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 Karl J. Niklas sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 439 publications — 98th percentile
98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.
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 Karl J. Niklas sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 87 D-Index — 95th percentile
95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.
Karl J. Niklas is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has an extensive body of research primarily in Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.
The scientist's research addresses multiple main topics, focusing on ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, leaf properties and growth measurement, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, plant and animal studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, forest ecology and management, and remote sensing in agriculture.
Karl J. Niklas has published papers in various frequent venues with multiple contributions including Frontiers in Plant Science, American Journal of Botany, Botany Letters, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and New Phytologist.
Recent papers include:
Frequent co-authors in their research include Peijian Shi, Ülo Niinemets, Jianming Deng, Shucun Sun, and Zhiqiang Wang.
Karl J. Niklas's career includes recognition through several fellowships: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 2018, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded in 2015, and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded in 1984.
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Montserrat Saladié;Antonio J. Matas;Tal Isaacson;Matthew A. Jenks
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S. K. Morgan Ernest;Brian J. Enquist;James H. Brown;Eric L. Charnov
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Felisa A. Smith;Felisa A. Smith;James H. Brown;John P. Haskell;S. Kathleen Lyons
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