L. C. Smith

17.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
201 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

L. C. Smith is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, L. C. Smith has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Atmospheric Science, 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 46 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in L. C. Smith's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (98 papers), Climate change and permafrost (90 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (60 papers). L. C. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (98 papers), Climate change and permafrost (90 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (60 papers). L. C. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Denmark. L. C. Smith's co-authors include Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Glen M. MacDonald, Karen E. Frey, Yongwei Sheng, Scott R. Stephenson, Sarah Cooley, Colin J. Gleason, Mia M. Bennett, L. D. Hinzman and Jonathan C. Ryan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

L. C. Smith

196 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Disappearing Arctic Lakes

2005 771 citations L. C. Smith, Yongwei Sheng et al. profile →
Satellite remote sensing of river inundation area, stage, and discharge: a review

1997 570 citations L. C. Smith profile →
New Trans-Arctic shipping routes navigable by midcentury

2013 503 citations L. C. Smith et al. profile →
Advances in using multitemporal night-time lights satellite imagery to detect, estimate, and monitor socioeconomic dynamics

2017 394 citations L. C. Smith et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Human alteration of global surface water storage variability

2021 326 citations Sarah Cooley, Jonathan C. Ryan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
L. C. Smith United States	57	6.5k	4.8k	3.5k	2.8k	1.4k	201	11.9k
Stuart N. Lane United Kingdom	73	2.7k 0.4×	4.5k 1.0×	8.7k 2.5×	4.8k 1.7×	2.6k 1.8×	298	15.8k
Rens van Beek Netherlands	61	4.6k 0.7×	7.1k 1.5×	1.8k 0.5×	7.7k 2.7×	3.2k 2.2×	143	18.3k
Roger G. Barry United States	59	12.7k 2.0×	5.6k 1.2×	1.9k 0.5×	817 0.3×	738 0.5×	226	15.6k
Yongwei Sheng United States	42	3.9k 0.6×	2.6k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	1.8k 0.6×	751 0.5×	117	6.8k
Guoqing Zhang China	44	5.2k 0.8×	3.5k 0.7×	719 0.2×	2.3k 0.8×	829 0.6×	179	8.5k
Hongjie Xie United States	43	4.6k 0.7×	3.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.3×	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	172	7.5k
Keith Richards United Kingdom	57	2.1k 0.3×	2.2k 0.5×	4.6k 1.3×	2.9k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	207	10.2k
René Garreaud Chile	62	9.1k 1.4×	8.1k 1.7×	1.8k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	782 0.5×	187	14.0k
Walter W. Immerzeel Netherlands	65	11.5k 1.8×	6.1k 1.3×	952 0.3×	5.3k 1.9×	1.4k 1.0×	164	16.1k
T. H. Painter United States	55	8.9k 1.4×	5.3k 1.1×	2.0k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	1.7k 1.2×	172	12.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of L. C. Smith

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Wang, Chao, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Ethan D. Kyzivat, et al.. (2023). Quantification of wetland vegetation communities features with airborne AVIRIS-NG, UAVSAR, and UAV LiDAR data in Peace-Athabasca Delta. Remote Sensing of Environment. 294. 113646–113646. 18 indexed citations

Smith, L. C., et al.. (2023). New proglacial meteorology and river stage observations from Inglefield Land and Pituffik, NW Greenland. Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems. 12(2). 215–230. 1 indexed citations

Fayne, Jessica V., L. C. Smith, L. H. Pitcher, et al.. (2023). Characterizing Near-Nadir and Low Incidence Ka-Band SAR Backscatter From Wet Surfaces and Diverse Land Covers. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 985–1006. 8 indexed citations

Smith, L. C., Jessica V. Fayne, Bo Wang, et al.. (2023). Peace-Athabasca Delta water surface elevations and slopes mapped from AirSWOT Ka-band InSAR. Remote Sensing Letters. 14(12). 1238–1250. 3 indexed citations

Kurek, Martin R., Fenix Garcia‐Tigreros, Kimberly P. Wickland, et al.. (2022). Hydrologic and Landscape Controls on Dissolved Organic Matter Composition Across Western North American Arctic Lakes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(1). 15 indexed citations

Kyzivat, Ethan D., L. C. Smith, Fenix Garcia‐Tigreros, et al.. (2022). The Importance of Lake Emergent Aquatic Vegetation for Estimating Arctic‐Boreal Methane Emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(6). 20 indexed citations

Gleason, Colin J., Kang Yang, Dongmei Feng, et al.. (2021). Hourly surface meltwater routing for a Greenlandic supraglacial catchment across hillslopes and through a dense topological channel network. The cryosphere. 15(5). 2315–2331. 7 indexed citations

Cooper, Matthew G., L. C. Smith, Å. K. Rennermalm, et al.. (2021). Spectral attenuation coefficients from measurements of light transmission in bare ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet. The cryosphere. 15(4). 1931–1953. 12 indexed citations

Rennermalm, Å. K., et al.. (2020). Seasonal Variability in In-situ Supraglacial Streamflow and Drivers in Southwest Greenland in 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Cooper, Matthew G. & L. C. Smith. (2019). Satellite Remote Sensing of the Greenland Ice Sheet Ablation Zone: A Review. Remote Sensing. 11(20). 2405–2405. 15 indexed citations

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Yang, Kang, L. C. Smith, Leif Karlstrom, et al.. (2018). Supraglacial meltwater routing through internally drainedcatchments on the Greenland Ice Sheet surface. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 3 indexed citations

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Pitcher, L. H., Tamlin M. Pavelsky, L. C. Smith, et al.. (2018). AirSWOT InSAR Mapping of Surface Water Elevations and Hydraulic Gradients Across the Yukon Flats Basin, Alaska. Water Resources Research. 55(2). 937–953. 29 indexed citations

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Cooper, Matthew G., et al.. (2018). Climate Elasticity of Low Flows in the Maritime Western U.S. Mountains. Water Resources Research. 54(8). 5602–5619. 45 indexed citations

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Cooper, Matthew G., L. C. Smith, Å. K. Rennermalm, et al.. (2018). Meltwater storage in low-density near-surface bare ice in the Greenland ice sheet ablation zone. The cryosphere. 12(3). 955–970. 54 indexed citations

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Simpson, C. E., C. D. Arp, Benjamin Jones, et al.. (2017). Remotely Sensing Lake Water Volumes on the Inner Arctic Coastal Plain of Northern Alaska. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Kang, L. C. Smith, V. W. Chu, et al.. (2016). Fluvial morphometry of supraglacial river networks on the southwest Greenland Ice Sheet. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 53(4). 459–482. 30 indexed citations

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Moustafa, S., Å. K. Rennermalm, L. C. Smith, et al.. (2015). Multi-modal albedo distributions in the ablation area of the southwestern Greenland Ice Sheet. The cryosphere. 9(3). 905–923. 22 indexed citations

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Pitcher, L. H., L. C. Smith, Colin J. Gleason, et al.. (2014). First Airswot Interferometric Radar Water Surface Elevations and Flooded Inundation Extent from the Sacramento River and Edwards AFB Wetland Complex, California. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 2 indexed citations

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Lyons, E. A., Yongwei Sheng, L. C. Smith, et al.. (2013). Quantifying sources of error in multitemporal multisensor lake mapping. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 34(22). 7887–7905. 28 indexed citations

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Smith, L. C., R. R. Forster, Bryan L. Isacks, & Dorothy K. Hall. (1997). Seasonal climatic forcing of alpine glaciers revealed with orbital synthetic aperture radar. Journal of Glaciology. 43(145). 480–488. 34 indexed citations

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