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D-Index
45
Citations
13230
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6247
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Patrick J. Starks 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 Patrick J. Starks sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 173 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Patrick J. Starks 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 Patrick J. Starks sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Patrick J. Starks is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, contributing to fields such as environmental engineering, atmospheric science, water science and technology, soil science, and global and planetary change.

The scientist has a significant number of publications related to hydrology and watershed management studies, soil moisture and remote sensing, soil and water nutrient dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, as well as soil and unsaturated flow.

The most frequent publication venues for Patrick J. Starks include the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Journal of Environmental Quality, Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Hydrometeorology, and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Patrick J. Starks are:

  • Daniel N. Moriasi
  • Michael H. Cosh
  • David D. Bosch
  • Jean L. Steiner
  • Chandra Holifield Collins

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Patrick J. Starks are:

  • Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission, 2021, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • Improved SMAP Dual-Channel Algorithm for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Comparison of microwave remote sensing and land surface modeling for surface soil moisture climatology estimation, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Global scale error assessments of soil moisture estimates from microwave-based active and passive satellites and land surface models over forest and mixed irrigated/dryland agriculture regions, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Global Soil Moisture Retrievals From the Chinese FY-3D Microwave Radiation Imager, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Correcting eddy-covariance flux underestimates over a grassland

    Tracy E Twine;W. P. Kustas;J. M. Norman;D. R. Cook

  • Soil moisture mapping at regional scales using microwave radiometry: the Southern Great Plains Hydrology Experiment

    T.J. Jackson;D.M. Le Vine;A.Y. Hsu;A. Oldak

  • Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

    A. Colliander;T.J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;S. Chan

  • Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

    Steven K. Chan;Rajat Bindlish;Peggy E. O'Neill;Eni Njoku

  • Validation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Soil Moisture Products

    T J Jackson;M H Cosh;R Bindlish;P J Starks

  • Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

    Guillermo E. Ponce Campos;M. Susan Moran;Alfredo Huete;Yongguang Zhang

  • A thermal-based remote sensing technique for routine mapping of land-surface carbon, water and energy fluxes from field to regional scales

    M.C. Anderson;J.M. Norman;W.P. Kustas;R. Houborg

  • Validation of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Soil Moisture Over Watershed Networks in the U.S.

    T. J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;M. H. Cosh;Tianjie Zhao

  • Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

    S. K. Chan;R. Bindlish;P. O'Neill;T. Jackson

  • Estimating leaf area index and aboveground biomass of grazing pastures using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat images

    Jie Wang;Xiangming Xiao;Rajen Bajgain;Patrick Starks

  • Temporal stability of surface soil moisture in the Little Washita River watershed and its applications in satellite soil moisture product validation

    Michael H. Cosh;Thomas J. Jackson;Patrick Starks;Gary Heathman

  • Version 4 of the SMAP Level-4 Soil Moisture algorithm and data product

    Rolf H. Reichle;Qing Liu;Randal D. Koster;Wade T. Crow

  • Improving hydrologic predictions of a catchment model via assimilation of surface soil moisture

    Fan Chen;Wade T. Crow;Patrick J. Starks;Daniel N. Moriasi

  • A model integration framework for linking SWAT and MODFLOW

    J.A. Guzman;D.N. Moriasi;P.H. Gowda;J.L. Steiner

  • Assimilation of surface soil moisture to estimate profile soil water content

    Gary C Heathman;Patrick J Starks;Lajpat R Ahuja;Thomas J Jackson

  • Soil moisture estimates from TRMM Microwave Imager observations over the Southern United States

    Rajat Bindlish;Thomas J. Jackson;Eric F. Wood;Huilin Gao

  • Temporal stability of soil moisture profile

    Patrick J. Starks;Gary C. Heathman;Thomas J. Jackson;Michael H. Cosh

  • Quantifying relative contributions from sediment sources in Conservation Effects Assessment Project watersheds

    C.G. Wilson;R.A. Kuhnle;D.D. Bosch;J.L. Steiner

  • Application of Triple Collocation in Ground-Based Validation of Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) Level 2 Data Products

    Fan Chen;Wade T. Crow;Andreas Colliander;Michael H. Cosh

  • Measuring Surface Roughness Height to Parameterize Radar Backscatter Models for Retrieval of Surface Soil Moisture

    R. Bryant;M.S. Moran;D.P. Thoma;C.D.H. Collins

  • Improved SMAP Dual-Channel Algorithm for the Retrieval of Soil Moisture

    Mario Julian Chaubell;Simon H. Yueh;R. Scott Dunbar;Andreas Colliander

Frequent Co-Authors

David D. Bosch
David D. Bosch Agricultural Research Service
Michael H. Cosh
Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service
Jean L. Steiner
Jean L. Steiner Agricultural Research Service
Prasanna H. Gowda
Prasanna H. Gowda United States Department of Agriculture
Thomas J. Jackson
Thomas J. Jackson Agricultural Research Service
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph
David C. Goodrich
David C. Goodrich US Department of Agriculture
John H. Prueger
John H. Prueger Agricultural Research Service
Andreas Colliander
Andreas Colliander California Institute of Technology
Rajat Bindlish
Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center

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