Sara Vicca

16.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
112 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Sara Vicca is a scholar working on Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Vicca has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Soil Science, 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 34 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sara Vicca's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (45 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (33 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16 papers). Sara Vicca is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (45 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (33 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16 papers). Sara Vicca collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Spain and Germany. Sara Vicca's co-authors include Ivan A. Janssens, Josep Peñuelas, Philippe Ciais, Jordi Sardans, Michael Obersteiner, Marijn van der Velde, Shilong Piao, Dario Papale, César Terrer and Markus Reichstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sara Vicca

108 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2013 2013 2015 2016 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Climate extremes and the carbon cycle
    2013 1.4k citations Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn et al. Nature profile →
  2. Human-induced nitrogen–phosphorus imbalances alter natural and managed ecosystems across the globe
    2013 1.1k citations Josep Peñuelas, Jordi Sardans et al. profile →
  3. Asymmetric effects of daytime and night-time warming on Northern Hemisphere vegetation
    2013 528 citations Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature profile →
  4. Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature
    2015 463 citations Shilong Piao, Yongshuo H. Fu et al. profile →
  5. Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO 2 fertilization effect
    2016 453 citations César Terrer, Sara Vicca et al. profile →
  6. A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2
    2021 429 citations César Terrer, Trevor F. Keenan et al. Nature profile →
  7. Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance
    2014 374 citations Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Sara Vicca et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sara Vicca Belgium 40 4.5k 3.2k 3.1k 2.2k 1.9k 112 9.5k
Jianyang Xia China 51 4.0k 0.9× 3.3k 1.0× 3.2k 1.1× 1.9k 0.8× 1.7k 0.9× 167 8.4k
Jingyun Fang China 53 3.3k 0.7× 3.0k 0.9× 3.1k 1.0× 1.8k 0.8× 2.8k 1.4× 146 9.3k
Christian P. Giardina United States 42 3.9k 0.9× 2.6k 0.8× 3.5k 1.1× 1.7k 0.8× 2.4k 1.2× 144 8.4k
Sebastiaan Luyssaert France 48 7.2k 1.6× 3.4k 1.1× 2.4k 0.8× 1.6k 0.7× 2.8k 1.5× 117 12.0k
Guoyi Zhou China 55 5.3k 1.2× 3.6k 1.1× 5.4k 1.8× 2.1k 1.0× 2.4k 1.2× 247 11.4k
Michael Bahn Austria 53 5.7k 1.3× 3.0k 0.9× 3.6k 1.2× 2.8k 1.2× 2.3k 1.2× 159 10.3k
Pamela H. Templer United States 42 2.7k 0.6× 2.7k 0.8× 2.5k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 123 7.4k
Sönke Zaehle Germany 57 9.2k 2.0× 3.2k 1.0× 2.6k 0.8× 2.2k 1.0× 1.8k 0.9× 169 12.7k
Elise Pendall United States 56 3.8k 0.9× 3.5k 1.1× 4.4k 1.4× 2.9k 1.3× 1.5k 0.8× 196 9.8k
Lindsey E. Rustad United States 40 3.1k 0.7× 3.0k 0.9× 3.6k 1.2× 1.6k 0.7× 1.7k 0.9× 93 8.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Vicca

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Vicca

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Vicca

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Vicca. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Vicca 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 Sara Vicca. Sara Vicca 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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Frings, Patrick, et al.. (2025). Beyond Inorganic C: Soil Organic C as a Key Pathway for Carbon Sequestration in Enhanced Weathering. Global Change Biology. 31(7). e70340–e70340. 2 indexed citations
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Vidal, Alix, Jan Willem van Groenigen, Tim Verdonck, et al.. (2024). How earthworms thrive and drive silicate rock weathering in an artificial organo-mineral system. Applied Geochemistry. 180. 106271–106271. 4 indexed citations
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Frings, Patrick, et al.. (2024). Earthworms in an enhanced weathering mesocosm experiment: Effects on soil carbon sequestration, base cation exchange and soil CO2 efflux. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 199. 109596–109596. 9 indexed citations
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Frings, Patrick, et al.. (2024). Exploring the synergy of enhanced weathering and Bacillus subtilis: A promising strategy for sustainable agriculture. Global Change Biology. 30(9). e17511–e17511. 10 indexed citations
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Sundert, Kevin Van, Sebastian Leuzinger, Martin Karl‐Friedrich Bader, et al.. (2023). When things get MESI: The Manipulation Experiments Synthesis Initiative—A coordinated effort to synthesize terrestrial global change experiments. Global Change Biology. 29(7). 1922–1938. 12 indexed citations
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Boeck, Hans J. De, Tommy D’Hose, Ivan A. Janssens, et al.. (2023). Basalt addition improves the performance of young grassland monocultures under more persistent weather featuring longer dry and wet spells. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 340. 109610–109610. 6 indexed citations
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Vicca, Sara, Eric Struyf, Thorben Amann, et al.. (2023). The effects of dunite fertilization on growth and elemental composition of barley and wheat differ with dunite grain size and rainfall regimes. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 5 indexed citations
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Fernández‐Martínez, Marcos, Josep Peñuelas, Frédéric Chevallier, et al.. (2023). Diagnosing destabilization risk in global land carbon sinks. Nature. 615(7954). 848–853. 68 indexed citations
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Goll, Daniel S., Philippe Ciais, Thorben Amann, et al.. (2021). Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock. Nature Geoscience. 14(8). 545–549. 118 indexed citations
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Radujković, Dajana, Rudy van Diggelen, Roland Bobbink, et al.. (2019). Initial soil community drives heathland fungal community trajectory over multiple years through altered plant–soil interactions. New Phytologist. 225(5). 2140–2151. 14 indexed citations
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Halbritter, Aud H., Hans J. De Boeck, Amy E. Eycott, et al.. (2019). The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx). Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(1). 22–37. 79 indexed citations
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Collalti, Alessio, Carlo Trotta, Trevor F. Keenan, et al.. (2018). Thinning Can Reduce Losses in Carbon Use Efficiency and Carbon Stocks in Managed Forests Under Warmer Climate. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(10). 2427–2452. 56 indexed citations
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Camino‐Serrano, Marta, Bertrand Guenet, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, et al.. (2018). ORCHIDEE-SOM: modeling soil organic carbon (SOC) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) dynamics along vertical soil profiles in Europe. Geoscientific model development. 11(3). 937–957. 60 indexed citations
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Kern, Melanie, Silvia Caldararu, Jan Engel, et al.. (2018). A novel plant-mycorrhiza interaction model improves representation of plant responses to elevated CO2. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 7526. 1 indexed citations
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Leblans, Niki I. W., Bjarni D. Sigurðsson, Sara Vicca, et al.. (2017). Phenological responses of Icelandic subarctic grasslands to short‐term and long‐term natural soil warming. Global Change Biology. 23(11). 4932–4945. 50 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Fernández, José, Sara Vicca, Ivan A. Janssens, et al.. (2015). Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance (vol 4, pg 471, 2014). Nature Climate Change. 5(4). 1 indexed citations
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Roland, Marilyn, Sara Vicca, Michael Bahn, et al.. (2015). Importance of Non-Diffusive Transport for Soil CO2 Efflux in a Temperate Mountain Grassland. EGUGA. 15927. 1 indexed citations
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Vicca, Sara, Marc Estiarte, Michael Bahn, Josep Peñuelas, & Ivan A. Janssens. (2013). Synthesizing effects of precipitation manipulation on plant production and soil respiration - results and challenges. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations
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Dieleman, Wouter, Sara Vicca, Feike A. Dijkstra, et al.. (2012). Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO 2 and temperature. Global Change Biology. 18(9). 2681–2693. 344 indexed citations

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