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D-Index
42
Citations
10462
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7283
National Ranking
2593

Deborah N. Huntzinger 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 Deborah N. Huntzinger sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 125 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Deborah N. Huntzinger 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 Deborah N. Huntzinger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Deborah N. Huntzinger is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth system studies, focusing largely on biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem dynamics, and climate interactions.

Their work is published in a variety of scientific journals, with frequent contributions to the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, where they have nine publications. Additional publication venues include Environmental Research Letters (three publications), Remote Sensing of Environment (two publications), Scientific Reports (two publications), and AGU Advances (two publications).

Huntzinger's main fields of study are Environmental Science with 33 publications and Earth and Planetary Sciences with 17 publications. Their research covers subfields such as Global and Planetary Change (26 publications), Atmospheric Science (17 publications), Ecology (3 publications), Economics and Econometrics (2 publications), and Environmental Chemistry (2 publications).

The central topics within their body of work include:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Forest Management and Policy

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Huntzinger include:

  • Evaluation of simulated soil carbon dynamics in Arctic-Boreal ecosystems, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests, 2020, Science
  • Decoupling of greenness and gross primary productivity as aridity decreases, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Earth system models must include permafrost carbon processes, 2024, Nature Climate Change
  • Impacts of land use change and elevated CO 2 on the interannual variations and seasonal cycles of gross primary productivity in China, 2020, Earth System Dynamics

Frequent collaborators include Marguerite A. Xenopoulos with nine joint publications, Ankur R. Desai with eight, Christopher R. Schwalm with seven, Kevin Schaefer with six, and Joshua B. Fisher with six co-authored papers.

Best Publications

  • A life-cycle assessment of Portland cement manufacturing: comparing the traditional process with alternative technologies

    Deborah N. Huntzinger;Thomas D. Eatmon

  • Global patterns of drought recovery

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher R. Schwalm;William R. L. Anderegg;Anna M. Michalak;Joshua B. Fisher

  • Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

    William R.L. Anderegg;Anna T. Trugman;Grayson Badgley;Christa M. Anderson

  • The terrestrial biosphere as a net source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere

    Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Chaoqun Lu;Philippe Ciais;Anna M. Michalak

  • Carbon dioxide sequestration in cement kiln dust through mineral carbonation.

    Deborah N. Huntzinger;John S. Gierke;S. Komar Kawatra;Timothy C. Eisele

  • Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I

    Donald J. Wuebbles;David W. Fahey;Kathy A. Hibbard;Jeff R. Arnold

  • A framework for benchmarking land models

    Yiqi Luo;J. Randerson;G. Abramowitz;C. Bacour

  • 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

  • Enhanced peak growth of global vegetation and its key mechanisms.

    Kun Huang;Jianyang Xia;Yingping Wang;Yingping Wang;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström

  • North American Carbon Program (NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model intercomparison

    D. N. Huntzinger;W. M. Post;Y. Wei;A. M. Michalak

  • The North American Carbon Program Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 1: Overview and experimental design

    D. N. Huntzinger;C. Schwalm;A. M. Michalak;K. Schaefer

  • 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

  • Mineral carbonation for carbon sequestration in cement kiln dust from waste piles

    Deborah N. Huntzinger;John S. Gierke;Lawrence L. Sutter;S. Komar Kawatra

  • 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

  • Modeling the Terrestrial Biosphere

    Joshua B. Fisher;Deborah N. Huntzinger;Christopher R. Schwalm;Stephen Sitch

  • Enabling Sustainable Thinking in Undergraduate Engineering Education

    Deborah N. Huntzinger;Margot J. Hutchins;John S. Gierke;John W. Sutherland

  • North American terrestrial CO2 uptake largely offset by CH4 and N2O emissions: toward a full accounting of the greenhouse gas budget.

    Hanqin Tian;Guangsheng Chen;Chaoqun Lu;Xiaofeng Xu

  • Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends

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

  • Reconciling estimates of the contemporary North American carbon balance among terrestrial biosphere models, atmospheric inversions, and a new approach for estimating net ecosystem exchange from inventory-based data

    Daniel J. Hayes;David P. Turner;Graham Stinson;A. David McGuire

  • Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher R. Schwalm
Christopher R. Schwalm Woodwell Climate Research Center
Anna M. Michalak
Anna M. Michalak Stanford University
Robert B. Cook
Robert B. Cook Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kevin Schaefer
Kevin Schaefer Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Daniel J. Hayes
Daniel J. Hayes University of Maine
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Joshua B. Fisher
Joshua B. Fisher Chapman University
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ning Zeng
Ning Zeng University of Maryland, College Park

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