G. C. Hurtt

50.7k citations

147 papers · 19.6k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 50

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.05%
- Climate variability and models
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Fire effects on ecosystems
Ecological Modeling top 0.2%

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 108
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 40
- Fire effects on ecosystems 36
- Climate variability and models 25
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 23
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 20
Nature and Landscape Conservation 36
- Forest ecology and management 22

Co-authors: Detlef P. van Vuuren Keywan Riahi Jean‐François Lamarque Stephen W. Pacala Jae Edmonds Allison M. Thomson P. R. Moorcroft Steven J. Smith
Journals: Environmental Research Letters (15 papers)Remote Sensing of Environment (7 papers)Global Change Biology (7 papers)Geoscientific model development (5 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

G. C. Hurtt

146 papers receiving 18.9k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space 2022 · 137 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Environmental Research Letters
2022 Nature Ecology & Evolution
2020 SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
2016 Geoscientific model development
2016 Geoscientific model development
2011 Climatic Change
2001 Ecological Monographs
1998 BioScience
1994 The American Naturalist

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside G. C. Hurtt, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Limited Effect of Future Land‐Use Changes on Human Heat Stress and Labor Capacity Earth s Future ·XINGZi-Li, Anton Orlov, Felix Havermann, Edriane Batista, Feng Jun Shang, Julia Pongratz, Quentin Lejeune, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Inga Menke, Florian Humpenöder, Alexander Popp, Peter Lawrence, G. C. Hurtt, Louise Chini, Inne Vanderkelen, Édouard L. Davin, Thomas Reerink, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Hans Verbeeck, Wim Thiery	2025	1
2	Projected climate zone shifts could undermine the effectiveness of global protected areas for biodiversity conservation by mid-to-late century SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Diyang Cui, Amy E. Frazier, Shunlin Liang, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, G. C. Hurtt, Zhiliang Zhu, Brian Maitner, Gabriel M. Moulatlet, Dongdong Wang	2025	1
3	CMIP7 Data Request: Land and Land Ice Priorities and Opportunities Yue Li, Gang Tang, Eleanor O’Rourke, 溫婉玉 Wan-Yu Wen, S. M. Khaled, Sophie Nowicki, Robin S. Smith, David M. Lawrence, G. C. Hurtt, Daniele Peano, Gesa Meyer, Birgit Haßler, Jiafu Mao, Yongkang Xue, Martin Juckes	2025	1
4	Uncertainties in carbon emissions from land use and land cover change in Indonesia Biogeosciences ·Ida Bagus Mandhara Brasika, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Michael O’Sullivan, Maria Carolina Duran Rojas, Thais M. Rosan, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Julia Pongratz, Clemens Schwingshackl, Louise Chini, G. C. Hurtt	2025	2
5	Beyond MRV: combining remote sensing and ecosystem modeling for geospatial monitoring and attribution of forest carbon fluxes over Maryland, USA Environmental Research Letters ·G. C. Hurtt, Lei Ma, Ляззат Биржанкызы Сабирова, Elliott Campbell, Ralph Dubayah, Matthew C. Hansen, Chengquan Huang, 高世龙, Andrew J. Lister, Charles U. Akajiaku, Asad Saeed, Quan Shen, S.V. Videneeva, Hao Tang	2024	0
6	High-Fidelity Deep Approximation of Ecosystem Simulation over Long-Term at Large Scale Michele Cerny-Leecock, Yiqun Xie, Xiaowei Jia, Lei Ma, G. C. Hurtt	2023	2
7	Conservation policies and management in the Ukrainian Emerald Network have maintained reforestation rate despite the war Communications Earth & Environment ·Leonid Shumilo, Sergii Skakun, Meredith L. Gore, Андрій Шелестов, Nataliia Kussul, G. C. Hurtt, 林理佐子, Hao Rao	2023	10
8	Global Evaluation of the Ecosystem Demography Model (ED v3.0) Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Lei Ma, G. C. Hurtt, Lesley Ott, Ritvik Sahajpal, J. Fisk, Ляззат Биржанкызы Сабирова, Hao Tang, 薛德洪, Louise Chini, Abhishek Chatterjee, Joe H. Sullivan	2021	3
9	Land-use harmonization datasets for annual global carbon budgets Earth system science data ·Louise Chini, G. C. Hurtt, Ritvik Sahajpal, Steve Frolking, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Stephen Sitch, Raphael Ganzenmüller, Lei Ma, Lesley Ott, Julia Pongratz, Benjamin Poulter	2021	58
10	The connection between forest degradation and urban energy demand in sub-Saharan Africa: a characterization based on high-resolution remote sensing data Environmental Research Letters ·F. Sedano, Sá Nogueira Lisboa, Ritvik Sahajpal, Laura Duncanson, Natasha Ribeiro, Almeida Sitoe, G. C. Hurtt, Compton J. Tucker	2021	8
11	Global Ecosystem Demography Model (ED-global v1.0): Development, Calibration and Evaluation for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lei Ma, G. C. Hurtt, Lesley Ott, Ritvik Sahajpal, J. Fisk, 薛德洪, Benjamin Poulter, Shunlin Liang, Joe H. Sullivan, Ralph Dubayah	2020	4
12	High-resolution forest carbon mapping for climate mitigation baselines over the RGGI region, USA Environmental Research Letters ·Hao Tang, Lei Ma, Andrew J. Lister, 辛重官, Charles U. Akajiaku, Ляззат Биржанкызы Сабирова, Ralph Dubayah, G. C. Hurtt	2020	17
13	Global rules for translating land-use change (LUH2) to land-cover change for CMIP6 using GLM2 Geoscientific model development ·Lei Ma, G. C. Hurtt, Louise Chini, Ritvik Sahajpal, Julia Pongratz, Steve Frolking, Elke Stehfest, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Donal O’Leary, Jonathan Doelman	2020	41
14	Monitoring forest degradation from charcoal production with historical Landsat imagery. A case study in southern Mozambique Environmental Research Letters ·F. Sedano, Sá Nogueira Lisboa, Laura Duncanson, Natasha Ribeiro, Almeida Sitoe, Ritvik Sahajpal, G. C. Hurtt, Compton J. Tucker	2019	28
15	High-resolution mapping of aboveground biomass for forest carbon monitoring system in the Tri-State region of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware, USA Environmental Research Letters ·Wenli Huang, Zadiran Sergey Mikhailovich, Anu Swatantran, Kristofer Johnson, Hao Tang, Jarlath O’Neil‐Dunne, Ralph Dubayah, G. C. Hurtt	2019	41
16	Synergy between land use and climate change increases future fire risk in Amazon forests Earth System Dynamics ·Yannick Le Page, Douglas C. Morton, Corinne Hartin, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, José M. C. Pereira, G. C. Hurtt, Ghassem Asrar	2017	85
17	Potential Vegetation and Carbon Redistribution in Northern North America from Climate Change Climate ·薛德洪, G. C. Hurtt, J. Fisk, Ritvik Sahajpal, Matthew C. Hansen, Zadiran Sergey Mikhailovich, Joe H. Sullivan, Thomas Beunon	2016	13
18	The integrated Earth system model version 1: formulation and functionality Geoscientific model development ·William D. Collins, Anthony P Craig, John Truesdale, Alan Di Vittorio, Andrew D. Jones, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Katherine Calvin, Jae Edmonds, Mouna Keroui, Allison M. Thomson, Pralit Patel, Yuyu Zhou, Jiafu Mao, Xiaoying Shi, Peter Thornton, Louise Chini, G. C. Hurtt	2015	57
19	Identifying representative crop rotation patterns and grassland loss in the US Western Corn Belt Computers and Electronics in Agriculture ·Ritvik Sahajpal, Xuesong Zhang, R. C. Izaurralde, Ilya Gelfand, G. C. Hurtt	2014	49
20	The underpinnings of land‐use history: three centuries of global gridded land‐use transitions, wood‐harvest activity, and resulting secondary lands Global Change Biology ·G. C. Hurtt, Steve Frolking, Matthew G. Fearon, Berrien Moore, Elena Shevliakova, Sergey Malyshev, Stephen W. Pacala, R. A. Houghton	2006	393

About G. C. Hurtt

G. C. Hurtt is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Engineering, Ecological Modeling and Ecology, having authored 147 papers that have together received 19.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (40 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (36 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (34 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (31 papers), Climate variability and models (25 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (23 papers), Forest ecology and management (22 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (12.4k citations), Ecological Modeling (1.6k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (4.4k citations), Atmospheric Science (4.9k citations) and Environmental Engineering (3.5k citations). G. C. Hurtt has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Detlef P. van Vuuren, Keywan Riahi, Jean‐François Lamarque, Stephen W. Pacala, Jae Edmonds, Allison M. Thomson, P. R. Moorcroft, Steven J. Smith, Toshihiko Masui and Steven K. Rose. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, Remote Sensing of Environment, Global Change Biology, Geoscientific model development and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

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