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Sara H. Knox

Sara H. Knox

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
6599
World Ranking
8048
National Ranking
365

Sara H. Knox publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sara H. Knox sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 157 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Sara H. Knox D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sara H. Knox sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sara H. Knox is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, and Oceanography.

Their research focuses on several main topics such as:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Sara H. Knox has contributed to multiple scientific publications, frequently appearing in well-known venues, including:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Knox include:

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands, 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions, 2021, Nature Communications

Sara H. Knox collaborates frequently with several other researchers in their field, including:

  • Gavin McNicol
  • Dennis Baldocchi
  • Ankur R. Desai
  • Robert B. Jackson
  • Rodrigo Vargas

Best Publications

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites

    Housen Chu;Xiangzhong Luo;Xiangzhong Luo;Zutao Ouyang;W. Stephen Chan

  • Agricultural peatland restoration: effects of land-use change on greenhouse gas (CO2 and CH4) fluxes in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

    Sara Helen Knox;Cove Sturtevant;Jaclyn Hatala Matthes;Laurie Koteen

  • FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity : Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

    Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson;Benjamin Poulter;Gavin McNicol

  • Gap‐filling approaches for eddy covariance methane fluxes: A comparison of three machine learning algorithms and a traditional method with principal component analysis

    Yeonuk Kim;Mark S. Johnson;Sara H. Knox;T. Andrew Black

  • FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

    Kyle B. Delwiche;Sara Helen Knox;Avni Malhotra;Etienne Fluet-Chouinard

  • Biophysical controls on interannual variability in ecosystem-scale CO2 and CH4 exchange in a California rice paddy

    Sara Helen Knox;Jaclyn Hatala Matthes;Cove Sturtevant;Patricia Y. Oikawa

  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales.

    Sara Helen Knox;Sheel Bansal;Gavin McNicol;Karina Schafer

  • Identifying scale-emergent, nonlinear, asynchronous processes of wetland methane exchange

    Cove Sturtevant;Benjamin L. Ruddell;Sara Helen Knox;Joseph Verfaillie

  • Contribution of groundwater to the outflow from ungauged glacierized catchments: a multi-site study in the tropical Cordillera Blanca, Peru

    Michel Baraer;Jeffrey McKenzie;Bryan G. Mark;Ryan Gordon

  • Monthly gridded data product of northern wetland methane emissions based on upscaling eddy covariance observations

    Olli Peltola;Timo Vesala;Yao Gao;Olle Räty

  • Characterizing contributions of glacier melt and groundwater during the dry season in a poorly gauged catchment of the Cordillera Blanca (Peru)

    M. Baraer;J. M. McKenzie;B. G. Mark;J. Bury

  • Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes : Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands

    Jeremy Irvin;Sharon Zhou;Gavin McNicol;Fred Lu

  • Revisiting the partitioning of net ecosystem exchange of CO2 into photosynthesis and respiration with simultaneous flux measurements of 13CO2 and CO2, soil respiration and a biophysical model, CANVEG

    P.Y. Oikawa;C. Sturtevant;S.H. Knox;J. Verfaillie

  • The effect of land cover type and structure on evapotranspiration from agricultural and wetland sites in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, California.

    Elke Eichelmann;Kyle S. Hemes;Sara H. Knox;Sara H. Knox;Patricia Y. Oikawa

  • A Biogeochemical Compromise: The High Methane Cost of Sequestering Carbon in Restored Wetlands

    Kyle S. Hemes;Samuel D. Chamberlain;Elke Eichelmann;Sara H. Knox

  • Hydrologic Export Is a Major Component of Coastal Wetland Carbon Budgets

    Matthew J. Bogard;Matthew J. Bogard;Brian A. Bergamaschi;David E. Butman;Frank Anderson

  • Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions

    Kuang-Yu Chang;William J. Riley;Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson

  • X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X

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  • Effects of seasonality, transport pathway, and spatial structure on greenhouse gas fluxes in a restored wetland.

    Gavin McNicol;Gavin McNicol;Cove S. Sturtevant;Sara H. Knox;Iryna Dronova

  • Parsing the variability in CH4 flux at a spatially heterogeneous wetland: Integrating multiple eddy covariance towers with high-resolution flux footprint analysis

    Jaclyn Hatala Matthes;Jaclyn Hatala Matthes;Cove Sturtevant;Joseph Verfaillie;Sara Knox

  • The impact of expanding flooded land area on the annual evaporation of rice

    Dennis Baldocchi;Sara Knox;Iryna Dronova;Joe Verfaillie

  • Using digital camera and Landsat imagery with eddy covariance data to model gross primary production in restored wetlands

    Sara Helen Knox;Iryna Dronova;Cove Sturtevant;Patricia Y. Oikawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis D. Baldocchi
Dennis D. Baldocchi University of California, Berkeley
Robert B. Jackson
Robert B. Jackson Stanford University
Annalea Lohila
Annalea Lohila Finnish Meteorological Institute
Donatella Zona
Donatella Zona San Diego State University
Rodrigo Vargas
Rodrigo Vargas University of Delaware
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
Gil Bohrer
Gil Bohrer The Ohio State University
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University

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