C. A. Williams

18.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
111 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

C. A. Williams is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, C. A. Williams has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in Atmospheric Science and 22 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in C. A. Williams's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (47 papers), Climate variability and models (31 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (24 papers). C. A. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (47 papers), Climate variability and models (31 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (24 papers). C. A. Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. C. A. Williams's co-authors include Trevor F. Keenan, J. D. Albertson, G. J. Collatz, Russell L. Scott, Christopher R. Schwalm, Niall P. Hanan, Jeffrey G. Masek, Kevin Schaefer, Peter D. Blanken and Kimberly A. Novick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

C. A. Williams

110 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

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

2016 1.0k citations Kimberly A. Novick, Darren L. Ficklin et al. profile →
Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake

2016 325 citations Trevor F. Keenan, I. Colin Prentice et al. Nature Communications profile →
The Terrestrial Carbon Sink

2018 271 citations Trevor F. Keenan, C. A. Williams profile →
Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink

2023 134 citations Trevor F. Keenan, C. A. Williams et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
Accounting for albedo change to identify climate-positive tree cover restoration

2024 49 citations Natalia Hasler, C. A. Williams et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

C. A. Williams

GPC

ECOLO

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Tao Wang China

Shaohong Wu China

Peter D. Blanken United States

Christopher R. Schwalm United States

Sha Zhou China

V. K. Dadhwal India

Zehao Shen China

Jiafu Mao United States

Shufen Pan United States

Antônio Donato Nobre Brazil

Tao Wang China

C. A. Williams

5.0k ×1.0

GPC

2.9k ×1.6

2.1k ×1.4

ECOLO

1.2k ×1.1

WST

947 ×1.0

NLC

Citations per year, relative to C. A. Williams C. A. Williams (= 1×) peers Tao Wang

Countries citing papers authored by C. A. Williams

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by C. A. Williams

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. A. Williams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of C. A. Williams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of C. A. Williams 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 C. A. Williams. C. A. Williams 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

Zhou, Yu & C. A. Williams. (2025). Forest Carbon Modeling Improved Through Hierarchical Assimilation of Pool‐Based Measurements. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 17(3). 1 indexed citations

Haya, Barbara, Christa M. Anderson, Grayson Badgley, et al.. (2024). Funding forests’ climate potential without carbon offsets. One Earth. 7(7). 1147–1150. 5 indexed citations

Novick, Kimberly A., Trevor F. Keenan, William R. L. Anderegg, et al.. (2024). We need a solid scientific basis for nature-based climate solutions in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(14). e2318505121–e2318505121. 16 indexed citations

Keenan, Trevor F., C. A. Williams, Yu Zhou, et al.. (2023). Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(8). 518–534. 134 indexed citations breakdown →

Hou, Enqing, Shuang Ma, Yuanyuan Huang, et al.. (2023). Across‐model spread and shrinking in predicting peatland carbon dynamics under global change. Global Change Biology. 29(10). 2759–2775. 9 indexed citations

Jiao, Tong, C. A. Williams, Martin G. De Kauwe, & Belinda E. Medlyn. (2023). Limited Evidence of Cumulative Effects From Recurrent Droughts in Vegetation Responses to Australia's Millennium Drought. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(5). 4 indexed citations

Ouyang, Zutao, Tong Jiao, Sarah Féron, et al.. (2022). Albedo changes caused by future urbanization contribute to global warming. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3800–3800. 128 indexed citations

Gourdji, Sharon, A. Karion, Israel Lopez‐Coto, et al.. (2021). A Modified Vegetation Photosynthesis and Respiration Model (VPRM) for the Eastern USA and Canada, Evaluated With Comparison to Atmospheric Observations and Other Biospheric Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(1). 24 indexed citations

Feng, Sha, Thomas Lauvaux, C. A. Williams, et al.. (2021). Joint CO₂ Mole Fraction and Flux Analysis Confirms Missing Processes in CASA Terrestrial Carbon Uptake Over North America. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(7). 7 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yu, C. A. Williams, Natalia Hasler, Huan Gu, & Robert E. Kennedy. (2021). Beyond biomass to carbon fluxes: application and evaluation of a comprehensive forest carbon monitoring system. Environmental Research Letters. 16(5). 55026–55026. 14 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yu, C. A. Williams, Thomas Lauvaux, et al.. (2020). A Multiyear Gridded Data Ensemble of Surface Biogenic Carbon Fluxes for North America: Evaluation and Analysis of Results. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(2). 17 indexed citations

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Medlyn, Belinda E., Martin G. De Kauwe, Yan‐Shih Lin, et al.. (2017). How do leaf and ecosystem measures of water‐use efficiency compare?. New Phytologist. 216(3). 758–770. 168 indexed citations

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Cuba, Nicholas, Deborah Lawrence, John Rogan, & C. A. Williams. (2017). Local variability in the timing and intensity of tropical dry forest deciduousness is explained by differences in forest stand age. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 55(3). 437–456. 6 indexed citations

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Keenan, Trevor F., I. Colin Prentice, Josep G. Canadell, et al.. (2016). Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13428–13428. 325 indexed citations breakdown →

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Novick, Kimberly A., et al.. (2015). Vapor pressure deficit is as important as soil moisture in determining limitations to evapotranspiration during drought. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 4 indexed citations

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Williams, C. A., Bardan Ghimire, G. J. Collatz, & J. G. Masek. (2012). Fire induced carbon emissions and regrowth uptake in western United States forests: Documenting variation across forest types, fire severity, and climate regions. AGUFM. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Beer, Christian, Philippe Ciais, Markus Reichstein, et al.. (2009). Temporal and among‐site variability of inherent water use efficiency at the ecosystem level. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 23(2). 476 indexed citations

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Fine, Howard F., et al.. (2008). Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis Induced by Sulfonamide Eyedrops. Cornea. 27(9). 1068–1069. 3 indexed citations

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Williams, C. A.. (2004). Pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus. 2nd ed. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 88(7). 977–977. 22 indexed citations

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Williams, C. A., et al.. (1988). Ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase of the procaryotic symbiont of a hydrothermal vent tube worm: kinetics, activity and gene hybridization. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 50(2-3). 107–112. 14 indexed citations

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