William K. Smith

12.8k citations

117 papers · 6.8k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 43

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Climate variability and models
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 1%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 84
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 60
- Climate variability and models 32
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 24
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 7
Ecological Modeling 8
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 8

Co-authors: Cory C. Cleveland Sasha C. Reed Steven W. Running William R. Wieder Katherine EO Todd-Brown Matthew P. Dannenberg Joel A. Biederman Lixin Wang
Journals: Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences (7 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (7 papers)Nature Climate Change (6 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 papers)Remote Sensing (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States China United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

William K. Smith

112 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems 2023 · 124 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature Climate Change
2021 Nature Communications
2021 Nature Climate Change
2019 Remote Sensing of Environment
2018 Nature Climate Change
2018 Nature
2017 Ecosystem Services
2015 Nature Geoscience

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Co-authors

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1	Effects of Hot Versus Dry Vapor Pressure Deficit on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Miriam R. Johnston, Mallory L. Barnes, Yakir Preisler, William K. Smith, Joel A. Biederman, Russell L. Scott, Park Williams, Matthew P. Dannenberg	2025	2
2	Increasing Soil Water Drought in Response to Altered Precipitation Timing Across the Western United States Ecohydrology ·Fangyue Zhang, Joel A. Biederman, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, John B. Bradford, Sasha C. Reed, William K. Smith	2024	0
3	Canopy temperature dynamics are closely aligned with ecosystem water availability across a water- to energy-limited gradient Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Mostafa Javadian, Russell L. Scott, William Woodgate, Andrew D. Richardson, Matthew P. Dannenberg, William K. Smith	2024	4
4	Reply to Comment on “Five Decades of Observed Daily Precipitation Reveal Longer and More Variable Drought Events Across Much of the Western United States” Geophysical Research Letters ·Joel A. Biederman, Fangyue Zhang, Matthew P. Dannenberg, Dong Yan, Sasha C. Reed, William K. Smith	2024	2
5	Integrating State Data Assimilation and Innovative Model Parameterization Reduces Simulated Carbon Uptake in the Arctic and Boreal Region Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Susanto Dey, A. M. Fox, Hamid Dashti, Mary Makokha, W. O. Gallery, William K. Smith, Brett Raczka, J. G. Anderson, Alistair Rogers, D. J. Moore	2024	1
6	Direct and Legacy Effects of Varying Cool‐Season Precipitation Totals on Ecosystem Carbon Flux in a Semi‐Arid Mixed Grassland Plant Cell & Environment ·Fangyue Zhang, Joel A. Biederman, Chandran Rr, Daniel L. Potts, Sasha C. Reed, William K. Smith	2024	2
7	Using high frequency digital repeat photography to quantify the sensitivity of a semi-arid grassland ecosystem to the temporal repackaging of precipitation Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Fangyue Zhang, Joel A. Biederman, Mary Makokha, Chandran Rr, Dong Yan, Mostafa Javadian, Daniel L. Potts, William K. Smith	2023	4
8	Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 U.S. Southwest hot drought Global Change Biology ·Matthew P. Dannenberg, Dong Yan, Mallory L. Barnes, William K. Smith, Miriam R. Johnston, Russell L. Scott, Joel A. Biederman, John F. Knowles, Xian Wang, Tomer Duman, M. E. Litvak, John S. Kimball, Park Williams, Yao Zhang	2022	91
9	Five Decades of Observed Daily Precipitation Reveal Longer and More Variable Drought Events Across Much of the Western United States Geophysical Research Letters ·Fangyue Zhang, Joel A. Biederman, Matthew P. Dannenberg, Dong Yan, Sasha C. Reed, William K. Smith	2021	128
10	Large‐Scale Reductions in Terrestrial Carbon Uptake Following Central Pacific El Niño Geophysical Research Letters ·Matthew P. Dannenberg, William K. Smith, Yulong Zhang, Conghe Song, D. N. Huntzinger, D. J. Moore	2021	13
11	Precipitation temporal repackaging into fewer, larger storms delayed seasonal timing of peak photosynthesis in a semi‐arid grassland Functional Ecology ·Fangyue Zhang, Joel A. Biederman, Chandran Rr, Daniel L. Potts, Mary Makokha, Yanbin Hao, William K. Smith	2021	18
12	Tree-ring isotopes capture interannual vegetation productivity dynamics at the biome scale Nature Communications ·Mathieu Lévesque, Laia Andreu‐Hayles, William K. Smith, Park Williams, Martina L. Hobi, Brady Allred, Neil Pederson	2019	45
13	Chlorophyll Fluorescence Better Captures Seasonal and Interannual Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics Across Dryland Ecosystems of Southwestern North America Geophysical Research Letters ·William K. Smith, Joel A. Biederman, Russell L. Scott, D. J. Moore, Mingzhu He, John S. Kimball, Dong Yan, Amy Hudson, Mallory L. Barnes, Natasha MacBean, A. M. Fox, M. E. Litvak	2018	121
14	Accelerating net terrestrial carbon uptake during the warming hiatus due to reduced respiration Nature Climate Change ·Ashley P. Ballantyne, William K. Smith, William R. L. Anderegg, Pekka E. Kauppi, Jorge L. Sarmiento, Pieter P. Tans, Elena Shevliakova, Yude Pan, Benjamin Poulter, Alessandro Anav, Pierre Friedlingstein, R. A. Houghton, Steven W. Running	2017	158
15	Decreasing net primary production due to drought and slight decreases in solar radiation in China from 2000 to 2012 Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Junbang Wang, Jinwei Dong, Yonghong Yi, Guihua Lu, Jared W. Oyler, William K. Smith, Maosheng Zhao, Jiangui Liu, Steven W. Running	2017	93
16	Evidence of a robust relationship between solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary productivity across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·William K. Smith, Joel A. Biederman, Russell L. Scott, D. J. Moore, John S. Kimball, Dwy Kartini Endah Sundawa, Dongna Yan, Amy Hudson, Mallory L. Barnes, Natasha MacBean, A. M. Fox, M. E. Litvak	2017	2
17	Understanding the relationship between vegetation phenology and productivity across key dryland ecosystem types through the integration of PhenoCam, satellite, and eddy covariance data AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Dong Yan, Russell L. Scott, D. J. Moore, Joel A. Biederman, William K. Smith	2017	1
18	Precipitation variability on global pasturelands may affect food security in livestock-dependent regions AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Lindsey Sloat, James Gerber, Leah Samberg, William K. Smith, Paul West, Mario Herrero, Z. Ziobrowski, Cécile Godé, Krishna Kishore Adireddy	2016	1
19	A comparison of plot‐based satellite and Earth system model estimates of tropical forest net primary production Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Cory C. Cleveland, Philip Taylor, K. Dana Chadwick, Kyla M. Dahlin, Christopher E. Doughty, Yadvinder Malhi, William K. Smith, Benjamin W. Sullivan, William R. Wieder, Alan R. Townsend	2015	56
20	Comparison of Gross Primary Productivity Derived from GIMMS NDVI3g, GIMMS, and MODIS in Southeast Asia Remote Sensing ·Junbang Wang, Jinwei Dong, Jiyuan Liu, Mei Huang, Guicai Li, Steven W. Running, William K. Smith, W. Harris, Nobuko Saigusa, Hiroaki Kondo, Yunfen Liu, Takashi Hirano, Xiangming Xiao	2014	63

About William K. Smith

William K. Smith is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 117 papers that have together received 6.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (60 papers), Climate variability and models (32 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (27 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (24 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (12 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (4.5k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (1.2k citations), Soil Science (937 citations), Ecology (2.4k citations) and Ecological Modeling (396 citations). William K. Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Cory C. Cleveland, Sasha C. Reed, Steven W. Running, William R. Wieder, Katherine EO Todd-Brown, Matthew P. Dannenberg, Joel A. Biederman, Lixin Wang, D. J. Moore and Honglang Wang. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Geophysical Research Letters, Nature Climate Change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Remote Sensing.

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