2026 Jed O. Kaplan: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	79	996	946	35	32	235	33337

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award

Overview

Jed O. Kaplan is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology, and Paleontology.

Kaplan's work covers a range of main topics including:

Fire effects on ecosystems
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena
Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Climate variability and models
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Some of the recent papers associated with Kaplan include:

"Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850-2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6", 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
"People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years", 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries", 2023, Nature
"Impact of Changes to the Atmospheric Soluble Iron Deposition Flux on Ocean Biogeochemical Cycles in the Anthropocene", 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
"Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe", 2020, Biogeosciences

Kaplan frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

Katie Hong-Kiu Lau
Kees Klein Goldewijk
Benjamin Poulter
Loretta J. Mickley
Etienne Fluet-Chouinard

Many of Kaplan's publications appear in venues such as:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Geoscientific Model Development
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Earth System Science Data

Best Publications

Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model

S Sitch;Benjamin Smith;IC Prentice;A Arneth

3862
Citations
Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview

Heinz Wanner;Jürg Beer;Jonathan Bütikofer;Thomas J. Crowley

2026
Citations
Global Carbon Budget 2019

Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Matthew W. Jones;Michael O'Sullivan;Robbie Andrew

1662
Citations
2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

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

1642
Citations
The prehistoric and preindustrial deforestation of Europe

Jed O. Kaplan;Kristen M. Krumhardt;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

1092
Citations
Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the Twentieth Century: Analyses of CO2, climate and land use effects with four process‐based ecosystem models

A.D. McGuire;S. Sitch;Joy S. Clein;R. Dargaville

975
Citations
Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

George C. Hurtt;Louise Chini;Ritvik Sahajpal;Steve Frolking

973
Citations
Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

Ulf Büntgen;Vladimir S. Myglan;Frederik Chaprentier Ljungqvist;Michael McCormick

935
Citations
Used planet: a global history.

Erle C. Ellis;Jed O. Kaplan;Dorian Q. Fuller;Steve Vavrus

914
Citations
Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries

Unknown

839
Citations
The application and interpretation of Keeling plots in terrestrial carbon cycle research

D. E. Pataki;J. R. Ehleringer;L. B. Flanagan;D. Yakir

810
Citations
People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

Erle C. Ellis;Nicolas Gauthier;Kees Klein Goldewijk;Rebecca Bliege Bird

736
Citations
Climate change and Arctic ecosystems: 2. Modeling, paleodata‐model comparisons, and future projections

JO Kaplan;JO Kaplan;NH Bigelow;IC Prentice;SP Harrison;SP Harrison

721
Citations
Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change

Jed Oliver Kaplan;Kristen Krumhardt;Erle C. Ellis;William F. Ruddiman

721
Citations
Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane modelling: conclusions from a model inter-comparison project (WETCHIMP)

J. R. Melton;J. R. Melton;R. Wania;E. L. Hodson;B. Poulter

684
Citations
Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

Lucas Stephens;Dorian Fuller;Nicole Boivin;Torben Rick

559
Citations
Harmonization of Global Land-Use Change and Management for the Period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

Unknown

441
Citations
Satellite chartography of atmospheric methane from SCIAMACHY on board ENVISAT: 2. Evaluation based on inverse model simulations

P. Bergamaschi;C. Frankenberg;J. F. Meirink;J. F. Meirink;M. Krol;M. Krol

422
Citations
The status and challenge of global fire modelling

Stijn Hantson;Almut Arneth;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Douglas I. Kelley;Douglas I. Kelley

414
Citations
Climate change and Arctic ecosystems: 1. Vegetation changes north of 55°N between the last glacial maximum, mid‐Holocene, and present

Nancy H. Bigelow;Linda B. Brubaker;Mary E. Edwards;Mary E. Edwards;Mary E. Edwards;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison

400
Citations
Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks

M. J Gaillard;S. Sugita;F. Mazier;F. Mazier;A. K Trondman

359
Citations
Impacts of changes in land use and land cover on atmospheric chemistry and air quality over the 21st century

S. Wu;Loretta J. Mickley;J. O. Kaplan;Daniel J. Jacob

169
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kees Klein Goldewijk Utrecht University

Marie-José Gaillard Linnaeus University

Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University

Florence Mazier Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

Anneli Poska Tallinn University of Technology

Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading

Loretta J. Mickley Harvard University

George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park

Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society

Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

External Links

Personal website of Jed O. Kaplan

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