Joris Timmermans

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Joris Timmermans is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Joris Timmermans has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Ecology and 15 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Joris Timmermans's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (13 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (7 papers). Joris Timmermans is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (19 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (13 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (7 papers). Joris Timmermans collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Italy. Joris Timmermans's co-authors include Zhongbo Su, Christiaan van der Tol, W. Verhoef, Anne Verhoef, Peter M. van Bodegom, Qi Chen, Leon T. Hauser, Wen Wen, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia and Ângelo Sil and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing of Environment and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Joris Timmermans

43 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

An integrated model of soil-canopy spectral radiances, photosynthesis, fluorescence, temperature and energy balance

2009 512 citations Christiaan van der Tol, W. Verhoef et al. Biogeosciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joris Timmermans Netherlands	18	812	617	339	219	200	44	1.2k
W. Dulaney United States	12	610 0.8×	636 1.0×	429 1.3×	156 0.7×	244 1.2×	28	1.1k
Muhammad Hasan Ali Baig China	16	826 1.0×	610 1.0×	427 1.3×	310 1.4×	79 0.4×	36	1.3k
R. Bryant United States	12	590 0.7×	437 0.7×	311 0.9×	183 0.8×	233 1.2×	17	977
R. R. Nemani United States	12	656 0.8×	566 0.9×	310 0.9×	262 1.2×	124 0.6×	24	995
Olivier Samain France	6	645 0.8×	727 1.2×	443 1.3×	174 0.8×	219 1.1×	8	1.0k
Julie Betbeder France	18	507 0.6×	840 1.4×	467 1.4×	232 1.1×	252 1.3×	39	1.3k
Raphaël d’Andrimont Italy	15	414 0.5×	683 1.1×	340 1.0×	222 1.0×	276 1.4×	38	1.2k
N. R. Patel India	19	827 1.0×	538 0.9×	232 0.7×	192 0.9×	353 1.8×	71	1.3k
René R. Colditz Mexico	18	595 0.7×	666 1.1×	258 0.8×	257 1.2×	64 0.3×	54	1.1k
Nanshan You China	17	715 0.9×	803 1.3×	331 1.0×	397 1.8×	304 1.5×	33	1.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joris Timmermans

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

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Sun, Peng, Peter M. van Bodegom, Joris Timmermans, et al.. (2025). Hybrid modelling of leaf traits: Integrating neural networks with radiative transfer theory. Remote Sensing of Environment. 329. 114958–114958. 1 indexed citations

Zheng, Chaolei, Jia Li, Guangcheng Hu, Massimo Menenti, & Joris Timmermans. (2025). How much water vapour does the Tibetan Plateau release into the atmosphere?. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(2). 485–506. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Zhiming, Spiros Koulouzis, R. M. Bianchi, et al.. (2022). Notebook‐as‐a‐VRE (NaaVRE): From private notebooks to a collaborative cloud virtual research environment. Software Practice and Experience. 52(9). 1947–1966. 17 indexed citations

Chen, Qi, Joris Timmermans, Wen Wen, & Peter M. van Bodegom. (2022). A multi-metric assessment of drought vulnerability across different vegetation types using high resolution remote sensing. The Science of The Total Environment. 832. 154970–154970. 39 indexed citations

Timmermans, Joris, et al.. (2022). Monitoring the combined effects of drought and salinity stress on crops using remote sensing in the Netherlands. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(17). 4537–4552. 11 indexed citations

Hauser, Leon T., Jean‐Baptiste Féret, Nguyễn An Bình, et al.. (2021). Towards scalable estimation of plant functional diversity from Sentinel-2: In-situ validation in a heterogeneous (semi-)natural landscape. Remote Sensing of Environment. 262. 112505–112505. 44 indexed citations

Hauser, Leon T., Nguyễn An Bình, Pham Viet Hoa, Hồng Quân Nguyễn, & Joris Timmermans. (2020). Gap-Free Monitoring of Annual Mangrove Forest Dynamics in Ca Mau Province, Vietnamese Mekong Delta, Using the Landsat-7-8 Archives and Post-Classification Temporal Optimization. Remote Sensing. 12(22). 3729–3729. 29 indexed citations

Timmermans, Joris, et al.. (2015). Towards Estimating Water Stress through Leaf and Canopy Water Content Derived from Optical and Thermal Hyperspectral Data. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9200. 1 indexed citations

Tol, Christiaan van der, W. Timmermans, Chiara Corbari, et al.. (2015). An Analysis of Turbulent Heat Fluxes and the Energy Balance During the REFLEX Campaign. Acta Geophysica. 63(6). 1516–1539. 6 indexed citations

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Rientjes, T.H.M., et al.. (2013). Effects of land cover change on the hydrologic regime of Kabompo River Basin, Zambia. 722. 83. 2 indexed citations

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Timmermans, Joris, Zhongbo Su, Christiaan van der Tol, Anne Verhoef, & W. Verhoef. (2013). Quantifying the uncertainty in estimates of surface–atmosphere fluxes through joint evaluation of the SEBS and SCOPE models. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(4). 1561–1573. 50 indexed citations

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Su, Zhongbo, Diego Fernández‐Prieto, Joris Timmermans, et al.. (2013). First results of the earth observation Water Cycle Multi-mission Observation Strategy (WACMOS). International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 26. 270–285. 19 indexed citations

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Timmermans, Joris, et al.. (2012). Drought monitoring over the Horn of Africa using remotely sensed evapotranspiration, soil moisture and vegetation parameters. University of Twente Research Information. 2717. 3 indexed citations

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Timmermans, Joris, et al.. (2012). Drought assessment by evapotranspiration mapping in Twente. EGUGA. 2915. 5 indexed citations

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Lee, Ju Hyoung, Joris Timmermans, Zhongbo Su, & M. Mancini. (2012). Calibration of aerodynamic roughness over the Tibetan Plateau with Ensemble Kalman Filter analysed heat flux. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(11). 4291–4302. 11 indexed citations

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Su, Zhongbo, Yijian Zeng, Joris Timmermans, et al.. (2012). CAHMDA-V : Catchments in a changing climate : 8-11 July 2012, Enschede, The Netherlands : Meeting report. University of Twente Research Information. 22(4). 8–9. 1 indexed citations

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Timmermans, Joris, W. Verhoef, Christiaan van der Tol, & Zhongbo Su. (2009). Retrieval of canopy component temperatures through Bayesian inversion of directional thermal measurements. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 13(7). 1249–1260. 31 indexed citations

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Tol, Christiaan van der, S. van der Tol, Anne Verhoef, et al.. (2009). A Bayesian approach to estimate sensible and latent heat over vegetation.

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Tol, Christiaan van der, W. Verhoef, Joris Timmermans, Anne Verhoef, & Zhongbo Su. (2009). An integrated model of soil-canopy spectral radiances, photosynthesis, fluorescence, temperature and energy balance. Biogeosciences. 6(12). 3109–3129. 512 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tol, Christiaan van der, S. van der Tol, Anne Verhoef, et al.. (2009). A Bayesian approach to estimate sensible and latent heat over vegetated land surface. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 13(6). 749–758. 15 indexed citations

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