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D-Index
59
Citations
18997
World Ranking
2368
National Ranking
282

Thomas A. M. Pugh 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 Thomas A. M. Pugh sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 208 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas A. M. Pugh 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 Thomas A. M. Pugh sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas A. M. Pugh is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's research topics cover a series of interconnected themes such as Forest ecology and management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Climate change impacts on agriculture, Forest Management and Policy, Fire effects on ecosystems, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Pugh has published extensively in several notable venues. Frequent publication sources include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, Environmental Research Letters, Geoscientific Model Development, and Global Change Biology.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world," 2020, Science
  • "Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide," 2022, Annual Review of Plant Biology
  • "Global irrigation contribution to wheat and maize yield," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "A climate risk analysis of Earth's forests in the 21st century," 2022, Science
  • "Narrowing uncertainties in the effects of elevated CO2 on crops," 2020, Nature Food

Thomas A. M. Pugh frequently collaborates with several other researchers, including Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, Christoph Müller, Daijun Liu, Philippe Ciais, and Stefan Olin, each with 10 or more joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Greening of the Earth and its drivers

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

  • Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Alex C. Ruane;Alex C. Ruane

  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Brian H. Aukema

  • Global change pressures on soils from land use and management.

    Pete Smith;Joanna Isobel House;Mercedes Bustamante;Jaroslava Sobocká

  • Effectiveness of Green Infrastructure for Improvement of Air Quality in Urban Street Canyons

    Thomas A. M. Pugh;A. Robert MacKenzie;J. Duncan Whyatt;C. Nicholas Hewitt

  • Role of forest regrowth in global carbon sink dynamics

    Thomas A. M. Pugh;Mats Lindeskog;Benjamin Smith;Benjamin Smith;Benjamin Poulter;Benjamin Poulter

  • Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide.

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  • Similar estimates of temperature impacts on global wheat yield by three independent methods

    Bing Liu;Bing Liu;Senthold Asseng;Christoph Müller;Frank Ewert

  • Consistent negative response of US crops to high temperatures in observations and crop models

    Bernhard Schauberger;Sotirios Archontoulis;Almut Arneth;Juraj Balkovic

  • Historical carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use changes are possibly larger than assumed

    Almut Arneth;Stephen Sitch;Julia Pongratz;B. D. Stocker

  • Global Gridded Crop Model evaluation: benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications

    Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;James Chryssanthacopoulos;James Chryssanthacopoulos;Almut Arneth

  • State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

    Jacob Schewe;Simon N. Gosling;Christopher Reyer;Fang Zhao

  • Regional disparities in the beneficial effects of rising CO2 concentrations on crop water productivity

    Delphine Deryng;Delphine Deryng;Delphine Deryng;Joshua Elliott;Joshua Elliott;Christian Folberth;Christian Folberth;Christoph Müller

  • Global irrigation contribution to wheat and maize yield

    Xuhui Wang;Christoph Müller;Joshua Elliot;Nathaniel D. Mueller

  • Multisectoral climate impact hotspots in a warming world

    Franziska Piontek;Christoph Müller;Thomas A.M. Pugh;Douglas B. Clark

  • Important role of forest disturbances in the global biomass turnover and carbon sinks

    Thomas A. M. Pugh;Almut Arneth;Markus Kautz;Benjamin Poulter

  • Nitrogen management is essential to prevent tropical oil palm plantations from causing ground-level ozone pollution

    C. N. Hewitt;A. R. MacKenzie;P. Di Carlo;C. F. Di Marco

  • Benchmarking sustainability in cities : The role of indicators and future scenarios

    Christopher T. Boyko;Mark R. Gaterell;Austin R.G. Barber;Julie Brown

  • Risk of late toxicity in men receiving dose-escalated hypofractionated intensity modulated prostate radiation therapy: results from a randomized trial.

    Karen E. Hoffman;K. Ranh Voong;Thomas J. Pugh;Heath Skinner

  • Global isoprene and monoterpene emissions under changing climate, vegetation, CO 2 and land use

    Stijn Hantson;Wolfgang Knorr;Guy Schurgers;Thomas Alan Miller Pugh;Thomas Alan Miller Pugh

  • Fluxes and concentrations of volatile organic compounds from a South-East Asian tropical rainforest

    B. Langford;P. K. Misztal;E. Nemitz;B. Davison

  • Influencing the properties of dysprosium single-molecule magnets with phosphorus donor ligands

    Thomas Pugh;Floriana Tuna;Liviu Ungur;David Collison

Frequent Co-Authors

Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christian Folberth
Christian Folberth International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Joshua Elliott
Joshua Elliott University of Chicago
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Xuhui Wang
Xuhui Wang Peking University
Delphine Deryng
Delphine Deryng Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Alex C. Ruane
Alex C. Ruane Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Stefan Olin
Stefan Olin Lund University
Erwin Schmid
Erwin Schmid BOKU University
Nikolay Khabarov
Nikolay Khabarov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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