Elaine Matthews

8.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
47 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Elaine Matthews is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elaine Matthews has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Elaine Matthews's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (21 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (6 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (6 papers). Elaine Matthews is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (21 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (6 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (6 papers). Elaine Matthews collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Sweden. Elaine Matthews's co-authors include Inez Fung, William B. Rossow, Catherine Prigent, J. Lerner, Filipe Aires, Jasmin G. John, Fabrice Papa, Bernadette P. Walter, Michael J. Prather and Paul J. Fraser and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Elaine Matthews

43 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Methane emission from natural wetlands: Global distribution, area, and environmental characteristics of sources

1987 805 citations Elaine Matthews, Inez Fung Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
Three‐dimensional model synthesis of the global methane cycle

1991 742 citations Inez Fung, Jasmin G. John et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Global Vegetation and Land Use: New High-Resolution Data Bases for Climate Studies

1983 739 citations Elaine Matthews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elaine Matthews United States	30	4.1k	2.9k	1.9k	951	927	47	6.2k
Xiaoying Shi United States	49	3.8k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	553 0.6×	632 0.7×	149	7.9k
Thomas G. Huntington United States	37	3.2k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	930 1.0×	712 0.8×	80	6.6k
J. J. Gibson Canada	44	2.2k 0.5×	2.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	132	6.6k
Nicola Gedney United Kingdom	29	5.5k 1.3×	3.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	407 0.4×	596 0.6×	53	7.1k
Anders Lindroth Sweden	59	7.3k 1.8×	3.7k 1.3×	3.1k 1.6×	495 0.5×	995 1.1×	195	10.2k
B. J. Peterson United States	29	1.9k 0.5×	2.0k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.8×	343 0.4×	42	5.7k
Philippe Bousquet France	46	7.4k 1.8×	5.6k 1.9×	1.1k 0.6×	905 1.0×	814 0.9×	132	9.5k
A. Joshua West United States	45	1.2k 0.3×	3.4k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	824 0.9×	130	7.7k
Philippe Peylin France	55	9.6k 2.3×	5.2k 1.8×	2.4k 1.3×	539 0.6×	1.0k 1.1×	143	11.7k
Daniel J. Hayes United States	32	2.4k 0.6×	4.4k 1.5×	2.0k 1.1×	954 1.0×	769 0.8×	86	6.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Elaine Matthews

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Fields of papers citing papers by Elaine Matthews

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elaine Matthews

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Matthews, Elaine, et al.. (2025). Hotspots of Bacterial Pathogen Abundance and Exposure Risk in Soils of the Contiguous United States. GeoHealth. 9(12). e2025GH001459–e2025GH001459.

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Johnson, Matthew S., Elaine Matthews, Jinyang Du, Vanessa Genovese, & David Bastviken. (2022). Methane Emission From Global Lakes: New Spatiotemporal Data and Observation‐Driven Modeling of Methane Dynamics Indicates Lower Emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(7). 68 indexed citations

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Matthews, Elaine, Matthew S. Johnson, Vanessa Genovese, Jinyang Du, & David Bastviken. (2020). Methane emission from high latitude lakes: methane-centric lake classification and satellite-driven annual cycle of emissions. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 12465–12465. 40 indexed citations

4.

Rossow, William B., Filipe Aires, Catherine Prigent, & Elaine Matthews. (2013). Joint Characterization of the Vegetation by Satellite Observations From Visible to Microwave Wavelengths: A Sensitivity Analysis. Characterization of the Vegetation by Satellite Observations. 1 indexed citations

5.

Bruhwiler, L. M. & Elaine Matthews. (2007). Can we reconcile our understanding of the atmospheric methane budget over the past decades with atmospheric observations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

6.

Gilman, Eric, Hanneke Van Lavieren, JC Ellison, et al.. (2006). Capacity of Pacific Island Countries and Territories to Adapt to Mangrove Responses to Changes in Sea-level and Other Climate Change Effects. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 61–81. 1 indexed citations

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Gauci, Vincent, Elaine Matthews, Nancy B. Dise, et al.. (2004). Sulfur pollution suppression of the wetland methane source in the 20th and 21st centuries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(34). 12583–12587. 119 indexed citations

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Gauci, Vincent, Elaine Matthews, Nancy B. Dise, et al.. (2004). Sulfate suppression of the wetland methane source in the 20th and 21st centuries. Open Research Online (The Open University). 2 indexed citations

9.

Hansen, James E., Makiko Sato, Andrew A. Lacis, et al.. (1998). Perspective: Climate Forcings in the Industrial Era. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 95(1). 130–8. 21 indexed citations

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Matthews, Elaine. (1997). Global litter production, pools, and turnover times: Estimates from measurement data and regression models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 102(D15). 18771–18800. 108 indexed citations

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Matthews, Elaine. (1997). Global litter production, pools, and turnover times: Estimates from measurement data and regression models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 102(D15). 18771–18800. 25 indexed citations

12.

DeFries, Ruth, Christopher B. Field, Inez Fung, et al.. (1995). Mapping the land surface for global atmosphere‐biosphere models: Toward continuous distributions of vegetation's functional properties. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 100(D10). 20867–20882. 158 indexed citations

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Slanina, J., Peter Warneck, N. M. Bazhin, et al.. (1994). Assessment of uncertainties in the projected concentrations of methane in the atmosphere (Technical Report). Pure and Applied Chemistry. 66(1). 137–200. 10 indexed citations

14.

Matthews, Elaine. (1994). Nitrogenous fertilizers: Global distribution of consumption and associated emissions of nitrous oxide and ammonia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 8(4). 411–439. 123 indexed citations

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Fung, Inez, Jasmin G. John, J. Lerner, et al.. (1991). Three‐dimensional model synthesis of the global methane cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 96(D7). 13033–13065. 742 indexed citations breakdown →

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Matthews, Elaine & Inez Fung. (1987). Methane emission from natural wetlands: Global distribution, area, and environmental characteristics of sources. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 1(1). 61–86. 805 indexed citations breakdown →

17.

Robinson, David A., Elaine Matthews, & George Kukla. (1986). Human-induced changes in winter surface Albedo. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. 34(3-4). 427–434.

18.

Matthews, Elaine. (1984). Vegetation, land-use and seasonal albedo data sets: Documentation of archived data tape. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 31 indexed citations

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Fung, Inez, Katharine C. Prentice, Elaine Matthews, J. Lerner, & Gary L. Russell. (1983). Three‐dimensional tracer model study of atmospheric CO₂: Response to seasonal exchanges with the terrestrial biosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 88(C2). 1281–1294. 153 indexed citations

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Matthews, Elaine, et al.. (1978). Analysis of Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking (SST) and altimetry data from GEOS-C. NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N. 78. 22133. 4 indexed citations

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