James Ball

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
20 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

James Ball is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, James Ball has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Ecology, 7 papers in Environmental Engineering and 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in James Ball's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers) and Forest ecology and management (4 papers). James Ball is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (7 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers) and Forest ecology and management (4 papers). James Ball collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. James Ball's co-authors include Henry J. Snaith, Pablo Docampo, Giles E. Eperon, Roberto Avolio, Joël Teuscher, Antonio Abate, Ian J. McPherson, Tomas Leijtens, Maria Emanuela Errico and Sandeep Pathak and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

James Ball

16 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Efficient organometal trihalide perovskite planar-heterojunction solar cells on flexible polymer substrates

2013 1.5k citations Pablo Docampo, James Ball et al. Nature Communications profile →
Lithium salts as “redox active” p-type dopants for organic semiconductors and their impact in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

2012 596 citations Antonio Abate, Tomas Leijtens et al. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Ball United Kingdom	9	2.1k	1.3k	1.1k	114	69	20	2.4k
Chong Liu China	26	2.7k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	1.7k 1.6×	107 0.9×	36 0.5×	71	2.9k
Qingshan Ma China	25	2.9k 1.4×	978 0.7×	2.1k 1.9×	96 0.8×	13 0.2×	45	3.1k
Hugh Zhu China	26	1.8k 0.9×	733 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	53 0.5×	6 0.1×	65	2.0k
Carr Hoi Yi Ho United States	20	1.0k 0.5×	731 0.6×	311 0.3×	24 0.2×	22 0.3×	34	1.2k
Zhongxin Chen China	13	503 0.2×	283 0.2×	170 0.2×	54 0.5×	22 0.3×	20	740
Xingpeng Liu China	19	808 0.4×	549 0.4×	163 0.2×	34 0.3×	24 0.3×	89	1.1k
Jie Zeng China	18	1.1k 0.5×	490 0.4×	440 0.4×	81 0.7×	3 0.0×	61	1.2k
Phoebe Pearce United Kingdom	13	1.2k 0.6×	220 0.2×	871 0.8×	68 0.6×	7 0.1×	29	1.3k
Yunpeng Yao China	28	1.8k 0.9×	197 0.1×	1.6k 1.5×	89 0.8×	16 0.2×	65	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by James Ball

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Ball

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Ball

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Barbier, Nicolas, Pierre Ploton, Gaëlle Viennois, et al.. (2025). Monitoring tropical forests with light drones: ensuring spatial and temporal consistency in stereophotogrammetric products. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 19. 100114–100114.

Rombach, Florine M., Akash Dasgupta, Manuel Kober‐Czerny, et al.. (2025). Disentangling degradation pathways of narrow bandgap lead-tin perovskite material and photovoltaic devices. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5450–5450. 1 indexed citations

Schmitt, Sylvain, Fabian Jörg Fischer, James Ball, et al.. (2025). TROLL 4.0: representing water and carbon fluxes, leaf phenology, and intraspecific trait variation in a mixed-species individual-based forest dynamics model – Part 2: Model evaluation for two Amazonian sites. Geoscientific model development. 18(16). 5205–5243. 2 indexed citations

Ball, James, et al.. (2025). Microclimates slow and alter the direction of climate velocities in tropical forests. Nature Climate Change. 16(1). 95–101.

Burns, Patrick, Żaneta Kaszta, Samuel A. Cushman, et al.. (2025). The utility of dynamic forest structure from GEDI lidar fusion in tropical mammal species distribution models. Frontiers in Remote Sensing. 6.

Ball, James, David A. Coomes, Nikolai Knapp, et al.. (2023). Benchmarking airborne laser scanning tree segmentation algorithms in broadleaf forests shows high accuracy only for canopy trees. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 123. 103490–103490. 17 indexed citations

Ball, James, Toby Jackson, William I. Jay, et al.. (2023). Accurate delineation of individual tree crowns in tropical forests from aerial RGB imagery using Mask R‐CNN. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9(5). 641–655. 29 indexed citations

Vincent, Grégoire, et al.. (2023). Multi-sensor airborne lidar requires intercalibration for consistent estimation of light attenuation and plant area density. Remote Sensing of Environment. 286. 113442–113442. 7 indexed citations

Ball, James, et al.. (2022). Using deep convolutional neural networks to forecast spatial patterns of Amazonian deforestation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(11). 2622–2634. 15 indexed citations

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Aubry‐Kientz, Mélaine, Ben Weinstein, James Ball, et al.. (2021). Multisensor Data Fusion for Improved Segmentation of Individual Tree Crowns in Dense Tropical Forests. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 14. 3927–3936. 20 indexed citations

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Barbier, Nicolas, et al.. (2021). Sensing Tropical Forest Phenology and Productivity from the Field to the Satellite. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 716–719. 1 indexed citations

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Ball, James, Mark A. Burgman, Elizabeth Dow Goldman, & Janeth Lessmann. (2020). Protecting biodiversity and economic returns in resource‐rich tropical forests. Conservation Biology. 35(1). 263–273. 2 indexed citations

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Petrus, Michiel L., Kelly Schutt, Maximilian T. Sirtl, et al.. (2018). New Generation Hole Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells: Amide‐Based Small‐Molecules with Nonconjugated Backbones. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(32). 96 indexed citations

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Ball, James, et al.. (2015). Measurements of the complex refractive index of volcanic ash at 450, 546.7, and 650 nm. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 120(15). 7747–7757. 26 indexed citations

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Docampo, Pablo, et al.. (2013). Efficient organometal trihalide perovskite planar-heterojunction solar cells on flexible polymer substrates. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2761–2761. 1524 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abate, Antonio, Tomas Leijtens, Sandeep Pathak, et al.. (2012). Lithium salts as “redox active” p-type dopants for organic semiconductors and their impact in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(7). 2572–2572. 596 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ball, James, et al.. (1993). Aerobrake Parametric Optimization Study. 13(1). 51–65. 4 indexed citations

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West, D. R. F., et al.. (1958). A review paper on the constitution of uranium-molybdenum alloys. Journal of Nuclear Energy (1954). 7(3-4). 189–198. 5 indexed citations

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Ball, James. (1956). METALLURGICAL RESEARCH IN NUCLEAR POWER PRODUCTION. 1 indexed citations

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Ball, James, et al.. (1954). Some Physical Properties of Metallic Plutonium. Nature. 173(4403). 535–535. 10 indexed citations

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