John S. King

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
156 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

John S. King is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, John S. King has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 30 papers in Atmospheric Science and 29 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in John S. King's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (62 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (22 papers) and Forest ecology and management (22 papers). John S. King is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (62 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (22 papers) and Forest ecology and management (22 papers). John S. King collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Belgium. John S. King's co-authors include Kurt S. Pregitzer, Jean‐Christophe Domec, Asko Noormets, Steven G. McNulty, Ge Sun, Andrew J. Burton, Michael Gavazzi, Shannon E. Brown, Donald R. Zak and Christian P. Giardina and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Chemical Physics and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

John S. King

151 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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

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Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
John S. King	3.3k	1.7k	1.4k	1.3k	1.2k	156	6.3k
Xianzhou Zhang	3.2k 1.0×	749 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	390	8.7k
Hongsong Chen	2.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	2.4k 1.7×	576 0.4×	1.3k 1.0×	299	8.3k
J. H. M. Thornley	2.7k 0.8×	3.4k 2.0×	1.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	519 0.4×	135	8.2k
Mark A. Adams	6.9k 2.1×	4.5k 2.6×	2.6k 1.8×	3.5k 2.7×	2.6k 2.1×	359	14.4k
Zhenzhu Xu	1.6k 0.5×	3.0k 1.8×	899 0.6×	521 0.4×	522 0.4×	234	7.4k
Thomas W. Boutton	2.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	3.8k 2.6×	1.7k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	202	11.1k
R. F. Grant	3.5k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	653 0.5×	2.0k 1.6×	184	7.0k
Hiroshi Koizumi	2.1k 0.6×	901 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	706 0.5×	949 0.8×	204	5.5k
Gioṙgio Matteucci	3.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	194	6.7k
Thomas L. Thompson	1.6k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	879 0.6×	126 0.1×	1.7k 1.4×	229	5.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John S. King

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Li, Wenhong, Yu Zhang, Inge de Graaf, et al.. (2025). Temperature and Water Levels Collectively Regulate Methane Emissions From Subtropical Freshwater Wetlands. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(3).

Aguilos, Maricar, Ge Sun, Ning Liu, et al.. (2024). Energy availability and leaf area dominate control of ecosystem evapotranspiration in the southeastern U.S.. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 349. 109960–109960. 9 indexed citations

Mitra, Bhaskar, Kevan J. Minick, Michael Gavazzi, et al.. (2024). Toward spectrally truthful models for gap-filling soil respiration and methane fluxes. A case study in coastal forested wetlands in North Carolina. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 353. 110038–110038.

Orság, Matěj, Gonzalo Berhongaray, Milan Fischer, et al.. (2024). Elevated CO ₂ concentration alleviates the negative effect of vapour pressure deficit and soil drought on juvenile poplar growth. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 70(2). 51–61.

Fischer, Milan, Gabriel G. Katul, Asko Noormets, et al.. (2023). Merging flux-variance with surface renewal methods in the roughness sublayer and the atmospheric surface layer. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 342. 109692–109692. 3 indexed citations

Keyser, Tara L., et al.. (2023). Growth response, climate sensitivity and carbon storage vary with wood porosity in a southern Appalachian mixed hardwood forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 332. 109358–109358. 2 indexed citations

Domec, Jean‐Christophe, John S. King, Mary Jane Carmichael, et al.. (2021). Aquaporins, and not changes in root structure, provide new insights into physiological responses to drought, flooding, and salinity. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(12). 4489–4501. 24 indexed citations

Mitra, Bhaskar, Guofang Miao, Kevan J. Minick, et al.. (2019). Disentangling the Effects of Temperature, Moisture, and Substrate Availability on Soil CO₂ Efflux. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 124(7). 2060–2075. 29 indexed citations

Minick, Kevan J., Bhaskar Mitra, Asko Noormets, & John S. King. (2019). Saltwater reduces CO ₂ and CH ₄ production in organic soils from a coastal freshwater forested wetland. 1 indexed citations

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Minick, Kevan J., Bhaskar Mitra, Asko Noormets, & John S. King. (2019). Saltwater reduces potential CO ₂ and CH ₄ production in peat soils from a coastal freshwater forested wetland. Biogeosciences. 16(23). 4671–4686. 16 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jie, Ge Sun, Wenhong Li, et al.. (2017). Modeling the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Hydrology of Selected Forested Wetlands in the Southeastern United States. 1 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jie, Ge Sun, Wenhong Li, et al.. (2017). Modeling the potential impacts of climate change on the water table level of selected forested wetlands in the southeastern United States. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(12). 6289–6305. 30 indexed citations

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Dieleman, Wouter, Sara Vicca, Feike A. Dijkstra, et al.. (2012). Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO ₂ and temperature. Global Change Biology. 18(9). 2681–2693. 344 indexed citations

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Noormets, Asko, Michael Gavazzi, Steven G. McNulty, et al.. (2009). Response of carbon fluxes to drought in a coastal plain loblolly pine forest. Global Change Biology. 16(1). 272–287. 124 indexed citations

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Domec, Jean‐Christophe, Asko Noormets, John S. King, et al.. (2008). Decoupling the Influence of Leaf and Root Hydraulic Conductances on Stomatal Conductance and its Sensitivity to Vapor Pressure Deficit as Soil Dries in a Drained Loblolly Pine Plantation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 15 indexed citations

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Koeberl, Christian, et al.. (2006). Uppermost Impact Fallout Layer in a Drillcore at the Bosumtwi Impact Crater (Ghana): A Preliminary Study. 37th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 1552. 3 indexed citations

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King, John S., Kurt S. Pregitzer, Donald R. Zak, et al.. (2001). Fine-root biomass and fluxes of soil carbon in young stands of paper birch and trembling aspen as affected by elevated atmospheric CO2 and tropospheric O3. Oecologia. 128(2). 237–250. 151 indexed citations

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Packer, Bonnie, et al.. (1993). Systems implications of repository thermal loading. High Level Radioactive Waste Management. 874–879. 1 indexed citations

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Greeley, R. & John S. King. (1975). Geologic field guide to the quaternary volcanics of the south-central Snake River Plain, Idaho. Geological Society of America eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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King, John S.. (1964). Cooper Hill; a gravity slide in the northeastern Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming. Rocky Mountain geology. 3(1). 33–37. 1 indexed citations

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