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D-Index
55
Citations
12717
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3812
National Ranking
1454

Daniel M. Ricciuto 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 Daniel M. Ricciuto sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 247 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.

Daniel M. Ricciuto 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 Daniel M. Ricciuto sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Daniel M. Ricciuto is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans primarily the field of Environmental Science, with a total of 113 publications. Within this broad discipline, their work is concentrated in several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

Topics central to their research include:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate change and permafrost

Some of their recent publications demonstrate the scope and depth of their work. Notable papers include:

  • "The DOE E3SM v1.1 Biogeochemistry Configuration: Description and Simulated Ecosystem-Climate Responses to Historical Changes in Forcing," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Rapid Net Carbon Loss From a Whole-Ecosystem Warmed Peatland," 2020, AGU Advances
  • "Moisture availability mediates the relationship between terrestrial gross primary production and solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence: Insights from global-scale variations," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Seasonal changes in GPP/SIF ratios and their climatic determinants across the Northern Hemisphere," 2021, Global Change Biology

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Peter Thornton
  • Xiaoying Shi
  • Jiafu Mao
  • Paul J. Hanson
  • Xiaojuan Yang

The scientist has published repeatedly in several key venues, reflecting areas of specialization. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Global Change Biology
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • The Community Land Model version 5 : description of new features, benchmarking, and impact of forcing uncertainty

    David M. Lawrence;Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;Keith W. Oleson

  • Evaluation of remote sensing based terrestrial productivity from MODIS using regional tower eddy flux network observations

    F.A. Heinsch;Maosheng Zhao;S.W. Running;J.S. Kimball

  • Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

    Andrew D. Richardson;Ryan S. Anderson;M. Altaf Arain;Alan G. Barr

  • A multi-site analysis of random error in tower-based measurements of carbon and energy fluxes

    Andrew D. Richardson;Andrew D. Richardson;David Y. Hollinger;George G. Burba;Kenneth J. Davis

  • A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Kevin Schaefer;Christopher R. Schwalm;Chris Williams;M. Altaf Arain

  • Global patterns and controls of soil organic carbon dynamics as simulated by multiple terrestrial biosphere models: Current status and future directions.

    Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Jia Yang;Kamaljit Banger

  • Impact of large‐scale climate extremes on biospheric carbon fluxes: An intercomparison based on MsTMIP data

    Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anna M. Michalak;Christopher Schwalm;Miguel D. Mahecha

  • Influence of vegetation and seasonal forcing on carbon dioxide fluxes across the Upper Midwest, USA: Implications for regional scaling

    Ankur R. Desai;Asko Noormets;Paul V. Bolstad;Jiquan Chen

  • Uncertainty in the response of terrestrial carbon sink to environmental drivers undermines carbon-climate feedback predictions.

    D. N. Huntzinger;A. M. Michalak;C. Schwalm;C. Schwalm;P. Ciais

  • The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data

    Y. Wei;S. Liu;D. N. Huntzinger;A. M. Michalak

  • The role of phosphorus dynamics in tropical forests – a modeling study using CLM-CNP

    X. Yang;P. E. Thornton;D. M. Ricciuto;W. M. Post

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

  • DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION FOR COMPLEX MODELS VIA BAYESIAN COMPRESSIVE SENSING

    Khachik Sargsyan;Cosmin Safta;Habib N. Najm;Bert J. Debusschere

  • The REFLEX project: Comparing different algorithms and implementations for the inversion of a terrestrial ecosystem model against eddy covariance data

    Andrew Fox;Mathew Williams;Andrew D. Richardson;David Cameron

  • Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface

    Jiafu Mao;Aurélien Ribes;Binyan Yan;Xiaoying Shi

  • Urban warming advances spring phenology but reduces the response of phenology to temperature in the conterminous United States.

    Lin Meng;Jiafu Mao;Yuyu Zhou;Andrew D. Richardson

  • The DOE E3SM v1.1 Biogeochemistry Configuration: Description and Simulated Ecosystem-Climate Responses to Historical Changes in Forcing

    S. M. Burrows;M. Maltrud;X. Yang;Q. Zhu

  • Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends

    Jiafu Mao;Wenting Fu;Xiaoying Shi;Daniel M. Ricciuto

  • Attaining whole-ecosystem warming using air and deep-soil heating methods with an elevated CO 2 atmosphere

    Paul J. Hanson;Jeffery S. Riggs;W. Robert Nettles;Jana Randolph Phillips

  • Sensitivity of surface flux simulations to hydrologic parameters based on an uncertainty quantification framework applied to the Community Land Model

    Zhangshuan Hou;Maoyi Huang;L. Ruby Leung;Guang Lin

  • Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends

    J. Mao;W. Fu;X. Shi;D. M. Ricciuto

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter E. Thornton
Peter E. Thornton Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jiafu Mao
Jiafu Mao Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Xiaoying Shi
Xiaoying Shi Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kevin Schaefer
Kevin Schaefer Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Christopher R. Schwalm
Christopher R. Schwalm Woodwell Climate Research Center
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Kenneth J. Davis
Kenneth J. Davis Pennsylvania State University
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paul J. Hanson
Paul J. Hanson Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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