James R. Kellner

6.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
55 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

James R. Kellner is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, James R. Kellner has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 26 papers in Ecology and 21 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in James R. Kellner's work include Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (19 papers), Forest ecology and management (18 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (17 papers). James R. Kellner is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (19 papers), Forest ecology and management (18 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (17 papers). James R. Kellner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Czechia. James R. Kellner's co-authors include Laura Duncanson, John Armston, David B. Clark, Ralph Dubayah, Steven Hancock, M. A. Hofton, Gregory P. Asner, Hao Tang, Stephen P. Hubbell and Ilka C. Feller and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

James R. Kellner

54 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography

2020 764 citations Ralph Dubayah, J. B. Blair et al. profile →
Poleward expansion of mangroves is a threshold response to decreased frequency of extreme cold events

2013 422 citations Kyle C. Cavanaugh, James R. Kellner et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space

2022 137 citations Ralph Dubayah, John Armston et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James R. Kellner United States	25	1.9k	1.7k	1.6k	1.3k	437	55	3.6k
Joseph Mascaro United States	32	1.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	2.2k 1.4×	1.7k 1.3×	325 0.7×	45	4.3k
Michael Palace United States	34	1.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.5×	203 0.5×	86	3.9k
Douglas J. King Canada	30	2.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	871 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	276 0.6×	80	3.4k
Eileen H. Helmer United States	27	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	2.5k 1.9×	382 0.9×	50	4.9k
Raphaël Pélissier France	31	1.3k 0.7×	823 0.5×	2.2k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	522 1.2×	73	3.8k
Shaun R. Levick Australia	34	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	287 0.7×	78	4.0k
Ross A. Hill United Kingdom	32	1.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	927 0.7×	626 1.4×	108	3.5k
Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin United States	20	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	390 0.9×	30	2.7k
Matthew L. Clark United States	29	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	817 0.5×	1.8k 1.3×	649 1.5×	53	3.8k
Nicolas Barbier France	26	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	230 0.5×	86	3.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kellner, James R., et al.. (2025). Digital soil mapping in support of voluntary carbon market programs in agricultural land. PLoS ONE. 20(9). e0327895–e0327895.

Zhang, Dafeng, Kamil Král, Martin Krůček, K. C. Cushman, & James R. Kellner. (2024). Near-Complete Sampling of Forest Structure from High-Density Drone Lidar Demonstrated by Ray Tracing. Remote Sensing. 16(15). 2774–2774. 2 indexed citations

Cushman, K. C., John Armston, Ralph Dubayah, et al.. (2023). Impact of leaf phenology on estimates of aboveground biomass density in a deciduous broadleaf forest from simulated GEDI lidar. Environmental Research Letters. 18(6). 65009–65009. 7 indexed citations

Dubayah, Ralph, John Armston, Sean P. Healey, et al.. (2022). GEDI launches a new era of biomass inference from space. Environmental Research Letters. 17(9). 95001–95001. 137 indexed citations breakdown →

Clark, David B., Deborah A. Clark, & James R. Kellner. (2021). Spatial and temporal scales of canopy disturbance and recovery across an old‐growth tropical rain forest landscape. Ecological Monographs. 92(1). 4 indexed citations

Cushman, K. C., Benedikt Imbach, Sassan Saatchi, et al.. (2021). Impact of a tropical forest blowdown on aboveground carbon balance. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 11279–11279. 8 indexed citations

VanValkenburgh, Parker, et al.. (2020). Lasers Without Lost Cities: Using Drone Lidar to Capture Architectural Complexity at Kuelap, Amazonas, Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology. 45(sup1). S75–S88. 37 indexed citations

Hancock, Steven, M. A. Hofton, J. B. Blair, et al.. (2019). An open source tool to reduce geolocation uncertainty in GEDI data. AGUFM. 2019. 4 indexed citations

Kellner, James R., John Armston, K. C. Cushman, et al.. (2019). New Opportunities for Forest Remote Sensing Through Ultra-High-Density Drone Lidar. Surveys in Geophysics. 40(4). 959–977. 125 indexed citations

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Clark, David B., et al.. (2019). Diversity, distribution and dynamics of large trees across an old-growth lowland tropical rain forest landscape. PLoS ONE. 14(11). e0224896–e0224896. 19 indexed citations

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Clark, David B., et al.. (2017). Multidecadal stability in tropical rain forest structure and dynamics across an old-growth landscape. PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0183819–e0183819. 9 indexed citations

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Yang, Xue, et al.. (2016). Constraining the SIF - GPP relationship via estimation of NPQ. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Kinney, Kealohanuiopuna, Gregory P. Asner, Susan Cordell, et al.. (2015). Primary Succession on a Hawaiian Dryland Chronosequence. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0123995–e0123995. 5 indexed citations

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Chynoweth, Mark, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Creighton M. Litton, et al.. (2015). Home Range Use and Movement Patterns of Non-Native Feral Goats in a Tropical Island Montane Dry Landscape. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0119231–e0119231. 18 indexed citations

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Baldeck, Claire A., Gregory P. Asner, Roberta E. Martin, et al.. (2015). Operational Tree Species Mapping in a Diverse Tropical Forest with Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0118403–e0118403. 100 indexed citations

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Cavanaugh, Kyle C., John D. Parker, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, et al.. (2014). Integrating physiological threshold experiments with climate modeling to project mangrove species’ range expansion. Global Change Biology. 21(5). 1928–1938. 96 indexed citations

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Kellner, James R., Gregory P. Asner, Scott R. Loarie, et al.. (2011). Remote analysis of biological invasion and the impact of enemy release. Ecological Applications. 21(6). 2094–2104. 26 indexed citations

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Kellner, James R. & Gregory P. Asner. (2009). Convergent structural responses of tropical forests to diverse disturbance regimes. Ecology Letters. 12(9). 887–897. 98 indexed citations

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Hubbell, Stephen P., Fangliang He, Richard Condit, et al.. (2008). How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(supplement_1). 11498–11504. 199 indexed citations

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Kellner, James R. & Ross A. Alford. (2003). The Ontogeny of Fluctuating Asymmetry. The American Naturalist. 161(6). 931–947. 66 indexed citations

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