Stephen Plummer

7.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
60 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Stephen Plummer is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Plummer has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Ecology, 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 24 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stephen Plummer's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (33 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (16 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (15 papers). Stephen Plummer is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (33 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (16 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (15 papers). Stephen Plummer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and France. Stephen Plummer's co-authors include Paul J. Curran, Frédéric Baret, Gabriela Schaepman‐Strub, Hongliang Fang, Terence P. Dawson, F. Mark Danson, Jennifer Dungan, Bruce A. Macler, Olivier Arinò and Peter North and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Plummer

57 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

An Overview of Global Leaf Area Index (LAI): Methods, Products, Validation, and Applications

2019 600 citations Frédéric Baret, Stephen Plummer et al. profile →
The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle

2011 525 citations Heiko Balzter, Stephen Plummer et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Plummer United Kingdom	33	3.1k	2.7k	1.9k	1.1k	1.1k	60	5.0k
Donald W. Deering United States	22	3.5k 1.1×	2.3k 0.8×	2.1k 1.1×	992 0.9×	714 0.7×	62	4.7k
Peter North United Kingdom	38	3.0k 1.0×	3.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	96	5.0k
Nadine Gobron Italy	47	3.9k 1.2×	4.1k 1.5×	2.3k 1.2×	808 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	133	6.0k
Roberto Colombo Italy	47	4.2k 1.3×	3.9k 1.4×	1.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.5×	1.5k 1.4×	150	6.9k
Hongliang Fang China	36	3.4k 1.1×	2.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	97	5.0k
Gérard Dedieu France	37	4.3k 1.4×	3.8k 1.4×	2.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.4×	104	6.7k
Zbyněk Malenovský Australia	30	3.3k 1.1×	1.9k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	478 0.5×	89	4.7k
Micol Rossini Italy	40	3.8k 1.2×	3.3k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	1.6k 1.5×	1.0k 1.0×	119	5.5k
C. L. Walthall United States	29	2.7k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	781 0.7×	72	4.5k
Geli Zhang China	36	4.0k 1.3×	3.9k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	894 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	86	6.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Plummer

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Jakob, Livia, et al.. (2021). Spatially and temporally resolved ice loss in High Mountain Asia and the Gulf of Alaska observed by CryoSat-2 swath altimetry between 2010 and 2019. The cryosphere. 15(4). 1845–1862. 48 indexed citations

Jakob, Livia, et al.. (2020). Ice loss in High Mountain Asia and the Gulf of Alaska observed byCryoSat-2 swath altimetry between 2010 and 2019. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 9 indexed citations

Schlögel, Romy, et al.. (2020). Changes in climate patterns and their association to natural hazard distribution in South Tyrol (Eastern Italian Alps). Scientific Reports. 10(1). 5022–5022. 39 indexed citations

Chuvieco, Emilio, Joshua Lizundia-Loiola, M. Lucrecia Pettinari, et al.. (2018). Generation and analysis of a new global burned area product based on MODIS 250 m reflectance bands and thermal anomalies. Earth system science data. 10(4). 2015–2031. 217 indexed citations

Plummer, Stephen, et al.. (2017). The ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI): A European contribution to the generation of the Global Climate Observing System. Remote Sensing of Environment. 203. 2–8. 113 indexed citations

Gobron, Nadine, Berrien Moore, Masakatsu Nakajima, et al.. (2014). CEOS Strategy for Carbon Observations from Space. cosp. 40. 9 indexed citations

Poulter, Benjamin, Philippe Ciais, E. L. Hodson, et al.. (2011). Plant functional type mapping for earth system models. Geoscientific model development. 4(4). 993–1010. 132 indexed citations

Pinty, B., Ioannis Andredakis, M. Clerici, et al.. (2011). Exploiting the MODIS albedos with the Two-stream Inversion Package (JRC-TIP): 1. Effective leaf area index, vegetation, and soil properties. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116(D9). 74 indexed citations

Pinty, B., Martin Jung, T. Kaminski, et al.. (2011). Evaluation of the JRC-TIP 0.01° products over a mid-latitude deciduous forest site. Remote Sensing of Environment. 115(12). 3567–3581. 33 indexed citations

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Garrigues, Sébastien, Roselyne Lacaze, Frédéric Baret, et al.. (2008). Validation and intercomparison of global Leaf Area Index products derived from remote sensing data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 113(G2). 392 indexed citations

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Plummer, Stephen, Olivier Arinò, & Ian McCallum. (2007). An update on the GLOBCARBON initiative: Multi-sensor estimation of global biophysical products for terrestrial carbon studies. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 1 indexed citations

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Arinò, Olivier, Franck Ranera, M. Leroy, et al.. (2007). GlobCover: ESA service for global land cover from MERIS. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 2412–2415. 246 indexed citations

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Deng, Feng, J.M. Chen, Stephen Plummer, Mingzhen Chen, & Jan Písek. (2006). Algorithm for global leaf area index retrieval using satellite imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 44(8). 2219–2229. 255 indexed citations

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Ranera, Franck, Stephen Plummer, & Olivier Arinò. (2005). A Pragmatic Solution for Cloud Detection and Removal in MERIS L1B data. ESASP. 597. 3 indexed citations

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Arinò, Olivier, et al.. (2005). Fire Disturbance: The Ten Years Time Series of the ATSR World Fire Atlas. ESASP. 597. 21 indexed citations

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Arinò, Olivier, Pierre Defourny, J. Latham, et al.. (2005). The GLOBCOVER Initiative. 597. 8 indexed citations

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Gaveau, David, Heiko Balzter, & Stephen Plummer. (2000). Boreal Forest INSAR Classification Properties. 450. 509. 2 indexed citations

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Danson, F. Mark & Stephen Plummer. (1995). Advances in environmental remote sensing. Oceanographic literature review. 8(43). 838. 65 indexed citations

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Atkinson, Peter M. & Stephen Plummer. (1993). The influence of the percentage cover and biomass of clover on the reflectance of mixed pasture. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 14(7). 1439–1444. 1 indexed citations

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Curran, Paul J., Jennifer Dungan, Bruce A. Macler, & Stephen Plummer. (1991). The effect of a red leaf pigment on the relationship between red edge and chlorophyll concentration. Remote Sensing of Environment. 35(1). 69–76. 183 indexed citations

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