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Leif Klemedtsson

Leif Klemedtsson

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
12595
World Ranking
2639
National Ranking
43

Leif Klemedtsson 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 Leif Klemedtsson sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 207 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Leif Klemedtsson 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 Leif Klemedtsson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 74th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Leif Klemedtsson is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and has a research focus primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several main fields and subfields of study, concentrating on global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, and plant science.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Leif Klemedtsson has contributed to publications in a variety of scientific venues, with a notable number of articles appearing in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Biogeosciences

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Klemedtsson's common co-authors include:

  • Per Weslien
  • Patrik Vestin
  • Anders Lindroth
  • Annalea Lohila
  • Mats B. Nilsson

Recent published papers reflect Klemedtsson's engagement with ecosystem carbon and water fluxes as well as environmental data synthesis. Examples include:

  • "Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database" (2021) published in Earth System Science Data
  • "Effect of the 2018 European drought on methane and carbon dioxide exchange of northern mire ecosystems" (2020) published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Effects of drought and meteorological forcing on carbon and water fluxes in Nordic forests during the dry summer of 2018" (2020) published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Impacts of Clear-Cutting of a Boreal Forest on Carbon Dioxide, Methane and Nitrous Oxide Fluxes" (2020) published in Forests
  • "Upscaling Northern Peatland CO2 Fluxes Using Satellite Remote Sensing Data" (2021) published in Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Energy exchange and water budget partitioning in a boreal minerogenic mire

    Matthias Peichl;Jörgen Sagerfors;Anders Lindroth;Ishi Buffam;Ishi Buffam

  • Oxidation of atmospheric methane in Northern European soils, comparison with other ecosystems, and uncertainties in the global terrestrial sink

    K. A. Smith;K. E. Dobbie;B. C. Ball;L. R. Bakken

  • Assessment of the importance of dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium for the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

    T Rütting;Pascal Boeckx;C Müller;C Müller;L Klemedtsson

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from farmed organic soils: a review

    Å. Kasimir-Klemedtsson;L. Klemedtsson;K. Berglund;P. Martikainen

  • Contemporary carbon accumulation in a boreal oligotrophic minerogenic mire – a significant sink after accounting for all C‐fluxes

    Mats Nilsson;Joergen Sagerfors;Ishi Buffam;Hjalmar Laudon

  • Soil CN ratio as a scalar parameter to predict nitrous oxide emissions

    Leif Klemedtsson;Karin Von Arnold;Per Weslien;Per Gundersen

  • Storms can cause Europe-wide reduction in forest carbon sink

    Anders Lindroth;Fredrik Lagergren;Achim Grelle;Leif Klemedtsson

  • Annual CO2 exchange between a nutrient-poor, minerotrophic, boreal mire and the atmosphere

    J Sagerfors;Anders Lindroth;A Grelle;L Klemedtsson

  • Fluxes of CO2, CH4 and N2O from drained organic soils in deciduous forests

    K. von Arnold;M. Nilsson;B. Hånell;P. Weslien

  • Relationships between soil moisture content and nitrous oxide production during nitrification and denitrification

    L. Klemedtsson;B. H. Svensson;T. Rosswall

  • Inhibitory effect of low partial pressures of acetylene on nitrification

    Per Berg;Leif Klemedtsson;Thomas Rosswall

  • Fluxes of CO2, CH4 and N2O from drained coniferous forests on organic soils

    K. Von Arnold;P. Weslien;M. Nilsson;B.H. Svensson

  • Spatio-temporal variability of lake CH4 fluxes and its influence on annual whole lake emission estimates

    Sivakiruthika Natchimuthu;Ingrid Sundgren;Magnus Gålfalk;Leif Klemedtsson

  • Challenges and Best Practices for Deriving Temperature Data from an Uncalibrated UAV Thermal Infrared Camera

    Julia Kelly;Natascha Kljun;Per Ola Olsson;Laura Mihai

  • Strong pH influence on N2O and CH4 fluxes from forested organic soils

    P. Weslien;Å. Kasimir Klemedtsson;G. Börjesson;L. Klemedtsson

  • Nitrogen-rich organic soils under warm well-drained conditions are global nitrous oxide emission hotspots.

    Jaan Pärn;Jos T.A. Verhoeven;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Nancy B. Dise

  • A method of selective inhibition to distinguish between nitrification and denitrification as sources of nitrous oxide in soil

    L. Klemedtsson;B. H. Svensson;T. Rosswall

  • Water availability controls microbial temperature responses in frozen soil CO2 production

    Mats G. Öquist;Tobias Sparrman;Leif Klemedtsson;Stina Harrysson Drotz

  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

    Rafael Poyatos;Víctor Granda;Víctor Flo;Mark A. Adams;Mark A. Adams

  • The use of acetylene inhibition of nitrous oxide reductase in quantifying denitrification

    L. Klemedtsson;B.H. Svensson;T. Lindberg;T. Rosswall

  • Nitrous oxide emission from Swedish forest soils in relation to liming and simulated increased N-deposition

    L. Klemedtsson;Å. Kasimir Klemedtsson;F. Moldan;P. Weslien

  • Standardisation of chamber technique for CO2, N2O and CH4 fluxes measurements from terrestrial ecosystems

    Marian Pavelka;Manuel Acosta;Ralf Kiese;Núria Altimir

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Lindroth
Anders Lindroth Lund University
Robert G. Björk
Robert G. Björk University of Gothenburg
Mats Nilsson
Mats Nilsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Annalea Lohila
Annalea Lohila Finnish Meteorological Institute
Pascal Boeckx
Pascal Boeckx Ghent University
David Bastviken
David Bastviken Linköping University
Per-Erik Jansson
Per-Erik Jansson Royal Institute of Technology
Natascha Kljun
Natascha Kljun Lund University
Meelis Mölder
Meelis Mölder Lund University
Ulf Molau
Ulf Molau University of Gothenburg

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