Joanne Ledford

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Joanne Ledford is a scholar working on Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joanne Ledford has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Plant Science, 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 5 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Joanne Ledford's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (7 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (5 papers). Joanne Ledford is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (7 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (7 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (5 papers). Joanne Ledford collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Italy. Joanne Ledford's co-authors include Richard J. Norby, Elizabeth G. O’Neill, Shiqiang Wan, Jake F. Weltzin, Nicole E. Miller‐Struttmann, Colleen M. Iversen, Kurt S. Pregitzer, R. Ceulemans, Adrien C. Finzi and Birgit Gielen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, New Phytologist and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Joanne Ledford

8 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

1 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.

Forest response to elevated CO₂is conserved across a broad range of productivity

2005 786 citations Richard J. Norby, Evan H. DeLucia et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joanne Ledford United States	8	1.4k	965	893	494	426	8	2.1k
Changjie Jin China	23	1.2k 0.8×	454 0.5×	671 0.8×	473 1.0×	334 0.8×	74	1.9k
Mariah S. Carbone United States	22	2.2k 1.5×	930 1.0×	804 0.9×	962 1.9×	531 1.2×	36	3.0k
J. A. Morgan United States	27	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	827 0.9×	386 0.8×	575 1.3×	46	2.4k
C. Ross Hinkle United States	27	1.0k 0.7×	953 1.0×	558 0.6×	433 0.9×	481 1.1×	61	1.9k
Daniel L. Potts United States	15	1.5k 1.1×	409 0.4×	647 0.7×	405 0.8×	647 1.5×	28	2.2k
N. Phillips United States	14	1.1k 0.8×	712 0.7×	398 0.4×	521 1.1×	305 0.7×	29	1.8k
Alwyn Sowerby United Kingdom	15	775 0.5×	491 0.5×	747 0.8×	302 0.6×	682 1.6×	18	1.7k
Klaus Steenberg Larsen Denmark	21	726 0.5×	430 0.4×	666 0.7×	562 1.1×	666 1.6×	57	1.8k
Teresa S. David Portugal	28	1.9k 1.3×	865 0.9×	515 0.6×	960 1.9×	440 1.0×	50	2.6k
Kentaro Takagi Japan	25	1.3k 0.9×	492 0.5×	428 0.5×	486 1.0×	500 1.2×	78	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Joanne Ledford

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joanne Ledford

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joanne Ledford

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Iversen, Colleen M., Joanne Ledford, & Richard J. Norby. (2008). CO₂ enrichment increases carbon and nitrogen input from fine roots in a deciduous forest. New Phytologist. 179(3). 837–847. 135 indexed citations

2.

Wan, Shiqiang, Richard J. Norby, Joanne Ledford, & Jake F. Weltzin. (2007). Responses of soil respiration to elevated CO₂, air warming, and changing soil water availability in a model old‐field grassland. Global Change Biology. 13(11). 2411–2424. 288 indexed citations

3.

Finzi, Adrien C., Richard J. Norby, Carlo Calfapietra, et al.. (2007). Increases in nitrogen uptake rather than nitrogen-use efficiency support higher rates of temperate forest productivity under elevated CO ₂. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(35). 14014–14019. 310 indexed citations

4.

Edwards, Nelson T., et al.. (2006). Temperature‐independent diel variation in soil respiration observed from a temperate deciduous forest. Global Change Biology. 12(11). 2136–2145. 130 indexed citations

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Norby, Richard J., Evan H. DeLucia, Birgit Gielen, et al.. (2005). Forest response to elevated CO₂is conserved across a broad range of productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(50). 18052–18056. 786 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wan, Shiqiang, Richard J. Norby, Kurt S. Pregitzer, Joanne Ledford, & Elizabeth G. O’Neill. (2004). CO₂ enrichment and warming of the atmosphere enhance both productivity and mortality of maple tree fine roots. New Phytologist. 162(2). 437–446. 94 indexed citations

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Norby, Richard J., et al.. (2004). Fine-root production dominates response of a deciduous forest to atmospheric CO ₂ enrichment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(26). 9689–9693. 325 indexed citations

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O’Neill, Elizabeth G., Dale W. Johnson, Joanne Ledford, & D. E. Todd. (2002). Acute seasonal drought does not permanently alter mass loss and nitrogen dynamics during decomposition of red maple (Acer rubrumL.) litter. Global Change Biology. 9(1). 117–123. 33 indexed citations

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