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34
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5176
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7565
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2546

Ranjeet John publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ranjeet John sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 89 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Ranjeet John D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ranjeet John sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Ranjeet John is affiliated with the University of South Dakota in the United States and specializes in environmental science with a particular focus on global and planetary change. Their research covers various subfields including management, monitoring, policy and law, ecology, soil science, and sociology and political science.

Their recent publications highlight diverse aspects of environmental systems and climate impacts. Notable papers include:

  • Global water use efficiency saturation due to increased vapor pressure deficit (2023) published in Science
  • Albedo changes caused by future urbanization contribute to global warming (2022) published in Nature Communications
  • Optimal ranges of social-environmental drivers and their impacts on vegetation dynamics in Kazakhstan (2022) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Sustainability challenges for the social-environmental systems across the Asian Drylands Belt (2021) published in Environmental Research Letters
  • Untangling the impacts of socioeconomic and climatic changes on vegetation greenness and productivity in Kazakhstan (2022) published in Environmental Research Letters

The key topics that frame their work include:

  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Soil and Environmental Studies
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Climate variability and models

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ranjeet John are:

  • Jiquan Chen
  • Venkatesh Kolluru
  • Geoffrey M. Henebry
  • Maira Kussainova
  • Zutao Ouyang

Publishing predominantly in journals such as Environmental Research Letters and Landscape Ecology, Ranjeet John has also contributed to high-impact venues like Science, Nature Communications, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Best Publications

  • Applications of structural equation modeling (SEM) in ecological studies: an updated review

    Yi Fan;Jiquan Chen;Gabriela Shirkey;Ranjeet John

  • Upscaling key ecosystem functions across the conterminous United States by a water‐centric ecosystem model

    Ge Sun;Peter Caldwell;Asko Noormets;Steven G. McNulty

  • Global water use efficiency saturation due to increased vapor pressure deficit

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  • Albedo changes caused by future urbanization contribute to global warming

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  • Fluxes all of the time? A primer on the temporal representativeness of FLUXNET

    Housen Chu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Ranjeet John;Sebastian Wolf

  • Vegetation response to extreme climate events on the Mongolian Plateau from 2000 to 2010

    Ranjeet John;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Zu-Tao Ou-Yang;Jingfeng Xiao

  • Grassland canopy cover and aboveground biomass in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia: Spatiotemporal estimates and controlling factors

    Ranjeet John;Jiquan Chen;Vincenzo Giannico;Vincenzo Giannico;Hogeun Park

  • Land cover/land use change in semi-arid Inner Mongolia: 1992?2004

    Ranjeet John;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Nan Lu;Burkhard Wilske

  • Differentiating anthropogenic modification and precipitation-driven change on vegetation productivity on the Mongolian Plateau

    Ranjeet John;Jiquan Chen;Youngwook Kim;Zu tao Ou-yang

  • Predicting plant diversity based on remote sensing products in the semi-arid region of Inner Mongolia

    Ranjeet John;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Nan Lu;Ke Guo

  • Urbanization and environmental change during the economic transition on the Mongolian Plateau: Hohhot and Ulaanbaatar.

    Peilei Fan;Jiquan Chen;Ranjeet John

  • Divergences of Two Coupled Human and Natural Systems on the Mongolian Plateau

    Jiquan Chen;Ranjeet John;Yaoqi Zhang;Changliang Shao

  • Net ecosystem methane and carbon dioxide exchanges in a Lake Erie coastal marsh and a nearby cropland

    Housen Chu;Jiquan Chen;Johan F. Gottgens;Zutao Ouyang

  • Climate change in Inner Mongolia from 1955 to 2005-trends at regional, biome and local scales.

    N. Lu;B. Wilske;J. Ni;J. Ni;R. John

  • Policy shifts influence the functional changes of the CNH systems on the Mongolian plateau

    Jiquan Chen;Ranjeet John;Changliang Shao;Yi Fan

  • Urbanization dramatically altered the water balances of a paddy field dominated basin in Southern China

    L. Hao;G. Sun;Y. Liu;J. Wan

  • Optimal ranges of socio-environmental drivers and their impacts on vegetation dynamics in Kazakhstan.

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  • Prospects for the sustainability of social-ecological systems (SES) on the Mongolian plateau: five critical issues

    Jiquan Chen;Ranjeet John;Ranjeet John;Ge Sun;Peilei Fan

  • Poplar plantation has the potential to alter the water balance in semiarid Inner Mongolia

    Burkhard Wilske;Nan Lu;Long Wei;Shiping Chen

  • Ten-year variability in ecosystem water use efficiency in an oak-dominated temperate forest under a warming climate

    Jing Xie;Jiquan Chen;Ge Sun;Tianshan Zha

  • Estimating Stand Volume and Above-Ground Biomass of Urban Forests Using LiDAR

    Vincenzo Giannico;Raffaele Lafortezza;Ranjeet John;Giovanni Sanesi

  • Diurnal to annual changes in latent, sensible heat, and CO2 fluxes over a Laurentian Great Lake: A case study in Western Lake Erie

    Changliang Shao;Jiquan Chen;Carol A. Stepien;Housen Chu

  • Evapotranspiration of annual and perennial biofuel crops in a variable climate

    Michael Abraha;Michael Abraha;Jiquan Chen;Jiquan Chen;Housen Chu;Terenzio Zenone;Terenzio Zenone

  • Understanding livestock production and sustainability of grassland ecosystems in the Asian Dryland Belt

    Jiaguo Qi;Jiaguo Qi;Xiaoping Xin;Ranjeet John;Pavel Groisman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiquan Chen
Jiquan Chen Michigan State University
Zutao Ouyang
Zutao Ouyang Auburn University
Changliang Shao
Changliang Shao Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Raffaele Lafortezza
Raffaele Lafortezza University of Bari Aldo Moro
Jiaguo Qi
Jiaguo Qi Michigan State University
Asko Noormets
Asko Noormets Texas A&M University
Ge Sun
Ge Sun US Forest Service
Geoffrey M. Henebry
Geoffrey M. Henebry Michigan State University
Jian Ni
Jian Ni Zhejiang Normal University
Jingfeng Xiao
Jingfeng Xiao University of New Hampshire

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