Christopher B. Field

119.7k total citations · 41 hit papers
354 papers, 72.9k citations indexed

About

Christopher B. Field is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher B. Field has authored 354 papers receiving a total of 72.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 185 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 109 papers in Plant Science and 62 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Christopher B. Field's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (100 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (80 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (63 papers). Christopher B. Field is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (100 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (80 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (63 papers). Christopher B. Field collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Christopher B. Field's co-authors include James T. Randerson, David B. Lobell, Harold A. Mooney, Joseph A. Berry, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Paul G. Falkowski, John A. Gamon, Josep Peñuelas, Peter M. Vitousek and H.A. Mooney and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher B. Field

352 papers receiving 68.6k citations

Hit Papers

Managing the Risks of Ext... 1983 2026 1997 2011 2012 1998 2012 1993 2009 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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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.

  1. Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
    2012 5.1k citations Christopher B. Field, Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  2. Primary Production of the Biosphere: Integrating Terrestrial and Oceanic Components
    1998 4.3k citations Christopher B. Field, James T. Randerson et al. Science profile →
  3. Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    2012 2.4k citations Christopher B. Field, Katharine J. Mach et al. profile →
  4. Terrestrial ecosystem production: A process model based on global satellite and surface data
    1993 2.4k citations James T. Randerson, Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  5. The velocity of climate change
    2009 1.8k citations Scott R. Loarie, Philip B. Duffy et al. profile →
  6. A narrow-waveband spectral index that tracks diurnal changes in photosynthetic efficiency
    1992 1.7k citations Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  7. Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges
    1999 1.7k citations Christopher B. Field et al. Science profile →
  8. A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for Atmospheric GCMS. Part I: Model Formulation
    1996 1.6k citations Joseph A. Berry, Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  9. Global scale climate–crop yield\nrelationships and the impacts of recent\nwarming
    2007 1.6k citations David B. Lobell, Christopher B. Field Insecta mundi profile →
  10. Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO 2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks
    2007 1.5k citations Josep G. Canadell, Corinne Le Quéré et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  11. photosynthesis--nitrogen relationship in wild plants
    1986 1.4k citations Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  12. Global and regional drivers of accelerating CO 2 emissions
    2007 1.3k citations Michael Raupach, Gregg Marland et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  13. Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle
    2008 1.2k citations Josep G. Canadell, Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  14. Modeling the Exchanges of Energy, Water, and Carbon Between Continents and the Atmosphere
    1997 1.2k citations Joseph A. Berry, Harold A. Mooney et al. Science profile →
  15. Crop Yield Gaps: Their Importance, Magnitudes, and Causes
    2009 1.1k citations David B. Lobell, Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  16. Plant Responses to Multiple Environmental Factors
    1987 1.1k citations Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  17. Progressive Nitrogen Limitation of Ecosystem Responses to Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
    2004 1.0k citations Bruce A. Hungate, Diane E. Pataki et al. profile →
  18. Global net primary production: Combining ecology and remote sensing
    1995 1.0k citations Christopher B. Field, James T. Randerson et al. profile →
  19. Relationships Between NDVI, Canopy Structure, and Photosynthesis in Three Californian Vegetation Types
    1995 888 citations Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  20. Reflectance indices associated with physiological changes in nitrogen- and water-limited sunflower leaves
    1994 871 citations Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  21. Canopy reflectance, photosynthesis, and transpiration. III. A reanalysis using improved leaf models and a new canopy integration scheme.
    1992 787 citations Joseph A. Berry, Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  22. Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California
    2004 697 citations Christopher B. Field, Elsa E. Cleland et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  23. Canopy near-infrared reflectance and terrestrial photosynthesis
    2017 690 citations Grayson Badgley, Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  24. Allocating leaf nitrogen for the maximization of carbon gain: Leaf age as a control on the allocation program
    1983 680 citations Christopher B. Field profile →
  25. FOREST CARBON SINKS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
    2002 679 citations Christopher B. Field, R. A. Houghton et al. profile →
  26. Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation
    2002 668 citations Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  27. Nitrogen and Climate Change
    2003 658 citations Bruce A. Hungate, Christopher B. Field et al. Science profile →
  28. A unifying framework for dinitrogen fixation in the terrestrial biosphere
    2008 623 citations Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  29. Stomatal responses to increased CO2: implications from the plant to the global scale
    1995 605 citations Christopher B. Field, Robert B. Jackson et al. profile →
  30. Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions
    2020 587 citations Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  31. Biomass energy: the scale of the potential resource
    2008 553 citations Christopher B. Field, David B. Lobell et al. profile →
  32. The roles of hydraulic and carbon stress in a widespread climate-induced forest die-off
    2011 542 citations William R. L. Anderegg, Joseph A. Berry et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  33. The Global Potential of Bioenergy on Abandoned Agriculture Lands
    2008 531 citations David B. Lobell, Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  34. Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests
    2020 504 citations William R. L. Anderegg, Anna T. Trugman et al. Science profile →
  35. Scaling Physiological Processes, Leaf to Globe.
    1995 483 citations Christopher B. Field et al. profile →
  36. Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties
    2010 456 citations Christopher B. Field, Katharine J. Mach et al. profile →
  37. Changes in Ecologically Critical Terrestrial Climate Conditions
    2013 449 citations Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Christopher B. Field Science profile →
  38. Managed retreat as a response to natural hazard risk
    2017 343 citations Christopher B. Field, Katharine J. Mach et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  39. Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict
    2019 330 citations Katharine J. Mach, Caroline M. Kraan et al. profile →
  40. Tree mortality predicted from drought-induced vascular damage
    2015 328 citations William R. L. Anderegg, Joseph A. Berry et al. profile →
  41. Terrestrial gross primary production: Using NIR V to scale from site to globe
    2019 254 citations Grayson Badgley, Leander D. L. Anderegg et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Christopher B. Field 37.6k 21.8k 17.3k 13.1k 10.5k 354 72.9k
Robert B. Jackson 34.1k 0.9× 23.4k 1.1× 17.4k 1.0× 10.5k 0.8× 16.2k 1.5× 460 84.9k
Harold A. Mooney 32.3k 0.9× 23.2k 1.1× 19.6k 1.1× 7.1k 0.5× 23.2k 2.2× 376 73.1k
F. Stuart Chapin 36.2k 1.0× 33.8k 1.6× 22.3k 1.3× 24.1k 1.8× 30.1k 2.9× 509 101.2k
Philippe Ciais 60.6k 1.6× 24.5k 1.1× 8.6k 0.5× 28.4k 2.2× 10.3k 1.0× 1.1k 94.7k
Jonathan A. Foley 24.4k 0.6× 13.4k 0.6× 8.2k 0.5× 6.3k 0.5× 6.3k 0.6× 134 49.8k
Peter M. Vitousek 22.0k 0.6× 30.7k 1.4× 19.3k 1.1× 8.1k 0.6× 23.8k 2.3× 353 83.2k
Gregory P. Asner 29.6k 0.8× 33.3k 1.5× 8.4k 0.5× 6.1k 0.5× 16.1k 1.5× 618 65.3k
Navin Ramankutty 24.5k 0.7× 14.1k 0.6× 9.9k 0.6× 6.4k 0.5× 4.8k 0.5× 166 49.9k
Jerry M. Melillo 21.3k 0.6× 18.8k 0.9× 8.1k 0.5× 8.8k 0.7× 9.7k 0.9× 308 51.5k
Josep Peñuelas 32.9k 0.9× 29.6k 1.4× 30.7k 1.8× 16.2k 1.2× 17.7k 1.7× 1.4k 87.1k

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All Works

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Wilson, Anne M., et al.. (2025). Towards environmental justice: A framework and strategic approach for implementing community based participatory research in the earth and environmental sciences. Environmental Science & Policy. 167. 104036–104036. 1 indexed citations
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Fletcher, Charles H., William J. Ripple, Thomas M. Newsome, et al.. (2024). Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future. PNAS Nexus. 3(4). pgae106–pgae106. 54 indexed citations
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Wong‐Parodi, Gabrielle, et al.. (2023). Enabling pathways for sustainable livelihoods in planned relocation. Nature Climate Change. 13(9). 919–926. 19 indexed citations
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Sun, Xin, Nona R. Chiariello, Kathryn M. Docherty, et al.. (2023). Long‐term elevated precipitation induces grassland soil carbon loss via microbe‐plant–soil interplay. Global Change Biology. 29(18). 5429–5444. 27 indexed citations
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Asner, Gregory P., et al.. (2020). Landscape scale variation in the hydrologic niche of California coast redwood. Ecography. 43(9). 1305–1315. 8 indexed citations
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Mach, Katharine J., W. Neil Adger, Halvard Buhaug, et al.. (2020). Directions for Research on Climate and Conflict. Earth s Future. 8(7). e2020EF001532–e2020EF001532. 48 indexed citations
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Anderegg, William R. L., Anna T. Trugman, Grayson Badgley, et al.. (2020). Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests. Science. 368(6497). 504 indexed citations breakdown →
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Badgley, Grayson, Leander D. L. Anderegg, Joseph A. Berry, & Christopher B. Field. (2019). Terrestrial gross primary production: Using NIR V to scale from site to globe. Global Change Biology. 25(11). 3731–3740. 254 indexed citations breakdown →
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Duffy, Philip B., Christopher B. Field, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, et al.. (2018). Strengthened scientific support for the Endangerment Finding for atmospheric greenhouse gases. Science. 363(6427). 43 indexed citations
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Anderegg, William R. L., Lenka Plavcová, Leander D. L. Anderegg, et al.. (2012). Drought's legacy: multiyear hydraulic deterioration underlies widespread aspen forest die‐off and portends increased future risk. Global Change Biology. 19(4). 1188–1196. 301 indexed citations
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Anderegg, William R. L., Joseph A. Berry, Duncan D. Smith, et al.. (2011). The roles of hydraulic and carbon stress in a widespread climate-induced forest die-off. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(1). 233–237. 542 indexed citations breakdown →
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Doughty, Christopher E., Adam Wolf, & Christopher B. Field. (2010). Biophysical feedbacks between the Pleistocene megafauna extinction and climate: The first human‐induced global warming?. Geophysical Research Letters. 37(15). 79 indexed citations
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Thayer, Susan S., Samuel B. St. Clair, Christopher B. Field, & Shauna Somerville. (2008). Accentuation of phosphorus limitation in Geranium dissectum by nitrogen: an ecological genomics study. Global Change Biology. 14(8). 1877–1890. 17 indexed citations
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Jackson, Robert B., James T. Randerson, Josep G. Canadell, et al.. (2008). Protecting climate with forests. Environmental Research Letters. 3(4). 44006–44006. 321 indexed citations
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Canadell, Josep G., Corinne Le Quéré, Michael Raupach, et al.. (2007). Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO 2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(47). 18866–18870. 1490 indexed citations breakdown →
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Menge, Duncan N. L. & Christopher B. Field. (2007). Simulated global changes alter phosphorus demand in annual grassland. Global Change Biology. 13(12). 2582–2591. 159 indexed citations
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Lobell, David B. & Christopher B. Field. (2007). Global scale climate–crop yield\nrelationships and the impacts of recent\nwarming. Insecta mundi. 1599 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cleland, Elsa E., Nona R. Chiariello, Scott R. Loarie, Harold A. Mooney, & Christopher B. Field. (2006). Diverse responses of phenology to global changes in a grassland ecosystem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(37). 13740–13744. 393 indexed citations
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Mouillot, Florent & Christopher B. Field. (2005). Fire history and the global carbon budget: a 1°× 1° fire history reconstruction for the 20th century. Global Change Biology. 11(3). 398–420. 305 indexed citations

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