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Christiaan van der Tol

Christiaan van der Tol

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
11083
World Ranking
4914
National Ranking
130

Christiaan van der Tol 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 Christiaan van der Tol sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 146 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Christiaan van der Tol 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 Christiaan van der Tol sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christiaan van der Tol is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Plant Science, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

The main areas of research covered by van der Tol include Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement.

Van der Tol has authored and co-authored multiple papers, some of the recent publications are:

  • Multi-sensor spectral synergies for crop stress detection and monitoring in the optical domain: A review, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Fluorescence Correction Vegetation Index (FCVI): A physically based reflectance index to separate physiological and non-physiological information in far-red sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • SCOPE 2.0: a model to simulate vegetated land surface fluxes and satellite signals, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Impact of climate change-induced alterations in peatland vegetation phenology and composition on carbon balance, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Heatwave breaks down the linearity between sun-induced fluorescence and gross primary production, 2021, New Phytologist

Frequent co-authors of van der Tol include Peiqi Yang, Egor Prikaziuk, Zhongbo Su, Uwe Rascher, and Yijian Zeng.

Frequent venues for publication are:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • Linking chlorophyll a fluorescence to photosynthesis for remote sensing applications: mechanisms and challenges

    Albert Porcar-Castell;Esa Tyystjärvi;Jon Atherton;Christiaan van der Tol

  • An integrated model of soil-canopy spectral radiances, photosynthesis, fluorescence, temperature and energy balance

    C. van der Tol;W. Verhoef;J. Timmermans;A. Verhoef

  • Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) in vegetation: 50 years of progress.

    Gina H. Mohammed;Roberto Colombo;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Uwe Rascher

  • Quantifying Vegetation Biophysical Variables from Imaging Spectroscopy Data: A Review on Retrieval Methods

    Jochem Verrelst;Zbynek Malenovsky;Zbynek Malenovsky;Christiaan van der Tol;Gustau Camps-Valls

  • Forest productivity and water stress in Amazonia: observations from GOSAT chlorophyll fluorescence

    Jung-Eun Lee;Christian Frankenberg;Christiaan van der Tol;Joseph A. Berry

  • Models of fluorescence and photosynthesis for interpreting measurements of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence.

    C. van der Tol;J. A. Berry;P. K. E. Campbell;U. Rascher

  • Far-red sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence shows ecosystem-specific relationships to gross primary production: An assessment based on observational and modeling approaches

    Alexander Damm;Luis Guanter;Eugénie Paul-Limoges;C van der Tol

  • Estimation of vegetation photosynthetic capacity from space-based measurements of chlorophyll fluorescence for terrestrial biosphere models

    Yongguang Zhang;Luis Guanter;Joseph A. Berry;Joanna Joiner

  • Global sensitivity analysis of the SCOPE model: What drives simulated canopy-leaving sun-induced fluorescence?

    Jochem Verrelst;Juan Pablo Rivera;Christiaan van der Tol;Federico Magnani

  • Model-based analysis of the relationship between sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and gross primary production for remote sensing applications

    Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Luis Guanter;Joseph A. Berry;Christiaan van der Tol

  • Plant functional traits and canopy structure control the relationship between photosynthetic CO2 uptake and far-red sun-induced fluorescence in a Mediterranean grassland under different nutrient availability

    Mirco Migliavacca;Oscar Perez‐Priego;Micol Rossini;Tarek S. El‐Madany

  • Linking canopy scattering of far-red sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence with reflectance.

    Peiqi Yang;Christiaan van der Tol

  • A model for chlorophyll fluorescence and photosynthesis at leaf scale

    C. van der Tol;W. Verhoef;A. Rosema

  • Estimating crop primary productivity with Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 using machine learning methods trained with radiative transfer simulations

    Aleksandra Wolanin;Gustau Camps-Valls;Luis Gómez-Chova;Gonzalo Mateo-García

  • Integration of soil moisture in SEBS for improving evapotranspiration estimation under water stress conditions

    M D Gokmen;Z Vekerdy;Anne Verhoef;W Verhoef

  • Fluspect-B: a model for leaf fluorescence, reflectance and transmittance spectra.

    Nastassia Vilfan;Christiaan van der Tol;Onno Muller;Uwe Rascher

  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

    Rafael Poyatos;Víctor Granda;Víctor Flo;Mark A. Adams;Mark A. Adams

  • Evaluating the predictive power of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence to estimate net photosynthesis of vegetation canopies: A SCOPE modeling study

    Jochem Verrelst;Christiaan van der Tol;Federico Magnani;Neus Sabater

  • On the relationship between sub-daily instantaneous and daily total gross primary production: Implications for interpreting satellite-based SIF retrievals

    Yao-Jun Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Yongguang Zhang;Sebastian Wolf

  • Simulations of chlorophyll fluorescence incorporated into the Community Land Model version 4

    Jung-Eun Lee;Joseph A. Berry;Joseph A. Berry;Christiaan van der Tol;Xi Yang

  • Quantifying vegetation biophysical variables from imaging spectroscopy data: a review on retrieval methods

    Jochem Verrelst;Zbyněk Malenovský;Christiaan Van der Tol;Gustau Camps-Valls

  • Fluorescence Correction Vegetation Index (FCVI): A physically based reflectance index to separate physiological and non-physiological information in far-red sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

    Peiqi Yang;Christiaan van der Tol;Petya K.E. Campbell;Petya K.E. Campbell;Elizabeth M. Middleton

  • Reprint of: Estimation of forest above-ground biomass using multi-parameter remote sensing data over a cold and arid area

    Xin Tian;Zhongbo Su;Erxue Chen;Zengyuan Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhongbo Su
Zhongbo Su University of Twente
Uwe Rascher
Uwe Rascher Forschungszentrum Jülich
Alexander Damm
Alexander Damm University of Zurich
Luis Guanter
Luis Guanter Universitat Politècnica de València
Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Wouter Verhoef
Wouter Verhoef University of Twente
Jochem Verrelst
Jochem Verrelst University of Valencia
Jose Moreno
Jose Moreno University of Valencia
Elizabeth M. Middleton
Elizabeth M. Middleton Goddard Space Flight Center
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science

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