Derek Pierson

829 total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 484 citations indexed

About

Derek Pierson is a scholar working on Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek Pierson has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 484 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Soil Science, 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Derek Pierson's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (15 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (10 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (8 papers). Derek Pierson is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (15 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (10 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (8 papers). Derek Pierson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Derek Pierson's co-authors include Charles C. Rhoades, Timothy S. Fegel, Alex Chow, Kate Lajtha, T. P. Covino, William R. Wieder, Katerina Georgiou, Knute J. Nadelhoffer, Myrna J. Simpson and Richard D. Bowden and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Global Change Biology and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Derek Pierson

24 papers receiving 475 citations

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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.

Emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon driven by mineral associations

2024 56 citations Katerina Georgiou, Charles D. Koven et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Derek Pierson United States	14	234	205	167	69	49	26	484
Junxia Yan China	10	245 1.0×	255 1.2×	254 1.5×	44 0.6×	47 1.0×	26	661
Emilia Urbanek United Kingdom	13	303 1.3×	281 1.4×	150 0.9×	69 1.0×	31 0.6×	19	575
Zisheng Xing Canada	11	196 0.8×	172 0.8×	97 0.6×	76 1.1×	116 2.4×	24	545
J. López Spain	5	369 1.6×	189 0.9×	144 0.9×	75 1.1×	41 0.8×	6	490
Rashid Rafique United States	12	229 1.0×	174 0.8×	167 1.0×	89 1.3×	35 0.7×	16	464
Scott Devine United States	8	232 1.0×	184 0.9×	96 0.6×	41 0.6×	83 1.7×	13	463
Javier Hedo Spain	7	171 0.7×	230 1.1×	116 0.7×	52 0.8×	49 1.0×	11	452
Yuanzhi Wu China	12	224 1.0×	121 0.6×	103 0.6×	41 0.6×	34 0.7×	23	414
Marianna Papp Hungary	11	255 1.1×	164 0.8×	143 0.9×	70 1.0×	53 1.1×	13	462
C. D. Arbelo Spain	15	364 1.6×	100 0.5×	183 1.1×	61 0.9×	41 0.8×	40	612

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Derek Pierson

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

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Malhotra, Avni, Samantha R. Weintraub, Katerina Georgiou, et al.. (2025). Fine root and soil carbon stocks are positively related in grasslands but not in forests. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 497–497.

Rocci, Katherine S., Derek Pierson, Fiona V. Jevon, et al.. (2025). Integrating Microbial Community Data Into an Ecosystem‐Scale Model to Predict Litter Decomposition in the Face of Climate Change. Global Change Biology. 31(7). e70352–e70352.

Strickland, Michael S., Martin F. Jurgensen, Michelle A. Jusino, et al.. (2024). Long-term nitrogen addition in a boreal forest affects wood-inhabiting fungal communities and influences wood decomposition. Forest Ecology and Management. 572. 122197–122197. 1 indexed citations

Georgiou, Katerina, Charles D. Koven, William R. Wieder, et al.. (2024). Emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon driven by mineral associations. Nature Geoscience. 17(3). 205–212. 56 indexed citations breakdown →

Han, Han‐Sup, Dipita Ghosh, Nathaniel Anderson, et al.. (2024). FireBox and CharBoss: An alternative to open burning of woody biomass. Biomass and Bioenergy. 190. 107364–107364. 2 indexed citations

Wieder, William R., Melannie D. Hartman, Emily Kyker‐Snowman, et al.. (2024). Simulating Global Terrestrial Carbon and Nitrogen Biogeochemical Cycles With Implicit and Explicit Representations of Soil Microbial Activity. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(6). 3 indexed citations

Page‐Dumroese, Deborah S., et al.. (2024). Continuous In-woods Production of Biochar Using a Trailer-mounted Air Curtain Burner. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2 indexed citations

Page‐Dumroese, Deborah S., et al.. (2024). Biochar Utilization as a Forestry Climate-Smart Tool. Sustainability. 16(5). 1714–1714. 6 indexed citations

Pierson, Derek, Nathaniel Anderson, Margaret C. Hardy, et al.. (2024). Beyond the basics: a perspective on barriers and opportunities for scaling up biochar production from forest slash. Biochar. 6(1). 29 indexed citations

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Page‐Dumroese, Deborah S., et al.. (2024). Policy and Regulations for Mobile Biochar Production in the United States of America. Forests. 15(1). 192–192. 2 indexed citations

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Rocci, Katherine S., Cory C. Cleveland, Katerina Georgiou, et al.. (2023). Aligning theoretical and empirical representations of soil carbon-to-nitrogen stoichiometry with process-based terrestrial biogeochemistry models. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 189. 109272–109272. 14 indexed citations

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Man, Meiling, et al.. (2022). Twenty years of litter manipulation reveals that above-ground litter quantity and quality controls soil organic matter molecular composition. Biogeochemistry. 159(3). 393–411. 24 indexed citations

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Pierson, Derek, Kathleen A. Lohse, William R. Wieder, et al.. (2022). Optimizing process-based models to predict current and future soil organic carbon stocks at high-resolution. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 10824–10824. 19 indexed citations

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Lohse, Kathleen A., Derek Pierson, Nicholas R. Patton, et al.. (2022). Multiscale responses and recovery of soils to wildfire in a sagebrush steppe ecosystem. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 22438–22438. 2 indexed citations

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Pierson, Derek, et al.. (2022). Utilizing Soil Density Fractionation to Separate Distinct Soil Carbon Pools. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 3 indexed citations

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Billings, Sharon, Kate Lajtha, Avni Malhotra, et al.. (2021). Soil organic carbon is not just for soil scientists: measurement recommendations for diverse practitioners. Ecological Applications. 31(3). e02290–e02290. 36 indexed citations

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Pierson, Derek, et al.. (2020). Sources of soil carbon loss during soil density fractionation: Laboratory loss or seasonally variable soluble pools?. Geoderma. 382. 114776–114776. 5 indexed citations

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Pierson, Derek, Peter R. Robichaud, Charles C. Rhoades, & Robert Brown. (2019). Soil carbon and nitrogen eroded after severe wildfire and erosion mitigation treatments. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 28(10). 814–821. 22 indexed citations

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Rhoades, Charles C., et al.. (2018). The Legacy of a Severe Wildfire on Stream Nitrogen and Carbon in Headwater Catchments. Ecosystems. 22(3). 643–657. 105 indexed citations

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Moore, Karen, Eleanor Jennings, Norman Allott, et al.. (2013). Modelling the effects of climate change on inorganic nitrogen transport from catchments to lakes. Jukuri (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)). 3 indexed citations

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