Stephen C. Piper

12.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Stephen C. Piper is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen C. Piper has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Atmospheric Science and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Stephen C. Piper's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (22 papers), Climate variability and models (14 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (7 papers). Stephen C. Piper is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (22 papers), Climate variability and models (14 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (7 papers). Stephen C. Piper collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Stephen C. Piper's co-authors include Charles D. Keeling, Steven W. Running, Ramakrishna Nemani, Compton J. Tucker, W. Matt Jolly, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Ranga B. Myneni, Ralph F. Keeling, Martin Heimann and C. D. Keeling and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stephen C. Piper

30 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Climate-Driven Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 1982 to 1999

2003 2.9k citations Ramakrishna Nemani, Charles D. Keeling et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen C. Piper United States	19	4.2k	2.0k	1.9k	894	548	30	5.5k
Achim Grelle Sweden	32	3.4k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	653 0.7×	434 0.8×	56	4.8k
Sergey Venevsky China	18	3.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	2.1k 1.1×	907 1.0×	343 0.6×	35	5.1k
Guy Schurgers Sweden	35	3.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	2.4k 1.3×	581 0.6×	388 0.7×	86	5.6k
David Medvigy United States	38	3.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 1.5×	420 0.8×	78	4.5k
Mark R. Lomas United Kingdom	22	2.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	897 0.5×	911 1.0×	743 1.4×	33	4.0k
Timothy G. F. Kittel United States	37	3.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	2.0k 1.1×	604 0.7×	630 1.1×	71	4.9k
Jérôme Ogée France	34	4.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	2.1k 1.1×	872 1.0×	425 0.8×	78	5.3k
Ashley P. Ballantyne United States	34	2.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	647 0.7×	350 0.6×	81	4.9k
Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré France	38	5.2k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	2.8k 1.5×	367 0.4×	849 1.5×	70	6.6k
Toby R. Ault United States	36	4.6k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	3.1k 1.6×	879 1.0×	251 0.5×	77	6.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen C. Piper

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Keeling, Ralph F., Heather Graven, L. R. Welp, et al.. (2016). Atmospheric evidence for a global secular increase in isotopic discrimination of land photosynthesis. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations

Welp, L. R., Prabir K. Patra, Christian Rödenbeck, et al.. (2016). Increasing summer net CO ₂ uptake in high northern ecosystems inferredfrom atmospheric inversions and comparisons to remote-sensing NDVI. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(14). 9047–9066. 30 indexed citations

Graven, Heather, Ralph F. Keeling, Stephen C. Piper, et al.. (2013). Enhanced Seasonal Exchange of CO ₂ by Northern Ecosystems Since 1960. Science. 341(6150). 1085–1089. 292 indexed citations

Welp, L. R., et al.. (2013). Trends in carbon isotope fractionation in atmospheric carbon dioxide constrain water use efficiency of northern ecosystems from the 1980s to 2010. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 1 indexed citations

Welp, L. R., Ralph F. Keeling, Harro A. J. Meijer, et al.. (2011). Interannual variability in the oxygen isotopes of atmospheric CO2 driven by El Niño. Nature. 477(7366). 579–582. 178 indexed citations

Piper, Stephen C., et al.. (2009). Climate effects on atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last century. Tellus B. 61(5). 718–718. 29 indexed citations

Quéré, Corinne Le, Olivier Aumont, Laurent Bopp, et al.. (2003). Two decades of ocean CO2 sink and variability. Tellus B. 55(2). 649–656. 96 indexed citations

Clark, Deborah A., Stephen C. Piper, C. D. Keeling, & David B. Clark. (2003). Tropical rain forest tree growth and atmospheric carbon dynamics linked to interannual temperature variation during 1984–2000. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(10). 5852–5857. 389 indexed citations

Hunt, E. Raymond, et al.. (2003). The influence of seasonal water availability on global C3 versus C4 grassland biomass and its implications for climate change research. Ecological Modelling. 163(1-2). 153–173. 103 indexed citations

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Nemani, Ramakrishna, Charles D. Keeling, Hirofumi Hashimoto, et al.. (2003). Climate-Driven Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 1982 to 1999. Science. 300(5625). 1560–1563. 2897 indexed citations breakdown →

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Keeling, Charles D. & Stephen C. Piper. (2001). Exchanges of Atmospheric CO2 and 13CO2 with the Terrestrial Biosphere and Oceans from 1978 to 2000. IV. Critical Overview. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 5 indexed citations

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Keeling, Charles D., Stephen C. Piper, Robert Bacastow, et al.. (2001). Exchanges of Atmospheric CO2 and 13CO2 with the Terrestrial Biosphere and Oceans from 1978 to 2000. I. Global Aspects. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 172 indexed citations

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Piper, Stephen C., et al.. (2001). Exchanges of Atmospheric CO2 and 13CO2 with the Terrestrial Biosphere and Oceans from 1978 to 2000. II. A Three-Dimensional Tracer Inversion Model to Deduce Regional Fluxes. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 6 indexed citations

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Hunt, E. Raymond, et al.. (2001). A globally applicable model of daily solar irradiance estimated from air temperature and precipitation data. 1 indexed citations

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Hunt, E. Raymond, et al.. (2001). A globally applicable model of daily solar irradiance estimated from air temperature and precipitation data. Ecological Modelling. 143(3). 227–243. 108 indexed citations

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Law, R. M., P. J. Rayner, Scott Denning, et al.. (1996). Variations in modeled atmospheric transport of carbon dioxide and the consequences for CO₂ inversions. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 10(4). 783–796. 138 indexed citations

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Hunt, E. Raymond, et al.. (1996). Global net carbon exchange and intra‐annual atmospheric CO₂ concentrations predicted by an ecosystem process model and three‐dimensional atmospheric transport model. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 10(3). 431–456. 155 indexed citations

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Piper, Stephen C., et al.. (1996). A gridded global data set of daily temperature and precipitation for terrestrial biospheric modeling. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 10(4). 757–782. 48 indexed citations

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Kohlmaier, G. H., Roger Revelle, Charles D. Keeling, & Stephen C. Piper. (1991). Reply to Idso. Tellus B. 43(3). 342–342. 3 indexed citations

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Piper, Stephen C.. (1984). Biology of the Marine Intertidal Mollusc Nuttallina, with Special Reference to Vertical Zonation, Taxonomy and Biogeography. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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