Rasmus Fensholt

28.8k total citations · 12 hit papers
255 papers, 19.2k citations indexed

About

Rasmus Fensholt is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rasmus Fensholt has authored 255 papers receiving a total of 19.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 139 papers in Ecology and 77 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rasmus Fensholt's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (121 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (68 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (56 papers). Rasmus Fensholt is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (121 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (68 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (56 papers). Rasmus Fensholt collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, China and United States. Rasmus Fensholt's co-authors include Simon Proud, Inge Sandholt, Martin Brandt, Kjeld Rasmussen, Henrik Meilby, Gudina Legese Feyisa, Stéphanie Horion, Cheikh Mbow, Feng Tian and Philippe Ciais and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Rasmus Fensholt

253 papers receiving 18.8k citations

Hit Papers

China and India lead in greening of the wor... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2019 2013 2012 2012 2018 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management
    2019 2.2k citations Philippe Ciais, Rasmus Fensholt et al. profile →
  2. Automated Water Extraction Index: A new technique for surface water mapping using Landsat imagery
    2013 1.5k citations Rasmus Fensholt et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  3. Evaluation of Earth Observation based global long term vegetation trends — Comparing GIMMS and MODIS global NDVI time series
    2012 693 citations Rasmus Fensholt et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  4. Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers
    2012 654 citations Rasmus Fensholt, Kjeld Rasmussen et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
  5. Increased vegetation growth and carbon stock in China karst via ecological engineering
    2018 623 citations Martin Brandt, Stéphanie Horion et al. profile →
  6. A Review of the Application of Optical and Radar Remote Sensing Data Fusion to Land Use Mapping and Monitoring
    2016 501 citations Andrea Ehammer, Rasmus Fensholt et al. Remote Sensing profile →
  7. Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration
    2020 391 citations Martin Brandt, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
  8. A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China
    2022 243 citations Martin Brandt, Philippe Ciais et al. profile →
  9. Mapping global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes
    2022 194 citations Lian Feng, Yang Xu et al. profile →
  10. Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade
    2023 84 citations Philippe Ciais, Martin Brandt et al. profile →
  11. Global area boom for greenhouse cultivation revealed by satellite mapping
    2024 48 citations Xiaoye Tong, Rasmus Fensholt et al. profile →
  12. Enhancing Climate-Driven Urban Tree Cooling with Targeted Nonclimatic Interventions
    2025 16 citations Zhaowu Yu, Siheng Li et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rasmus Fensholt Denmark 68 12.7k 9.4k 5.2k 3.9k 2.2k 255 19.2k
Russell G. Congalton United States 39 9.0k 0.7× 10.5k 1.1× 5.4k 1.0× 3.3k 0.9× 1.2k 0.5× 131 18.3k
Christopher J. Kucharik United States 54 12.0k 0.9× 6.7k 0.7× 3.4k 0.7× 2.3k 0.6× 3.3k 1.5× 157 21.8k
Shushi Peng China 59 10.8k 0.8× 5.0k 0.5× 3.0k 0.6× 4.7k 1.2× 1.7k 0.8× 189 17.1k
Alberte Bondeau Germany 49 9.7k 0.8× 4.9k 0.5× 2.2k 0.4× 2.5k 0.6× 2.0k 0.9× 89 15.9k
Dar A. Roberts United States 73 10.3k 0.8× 10.7k 1.1× 6.6k 1.3× 3.7k 1.0× 2.5k 1.2× 306 20.3k
G. C. Hurtt United States 50 12.4k 1.0× 4.6k 0.5× 3.5k 0.7× 4.9k 1.3× 4.4k 2.0× 147 19.6k
Michael E. Schaepman Switzerland 63 7.5k 0.6× 10.7k 1.1× 5.9k 1.1× 2.6k 0.7× 2.1k 0.9× 398 17.7k
Berrien Moore United States 56 11.3k 0.9× 7.5k 0.8× 2.9k 0.6× 4.4k 1.1× 1.6k 0.7× 132 17.5k
Jingfeng Xiao United States 63 9.1k 0.7× 5.3k 0.6× 3.1k 0.6× 3.0k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 246 12.9k
Michael L. Goulden United States 70 15.0k 1.2× 6.3k 0.7× 2.2k 0.4× 5.7k 1.5× 3.7k 1.7× 183 20.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Rasmus Fensholt

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rasmus Fensholt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rasmus Fensholt

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yu, Zhaowu, Siheng Li, Wenjun Yang, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Climate-Driven Urban Tree Cooling with Targeted Nonclimatic Interventions. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(18). 9082–9092. 16 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Yang, Lian Feng, Hongwei Fang, et al.. (2024). Global mapping of human-transformed dike-pond systems. Remote Sensing of Environment. 313. 114354–114354. 10 indexed citations
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Schwartz, Martin A., Philippe Ciais, Catherine Ottlé, et al.. (2024). High-resolution canopy height map in the Landes forest (France) based on GEDI, Sentinel-1, and Sentinel-2 data with a deep learning approach. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 128. 103711–103711. 31 indexed citations
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Abel, Christin, Fernando T. Maestre, Miguel Berdugo, et al.. (2024). Vegetation resistance to increasing aridity when crossing thresholds depends on local environmental conditions in global drylands. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 18 indexed citations
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Dari, Jacopo, Sara Modanesi, Christian Massari, et al.. (2024). An inter-comparison of approaches and frameworks to quantify irrigation from satellite data. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(3). 441–457. 9 indexed citations
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Abel, Christin, Abdulhakim M. Abdi, Torbern Tagesson, Stéphanie Horion, & Rasmus Fensholt. (2023). Contrasting ecosystem vegetation response in global drylands under drying and wetting conditions. Global Change Biology. 29(14). 3954–3969. 40 indexed citations
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Li, Sizhuo, Martin Brandt, Rasmus Fensholt, et al.. (2023). Deep learning enables image-based tree counting, crown segmentation, and height prediction at national scale. PNAS Nexus. 2(4). pgad076–pgad076. 37 indexed citations
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Peptenatu, Daniel, Ion Andronache, Helmut Ahammer, et al.. (2023). A new fractal index to classify forest fragmentation and disorder. Landscape Ecology. 38(6). 1373–1393. 8 indexed citations
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Ngom, Daouda, et al.. (2021). Réponses de la phytomasse herbacée aux fluctuations de la pluviométrie en milieu pâturé sahélien du Ferlo. Agritrop (Cirad). 2 indexed citations
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Meyer, Rena, Wenmin Zhang, Mie Andreasen, et al.. (2021). Exploring the combined use of SMAP and Sentinel-1 data for downscaling soil moisture beyond the 1 km scale. 2 indexed citations
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Souverijns, Niels, Marcel Buchhorn, Stéphanie Horion, et al.. (2020). Thirty Years of Land Cover and Fraction Cover Changes over the Sudano-Sahel Using Landsat Time Series. Remote Sensing. 12(22). 3817–3817. 24 indexed citations
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Brandt, Martin, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Stéphanie Horion, et al.. (2020). Uncovering Dryland Woody Dynamics Using Optical, Microwave, and Field Data—Prolonged Above-Average Rainfall Paradoxically Contributes to Woody Plant Die-Off in the Western Sahel. Remote Sensing. 12(14). 2332–2332. 13 indexed citations
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Ciobotaru, Ana‐Maria, Ion Andronache, Helmut Ahammer, et al.. (2019). Application of Fractal and Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix Indices to Assess the Forest Dynamics in the Curvature Carpathians—Romania. Sustainability. 11(24). 6927–6927. 10 indexed citations
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Delon, Claire, Corinne Galy‐Lacaux, D. Serça, et al.. (2019). Modelling land–atmosphere daily exchanges of NO, NH 3 , and CO 2 in a semi-arid grazed ecosystem in Senegal. Biogeosciences. 16(9). 2049–2077. 12 indexed citations
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Tagesson, Torbern, Jonas Ardö, B. Cappelaere, et al.. (2017). Modelling spatial and temporal dynamics of gross primary production in the Sahel from earth-observation-based photosynthetic capacity and quantum efficiency. Biogeosciences. 14(5). 1333–1348. 17 indexed citations
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Gangkofner, Ute, et al.. (2016). Dryland vegetation functional response to altered rainfall amounts and variability derived from satellite time series data. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 5 indexed citations
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Schut, A.G.T., Éva Ivits, J.G. Conijn, Ben ten Brink, & Rasmus Fensholt. (2015). Trends in Global Vegetation Activity and Climatic Drivers Indicate a Decoupled Response to Climate Change. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0138013–e0138013. 16 indexed citations
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Tagesson, Torbern, Rasmus Fensholt, S. Huber, et al.. (2015). Deriving seasonal dynamics in ecosystem properties of semi-arid savanna grasslands from in situ-based hyperspectral reflectance. Biogeosciences. 12(15). 4621–4635. 10 indexed citations
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Grogan, Kenneth, Ole Mertz, Rasmus Fensholt, et al.. (2015). Vietnam’s Forest Transition in Retrospect: Demonstrating Weaknesses in Business-as-Usual Scenarios for REDD+. Environmental Management. 55(5). 1080–1092. 18 indexed citations
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Nielsen, Thomas Theis, et al.. (2013). The Role of Methodology and Spatiotemporal Scale in Understanding Environmental Change in Peri-Urban Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Remote Sensing. 5(3). 1465–1483. 4 indexed citations

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