Holly Croft

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Holly Croft is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Holly Croft has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 37 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Holly Croft's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (37 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (35 papers) and Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement (13 papers). Holly Croft is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (37 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (35 papers) and Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement (13 papers). Holly Croft collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and China. Holly Croft's co-authors include Jing M. Chen, Xiangzhong Luo, Ralf M. Staebler, Bin Chen, J.M. Chen, Karen Anderson, Paul Bartlett, Nikolaus J. Kuhn, Liming He and Alemu Gonsamo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Remote Sensing of Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Holly Croft

57 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Leaf chlorophyll content as a proxy for leaf photosynthetic capacity

2016 502 citations Holly Croft, Jing M. Chen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Holly Croft Canada	32	1.5k	1.4k	1.1k	571	316	59	2.6k
Chongya Jiang United States	33	1.6k 1.1×	1.9k 1.4×	823 0.7×	774 1.4×	432 1.4×	72	3.1k
Xiangzhong Luo United States	26	987 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	719 0.6×	334 0.6×	497 1.6×	59	2.6k
Rocío Hernández‐Clemente Spain	22	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	984 0.9×	635 1.1×	273 0.9×	54	2.7k
Kenlo Nishida Nasahara Japan	26	1.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	621 0.6×	823 1.4×	359 1.1×	103	2.5k
Yelu Zeng China	31	2.6k 1.8×	2.1k 1.5×	904 0.8×	1.2k 2.0×	608 1.9×	103	3.5k
Kamel Soudani France	25	2.3k 1.6×	1.8k 1.3×	833 0.7×	952 1.7×	497 1.6×	50	3.0k
Cinzia Panigada Italy	28	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	730 1.3×	327 1.0×	68	2.7k
Lydia Serrano Spain	22	2.9k 2.0×	1.5k 1.1×	2.3k 2.1×	953 1.7×	365 1.2×	37	4.2k
Yi Peng China	27	3.0k 2.1×	1.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.6×	1.3k 2.3×	434 1.4×	47	3.7k
Frank Veroustraete Belgium	28	2.0k 1.4×	2.0k 1.4×	765 0.7×	1.3k 2.3×	718 2.3×	68	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Holly Croft

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Fields of papers citing papers by Holly Croft

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Holly Croft

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thum, Tea, Holly Croft, Cheryl Rogers, et al.. (2025). Modelling decadal trends and the impact of extreme events on carbon fluxes in a temperate deciduous forest using a terrestrial biosphere model. Biogeosciences. 22(7). 1781–1807.

Li, Dong, Holly Croft, Grégory Duveiller, et al.. (2025). Global retrieval of canopy chlorophyll content from Sentinel-3 OLCI TOA data using a two-step upscaling method integrating physical and machine learning models. Remote Sensing of Environment. 328. 114845–114845. 3 indexed citations

Caine, Robert S., et al.. (2024). Inside‐out: Synergising leaf biochemical traits with stomatal‐regulated water fluxes to enhance transpiration modelling during abiotic stress. Plant Cell & Environment. 47(9). 3494–3513. 2 indexed citations

Luo, Xiangzhong, et al.. (2024). Seasonal variation in the relationship between leaf chlorophyll content and photosynthetic capacity. Plant Cell & Environment. 47(10). 3953–3965. 11 indexed citations

Chen, Bin, Yue Li, Shaoqiang Wang, et al.. (2023). Integrating leaf functional traits improves modelled estimates of carbon and water fluxes at a subtropical evergreen conifer forest. Ecological Modelling. 488. 110593–110593. 1 indexed citations

Caine, Robert S., Emily Harrison, Jen Sloan, et al.. (2023). The influences of stomatal size and density on rice abiotic stress resilience. New Phytologist. 237(6). 2180–2195. 62 indexed citations

Zhang, Hu, Jing Li, Qinhuo Liu, et al.. (2022). A novel red‐edge spectral index for retrieving the leaf chlorophyll content. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(12). 2771–2787. 55 indexed citations

Chen, Jing M., Rong Wang, Yihong Liu, et al.. (2022). Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research. Earth system science data. 14(9). 4077–4093. 42 indexed citations

Xu, Mingzhu, Ronggao Liu, Jing M. Chen, et al.. (2022). A 21-Year Time Series of Global Leaf Chlorophyll Content Maps From MODIS Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–13. 29 indexed citations

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Qian, Xiaojin, Xinjie Liu, Holly Croft, & Jing M. Chen. (2021). Relationship Between Leaf Maximum Carboxylation Rate and Chlorophyll Content Preserved Across 13 Species. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(2). 35 indexed citations

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Wang, Shaoqiang, Yue Li, Weimin Ju, et al.. (2020). Estimation of Leaf Photosynthetic Capacity From Leaf Chlorophyll Content and Leaf Age in a Subtropical Evergreen Coniferous Plantation. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(2). 50 indexed citations

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Rogers, Cheryl, Jing M. Chen, Ting Zheng, et al.. (2020). The Response of Spectral Vegetation Indices and Solar‐Induced Fluorescence to Changes in Illumination Intensity and Geometry in the Days Surrounding the 2017 North American Solar Eclipse. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(10). 9 indexed citations

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Qian, Xiaojin, Liangyun Liu, Holly Croft, & Jingming Chen. (2019). C<sub>3</sub> plants converge on a universal relationship between leaf maximum carboxylation rate and chlorophyll content. 7 indexed citations

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Canisius, Francis, Shusen Wang, Holly Croft, et al.. (2019). A UAV-Based Sensor System for Measuring Land Surface Albedo: Tested over a Boreal Peatland Ecosystem. Drones. 3(1). 27–27. 20 indexed citations

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Lu, Xinda, et al.. (2019). Improving maximum carboxylation rate estimation with chlorophyll content as a proxy of RuBisCo. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Luo, Xiangzhong, Jing M. Chen, Jane Liu, et al.. (2018). Comparison of Big‐Leaf, Two‐Big‐Leaf, and Two‐Leaf Upscaling Schemes for Evapotranspiration Estimation Using Coupled Carbon‐Water Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(1). 207–225. 83 indexed citations

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He, Liming, Jing M. Chen, Holly Croft, et al.. (2017). Nitrogen Availability Dampens the Positive Impacts of CO₂ Fertilization on Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon and Water Cycles. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(22). 96 indexed citations

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Dong, Taifeng, Jiangui Liu, Budong Qian, et al.. (2016). Deriving Maximum Light Use Efficiency From Crop Growth Model and Satellite Data to Improve Crop Biomass Estimation. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 10(1). 104–117. 34 indexed citations

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Liu, Jane, Jing M. Chen, Holly Croft, et al.. (2015). Assessment of foliage clumping effects on evapotranspiration estimates in forested ecosystems. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 216. 82–92. 41 indexed citations

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Croft, Holly & Karen Anderson. (2008). Characterising soil surface condition and carbon vulnerability using spatial statistics and directional reflectance. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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