Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz

12.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
128 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Environmental Engineering, 56 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 49 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (74 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (35 papers) and Climate variability and models (22 papers). Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (74 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (35 papers) and Climate variability and models (22 papers). Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz collaborates with scholars based in Spain, France and United States. Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz's co-authors include José A. Sobrino, Leonardo Paolini, Cristián Mattar, Jordi Cristóbal, G. Sòria, Dražen Skoković, Xavier Pons, Pablo J. Zarco‐Tejada, J. Moreno and Antonio Plaza and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz

120 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

Land surface temperature ... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2004 2003 2014 2008 2008 500 1000 1.5k
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. Land surface temperature retrieval from LANDSAT TM 5
    2004 1.7k citations José A. Sobrino, Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz et al. profile →
  2. A generalized single‐channel method for retrieving land surface temperature from remote sensing data
    2003 789 citations Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, José A. Sobrino profile →
  3. Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Methods From Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor Data
    2014 738 citations Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, José A. Sobrino et al. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters profile →
  4. Land Surface Emissivity Retrieval From Different VNIR and TIR Sensors
    2008 603 citations José A. Sobrino, Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz et al. profile →
  5. Revision of the Single-Channel Algorithm for Land Surface Temperature Retrieval From Landsat Thermal-Infrared Data
    2008 506 citations Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, Jordi Cristóbal et al. profile →
  6. Record-breaking warming and extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest during the course of El Niño 2015–2016
    2016 467 citations Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, Cristián Mattar et al. profile →
  7. The new record of drought and warmth in the Amazon in 2023 related to regional and global climatic features
    2024 62 citations Jhan Carlo Espinoza, Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz 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
Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz Spain 46 6.2k 5.0k 3.6k 2.0k 1.9k 128 9.5k
Zhao-Liang Li China 52 8.7k 1.4× 5.1k 1.0× 6.3k 1.8× 2.3k 1.2× 813 0.4× 346 12.5k
Janet E. Nichol Hong Kong 50 3.3k 0.5× 3.7k 0.7× 2.6k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 190 7.2k
Arnon Karnieli Israel 55 4.4k 0.7× 5.3k 1.1× 3.7k 1.0× 4.1k 2.0× 1.0k 0.5× 263 12.0k
Zhihao Qin China 39 3.2k 0.5× 2.8k 0.6× 2.2k 0.6× 2.0k 1.0× 724 0.4× 152 6.1k
Isabel F. Trigo Portugal 44 3.8k 0.6× 5.1k 1.0× 4.6k 1.3× 994 0.5× 609 0.3× 120 8.3k
Soe W. Myint United States 44 4.4k 0.7× 4.5k 0.9× 1.9k 0.5× 2.1k 1.1× 2.7k 1.4× 128 8.2k
Lunche Wang China 56 3.0k 0.5× 6.3k 1.3× 3.5k 1.0× 1.7k 0.9× 1.7k 0.9× 301 9.6k
Toby N. Carlson United States 48 4.9k 0.8× 8.3k 1.7× 6.2k 1.7× 2.5k 1.2× 1.0k 0.5× 120 11.9k
Brian L. Markham United States 40 3.8k 0.6× 4.9k 1.0× 3.2k 0.9× 4.3k 2.1× 715 0.4× 180 10.3k
François‐Marie Bréon France 53 2.9k 0.5× 8.1k 1.6× 6.3k 1.8× 2.8k 1.4× 1.1k 0.6× 160 11.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Marengo, José, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, et al.. (2025). Climatological patterns of heatwaves during winter and spring 2023 and trends for the period 1979–2023 in central South America. Frontiers in Climate. 7. 7 indexed citations
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Hernández‐Clemente, Rocío, A. Hornero, V. González-Dugo, et al.. (2023). Global monitoring of soil multifunctionality in drylands using satellite imagery and field data. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9(6). 743–758. 1 indexed citations
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Papastefanou, Phillip, Christian Zang, Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, et al.. (2022). Recent extreme drought events in the Amazon rainforest: assessment of different precipitation and evapotranspiration datasets and drought indicators. Biogeosciences. 19(16). 3843–3861. 21 indexed citations
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Chen, Jia, Christian Zang, Ankit Shekhar, et al.. (2020). OCO-2 Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Variability across Ecoregions of the Amazon Basin and the Extreme Drought Effects of El Niño (2015–2016). Remote Sensing. 12(7). 1202–1202. 24 indexed citations
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Papastefanou, Phillip, Christian Zang, Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, et al.. (2020). Quantifying the spatial extent and intensity of recent extremedrought events in the Amazon rainforest and their impacts on thecarbon cycle. 3 indexed citations
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Luo, Xiangzhong, Trevor F. Keenan, Joshua B. Fisher, et al.. (2018). The impact of the 2015/2016 El Niño on global photosynthesis using satellite remote sensing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1760). 20170409–20170409. 30 indexed citations
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Jiménez‐Muñoz, Juan C., Cristián Mattar, José A. Sobrino, & Yadvinder Malhi. (2015). A database for the monitoring of thermal anomalies over the Amazon forest and adjacent intertropical oceans. Scientific Data. 2(1). 150024–150024. 12 indexed citations
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Jiménez‐Muñoz, Juan C., José A. Sobrino, Dražen Skoković, Cristián Mattar, & Jordi Cristóbal. (2014). Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Methods From Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor Data. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 11(10). 1840–1843. 738 indexed citations breakdown →
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Arenas‐Castro, Salvador, et al.. (2012). Mapping wild pear trees (Pyrus bourgaeana) in Mediterranean forest using high-resolution QuickBird satellite imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 34(9-10). 3376–3396. 14 indexed citations
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Jiménez‐Muñoz, Juan C., José A. Sobrino, Jordi Cristóbal, et al.. (2010). Obtención de la temperatura de la superficie terrestre a partir de la serie histórica LANDSAT. 33(33). 53–63. 1 indexed citations
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Zarco‐Tejada, Pablo J., et al.. (2007). Detecting crop irrigation status in orchard canopies with airborne and ASTER thermal imagery. 63. 3643–3646. 3 indexed citations
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Baumgardner, Darrel, et al.. (2005). Aerosol particles in the Mexican East Pacific Part I: processing and vertical redistribution by clouds. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 5(11). 3081–3091. 10 indexed citations
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Sepulcre‐Cantó, G., Pablo J. Zarco‐Tejada, José A. Sobrino, Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, & Francisco J. Villalobos. (2005). Spatial variability of crop water stress in an olive grove with high-spatial thermal remote sensing imagery. 267–272. 13 indexed citations
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Jiménez‐Muñoz, Juan C., et al.. (2005). Fractional Vegetation Cover Estimation from Proba/CHRIS Data: Methods, Analysis of Angular Effects and Application to the Land Surface Emissivity Retrieval. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 593. 19. 15 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Alan R., et al.. (2003). Separación emisividad/temperatura a partir de datos DAIS y aplicación del contraste espectral para discriminar distintos tipos de vegetación. 51–58. 2 indexed citations
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Coll, César, José A. Sobrino, V. Caselles, et al.. (2001). A Comparison of Methods for Surface Temperature and Emissivity Estimation. ESASP. 499. 217. 2 indexed citations

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