James T. Randerson

72.2k citations

274 papers · 43.0k indexed · 26 hit papers · h-index 95

Co-authors: Christopher B. Field Guido R. van der Werf Louis Giglio G. J. Collatz P. S. Kasibhatla Michael J. Behrenfeld Paul G. Falkowski Douglas C. Morton
Topics: Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (135 papers)Fire effects on ecosystems (123 papers)Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (76 papers)
Cited by: Global and Planetary Change Atmospheric Science Ecology
Journals: Nature Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: United States Netherlands Canada

In The Last Decade

James T. Randerson

268 papers receiving 41.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Primary Production of the Biosphere: Integrating Terrestrial and Oceanic Components

1998 4.3k citations Christopher B. Field, James T. Randerson et al. Science profile →
Terrestrial ecosystem production: A process model based on global satellite and surface data

1993 2.4k citations James T. Randerson, Christopher B. Field et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
Global fire emissions and the contribution of deforestation, savanna, forest, agricultural, and peat fires (1997–2009)

2010 2.1k citations Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson et al. profile →
Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016

2017 1.4k citations Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson et al. Earth system science data profile →
Interannual variability in global biomass burning emissions from 1997 to 2004

2006 1.4k citations Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson et al. profile →
Analysis of daily, monthly, and annual burned area using the fourth‐generation global fire emissions database (GFED4)

2013 1.2k citations Louis Giglio, James T. Randerson et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences profile →
Global net primary production: Combining ecology and remote sensing

1995 1.0k citations Christopher B. Field, James T. Randerson et al. profile →
Present‐day climate forcing and response from black carbon in snow

2007 1000 citations James T. Randerson et al. profile →
CO2 emissions from forest loss

2009 1000 citations Guido R. van der Werf, Douglas C. Morton et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTracker

2007 781 citations Wouter Peters, A. R. Jacobson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
A human-driven decline in global burned area

2017 760 citations Niels Andela, Douglas C. Morton et al. Science profile →
Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

2014 673 citations M. Mu, James T. Randerson et al. Nature profile →
The Impact of Boreal Forest Fire on Climate Warming

2006 672 citations James T. Randerson, Michael L. Goulden et al. Science profile →
Global burned area and biomass burning emissions from small fires

2012 641 citations James T. Randerson, Guido R. van der Werf et al. profile →
Causes of variation in soil carbon simulations from CMIP5 Earth system models and comparison with observations

2013 608 citations James T. Randerson, Forrest M. Hoffman et al. profile →
Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

2020 603 citations Clara Deser, Flavio Lehner et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires

2012 550 citations Yang Chen, James T. Randerson et al. profile →
Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

2020 504 citations Christopher B. Field, Robert B. Jackson et al. Science profile →
Assessing variability and long-term trends in burned area by merging multiple satellite fire products

2010 476 citations Louis Giglio, James T. Randerson et al. profile →
Plant responses to increasing CO ₂ reduce estimates of climate impacts on drought severity

2016 461 citations Forrest M. Hoffman, Charles D. Koven et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

2018 393 citations James T. Randerson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Fire frequency drives decadal changes in soil carbon and nitrogen and ecosystem productivity

2017 373 citations James T. Randerson, Robert B. Jackson et al. Nature profile →
Lightning as a major driver of recent large fire years in North American boreal forests

2017 327 citations Elizabeth B. Wiggins, James T. Randerson et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Sustained climate warming drives declining marine biological productivity

2018 308 citations Keith Lindsay, Scott C. Doney et al. Science profile →
The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction

2019 277 citations Niels Andela, Douglas C. Morton et al. Earth system science data profile →
Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in remaining tropical forests

2022 121 citations Yue Li, Douglas C. Morton et al. Nature Communications profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires 2025 ·Nature ·Qiang Zhang,(unknown),Qingyang Xiao,Guannan Geng,Steven J. Davis,Xiaodong Liu,Jin Yang,(unknown),Wenyu Huang,(unknown),Binhe Luo,Randall V. Martin,Michael Bräuer,James T. Randerson,Kebin He	4
2	Small Fires, Big Impact: Evaluating Fire Emission Estimates in Southern Africa Using New Satellite Imagery of Burned Area and Carbon Monoxide 2024 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Ivar R. van der Velde,Guido R. van der Werf,Dave van Wees,Nick Schutgens,(unknown),Sander Houweling,(unknown),Emilio Chuvieco,James T. Randerson,M. M. Frey,Tobias Borsdorff,Ilse Aben	9
3	Wildfire‐induced increases in photosynthesis in boreal forest ecosystems of North America 2024 ·Global Change Biology ·(unknown),Jonathan Wang,Yue Li,C. I. Czimczik,James T. Randerson	11
4	Systematically tracking the hourly progression of large wildfires using GOES satellite observations 2024 ·Earth system science data ·Tianjia Liu,James T. Randerson,Yang Chen,Douglas C. Morton,Elizabeth B. Wiggins,Padhraic Smyth,Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou,(unknown),(unknown)	4
5	Predicting Postfire Sediment Yields of Small Steep Catchments Using Airborne Lidar Differencing 2023 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·(unknown),Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou,Andrew B. Gray,James T. Randerson,Padhraic Smyth,Nicolas C. Barth,Michael L. Goulden	7
6	Climate-driven changes in the predictability of seasonal precipitation 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Phong V. V. Le,James T. Randerson,Rebecca Willett,Stephen J. Wright,Padhraic Smyth,Clément Guilloteau,Antonios Mamalakis,Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou	32
7	Losses of Tree Cover in California Driven by Increasing Fire Disturbance and Climate Stress 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Jonathan Wang,James T. Randerson,Michael L. Goulden,(unknown),John J. Battles	29
8	Hotspots of Predictability: Identifying Regions of High Precipitation Predictability at Seasonal Timescales From Limited Time Series Observations 2022 ·Water Resources Research ·Antonios Mamalakis,Amir AghaKouchak,James T. Randerson,Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou	7
9	Publisher Correction: Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects 2020 ·Nature Climate Change ·Clara Deser,Flavio Lehner,Keith B. Rodgers,Toby R. Ault,Thomas L. Delworth,Pedro DiNezio,Arlene M. Fiore,Claude Frankignoul,John C. Fyfe,Daniel E. Horton,Jennifer E. Kay,Reto Knutti,Nicole S. Lovenduski,Jochem Marotzke,Karen A. McKinnon,Shoshiro Minobe,James T. Randerson,James A. Screen,Isla R. Simpson,Mingfang Ting	10
10	Forecasting Global Fire Emissions on Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Time Scales 2020 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Yang Chen,James T. Randerson,Shane Coffield,Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou,Padhraic Smyth,(unknown),Douglas C. Morton,Niels Andela,Guido R. van der Werf,Louis Giglio,Lesley Ott	16
11	The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements 2020 ·Nature Geoscience ·Zheng Shi,Steven Allison,Yujie He,Paul A. Levine,Alison M. Hoyt,Jeffrey Beem‐Miller,Qing Zhu,William R. Wieder,Susan Trumbore,James T. Randerson	192
12	Comparison With Global Soil Radiocarbon Observations Indicates Needed Carbon Cycle Improvements in the E3SM Land Model 2019 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Jinsong Chen,Qing Zhu,W. J. Riley,Yujie He,James T. Randerson,Susan Trumbore	10
13	The International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) System: Design, Theory, and Implementation 2018 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Nathan Collier,Forrest M. Hoffman,David M. Lawrence,G. Keppel‐Aleks,Charles D. Koven,W. J. Riley,M. Mu,James T. Randerson	202
14	Economic carbon cycle feedbacks may offset additional warming from natural feedbacks 2018 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Dawn Woodard,Steven J. Davis,James T. Randerson	59
15	A new interhemispheric teleconnection increases predictability of winter precipitation in southwestern US 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Antonios Mamalakis,Jin‐Yi Yu,James T. Randerson,Amir AghaKouchak,Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou	47
16	A human-driven decline in global burned areabreakdown → 2017 ·Science ·Niels Andela,Douglas C. Morton,Louis Giglio,Yang Chen,Guido R. van der Werf,P. S. Kasibhatla,Ruth DeFries,G. J. Collatz,Stijn Hantson,Silvia Kloster,Dominique Bachelet,Matthew Forrest,Gitta Lasslop,Fang Li,Stéphane Mangeon,Joe R. Melton,Chao Yue,James T. Randerson	760
17	Interactions between land use change and carbon cycle feedbacks 2016 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·N. M. Mahowald,James T. Randerson,Keith Lindsay,E. Munoz,Scott C. Doney,Peter Lawrence,Sarah Schlunegger,D. S. Ward,David M. Lawrence,Forrest M. Hoffman	49
18	C4MIP – The Coupled Climate–Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project:experimental protocol for CMIP6 2016 ·Geoscientific model development ·Chris Jones,Vivek Arora,Pierre Friedlingstein,Laurent Bopp,Victor Brovkin,John P. Dunne,Heather Graven,Forrest M. Hoffman,Tatiana Ilyina,Jasmin G. John,Martin Jung,Michio Kawamiya,Charles D. Koven,Julia Pongratz,Thomas Raddatz,James T. Randerson,Sönke Zaehle	199
19	Protecting climate with forests 2008 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Robert B. Jackson,James T. Randerson,Josep G. Canadell,Ray G. Anderson,Roni Avissar,Dennis Baldocchi,Gordon B. Bonan,Ken Caldeira,Noah S. Diffenbaugh,Christopher B. Field,Bruce A. Hungate,Estéban G. Jobbágy,Lara M. Kueppers,Marcelo D. Nosetto,Diane E. Pataki	321
20	An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTrackerbreakdown → 2007 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Wouter Peters,A. R. Jacobson,Colm Sweeney,A. E. Andrews,T. J. Conway,K. A. Masarie,J. B. Miller,L. M. Bruhwiler,Gabrielle Pétron,A. Hirsch,Douglas E. J. Worthy,Guido R. van der Werf,James T. Randerson,P. O. Wennberg,Maarten Krol,Pieter P. Tans	781

About James T. Randerson

James T. Randerson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography, having authored 274 papers that have together received 43.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (135 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (123 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (76 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (31.7k citations), Atmospheric Science (17.6k citations) and Ecology (11.1k citations). James T. Randerson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Christopher B. Field, Guido R. van der Werf, Louis Giglio, G. J. Collatz, P. S. Kasibhatla, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Paul G. Falkowski, Douglas C. Morton, Ruth DeFries and Brendan M. Rogers. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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