Stéphanie Horion

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
67 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Stéphanie Horion is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Stéphanie Horion has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 34 papers in Ecology and 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Stéphanie Horion's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (29 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (27 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers). Stéphanie Horion is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (29 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (27 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers). Stéphanie Horion collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Belgium and Sweden. Stéphanie Horion's co-authors include Rasmus Fensholt, Torbern Tagesson, Feng Tian, Martin Brandt, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Jan Verbesselt, Xiaowei Tong, Xiangming Xiao, Éva Ivits and Kelin Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Stéphanie Horion

67 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Increased vegetation growth and carbon stock in China karst via ecological engineering

2018 623 citations Xiaowei Tong, Martin Brandt et al. profile →
Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

2020 391 citations Xiaowei Tong, Martin Brandt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stéphanie Horion Denmark	31	2.4k	1.6k	623	530	520	67	3.6k
Shouzhang Peng China	22	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	770 1.2×	473 0.9×	429 0.8×	77	3.3k
Chengcheng Gang China	26	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	500 0.8×	260 0.5×	418 0.8×	41	2.8k
Amy Pickens United States	19	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	441 0.7×	1.0k 2.0×	443 0.9×	29	3.4k
Florent Mouillot France	34	3.9k 1.6×	1.5k 1.0×	957 1.5×	439 0.8×	849 1.6×	93	4.7k
Andrew J. Elmore United States	28	2.0k 0.8×	2.4k 1.5×	689 1.1×	720 1.4×	1.0k 2.0×	72	4.7k
Lei Ji United States	31	2.7k 1.1×	2.1k 1.3×	933 1.5×	957 1.8×	315 0.6×	79	4.3k
Matthias Forkel Germany	32	3.5k 1.5×	1.8k 1.1×	1.5k 2.4×	824 1.6×	539 1.0×	72	5.0k
Rogier de Jong Switzerland	26	2.4k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	836 1.3×	747 1.4×	553 1.1×	43	3.4k
Matthias M. Boer Australia	38	3.9k 1.6×	1.6k 1.1×	736 1.2×	437 0.8×	1.2k 2.3×	110	5.0k
Eduardo Eiji Maeda Finland	30	1.7k 0.7×	874 0.6×	614 1.0×	564 1.1×	323 0.6×	110	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Stéphanie Horion

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stéphanie Horion

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stéphanie Horion

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

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Junttila, Samuli, et al.. (2025). Quantifying the drivers of tree mortality: A case study from urban recreational boreal forest. Urban forestry & urban greening. 104. 128672–128672. 1 indexed citations

Keersmaecker, Wanda De, Stéphanie Horion, Stefan Oehmcke, et al.. (2025). Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning. Nature Climate Change. 15(1). 86–91. 8 indexed citations

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

Schurgers, Guy, et al.. (2024). Simulated Tree‐Grass Competition in Drylands Is Modulated by CO ₂ Fertilization. Earth s Future. 12(1). 4 indexed citations

Dou, Yujie, Xiaoye Tong, Stéphanie Horion, et al.. (2024). The success of ecological engineering projects on vegetation restoration in China strongly depends on climatic conditions. The Science of The Total Environment. 915. 170041–170041. 18 indexed citations

Qiu, Sijing, Martin Brandt, Stéphanie Horion, et al.. (2024). Facing the challenge of NDVI dataset consistency for improved characterization of vegetation response to climate variability. The Science of The Total Environment. 944. 173308–173308. 4 indexed citations

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

Schurgers, Guy, et al.. (2023). Simulated tree-grass competition in drylands is modulated by CO2 fertilization. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1 indexed citations

Oehmcke, Stefan, Cosmin E. Oancea, Dainius Masiliū̄nas, et al.. (2023). Seasonal-Trend Time Series Decomposition on Graphics Processing Units. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 5914–5923. 1 indexed citations

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Schurgers, Guy, Stéphanie Horion, Jonas Ardö, et al.. (2021). Contrasting responses of woody and herbaceous vegetation to altered rainfall characteristics in the Sahel. Biogeosciences. 18(1). 77–93. 18 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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Horion, Stéphanie, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Rasmus Fensholt, et al.. (2020). Understanding Turning Points in Dryland Ecosystem Functioning (U-TURN). Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1 indexed citations

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Tagesson, Torbern, Stéphanie Horion, Héctor Nieto, et al.. (2018). Disaggregation of SMOS soil moisture over West Africa using the Temperature and Vegetation Dryness Index based on SEVIRI land surface parameters. Remote Sensing of Environment. 206. 424–441. 55 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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Giraudoux, Patrick, Pierre‐Denis Plisnier, Martine Piarroux, et al.. (2016). Dynamics of Cholera Outbreaks in Great Lakes Region of Africa. Emerging infectious diseases. 18 indexed citations

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Ivits, Éva, Stéphanie Horion, Markus Erhard, & Rasmus Fensholt. (2016). Assessing European ecosystem stability to drought in the vegetation growing season. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25(9). 1131–1143. 81 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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Tagesson, Torbern, Rasmus Fensholt, S. Huber, et al.. (2015). Deriving seasonal dynamics in ecosystem properties of semi-arid savannas using in situ based hyperspectral reflectance. 3 indexed citations

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Gardi, Ciro, et al.. (2010). Inventory and monitoring options of peatlands at regional scale. EGUGA. 14372. 1 indexed citations

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