Kelsey Foster

674 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 409 citations indexed

About

Kelsey Foster is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Mechanics of Materials and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kelsey Foster has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 409 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 3 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 3 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Kelsey Foster's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (10 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (3 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (3 papers). Kelsey Foster is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (10 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (3 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (3 papers). Kelsey Foster collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Kelsey Foster's co-authors include Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe, Charles E. Miller, F. M. Hopkins, Talha Rafiq, Christian Frankenberg, Ian B. McCubbin, Michael L. Eastwood, Stephen Conley and Vineet Yadav and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Environmental Science & Technology and Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

In The Last Decade

Kelsey Foster

8 papers receiving 398 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.

California’s methane super-emitters

2019 252 citations Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kelsey Foster United States	5	326	163	104	66	57	10	409
Talha Rafiq United States	7	342 1.0×	187 1.1×	93 0.9×	69 1.0×	34 0.6×	13	404
Alana Ayasse United States	10	318 1.0×	162 1.0×	63 0.6×	80 1.2×	24 0.4×	18	413
Joseph Pitt United Kingdom	17	565 1.7×	355 2.2×	213 2.0×	82 1.2×	52 0.9×	44	724
T. Ferrara United States	6	409 1.3×	132 0.8×	166 1.6×	103 1.6×	5 0.1×	6	456
Chelsea Fougère Canada	6	196 0.6×	80 0.5×	79 0.8×	56 0.8×	5 0.1×	7	258
Emmaline Atherton Canada	5	194 0.6×	80 0.5×	72 0.7×	55 0.8×	5 0.1×	5	250
A. Guha United States	9	215 0.7×	442 2.7×	147 1.4×	30 0.5×	50 0.9×	12	625
Alexander Gvakharia United States	8	353 1.1×	241 1.5×	68 0.7×	64 1.0×	3 0.1×	9	410
Piotr Korbeń Germany	7	152 0.5×	82 0.5×	50 0.5×	34 0.5×	5 0.1×	11	195
Évelise Bourlon Canada	9	188 0.6×	149 0.9×	66 0.6×	55 0.8×	4 0.1×	15	306

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kelsey Foster

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kelsey Foster

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Foster, Kelsey, Wu Sun, Julian Merder, et al.. (2025). Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(6).

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Foster, Kelsey, Wu Sun, Yoichi P. Shiga, Jiafu Mao, & A. M. Michalak. (2024). Multiscale assessment of North American terrestrial carbon balance. Biogeosciences. 21(3). 869–891. 3 indexed citations

3.

Thorpe, Andrew K., Riley Duren, Brian Bue, et al.. (2020). Visualizing anthropogenic methane plumes from the California Methane Survey.

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Cusworth, Daniel, Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe, et al.. (2020). Using remote sensing to detect, validate, and quantify methane emissions from California solid waste operations. Environmental Research Letters. 15(5). 54012–54012. 76 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Andrew K., Riley Duren, Brian Bue, et al.. (2020). Methane Source Finder: A web-based data portal for exploring methane data. 2 indexed citations

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Guha, A., Sally Newman, David Fairley, et al.. (2020). Assessment of Regional Methane Emission Inventories through Airborne Quantification in the San Francisco Bay Area. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(15). 9254–9264. 27 indexed citations

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Rafiq, Talha, Riley Duren, Andrew K. Thorpe, et al.. (2020). Attribution of methane point source emissions using airborne imaging spectroscopy and the Vista-California methane infrastructure dataset. Environmental Research Letters. 15(12). 124001–124001. 11 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Andrew K., Riley Duren, Stephen Conley, et al.. (2020). Methane emissions from underground gas storage in California. Environmental Research Letters. 15(4). 45005–45005. 37 indexed citations

9.

Foster, Kelsey, Andrew K. Thorpe, K. R. Verhulst, et al.. (2019). Detecting and Quantifying Methane Emissions from Oil Refineries in California. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

10.

Duren, Riley, Andrew K. Thorpe, Kelsey Foster, et al.. (2019). California’s methane super-emitters. Nature. 575(7781). 180–184. 252 indexed citations breakdown →

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