Thomas A. M. Pugh

18.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
93 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas A. M. Pugh is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas A. M. Pugh has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 25 papers in Atmospheric Science and 22 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Thomas A. M. Pugh's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (19 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (17 papers). Thomas A. M. Pugh is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (22 papers), Climate change impacts on agriculture (19 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (17 papers). Thomas A. M. Pugh collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden. Thomas A. M. Pugh's co-authors include Almut Arneth, Christoph Müller, Christian Folberth, Joshua Elliott, Delphine Deryng, C. N. Hewitt, Erwin Schmid, A. R. MacKenzie, Nikolay Khabarov and Alex C. Ruane and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas A. M. Pugh

90 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison

2013 1.6k citations Joshua Elliott, Delphine Deryng et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Effectiveness of Green Infrastructure for Improvement of Air Quality in Urban Street Canyons

2012 480 citations Thomas A. M. Pugh, A. R. MacKenzie et al. profile →
Role of forest regrowth in global carbon sink dynamics

2019 442 citations Thomas A. M. Pugh, Mats Lindeskog et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Consistent negative response of US crops to high temperatures in observations and crop models

2017 349 citations Almut Arneth, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature Communications profile →
Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide

2022 280 citations Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, Thomas A. M. Pugh et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas A. M. Pugh United Kingdom	37	2.9k	1.8k	1.8k	1.1k	975	93	6.0k
Fulco Ludwig Netherlands	53	4.5k 1.6×	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	182	10.5k
Sibyll Schaphoff Germany	39	3.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	80	6.9k
Marco Bindi Italy	44	3.6k 1.2×	2.5k 1.4×	4.8k 2.7×	1.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.6×	165	9.0k
Gerardo Moreno Spain	45	3.0k 1.0×	785 0.4×	1.7k 1.0×	462 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	173	6.5k
Zehao Shen China	31	3.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	914 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.6×	133	6.3k
Marco Moriondo Italy	38	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	2.8k 1.6×	464 0.4×	1.2k 1.3×	131	5.5k
Miroslav Trnka Czechia	56	4.8k 1.6×	3.3k 1.8×	3.7k 2.1×	1.9k 1.8×	1.3k 1.3×	287	10.1k
G. Fischer Austria	20	2.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	787 0.4×	999 0.9×	636 0.7×	47	5.0k
Sally A. Power Australia	37	1.2k 0.4×	890 0.5×	1.9k 1.1×	464 0.4×	1.4k 1.4×	149	4.5k
Cheikh Mbow Senegal	36	2.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	587 0.3×	594 0.6×	2.2k 2.3×	142	6.2k

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Bowen, Leon, et al.. (2025). Reinforcement of GO composites using rigid and flexible crosslinkers. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 709. 136156–136156. 1 indexed citations

Robinson, Nathaniel, C. Ronnie Drever, David A. Gibbs, et al.. (2025). Protect young secondary forests for optimum carbon removal. Nature Climate Change. 15(7). 793–800. 4 indexed citations

Liu, Daijun, Chao Zhang, Romà Ogaya, et al.. (2025). World‐wide impacts of climate change and nitrogen deposition on vegetation structure, composition, and functioning of shrublands. New Phytologist. 247(3). 1117–1128. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Daijun, Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, Nezha Acil, et al.. (2024). Mapping multi-dimensional variability in water stress strategies across temperate forests. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8909–8909. 3 indexed citations

Pugh, Thomas A. M., Rupert Seidl, Daijun Liu, et al.. (2023). The anthropogenic imprint on temperate and boreal forest demography and carbon turnover. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(1). 100–115. 5 indexed citations

Lee, Heera, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Marco Patacca, et al.. (2023). Three billion new trees in the EU’s biodiversity strategy: low ambition, but better environmental outcomes?. Environmental Research Letters. 18(3). 34020–34020. 9 indexed citations

Anderegg, William R. L., Chao Wu, Nezha Acil, et al.. (2022). A climate risk analysis of Earth’s forests in the 21st century. Science. 377(6610). 1099–1103. 106 indexed citations

Franke, James, Christoph Müller, Sara Minoli, et al.. (2021). Agricultural breadbaskets shift poleward given adaptive farmer behavior under climate change. Global Change Biology. 28(1). 167–181. 40 indexed citations

Hopcroft, Peter O., Gilles Ramstein, Thomas A. M. Pugh, et al.. (2020). Polar amplification of Pliocene climate by elevated trace gas radiative forcing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(38). 23401–23407. 19 indexed citations

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Pugh, Thomas A. M., Almut Arneth, Markus Kautz, Benjamin Poulter, & Benjamin Smith. (2019). Important role of forest disturbances in the global biomass turnover and carbon sinks. Nature Geoscience. 12(9). 730–735. 146 indexed citations

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Krause, Andreas, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Anita D. Bayer, et al.. (2018). Large uncertainty in carbon uptake potential of land‐based climate‐change mitigation efforts. Global Change Biology. 24(7). 3025–3038. 61 indexed citations

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Alexander, Peter, Sam S. Rabin, Peter Anthoni, et al.. (2018). Adaptation of global land use and management intensity to changes in climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide. Global Change Biology. 24(7). 2791–2809. 60 indexed citations

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Schleussner, Carl‐Friedrich, Delphine Deryng, Christoph Müller, et al.. (2018). Crop productivity changes in 1.5 °C and 2 °C worlds under climate sensitivity uncertainty. Environmental Research Letters. 13(6). 64007–64007. 80 indexed citations

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Robinson, Derek T., Alan Di Vittorio, Peter Alexander, et al.. (2018). Modelling feedbacks between human and natural processes in the land system. Earth System Dynamics. 9(2). 895–914. 75 indexed citations

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Olin, Stefan, Mats Lindeskog, Thomas A. M. Pugh, et al.. (2015). Soil carbon management in large-scale Earth system modelling: implications for crop yields and nitrogen leaching. Earth System Dynamics. 6(2). 745–768. 50 indexed citations

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Brovkin, Victor, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Eddy Robertson, et al.. (2015). Cooling biogeophysical effect of large-scale tropical deforestation in three Earth System models. EGUGA. 2015. 8903. 1 indexed citations

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Rosenkranz, Maaria, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Jörg‐Peter Schnitzler, & Almut Arneth. (2014). Effect of land‐use change and management on biogenic volatile organic compound emissions – selecting climate‐smart cultivars. Plant Cell & Environment. 38(9). 1896–1912. 16 indexed citations

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Wyche, Kevin P., A. C. Ryan, C. N. Hewitt, et al.. (2014). Emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds and subsequent photochemical production of secondary organic aerosol in mesocosm studies of temperate and tropical plant species. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(23). 12781–12801. 26 indexed citations

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Pugh, Thomas A. M., A. R. MacKenzie, B. Langford, Pawel K. Misztal, & C. N. Hewitt. (2010). Estimating the segregation intensity of isoprene and OH over a South-East Asian tropical rainforest.. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1914. 1 indexed citations

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Langford, B., Pawel K. Misztal, Eiko Nemitz, et al.. (2010). Fluxes and concentrations of volatile organic compounds from a South-East Asian tropical rainforest. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 4 indexed citations

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