Nicholas G. Smith

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Nicholas G. Smith is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas G. Smith has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 41 papers in Plant Science and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Nicholas G. Smith's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (57 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (31 papers) and Climate variability and models (23 papers). Nicholas G. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (57 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (31 papers) and Climate variability and models (23 papers). Nicholas G. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Nicholas G. Smith's co-authors include Jeffrey S. Dukes, Trevor F. Keenan, Han Wang, I. Colin Prentice, P. F. Wareing, Danica Lombardozzi, Gordon B. Bonan, Lei Chen, Rosie A. Fisher and Sergio Rossi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas G. Smith

91 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Plant respiration and photosynthesis in global‐scale models: incorporating acclimation to temperature and CO₂

2012 374 citations Nicholas G. Smith, Jeffrey S. Dukes Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas G. Smith United States	26	1.7k	1.0k	538	490	462	97	2.5k
Tomas F. Domingues Brazil	24	1.5k 0.9×	784 0.8×	587 1.1×	747 1.5×	400 0.9×	54	2.3k
Adrià Barbeta Spain	23	1.5k 0.9×	545 0.5×	397 0.7×	628 1.3×	902 2.0×	37	2.2k
A. S. Walcroft New Zealand	25	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	398 0.7×	615 1.3×	848 1.8×	35	2.6k
Xiangzhong Luo United States	26	1.8k 1.1×	719 0.7×	987 1.8×	265 0.5×	497 1.1×	59	2.6k
Sara Palacio Spain	25	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	491 0.9×	1.2k 2.4×	720 1.6×	65	2.9k
Lisa Wingate France	31	2.8k 1.7×	1.2k 1.2×	876 1.6×	430 0.9×	1.2k 2.6×	70	3.8k
Troy W. Ocheltree United States	25	1.2k 0.7×	548 0.5×	538 1.0×	884 1.8×	359 0.8×	51	2.1k
Yoshiko Kosugi Japan	28	2.0k 1.2×	754 0.7×	736 1.4×	521 1.1×	680 1.5×	140	2.8k
Kevin A. Simonin United States	23	1.7k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	310 0.6×	406 0.8×	865 1.9×	33	2.3k
Kristine Y. Crous Australia	34	3.3k 2.0×	2.6k 2.5×	502 0.9×	821 1.7×	1.1k 2.4×	64	4.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Smith, Nicholas G., et al.. (2025). Nitrogen demand, availability, and acquisition strategy control plant responses to elevated CO2. Journal of Experimental Botany. 76(10). 2908–2923. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Songhan, Philippe Ciais, Peter B. Reich, et al.. (2025). Phosphorus constrains global photosynthesis more than nitrogen does. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(11). 2025–2035. 1 indexed citations

Monson, Russell K., Shuai Li, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, et al.. (2025). C₄ photosynthesis, trait spectra, and the fast‐efficient phenotype. New Phytologist. 246(3). 879–893. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Han, Ian J. Wright, I. Colin Prentice, et al.. (2025). Thermal acclimation of stem respiration implies a weaker carbon-climate feedback. Science. 388(6750). 984–988. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Jing, Xu Huang, Xin Zhang, et al.. (2025). Late spring frost delays tree spring phenology by reducing photosynthetic productivity. Nature Climate Change. 15(2). 201–209. 9 indexed citations

Gestel, Natasja van, et al.. (2024). Winter cover cropping increases albedo and latent heat flux in a Texas High Plains agroecosystem. Ecosphere. 15(2). 1 indexed citations

Smith, Nicholas G., et al.. (2024). Tree growth rate-mediated trade-off between drought resistance and recovery in the Northern Hemisphere. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2033). 20241427–20241427. 8 indexed citations

Yan, Zhengbing, Matteo Detto, Zhengfei Guo, et al.. (2024). Global photosynthetic capacity jointly determined by enzyme kinetics and eco-evo-environmental drivers. Fundamental Research. 5(5). 2062–2072. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Nicholas G., Qing Zhu, Trevor F. Keenan, & W. J. Riley. (2024). Acclimation of Photosynthesis to CO₂ Increases Ecosystem Carbon Storage due to Leaf Nitrogen Savings. Global Change Biology. 30(11). e17558–e17558. 6 indexed citations

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Stocker, Benjamin D., Ning Dong, Hugo J. de Boer, et al.. (2024). Empirical evidence and theoretical understanding of ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycle interactions. New Phytologist. 245(1). 49–68. 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Yihong, Jing M. Chen, Liming He, et al.. (2023). Global photosynthetic capacity of C3 biomes retrieved from solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and leaf chlorophyll content. Remote Sensing of Environment. 287. 113457–113457. 16 indexed citations

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Balaguera‐Reina, Sergio A., et al.. (2023). Not one but two: examining the genetic origin and characterization of the non-native spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) in Florida. Biological Invasions. 26(3). 779–795. 2 indexed citations

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Dong, Ning, I. Colin Prentice, Ian J. Wright, et al.. (2022). Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function. Journal of Ecology. 110(11). 2585–2602. 26 indexed citations

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Smith, Nicholas G., et al.. (2022). A Model of C ₄ Photosynthetic Acclimation Based on Least‐Cost Optimality Theory Suitable for Earth System Model Incorporation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(3). 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Jing M., Rong Wang, Yihong Liu, et al.. (2022). Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research. Earth system science data. 14(9). 4077–4093. 42 indexed citations

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Mao, Kangshan, Nicholas G. Smith, Jing Guo, et al.. (2022). Daytime warming triggers tree growth decline in the Northern Hemisphere. Global Change Biology. 28(16). 4832–4844. 23 indexed citations

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Bialic‐Murphy, Lalasia, et al.. (2021). Invasion‐induced root–fungal disruptions alter plant water and nitrogen economies. Ecology Letters. 24(6). 1145–1156. 12 indexed citations

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Kyker‐Snowman, Emily, Danica Lombardozzi, Gordon B. Bonan, et al.. (2021). Increasing the spatial and temporal impact of ecological research: A roadmap for integrating a novel terrestrial process into an Earth system model. Global Change Biology. 28(2). 665–684. 33 indexed citations

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Stocker, Benjamin D., Han Wang, Nicholas G. Smith, et al.. (2020). P-model v1.0: an optimality-based light use efficiency model for simulating ecosystem gross primary production. Geoscientific model development. 13(3). 1545–1581. 139 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhiyong, Lei Chen, Nicholas G. Smith, et al.. (2019). Global divergent responses of primary productivity to water, energy, and CO₂. Environmental Research Letters. 14(12). 124044–124044. 22 indexed citations

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