Rodrigo Vargas

26.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
225 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Rodrigo Vargas is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rodrigo Vargas has authored 225 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 56 papers in Ecology and 44 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Rodrigo Vargas's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (67 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (49 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (37 papers). Rodrigo Vargas is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (67 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (49 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (37 papers). Rodrigo Vargas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Spain. Rodrigo Vargas's co-authors include Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Michael F. Allen, Mário Guevara, Dennis Baldocchi, Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger, G.B.M. Heuvelink, S. Mantel, Wei Shangguan, N.H. Batjes and Eloi Ribeiro and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rodrigo Vargas

215 papers receiving 12.4k 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.

SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning

2017 2.9k citations Mário Guevara, Rodrigo Vargas et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Nonstructural Carbon in Woody Plants

2013 605 citations Rodrigo Vargas et al. profile →
Globally rising soil heterotrophic respiration over recent decades

2018 417 citations Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Rodrigo Vargas et al. profile →
Effects of soil rewetting and thawing on soil gas fluxes: a review of current literature and suggestions for future research

2012 408 citations Rodrigo Vargas, Ben Bond‐Lamberty et al. Biogeosciences profile →
Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: Processes, data, models, and challenges

2011 407 citations Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Rodrigo Vargas et al. profile →
Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

2018 393 citations Rodrigo Vargas et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rodrigo Vargas United States	47	6.5k	3.7k	3.3k	2.2k	2.1k	225	12.7k
Ben Bond‐Lamberty United States	57	8.1k 1.2×	3.9k 1.0×	3.7k 1.1×	3.3k 1.5×	1.8k 0.9×	207	14.0k
Riccardo Valentini Italy	58	9.7k 1.5×	4.4k 1.2×	2.5k 0.8×	3.2k 1.5×	2.3k 1.1×	261	15.1k
Michael Keller United States	66	8.7k 1.3×	5.5k 1.5×	3.9k 1.2×	2.4k 1.1×	3.3k 1.6×	185	16.1k
Shirong Liu China	54	5.9k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	899 0.4×	394	11.7k
Dario Papale Italy	52	11.3k 1.7×	4.6k 1.3×	2.3k 0.7×	3.4k 1.6×	2.0k 0.9×	143	14.7k
Kelin Wang China	63	4.8k 0.7×	4.7k 1.3×	5.7k 1.7×	2.3k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	446	15.3k
Dennis S. Ojima United States	59	7.8k 1.2×	6.3k 1.7×	7.5k 2.3×	2.4k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	135	18.3k
Christopher Potter United States	42	6.7k 1.0×	4.1k 1.1×	2.1k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	188	9.9k
N.H. Batjes Netherlands	45	4.0k 0.6×	4.4k 1.2×	8.3k 2.5×	2.0k 0.9×	4.6k 2.2×	145	17.0k
Patrick Meir United Kingdom	75	10.9k 1.7×	4.7k 1.3×	3.5k 1.1×	3.5k 1.6×	1.4k 0.7×	214	17.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rodrigo Vargas

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Gerónimo, Eduardo De, Alessandra Mosca, Franco M. Cabrerizo, & Rodrigo Vargas. (2025). Insights into chlorination-induced degradation of sulfonylurea herbicides: Unraveling kinetics and intermediates during water treatment. Water Research. 280. 123513–123513. 2 indexed citations

Döetterl, Sebastian, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Katherine Heckman, et al.. (2025). A landscape-scale view of soil organic matter dynamics. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(1). 67–81. 13 indexed citations

Vargas, Rodrigo, et al.. (2023). A obesidade materna como fator predisponente no desenvolvimento da síndrome cardiometabólica nos descendentes. OBSERVATÓRIO DE LA ECONOMÍA LATINOAMERICANA. 21(8). 10340–10356. 1 indexed citations

Vázquez‐Lule, Alma & Rodrigo Vargas. (2023). Proximal remote sensing and gross primary productivity in a temperate salt marsh. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 341. 109639–109639. 2 indexed citations

Regier, Peter, Nicholas Ward, Andrew H. Baldwin, et al.. (2023). Coastal inundation regime moderates the short-term effects of sediment and soil additions on seawater oxygen and greenhouse gas dynamics: a microcosm experiment. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 2 indexed citations

Santos, Alexsandro J. dos, Haruna Luz Barazorda-Ccahuana, Patricio J. Espinoza‐Montero, et al.. (2023). Author Correction: Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America. Nature Sustainability. 6(8). 1025–1025. 4 indexed citations

Vargas, Rodrigo, et al.. (2023). The paradox of assessing greenhouse gases from soils for nature-based solutions. Biogeosciences. 20(1). 15–26. 15 indexed citations

Guevara, Mário, et al.. (2023). Harmonized Soil Database of Ecuador (HESD): data from 2009 to 2015. Earth system science data. 15(1). 431–445. 4 indexed citations

Heuer, Mark, B. B. Hicks, Rick Saylor, et al.. (2021). Atmospheric Ammonia Measurements Over a Coastal Salt Marsh Ecosystem Along the Mid‐Atlantic U.S.. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(5). 1 indexed citations

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Vargas, Rodrigo, et al.. (2021). Representativeness of FLUXNET Sites Across Latin America. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(3). 34 indexed citations

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Stell, Emma, Daniel L. Warner, Jinshi Jian, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, & Rodrigo Vargas. (2021). Spatial biases of information influence global estimates of soil respiration: How can we improve global predictions?. Global Change Biology. 27(16). 3923–3938. 45 indexed citations

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Guevara, Mário, Michela Taufer, & Rodrigo Vargas. (2021). Gap-free global annual soil moisture: 15 km grids for 1991–2018. Earth system science data. 13(4). 1711–1735. 18 indexed citations

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Vázquez‐Lule, Alma, et al.. (2020). Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions From A Temperate Salt Marsh Tidal Creek. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(8). 32 indexed citations

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Garatuza‐Payán, Jaime, et al.. (2020). Environmental Controls on Carbon and Water Fluxes in an Old‐Growth Tropical Dry Forest. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(8). 20 indexed citations

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Velasco, Erik, et al.. (2020). Carbon dioxide dynamics in a residential lawn of a tropical city. Journal of Environmental Management. 280. 111752–111752. 22 indexed citations

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Warner, Daniel L., Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Jinshi Jian, Emma Stell, & Rodrigo Vargas. (2019). Spatial Predictions and Associated Uncertainty of Annual Soil Respiration at the Global Scale. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 33(12). 1733–1745. 91 indexed citations

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Inamdar, Shreeram, et al.. (2018). Particulate Organic Matter Composition in Stream Runoff Following Large Storms: Role of POM Sources, Particle Size, and Event Characteristics. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(2). 660–675. 29 indexed citations

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Reche, Cristina, Teresa Moreno, Fúlvio Amato, et al.. (2018). Spatio-temporal patterns of high summer ozone events in the Madrid Basin, Central Spain. Atmospheric Environment. 185. 207–220. 17 indexed citations

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Reimer, Janet J., et al.. (2015). Sea Surface Temperature Influence on Terrestrial Gross Primary Production along the Southern California Current. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0125177–e0125177. 12 indexed citations

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Heinemeyer, Andreas, Matthew Wilkinson, Rodrigo Vargas, et al.. (2012). Exploring the "overflow tap" theory: linking forest soil CO ₂ fluxes and individual mycorrhizosphere components to photosynthesis. Biogeosciences. 9(1). 79–95. 82 indexed citations

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