Kelley C. Wells

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 943 citations indexed

About

Kelley C. Wells is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Kelley C. Wells has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 943 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 29 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Kelley C. Wells's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (28 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (27 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (22 papers). Kelley C. Wells is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (28 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (27 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (22 papers). Kelley C. Wells collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Canada. Kelley C. Wells's co-authors include Dylan B. Millet, Vivienne H. Payne, Ernest N. Koffi, Chris Wilson, Rona L. Thompson, Josep G. Canadell, Wilfried Winiwarter, Hanqin Tian, Eric A. Davidson and Luis Lassaletta and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Kelley C. Wells

36 papers receiving 930 citations

Hit Papers

Acceleration of global N2O emissions seen from two decade... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. Acceleration of global N2O emissions seen from two decades of atmospheric inversion
    2019 277 citations Rona L. Thompson, Prabir K. Patra 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
Kelley C. Wells United States 17 532 516 159 113 112 37 943
Matthias Sörgel Germany 17 774 1.5× 503 1.0× 297 1.9× 227 2.0× 70 0.6× 41 1.2k
Christophe Guimbaud France 18 533 1.0× 304 0.6× 79 0.5× 63 0.6× 73 0.7× 39 978
J. B. A. Muller United Kingdom 18 589 1.1× 345 0.7× 244 1.5× 91 0.8× 75 0.7× 31 945
Nikos Daskalakis Greece 17 638 1.2× 495 1.0× 253 1.6× 108 1.0× 99 0.9× 38 960
O. A. Søvde Norway 22 794 1.5× 915 1.8× 317 2.0× 104 0.9× 37 0.3× 31 1.3k
M. J. Shearer United States 18 543 1.0× 536 1.0× 177 1.1× 100 0.9× 179 1.6× 24 1.1k
Shuangxi Fang China 20 842 1.6× 982 1.9× 263 1.7× 295 2.6× 143 1.3× 62 1.5k
C. L. Butenhoff United States 15 250 0.5× 326 0.6× 107 0.7× 61 0.5× 117 1.0× 26 621
Scot M. Miller United States 21 851 1.6× 1.1k 2.2× 124 0.8× 200 1.8× 26 0.2× 56 1.5k
Caroline B. Alden United States 10 296 0.6× 660 1.3× 36 0.2× 88 0.8× 155 1.4× 18 1.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kelley C. Wells

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wells, Kelley C., Dylan B. Millet, Jared F. Brewer, et al.. (2025). Global decadal measurements of methanol, ethene, ethyne, and HCN from the Cross-track Infrared Sounder. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 18(3). 695–716. 1 indexed citations
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Henze, Daven K., et al.. (2025). Joint Inversion of Satellite‐Based Isoprene and Formaldehyde Observations to Constrain Emissions of Nonmethane Volatile Organic Compounds. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(13). 1 indexed citations
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Li, Hui, Philippe Ciais, Pramod Kumar, et al.. (2025). Global biogenic isoprene emissions 2013–2020 inferred from satellite isoprene observations. Earth system science data. 17(12). 7035–7054.
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Li, Hui, Philippe Ciais, Pramod Kumar, et al.. (2025). Global biogenic isoprene emissions 2013–2020 inferred from satellite isoprene observations. 1 indexed citations
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Millet, Dylan B., et al.. (2024). Interannual changes in atmospheric oxidation over forests determined from space. Science Advances. 10(20). eadn1115–eadn1115. 9 indexed citations
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Millet, Dylan B., Kelley C. Wells, Timothy J. Griffis, et al.. (2024). Quantifying Regional Methane Emissions Using Airborne Transects and a Measurement-Model Fusion Approach. ACS ES&T Air. 1(7). 597–607. 1 indexed citations
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Brewer, Jared F., Dylan B. Millet, Kelley C. Wells, et al.. (2024). Space-based observations of tropospheric ethane map emissions from fossil fuel extraction. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7829–7829. 5 indexed citations
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Yu, Xueying, Dylan B. Millet, Kelley C. Wells, et al.. (2021). Aircraft-based inversions quantify the importance of wetlands and livestock for Upper Midwest methane emissions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(2). 951–971. 16 indexed citations
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Chen, Zichong, Junjie Liu, Daven K. Henze, et al.. (2020). Linking global terrestrial CO 2 fluxes and environmental drivers using OCO-2 and a geostatistical inverse model. 1 indexed citations
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Wells, Kelley C., Dylan B. Millet, Vivienne H. Payne, et al.. (2020). Satellite isoprene retrievals constrain emissions and atmospheric oxidation. Nature. 585(7824). 225–233. 74 indexed citations
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Yu, Xueying, Dylan B. Millet, Kelley C. Wells, et al.. (2019). Top‐Down Constraints on Methane Point Source Emissions From Animal Agriculture and Waste Based on New Airborne Measurements in the U.S. Upper Midwest. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(1). 10 indexed citations
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Zhou, Minqiang, Bavo Langerock, Kelley C. Wells, et al.. (2019). An intercomparison of total column-averaged nitrous oxide between ground-based FTIR TCCON and NDACC measurements at seven sites and comparisons with the GEOS-Chem model. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 12(2). 1393–1408. 10 indexed citations
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Fu, Dejian, Dylan B. Millet, Kelley C. Wells, et al.. (2019). Direct retrieval of isoprene from satellite-based infrared measurements. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3811–3811. 62 indexed citations
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Patra, Prabir K., Rona L. Thompson, Kelley C. Wells, et al.. (2018). Top-down estimates of N 2 O emissions over the past two decades. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations
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Wells, Kelley C., Dylan B. Millet, Karen Cady‐Pereira, et al.. (2014). Quantifying global terrestrial methanol emissions using observations from the TES satellite sensor. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(5). 2555–2570. 25 indexed citations
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Wells, Kelley C., Dylan B. Millet, Lu Hu, et al.. (2012). Tropospheric methanol observations from space: retrieval evaluation and constraints on the seasonality of biogenic emissions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 12(13). 5897–5912. 30 indexed citations
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Hu, Lu, Dylan B. Millet, Kelley C. Wells, et al.. (2012). North American acetone sources determined from tall tower measurements and inverse modelling. 1 indexed citations
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Hu, Lu, Michael Möhr, Kelley C. Wells, et al.. (2011). Sources and seasonality of atmospheric methanol based on tall tower measurements in the US Upper Midwest. 2 indexed citations
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Hu, Lu, Dylan B. Millet, Michael Möhr, et al.. (2011). Sources and seasonality of atmospheric methanol based on tall tower measurements in the US Upper Midwest. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 11(21). 11145–11156. 40 indexed citations

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