul K. Jain has authored 211 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 49 papers in Atmospheric Science and 22 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Atul K. Jain's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (72 papers), Climate variability and models (46 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (37 papers). Atul K. Jain is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (72 papers), Climate variability and models (46 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (37 papers). Atul K. Jain collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and India. Atul K. Jain's co-authors include Donald J. Wuebbles, Martin I. Hoffert, Haroon S. Kheshgi, Xiaojuan Yang, Stephen Sitch, K. Caldeira, Pierre Friedlingstein, Prasanth Meiyappan, T. M. L. Wigley and Michael E. Schlesinger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Atul K. Jain

194 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 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.

Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet

2002 1.2k citations Atul K. Jain, Haroon S. Kheshgi et al. Science profile →
The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO ₂ sink

2015 1.1k citations Anders Ahlström, Michael Raupach et al. Science profile →
Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods

2021 561 citations Xiaoming Xu, Shijie Shu et al. Nature Food profile →
Energy implications of future stabilization of atmospheric CO2 content

1998 517 citations Atul K. Jain et al. Nature profile →
Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant productivity

2018 313 citations Michael O’Sullivan, Stephen Sitch et al. Nature profile →
Forest expansion dominates China’s land carbon sink since 1980

2022 223 citations Philippe Ciais, Hanqin Tian et al. profile →

Peers

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GPC

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Roberto Zecchin Italy

Katja Frieler Germany

Gian‐Kasper Plattner Switzerland

Bert Metz Netherlands

J. S. Daniel United States

Jens Hartmann Germany

Wilfried Winiwarter Austria

Min Chen China

Zhang China

Chunyang He China

Roberto Zecchin Italy

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5.6k ×1.1

GPC

2.1k ×1.1

ECOLO

3.8k ×2.1

1.7k ×1.6

816 ×0.8

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Citations per year, relative to Atul K. Jain Atul K. Jain (= 1×) peers Roberto Zecchin

Countries citing papers authored by Atul K. Jain

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Atul K. Jain

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Atul K. Jain

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Atul K. Jain. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Atul K. Jain based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Atul K. Jain. Atul K. Jain is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jain, Atul K., Naveen Chandra, Prabir K. Patra, et al.. (2025). South Asia's Ecosystems Are a Net Carbon Sink, But the Region Is a Major Net GHG Source to the Atmosphere. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(4). 1 indexed citations

Lata, Sneh, P. Lampens, Sebastián Zúñiga-Fernández, et al.. (2025). Investigating pulsating variables and eclipsing binaries in NGC 2126 using ground- and space-based photometry, astrometry, spectroscopy, and modelling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 538(3). 1747–1772. 1 indexed citations

Lata, Sneh, et al.. (2025). Stellar Variability toward the Galactic Open Cluster NGC 7209. The Astrophysical Journal. 985(1). 26–26.

Nayak, P.K., M. Chakraborty, S. R. Dugad, et al.. (2024). Observation of thunderstorm-induced muon events in GRAPES-3 experiment. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 258. 106231–106231.

Orlov, Anton, Jonas Jägermeyr, Christoph Müller, et al.. (2024). Human heat stress could offset potential economic benefits of CO2 fertilization in crop production under a high-emissions scenario. One Earth. 7(7). 1250–1265. 6 indexed citations

Gong, Cheng, Hanqin Tian, Hong Liao, et al.. (2024). Global net climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen. Nature. 632(8025). 557–563. 38 indexed citations

Lin, Tzu‐Shun, Haroon S. Kheshgi, Yang Song, Charles J Vörösmarty, & Atul K. Jain. (2023). Which crop has the highest bioethanol yield in the United States?. Frontiers in Energy Research. 11. 18 indexed citations

Kou‐Giesbrecht, Sian, Vivek K. Arora, Christian Seiler, et al.. (2023). Evaluating nitrogen cycling in terrestrial biosphere models: a disconnect between the carbon and nitrogen cycles. Earth System Dynamics. 14(4). 767–795. 20 indexed citations

Li, Jun, Emanuele Bevacqua, Stephen Sitch, et al.. (2023). Hydroclimatic extremes contribute to asymmetric trends in ecosystem productivity loss. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 14 indexed citations

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Gonsamo, Alemu, Philippe Ciais, Diego G. Miralles, et al.. (2021). Greening drylands despite warming consistent with carbon dioxide fertilization effect. Global Change Biology. 27(14). 3336–3349. 86 indexed citations

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Winkler, Alexander J., Ranga B. Myneni, Alexis Hannart, et al.. (2021). Slowdown of the greening trend in natural vegetation with further rise in atmospheric CO ₂. Biogeosciences. 18(17). 4985–5010. 78 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiaoming, Shijie Shu, Tzu‐Shun Lin, et al.. (2021). Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods. Nature Food. 2(9). 724–732. 561 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shu, Shijie, Atul K. Jain, Charles D. Koven, & Umakant Mishra. (2020). Estimation of Permafrost SOC Stock and Turnover Time Using a Land Surface Model With Vertical Heterogeneity of Permafrost Soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 34(11). 14 indexed citations

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Pan, Shufen, Naiqing Pan, Hanqin Tian, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of global terrestrial evapotranspiration using state-of-the-art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning and land surface modeling. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(3). 1485–1509. 203 indexed citations

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Wang, Jun, Ning Zeng, Meirong Wang, et al.. (2018). Contrasting interannual atmospheric CO ₂ variabilities and their terrestrial mechanisms for two types of El Niños. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(14). 10333–10345. 22 indexed citations

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Xu, Xinliang & Atul K. Jain. (2018). Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Land Degradation in South and Southeast Asia. AGUFM. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Jun, Ning Zeng, Meirong Wang, et al.. (2018). Contrasting behaviors of the atmospheric CO ₂ interannual variability during two types of El Niños. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Fang, Ning Zeng, Ghassem Asrar, et al.. (2016). Role of CO ₂ , climate and land use in regulating the seasonal amplitudeincrease of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems: a multimodel analysis. Biogeosciences. 13(17). 5121–5137. 26 indexed citations

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Ahlström, Anders, Michael Raupach, Guy Schurgers, et al.. (2015). The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO ₂ sink. Science. 348(6237). 895–899. 1109 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jain, Atul K.. (2008). Global Warming and Climate Change Science. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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