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183

Margaret S. Torn 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 Margaret S. Torn sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 402 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Margaret S. Torn 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 Margaret S. Torn sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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

  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Margaret S. Torn is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific fields, focusing primarily on environmental chemistry, atmospheric science, oceanography, astronomy and astrophysics, and global and planetary change. Within these domains, they concentrate on topics such as methane hydrates and related phenomena, ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, geophysics and gravity measurements, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, climate change and permafrost, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Their recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity, 2020, published in Nature Geoscience
  • Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon, 2022, published in Nature Communications
  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2, 2020, published in New Phytologist
  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites, 2021, published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Carbon-Neutral Pathways for the United States, 2021, published in AGU Advances

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Peter Nico
  • Eoin Brodie
  • Ricardo Eloy Alves
  • Ulaş Karaöz
  • Nancy Hess

Their work is published predominantly in the following venues:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Geoscience

Among recognitions, Margaret S. Torn was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

    Michael W. I. Schmidt;Margaret S. Torn;Margaret S. Torn;Samuel Abiven;Thorsten Dittmar;Thorsten Dittmar

  • Mineral control of soil organic carbon storage and turnover

    Margaret S. Torn;Susan E. Trumbore;Oliver A. Chadwick;Peter M. Vitousek

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • The Technology Path to Deep Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts by 2050: The Pivotal Role of Electricity

    James H. Williams;Andrew DeBenedictis;Rebecca Ghanadan;Amber Mahone

  • Stabilization of Soil Organic Matter: Association with Minerals or Chemical Recalcitrance?

    Robert Mikutta;Markus Kleber;Margaret S. Torn;Reinhold Jahn

  • Large contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to soil carbon pools in tropical forest soils

    Matthias C. Rillig;Sara F. Wright;Kristine A. Nichols;Walter F. Schmidt

  • Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

    Johannes Lehmann;Johannes Lehmann;Colleen M. Hansel;Christina Kaiser;Markus Kleber

  • Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon

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  • The whole-soil carbon flux in response to warming.

    Caitlin E. Hicks Pries;C. Castanha;R. C. Porras;M. S. Torn;M. S. Torn

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • The Significance of the Erosion-induced Terrestrial Carbon Sink

    Asmeret Asefaw Berhe;John Harte;Jennifer W. Harden;Margaret S. Torn

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels' indirect land use change are uncertain but may be much greater than previously estimated.

    Richard J Plevin;Michael O'Hare;Andrew D Jones;Margaret S Torn

  • Changes in microbial community characteristics and soil organic matter with nitrogen additions in two tropical forests

    Daniela F. Cusack;Whendee L. Silver;Margaret S. Torn;Sarah D. Burton

  • Poorly crystalline mineral phases protect organic matter in acid subsoil horizons

    M. Kleber;R. Mikutta;M. S. Torn;R. Jahn

  • Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

    Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Steven D. Allison;Niels H. Batjes

  • Microbial carbon limitation: The need for integrating microorganisms into our understanding of ecosystem carbon cycling.

    Jennifer L. Soong;Lucia Fuchslueger;Sara Marañon-Jimenez;Margaret S. Torn

  • The effect of vertically resolved soil biogeochemistry and alternate soil C and N models on C dynamics of CLM4

    Cd D. Koven;Wj J. Riley;Zm M. Subin;Zm M. Subin;Jy Y. Tang

  • A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Kevin Schaefer;Christopher R. Schwalm;Chris Williams;M. Altaf Arain

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • Barriers to predicting changes in global terrestrial methane fluxes: analyses using CLM4Me, a methane biogeochemistry model integrated in CESM

    W. J. Riley;Z. M. Subin;D. M. Lawrence;S. C. Swenson

  • PRINCIPLES OF ECOSYSTEM SUSTAINABILITY

    F. Stuart Chapin;Margaret S. Torn;Masaki Tateno

  • Global Warming and Soil Microclimate: Results from a Meadow-Warming Experiment

    John Harte;Margaret S. Torn;Fang-Ru Chang;Brian Feifarek

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Riley
William J. Riley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sebastien C. Biraud
Sebastien C. Biraud Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Marc L. Fischer
Marc L. Fischer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
John Harte
John Harte University of California, Berkeley
Susan E. Trumbore
Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jennifer W. Harden
Jennifer W. Harden United States Geological Survey
Lara M. Kueppers
Lara M. Kueppers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Markus Kleber
Markus Kleber Oregon State University
Paul J. Hanson
Paul J. Hanson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science

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