Donatella Zona

10.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Donatella Zona is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Donatella Zona has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Atmospheric Science, 50 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 29 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Donatella Zona's work include Climate change and permafrost (63 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (46 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (34 papers). Donatella Zona is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (63 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (46 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (34 papers). Donatella Zona collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Belgium. Donatella Zona's co-authors include Walter C. Oechel, David A. Lipson, R. Ceulemans, Beniamino Gioli, Anna Liljedahl, Steven F. Oberbauer, Ivan A. Janssens, L. D. Hinzman, Yoshinobu Harazono and Kyaw Tha Paw U and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Donatella Zona

97 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Pan-Arctic ice-wedge degradation in warming permafrost and its influence on tundra hydrology

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Donatella Zona United States	34	2.4k	1.5k	1.1k	416	277	97	3.6k
Juha‐Pekka Tuovinen Finland	36	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	162 0.4×	339 1.2×	95	3.3k
Annalea Lohila Finland	34	878 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.7×	381 0.9×	277 1.0×	136	3.0k
J. S. Clein United States	21	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	268 0.6×	172 0.6×	29	3.1k
Ivan Mammarella Finland	38	1.8k 0.8×	3.2k 2.2×	1.2k 1.1×	354 0.9×	649 2.3×	164	4.5k
D. Serça France	30	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	343 0.3×	447 1.1×	279 1.0×	65	2.7k
Thomas Friborg Denmark	35	2.2k 0.9×	2.2k 1.5×	1.7k 1.6×	453 1.1×	451 1.6×	72	4.1k
Gerd Folberth United Kingdom	25	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	296 0.3×	230 0.6×	286 1.0×	47	2.7k
A. Hensen Netherlands	24	700 0.3×	1.0k 0.7×	434 0.4×	323 0.8×	255 0.9×	74	1.8k
J. M. Massheder United Kingdom	14	884 0.4×	2.4k 1.6×	849 0.8×	394 0.9×	353 1.3×	14	3.5k
Mika Aurela Finland	40	2.5k 1.0×	3.0k 2.0×	2.8k 2.6×	295 0.7×	492 1.8×	166	5.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donatella Zona

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Lipson, David A., Kyle A. Arndt, Scott J. Davidson, et al.. (2024). Thermokarst landscape exhibits large nitrous oxide emissions in Alaska’s coastal polygonal tundra. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 473–473. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Shuang, A. Anthony Bloom, Jennifer D. Watts, et al.. (2023). Resolving the Carbon‐Climate Feedback Potential of Wetland CO₂ and CH₄ Fluxes in Alaska. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(9). 5 indexed citations

Zona, Donatella, Emma Louise Briant, Chun‐Ta Lai, et al.. (2023). Response of CO₂ and CH₄ emissions from Arctic tundra soils to a multifactorial manipulation of water table, temperature and thaw depth. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 45003–45003. 1 indexed citations

Schiferl, Luke D., Jennifer D. Watts, Kyle A. Arndt, et al.. (2022). Using atmospheric observations to quantify annual biogenic carbon dioxide fluxes on the Alaska North Slope. Biogeosciences. 19(24). 5953–5972. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Lihua, Fenghui Yuan, Junhong Bai, et al.. (2020). Phosphorus alleviation of nitrogen‐suppressed methane sink in global grasslands. Ecology Letters. 23(5). 821–830. 29 indexed citations

Arndt, Kyle A., Walter C. Oechel, Jordan P. Goodrich, et al.. (2019). Sensitivity of Methane Emissions to Later Soil Freezing in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(8). 2595–2609. 32 indexed citations

Yang, Wei, Hideki Kobayashi, Cong Wang, et al.. (2019). A semi-analytical snow-free vegetation index for improving estimation of plant phenology in tundra and grassland ecosystems. Remote Sensing of Environment. 228. 31–44. 53 indexed citations

Kiang, Nancy Y., Donatella Zona, Walter C. Oechel, et al.. (2019). Phenological control on the high Arctic ecosystem CO 2 exchange. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

Arndt, Kyle A., Maria J. Santos, Susan L. Ustin, et al.. (2019). Arctic greening associated with lengthening growing seasons in Northern Alaska. Environmental Research Letters. 14(12). 125018–125018. 55 indexed citations

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Serafimovich, Andrei, Stefan Metzger, Jörg Hartmann, et al.. (2018). Upscaling surface energy fluxes over the North Slope of Alaska using airborne eddy-covariance measurements and environmental response functions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(13). 10007–10023. 12 indexed citations

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Yi, Yonghong, John S. Kimball, Richard H. Chen, et al.. (2018). Characterizing permafrost active layer dynamics and sensitivity to landscape spatial heterogeneity in Alaska. The cryosphere. 12(1). 145–161. 59 indexed citations

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Drewry, D., Oliver Sonnentag, Charles E. Miller, et al.. (2018). Airborne Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence to Characterize Arctic Boreal Zone Productivity. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Kiang, Nancy Y., et al.. (2018). Simulating carbon flux over the Arctic tundra by incorporating remote-sensing data into a plant-level process-based model. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Luus, Kristina, R. Commane, N. Parazoo, et al.. (2017). Tundra photosynthesis captured by satellite‐observed solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(3). 1564–1573. 59 indexed citations

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Davidson, Scott J., Maria J. Santos, Victoria Sloan, et al.. (2017). Upscaling CH4 Fluxes Using High-Resolution Imagery in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems. Remote Sensing. 9(12). 1227–1227. 24 indexed citations

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Yi, Yonghong, John S. Kimball, Richard H. Chen, et al.. (2017). Characterizing permafrost soil active layer dynamics and sensitivity to landscape spatial heterogeneity in Alaska. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiyan, W. J. Riley, Charles D. Koven, et al.. (2016). A multi-scale comparison of modeled and observed seasonal methane emissions in northern wetlands. Biogeosciences. 13(17). 5043–5056. 22 indexed citations

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Davidson, Scott J., Maria J. Santos, Victoria Sloan, et al.. (2016). Mapping Arctic Tundra Vegetation Communities Using Field Spectroscopy and Multispectral Satellite Data in North Alaska, USA. Remote Sensing. 8(12). 978–978. 56 indexed citations

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Dengel, Sigrid, Donatella Zona, Torsten Sachs, et al.. (2013). Testing the applicability of neural networks as a gap-filling method using CH ₄ flux data from high latitude wetlands. Biogeosciences. 10(12). 8185–8200. 76 indexed citations

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Zona, Donatella, Walter C. Oechel, & K. M. Peterson. (2008). Carbon Fluxes Across Vegetated Drained Lakes of Different ages on the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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