2026 Otmar Urban: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	40	3879	3630	32	32	183	6907

Overview

Otmar Urban is affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in Czech Republic. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The scientist's work focuses on several subfields, including Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, and Ecology. Central topics in their research portfolio include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Tree-ring climate responses, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Light effects on plants, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms.

Frequently appearing in scientific literature, Otmar Urban has contributed to multiple publication venues. These include SSRN Electronic Journal, The Science of The Total Environment, Plant Cell & Environment, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, and Atmosphere.

Otmar Urban has collaborated extensively with several researchers across their career. Frequent co-authors include:

Karel Klem
Miroslav Trnka
Josep Peñuelas
Michal Oravec
Ulf Büntgen

Their recent significant papers include:

"Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability," 2021, Nature Geoscience
"Diffuse solar radiation and canopy photosynthesis in a changing environment," 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
"Temporal Changes in Ozone Concentrations and Their Impact on Vegetation," 2021, Atmosphere
"Ecometabolomics for a Better Understanding of Plant Responses and Acclimation to Abiotic Factors Linked to Global Change," 2020, Metabolites
"A meta-analysis of the interactive effects of UV and drought on plants," 2021, Plant Cell & Environment

Best Publications

Differences in pigment composition, photosynthetic rates and chlorophyll fluorescence images of sun and shade leaves of four tree species

Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler;Alexander Ač;Michal V. Marek;Jiří Kalina

459
Citations
Root exudate metabolomes change under drought and show limited capacity for recovery

Albert Gargallo-Garriga;Catherine Preece;Jordi Sardans;Michal Oravec

383
Citations
Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

Ulf Büntgen;Otmar Urban;Paul J. Krusic;Paul J. Krusic;Michal Rybníček;Michal Rybníček

381
Citations
Re-interpreting plant morphological responses to UV-B radiation

T. Matthew Robson;Karel Klem;Otmar Urban;Marcel A. K. Jansen

324
Citations
Ecophysiological controls over the net ecosystem exchange of mountain spruce stand. Comparison of the response in direct vs. diffuse solar radiation

Otmar Urban;Dalibor Janouš;Manuel Acosta;Radek Czerný

282
Citations
Opposite metabolic responses of shoots and roots to drought.

Albert Gargallo-Garriga;Jordi Sardans;Míriam Pérez-Trujillo;Albert Rivas-Ubach

232
Citations
Diffuse solar radiation and canopy photosynthesis in a changing environment

Maxime Durand;Erik H. Murchie;Anders V. Lindfors;Otmar Urban

196
Citations
Physiological Impacts of Elevated CO2 Concentration Ranging from Molecular to Whole Plant Responses

O. Urban

182
Citations
Impact of clear and cloudy sky conditions on the vertical distribution of photosynthetic CO2 uptake within a spruce canopy

Otmar Urban;Karel Klem;Alexander Ač;Kateřina Havránková

172
Citations
Changes of primary and secondary metabolites in barley plants exposed to CdO nanoparticles.

Kristýna Večeřová;Zbyněk Večeřa;Bohumil Dočekal;Michal Oravec

147
Citations
Pinus sylvestris as a missing source of nitrous oxide and methane in boreal forest

Katerina Machacova;Jaana Bäck;Anni Vanhatalo;Elisa Halmeenmäki

143
Citations
Warming differentially influences the effects of drought on stoichiometry and metabolomics in shoots and roots.

Albert Gargallo‐Garriga;Albert Gargallo‐Garriga;Jordi Sardans;Míriam Pérez‐Trujillo;Michal Oravec

139
Citations
Interactive effects of high temperature and drought stress during stem elongation, anthesis and early grain filling on the yield formation and photosynthesis of winter wheat

Marcela Hlaváčová;Karel Klem;Barbora Rapantová;Kateřina Novotná

130
Citations
The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx)

Aud Helen Halbritter Rechsteiner;Hans J. De Boeck;Amy Elizabeth Eycott;Amy Elizabeth Eycott;Sabine Reinsch

127
Citations
Drought enhances folivory by shifting foliar metabolomes in Quercus ilex trees

Albert Rivas-Ubach;Albert Gargallo-Garriga;Albert Gargallo-Garriga;Jordi Sardans;Michal Oravec

108
Citations
Induction of photosynthesis and importance of limitations during the induction phase in sun and shade leaves of five ecologically contrasting tree species from the temperate zone.

Otmar Urban;Martina Košvancová;Michal V. Marek;Hartmut K. Lichtenthaler

95
Citations
Interactive effects of PAR and UV radiation on the physiology, morphology and leaf optical properties of two barley varieties

Karel Klem;Alexander Ač;Petr Holub;Daniel Kováč

94
Citations
Combined effects of drought and high temperature on photosynthetic characteristics in four winter wheat genotypes

O. Urban;M. Hlaváčová;M. Hlaváčová;K. Klem;K. Klem;K. Novotná;K. Novotná

87
Citations
Soil [N] modulates soil C cycling in CO2-fumigated tree stands: A meta-analysis

W. I. J. Dieleman;S. Luyssaert;S. Luyssaert;A. Rey;P. De Angelis

84
Citations
Temporal Changes in Ozone Concentrations and Their Impact on Vegetation

Stanislav Juráň;John Grace;Otmar Urban

76
Citations
Ultraviolet and photosynthetically active radiation can both induce photoprotective capacity allowing barley to overcome high radiation stress

Karel Klem;Petr Holub;Michal Štroch;Jakub Nezval

73
Citations