Gustavo Saiz

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Gustavo Saiz is a scholar working on Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gustavo Saiz has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Soil Science, 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Gustavo Saiz's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers). Gustavo Saiz is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers). Gustavo Saiz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Australia. Gustavo Saiz's co-authors include Michael I. Bird, Christopher M. Wurster, Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl, Jonathan G. Wynn, Anna V. McBeath, Ralf Kiese, Edward P. Farrell, Kenneth A. Byrne, Viorel Blujdea and Jon Lloyd and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Global Change Biology and Oecologia.

In The Last Decade

Gustavo Saiz

48 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

The Pyrogenic Carbon Cycle 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300
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. The Pyrogenic Carbon Cycle
    2015 376 citations Michael I. Bird, Jonathan G. Wynn et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gustavo Saiz Germany 28 1.2k 1.1k 640 437 416 51 2.4k
Yunfan Wan China 33 991 0.8× 989 0.9× 1.1k 1.7× 389 0.9× 469 1.1× 73 2.9k
Agustı́n Merino Spain 35 1.4k 1.2× 1.3k 1.1× 740 1.2× 850 1.9× 246 0.6× 113 3.3k
Jiabing Wu China 29 1.0k 0.9× 1.5k 1.3× 769 1.2× 509 1.2× 668 1.6× 112 2.9k
Junjiong Shao China 23 1.3k 1.1× 610 0.5× 702 1.1× 450 1.0× 214 0.5× 47 2.3k
Guiyao Zhou China 27 1.5k 1.3× 711 0.6× 805 1.3× 498 1.1× 203 0.5× 96 2.8k
Xiaofeng Chang China 28 1.8k 1.5× 693 0.6× 1.2k 1.9× 445 1.0× 511 1.2× 53 2.8k
Eugenio Díaz‐Pinés Germany 26 1.0k 0.9× 656 0.6× 604 0.9× 314 0.7× 207 0.5× 56 1.9k
Riitta Hyvönen Sweden 20 1.6k 1.3× 798 0.7× 1.1k 1.7× 456 1.0× 311 0.7× 31 2.7k
Ulrik Ilstedt Sweden 27 1.2k 1.0× 890 0.8× 742 1.2× 259 0.6× 365 0.9× 61 2.6k
Jérôme Laganière Canada 18 1.4k 1.2× 937 0.8× 748 1.2× 776 1.8× 242 0.6× 39 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Gustavo Saiz

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gustavo Saiz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gustavo Saiz

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Garcés, Hugo O., et al.. (2024). Investigating the properties of shrub biomass pellets through additive and sawdust admixing. Renewable Energy. 229. 120764–120764. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiang, Guo Chen, Joseph L. Awange, et al.. (2024). Establishing the global isoscape of leaf carbon in C3 plants through the integrations of remote sensing, carbon, geographic, and physiological information. Remote Sensing of Environment. 302. 113987–113987. 6 indexed citations
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Kelley, Douglas I., Ning Dong, Charles George, et al.. (2022). MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields tree cover needs calibrating in tropical savannas. Biogeosciences. 19(5). 1377–1394. 10 indexed citations
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Quesada, Carlos Alberto, et al.. (2020). Variations in soil chemical and physical properties explain basin-wide Amazon forest soil carbon concentrations. SOIL. 6(1). 53–88. 50 indexed citations
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Gerschlauer, Friederike, Gustavo Saiz, David Schellenberger Costa, et al.. (2019). Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of leaves, litter, and soils of various ecosystems along an elevational and land-use gradient at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Biogeosciences. 16(2). 409–424. 37 indexed citations
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Berninger, Frank, et al.. (2018). Linkages between soil carbon, soil fertility and nitrogen fixation in Acacia senegal plantations of varying age in Sudan. PeerJ. 6. e5232–e5232. 14 indexed citations
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Pelster, David E., Mariana C. Rufino, Todd S. Rosenstock, et al.. (2017). Smallholder farms in eastern African tropical highlands have low soil greenhouse gas fluxes. Biogeosciences. 14(1). 187–202. 52 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yanan, Meiju Liu, Gustavo Saiz, et al.. (2017). Enhancement of root systems improves productivity and sustainability in water saving ground cover rice production system. Field Crops Research. 213. 186–193. 27 indexed citations
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Díaz‐Pinés, Eugenio, Michael Dannenmann, Judith Braun, et al.. (2016). Nitrate leaching and soil nitrous oxide emissions diminish with time in a hybrid poplar short‐rotation coppice in southern Germany. GCB Bioenergy. 9(3). 613–626. 23 indexed citations
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Hu, Bin, Minghua Zhou, Michael Dannenmann, et al.. (2016). Comparison of nitrogen nutrition and soil carbon status of afforested stands established in degraded soil of the Loess Plateau, China. Forest Ecology and Management. 389. 46–58. 44 indexed citations
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Saiz, Gustavo, Jonathan G. Wynn, Christopher M. Wurster, et al.. (2015). Pyrogenic carbon from tropical savanna burning: production and stable isotope composition. Biogeosciences. 12(6). 1849–1863. 42 indexed citations
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Liu, Mingyue, Michael Dannenmann, Shan Lin, et al.. (2015). Ground cover rice production system facilitates soil carbon and nitrogen stocks at regional scale. 4 indexed citations
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Saiz, Gustavo, Michael I. Bird, Christopher M. Wurster, et al.. (2015). The influence of C 3 and C 4 vegetation on soil organic matter dynamics in contrasting semi-natural tropical ecosystems. Biogeosciences. 12(16). 5041–5059. 16 indexed citations
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Dannenmann, Michael, Shan Lin, Gustavo Saiz, et al.. (2015). Ground cover rice production systems increase soil carbon and nitrogen stocks at regional scale. Biogeosciences. 12(15). 4831–4840. 23 indexed citations
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Pelster, David E., Mariana C. Rufino, Todd S. Rosenstock, et al.. (2015). Smallholder African farms in western Kenya have limited greenhouse gas fluxes. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 6 indexed citations
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Bloomfield, Keith J., Tomas F. Domingues, Gustavo Saiz, et al.. (2014). Contrasting photosynthetic characteristics of forest vs. savanna species (Far North Queensland, Australia). Biogeosciences. 11(24). 7331–7347. 13 indexed citations
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Dondini, Marta, Astley Hastings, Gustavo Saiz, Michael B. Jones, & Pete Smith. (2009). The potential of Miscanthus to sequester carbon in soils: comparing field measurements in Carlow, Ireland to model predictions. GCB Bioenergy. 1(6). 413–425. 104 indexed citations
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Black, Kevin, Brian Tobin, Gustavo Saiz, Kenneth A. Byrne, & Bruce Osborne. (2004). Improved estimates of biomass expansion factors for Sitka spruce.. Irish forestry. 13 indexed citations

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