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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Peter Smith is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a specific focus on subfields such as Soil Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work covers key topics including Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Bioenergy Crop Production and Management, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, and Environmental Impact and Sustainability.

Peter Smith has contributed to a number of publications, some of which are notable for their high citation counts. Recent papers include:

  • The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions (2020), published in Nature Sustainability
  • Getting the message right on nature-based solutions to climate change (2021), published in Global Change Biology
  • Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods (2021), published in Nature Food
  • The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches (2022), published in Science
  • Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system (2020), published in Nature Food

The scientist frequently publishes in several academic venues, which include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Nature Food

Peter Smith collaborates regularly with a group of co-authors. Frequent collaborators include Mohamed Abdalla, Philippe Ciais, Matthias Kuhnert, Francesco N. Tubiello, and Glen P. Peters.

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications such as "Urban forests: a global perspective," published by FAO eBooks in 2023.

The scientist has received recognition in the form of awards, including being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2009 and a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Summary for Policymakers

    T. Barker;I. Bashmakov;L. Bernstein;J. Bogner

  • Natural climate solutions

    Bronson W. Griscom;Bronson W. Griscom;Justin Adams;Peter W. Ellis;Richard A. Houghton

  • Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture

    Pete Smith;Daniel Martino;Zucong Cai;Daniel Gwary

  • Climate-smart soils

    Keith Paustian;Johannes Lehmann;Stephen Ogle;David Reay

  • The technological and economic prospects for CO2 utilization and removal

    Cameron Hepburn;Ella Adlen;John Beddington;Emily A. Carter;Emily A. Carter

  • Ecosystem Service Supply and Vulnerability to Global Change in Europe

    Dagmar Schröter;Wolfgang Cramer;Rik Leemans;I. Colin Prentice

  • Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Premises and Policies

    Tara Garnett;M.C. Appleby;A. Balmford;I.J. Bateman

  • Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

    Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Philippe Ciais;Dorothea Frank

  • Biophysical and economic limits to negative CO2 emissions

    Pete Smith;Steven J. Davis;Felix Creutzig;Sabine Fuss

  • Negative emissions-Part 2 : Costs, potentials and side effects

    Sabine Fuss;William F Lamb;Max W Callaghan;Jérôme Hilaire

  • Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)

    Pete Smith;Mercedes Bustamante;Helal Ahammad;Harry Clark

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  • A comparison of the performance of nine soil organic matter models using datasets from seven long-term experiments

    P Smith;J U Smith;D S Powlson;W B McGill

  • Carbon sequestration in the agricultural soils of Europe

    Annette Freibauer;Mark D.A Rounsevell;Pete Smith;Jan Verhagen

  • Agricultural soils as a sink to mitigate CO2 emissions

    K Paustian;O Andren;H.H Janzen;R Lal

  • Betting on negative emissions

    Sabine Fuss;Josep G. Canadell;Glen P. Peters;Massimo Tavoni

  • Global agriculture and nitrous oxide emissions

    Dave S. Reay;Eric A. Davidson;Keith A. Smith;Pete Smith

  • Microorganisms and climate change: terrestrial feedbacks and mitigation options

    Brajesh K. Singh;Richard D. Bardgett;Pete Smith;Dave S. Reay

  • Chiral magnetic effect in ZrTe5

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  • Jet energy scale and resolution measured in proton–proton collisions at �TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Frequent Co-Authors

Jo Smith
Jo Smith University of Aberdeen
Pete Falloon
Pete Falloon Met Office
Kelly Chibale
Kelly Chibale University of Cape Town
David S. Powlson
David S. Powlson Rothamsted Research
Martin Wattenbach
Martin Wattenbach University of Aberdeen
Kevin Coleman
Kevin Coleman Rothamsted Research
Robert W. Eason
Robert W. Eason University of Southampton
Ian A. Walmsley
Ian A. Walmsley Imperial College London
Claire Foster
Claire Foster University of Southampton
Niall P. McNamara
Niall P. McNamara UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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