Kaire Toming

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Kaire Toming is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaire Toming has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Oceanography, 10 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kaire Toming's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (28 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (10 papers) and Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis (9 papers). Kaire Toming is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (28 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (10 papers) and Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis (9 papers). Kaire Toming collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, Sweden and Finland. Kaire Toming's co-authors include Tiit Kutser, Birgot Paavel, Tiina Nõges, Alo Laas, Margot Sepp, Tuuli Soomets, Gema Casal, Martin Ligi, Charles Verpoorter and Rivo Uiboupin and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Water Research and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Kaire Toming

29 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

First Experiences in Mapping Lake Water Quality Parameters with Sentinel-2 MSI Imagery

2016 409 citations Kaire Toming, Tiit Kutser et al. Remote Sensing profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kaire Toming Estonia	16	835	463	385	364	325	30	1.3k
Anu Reinart Estonia	20	909 1.1×	409 0.9×	271 0.7×	375 1.0×	330 1.0×	34	1.2k
Birgot Paavel Estonia	14	805 1.0×	482 1.0×	283 0.7×	423 1.2×	231 0.7×	31	1.2k
Moritz K. Lehmann New Zealand	10	715 0.9×	509 1.1×	245 0.6×	356 1.0×	264 0.8×	25	1.1k
Ming Shen China	22	949 1.1×	670 1.4×	344 0.9×	449 1.2×	420 1.3×	64	1.6k
Heng Lyu China	26	1.0k 1.2×	655 1.4×	417 1.1×	535 1.5×	428 1.3×	76	1.6k
Steven Greb United States	7	811 1.0×	480 1.0×	299 0.8×	418 1.1×	160 0.5×	9	1.2k
Sachidananda Mishra United States	14	839 1.0×	434 0.9×	390 1.0×	433 1.2×	500 1.5×	20	1.3k
Antonio Ruíz-Verdú Spain	15	684 0.8×	356 0.8×	343 0.9×	374 1.0×	323 1.0×	34	1.0k
Brandon Smith United States	12	620 0.7×	427 0.9×	258 0.7×	379 1.0×	149 0.5×	14	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kaire Toming

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20 of 20 papers shown

Vahtmäe, Ele, et al.. (2025). Hyperspectral library of submerged aquatic vegetation and benthic substrates in the Baltic Sea. Earth system science data. 17(4). 1685–1692. 1 indexed citations

Vahtmäe, Ele, et al.. (2024). Assessing Seasonal and Inter-Annual Changes in the Total Cover of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Using Sentinel-2 Imagery. Remote Sensing. 16(8). 1396–1396. 1 indexed citations

Toming, Kaire, Hui Liu, Tuuli Soomets, et al.. (2024). Estimation of the Biogeochemical and Physical Properties of Lakes Based on Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence Applications. Remote Sensing. 16(3). 464–464. 15 indexed citations

Andersson, Agneta, et al.. (2024). Changes in phytoplankton communities along a north–south gradient in the Baltic Sea between 1990 and 2008. Boreal environment research. 16. 191–208. 3 indexed citations

Toming, Kaire, Helgi Arst, Birgot Paavel, Alo Laas, & Tiina Nõges. (2024). Spatial and temporal variations in coloured dissolved organic matter in large and shallow Estonian waterbodies. Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja. 2 indexed citations

Vahtmäe, Ele, et al.. (2023). On the possibility to map submerged aquatic vegetation cover with Sentinel-2 in low-transparency waters. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 17(4). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Hui, Yadong Zhou, Tiit Kutser, et al.. (2022). Trophic state assessment of optically diverse lakes using Sentinel-3-derived trophic level index. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 114. 103026–103026. 21 indexed citations

Soomets, Tuuli, et al.. (2022). Deriving Nutrient Concentrations from Sentinel-3 OLCI Data in North-Eastern Baltic Sea. Remote Sensing. 14(6). 1487–1487. 11 indexed citations

Soomets, Tuuli, Kaire Toming, Birgot Paavel, & Tiit Kutser. (2022). Evaluation of remote sensing and modeled chlorophyll-a products of the Baltic Sea. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 16(4). 7 indexed citations

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Toming, Kaire, Jonne Kotta, Evelyn Uuemaa, et al.. (2020). Predicting lake dissolved organic carbon at a global scale. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 8471–8471. 94 indexed citations

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Kutser, Tiit, et al.. (2018). Assessing the Baltic Sea Water Quality with Sentinel-3 OLCI Imagery. 1–6. 8 indexed citations

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Toming, Kaire, et al.. (2017). Mapping Water Quality Parameters with Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Colour Instrument imagery in the Baltic Sea. Remote Sensing. 9(10). 1070–1070. 120 indexed citations

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Kutser, Tiit, Gema Casal, Cláudio Clemente Faria Barbosa, et al.. (2016). Mapping inland water carbon content with Landsat 8 data. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 37(13). 2950–2961. 32 indexed citations

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Toming, Kaire, Tiit Kutser, Lea Tuvikene, Malle Viik, & Tiina Nõges. (2016). Dissolved organic carbon and its potential predictors in eutrophic lakes. Water Research. 102. 32–40. 32 indexed citations

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Nõges, Peeter, Fabien Cremona, Alo Laas, et al.. (2016). Role of a productive lake in carbon sequestration within a calcareous catchment. The Science of The Total Environment. 550. 225–230. 49 indexed citations

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Agasild, Helen, Priit Zingel, Lea Tuvikene, et al.. (2013). Biogenic methane contributes to the food web of a large, shallow lake. Freshwater Biology. 59(2). 272–285. 34 indexed citations

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Toming, Kaire, Lea Tuvikene, Sirje Vilbaste, et al.. (2013). Contributions of autochthonous and allochthonous sources to dissolved organic matter in a large, shallow, eutrophic lake with a highly calcareous catchment. Limnology and Oceanography. 58(4). 1259–1270. 81 indexed citations

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Nõges, Tiina, et al.. (2011). Reconstructed long-term time series of phytoplankton primary production of a large shallow temperate lake: the basis to assess the carbon balance and its climate sensitivity. Hydrobiologia. 667(1). 205–222. 24 indexed citations

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Olenina, Irina, Norbert Wasmund, Susanna Hajdu, et al.. (2010). Assessing impacts of invasive phytoplankton: The Baltic Sea case. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 60(10). 1691–1700. 67 indexed citations

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Toming, Kaire & Andres Jaanus. (2007). Selecting potential summer phytoplankton eutrophication indicator species for the northern Baltic Sea. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences Biology Ecology. 56(4). 297–311. 11 indexed citations

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