Kelsey Jencso

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

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Kelsey Jencso is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kelsey Jencso has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 20 papers in Water Science and Technology and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Kelsey Jencso's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (20 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (7 papers). Kelsey Jencso is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (20 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (7 papers). Kelsey Jencso collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Kelsey Jencso's co-authors include B. L. McGlynn, Steven M. Wondzell, Kenneth E. Bencala, M. N. Gooseff, Lucy Marshall, Zachary Hoylman, Jia Hu, Justin T. Martin, Ashley P. Ballantyne and Jared W. Oyler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Remote Sensing of Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Kelsey Jencso

40 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Hydrologic connectivity between landscapes and streams: Transferring reach‐ and plot‐scale understanding to the catchment scale

2009 470 citations Kelsey Jencso, B. L. McGlynn et al. Water Resources Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kelsey Jencso United States	22	1.1k	994	527	504	431	40	1.9k
Deborah Lawrence Norway	26	1.3k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	633 1.2×	665 1.3×	303 0.7×	52	2.9k
Kellie B. Vaché United States	20	1.5k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	358 0.7×	351 0.7×	614 1.4×	49	2.2k
Jiahu Jiang China	23	1.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	877 1.7×	403 0.8×	380 0.9×	93	2.5k
Patricio Crespo Ecuador	25	1.0k 0.9×	954 1.0×	329 0.6×	385 0.8×	478 1.1×	79	1.9k
Geneviève Ali Canada	24	1.3k 1.1×	669 0.7×	761 1.4×	243 0.5×	341 0.8×	55	2.0k
Daniel L. Peters Canada	28	1.1k 1.0×	798 0.8×	762 1.4×	850 1.7×	412 1.0×	77	2.3k
Thomas Grabs Sweden	25	1.3k 1.2×	772 0.8×	697 1.3×	479 1.0×	411 1.0×	52	2.4k
Jing Yao China	25	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	697 1.3×	247 0.5×	272 0.6×	51	1.9k
Hannu Marttila Finland	29	780 0.7×	546 0.5×	1.3k 2.4×	490 1.0×	286 0.7×	156	2.3k
Xuchun Ye China	21	1.2k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	496 0.9×	230 0.5×	327 0.8×	49	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kelsey Jencso

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Hoylman, Zachary, et al.. (2025). Landscape Influences on Microclimate and Tree Growth Cessation in a Semi‐Arid Montane Forest. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 130(1). 1 indexed citations

Donnelly, John, Johnnie N. Moore, John S. Kimball, et al.. (2025). Going, going, gone: Landscape drying reduces wetland function across the American West. Ecological Indicators. 171. 113172–113172. 1 indexed citations

Du, Jinyang, John S. Kimball, Kelsey Jencso, et al.. (2024). Machine‐Learning Based Multi‐Layer Soil Moisture Forecasts—An Application Case Study of the Montana 2017 Flash Drought. Water Resources Research. 60(10). 6 indexed citations

Hoylman, Zachary, Zachary A. Holden, R. Kyle Bocinsky, et al.. (2024). Optimizing Drought Assessment for Soil Moisture Deficits. Water Resources Research. 60(6). 7 indexed citations

Ketchum, David, Zachary Hoylman, Douglas Brinkerhoff, et al.. (2024). Irrigation response to drought in the Western United States, 1987–2021. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 60(2). 603–619. 2 indexed citations

Ewing, S. A., et al.. (2024). Water isotopic composition traces source and dynamics of water supply in a semi‐arid agricultural landscape. Hydrological Processes. 38(2). 2 indexed citations

Ketchum, David, Zachary Hoylman, Justin Huntington, Douglas Brinkerhoff, & Kelsey Jencso. (2023). Irrigation intensification impacts sustainability of streamflow in the Western United States. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 27 indexed citations

Hoylman, Zachary, R. Kyle Bocinsky, & Kelsey Jencso. (2022). Drought assessment has been outpaced by climate change: empirical arguments for a paradigm shift. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2715–2715. 34 indexed citations

Maneta, Marco, Kelly M. Cobourn, Kelsey Jencso, et al.. (2022). A hydro-economic analysis of end-of-century climate projections on agricultural land and water use, production, and revenues in the U.S. Northern Rockies and Great Plains. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 42. 101127–101127. 8 indexed citations

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Kimball, John S., et al.. (2021). DroughtCast: A Machine Learning Forecast of the United States Drought Monitor. Frontiers in Big Data. 4. 773478–773478. 18 indexed citations

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Jencso, Kelsey, et al.. (2019). The Montana Mesonet - a Nascent Wireless Network in the Upper Missouri River Basin. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Hoylman, Zachary, Kelsey Jencso, Jia Hu, et al.. (2019). The Climatic Water Balance and Topography Control Spatial Patterns of Atmospheric Demand, Soil Moisture, and Shallow Subsurface Flow. Water Resources Research. 55(3). 2370–2389. 31 indexed citations

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Maneta, Marco, J. T. Harper, Kelsey Jencso, et al.. (2018). The influence of diurnal snowmelt and transpiration on hillslope throughflow and stream response. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(8). 4295–4310. 20 indexed citations

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Hoylman, Zachary, Kelsey Jencso, Jia Hu, et al.. (2018). Hillslope Topography Mediates Spatial Patterns of Ecosystem Sensitivity to Climate. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(2). 353–371. 49 indexed citations

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Looker, Nathaniel, Justin T. Martin, Zachary Hoylman, Kelsey Jencso, & Jia Hu. (2018). Diurnal and seasonal coupling of conifer sap flow and vapour pressure deficit across topoclimatic gradients in a subalpine catchment. Ecohydrology. 11(7). 25 indexed citations

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Martin, Justin T., Nathaniel Looker, Zachary Hoylman, Kelsey Jencso, & Jia Hu. (2017). Hydrometeorology organizes intra‐annual patterns of tree growth across time, space and species in a montane watershed. New Phytologist. 215(4). 1387–1398. 17 indexed citations

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Smith, T. J., et al.. (2016). Diagnostic calibration and cross‐catchment transferability of a simple process‐consistent hydrologic model. Hydrological Processes. 30(26). 5027–5038. 10 indexed citations

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Hyde, Kevin D., Andrew C. Wilcox, Kelsey Jencso, & Scott W. Woods. (2014). Effects of vegetation disturbance by fire on channel initiation thresholds. Geomorphology. 214. 84–96. 21 indexed citations

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Grabs, Thomas, et al.. (2010). Calculating terrain indices along streams: A new method for separating stream sides. Water Resources Research. 46(12). 24 indexed citations

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Jencso, Kelsey, B. L. McGlynn, M. N. Gooseff, et al.. (2009). Hydrologic connectivity between landscapes and streams: Transferring reach‐ and plot‐scale understanding to the catchment scale. Water Resources Research. 45(4). 470 indexed citations breakdown →

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