Christopher Potter

12.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
188 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Christopher Potter is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Potter has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 109 papers in Ecology and 42 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Christopher Potter's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (71 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (61 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (55 papers). Christopher Potter is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (71 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (61 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (55 papers). Christopher Potter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and China. Christopher Potter's co-authors include Steven Klooster, James W. Raich, Pamela A. Matson, Peter M. Vitousek, Christopher B. Field, Harold A. Mooney, James T. Randerson, Vanessa Genovese, Eric A. Davidson and Vanessa Brooks and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Potter

183 papers receiving 9.3k 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.

Terrestrial ecosystem production: A process model based on global satellite and surface data

1993 2.4k citations Christopher Potter, James T. Randerson et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
Global patterns of carbon dioxide emissions from soils

1995 933 citations Christopher Potter et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
Interannual variability in global soil respiration, 1980–94

2002 630 citations Christopher Potter et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: Processes, data, models, and challenges

2011 407 citations Christopher Potter et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Potter United States	42	6.7k	4.1k	2.1k	2.1k	1.5k	188	9.9k
B. H. Braswell United States	44	5.7k 0.8×	4.4k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	69	9.1k
Xiaomin Sun China	56	6.3k 0.9×	2.4k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	253	9.7k
Ben Bond‐Lamberty United States	57	8.1k 1.2×	3.9k 0.9×	3.3k 1.6×	3.7k 1.8×	1.8k 1.2×	207	14.0k
Rodrigo Vargas United States	47	6.5k 1.0×	3.7k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	3.3k 1.6×	2.1k 1.4×	225	12.7k
Bingfang Wu China	49	7.7k 1.1×	5.2k 1.3×	2.0k 0.9×	2.3k 1.1×	2.3k 1.6×	376	12.8k
Nuno Carvalhais Germany	38	5.3k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	2.4k 1.2×	973 0.5×	2.1k 1.4×	103	9.1k
Wenping Yuan China	49	6.6k 1.0×	4.3k 1.1×	2.3k 1.1×	1.0k 0.5×	1.9k 1.3×	287	9.9k
Mathew Williams United Kingdom	60	8.4k 1.2×	3.7k 0.9×	4.0k 1.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	259	12.9k
Dario Papale Italy	52	11.3k 1.7×	4.6k 1.1×	3.4k 1.7×	2.3k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	143	14.7k
Forrest M. Hoffman United States	47	5.1k 0.8×	2.1k 0.5×	2.6k 1.3×	880 0.4×	980 0.7×	165	8.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Potter

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Potter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Potter

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

Potter, Christopher & John W. Wick. (2025). Planning Studies for Compost Application to California Rangelands Using Landsat Satellite Imagery, Carbon Modeling, and Machine Learning. Natural Resources. 16(2). 25–43. 1 indexed citations

Potter, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Changes in the net primary production of ecosystems across Western Europe from 2015 to 2022 in response to historic drought events. Carbon Balance and Management. 19(1). 32–32. 4 indexed citations

Berner, Logan T., et al.. (2024). Pixel walking along the boreal forest–Arctic tundra ecotone: Large scale ground‐truthing of satellite‐derived greenness ( NDVI ). Global Change Biology. 30(6). e17374–e17374. 1 indexed citations

Potter, Christopher, et al.. (2023). Remote Sensing of Damage Inflicted on Coastal Wetlands of Southern Louisiana from Tropical Storms. Journal of Coastal Research. 40(2).

Potter, Christopher, et al.. (2019). Changes in vegetation cover and snowmelt timing in the Noatak National Preserve of Northwestern Alaska estimated from MODIS and Landsat satellite image analysis. European Journal of Remote Sensing. 52(1). 542–556. 6 indexed citations

Philip, Sajeev, Matthew S. Johnson, Christopher Potter, et al.. (2019). Prior biosphere model impact on global terrestrial CO ₂ fluxes estimated from OCO-2 retrievals. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(20). 13267–13287. 38 indexed citations

Potter, Christopher, et al.. (2016). Evaluation of modelled net primary production using MODIS and landsat satellite data fusion. Carbon Balance and Management. 11(1). 8–8. 23 indexed citations

Potter, Christopher. (2016). Characterization of Potential Springs in the Lower Colorado Desert of Southern California using Satellite Radar and Landsat Time Series Analysis. International Journal of Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS. 5(1). 1896–1907. 1 indexed citations

Potter, Christopher. (2016). Mapping Changes in Desert Pavement Surfaces of the Lower Colorado Desert of Southern California using Landsat Time Series Analysis. International Journal of Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS. 5(1). 1747–1754. 3 indexed citations

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Potter, Christopher. (2016). Measurements of fog water interception by shrubs on the California central coast. Journal of Coastal Conservation. 20(4). 315–325. 8 indexed citations

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Potter, Christopher. (2015). Combined use of climate and satellite image data to predict the timing and origin of dust bowl storms in the plains states, USA. International Journal on Environmental Sciences. 6(1). 29–36. 1 indexed citations

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Potter, Christopher, et al.. (2013). Forest production predicted from satellite image analysis for the Southeast Asia region. Carbon Balance and Management. 8(1). 9–9. 15 indexed citations

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Potter, Christopher, et al.. (2012). Declining Vegetation Growth Rates in the Eastern United States from 2000 to 2010. Natural Resources. 3(4). 184–190. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, X. Chelsea, Anuj Karpatne, Varun Mithal, et al.. (2012). A new data mining framework for forest fire mapping. 104–111. 8 indexed citations

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Potter, Christopher, Steven Klooster, & Vanessa Genovese. (2009). Carbon emissions from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Region. Biogeosciences. 6(11). 2369–2381. 16 indexed citations

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Potter, Christopher, Steven Klooster, Alfredo Huete, et al.. (2009). Terrestrial carbon sinks in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado region predicted from MODIS satellite data and ecosystem modeling. Biogeosciences. 6(6). 937–945. 46 indexed citations

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Potter, Christopher, Pang‐Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, et al.. (2003). Major disturbance events in terrestrial ecosystems detected using global satellite data sets. Global Change Biology. 9(7). 1005–1021. 106 indexed citations

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Potter, Christopher, James T. Randerson, Christopher B. Field, et al.. (1993). Terrestrial ecosystem production: A process model based on global satellite and surface data. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 7(4). 811–841. 2359 indexed citations breakdown →

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Potter, Christopher, et al.. (1993). A model of global net ecosystem production. 3 indexed citations

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Cohen, Joel I., Janis B. Alcorn, & Christopher Potter. (1991). Utilization and conservation of genetic resources: International projects for sustainable agriculture. Economic Botany. 45(2). 190–199. 24 indexed citations

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