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D-Index
86
Citations
30470
World Ranking
578
National Ranking
14

Rasmus Fensholt 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 Rasmus Fensholt sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 362 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rasmus Fensholt 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 Rasmus Fensholt sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 86 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Rasmus Fensholt is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has conducted extensive research in the field of environmental science. Their work is prominently situated within subfields such as global and planetary change, ecology, environmental engineering, nature and landscape conservation, and atmospheric science.

Fensholt's research addresses a range of topics within environmental science, with a focus on remote sensing in agriculture, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, land use and ecosystem services, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, forest ecology and management, African botany and ecology studies, and fire effects on ecosystems.

The most frequent publication venues for Fensholt's work include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Remote Sensing

Fensholt has collaborated with several researchers frequently, including Martin Brandt, Philippe Ciais, Xiaowei Tong, Xiaoye Tong, and Yuemin Yue.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • "The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data" (2020), published in Scientific Data
  • "Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel" (2020), published in Nature
  • "A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China" (2022), published in Nature Sustainability
  • "Mapping global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes" (2022), published in Nature Communications

Best Publications

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

    Chi Chen;Taejin Park;Xuhui Wang;Shilong Piao

  • Automated Water Extraction Index: a new technique for surface water mapping using Landsat imagery.

    Gudina L. Feyisa;Henrik Meilby;Rasmus Fensholt;Simon R. Proud

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Evaluation of Earth Observation based global long term vegetation trends — Comparing GIMMS and MODIS global NDVI time series

    Rasmus Fensholt;Simon R. Proud

  • Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers

    Rasmus Fensholt;Tobias Langanke;Kjeld Rasmussen;Anette Reenberg

  • Evaluation of MODIS LAI, fAPAR and the relation between fAPAR and NDVI in a semi-arid environment using in situ measurements

    Rasmus Fensholt;Inge Sandholt;Michael Schultz Rasmussen

  • Increased vegetation growth and carbon stock in China karst via ecological engineering

    Xiaowei Tong;Martin Brandt;Yuemin Yue;Stephanie Horion

  • A review of the application of optical and radar remote sensing data fusion to land use mapping and monitoring

    Neha P. Joshi;Matthias Baumann;Andrea Ehammer;Rasmus Fensholt

  • Derivation of a shortwave infrared water stress index from MODIS near- and shortwave infrared data in a semiarid environment

    Rasmus Fensholt;Inge Sandholt

  • Forest management in southern China generates short term extensive carbon sequestration

    Xiaowei Tong;Xiaowei Tong;Martin Brandt;Yuemin Yue;Philippe Ciais

  • Evaluation of earth observation based long term vegetation trends - Intercomparing NDVI time series trend analysis consistency of Sahel from AVHRR GIMMS, Terra MODIS and SPOT VGT data

    Rasmus Fensholt;Kjeld Rasmussen;Thomas Theis Nielsen;Cheikh Mbow

  • MODIS leaf area index products: from validation to algorithm improvement

    Wenze Yang;Bin Tan;Dong Huang;M. Rautiainen

  • A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China

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  • An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

    Martin Brandt;Compton J. Tucker;Ankit Kariryaa;Kjeld Rasmussen

  • Evaluating temporal consistency of long-term global NDVI datasets for trend analysis

    Feng Tian;Feng Tian;Rasmus Fensholt;Jan Verbesselt;Kenneth Grogan

  • Mapping global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes

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  • Combining the triangle method with thermal inertia to estimate regional evapotranspiration — Applied to MSG-SEVIRI data in the Senegal River basin

    Simon Stisen;Inge Sandholt;Anette Nørgaard;Rasmus Fensholt

  • Quantifying the effectiveness of ecological restoration projects on long-term vegetation dynamics in the karst regions of Southwest China

    Xiaowei Tong;Kelin Wang;Yuemin Yue;Martin Stefan Brandt

  • Estimation of diurnal air temperature using MSG SEVIRI data in West Africa

    Simon Stisen;Inge Sandholt;Anette Nørgaard;Rasmus Fensholt

  • Analysis of trends in the Sahelian `rain-use efficiency' using GIMMS NDVI, RFE and GPCP rainfall data

    Rasmus Fensholt;Kjeld Rasmussen

  • Remote sensing of vegetation dynamics in drylands: Evaluating vegetation optical depth (VOD) using AVHRR NDVI and in situ green biomass data over West African Sahel

    Feng Tian;Feng Tian;Martin Brandt;Yi Y. Liu;Aleixandre Verger

  • Evaluation of satellite based primary production modelling in the semi-arid Sahel

    Rasmus Fensholt;Inge Sandholt;Michael Schultz Rasmussen;Simon Stisen

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Brandt
Martin Brandt University of Copenhagen
Kjeld Rasmussen
Kjeld Rasmussen University of Copenhagen
Inge Sandholt
Inge Sandholt University of Copenhagen
Cheikh Mbow
Cheikh Mbow Centre de Suivi Ecologique
Jonas Ardö
Jonas Ardö Lund University
Compton J. Tucker
Compton J. Tucker Goddard Space Flight Center
Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
Ole Mertz
Ole Mertz University of Copenhagen
Jan Verbesselt
Jan Verbesselt Wageningen University & Research
Laurent Kergoat
Laurent Kergoat Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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