William R. Emanuel

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

William R. Emanuel is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, William R. Emanuel has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 5 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in William R. Emanuel's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Climate variability and models (7 papers). William R. Emanuel is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (16 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Climate variability and models (7 papers). William R. Emanuel collaborates with scholars based in United States. William R. Emanuel's co-authors include W. M. Post, Alan G. Stangenberger, Paul J. Zinke, Herman H. Shugart, A. W. King, Thomas M. Smith, F. I. Woodward, Donald L. DeAngelis, Tsung‐Hung Peng and Virginia H. Dale and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Ecology and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

In The Last Decade

William R. Emanuel

36 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Soil carbon pools and world life zones 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 1990 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Soil carbon pools and world life zones
    1982 1.8k citations W. M. Post, William R. Emanuel et al. profile →
  2. The global carbon cycle.
    1990 692 citations W. M. Post, Tsung‐Hung Peng et al. American Scientist profile →

Peers

William R. Emanuel
G. Stanhill Israel
J. M. Massheder United Kingdom
D. W. Valentine United States
Timothy G. F. Kittel United States
Annette L. Schloss United States
Anders Ahlström Sweden
Honglin He China
Antônio Donato Nobre Brazil
T. Meixner United States
Jim Wallace Australia
G. Stanhill Israel
William R. Emanuel
Citations per year, relative to William R. Emanuel William R. Emanuel (= 1×) peers G. Stanhill

Countries citing papers authored by William R. Emanuel

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Fields of papers citing papers by William R. Emanuel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William R. Emanuel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William R. Emanuel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William R. Emanuel 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 William R. Emanuel. William R. Emanuel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Emanuel, William R., et al.. (2013). Land Cover Data for Global-Scale Applications. AGUFM. 2013. 1 indexed citations
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Dawson, Maurice, Darrell Norman Burrell, & William R. Emanuel. (2011). Utilization of e-Learning Tools, Virtual Machines, & Open Source Software to Enhance Graduate Systems Engineering Programs. Global Learn. 2011(1). 2088–2091. 1 indexed citations
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Emanuel, William R., et al.. (2011). CLARIFYING SOCIETIES' NEED FOR UNDERSTANDING SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS.. 4(9). 1 indexed citations
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Johnston, Carol A., Peter M. Groffman, David D. Breshears, et al.. (2004). Carbon cycling in soil. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2(10). 522–528. 110 indexed citations
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Drewry, D., Paul F. Reynolds, & William R. Emanuel. (2002). Optimization and response surfaces: an optimization-based multi-resolution simulation methodology. Winter Simulation Conference. 467–475. 6 indexed citations
6.
Emanuel, William R.. (1996). Modeling carbon cycling on disturbed landscapes. Ecological Modelling. 89(1-3). 1–12. 2 indexed citations
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King, A. W., William R. Emanuel, Stan D. Wullschleger, & W. M. Post. (1995). In search of the missing carbon sink: a model of terrestrial biospheric response to land-use change and atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>. Tellus B. 47(4). 501–501. 31 indexed citations
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King, A. W., William R. Emanuel, & W. M. Post. (1992). Projecting future concentrations of atmospheric CO2 with global carbon cycle models: The importance of simulating historical changes. Environmental Management. 16(1). 91–108. 33 indexed citations
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King, A. W., William R. Emanuel, & W. M. Post. (1992). A dynamic model of terrestrial carbon cycling response to land-use change. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 3 indexed citations
10.
Post, W. M., Tsung‐Hung Peng, William R. Emanuel, et al.. (1990). The global carbon cycle.. American Scientist. 78(4). 310–326. 692 indexed citations breakdown →
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King, A. W., et al.. (1988). Linking mechanistic models of tree physiology with models of forest dynamics: Problems of temporal scale. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 13 indexed citations
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Shugart, Herman H. & William R. Emanuel. (1985). Carbon dioxide increase: the implications at the ecosystem level*. Plant Cell & Environment. 8(6). 381–386. 24 indexed citations
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Huff, D.D., R. V. O’Neill, William R. Emanuel, Jerry W. Elwood, & J. Denis Newbold. (1982). Flow variability and hillslope hydrology. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 7(1). 91–94. 38 indexed citations
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Killough, G.G. & William R. Emanuel. (1981). A comparison of several models of carbon turnover in the ocean with respect to their distributions of transit time and age, and responses to atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> and <sup>14</sup>C. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 33(3). 274–274. 17 indexed citations
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Voris, P. Van, Robert V. O’Neill, William R. Emanuel, & Herman H. Shugart. (1980). Functional Complexity and Ecosystem Stability. Ecology. 61(6). 1352–1360. 78 indexed citations
16.
Chan, Y.‐H., Jerry S. Olson, & William R. Emanuel. (1980). Land use and energy scenarios affecting the global carbon cycle. Environment International. 4(2). 189–206. 9 indexed citations
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Emanuel, William R., D.C. West, & Herman H. Shugart. (1978). Spectral analysis of forest model time series. Ecological Modelling. 4(4). 313–326. 15 indexed citations
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Emanuel, William R., et al.. (1978). Optimal siting of energy facilities for minimum air pollutant exposure on a regional scale. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 7. 2 indexed citations
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Mulholland, Robert J., et al.. (1975). Modelling the global carbon cycle†. International Journal of Systems Science. 6(10). 965–976. 12 indexed citations
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Emanuel, William R. & Robert J. Mulholland. (1974). Energy based dynamic model for Lago pond, Georgia. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 12(12). 354–362. 1 indexed citations

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