David Schimel

40.0k total citations · 16 hit papers
227 papers, 23.2k citations indexed

About

David Schimel is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Schimel has authored 227 papers receiving a total of 23.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 144 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 66 papers in Ecology and 59 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in David Schimel's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (97 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (51 papers) and Climate variability and models (43 papers). David Schimel is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (97 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (51 papers) and Climate variability and models (43 papers). David Schimel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. David Schimel's co-authors include William J. Parton, Dennis S. Ojima, B. H. Braswell, Elisabeth A. Holland, D. W. Valentine, A. R. Mosier, Joshua B. Fisher, Steve Archer, Timothy G. F. Kittel and Britton B. Stephens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Schimel

219 papers receiving 21.6k 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.

Terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle

1995 1.2k citations David Schimel Global Change Biology profile →
Observations and modeling of biomass and soil organic matter dynamics for the grassland biome worldwide

1993 1000 citations David Schimel et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
Climatic, edaphic, and biotic controls over storage and turnover of carbon in soils

1994 841 citations David Schimel, B. H. Braswell et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
Methane and nitrous oxide fluxes in native, fertilized and cultivated grasslands

1991 795 citations David Schimel et al. profile →
Global patterns of terrestrial biological nitrogen (N₂) fixation in natural ecosystems

1999 736 citations David Schimel et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
Texture, Climate, and Cultivation Effects on Soil Organic Matter Content in U.S. Grassland Soils

1989 716 citations David Schimel et al. profile →
Mechanisms of shrubland expansion: land use, climate or CO2?

1995 581 citations David Schimel et al. profile →
DAYCENT and its land surface submodel: description and testing

1998 580 citations David Schimel et al. profile →
OCO-2 advances photosynthesis observation from space via solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

2017 522 citations Christian Frankenberg, David Schimel et al. profile →
Divergence of reproductive phenology under climate warming

2006 509 citations David Schimel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Effect of increasing CO ₂ on the terrestrial carbon cycle

2014 472 citations David Schimel, Britton B. Stephens et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Observing terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle from space

2014 400 citations David Schimel, Ryan Pavlick et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El Niño

2017 323 citations K. W. Bowman, David Schimel et al. profile →
Mechanistic evidence for tracking the seasonality of photosynthesis with solar-induced fluorescence

2019 278 citations Nicholas C. Parazoo, David Schimel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century

2021 200 citations A. Anthony Bloom, K. W. Bowman et al. Science Advances profile →
Integrating remote sensing with ecology and evolution to advance biodiversity conservation

2022 172 citations Fabian Schneider, David Schimel et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Schimel

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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Observing system needs for understanding carbon–climate feedbacks 2025 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Dustin Carroll, N. Parazoo, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Michael Keller, David Schimel, A. Anthony Bloom	0
2	A Decadal Survey Without Analogs: Earth Observation Needs for a Warming World 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Kimberley Miner, Renato K. Braghiere, Charles E. Miller, Nicole‐Jeanne Schlegel, David Schimel	0
3	Remote Sensing‐Based Forest Modeling Reveals Positive Effects of Functional Diversity on Productivity at Local Spatial Scale 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Fabian Schneider, Marcos Longo, Eugénie Paul‐Limoges, (unknown), Bernhard Schmid, Felix Morsdorf, Ryan Pavlick, David Schimel, Michael E. Schaepman, P. R. Moorcroft	11
4	Shape from spectra 2023 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Nimrod Carmon, Alexander Berk, Niklas Bohn, (unknown), Jeff Dozier, (unknown), Charles E. Miller, David R. Thompson, M. Turmon, Charles M. Bachmann, Robert O. Green, (unknown), Elliott Liggett, Hai Nguyen, (unknown), Gregory S. Okin, (unknown), David Schimel, Joon Jin Song, Jouni Susiluoto	15
5	Resolving the Carbon‐Climate Feedback Potential of Wetland CO₂ and CH₄ Fluxes in Alaska 2023 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Shuang Ma, A. Anthony Bloom, Jennifer D. Watts, Gregory R. Quetin, Donatella Zona, E. S. Euskirchen, Alexander Norton, Yi Yin, Paul A. Levine, Renato K. Braghiere, Nicholas C. Parazoo, John R. Worden, David Schimel, Charles E. Miller	5
6	Tipping point in North American Arctic-Boreal carbon sink persists in new generation Earth system models despite reduced uncertainty 2023 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Renato K. Braghiere, Joshua B. Fisher, Kimberley Miner, Charles E. Miller, John R. Worden, David Schimel, Christian Frankenberg	18
7	Exploring Mission Design for Imaging Spectroscopy Retrievals for Land and Aquatic Ecosystems 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Ann Raiho, Kerry Cawse‐Nicholson, Adam Chlus, Jeff Dozier, Michelle M. Gierach, Kimberley Miner, Fabian Schneider, David Schimel, Shawn Serbin, Alexey Shiklomanov, David R. Thompson, Philip A. Townsend, (unknown), (unknown), Benjamin Poulter	5
8	Monitoring Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·William D. Collins, R. Orbach, (unknown), Sébastien Biraud, Ian Coddington, David A. DiCarlo, Jeff Peischl, Anuradha Radhakrishnan, David Schimel	4
9	Exploring mission design for imaging spectroscopy retrievals for land and aquatic ecosystems 2022 ·Ann Raiho, Kerry Cawse‐Nicholson, Adam Chlus, Jeff Dozier, Michelle M. Gierach, Kimberley Miner, Shawn Serbin, David Schimel, Fabian Schneider, Alexey Shiklomanov, S. McKenzie Skiles, David R. Thompson, Philip A. Townsend, (unknown), Benjamin Poulter	4
10	Attribution of Space‐Time Variability in Global‐Ocean Dissolved Inorganic Carbon 2022 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Dustin Carroll, Dimitris Menemenlis, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Jonathan Maitland Lauderdale, Jess F. Adkins, K. W. Bowman, Holger Brix, Ian Fenty, Michelle M. Gierach, Chris Hill, Oliver Jahn, Peter Landschützer, Manfredi Manizza, Matt Mazloff, Charles E. Miller, David Schimel, Ariane Verdy, Daniel Whitt, Hong Zhang	28
11	Monitoring methane emissions from oil and gas operations^‡ 2022 ·Optics Express ·William D. Collins, R. Orbach, (unknown), Sébastien Biraud, Ian Coddington, David A. DiCarlo, Jeff Peischl, Anuradha Radhakrishnan, David Schimel	8
12	Towards mapping the diversity of canopy structure from space with GEDI 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Fabian Schneider, António Ferraz, Steven Hancock, Laura Duncanson, Ralph Dubayah, Ryan Pavlick, David Schimel	99
13	Authorship and Gender in ESA Journals 2019 ·Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America ·(unknown), David Schimel	9
14	Airborne Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence to Characterize Arctic Boreal Zone Productivity 2018 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·D. Drewry, Oliver Sonnentag, Charles E. Miller, David Schimel, Nicholas C. Parazoo, Christian Frankenberg, E. S. Euskirchen, Adrian V. Rocha, M. Syndonia Bret‐Harte, Donatella Zona	1
15	Accelerating rates of Arctic carbon cycling revealed by long-term atmospheric CO ₂ measurements 2018 ·Science Advances ·Sujong Jeong, A. Anthony Bloom, David Schimel, Colm Sweeney, Nicholas C. Parazoo, David Medvigy, Gabriela Schaepman‐Strub, Chunmiao Zheng, Christopher R. Schwalm, D. N. Huntzinger, A. M. Michalak, Charles E. Miller	59
16	What are the greenhouse gas observing system requirements for reducing fundamental biogeochemical process uncertainty? Amazon wetland CH ₄ emissions as a case study 2016 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·A. Anthony Bloom, Thomas Lauvaux, John R. Worden, Vineet Yadav, Riley Duren, Stanley P. Sander, David Schimel	15
17	Review of the USA National Phenology Network 2015 ·U.S. Geological Survey circular ·Brian F. Powell, Pierre D. Glynn, T. Owen, Geoffrey M. Henebry, Jake F. Weltzin, (unknown), (unknown), Robert B. Cook, David Medvigy, Russell K. Monson, David Schimel, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	5
18	Effect of increasing CO ₂ on the terrestrial carbon cycle breakdown → 2014 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·David Schimel, Britton B. Stephens, Joshua B. Fisher	472
19	Estimating diurnal to annual ecosystem parameters by synthesis of a carbon flux model with eddy covariance net ecosystem exchange observations 2005 ·Global Change Biology ·B. H. Braswell, William J. Sacks, Ernst Linder, David Schimel	283
20	Theory and application of tracers 1993 ·Academic Press eBooks ·David Schimel	36

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