John Grace

11.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
95 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

John Grace is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Grace has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 29 papers in Plant Science and 26 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in John Grace's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (54 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (19 papers). John Grace is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (54 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (19 papers). John Grace collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Brazil. John Grace's co-authors include Patrick Meir, Alexander Knohl, Philippe Ciais, Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, B. E. Law, Dominik Hessenmöller, Annett Börner, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Heloísa S. Miranda and Pete Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

John Grace

92 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks

2008 1.3k citations B. E. Law, John Grace et al. Nature profile →
Global nitrogen deposition and carbon sinks

2008 595 citations John Grace et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Grace United Kingdom	38	4.3k	2.0k	1.9k	1.5k	1.3k	95	6.7k
Richard Joffre France	51	3.1k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	127	6.2k
Alexander Knohl Germany	42	5.7k 1.3×	2.3k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	142	7.6k
Yann Nouvellon France	50	3.4k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	2.5k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	2.3k 1.7×	132	6.7k
Stith T. Gower United States	39	5.0k 1.2×	3.4k 1.7×	1.9k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	59	7.4k
M. E. Litvak United States	42	4.2k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	683 0.5×	120	6.3k
Henry L. Gholz United States	48	5.2k 1.2×	2.8k 1.4×	2.8k 1.5×	1.7k 1.1×	1.9k 1.4×	83	8.2k
R. E. McMurtrie Australia	48	5.0k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	2.4k 1.3×	2.6k 1.7×	2.1k 1.5×	77	7.5k
Lindsay B. Hutley Australia	53	5.8k 1.3×	3.5k 1.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	811 0.6×	186	8.3k
Frank Berninger Finland	44	4.3k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	941 0.7×	192	6.4k
Kiona Ogle United States	40	4.7k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	2.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	115	7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by John Grace

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Grace

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Grace

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Novotný, Jan, Ladislav Šigut, Alexander Ač, et al.. (2023). Estimation of photosynthetic dynamics in forests from daily measured fluorescence and PRI data with adjustment for canopy shadow fraction. The Science of The Total Environment. 898. 166386–166386. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Wenjun, Jing Zhu, Hongli Ji, et al.. (2021). Drivers of difference in CO2 and CH4 emissions between rubber plantation and tropical rainforest soils. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 304-305. 108391–108391. 12 indexed citations

Fei, Xuehai, Qinghai Song, Yiping Zhang, et al.. (2019). Patterns and Controls of Light Use Efficiency in Four Contrasting Forest Ecosystems in Yunnan, Southwest China. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(2). 293–311. 19 indexed citations

Gao, Jinbo, Wenjun Zhou, Yuntong Liu, et al.. (2017). Effects of Litter Inputs on N2O Emissions from a Tropical Rainforest in Southwest China. Ecosystems. 21(5). 1013–1026. 25 indexed citations

Waldron, Susan, Tomas F. Domingues, John Grace, et al.. (2016). Fluvial carbon export from a lowland Amazonian rainforest in relation to atmospheric fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 121(12). 3001–3018. 13 indexed citations

Guarini, Rocchina, et al.. (2014). The utility of MODIS-sPRI for investigating the photosynthetic light-use efficiency in a Mediterranean deciduous forest. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 35(16). 6157–6172. 15 indexed citations

Mizunuma, Toshie, Maurizio Mencuccini, Lisa Wingate, et al.. (2014). Sensitivity of colour indices for discriminating leaf colours from digital photographs. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5(10). 1078–1085. 20 indexed citations

Aakala, Tuomas, et al.. (2014). A prominent stepwise advance of the tree line in north‐east Finland. Journal of Ecology. 102(6). 1582–1591. 38 indexed citations

Nagy, László, et al.. (2013). The stability of the Pinus sylvestris treeline in the Cairngorms, Scotland over the last millennium. Plant Ecology & Diversity. 6(1). 7–19. 6 indexed citations

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Ryan, Casey M., Mathew Williams, Timothy C. Hill, John Grace, & Iain Woodhouse. (2013). Assessing the Phenology of Southern Tropical Africa: A Comparison of Hemispherical Photography, Scatterometry, and Optical/NIR Remote Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 52(1). 519–528. 22 indexed citations

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Dengel, Sigrid, et al.. (2012). Spectral characteristics of pine needles at the limit of tree growth in subarctic Finland. Plant Ecology & Diversity. 6(1). 31–44. 9 indexed citations

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Ryan, Casey M., Mathew Williams, & John Grace. (2011). Above- and Belowground Carbon Stocks in a Miombo Woodland Landscape of Mozambique. Biotropica. 43(4). 423–432. 160 indexed citations

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Urban, Otmar, Karel Klem, Alexander Ač, et al.. (2011). Impact of clear and cloudy sky conditions on the vertical distribution of photosynthetic CO₂ uptake within a spruce canopy. Functional Ecology. 26(1). 46–55. 128 indexed citations

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Dengel, Sigrid & John Grace. (2010). Carbon dioxide exchange and canopy conductance of two coniferous forests under various sky conditions. Oecologia. 164(3). 797–808. 56 indexed citations

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Grace, John, et al.. (2008). Collaboration and innovation in the management of cultural landscapes in mining contexts, western Cape York, far north Queensland. The Historic Environment Policy & Practice. 21(3). 7. 4 indexed citations

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Magnani, Federico, Maurizio Mencuccini, Marco Borghetti, et al.. (2008). Magnani et al. reply. Nature. 451(7180). E3–E4. 17 indexed citations

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Peña‐Claros, Marielos, Z. Villegas, Lourens Poorter, et al.. (2007). Letters to the editor about the contents of past issues and comments on topics of current concern toFrontiersreaders. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 5(5). 237–240. 2 indexed citations

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Grace, John, Jon Lloyd, Antônio Carlos de Oliveira Miranda, Heloísa S. Miranda, & J. H. C. Gash. (1998). Fluxes of carbon dioxide and water vapour over a C 4 pasture in southwestern Amazonia (Brazil). Australian Journal of Plant Physiology. 25(5). 519–530. 47 indexed citations

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Grace, John. (1997). The oceanic tree-line and the limit for tree growth in Scotland. Botanical Journal of Scotland. 49(2). 223–236. 8 indexed citations

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Grace, John. (1990). Cuticular water loss unlikely to explain tree-line in Scotland. Oecologia. 84(1). 64–68. 55 indexed citations

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