2026 Ranga B. Myneni: 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	143	41	38	19	17	535	92762

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award

Overview

Ranga B. Myneni is affiliated with Boston University in the United States, focusing primarily on the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Plant Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist has published extensively in topics related to Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Climate Variability and Models.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Yuri Knyazikhin, Kai Yan, Shilong Piao, Zaichun Zhu, and Jiabin Pu. These partnerships reflect a strong collaborative network contributing to multidisciplinary environmental science.

Ranga B. Myneni has contributed to a significant number of publications in several reputable scientific venues. Notable among these are:

Remote Sensing of Environment
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Earth system science data
Journal of Remote Sensing
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Their recent papers include:

"Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation" (2020), published in Science Advances
"Spatial and temporal variations in global soil respiration and their relationships with climate and land cover" (2020), published in Science Advances
"Spatiotemporally consistent global dataset of the GIMMS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (PKU GIMMS NDVI) from 1982 to 2022" (2023), published in Earth system science data
"Biophysical impacts of Earth greening largely controlled by aerodynamic resistance" (2020), published in Science Advances
"Seasonal biological carryover dominates northern vegetation growth" (2021), published in Nature Communications

Best Publications

Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981 to 1991

R. B. Myneni;C. D. Keeling;C. J. Tucker;G. Asrar

4590
Citations
Climate-Driven Increases in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 1982 to 1999

Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Charles D. Keeling;Hirofumi Hashimoto;Hirofumi Hashimoto;William M. Jolly

4297
Citations
Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles

P. Ciais;C. Sabine;G. Bala;L. Bopp

3564
Citations
China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management

Chi Chen;Taejin Park;Xuhui Wang;Shilong Piao

2711
Citations
Greening of the Earth and its drivers

Zaichun Zhu;Zaichun Zhu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Ranga B. Myneni;Mengtian Huang

2582
Citations
Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data

Ranga B. Myneni;S. Hoffman;Yuri Knyazikhin;J. Privette

2367
Citations
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): land remote sensing for global change research

C.O. Justice;E. Vermote;J.R.G. Townshend;R. Defries

2056
Citations
Variations in northern vegetation activity inferred from satellite data of vegetation index during 1981 to 1999

Liming Zhou;Compton J. Tucker;Robert K. Kaufmann;Daniel Slayback

1976
Citations
Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening

Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang;Taejin Park;Taejin Park;Chi Chen

1881
Citations
The interpretation of spectral vegetation indexes

Ranga B. Myneni;Forrest G. Hall;Piers J. Sellers;Alexander L. Marshak

1740
Citations
Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

Benjamin Poulter;David Frank;Philippe Ciais;Ranga B. Myneni

1449
Citations
Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities

Shushi Peng;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

1443
Citations
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument description and experiment overview

D.J. Diner;J.C. Beckert;T.H. Reilly;C.J. Bruegge

1309
Citations
Estimation of global leaf area index and absorbed par using radiative transfer models

R.B. Myneni;R. Ramakrishna;R. Nemani;S.W. Running

1306
Citations
Synergistic algorithm for estimating vegetation canopy leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation from MODIS and MISR data

Yuri Knyazikhin;J. V. Martonchik;Ranga B. Myneni;D. J. Diner

1182
Citations
Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China

Liming Zhou;Robert Earl Dickinson;Yuhong Tian;Jingyun Fang

1060
Citations
Amazon rainforests green‐up with sunlight in dry season

Alfredo R. Huete;Kamel Didan;Yosio E. Shimabukuro;Piyachat Ratana

1027
Citations
Higher northern latitude normalized difference vegetation index and growing season trends from 1982 to 1999

Compton J. Tucker;Daniel A. Slayback;Jorge E. Pinzon;Sietse O. Los

1016
Citations
On the relationship between FAPAR and NDVI

R.B. Myneni;D.L. Williams

962
Citations
Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

S. Sitch;P. Friedlingstein;N. Gruber;S. D. Jones

930
Citations
Response to Comment on ``Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities''

Shushi Peng;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

21
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuri Knyazikhin Boston University

Shilong Piao Peking University

Ramakrishna R. Nemani Ames Research Center

Zaichun Zhu Peking University

Liming Zhou University at Albany, State University of New York

Ghassem R. Asrar Universities Space Research Association

Compton J. Tucker Goddard Space Flight Center

Yuhong Tian National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Shushi Peng Peking University

Robert E. Dickinson The University of Texas at Austin

External Links

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