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37
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4331
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8978
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Holly Croft 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 Holly Croft sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 69 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Holly Croft 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 Holly Croft sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Holly Croft is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of areas related to plant and environmental studies. Key topics of focus include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Holly Croft has contributed to multiple publications, with recent papers exploring photosynthetic capacity, leaf nitrogen allocation, and plant stress resilience. Notable papers include:

  • Global variation in the fraction of leaf nitrogen allocated to photosynthesis, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The influences of stomatal size and density on rice abiotic stress resilience, 2023, New Phytologist
  • Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research, 2022, Earth System Science Data
  • Estimation of Leaf Photosynthetic Capacity From Leaf Chlorophyll Content and Leaf Age in a Subtropical Evergreen Coniferous Plantation, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Maximum Carboxylation Rate Estimation With Chlorophyll Content as a Proxy of Rubisco Content, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors in Holly Croft's work include:

  • Jing M. Chen
  • Xiangzhong Luo
  • Robert S. Caine
  • Weimin Ju
  • Cheryl Rogers

The primary publication venues where Holly Croft's research appears most frequently are:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Biogeosciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist
  • Plant Cell & Environment

Best Publications

  • Leaf chlorophyll content as a proxy for leaf photosynthetic capacity

    Holly Croft;Jing M. Chen;Xiangzhong Luo;Paul Bartlett

  • The global distribution of leaf chlorophyll content

    H. Croft;H. Croft;J.M. Chen;R. Wang;G. Mo

  • The applicability of empirical vegetation indices for determining leaf chlorophyll content over different leaf and canopy structures

    H. Croft;J.M. Chen;Y. Zhang

  • Global variation in the fraction of leaf nitrogen allocated to photosynthesis

    Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Jing M. Chen;Holly Croft

  • Improved estimates of global terrestrial photosynthesis using information on leaf chlorophyll content.

    Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Holly Croft;Jing M. Chen;Liming He

  • On the use of remote sensing techniques for monitoring spatio-temporal soil organic carbon dynamics in agricultural systems

    H. Croft;N.J. Kuhn;K. Anderson

  • Leaf Pigment Content

    H. Croft;J.M. Chen

  • Modelling leaf chlorophyll content in broadleaf and needle leaf canopies from ground, CASI, Landsat TM 5 and MERIS reflectance data

    H. Croft;J.M. Chen;Y. Zhang;A. Simic

  • Remote sensing of soil surface properties.

    K. Anderson;H. Croft

  • Comparison of Big-Leaf, Two-Big-Leaf, and Two-Leaf Upscaling Schemes for Evapotranspiration Estimation Using Coupled Carbon-Water Modeling

    Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Jing M. Chen;Jane Liu;Jane Liu;T. Andrew Black

  • Nitrogen Availability Dampens the Positive Impacts of CO2 Fertilization on Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon and Water Cycles

    Liming He;Jing M. Chen;Holly Croft;Alemu Gonsamo

  • Evaluating leaf chlorophyll content prediction from multispectral remote sensing data within a physically-based modelling framework

    H. Croft;J.M. Chen;Y. Zhang;A. Simic

  • A novel red‐edge spectral index for retrieving the leaf chlorophyll content

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  • Global datasets of leaf photosynthetic capacity for ecological and earth system research

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  • Seasonal controls of canopy chlorophyll content on forest carbon uptake: Implications for GPP modeling

    H. Croft;J. M. Chen;N. J. Froelich;B. Chen;B. Chen

  • Trends of carbon fluxes and climate over a mixed temperate–boreal transition forest in southern Ontario, Canada

    Norma Froelich;Holly Croft;Jing M. Chen;Alemu Gonsamo

  • Mapping within-field leaf chlorophyll content in agricultural crops for nitrogen management using Landsat-8 imagery

    Holly Croft;Holly Croft;Joyce Arabian;Joyce Arabian;Jing M. Chen;Jiali Shang

  • Incorporating leaf chlorophyll content into a two-leaf terrestrial biosphere model for estimating carbon and water fluxes at a forest site

    Xiangzhong Luo;Holly Croft;Jing M. Chen;Paul Bartlett

  • Estimation of leaf photosynthetic capacity from leaf chlorophyll content and leaf age in a subtropical evergreen coniferous plantation

    Shaoqiang Wang;Yue Li;Yue Li;Weimin Ju;Bin Chen

  • Temporal disparity in leaf chlorophyll content and leaf area index across a growing season in a temperate deciduous forest

    Holly Croft;Jing M. Chen;Yongqin Zhang

  • Characterizing soil surface roughness using a combined structural and spectral approach

    H. Croft;K. Anderson;N. J. Kuhn

  • Assessment of foliage clumping effects on evapotranspiration estimates in forested ecosystems

    Bin Chen;Bin Chen;Jane Liu;Jane Liu;Jing M. Chen;Holly Croft

  • Maximum Carboxylation Rate Estimation with Chlorophyll Content as a Proxy of Rubisco Content

    Xuehe Lu;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Jing Li;Holly Croft;Holly Croft

Frequent Co-Authors

Jing M. Chen
Jing M. Chen University of Toronto
Alemu Gonsamo
Alemu Gonsamo McMaster University
Karen Anderson
Karen Anderson University of Exeter
Ralf M. Staebler
Ralf M. Staebler Environment and Climate Change Canada
Jane Liu
Jane Liu University of Toronto
Shaoqiang Wang
Shaoqiang Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
M. Altaf Arain
M. Altaf Arain McMaster University
Trevor F. Keenan
Trevor F. Keenan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Weimin Ju
Weimin Ju Nanjing University
Zbyněk Malenovský
Zbyněk Malenovský University of Bonn

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