Taylor Smith

1.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 967 citations indexed

About

Taylor Smith is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Taylor Smith has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 967 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Atmospheric Science, 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Taylor Smith's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (10 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (8 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (7 papers). Taylor Smith is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (10 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (8 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (7 papers). Taylor Smith collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Taylor Smith's co-authors include Bodo Bookhagen, Niklas Boers, John S. Steinhart, L. T. Aldrich, Aljoscha Rheinwalt, David E. James, M. A. Tuve, Forest Cannon, Jean‐Philippe Avouac and Chris A. Boulton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Taylor Smith

35 papers receiving 903 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.

Global vegetation resilience linked to water availability and variability

2023 138 citations Taylor Smith, Niklas Boers Nature Communications profile →
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience

2022 132 citations Taylor Smith, Niklas Boers et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Taylor Smith Germany	16	413	400	159	136	94	42	967
Shijie Wang China	16	214 0.5×	356 0.9×	272 1.7×	98 0.7×	43 0.5×	87	915
Teruki Oikawa Japan	20	518 1.3×	359 0.9×	460 2.9×	131 1.0×	68 0.7×	63	1.2k
Xiong Xiao China	17	238 0.6×	280 0.7×	131 0.8×	124 0.9×	59 0.6×	75	796
Cheng China	13	110 0.3×	260 0.7×	106 0.7×	115 0.8×	100 1.1×	169	741
Ping He China	20	369 0.9×	139 0.3×	495 3.1×	271 2.0×	70 0.7×	103	1.2k
J. Marquínez Spain	13	263 0.6×	286 0.7×	416 2.6×	182 1.3×	21 0.2×	27	1.0k
Mark Falvey Chile	17	842 2.0×	1.0k 2.6×	39 0.2×	130 1.0×	49 0.5×	31	1.6k
Anoop Kumar Singh India	18	175 0.4×	417 1.0×	147 0.9×	67 0.5×	13 0.1×	60	860
Stefano Serafin Austria	18	782 1.9×	913 2.3×	52 0.3×	65 0.5×	53 0.6×	37	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Taylor Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Taylor Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Taylor Smith

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Taylor Smith. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Taylor Smith 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 Taylor Smith. Taylor Smith 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

Boers, Niklas, Teng Liu, Sebastian Bathiany, et al.. (2025). Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements. Nature Geoscience. 18(10). 949–960.

Nendel, Claas, et al.. (2025). The potential of Sentinel-1 time series for large-scale assessment of maize and wheat phenology across Germany. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 62(1).

Smith, Taylor, Adedapo N. Awolayo, Stephen E. Grasby, & Benjamin M. Tutolo. (2024). Investigation of geochemically induced permeability alteration in geothermal reservoirs and its implications for sustainable geothermal energy production. Applied Geochemistry. 175. 106193–106193.

Smith, Taylor, et al.. (2024). Contemporary outcomes after endoscopic vein harvesting for lower extremity bypass in a multicenter subspecialty practice. 2. 100132–100132. 1 indexed citations

Belnap, R. Kirk, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the Influence of Tool Material on the Performance of Refill Friction Stir Spot Welds in AA2029. Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing. 8(3). 88–88. 7 indexed citations

Bathiany, Sebastian, Robbin Bastiaansen, Ana Bastos, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem Resilience Monitoring and Early Warning Using Earth Observation Data: Challenges and Outlook. Surveys in Geophysics. 46(2). 265–301. 11 indexed citations

Bathiany, Sebastian, et al.. (2024). Spatial Correlation Increase in Single‐Sensor Satellite Data Reveals Loss of Amazon Rainforest Resilience. Earth s Future. 12(7). 2 indexed citations

Lenton, Timothy M., Jesse F. Abrams, Annett Bartsch, et al.. (2024). Remotely sensing potential climate change tipping points across scales. Nature Communications. 15(1). 343–343. 38 indexed citations

Belnap, R. Kirk, Taylor Smith, A. W. Wright, & Yuri Hovanski. (2024). Considerations for Tungsten Carbide as Tooling in RFSSW. Materials. 17(15). 3799–3799. 1 indexed citations

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Avital, Eldad, et al.. (2023). Conceptual Design of a UVC-LED Air Purifier to Reduce Airborne Pathogen Transmission—A Feasibility Study. Fluids. 8(4). 111–111. 5 indexed citations

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Smith, Taylor, Ruxandra-Maria Zotta, Chris A. Boulton, et al.. (2023). Reliability of resilience estimation based on multi-instrument time series. Earth System Dynamics. 14(1). 173–183. 26 indexed citations

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Bertges, Daniel J., Jens Eldrup‐Jorgensen, Mark K. Eskandari, et al.. (2023). The Vascular Quality Initiative assessment of the Bard Lifestent for the treatment of popliteal artery occlusive disease. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 78(6). 1489–1496.e1. 1 indexed citations

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Kuester, Theres, et al.. (2023). Potential of Optical Spaceborne Sensors for the Differentiation of Plastics in the Environment. Remote Sensing. 15(8). 2020–2020. 7 indexed citations

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Smith, Taylor & Niklas Boers. (2023). Global vegetation resilience linked to water availability and variability. Nature Communications. 14(1). 498–498. 138 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smith, Taylor, Aljoscha Rheinwalt, & Bodo Bookhagen. (2021). Topography and climate in the upper Indus Basin: Mapping elevation-snow cover relationships. The Science of The Total Environment. 786. 147363–147363. 2 indexed citations

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Reddy, K. R., Lilit Vardanyan, Jing Hu, et al.. (2020). Soil phosphorus forms and storage in stormwater treatment areas of the Everglades: Influence of vegetation and nutrient loading. The Science of The Total Environment. 725. 138442–138442. 30 indexed citations

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Smith, Taylor, Aljoscha Rheinwalt, & Bodo Bookhagen. (2019). Determining the optimal grid resolution for topographic analysis on an airborne lidar dataset. Earth Surface Dynamics. 7(2). 475–489. 19 indexed citations

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Smith, Taylor, Bodo Bookhagen, & Aljoscha Rheinwalt. (2017). Spatiotemporal patterns of High Mountain Asia's snowmelt season identified with an automated snowmelt detection algorithm, 1987–2016. The cryosphere. 11(5). 2329–2343. 36 indexed citations

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Smith, Taylor, Bodo Bookhagen, & Forest Cannon. (2015). Improving semi-automated glacier mapping with a multi-method approach: applications in central Asia. The cryosphere. 9(5). 1747–1759. 31 indexed citations

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Smith, Taylor, et al.. (1981). Sensor Subsystem for the Next Generation Tide and Water Level Measurement System. 54. 1100–1105. 4 indexed citations

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