Benjamin N. Sulman

7.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
58 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Benjamin N. Sulman is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin N. Sulman has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Ecology, 27 papers in Soil Science and 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Benjamin N. Sulman's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (26 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (25 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers). Benjamin N. Sulman is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (26 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (25 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers). Benjamin N. Sulman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Benjamin N. Sulman's co-authors include Richard P. Phillips, Kimberly A. Novick, A. Christopher Oishi, Lixin Wang, Stephen W. Pacala, Darren L. Ficklin, Russell L. Scott, Elena Shevliakova, Gil Bohrer and C. A. Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin N. Sulman

56 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The increasing importance of atmospheric demand for ecosystem water and carbon fluxes

2016 1.0k citations Gil Bohrer, Benjamin N. Sulman et al. profile →
Hydraulic diversity of forests regulates ecosystem resilience during drought

2018 432 citations Benjamin N. Sulman et al. Nature profile →
A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2

2021 429 citations César Terrer, Richard P. Phillips et al. Nature profile →
Emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon driven by mineral associations

2024 56 citations Katerina Georgiou, Charles D. Koven et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin N. Sulman United States	31	2.5k	1.7k	1.6k	1.1k	866	58	4.7k
Jukka Pumpanen Finland	43	3.4k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	1.6k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	174	6.2k
Honglin He China	34	2.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	611 0.7×	129	4.6k
Anders Ahlström Sweden	25	2.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	772 0.7×	571 0.7×	54	4.5k
Peter Levy United Kingdom	34	2.9k 1.2×	992 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	986 0.9×	762 0.9×	94	4.6k
Rachhpal S. Jassal Canada	39	3.4k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	618 0.7×	100	5.0k
Yingnian Li China	41	3.8k 1.5×	1.5k 0.9×	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.4×	749 0.9×	160	6.0k
Kim Pilegaard Denmark	36	2.8k 1.1×	968 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	97	4.6k
Huifeng Hu China	34	1.5k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	581 0.5×	600 0.7×	97	4.2k
Benjamin D. Stocker Switzerland	32	3.4k 1.4×	831 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	801 0.9×	73	5.0k
Nicolas Vuichard France	34	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	794 0.7×	402 0.5×	77	3.7k

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Bohrer, Gil, Oliver Sonnentag, Bo Qu, et al.. (2025). Shrub Expansion Can Counteract Carbon Losses From Warming Tundra. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 130(8).

Molins, Sergi, Jeffrey Johnson, Glenn Hammond, et al.. (2025). Alquimia v1.0: a generic interface to biogeochemical codes – a tool for interoperable development, prototyping and benchmarking for multiphysics simulators. Geoscientific model development. 18(11). 3241–3263.

Yedinak, Kara M., et al.. (2024). Effects of fire and fire-induced changes in soil properties on post-burn soil respiration. Fire Ecology. 20(1). 3 indexed citations

Georgiou, Katerina, Charles D. Koven, William R. Wieder, et al.. (2024). Emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon driven by mineral associations. Nature Geoscience. 17(3). 205–212. 56 indexed citations breakdown →

O’Meara, Teri, Fengming Yuan, Benjamin N. Sulman, et al.. (2024). Developing a Redox Network for Coastal Saltmarsh Systems in the PFLOTRAN Reaction Model. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(3). 4 indexed citations

Forbrich, Inke, et al.. (2024). Three Decades of Wetland Methane Surface Flux Modeling by Earth System Models‐Advances, Applications, and Challenges. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(3). 8 indexed citations

Zhou, Yongli, Teri O’Meara, Zoë G. Cardon, et al.. (2024). Simulated plant-mediated oxygen input has strong impacts on fine-scale porewater biogeochemistry and weak impacts on integrated methane fluxes in coastal wetlands. Biogeochemistry. 167(7). 945–963. 2 indexed citations

Herndon, Elizabeth, et al.. (2023). The roles of manganese in stabilizing and destabilizing soil organic matter. 1 indexed citations

Sulman, Benjamin N., Verity Salmon, Colleen M. Iversen, et al.. (2021). Integrating Arctic Plant Functional Types in a Land Surface Model Using Above‐ and Belowground Field Observations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(4). 33 indexed citations

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Terrer, César, Richard P. Phillips, Bruce A. Hungate, et al.. (2021). A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2. Nature. 591(7851). 599–603. 429 indexed citations breakdown →

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Billings, Sharon, Kate Lajtha, Avni Malhotra, et al.. (2021). Soil organic carbon is not just for soil scientists: measurement recommendations for diverse practitioners. Ecological Applications. 31(3). e02290–e02290. 36 indexed citations

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Braghiere, Renato K., Joshua B. Fisher, Rosie A. Fisher, et al.. (2021). Mycorrhizal Distributions Impact Global Patterns of Carbon and Nutrient Cycling. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(19). 18 indexed citations

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Sulman, Benjamin N., Elena Shevliakova, Edward Brzostek, et al.. (2019). Diverse Mycorrhizal Associations Enhance Terrestrial C Storage in a Global Model. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 33(4). 501–523. 86 indexed citations

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Ghezzehei, Teamrat A., et al.. (2019). On the role of soil water retention characteristic on aerobic microbial respiration. Biogeosciences. 16(6). 1187–1209. 61 indexed citations

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Harden, J. W., Jonathan A. O’Donnell, Katherine Heckman, et al.. (2019). Beneath the arctic greening: Will soils lose or gain carbon or perhaps a little of both?. 1 indexed citations

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Chaney, Nathaniel W., M.H.J. van Huijgevoort, Elena Shevliakova, et al.. (2018). Harnessing big data to rethink land heterogeneity in Earth system models. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(6). 3311–3330. 46 indexed citations

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Salazar, Alejandro, Benjamin N. Sulman, & Jeffrey S. Dukes. (2017). Microbial dormancy promotes microbial biomass and respiration across pulses of drying-wetting stress. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 116. 237–244. 46 indexed citations

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Subin, Z. M., P. C. D. Milly, Benjamin N. Sulman, Sergey Malyshev, & Elena Shevliakova. (2014). Resolving terrestrial ecosystem processes along a subgrid topographic gradient for an earth-system model. 22 indexed citations

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Grant, R. F., Ankur R. Desai, & Benjamin N. Sulman. (2012). Modelling contrasting responses of wetland productivity to changes in water table depth. Biogeosciences. 9(11). 4215–4231. 34 indexed citations

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Grant, R. F., Ankur R. Desai, & Benjamin N. Sulman. (2012). Modelling contrasting responses of wetland productivity to changes in water table depth. 5 indexed citations

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