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79
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996
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Jed O. Kaplan 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 Jed O. Kaplan sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 235 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jed O. Kaplan 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 Jed O. Kaplan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview

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

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

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

  • 2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

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

  • The prehistoric and preindustrial deforestation of Europe

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Used planet: a global history.

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

  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change

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

  • 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

  • Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

    Lucas Stephens;Dorian Fuller;Nicole Boivin;Torben Rick

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

    Unknown

  • 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

  • The status and challenge of global fire modelling

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

  • 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

  • Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Kees Klein Goldewijk
Kees Klein Goldewijk Utrecht University
Marie-José Gaillard
Marie-José Gaillard Linnaeus University
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Florence Mazier
Florence Mazier Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Anneli Poska
Anneli Poska Tallinn University of Technology
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading
Loretta J. Mickley
Loretta J. Mickley Harvard University
George C. Hurtt
George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park
Johann H. Jungclaus
Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society
Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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