Nima Madani

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Nima Madani is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nima Madani has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Nima Madani's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers), Climate variability and models (8 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers). Nima Madani is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (8 papers), Climate variability and models (8 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (7 papers). Nima Madani collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Sweden. Nima Madani's co-authors include John S. Kimball, Steven W. Running, L. A. Jones, Rolf H. Reichle, Nicholas C. Parazoo, Ashley P. Ballantyne, David L.R. Affleck, Peter M. van Bodegom, Jens Kattge and Peter B. Reich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Nima Madani

29 papers receiving 984 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

2023 165 citations Paul I. Palmer, Caroline M. Wainwright et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nima Madani United States	17	682	361	279	147	135	31	1.0k
Mallory L. Barnes United States	17	885 1.3×	505 1.4×	301 1.1×	141 1.0×	94 0.7×	32	1.2k
Kaicheng Huang China	7	858 1.3×	555 1.5×	271 1.0×	242 1.6×	134 1.0×	9	1.1k
Guillermo N. Murray‐Tortarolo Mexico	14	878 1.3×	398 1.1×	232 0.8×	101 0.7×	53 0.4×	25	1.2k
Doris Klein Germany	10	375 0.5×	440 1.2×	157 0.6×	107 0.7×	162 1.2×	35	726
Amy Hudson United States	9	489 0.7×	416 1.2×	206 0.7×	74 0.5×	81 0.6×	23	778
Bijan Seyednasrollah United States	14	560 0.8×	549 1.5×	227 0.8×	219 1.5×	315 2.3×	29	995
Michael Matiu Italy	14	448 0.7×	228 0.6×	259 0.9×	155 1.1×	136 1.0×	30	880
James Bradbury United States	6	549 0.8×	211 0.6×	292 1.0×	140 1.0×	92 0.7×	7	1.0k
J. D. Muss United States	11	501 0.7×	313 0.9×	244 0.9×	269 1.8×	44 0.3×	15	828
Hyeon‐Ju Gim South Korea	6	712 1.0×	637 1.8×	267 1.0×	126 0.9×	328 2.4×	11	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nima Madani

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Madani, Nima, Nicholas C. Parazoo, Manfredi Manizza, et al.. (2024). A Machine Learning Approach to Produce a Continuous Solar‐Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Over the Arctic Ocean. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4).

Palmer, Paul I., Caroline M. Wainwright, Bo Dong, et al.. (2023). Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(4). 254–270. 165 indexed citations breakdown →

Berry, Joseph A., Yoichi P. Shiga, Russell Doughty, et al.. (2023). Solar‐Induced Fluorescence Helps Constrain Global Patterns in Net Biosphere Exchange, as Estimated Using Atmospheric CO₂ Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(12). 3 indexed citations

Madani, Nima, Nicholas C. Parazoo, & Charles E. Miller. (2023). Climate change is enforcing physiological changes in Arctic Ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters. 18(7). 74027–74027. 10 indexed citations

Liu, Zhihua, John S. Kimball, Ashley P. Ballantyne, et al.. (2022). Respiratory loss during late-growing season determines the net carbon dioxide sink in northern permafrost regions. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5626–5626. 19 indexed citations

Madani, Nima, Nicholas C. Parazoo, John S. Kimball, et al.. (2021). The Impacts of Climate and Wildfire on Ecosystem Gross Primary Productivity in Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(6). 21 indexed citations

Farahmand, Alireza, J. T. Reager, & Nima Madani. (2021). Drought Cascade in the Terrestrial Water Cycle: Evidence From Remote Sensing. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(14). 22 indexed citations

Madani, Nima, John S. Kimball, Nicholas C. Parazoo, et al.. (2020). Below-surface water mediates the response of African forests to reduced rainfall. Environmental Research Letters. 15(3). 34063–34063. 19 indexed citations

Madani, Nima & Nicholas C. Parazoo. (2020). Global Monthly GPP from an Improved Light Use Efficiency Model, 1982-2016. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics. 16 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhihua, John S. Kimball, N. Parazoo, et al.. (2019). Increased high‐latitude photosynthetic carbon gain offset by respiration carbon loss during an anomalous warm winter to spring transition. Global Change Biology. 26(2). 682–696. 41 indexed citations

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Madani, Nima, John S. Kimball, Ashley P. Ballantyne, et al.. (2018). Future global productivity will be affected by plant trait response to climate. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2870–2870. 109 indexed citations

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Jones, L. A., John S. Kimball, Rolf H. Reichle, et al.. (2017). The SMAP Level 4 Carbon Product for Monitoring Ecosystem Land–Atmosphere CO₂ Exchange. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 55(11). 6517–6532. 70 indexed citations

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Jones, L. A., Nima Madani, John S. Kimball, Rolf H. Reichle, & Andreas Colliander. (2017). Effects of Recent Regional Soil Moisture Variability on Global Net Ecosystem CO 2 Exchange. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Kimball, John S., L. A. Jones, Joseph Glassy, Nima Madani, & Rolf H. Reichle. (2017). Monitoring ecosystem-atmosphere co₂ exchange respose to recent (2015–2016) climate variability using the smap l4 carbon product. 2557–2560. 2 indexed citations

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Madani, Nima, John S. Kimball, L. A. Jones, N. Parazoo, & Kaiyu Guan. (2017). Global Analysis of Bioclimatic Controls on Ecosystem Productivity Using Satellite Observations of Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence. Remote Sensing. 9(6). 530–530. 64 indexed citations

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Madani, Nima, John S. Kimball, & Steven W. Running. (2017). Improving Global Gross Primary Productivity Estimates by Computing Optimum Light Use Efficiencies Using Flux Tower Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 122(11). 2939–2951. 48 indexed citations

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Madani, Nima, et al.. (2016). Remote Sensing Derived Fire Frequency, Soil Moisture and Ecosystem Productivity Explain Regional Movements in Emu over Australia. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0147285–e0147285. 4 indexed citations

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Koster, Randal D., John S. Kimball, L. A. Jones, et al.. (2015). Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation. 36 indexed citations

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Jusoff, Kamaruzaman, et al.. (2012). Predictive Modeling and Mapping of Malayan Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus) Distribution Using Maximum Entropy. PLoS ONE. 7(10). e48104–e48104. 74 indexed citations

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Jusoff, Kamaruzaman, et al.. (2010). Modeling the potential distribution of wildlife species in the tropics. Universiti Putra Malaysia Institutional Repository (Universiti Putra Malaysia). 5(3). 225–231. 5 indexed citations

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