Sophia Walther

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Sophia Walther is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sophia Walther has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Sophia Walther's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (16 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers). Sophia Walther is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (16 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (11 papers). Sophia Walther collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and United States. Sophia Walther's co-authors include Luis Guanter, Martin Jung, Grégory Duveiller, Alessandro Cescatti, Philipp Köhler, Gustau Camps‐Valls, Markus Reichstein, Álvaro Moreno‐Martínez, Miguel D. Mahecha and Manuel Campos‐Taberner and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Geophysical Research Letters and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Sophia Walther

21 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere

2021 450 citations Gustau Camps‐Valls, Manuel Campos‐Taberner et al. Science Advances profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sophia Walther Germany	11	938	732	284	243	119	22	1.2k
Mallory L. Barnes United States	17	885 0.9×	505 0.7×	301 1.1×	185 0.8×	187 1.6×	32	1.2k
Bassil El Masri United States	9	765 0.8×	714 1.0×	145 0.5×	279 1.1×	75 0.6×	16	1.0k
Huaan Jin China	17	590 0.6×	714 1.0×	264 0.9×	395 1.6×	173 1.5×	58	1.1k
Eugénie Paul‐Limoges Switzerland	15	852 0.9×	536 0.7×	167 0.6×	150 0.6×	222 1.9×	24	1.0k
Vanessa Genovese United States	20	807 0.9×	500 0.7×	208 0.7×	184 0.8×	46 0.4×	34	1.1k
P. Ratana United States	6	779 0.8×	711 1.0×	125 0.4×	229 0.9×	96 0.8×	10	1.0k
Gang Bao China	16	825 0.9×	701 1.0×	303 1.1×	166 0.7×	48 0.4×	57	1.1k
Yhasmin Mendes de Moura Brazil	17	679 0.7×	639 0.9×	122 0.4×	320 1.3×	102 0.9×	24	1.0k
Jennifer N. Hird Canada	9	499 0.5×	635 0.9×	153 0.5×	305 1.3×	71 0.6×	11	840

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sophia Walther

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kraft, Basil, Jacob A. Nelson, Sophia Walther, et al.. (2025). On the added value of sequential deep learning for the upscaling of evapotranspiration. Biogeosciences. 22(15). 3965–3987.

Limousin, Jean‐Marc, Christiane Werner, Armanda D. S. Bastos, et al.. (2025). No legacy effects of severe drought on carbon and water fluxes in a Mediterranean oak forest. Plant Biology. 1 indexed citations

Jung, Martin, Jacob A. Nelson, Mirco Migliavacca, et al.. (2024). Technical note: Flagging inconsistencies in flux tower data. Biogeosciences. 21(7). 1827–1846. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Junzhi, et al.. (2023). Improved Vegetation Photosynthetic Phenology Monitoring in the Northern Ecosystems Using Total Canopy Solar‐Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Derived From TROPOMI. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(6). 5 indexed citations

Rödenbeck, Christian, Frank-Thomas Koch, Kai Uwe Totsche, et al.. (2022). Net ecosystem exchange (NEE) estimates 2006–2019 over Europe from a pre-operational ensemble-inversion system. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(12). 7875–7892. 14 indexed citations

Walther, Sophia, Simon Besnard, Jacob A. Nelson, et al.. (2022). Technical note: A view from space on global flux towers by MODIS and Landsat: the FluxnetEO data set. Biogeosciences. 19(11). 2805–2840. 25 indexed citations

Orth, René, Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn, et al.. (2022). Contrasting drought legacy effects on gross primary productivity in a mixed versus pure beech forest. Biogeosciences. 19(17). 4315–4329. 31 indexed citations

Li, Wantong, Mirco Migliavacca, Matthias Forkel, et al.. (2021). Revisiting Global Vegetation Controls Using Multi‐Layer Soil Moisture. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(11). 49 indexed citations

Camps‐Valls, Gustau, Manuel Campos‐Taberner, Álvaro Moreno‐Martínez, et al.. (2021). Generalization of Vegetation Indices for Monitoring the Terrestrial Biosphere. 2 indexed citations

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Linscheid, Nora, Miguel D. Mahecha, Anja Rammig, et al.. (2021). Time‐Scale Dependent Relations Between Earth Observation Based Proxies of Vegetation Productivity. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(24). 7 indexed citations

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Camps‐Valls, Gustau, Manuel Campos‐Taberner, Álvaro Moreno‐Martínez, et al.. (2021). A unified vegetation index for quantifying the terrestrial biosphere. Science Advances. 7(9). 450 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rödenbeck, Christian, Thomas Koch, Kai Uwe Totsche, et al.. (2021). NEE estimates 2006–2019 over Europe from a pre-operational ensemble-inversion system. 1 indexed citations

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Walther, Sophia, Simon Besnard, Jacob A. Nelson, et al.. (2021). Technical note: A view from space on global flux towers by MODIS and Landsat: The FluxnetEO dataset. 2 indexed citations

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Wutzler, Thomas, Sujan Koirala, Matthias Cuntz, et al.. (2021). Environment-sensitivity functions for gross primary productivity in light use efficiency models. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 312. 108708–108708. 49 indexed citations

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Duveiller, Grégory, Federico Filipponi, Sophia Walther, et al.. (2020). A spatially downscaled sun-induced fluorescence global product for enhanced monitoring of vegetation productivity. Earth system science data. 12(2). 1101–1116. 71 indexed citations

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Walther, Sophia, Grégory Duveiller, Martin Jung, et al.. (2019). Satellite Observations of the Contrasting Response of Trees and Grasses to Variations in Water Availability. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(3). 1429–1440. 93 indexed citations

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Walther, Sophia, Luis Guanter, Birgit Heim, et al.. (2018). Assessing the dynamics of vegetation productivity in circumpolar regions with different satellite indicators of greenness and photosynthesis. Biogeosciences. 15(20). 6221–6256. 35 indexed citations

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Guanter, Luis, Philipp Köhler, Sophia Walther, & Yongguang Zhang. (2016). Recent advances in global monitoring of terrestrial sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 1714–1716. 3 indexed citations

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Guanter, Luis, et al.. (2015). Global Monitoring of Terrestrial Chlorophyll Fluorescence from Space: Status and Potential for Carbon Cycle Research. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 2 indexed citations

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Walther, Sophia, Maximilian Voigt, Tea Thum, et al.. (2015). Satellite chlorophyll fluorescence measurements reveal large‐scale decoupling of photosynthesis and greenness dynamics in boreal evergreen forests. Global Change Biology. 22(9). 2979–2996. 240 indexed citations

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