Govindasamy Bala

21.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
140 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Govindasamy Bala is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Govindasamy Bala has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 80 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Govindasamy Bala's work include Climate variability and models (59 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (39 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (36 papers). Govindasamy Bala is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (59 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (39 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (36 papers). Govindasamy Bala collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and China. Govindasamy Bala's co-authors include Ken Caldeira, K. Caldeira, Ramakrishna Nemani, Philip B. Duffy, Long Cao, Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi, A.A. Mirin, David B. Lobell, Thomas J. Phillips and M. Wickett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Govindasamy Bala

136 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

China and India lead in greenin... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2019 2008 2007 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management
    2019 2.2k citations Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi, Govindasamy Bala et al. profile →
  2. Human-Induced Changes in the Hydrology of the Western United States
    2008 920 citations Govindasamy Bala, A.A. Mirin et al. profile →
  3. Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation
    2007 723 citations Govindasamy Bala, Ken Caldeira et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Govindasamy Bala
Seita Emori Japan
Stefan Hagemann Germany
Philip W. Mote United States
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen Denmark
Samuel Levis United States
Sharon E. Nicholson United States
Julie M. Arblaster United States
Jason P. Evans Australia
Pier Luigi Vidale United Kingdom
Gerhard Krinner France
Seita Emori Japan
Govindasamy Bala
Citations per year, relative to Govindasamy Bala Govindasamy Bala (= 1×) peers Seita Emori

Countries citing papers authored by Govindasamy Bala

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Fields of papers citing papers by Govindasamy Bala

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Govindasamy Bala. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Govindasamy Bala. The network helps show where Govindasamy Bala may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Govindasamy Bala

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

All Works

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Tan, Mou Leong, et al.. (2024). Assessment of solar geoengineering impact on precipitation and temperature extremes in the Muda River Basin, Malaysia using CMIP6 SSP and GeoMIP6 G6 simulations. The Science of The Total Environment. 948. 174817–174817. 11 indexed citations
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Gobinath, R., et al.. (2024). Harnessing explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for enhanced geopolymer concrete mix optimization. Results in Engineering. 24. 103036–103036. 8 indexed citations
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Nagaraju, T. Vamsi, B. M. Sunil, Babloo Chaudhary, R. Gobinath, & Govindasamy Bala. (2024). Exploring the impact of aquaculture sludge on the swell-shrink behavior of expansive clays. Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. 10. 100897–100897. 1 indexed citations
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Nadeem, Imran, Nebojša Nakićenović, Boris Sakschewski, et al.. (2024). Permafrost Thawing and Estimates of Vulnerable Carbon in the Northern High Latitude. Earth Systems and Environment. 9(2). 715–740. 2 indexed citations
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Bala, Govindasamy, et al.. (2023). A comparison of the climate and carbon cycle effects of carbon removal by afforestation and an equivalent reduction in fossil fuel emissions. Biogeosciences. 20(10). 1863–1877. 8 indexed citations
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Bala, Govindasamy, et al.. (2022). Contrasting climate and carbon-cycle consequences of fossil-fuel use versus deforestation disturbance. Environmental Research Letters. 17(6). 64020–64020. 7 indexed citations
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Duan, Lei, Long Cao, Govindasamy Bala, & Ken Caldeira. (2020). A Model‐Based Investigation of Terrestrial Plant Carbon Uptake Response to Four Radiation Modification Approaches. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(9). 14 indexed citations
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Bala, Govindasamy, et al.. (2020). Climatic Effects of Hygroscopic Growth of Sulfate Aerosols in the Stratosphere. 1 indexed citations
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Duan, Lei, Long Cao, Govindasamy Bala, & Ken Caldeira. (2019). Climate Response to Pulse Versus Sustained Stratospheric Aerosol Forcing. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(15). 8976–8984. 12 indexed citations
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Bala, Govindasamy, et al.. (2019). Climate system response to stratospheric sulfate aerosols: sensitivity to altitude of aerosol layer. Earth System Dynamics. 10(4). 885–900. 28 indexed citations
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Caldeira, Ken & Govindasamy Bala. (2017). Reflecting on 50 years of geoengineering research. Earth s Future. 5(1). 10–17. 22 indexed citations
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Bala, Govindasamy, et al.. (2017). Effects of Arctic geoengineering on precipitation in the tropical monsoon regions. Climate Dynamics. 50(9-10). 3375–3395. 43 indexed citations
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Raju, K. V., et al.. (2016). Multi-scale vulnerability assessment for adaptation planning. Current Science. 110(7). 1225–1239. 7 indexed citations
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Bala, Govindasamy. (2013). Why the hiatus in global warming in the last decade?. NOT FOUND REPOSITORY (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore). 1 indexed citations
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Bala, Govindasamy, N. Devaraju, Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi, Ken Caldeira, & Ramakrishna Nemani. (2013). Nitrogen deposition: how important is it for global terrestrial carbon uptake?. Biogeosciences. 10(11). 7147–7160. 36 indexed citations
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Ravindranath, NH, Sandhya Rao, Nitasha Sharma, et al.. (2011). Climate change vulnerability profiles for North East India. NOT FOUND REPOSITORY (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore). 99 indexed citations
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Bala, Govindasamy, Ken Caldeira, M. Wickett, et al.. (2007). Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(16). 6550–6555. 723 indexed citations breakdown →
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Caldeira, K., Govindasamy Bala, M. Wickett, T. J. Phillips, & David B. Lobell. (2006). Carbon, Biophysics, and Climate: Where do Forests Warm? Where do Forests Cool?. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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