Jonathan Sanderman

18.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
132 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Sanderman is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Sanderman has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Soil Science, 56 papers in Ecology and 34 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Sanderman's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (61 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (29 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (22 papers). Jonathan Sanderman is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (61 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (29 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (22 papers). Jonathan Sanderman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Jonathan Sanderman's co-authors include Jeff Baldock, Tomislav Hengl, Greg Fiske, Ronald Amundson, Mark A. Bradford, Noah W. Sokol, Lynne M. Macdonald, Bronson W. Griscom, Déborah Bossio and Adrian Chappell and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Sanderman

126 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2020 2018 2020 2019 250 500 750
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.

  1. Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use
    2017 875 citations Jonathan Sanderman, Tomislav Hengl et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions
    2020 632 citations Jonathan Sanderman et al. profile →
  3. Pathways of mineral‐associated soil organic matter formation: Integrating the role of plant carbon source, chemistry, and point of entry
    2018 529 citations Jonathan Sanderman et al. Global Change Biology profile →
  4. Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy
    2020 469 citations Johannes Lehmann, Ronald Amundson et al. profile →
  5. Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world
    2019 403 citations Jonathan Sanderman et al. profile →
  6. Global-change controls on soil-carbon accumulation and loss in coastal vegetated ecosystems
    2019 223 citations Jonathan Sanderman, Jennifer L. Bowen et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  7. The global potential for increased storage of carbon on land
    2022 143 citations Jonathan Sanderman, Christopher R. Schwalm et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  8. Crediting agricultural soil carbon sequestration
    2022 114 citations Emily E. Oldfield, Jonathan Sanderman et al. profile →
  9. The principles of natural climate solutions
    2024 50 citations Jonathan Sanderman 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
Jonathan Sanderman United States 49 4.7k 3.7k 1.7k 1.5k 1.4k 132 9.0k
Samuel Abiven Switzerland 37 5.7k 1.2× 2.7k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 611 0.4× 92 9.2k
Daniel P. Rasse Norway 37 6.0k 1.3× 3.4k 0.9× 1.6k 0.9× 1.6k 1.1× 802 0.6× 82 9.5k
Louis A. Schipper New Zealand 54 3.8k 0.8× 2.9k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 3.0k 2.1× 1.1k 0.7× 213 9.8k
Bernd Marschner Germany 41 6.0k 1.3× 2.9k 0.8× 823 0.5× 2.4k 1.6× 732 0.5× 146 10.1k
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe United States 42 4.4k 0.9× 2.5k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 765 0.5× 126 8.1k
Xiaofeng Xu United States 46 3.1k 0.7× 3.5k 0.9× 3.2k 1.8× 1.8k 1.2× 585 0.4× 187 8.7k
William R. Wieder United States 48 5.5k 1.2× 4.1k 1.1× 3.3k 1.9× 1.7k 1.1× 756 0.5× 115 10.3k
Kate Lajtha United States 56 5.4k 1.2× 4.4k 1.2× 2.0k 1.1× 3.7k 2.5× 647 0.4× 161 10.8k
Jan Mulder Norway 61 4.5k 1.0× 2.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 3.4k 2.3× 845 0.6× 259 12.4k
Christine L. Goodale United States 46 3.5k 0.8× 3.4k 0.9× 3.1k 1.8× 3.5k 2.4× 923 0.6× 95 9.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan Sanderman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Haig, Jordahna, et al.. (2025). Rainfall and Seasonality Drive Pyrogenic Carbon Stocks in Coarse‐Textured Mineral Soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(2). 1 indexed citations
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Amundson, Ronald, et al.. (2025). Neglecting vertical transport leads to underestimated soil carbon dynamics. Nature Geoscience. 18(12). 1239–1244.
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Safanelli, José Lucas, et al.. (2024). Building a near-infrared (NIR) soil spectral dataset and predictive machine learning models using a handheld NIR spectrophotometer. Data in Brief. 58. 111229–111229. 2 indexed citations
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Haig, Jordahna, et al.. (2024). Impact of fire return interval on pyrogenic carbon stocks in a tropical savanna, North Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 33(8). 3 indexed citations
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Novick, Kimberly A., Trevor F. Keenan, William R. L. Anderegg, et al.. (2024). We need a solid scientific basis for nature-based climate solutions in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(14). e2318505121–e2318505121. 16 indexed citations
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Bulseco, Ashley, Anna E. Murphy, Anne E. Giblin, et al.. (2023). Marsh sediments chronically exposed to nitrogen enrichment contain degraded organic matter that is less vulnerable to decomposition via nitrate reduction. The Science of The Total Environment. 915. 169681–169681. 3 indexed citations
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Hong, Yongsheng, Jonathan Sanderman, Tomislav Hengl, et al.. (2023). Potential of globally distributed topsoil mid-infrared spectral library for organic carbon estimation. CATENA. 235. 107628–107628. 14 indexed citations
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Eglinton, Timothy I., Heather Graven, Peter A. Raymond, et al.. (2023). Making the case for an International Decade of Radiocarbon. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 381(2261). 20230081–20230081. 6 indexed citations
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Serrano, Óscar, Inés Mazarrasa, James W. Fourqurean, et al.. (2023). Flaws in the methodologies for organic carbon analysis in seagrass blue carbon soils. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 21(12). 814–827. 9 indexed citations
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Dangal, Shree R. S., Christopher R. Schwalm, Michel A. Cavigelli, et al.. (2022). Improving Soil Carbon Estimates by Linking Conceptual Pools Against Measurable Carbon Fractions in the DAYCENT Model Version 4.5. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(5). 22 indexed citations
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McDermid, Sonali, Ensheng Weng, Michael J. Puma, et al.. (2022). Soil Carbon Losses Reduce Soil Moisture in Global Climate Model Simulations. Earth Interactions. 26(1). 195–208. 2 indexed citations
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Adame, María Fernanda, Rod M. Connolly, Mischa P. Turschwell, et al.. (2021). Future carbon emissions from global mangrove forest loss. Global Change Biology. 27(12). 2856–2866. 143 indexed citations
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Bulseco, Ashley, Anne E. Giblin, Jane Tucker, et al.. (2019). Nitrate addition stimulates microbial decomposition of organic matter in salt marsh sediments. Global Change Biology. 25(10). 3224–3241. 60 indexed citations
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Adkins, Jaron, Jonathan Sanderman, & Jessica Miesel. (2018). Soil carbon pools and fluxes vary across a burn severity gradient three years after wildfire in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. Geoderma. 333. 10–22. 36 indexed citations
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Sanderman, Jonathan, Tomislav Hengl, & Greg Fiske. (2017). Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(36). 9575–9580. 875 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ahmed, Zia, Peter B. Woodbury, Jonathan Sanderman, et al.. (2017). Assessing soil carbon vulnerability in the Western USA by geospatial modeling of pyrogenic and particulate carbon stocks. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 122(2). 354–369. 21 indexed citations
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Hengl, Tomislav, G.B.M. Heuvelink, Jonathan Sanderman, & R.A. MacMillan. (2017). Spatiotemporal models of global soil organic carbon stock to support land degradation assessments at regional and global scales: limitations, challenges and opportunities. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 14946. 2 indexed citations
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Lehmann, Johannes, et al.. (2017). Alternative modelling approaches for estimating pyrogenic carbon, soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in contrasting ecoregions within the United States. EGUGA. 497. 1 indexed citations
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Sanderman, Jonathan, Stewart Fallon, Evelyn S. Krull, et al.. (2011). On the use of radiocarbon to decipher sedimentary organic matter sources. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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