David LeBauer

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

David LeBauer is a scholar working on Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David LeBauer has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Plant Science, 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David LeBauer's work include Bioenergy crop production and management (7 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (6 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (6 papers). David LeBauer is often cited by papers focused on Bioenergy crop production and management (7 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (6 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (6 papers). David LeBauer collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. David LeBauer's co-authors include Kathleen K. Treseder, Michael C. Dietze, Stephen P. Long, Kate M. Scow, Christian M. Leutenegger, Louise E. Jackson, R. Ford Denison, Krassimira R. Hristova, Rob Kooper and Carl C. Davidson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

David LeBauer

43 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

NITROGEN LIMITATION OF NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IS GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED

2008 2.2k citations David LeBauer, Kathleen K. Treseder Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David LeBauer United States	21	1.7k	1.4k	1.2k	1.1k	756	44	3.9k
Weixing Zhu United States	33	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	791 1.0×	99	4.2k
Honghua Ruan China	36	2.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	730 0.7×	762 1.0×	187	4.4k
Lifen Jiang China	30	1.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.4×	936 0.8×	993 0.9×	614 0.8×	94	4.0k
Dashuan Tian China	33	3.0k 1.8×	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	772 1.0×	108	4.8k
Hui Guo China	35	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	446 0.6×	170	4.0k
De‐Hui Zeng China	35	1.9k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	784 0.6×	612 0.6×	847 1.1×	125	3.1k
Weixing Liu China	33	2.3k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	650 0.9×	79	4.1k
Abad Chabbi France	32	2.6k 1.5×	1.6k 1.1×	970 0.8×	627 0.6×	338 0.4×	87	4.1k
Cheng‐Yuan Xu Australia	34	1.6k 0.9×	802 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	663 0.6×	626 0.8×	83	3.9k
Li Xu China	36	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	840 1.1×	149	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by David LeBauer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David LeBauer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David LeBauer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David LeBauer 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 David LeBauer. David LeBauer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Roxas, Jennifer Lising, et al.. (2025). CAT-GxD: Centralized access to gene expression datasets. Anaerobe. 96. 103005–103005.

Lachowiec, Jennifer, et al.. (2024). Adoption of unoccupied aerial systems in agricultural research. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(1). 6 indexed citations

Sagan, Vasit, Haireti Alifu, Maria Newcomb, et al.. (2023). Early Detection of Drought Stress in Durum Wheat Using Hyperspectral Imaging and Photosystem Sensing. Remote Sensing. 16(1). 155–155. 7 indexed citations

Meredith, Laura, et al.. (2023). Automating methods for estimating metabolite volatility. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1267234–1267234. 6 indexed citations

Davis, Sarah C., John T. Abatzoglou, & David LeBauer. (2021). Expanded Potential Growing Region and Yield Increase for Agave americana with Future Climate. Agronomy. 11(11). 2109–2109. 13 indexed citations

Sagan, Vasit, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Sidike Paheding, et al.. (2021). Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence for Calibration of Hyperspectral Big Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–20. 31 indexed citations

Field, John, Tom L. Richard, Erica A. H. Smithwick, et al.. (2020). Robust paths to net greenhouse gas mitigation and negative emissions via advanced biofuels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 21968–21977. 128 indexed citations

Chamberlain, Scott, Zachary Foster, Ígnasi Bartomeus, et al.. (2020). Species Trait Data from Around the Web [R package traits version 0.5.0]. 1 indexed citations

Jaiswal, Deepak, Amanda P. De Souza, Søren Larsen, et al.. (2019). Reply to: Brazilian ethanol expansion subject to limitations. Nature Climate Change. 9(3). 211–212. 8 indexed citations

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Babaeian, Ebrahim, Paheding Sidike, Maria Newcomb, et al.. (2019). A New Optical Remote Sensing Technique for High-Resolution Mapping of Soil Moisture. Frontiers in Big Data. 2. 37–37. 36 indexed citations

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LeBauer, David, et al.. (2019). UA Open Drone Processing Pipeline (alpha). OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Jaiswal, Deepak, Amanda P. De Souza, Søren Larsen, et al.. (2017). Brazilian sugarcane ethanol as an expandable green alternative to crude oil use. Nature Climate Change. 7(11). 788–792. 117 indexed citations

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Kooper, Rob, et al.. (2017). Data Flow for the TERRA-REF project. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Hart, Edmund, P. Barmby, David LeBauer, et al.. (2016). Ten simple rules for digital data storage. 1 indexed citations

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Davis, Sarah C., David LeBauer, & Stephen P. Long. (2014). Light to liquid fuel: theoretical and realized energy conversion efficiency of plants using Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) in arid conditions. Journal of Experimental Botany. 65(13). 3471–3478. 36 indexed citations

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Wang, Dan, David LeBauer, & Michael C. Dietze. (2012). Predicting yields of short‐rotation hybrid poplar (Populus spp.) for the United States through model–data synthesis. Ecological Applications. 23(4). 944–958. 39 indexed citations

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LeBauer, David, et al.. (2012). Facilitating feedbacks between field measurements and ecosystem models. Ecological Monographs. 83(2). 133–154. 136 indexed citations

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Dietze, Michael C., et al.. (2011). The PEcAn Project: Model-Data Ecoinformatics for the Observatory Era. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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LeBauer, David & Kathleen K. Treseder. (2008). NITROGEN LIMITATION OF NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IS GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED. Ecology. 89(2). 371–379. 2165 indexed citations breakdown →

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LeBauer, David & Kathleen K. Treseder. (2006). Nitrogen Limitation of Terrestrial Net Primary Production: Global Patterns From Field Studies with Nitrogen Fertilization. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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