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D-Index
98
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31377
World Ranking
420
National Ranking
188

David Frank 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 David Frank sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 221 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Frank 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 David Frank sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • 2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

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

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

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

  • Persistent Positive North Atlantic Oscillation Mode Dominated the Medieval Climate Anomaly

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

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

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

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth.

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

  • European summer temperatures since Roman times

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

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

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

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

    Flurin Babst;Benjamin Poulter;Valerie Trouet;Kun Tan

  • Long‐term drought severity variations in Morocco

    Jan Esper;David Frank;Ulf Büntgen;Anne Verstege

  • 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

  • Orbital forcing of tree-ring data

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

  • Ensemble reconstruction constraints on the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate

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

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

    Lea Moser;Patrick Fonti;Ulf Büntgen;Jan Esper

  • A 1052-year tree-ring proxy for Alpine summer temperatures

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

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

    David Frank;Jan Esper

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews
Flurin Babst
Flurin Babst University of Arizona
Patrick Fonti
Patrick Fonti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Valerie Trouet
Valerie Trouet University of Arizona
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Kerstin Treydte
Kerstin Treydte Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Rosanne D'Arrigo
Rosanne D'Arrigo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen

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