2026 David Frank: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	98	420	396	188	172	221	31377

Overview

David Frank is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including:

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Tree-ring climate responses
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Plant responses to elevated CO2
Climate variability and models
Forest Insect Ecology and Management

David Frank has published research in a range of scientific venues, notably:

New Phytologist
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Nature Geoscience
Nature
BioScience

Their recent publications include:

Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO ₂, 2020, New Phytologist
Turgor - a limiting factor for radial growth in mature conifers along an elevational gradient, 2020, New Phytologist
Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years, 2023, Nature Geoscience
Fennoscandian tree-ring anatomy shows a warmer modern than medieval climate, 2023, Nature
Adding Tree Rings to North America's National Forest Inventories: An Essential Tool to Guide Drawdown of Atmospheric CO2, 2021, BioScience

David Frank has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including:

Flurin Babst
Patrick Fonti
Soumaya Belmecheri
Kelly A. Heilman
Kerstin Treydte

Best Publications

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Philippe Ciais;Dorothea Frank

2088
Citations
2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

Ulf Büntgen;Ulf Büntgen;Willy Tegel;Kurt Nicolussi;Michael McCormick

1642
Citations
Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

Benjamin Poulter;David Frank;Philippe Ciais;Ranga B. Myneni

1449
Citations
Persistent Positive North Atlantic Oscillation Mode Dominated the Medieval Climate Anomaly

Valérie Trouet;Jan Esper;Nicholas E. Graham;Andy Baker

1210
Citations
Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

Dorothe A. Frank;Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Kirsten Thonicke

1019
Citations
Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Keith R. Briffa

672
Citations
The twentieth century was the wettest period in northern Pakistan over the past millennium

Kerstin S. Treydte;Gerhard H. Schleser;Gerhard Helle;David C. Frank

672
Citations
Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

582
Citations
Summer Temperature Variations in the European Alps, a.d. 755–2004

Ulf Büntgen;David C. Frank;Daniel Nievergelt;Jan Esper

535
Citations
Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: the long term context

Rob Wilson;Rob Wilson;Kevin Anchukaitis;Kevin Anchukaitis;Keith R. Briffa;Ulf Büntgen

502
Citations
Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth.

Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Olivier Bouriaud;Benjamin Poulter;Valerie Trouet

480
Citations
European summer temperatures since Roman times

J. Luterbacher;J.P. Werner;J.E. Smerdon;L. Fernández-Donado

476
Citations
Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

D. C. Frank;B. Poulter;M. Saurer;J. Esper

465
Citations
Site- and species-specific responses of forest growth to climate across the European continent

Flurin Babst;Benjamin Poulter;Valerie Trouet;Kun Tan

449
Citations
Long‐term drought severity variations in Morocco

Jan Esper;David Frank;Ulf Büntgen;Anne Verstege

444
Citations
Woody biomass production lags stem-girth increase by over one month in coniferous forests

Henri E. Cuny;Henri E. Cuny;Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber;Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber;David Frank;Patrick Fonti

387
Citations
Orbital forcing of tree-ring data

Jan Esper;David C. Frank;Mauri Timonen;Eduardo Zorita

353
Citations
Ensemble reconstruction constraints on the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate

David C. Frank;Jan Esper;Christoph C. Raible;Christoph C. Raible;Ulf Büntgen

334
Citations
Timing and duration of European larch growing season along altitudinal gradients in the Swiss Alps.

Lea Moser;Patrick Fonti;Ulf Büntgen;Jan Esper

323
Citations
A 1052-year tree-ring proxy for Alpine summer temperatures

Ulf Büntgen;Jan Esper;David C. Frank;Kurt Nicolussi

322
Citations
Characterization and climate response patterns of a high-elevation, multi-species tree-ring network in the European Alps

David Frank;Jan Esper

313
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge

Rob Wilson University of St Andrews

Flurin Babst University of Arizona

Patrick Fonti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Valerie Trouet University of Arizona

Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center

Kerstin Treydte Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Rosanne D'Arrigo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen

External Links

Personal website of David Frank

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