R. Quinn Thomas

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

R. Quinn Thomas is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Quinn Thomas has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 24 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 15 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in R. Quinn Thomas's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (12 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (12 papers). R. Quinn Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (12 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (12 papers). R. Quinn Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Denmark. R. Quinn Thomas's co-authors include Christine L. Goodale, Charles D. Canham, Kathleen C. Weathers, G. C. Hurtt, Cayelan C. Carey, Stefan Gerber, E. N. Jack Brookshire, Sönke Zaehle, Pamela H. Templer and Jinshi Jian and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

R. Quinn Thomas

70 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Increased tree carbon storage in response to nitrogen deposition in the US

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. Quinn Thomas United States	26	1.2k	821	702	683	463	74	2.5k
Henry W. Loescher United States	28	1.6k 1.4×	551 0.7×	797 1.1×	478 0.7×	139 0.3×	69	2.8k
Nicolas Vuichard France	34	2.1k 1.8×	1.2k 1.5×	1.2k 1.7×	299 0.4×	432 0.9×	77	3.7k
Tomomichi Kato Japan	28	1.9k 1.6×	501 0.6×	955 1.4×	443 0.6×	141 0.3×	68	2.8k
Zheng Shi China	31	1.5k 1.3×	1.5k 1.8×	1.4k 2.0×	646 0.9×	286 0.6×	76	3.6k
Gerald Jurasinski Germany	25	677 0.6×	315 0.4×	1.4k 2.0×	499 0.7×	333 0.7×	85	2.4k
Oleg Chertov Russia	23	794 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	802 1.1×	439 0.6×	428 0.9×	68	2.2k
J. Schimel United States	12	644 0.6×	779 0.9×	1.0k 1.5×	303 0.4×	283 0.6×	16	2.5k
Tagir G. Gilmanov United States	23	1.7k 1.4×	652 0.8×	1.1k 1.6×	385 0.6×	240 0.5×	37	2.6k
Robert B. McKane United States	22	743 0.6×	623 0.8×	924 1.3×	686 1.0×	209 0.5×	39	2.3k
Brad Seely Canada	24	1.0k 0.9×	272 0.3×	488 0.7×	774 1.1×	259 0.6×	45	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. Quinn Thomas

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thomas, R. Quinn, et al.. (2026). Atlas and Updated Rules for the Scoring of Cyclic Alternating Pattern ( CAP ) in Human Sleep. A Consensus Report by a Taskforce of the European Sleep Research Society. Journal of Sleep Research. e70283–e70283.

Carey, Cayelan C., Carl Boettiger, Robert Ladwig, et al.. (2025). What can we learn from 100,000 freshwater forecasts? A synthesis from the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge. Ecological Applications. 35(1). e70004–e70004. 1 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

Boettiger, Carl, et al.. (2024). Can you predict the future? A tutorial for the National Ecological Observatory Network Ecological Forecasting Challenge. VTechWorks (Virginia Tech). 7(82). 259–259. 1 indexed citations

Woelmer, Whitney M., et al.. (2024). Process-based forecasts of lake water temperature and dissolved oxygen outperform null models, with variability over time and depth. Ecological Informatics. 83. 102825–102825. 5 indexed citations

Dalton, Rebecca, Tara L. Greaver, Robert D. Sabo, et al.. (2024). Regional variation in growth and survival responses to atmospheric nitrogen and sulfur deposition for 140 tree species across the United States. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 7. 1–18. 3 indexed citations

Dietze, Michael C., R. Quinn Thomas, Jody A. Peters, et al.. (2023). A community convention for ecological forecasting: Output files and metadata version 1.0. Ecosphere. 14(11). 11 indexed citations

Thomas, R. Quinn, Ryan P. McClure, Tadhg N. Moore, et al.. (2023). Near‐term forecasts of NEON lakes reveal gradients of environmental predictability across the US. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 21(5). 220–226. 9 indexed citations

Woelmer, Whitney M., Tadhg N. Moore, Mary E. Lofton, R. Quinn Thomas, & Cayelan C. Carey. (2023). Embedding communication concepts in forecasting training increases students' understanding of ecological uncertainty. Ecosphere. 14(8). 3 indexed citations

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Carey, Cayelan C., Paul C. Hanson, R. Quinn Thomas, et al.. (2022). Anoxia decreases the magnitude of the carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus sink in freshwaters. Global Change Biology. 28(16). 4861–4881. 41 indexed citations

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Koplitz, Shannon N., Christopher G. Nolte, Robert D. Sabo, et al.. (2021). The contribution of wildland fire emissions to deposition in the U S: implications for tree growth and survival in the Northwest. Environmental Research Letters. 16(2). 24028–24028. 17 indexed citations

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Carey, Cayelan C., Whitney M. Woelmer, Mary E. Lofton, et al.. (2021). Advancing lake and reservoir water quality management with near-term, iterative ecological forecasting. Inland Waters. 12(1). 107–120. 46 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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Thomas, R. Quinn, et al.. (2020). A Near‐Term Iterative Forecasting System Successfully Predicts Reservoir Hydrodynamics and Partitions Uncertainty in Real Time. Water Resources Research. 56(11). 47 indexed citations

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Cheng, Susan J., Peter Hess, William R. Wieder, et al.. (2019). Decadal fates and impacts of nitrogen additions on temperate forest carbon storage: a data–model comparison. Biogeosciences. 16(13). 2771–2793. 9 indexed citations

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Cheng, Susan J., Peter Hess, William R. Wieder, et al.. (2018). Decadal impacts of nitrogen additions on temperate forest carbon sinks: A data-model comparison. 4 indexed citations

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Thomas, R. Quinn, Annika Jersild, Eric J. Ward, et al.. (2017). Leveraging 35 years of forest research in the southeastern U.S. to constrain carbon cycle predictions: regional data assimilation using ecosystem experiment. 1 indexed citations

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Thomas, R. Quinn, Evan B. Brooks, Annika Jersild, et al.. (2017). Leveraging 35 years of Pinus taeda research in the southeastern US to constrain forest carbon cycle predictions: regional data assimilation using ecosystem experiments. Biogeosciences. 14(14). 3525–3547. 37 indexed citations

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Thomas, R. Quinn & Mathew Williams. (2014). A model using marginal efficiency of investment to analyze carbon and nitrogen interactions in terrestrial ecosystems (ACONITE Version 1). Geoscientific model development. 7(5). 2015–2037. 17 indexed citations

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Thomas, R. Quinn, Gordon B. Bonan, & Christine L. Goodale. (2013). Insights into mechanisms governing forest carbon response to nitrogen deposition: a model–data comparison using observed responses to nitrogen addition. Biogeosciences. 10(6). 3869–3887. 56 indexed citations

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