2026 Jacek Oleksyn: 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	67	804	742	2	2	190	42431

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Poland Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Poland Leader Award
2008 - Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science - Nagroda Fundacji na rzecz Nauki Polskiej for his contribution to the discovery of the universal, bio-geographic correlations between plant characteristics, that are fundamental for understanding ecological processes on a global scale
2007 - Polish Academy of Science

Overview

Jacek Oleksyn is affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland and has contributed extensively to research in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their scholarly work encompasses varied topics, focusing particularly on plant water relations, carbon dynamics, and ecosystem responses to environmental changes.

The primary fields of study for their research include:

Environmental Science
Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broad areas, their subfields of study highlight:

Global and Planetary Change
Plant Science
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Atmospheric Science
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The main research topics covered by their work focus on:

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Tree-ring Climate Responses
Plant Responses to Elevated CO2
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Forest Ecology and Management
Tree Root and Stability Studies
Seedling Growth and Survival Studies

Oleksyn has published in diverse scientific journals, with frequent contributions to these venues:

Global Change Biology
Plant Cell & Environment
Photosynthesis Research
Ecology Letters
New Phytologist

Their recent papers include the following:

"Woody tissue photosynthesis delays drought stress in Populus tremula trees and maintains starch reserves in branch xylem tissues" (2020) - New Phytologist
"Carbohydrate dynamics in a resprouting species after severe aboveground perturbations" (2020) - European Journal of Forest Research
"Remarkable Similarity in Timing of Absorptive Fine-Root Production Across 11 Diverse Temperate Tree Species in a Common Garden" (2021) - Frontiers in Plant Science
"Higher biomass partitioning to absorptive roots improves needle nutrition but does not alleviate stomatal limitation of northern Scots pine" (2021) - Global Change Biology
"Woody tissue photosynthesis increases radial stem growth of young poplar trees under ambient atmospheric CO2 but its contribution ceases under elevated CO2" (2020) - Tree Physiology

Frequent collaborators include:

Tomasz P. Wyka
Roma Żytkowiak
Marcin Zadworny
Peter B. Reich
Joanna Mucha

Throughout their career, Oleksyn has been recognized with awards such as the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science in 2008 for contributions to understanding universal biogeographic plant characteristics crucial for ecological processes globally, and recognition from the Polish Academy of Science in 2007.

Best Publications

The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

Ian J. Wright;Peter B. Reich;Mark Westoby;David D. Ackerly

9978
Citations
Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta-analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control

Hendrik Poorter;Karl J. Niklas;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Jacek Oleksyn;Jacek Oleksyn

3232
Citations
TRY - a global database of plant traits

J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

2885
Citations
Global patterns of plant leaf N and P in relation to temperature and latitude.

Peter B. Reich;Jacek Oleksyn

2540
Citations
Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships

Ian J. Wright;Peter B. Reich;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Daniel S. Falster

1922
Citations
Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

Amy E. Zanne;David C. Tank;William K. Cornwell;Jonathan M. Eastman

1762
Citations
The evolution of plant functional variation: traits, spectra, and strategies

P. B. Reich;I. J. Wright;J. Cavender-Bares;J. M. Craine

1699
Citations
Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

1437
Citations
Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate

Ian J. Wright;Peter B. Reich;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Daniel S. Falster

1022
Citations
Linking litter calcium, earthworms and soil properties: a common garden test with 14 tree species

Peter B. Reich;Jacek Oleksyn;Jacek Oleksyn;Jerzy Modrzynski;Pawel Mrozinski

838
Citations
TREE SPECIES EFFECTS ON DECOMPOSITION AND FOREST FLOOR DYNAMICS IN A COMMON GARDEN

Sarah E. Hobbie;Peter B. Reich;Jacek Oleksyn;Jacek Oleksyn;Megan Ogdahl

678
Citations
Universal scaling of respiratory metabolism, size and nitrogen in plants

Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker;Jose Luis Machado;Jacek Oleksyn

653
Citations
Modelling respiration of vegetation: evidence for a general temperature-dependent Q10.

Mark G. Tjoelker;Jacek Oleksyn;Jacek Oleksyn;Peter B. Reich

627
Citations
COMPARISONS OF STRUCTURE AND LIFE SPAN IN ROOTS AND LEAVES AMONG TEMPERATE TREES

Jennifer M. Withington;Peter B. Reich;Jacek Oleksyn;Jacek Oleksyn;David M. Eissenstat

540
Citations
Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plants

Peter Bernard Reich;Mark G Tjoelker;Kurt S Pregitzer;Ian J Wright

533
Citations
Growth and physiology of Picea abies populations from elevational transects: common garden evidence for altitudinal ecotypes and cold adaptation

J. Oleksyn;J. Oleksyn;J. Modrzýnski;M. G. Tjoelker;R. Z·ytkowiak

422
Citations
Leaf phosphorus influences the photosynthesis–nitrogen relation: a cross-biome analysis of 314 species

Peter B. Reich;Jacek Oleksyn;Jacek Oleksyn;Ian J. Wright

421
Citations
Temperature drives global patterns in forest biomass distribution in leaves, stems, and roots

Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Yunjian Luo;John B. Bradford;Hendrik Poorter

395
Citations
How does biomass distribution change with size and differ among species? An analysis for 1200 plant species from five continents

Hendrik Poorter;Andrzej M. Jagodzinski;Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Shem Kuyah

375
Citations
Fine root decomposition rates do not mirror those of leaf litter among temperate tree species

Sarah E. Hobbie;Jacek Oleksyn;David M. Eissenstat;Peter B. Reich

331
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