Scott Denning

18.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
126 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Scott Denning is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Denning has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 70 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Scott Denning's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (93 papers), Climate variability and models (69 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (32 papers). Scott Denning is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (93 papers), Climate variability and models (69 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (32 papers). Scott Denning collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Switzerland. Scott Denning's co-authors include David A. Randall, Ian Baker, Joseph A. Berry, G. J. Collatz, Inez Fung, P. J. Sellers, Robert E. Dickinson, Xubin Zeng, K. R. Gurney and Christopher B. Field and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Scott Denning

123 papers receiving 9.0k 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.

Modeling the Exchanges of Energy, Water, and Carbon Between Continents and the Atmosphere

1997 1.2k citations P. J. Sellers, David A. Randall et al. profile →
The Common Land Model

2003 1.1k citations Ian Baker, Scott Denning et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott Denning United States	51	8.0k	5.1k	1.4k	1.2k	897	126	9.4k
Yongkang Xue United States	49	6.1k 0.8×	5.1k 1.0×	843 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	164	7.9k
Jan Polcher‬ France	43	6.1k 0.8×	3.9k 0.8×	809 0.6×	992 0.8×	1.7k 1.9×	129	7.7k
Philippe Peylin France	55	9.6k 1.2×	5.2k 1.0×	2.4k 1.7×	1.0k 0.8×	615 0.7×	143	11.7k
Bruce C. Daube United States	47	8.2k 1.0×	5.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	879 0.7×	339 0.4×	100	10.0k
Yaoming Ma China	52	6.1k 0.8×	5.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.5×	1.5k 1.7×	367	9.2k
Richard Essery United Kingdom	43	4.2k 0.5×	6.0k 1.2×	714 0.5×	999 0.8×	1.8k 2.0×	133	8.2k
Daniel Lüthi Switzerland	40	8.8k 1.1×	7.5k 1.5×	466 0.3×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	64	10.9k
Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré France	38	5.2k 0.7×	2.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	849 0.7×	540 0.6×	70	6.6k
T. H. Painter United States	55	5.3k 0.7×	8.9k 1.8×	2.0k 1.5×	1.7k 1.4×	1.7k 1.9×	172	12.4k
Toby N. Carlson United States	48	8.3k 1.0×	6.2k 1.2×	2.5k 1.8×	4.9k 3.9×	833 0.9×	120	11.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Scott Denning

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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Denning

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Denning

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Randerson, James T., Yue Li, Weiwei Fu, et al.. (2025). The weak land carbon sink hypothesis. Science Advances. 11(37). eadr5489–eadr5489.

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Zhou, Yu, C. A. Williams, Thomas Lauvaux, et al.. (2020). A Multiyear Gridded Data Ensemble of Surface Biogenic Carbon Fluxes for North America: Evaluation and Analysis of Results. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 125(2). 17 indexed citations

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Haynes, Katherine, Ian Baker, Scott Denning, et al.. (2019). Representing Grasslands Using Dynamic Prognostic Phenology Based on Biological Growth Stages: 1. Implementation in the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB4). Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(12). 4423–4439. 30 indexed citations

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Schumacher, Russ S., Scott Denning, William B. Faulkner, et al.. (2019). Reducing Wet Ammonium Deposition in Rocky Mountain National Park: the Development and Evaluation of A Pilot Early Warning System for Agricultural Operations in Eastern Colorado. Environmental Management. 64(5). 626–639. 10 indexed citations

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Schuh, A. E., et al.. (2016). Global Atmospheric Inversions of XCO2 and Solar-Induced Fluorescence (SIF) from OCO-2. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Denning, Scott, et al.. (2015). Investigations of the transport, sources, and sinks of atmospheric CO2 using a general circulation model. Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University).

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Denning, Scott, et al.. (2013). A sampling method for improving the representation of spatially varying precipitation and soil moisture using the Simple Biosphere Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 6(1). 9–20. 2 indexed citations

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Parazoo, N., Scott Denning, S. R. Kawa, Steven Pawson, & R. S. Lokupitiya. (2012). CO ₂ flux estimation errors associated with moist atmospheric processes. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 12(14). 6405–6416. 20 indexed citations

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Denning, Scott, et al.. (2011). Seasonal Cycles of Wetland Methane Emissions: Inferences from the Temperature and Saturation Dependencies of Methanogens and Methanotrophs. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Davis, K. J., A. E. Andrews, Maria Obiminda Cambaliza, et al.. (2010). Greenhouse gas emissions derived from regional measurement networks and atmospheric inversions: Results from the MCI and INFLUX experiments. AGUFM. 2010. 3 indexed citations

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Schuh, A. E., Scott Denning, K. D. Corbin, et al.. (2010). A regional high-resolution carbon flux inversion of North America for 2004. Biogeosciences. 7(5). 1625–1644. 91 indexed citations

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McGrath‐Spangler, E. L., Scott Denning, K. D. Corbin, & Ian Baker. (2009). Sensitivity of Land‐Atmosphere Exchanges to Overshooting PBL Thermals in an Idealized Coupled Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 1(4). 8 indexed citations

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Lokupitiya, Erandathie, Scott Denning, Keith Paustian, et al.. (2009). Incorporation of crop phenology in Simple Biosphere Model (SiBcrop) to improve land-atmosphere carbon exchanges from croplands. 5 indexed citations

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Lokupitiya, Erandathie, Scott Denning, Keith Paustian, et al.. (2009). Incorporation of crop phenology in Simple Biosphere Model (SiBcrop) to improve land-atmosphere carbon exchanges from croplands. Biogeosciences. 6(6). 969–986. 143 indexed citations

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Parazoo, N., Scott Denning, S. R. Kawa, et al.. (2008). Mechanisms for synoptic variations of atmospheric CO ₂ in North America, South America and Europe. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 8(23). 7239–7254. 51 indexed citations

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Williams, C. A., Niall P. Hanan, Jason C. Neff, et al.. (2007). Africa and the global carbon cycle. Carbon Balance and Management. 2(1). 3–3. 142 indexed citations

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Peters, Wouter, J. B. Miller, Jeffrey S. Whitaker, et al.. (2005). An ensemble data assimilation system to estimate CO ₂ surface fluxes from atmospheric trace gas observations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 110(D24). 164 indexed citations

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Davis, K. J., A. E. Andrews, Joseph A. Berry, et al.. (2005). Regional Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange via Atmospheric Inversions and Flux-Tower Upscaling. AGUFM. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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Zupanski, D., et al.. (2005). Leaf-to-Canopy Scaling of Carbon, Energy, and Moisture Fluxes in the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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Denning, Scott, David A. Randall, G. J. Collatz, & P. J. Sellers. (1996). Simulations of terrestrial carbon metabolism and atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> in a general circulation model: Part 2: Simulated CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations. Tellus B. 48(4). 543–543. 117 indexed citations

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