John A. Gamon

27.0k total citations · 13 hit papers
141 papers, 19.7k citations indexed

About

John A. Gamon is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John A. Gamon has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 19.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Ecology, 81 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 38 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in John A. Gamon's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (94 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (46 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (28 papers). John A. Gamon is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (94 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (46 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (28 papers). John A. Gamon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Spain. John A. Gamon's co-authors include D. A. Sims, Josep Peñuelas, Christopher B. Field, Susan L. Ustin, Lydia Serrano, Iolanda Filella, Ran Wang, Art Fredeen, Christopher Y. S. Wong and Jeannine Cavender‐Bares and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

John A. Gamon

138 papers receiving 18.8k citations

Hit Papers

Relationships between leaf pigment content and spectral r... 1992 2026 2003 2014 2002 1992 1997 1995 1994 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. Relationships between leaf pigment content and spectral reflectance across a wide range of species, leaf structures and developmental stages
    2002 2.7k citations D. A. Sims, John A. Gamon Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  2. A narrow-waveband spectral index that tracks diurnal changes in photosynthetic efficiency
    1992 1.7k citations John A. Gamon, Josep Peñuelas et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  3. The photochemical reflectance index: an optical indicator of photosynthetic radiation use efficiency across species, functional types, and nutrient levels
    1997 989 citations John A. Gamon et al. profile →
  4. Relationships Between NDVI, Canopy Structure, and Photosynthesis in Three Californian Vegetation Types
    1995 888 citations John A. Gamon, Josep Peñuelas et al. profile →
  5. Reflectance indices associated with physiological changes in nitrogen- and water-limited sunflower leaves
    1994 871 citations Josep Peñuelas, John A. Gamon et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  6. Assessing leaf pigment content and activity with a reflectometer
    1999 814 citations John A. Gamon et al. New Phytologist profile →
  7. Assessment of photosynthetic radiation‐use efficiency with spectral reflectance
    1995 571 citations Josep Peñuelas, John A. Gamon et al. New Phytologist profile →
  8. Retrieval of foliar information about plant pigment systems from high resolution spectroscopy
    2009 562 citations John A. Gamon et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  9. The photochemical reflectance index (PRI) and the remote sensing of leaf, canopy and ecosystem radiation use efficienciesA review and meta-analysis
    2010 509 citations Josep Peñuelas, John A. Gamon et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  10. A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere
    2021 450 citations Gustau Camps‐Valls, Manuel Campos‐Taberner et al. Science Advances profile →
  11. Remote sensing of plant functional types
    2010 437 citations John A. Gamon et al. New Phytologist profile →
  12. Remote sensing of terrestrial plant biodiversity
    2019 271 citations Ran Wang, John A. Gamon Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  13. Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity
    2020 209 citations Jeannine Cavender‐Bares, John A. Gamon et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John A. Gamon United States 61 14.1k 8.7k 7.8k 4.2k 2.8k 141 19.7k
Iolanda Filella Spain 56 7.6k 0.5× 5.6k 0.6× 6.7k 0.9× 2.2k 0.5× 1.7k 0.6× 135 14.3k
Susan L. Ustin United States 77 14.7k 1.0× 9.0k 1.0× 5.2k 0.7× 6.9k 1.6× 2.5k 0.9× 329 21.1k
Anatoly A. Gitelson United States 90 24.4k 1.7× 10.8k 1.2× 14.4k 1.8× 9.6k 2.3× 2.1k 0.7× 203 35.2k
Frédéric Baret France 75 21.9k 1.6× 11.5k 1.3× 11.1k 1.4× 12.6k 3.0× 1.7k 0.6× 262 27.5k
Andrew D. Richardson United States 86 12.9k 0.9× 18.3k 2.1× 6.2k 0.8× 4.4k 1.1× 5.2k 1.9× 270 27.7k
Mark N. Merzlyak Russia 40 10.1k 0.7× 3.2k 0.4× 7.5k 1.0× 3.8k 0.9× 966 0.4× 77 14.8k
Onisimo Mutanga South Africa 57 9.1k 0.7× 4.8k 0.6× 2.5k 0.3× 5.2k 1.2× 1.5k 0.6× 383 13.5k
Stéphane Jacquemoud France 38 9.4k 0.7× 4.7k 0.5× 4.9k 0.6× 4.3k 1.0× 1.0k 0.4× 81 11.2k
Roberta E. Martin United States 57 6.4k 0.5× 4.1k 0.5× 2.1k 0.3× 2.1k 0.5× 2.1k 0.8× 147 10.4k
Paul J. Curran United Kingdom 57 8.1k 0.6× 4.0k 0.5× 3.1k 0.4× 3.9k 0.9× 1.0k 0.4× 183 11.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Huemmrich, K. F., et al.. (2025). Determining Terrestrial Ecosystem Gross Primary Productivity From PACE OCI. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 22. 1–5.
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Gamon, John A., Ran Wang, & Sabrina E. Russo. (2023). Contrasting photoprotective responses of forest trees revealed using PRI light responses sampled with airborne imaging spectrometry. New Phytologist. 238(3). 1318–1332. 11 indexed citations
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Gamon, John A.. (2023). Revisiting the carbon–biodiversity connection. Global Change Biology. 29(18). 5117–5119. 10 indexed citations
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Huemmrich, K. F., et al.. (2023). 20 years of change in tundra NDVI from coupled field and satellite observations. Environmental Research Letters. 18(9). 94022–94022. 2 indexed citations
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Adams, C., Andrea Darlington, M. L. Smith, et al.. (2022). Comparing airborne algorithms for greenhouse gas flux measurements over the Alberta oil sands. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(19). 5841–5859. 9 indexed citations
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Williamson, Scott, et al.. (2022). Seasonal development and radiative forcing of red snow algal blooms on two glaciers in British Columbia, Canada, summer 2020. Remote Sensing of Environment. 280. 113164–113164. 18 indexed citations
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Camps‐Valls, Gustau, Manuel Campos‐Taberner, Álvaro Moreno‐Martínez, et al.. (2021). Generalization of Vegetation Indices for Monitoring the Terrestrial Biosphere. 2 indexed citations
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Camps‐Valls, Gustau, Manuel Campos‐Taberner, Álvaro Moreno‐Martínez, et al.. (2021). A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere. Science Advances. 7(9). 450 indexed citations breakdown →
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Miao, Guofang, Kaiyu Guan, Andrew E. Suyker, et al.. (2020). Varying Contributions of Drivers to the Relationship Between Canopy Photosynthesis and Far‐Red Sun‐Induced Fluorescence for Two Maize Sites at Different Temporal Scales. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(2). 22 indexed citations
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Kothari, Shan, Jeannine Cavender‐Bares, Amy Verhoeven, et al.. (2018). Community-wide consequences of variation in photoprotective physiology among prairie plants. Photosynthetica. 56(SPECIAL ISSUE). 455–467. 19 indexed citations
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Gholizadeh, Hamid, John A. Gamon, A. I. Zygielbaum, et al.. (2017). Evaluating productivity-biodiversity relationship and spectral diversity in prairie grasslands under different fire management treatments using in-situ and remote sensing hyperspectral data. AGUFM. 2017. 2 indexed citations
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Gamon, John A., K. F. Huemmrich, Christopher Y. S. Wong, et al.. (2016). A remotely sensed pigment index reveals photosynthetic phenology in evergreen conifers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(46). 13087–13092. 271 indexed citations
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Gamon, John A.. (2015). Optical sampling of the flux tower footprint. 7 indexed citations
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Gamon, John A., et al.. (2015). Monitoring seasonal and diurnal changes in photosynthetic pigments with automated PRI and NDVI sensors. Biogeosciences. 12(13). 4149–4159. 116 indexed citations
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Gamon, John A.. (2015). Reviews and Syntheses: optical sampling of the flux tower footprint. Biogeosciences. 12(14). 4509–4523. 92 indexed citations
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Harris, Angela, John A. Gamon, Gilberto Pastorello, & Christopher Y. S. Wong. (2014). Retrieval of the photochemical reflectance index for assessing xanthophyll cycle activity: a comparison of near-surface optical sensors. Biogeosciences. 11(22). 6277–6292. 30 indexed citations
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Goswami, Santonu, et al.. (2008). Design and Development of a Spectral Library for Different Vegetation and Landcover Types for Arctic, Antarctic and Chihuahua Desert Ecosystem. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 2 indexed citations
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Rahman, A. F., V. D. Cordova, John A. Gamon, Hans Peter Schmid, & D. A. Sims. (2004). Potential of MODIS Ocean Bands for Estimating CO2 Flux from Terrestrial Vegetation: A Novel Approach. ScholarWorks @ UTRGV (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley). 2004. 1 indexed citations
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Sims, D. A. & John A. Gamon. (2002). Relationships between leaf pigment content and spectral reflectance across a wide range of species, leaf structures and developmental stages. Remote Sensing of Environment. 81(2-3). 337–354. 2734 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rahman, Abdullah F., et al.. (2001). Modeling spatially distributed ecosystem flux of boreal forest using hyperspectral indices from AVIRIS imagery. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 106(D24). 33579–33591. 137 indexed citations

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