2026 Ari Jumpponen: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	70	699	644	203	181	194	21331
Ecology and Evolution	70	1352	1290	499	469	184	21384

Ari Jumpponen publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ari Jumpponen sits on this spectrum.

36 publications 467+

This scientist: 194 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Ari Jumpponen D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ari Jumpponen sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ari Jumpponen is affiliated with Kansas State University in the United States. Their research spans a variety of fields focused on environmental and earth sciences, including several subfields and topics related to fungal diversity, microbial ecology, and geophysical measurements.

Their main fields of study include:

Environmental Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader fields, their work covers important subfields such as:

Environmental Chemistry
Geophysics
Plant Science
Ecology
Astronomy and Astrophysics

The primary research topics connected to their publications are:

Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
Seismic Waves and Analysis
Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Dynamics
Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Ari Jumpponen has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

William Nelson
Janet Jansson
Kirsten Hofmockel
Arunima Bhattacharjee
Christopher Anderton

Their recent publications reflect a focus on fungal diversity, environmental impacts of fire, microbial communities, and ecological changes. Noteworthy papers include:

"Fire as a driver of fungal diversity - A synthesis of current knowledge", 2022, Mycologia
"Repeated fire shifts carbon and nitrogen cycling by changing plant inputs and soil decomposition across ecosystems", 2020, Ecological Monographs
"Long-term biodiversity intervention shapes health-associated commensal microbiota among urban day-care children", 2021, Environment International
"Host-Environment Interplay Shapes Fungal Diversity in Mosquitoes", 2021, mSphere
"Experimental drought re-ordered assemblages of root-associated fungi across North American grasslands", 2020, Journal of Ecology

Jumpponen's work has appeared frequently in several publication venues, including:

OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Mycologia
Environment International
Forest Ecology and Management

Best Publications

Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands

A. Hector;Bernhard Schmid;Carl Beierkuhnlein;M. C. Caldeira

2591
Citations
Improved software detection and extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from ribosomal ITS sequences of fungi and other eukaryotes for analysis of environmental sequencing data

Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Martin Ryberg;Martin Hartmann;Sara Branco

1304
Citations
Dark septate endophytes: a review of facultative biotrophic root-colonizing fungi

Ari Jumpponen;Ari Jumpponen;James M. Trappe

1073
Citations
Dark septate endophytes – are they mycorrhizal?

Ari Jumpponen

753
Citations
Seeking the elusive function of the root-colonising dark septate endophytic fungi

Keerthi Mandyam;Ari Jumpponen

709
Citations
Local adaptation enhances performance of common plant species

J. Joshi;B. Schmid;M. C. Caldeira;P. G. Dimitrakopoulos

610
Citations
General stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding

Andy Hector;Yann Hautier;Philippe Saner;Lukas Wacker

600
Citations
ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY MANIPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS

E. M. Spehn;A. Hector;J. Joshi;M. Scherer-Lorenzen

570
Citations
Fire frequency drives decadal changes in soil carbon and nitrogen and ecosystem productivity

Adam F. A. Pellegrini;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Sarah E. Hobbie;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich

511
Citations
Massively parallel 454 sequencing indicates hyperdiverse fungal communities in temperate Quercus macrocarpa phyllosphere

A. Jumpponen;K. L. Jones;K. L. Jones

487
Citations
The role of legumes as a component of biodiversity in a cross‐European study of grassland biomass nitrogen

E. M. Spehn;M. Scherer-Lorenzen;B. Schmid;A. Hector

467
Citations
No Consistent Effect of Plant Diversity on Productivity

M. A. Huston;L. W. Aarssen;M. P. Austin;B. S. Cade

465
Citations
DNA metabarcoding-Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions.

Lucie Zinger;Aurélie Bonin;Inger G. Alsos;Miklós Bálint

407
Citations
The avian gut microbiota: community, physiology and function in wild birds

Kirsten Grond;Brett K. Sandercock;Brett K. Sandercock;Ari Jumpponen;Lydia H. Zeglin

377
Citations
Microbiome Networks: A Systems Framework for Identifying Candidate Microbial Assemblages for Disease Management.

R. Poudel;A. Jumpponen;D. C. Schlatter;T. C. Paulitz

332
Citations
Ecosystem properties and microbial community changes in primary succession on a glacier forefront.

Rauni Ohtonen;Hannu Fritze;Taina Pennanen;Ari Jumpponen

313
Citations
Preserving accuracy in GenBank

Thomas D. Bruns;Meredith Blackwell;Ivan Edwards;Andy F.S. Taylor

273
Citations
Seasonally dynamic fungal communities in the Quercus macrocarpa phyllosphere differ between urban and nonurban environments

A. Jumpponen;K. L. Jones;K. L. Jones

250
Citations
Scraping the bottom of the barrel: are rare high throughput sequences artifacts?

Shawn Paul Brown;Allison M. Veach;Anne R. Rigdon-Huss;Kirsten Grond

244
Citations
An open source software package for automated extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from fungal ITS sequences for use in high-throughput community assays and molecular ecology

R. Henrik Nilsson;R. Henrik Nilsson;Vilmar Veldre;Martin Hartmann;Martin Unterseher

234
Citations
Five simple guidelines for establishing basic authenticity and reliability of newly generated fungal ITS sequences.

R. Henrik Nilsson;Leho Tedersoo;Kessy Abarenkov;Martin Ryberg

232
Citations
Mycorrhizal functioning of Phialocephala fortinii with Pinus contorta on glacier forefront soil: interactions with soil nitrogen and organic matter.

A. Jumpponen;Kim G. Mattson;James M. Trappe

232
Citations
Species abundance distributions and richness estimations in fungal metagenomics--lessons learned from community ecology.

Martin Unterseher;Ari Jumpponen;Maarja Öpik;Leho Tedersoo

223
Citations