2026 Patrick M. Crill: 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	99	398	374	2	2	351	35491

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Patrick M. Crill is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions across several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work addresses key topics such as Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate change and permafrost, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Among recent publications are:

The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017, 2020, NOAA Institutional Repository
The Arctic Carbon Cycle and Its Response to Changing Climate, 2021, Current Climate Change Reports
The Boreal-Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD), 2021, Earth system science data
BAWLD-CH ₄: a comprehensive dataset of methane fluxes from boreal and arctic ecosystems, 2021, Earth system science data
Effect of the 2018 European drought on methane and carbon dioxide exchange of northern mire ecosystems, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

R. K. Varner
Virginia I. Rich
Jeffrey P. Chanton
S. R. Saleska
C. K. McCalley

The venues where this scientist commonly publishes include:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Biogeosciences
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Patrick M. Crill received the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) award in 2018.

Best Publications

The global methane budget 2000–2017

Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

3060
Citations
Freshwater Methane Emissions Offset the Continental Carbon Sink

David Bastviken;Lars J. Tranvik;John A. Downing;Patrick M. Crill

1694
Citations
The global methane budget 2000–2012

Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

1161
Citations
Sensitivity of boreal forest carbon balance to soil thaw

M. L. Goulden;S. C. Wofsy;J. W. Harden;Susan E. Trumbore

1033
Citations
Carbon in Amazon Forests: Unexpected Seasonal Fluxes and Disturbance-Induced Losses

Scott R. Saleska;Scott D. Miller;Daniel M. Matross;Michael L. Goulden

897
Citations
The Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) : an overview and early results from the 1994 field year

Piers Sellers;Forrest Hall;K. Jon Ranson;Hank Margolis

709
Citations
Thawing sub-arctic permafrost - effects on vegetation and methane emissions

Torben R. Christensen;Torbjörn Johansson;H. Jonas Åkerman;Mihail Mastepanov

705
Citations
BOREAS in 1997: Experiment overview, scientific results, and future directions

Piers J. Sellers;Forrest G. Hall;Robert D. Kelly;Andrew Black

658
Citations
Host-linked soil viral ecology along a permafrost thaw gradient

Joanne B. Emerson;Joanne B. Emerson;Simon Roux;Simon Roux;Jennifer R. Brum;Jennifer R. Brum;Benjamin Bolduc

604
Citations
A synthesis of methane emissions from 71 northern, temperate, and subtropical wetlands

Merritt R. Turetsky;Agnieszka Kotowska;Jill Bubier;Nancy B. Dise

579
Citations
Methane flux from Minnesota Peatlands

P. M. Crill;K. B. Bartlett;R. C. Harriss;E. Gorham

525
Citations
Effect of a lowered water table on nitrous oxide fluxes from northern peatlands

Pertti J. Martikainen;Hannu Nykänen;Patrick Crill;Jouko Silvola

497
Citations
Methane dynamics regulated by microbial community response to permafrost thaw

Carmody K. McCalley;Ben J. Woodcroft;Suzanne B. Hodgkins;Richard A. Wehr

462
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
Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost

Ben J. Woodcroft;Caitlin M. Singleton;Joel A. Boyd;Paul N. Evans

458
Citations
Seasonal patterns of methane uptake and carbon dioxide release by a temperate woodland soil

Patrick M. Crill

442
Citations
Comparing nocturnal eddy covariance measurements to estimates of ecosystem respiration made by scaling chamber measurements at six coniferous boreal sites

M.B. Lavigne;M.G. Ryan;D.E. Anderson;D.D. Baldocchi

437
Citations
Nitrous oxide emissions from municipal wastewater treatment.

Peter. Czepiel;Patrick. Crill;Robert. Harriss

432
Citations
Changes in peat chemistry associated with permafrost thaw increase greenhouse gas production

Suzanne B. Hodgkins;Malak M. Tfaily;Carmody K. McCalley;Tyler A. Logan

391
Citations
Ecological controls on methane emissions from a Northern Peatland Complex in the zone of discontinuous permafrost, Manitoba, Canada

Jill L. Bubier;Tim R. Moore;Lianne Bellisario;Neil T. Comer

386
Citations
Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

Susan M. Natali;Jennifer D. Watts;Brendan M. Rogers;Stefano Potter

379
Citations
Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott R. Saleska University of Arizona

David Bastviken Linköping University

Steve Frolking University of New Hampshire

Michael Keller US Forest Service

Jeffrey P. Chanton Florida State University

Jill L. Bubier Mount Holyoke College

Gene W. Tyson Queensland University of Technology

Robert C. Harriss University of New Hampshire

Thomas Friborg University of Copenhagen

Torben R. Christensen Aarhus University

External Links

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