Jürgen Knauer

10.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Jürgen Knauer is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Jürgen Knauer has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Plant Science and 9 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Jürgen Knauer's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (29 papers), Climate variability and models (15 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (10 papers). Jürgen Knauer is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (29 papers), Climate variability and models (15 papers) and Plant responses to elevated CO2 (10 papers). Jürgen Knauer collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Germany and United States. Jürgen Knauer's co-authors include Markus Reichstein, Mirco Migliavacca, Thomas Wutzler, Antje Lucas-Moffat, Olaf Menzer, Ladislav Šigut, Sönke Zaehle, Belinda E. Medlyn, Vanessa Haverd and Christiane Werner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

In The Last Decade

Jürgen Knauer

36 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Basic and extensible post-processing of eddy covariance flux data with REddyProc

2018 658 citations Thomas Wutzler, Antje Lucas-Moffat et al. profile →
Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change

2021 298 citations Josep G. Canadell, C. P. Meyer et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jürgen Knauer Australia	19	1.8k	584	503	473	301	38	2.2k
Helber C. Freitas Brazil	18	1.9k 1.0×	593 1.0×	438 0.9×	396 0.8×	324 1.1×	30	2.3k
S. A. Papuga United States	15	1.4k 0.8×	402 0.7×	621 1.2×	293 0.6×	377 1.3×	28	1.8k
Xiangzhong Luo United States	26	1.8k 1.0×	987 1.7×	497 1.0×	719 1.5×	282 0.9×	59	2.6k
Tianshan Zha China	25	1.3k 0.7×	285 0.5×	434 0.9×	373 0.8×	312 1.0×	79	1.6k
Xianjin Zhu China	19	1.4k 0.8×	510 0.9×	324 0.6×	259 0.5×	481 1.6×	47	1.8k
Yanlian Zhou China	25	1.9k 1.1×	809 1.4×	407 0.8×	316 0.7×	589 2.0×	70	2.3k
Natasha MacBean United States	26	1.9k 1.1×	958 1.6×	634 1.3×	237 0.5×	224 0.7×	50	2.5k
Longhui Li China	29	1.5k 0.8×	640 1.1×	376 0.7×	453 1.0×	434 1.4×	60	2.2k
Song Gu China	22	1.2k 0.7×	838 1.4×	570 1.1×	316 0.7×	222 0.7×	43	2.1k
Enrico Tomelleri Italy	22	1.5k 0.9×	841 1.4×	419 0.8×	235 0.5×	161 0.5×	49	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Jürgen Knauer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jürgen Knauer

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

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Stephens, Clare, Belinda E. Medlyn, Laura Williams, et al.. (2025). The Response and Recovery of Carbon and Water Fluxes in Australian Ecosystems Exposed to Severe Drought. Global Change Biology. 31(7). e70361–e70361. 1 indexed citations

Williams, Laura, Rachael V. Gallagher, Sami W. Rifai, et al.. (2025). Detecting and attributing climate change effects on vegetation: Australia as a test case. Plants People Planet. 8(2). 461–485.

Noh, Nam Jin, Alexandre A. Renchon, Jürgen Knauer, et al.. (2024). Reconciling Top‐Down and Bottom‐Up Estimates of Ecosystem Respiration in a Mature Eucalypt Forest. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(10). 4 indexed citations

Shi, Qi, Bin He, Jürgen Knauer, et al.. (2024). Leaf nutrient basis for the differentiation of photosynthetic traits between subtropical evergreen and deciduous trees. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 197(1). 3 indexed citations

Yue, Xu, Hao Zhou, Yang Cao, et al.. (2024). Large potential of strengthening the land carbon sink in China through anthropogenic interventions. Science Bulletin. 69(16). 2622–2631. 12 indexed citations

Kou‐Giesbrecht, Sian, Vivek K. Arora, Christian Seiler, et al.. (2023). Evaluating nitrogen cycling in terrestrial biosphere models: a disconnect between the carbon and nitrogen cycles. Earth System Dynamics. 14(4). 767–795. 20 indexed citations

Lienert, Sebastian, Ana Bastos, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2023). Large Variability in Simulated Response of Vegetation Composition and Carbon Dynamics to Variations in Drought‐Heat Occurrence. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(4). 8 indexed citations

Knauer, Jürgen, et al.. (2023). Variable influence of photosynthetic thermal acclimation on future carbon uptake in Australian wooded ecosystems under climate change. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17021–e17021. 6 indexed citations

Knauer, Jürgen, Matthias Cuntz, Benjamin Smith, et al.. (2023). Higher global gross primary productivity under future climate with more advanced representations of photosynthesis. Science Advances. 9(46). eadh9444–eadh9444. 22 indexed citations

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Bian, Chenyu, Jianyang Xia, Xuanze Zhang, et al.. (2023). Uncertainty and Emergent Constraints on Enhanced Ecosystem Carbon Stock by Land Greening. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(5). 7 indexed citations

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Knauer, Jürgen, Matthias Cuntz, John R. Evans, et al.. (2022). Contrasting anatomical and biochemical controls on mesophyll conductance across plant functional types. New Phytologist. 236(2). 357–368. 21 indexed citations

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Arndt, Stefan K., Lauren T. Bennett, Jürgen Knauer, et al.. (2021). Thermal optima of gross primary productivity are closely aligned with mean air temperatures across Australian wooded ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 27(19). 4727–4744. 29 indexed citations

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Canadell, Josep G., C. P. Meyer, Garry D. Cook, et al.. (2021). Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6921–6921. 298 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rayner, P. J., Jeremy D. Silver, Steven Thomas, et al.. (2021). Was Australia a sink or source of CO ₂ in 2015? Data assimilation using OCO-2 satellite measurements. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(23). 17453–17494. 14 indexed citations

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Knauer, Jürgen, Sönke Zaehle, Martin G. De Kauwe, et al.. (2019). Effects of mesophyll conductance on vegetation responses to elevated CO ₂ concentrations in a land surface model. Global Change Biology. 25(5). 1820–1838. 36 indexed citations

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Mäkelä, Jarmo, Jürgen Knauer, Mika Aurela, et al.. (2019). Land surface model photosynthesis and parameter calibration for boreal sites with adaptive population importance sampler. 2 indexed citations

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Mäkelä, Jarmo, Jürgen Knauer, Mika Aurela, et al.. (2019). Parameter calibration and stomatal conductance formulation comparison for boreal forests with adaptive population importance sampler in the land surface model JSBACH. Geoscientific model development. 12(9). 4075–4098. 16 indexed citations

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Knauer, Jürgen, Tarek S. El‐Madany, Sönke Zaehle, & Mirco Migliavacca. (2018). Bigleaf—An R package for the calculation of physical and physiological ecosystem properties from eddy covariance data. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0201114–e0201114. 77 indexed citations

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Medlyn, Belinda E., Martin G. De Kauwe, Yan‐Shih Lin, et al.. (2017). How do leaf and ecosystem measures of water‐use efficiency compare?. New Phytologist. 216(3). 758–770. 168 indexed citations

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Wutzler, Thomas, Antje Lucas-Moffat, Mirco Migliavacca, et al.. (2017). REddyProc: Enabling researchers to process Eddy-Covariance data. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 12954. 2 indexed citations

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