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D-Index
105
Citations
54938
World Ranking
263
National Ranking
120

Anatoly A. Gitelson publications per year

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1970 2025

260 publications in total across all disciplines

Anatoly A. Gitelson publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anatoly A. Gitelson sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 249 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Anatoly A. Gitelson D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anatoly A. Gitelson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Anatoly A. Gitelson is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to various subfields including Ecology, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics related to plant and ecosystem analysis, remote sensing, and environmental monitoring. Key research themes include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Remote Sensing and Land Use
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Anatoly A. Gitelson has published articles in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Plant Physiology
  • Scientific Data
  • Photosynthesis Research
  • Science of Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment

Their recent papers include:

  • "GLORIA - A globally representative hyperspectral in situ dataset for optical sensing of water quality," 2023, Scientific Data
  • "Evaluating plant photosynthetic traits via absorption coefficient in the photosynthetically active radiation region," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Foliar absorption coefficient derived from reflectance spectra: A gauge of the efficiency of in situ light-capture by different pigment groups," 2020, Journal of Plant Physiology
  • "Revisiting the use of red and near-infrared reflectances in vegetation studies and numerical climate models," 2021, Science of Remote Sensing
  • "Towards a generic approach to remote non-invasive estimation of foliar carotenoid-to-chlorophyll ratio," 2020, Journal of Plant Physiology

Collaboration has been an important aspect of their research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Alexei Solovchenko
  • Timothy J. Arkebauer
  • Andrés Viña
  • Yoshio Inoue
  • Moritz K. Lehmann

Best Publications

  • Use of a green channel in remote sensing of global vegetation from EOS- MODIS

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Yoram J. Kaufman;Mark N. Merzlyak

  • Relationships between leaf chlorophyll content and spectral reflectance and algorithms for non-destructive chlorophyll assessment in higher plant leaves

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Yuri Gritz;Mark N. Merzlyak

  • Novel algorithms for remote estimation of vegetation fraction

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Yoram J. Kaufman;Robert Stark;Don Rundquist

  • Remote estimation of canopy chlorophyll content in crops

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Andrés Viña;Verónica Ciganda;Donald C. Rundquist

  • Spectral reflectance changes associated with autumn senescence of Aesculus hippocastanum L. and Acer platanoides L. leaves. Spectral features and relation to chlorophyll estimation

    Anatoly Gitelson;Mark N. Merzlyak

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Non‐destructive optical detection of pigment changes during leaf senescence and fruit ripening

    Mark N. Merzlyak;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Olga B. Chivkunova;Victor Yu. Rakitin

  • Wide Dynamic Range Vegetation Index for Remote Quantification of Biophysical Characteristics of Vegetation

    Anatoly A. Gitelson

  • PROSPECT-4 and 5: Advances in the leaf optical properties model separating photosynthetic pigments

    Jean Baptiste Feret;Jean Baptiste Feret;Christophe François;Gregory P. Asner;Anatoly A. Gitelson

  • Signature Analysis of Leaf Reflectance Spectra: Algorithm Development for Remote Sensing of Chlorophyll

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Mark N. Merzlyak

  • Remote estimation of chlorophyll content in higher plant leaves

    A. A. Gitelson;M. N. Merzlyak

  • Quantitative estimation of chlorophyll-a using reflectance spectra : experiments with autumn chestnut and maple leaves

    Anatoly Gitelson;Mark N. Merzlyak

  • Assessing carotenoid content in plant leaves with reflectance spectroscopy

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Yoav Zur;Olga B. Chivkunova;Mark N. Merzlyak

  • Remote estimation of leaf area index and green leaf biomass in maize canopies

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Andrés Viña;Timothy J. Arkebauer;Donald C. Rundquist

  • Comparison of different vegetation indices for the remote assessment of green leaf area index of crops

    Andrés Viña;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Anthony L. Nguy-Robertson;Yi Peng

  • Three-band model for noninvasive estimation of chlorophyll, carotenoids, and anthocyanin contents in higher plant leaves

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Galina P. Keydan;Mark N. Merzlyak

  • The peak near 700 nm on radiance spectra of algae and water: relationships of its magnitude and position with chlorophyll concentration

    A. Gitelson

  • Remote estimation of crop and grass chlorophyll and nitrogen content using red-edge bands on Sentinel-2 and -3

    Jan G. P. W. Clevers;Anatoly A. Gitelson

  • Retrieval of foliar information about plant pigment systems from high resolution spectroscopy

    Susan L. Ustin;Anatoly A. Gitelson;Stéphane Jacquemoud;Michael Schaepman

  • A simple semi-analytical model for remote estimation of chlorophyll-a in turbid waters: Validation

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Giorgio Dall'Olmo;Giorgio Dall'Olmo;Wesley Moses;Donald C. Rundquist

  • Application of Spectral Remote Sensing for Agronomic Decisions

    J. L. Hatfield;Anatoly A. Gitelson;James S. Schepers;C. L. Walthall

  • Remote sensing of chlorophyll concentration in higher plant leaves

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Mark N. Merzlyak

  • PROSPECT-D: towards modeling leaf optical properties through a complete lifecycle

    J.-B. Féret;A.A. Gitelson;A.A. Gitelson;S.D. Noble;S. Jacquemoud

  • Annual carbon dioxide exchange in irrigated and rainfed maize-based agroecosystems

    Shashi B. Verma;Achim Dobermann;Kenneth G. Cassman;Daniel T. Walters

  • Review of constituent retrieval in optically deep and complex waters from satellite imagery

    Daniel Odermatt;Anatoly Gitelson;Vittorio Ernesto Brando;Michael Schaepman

  • Remote chlorophyll-a retrieval in turbid, productive estuaries : Chesapeake Bay case study

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;John F. Schalles;Christine M. Hladik

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald C. Rundquist
Donald C. Rundquist University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Timothy J. Arkebauer
Timothy J. Arkebauer University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Andrés Viña
Andrés Viña Michigan State University
Mark N. Merzlyak
Mark N. Merzlyak Lomonosov Moscow State University
Andrew E. Suyker
Andrew E. Suyker University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Shashi B. Verma
Shashi B. Verma University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Alexei Solovchenko
Alexei Solovchenko Lomonosov Moscow State University
Arnon Karnieli
Arnon Karnieli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
James S. Schepers
James S. Schepers University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Giorgio Dall'Olmo
Giorgio Dall'Olmo Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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