Carlos A. Sierra

11.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
119 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Carlos A. Sierra is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carlos A. Sierra has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 47 papers in Soil Science and 43 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Carlos A. Sierra's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (43 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (32 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (28 papers). Carlos A. Sierra is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (43 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (32 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (28 papers). Carlos A. Sierra collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Carlos A. Sierra's co-authors include Susan Trumbore, Markus M. Müller, Stefan Scheu, Ashish A. Malik, Sibylle Steinbeiss, Jacques Roy, Gerd Gleixner, Holger Beßler, Nico Eisenhauer and Robert I. Griffiths and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Carlos A. Sierra

115 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage

2015 1.2k citations Carlos A. Sierra, Susan Trumbore et al. profile →
Beyond clay: towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content

2018 542 citations Susan E. Crow, Caitlin Hicks Pries et al. Biogeochemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carlos A. Sierra Germany	31	2.5k	1.7k	1.5k	1.1k	690	119	4.9k
Osbert Jianxin Sun China	40	2.7k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	2.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	1.0k 1.5×	103	5.7k
Daniel Markewitz United States	34	2.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	525 0.8×	104	4.3k
Gervasio Piñeiro Argentina	31	2.3k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	925 0.9×	686 1.0×	88	4.8k
Robert Jandl Austria	31	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	407 0.6×	95	4.3k
Christopher W. Swanston United States	37	3.2k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	465 0.7×	85	5.6k
Chengjun Ji China	38	2.6k 1.0×	2.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.8×	95	5.5k
Randall K. Kolka United States	45	1.5k 0.6×	3.0k 1.8×	2.0k 1.3×	862 0.8×	654 0.9×	231	6.7k
Weixing Zhu United States	33	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	791 0.7×	1.0k 1.5×	99	4.2k
Weijun Shen China	38	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	733 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	142	4.3k
Christopher Neill United States	46	2.5k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	2.2k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	837 1.2×	139	6.4k

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Schindlbacher, Andreas, Steve Kwatcho Kengdo, Jakob Heinzle, et al.. (2025). Increased Belowground Carbon Allocation Reduces Soil Carbon Losses Under Long‐Term Warming. Global Change Biology. 31(10). e70561–e70561.

Guggenberger, Georg, Xiaojuan Feng, Ingrid Chanca, et al.. (2024). Radiocarbon Isotopic Disequilibrium Shows Little Incorporation of New Carbon in Mineral Soils of a Boreal Forest Ecosystem. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(9). 1 indexed citations

Sierra, Carlos A., et al.. (2024). High capacity of integrated crop–pasture systems to preserve old soil carbon evaluated in a 60-year-old experiment. SOIL. 10(2). 467–486. 3 indexed citations

Sierra, Carlos A., et al.. (2023). Deterministic and stochastic components of atmospheric CO2 inside forest canopies and consequences for predicting carbon and water exchange. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 341. 109624–109624. 2 indexed citations

Sierra, Carlos A., et al.. (2023). Information content in time series of litter decomposition studies and the transit time of litter in arid lands. Biogeosciences. 20(9). 1759–1771. 3 indexed citations

Stoner, Shane, Marion Schrumpf, Alison M. Hoyt, et al.. (2023). How well does ramped thermal oxidation quantify the age distribution of soil carbon? Assessing thermal stability of physically and chemically fractionated soil organic matter. Biogeosciences. 20(15). 3151–3163. 10 indexed citations

Sierra, Carlos A., et al.. (2023). Recently fixed carbon fuels microbial activity several meters below the soil surface. Biogeosciences. 20(4). 827–838. 8 indexed citations

Sierra, Carlos A., et al.. (2022). Ideas and perspectives: Allocation of carbon from net primary production in models is inconsistent with observations of the age of respired carbon. Biogeosciences. 19(16). 3727–3738. 11 indexed citations

Stoner, Shane, Alison M. Hoyt, Susan Trumbore, et al.. (2021). Soil organic matter turnover rates increase to match increased inputs in grazed grasslands. Biogeochemistry. 156(1). 145–160. 19 indexed citations

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Estupiñán-Suárez, Lina M., Alexander Brenning, Fabian Gans, et al.. (2020). Capturing the influence of ENSO on land surface variables for Tropical South America. 1 indexed citations

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Schädel, Christina, Jeffrey Beem‐Miller, Susan E. Crow, et al.. (2020). Decomposability of soil organic matter over time: the Soil Incubation Database (SIDb, version 1.0) and guidance for incubation procedures. Earth system science data. 12(3). 1511–1524. 31 indexed citations

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Boone, Lieselot, Veerle Van linden, Isabel Roldán-Ruíz, et al.. (2018). Introduction of a natural resource balance indicator to assess soil organic carbon management: Agricultural Biomass Productivity Benefit. Journal of Environmental Management. 224. 202–214. 9 indexed citations

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Richardson, Andrew D., et al.. (2018). Ages and transit times as important diagnostics of model performance for predicting carbon dynamics in terrestrial vegetation models. Biogeosciences. 15(5). 1607–1625. 11 indexed citations

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Sierra, Carlos A., Saadatullah Malghani, & Henry W. Loescher. (2017). Interactions among temperature, moisture, and oxygen concentrations in controlling decomposition rates in a boreal forest soil. Biogeosciences. 14(3). 703–710. 93 indexed citations

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Sierra, Carlos A., Markus M. Müller, Holger Metzler, Stefano Manzoni, & Susan Trumbore. (2016). The muddle of ages, turnover, transit, and residence times in the carbon cycle. Global Change Biology. 23(5). 1763–1773. 112 indexed citations

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Sierra, Carlos A., et al.. (2013). Low vertical transfer rates of carbon inferred from radiocarbon analysis in an Amazon Podzol. Biogeosciences. 10(6). 3455–3464. 8 indexed citations

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Sierra, Carlos A., Markus M. Müller, & Susan Trumbore. (2012). Models of soil organic matter decomposition: the SoilR package, version 1.0. Geoscientific model development. 5(4). 1045–1060. 105 indexed citations

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Sierra, Carlos A., Susan Trumbore, Eric A. Davidson, et al.. (2012). Predicting decadal trends and transient responses of radiocarbon storage and fluxes in a temperate forest soil. Biogeosciences. 9(8). 3013–3028. 23 indexed citations

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Sierra, Carlos A., Mark E. Harmon, Enrique Thomann, Steven S. Perakis, & Henry W. Loescher. (2011). Amplification and dampening of soil respiration by changes in temperature variability. Biogeosciences. 8(4). 951–961. 33 indexed citations

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Sierra, Carlos A., Mark E. Harmon, Enrique Thomann, Steven S. Perakis, & Henry W. Loescher. (2010). Amplification and dampening of soil respiration by changes in temperature variability. 2 indexed citations

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