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95
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37642
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474
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215

Steve Frolking 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 Steve Frolking sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 400 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Steve Frolking 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 Steve Frolking sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 95th percentile

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

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Steve Frolking is affiliated with the University of New Hampshire in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, including plant science, global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, and environmental engineering. They have contributed significantly to several main topics, particularly sugarcane cultivation and processing, peatlands and wetlands ecology, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, rice cultivation and yield improvement, cassava research and cyanide, and climate change and permafrost.

Their recent publications include several papers addressing environmental and agricultural sciences. These works cover diverse areas such as land use and management, carbon sinks in peatlands, and the impacts of urbanization on climate. Notable papers include:

  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850-2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6, 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Global gridded crop harvested area, production, yield, and monthly physical area data circa 2015, 2022, Scientific Data
  • Land-use harmonization datasets for annual global carbon budgets, 2021, Earth system science data
  • Urbanization Contributes Little to Global Warming but Substantially Intensifies Local and Regional Land Surface Warming, 2022, Earth's Future

Steve Frolking collaborates frequently with several researchers, reflecting extensive teamwork in their research projects. Frequent co-authors include Danielle Grogan, Dominik Wisser, Stanley Glidden, and Alexander Proussevitch.

  • Danielle Grogan
  • Dominik Wisser
  • Stanley Glidden
  • Alexander Proussevitch

The venues where Frolking publishes their research highlight their focus on environmental, geophysical, and climate-related topics. Most publications appear in Harvard Dataverse, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, The Science of The Total Environment, Geoscientific Model Development, and Nature Climate Change.

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Nature Climate Change

In 2015, Steve Frolking was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • A model of nitrous oxide evolution from soil driven by rainfall events: 1. Model structure and sensitivity

    Changsheng Li;Steve Frolking;Tod A. Frolking

  • 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

  • Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

    G. C. Hurtt;G. C. Hurtt;L. P. Chini;S. Frolking;R. A. Betts

  • Mapping paddy rice agriculture in southern China using multi-temporal MODIS images

    Xiangming Xiao;Stephen Boles;Jiyuan Liu;Dafang Zhuang

  • Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6

    George C. Hurtt;Louise Chini;Ritvik Sahajpal;Steve Frolking

  • Mapping paddy rice agriculture in South and Southeast Asia using multi-temporal MODIS images

    Xiangming Xiao;Stephen Boles;Steve Frolking;Changsheng Li

  • Satellite Remote Sensing of Surface Urban Heat Islands: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives

    Decheng Zhou;Jingfeng Xiao;Stefania Bonafoni;Christian Berger

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • Modeling carbon biogeochemistry in agricultural soils

    Changsheng Li;Steve Frolking;Robert Harriss

  • The underpinnings of land‐use history: three centuries of global gridded land‐use transitions, wood‐harvest activity, and resulting secondary lands

    George C Hurtt;Steve Frolking;M G Fearon;B Moore

  • Host-linked soil viral ecology along a permafrost thaw gradient

    Joanne B. Emerson;Joanne B. Emerson;Simon Roux;Simon Roux;Jennifer R. Brum;Jennifer R. Brum;Benjamin Bolduc

  • Peatlands in the Earth's 21st century climate system

    Steve Frolking;Julie Talbot;Miriam C. Jones;Claire C. Treat

  • Forest disturbance and recovery: A general review in the context of spaceborne remote sensing of impacts on aboveground biomass and canopy structure

    Steve Frolking;Michael W Palace;Michael W Palace;D B Clark;Jeffrey Q Chambers

  • A model of nitrous oxide evolution from soil driven by rainfall events: 2. Model applications

    Changsheng Li;Steve Frolking;Tod A. Frolking

  • Tracking vegetation phenology across diverse North American biomes using PhenoCam imagery.

    Andrew D. Richardson;Koen Hufkens;Thomas E. Milliman;Donald M. Aubrecht

  • Vulnerability of high-latitude soil organic carbon in North America to disturbance

    Guido Grosse;Jennifer W. Harden;Merritt Turetsky;A. David McGuire

  • Plant biomass and production and CO2 exchange in an ombrotrophic bog

    Tim R. Moore;Jill L. Bubier;Steve E. Frolking;Peter M. Lafleur

  • Interannual variability in the peatland-atmosphere carbon dioxide exchange at an ombrotrophic bog

    Peter M. Lafleur;Nigel T. Roulet;Jill L. Bubier;Steve Frolking

  • The resilience and functional role of moss in boreal and arctic ecosystems.

    Merritt R Turetsky;B Bond-Lamberty;E Euskirchen;Julie Talbot;Julie Talbot

  • Holocene radiative forcing impact of northern peatland carbon accumulation and methane emissions

    Steve Frolking;Nigel T. Roulet

  • Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost

    Ben J. Woodcroft;Caitlin M. Singleton;Joel A. Boyd;Paul N. Evans

  • Combining remote sensing and ground census data to develop new maps of the distribution of rice agriculture in China

    Steve Frolking;Jianjun Qiu;Stephen Boles;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao

Frequent Co-Authors

Changsheng Li
Changsheng Li University of New Hampshire
Nigel T. Roulet
Nigel T. Roulet McGill University
George C. Hurtt
George C. Hurtt University of Maryland, College Park
Patrick M. Crill
Patrick M. Crill Stockholm University
Richard B. Lammers
Richard B. Lammers University of New Hampshire
Xiangming Xiao
Xiangming Xiao University of Oklahoma
William Salas
William Salas Durham University
Dominik Wisser
Dominik Wisser University of Bonn
Mark A. Friedl
Mark A. Friedl Boston University
Louise Chini
Louise Chini University of Maryland, College Park

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