2026 Göran I. Ågren: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	63	1015	933	17	15	154	20038
Ecology and Evolution	65	1751	1674	33	32	187	20377

Göran I. Ågren publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Göran I. Ågren sits on this spectrum.

36 publications 467+

This scientist: 154 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Göran I. Ågren D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Göran I. Ågren sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Göran I. Ågren is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Plant Science, Materials Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Soil Science.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

Banana Cultivation and Research
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Plant responses to elevated CO₂
Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials
Nuclear materials and radiation effects
Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Göran I. Ågren has contributed to multiple scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

Frontiers in Plant Science
Materials Horizons
Journal of Plant Ecology
Biogeochemistry
Ecosphere

Selected recent papers authored by the scientist include:

Multi-Dimensional Plant Element Stoichiometry-Looking Beyond Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
Investigating soil carbon diversity by combining the MAXimum ENTropy principle with the Q model, 2021, Biogeochemistry
Plant stoichiometry in relation to relative growth rate, 2024, Journal of Plant Ecology
Corrigendum: Multi-Dimensional Plant Element Stoichiometry-Looking Beyond Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Martin Weih
Sami Vuori
Pauline Colinet
Juha-Pekka Lehtiö
Arnaud Lemière

Best Publications

Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates – synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

Richard T. Conant;Richard T. Conant;Michael G. Ryan;Göran I. Ågren;Hannah E. Birge

1723
Citations
Environmental and stoichiometric controls on microbial carbon‐use efficiency in soils

Stefano Manzoni;Philip Taylor;Andreas Richter;Amilcare Michele M. Porporato

1658
Citations
Temperature sensitivity of soil respiration rates enhanced by microbial community response

Kristiina Karhu;Marc D. Auffret;Jennifer A. J. Dungait;David W. Hopkins

767
Citations
CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN ECOSYSTEMS: THE ROLE OF STOICHIOMETRY

Dag O. Hessen;Göran I. Ågren;Thomas R. Anderson;James J. Elser

744
Citations
The likely impact of elevated [CO2], nitrogen deposition, increased temperature and management on carbon sequestration in temperate and boreal forest ecosystems: a literature review.

Ritta Hyvönen;Goran I. Agren;Sune Linder;Tryggve Persson

673
Citations
Soil organic matter quality interpreted thermodynamically

Ernesto Bosatta;Göran I. Ågren

654
Citations
Stoichiometry and Nutrition of Plant Growth in Natural Communities

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649
Citations
The C:N:P stoichiometry of autotrophs: Theory and observations

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565
Citations
Nitrogen saturation of terrestrial ecosystems.

Göran I. Ågren;Ernesto Bosatta

517
Citations
Process-based models for forest ecosystem management: current state of the art and challenges for practical implementation

Annikki Mäkelä;Joe Landsberg;Alan R. Ek;Thomas E. Burk

506
Citations
Nutrient limitation on terrestrial plant growth--modeling the interaction between nitrogen and phosphorus.

Göran I. Ågren;J. Å. Martin Wetterstedt;Magnus F. K. Billberger

494
Citations
The response of heterotrophic CO2 flux to soil warming

Peter E. Eliasson;Ross E. McMurtrie;David A. Pepper;Monika Strömgren

415
Citations
Combining theory and experiment to understand effects of inorganic nitrogen on litter decomposition

Göran I. Ågren;Ernesto Bosatta;Alison H. Magill

393
Citations
Impact of long-term nitrogen addition on carbon stocks in trees and soils in northern Europe

Riitta Hyvönen;Tryggve Persson;Stefan Andersson;Bengt Olsson

366
Citations
Root : Shoot Ratios, Optimization and Nitrogen Productivity

Göran I. Ågren;Oskar Franklin

359
Citations
Isotope Discrimination during Decomposition of Organic Matter: A Theoretical Analysis

Göran I. Ågren;Ernesto Bosatta;Jérôme Balesdent

354
Citations
RESPONSES OF N‐LIMITED ECOSYSTEMS TO INCREASED CO2: A BALANCED‐NUTRITION, COUPLED‐ELEMENT‐CYCLES MODEL

Edward B. Rastetter;Göran I. Ågren;Gaius R. Shaver

321
Citations
Measuring fine root turnover in forest ecosystems

Hooshang Majdi;Kurt Pregitzer;Ann Sofie Morén;Jan Erik Nylund

317
Citations
State‐of‐the‐Art of Models of Production‐Decomposition Linkages in Conifer and Grassland Ecosystems

Goran I. Agren;Ross E. McMurtrie;William J. Parton;John Pastor

310
Citations
The Influence of Plant Nutrition on Biomass Allocation.

Torsten Ingestad;Goran I. Agren

305
Citations
Knowledge gaps in soil carbon and nitrogen interactions – From molecular to global scale

Annemieke I. Gärdenäs;Göran I. Ågren;Jeffrey A. Bird;Marianne Clarholm

302
Citations
Nutrient uptake and allocation at steady‐state nutrition

Torsten Ingestad;Göran I. Ågren

251
Citations
Theories and methods on plant nutrition and growth

Torsten Ingestad;Goran I. Agren

250
Citations
Theoretical analysis of decomposition of heterogeneous substrates

Ernesto Bosatta;Göran I. Ågren

235
Citations