2026 Kathleen Savage: 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	42	7293	7010	2599	2420	66	9621

Overview

Kathleen Savage is a researcher affiliated with the Woods Hole Research Center in the United States. Their work primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Soil Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Within these scientific domains, Kathleen Savage has extensively contributed to multiple topics related to ecosystem processes and environmental dynamics. Key areas of research include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Fire effects on ecosystems, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Climate change and permafrost, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

They have published in a variety of scientific journals, frequently appearing in venues such as Global Change Biology, Biogeochemistry, Ecological Monographs, Soil Science Society of America Journal, and Earth System Science Data.

Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change (2020, Ecological Monographs)
Mid-infrared spectroscopy for prediction of soil health indicators in the United States (2020, Soil Science Society of America Journal)
COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data (2020, Global Change Biology)
Soil organic carbon fractions in the Great Plains of the United States: an application of mid-infrared spectroscopy (2021, Biogeochemistry)
Carbon uptake in Eurasian boreal forests dominates the high-latitude net ecosystem carbon budget (2023, Global Change Biology)

Kathleen Savage has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Eric A. Davidson, Jonathan Sanderman, Shree R. S. Dangal, Mats B. Nilsson, and Matthias Peichl.

Best Publications

Minimizing artifacts and biases in chamber-based measurements of soil respiration

E.A Davidson;K Savage;L.V Verchot;Rosa Navarro

1002
Citations
Comparison of different chamber techniques for measuring soil CO2 efflux

Jukka Pumpanen;Pasi Kolari;Hannu Ilvesniemi;Kari Minkkinen

688
Citations
Chronic nitrogen additions reduce total soil respiration and microbial respiration in temperate forest soils at the Harvard Forest

Richard D Bowden;Eric Davidson;Kathleen Savage;Chris Arabia

658
Citations
The Dual Arrhenius and Michaelis–Menten kinetics model for decomposition of soil organic matter at hourly to seasonal time scales

Eric A. Davidson;Sudeep Samanta;Samantha S. Caramori;Kathleen Savage

578
Citations
A comparison of six methods for measuring soil‐surface carbon dioxide fluxes

J.M. Norman;C.J. Kucharik;S.T. Gower;D.D. Baldocchi

460
Citations
Effects of experimental drought on soil respiration and radiocarbon efflux from a temperate forest soil

Werner Borken;Werner Borken;Kathleen Savage;Eric A. Davidson;Susan E. Trumbore

418
Citations
Belowground carbon allocation in forests estimated from litterfall and IRGA-based soil respiration measurements

E.A Davidson;K Savage;P Bolstad;D.A Clark

387
Citations
Interannual variation of soil respiration in two New England forests

K. E. Savage;E. A. Davidson

379
Citations
Drying and Wetting Effects on Carbon Dioxide Release from Organic Horizons

Werner Borken;Eric A. Davidson;Kathleen Savage;Julia B. Gaudinski

319
Citations
A comparison of manual and automated systems for soil CO2 flux measurements: trade-offs between spatial and temporal resolution

Kathleen E. Savage;Eric A. Davidson

297
Citations
Seasonal patterns and controls on net ecosystem CO2 exchange in a boreal peatland complex

Jill L. Bubier;Patrick M. Crill;Tim R. Moore;Kathleen Savage

290
Citations
A distinct seasonal pattern of the ratio of soil respiration to total ecosystem respiration in a spruce‐dominated forest

E.A. Davidson;A.D. Richardson;K.E. Savage;D.Y. Hollinger

282
Citations
Effect of summer throughfall exclusion, summer drought, and winter snow cover on methane fluxes in a temperate forest soil

Werner Borken;Werner Borken;Eric A. Davidson;Kathleen Savage;Eric T. Sundquist

219
Citations
Estimating parameters of a forest ecosystem C model with measurements of stocks and fluxes as joint constraints

Andrew D. Richardson;Mathew Williams;David Y. Hollinger;David J. P. Moore

207
Citations
Microtopography and methane flux in boreal peatlands, northern Ontario, Canada

J. Bubier;A. Costello;T. R. Moore;N. T. Roulet

207
Citations
Modelling temporal variability in the carbon balance of a spruce/moss boreal forest

Steve Frolking;M L Goulden;Steven C Wofsy;S M Fan

197
Citations
Vertical partitioning of CO2 production within a temperate forest soil: VERTICAL PARTITIONING OF CO2 PRODUCTION

Eric A. Davidson;Kathleen E. Savage;Susan E. Trumbore;Werner Borken

191
Citations
A comparison of methane flux in a boreal landscape between a dry and a wet year

Jill Bubier;Tim Moore;Kathleen Savage;Kathleen Savage;Patrick Crill;Patrick Crill

176
Citations
Vertical partitioning of CO2 production within a temperate forest soil

Eric A. Davidson;Kathleen E. Savage;Susan E. Trumbore;Werner Borken;Werner Borken

160
Citations
Comparing simple respiration models for eddy flux and dynamic chamber data

Andrew D. Richardson;Bobby H. Braswell;David Y. Hollinger;Prabir Burman

159
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric A. Davidson University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences

Andrew D. Richardson Northern Arizona University

Werner Borken University of Bayreuth

Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

David Y. Hollinger US Forest Service

Trevor F. Keenan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Serita D. Frey University of New Hampshire

Adrien C. Finzi Boston University

Rodrigo Vargas University of Delaware

Jianwu Tang East China Normal University

External Links

Personal website of Kathleen Savage

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