2026 Thomas J. Jackson: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	107	240	223	109	99	533	43770

Thomas J. Jackson 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 Thomas J. Jackson sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 533 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas J. Jackson 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 Thomas J. Jackson sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 107 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% 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

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award

Overview

Thomas J. Jackson is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions in related subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, Aerospace Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work center on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Climate Change and Permafrost, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, and Marine and Coastal Ecosystems.

Among their recent publications are:

Soil moisture experiment in the Luan River supporting new satellite mission opportunities (2020) in Remote Sensing of Environment
Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission (2021) in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Sentinel-1 soil moisture at 1 km resolution: a validation study (2021) in Remote Sensing of Environment
Retrievals of soil moisture and vegetation optical depth using a multi-channel collaborative algorithm (2021) in Remote Sensing of Environment
Comprehensive analysis of alternative downscaled soil moisture products (2020) in Remote Sensing of Environment

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Thomas J. Jackson include Jeffrey P. Walker, Nan Ye, Yann H. Kerr, Xiaoling Wu, and Edward Kim.

Key publication venues where this scientist's work appears regularly include:

Remote Sensing of Environment
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission

Dara Entekhabi;Eni G Njoku;Peggy E O'Neill;Kent H Kellogg

3808
Citations
Soil moisture retrieval from AMSR-E

E.G. Njoku;T.J. Jackson;V. Lakshmi;T.K. Chan

1842
Citations
Vegetation effects on the microwave emission of soils

T.J. Jackson;T.J. Schmugge

1238
Citations
The International Soil Moisture Network: a data hosting facility for global in situ soil moisture measurements

W. A. Dorigo;W. Wagner;R. Hohensinn;S. Hahn

1195
Citations
Vegetation water content mapping using Landsat data derived normalized difference water index for corn and soybeans

Thomas J. Jackson;Daoyi Chen;Michael Cosh;Fuqin Li

1064
Citations
III. Measuring surface soil moisture using passive microwave remote sensing

Thomas J. Jackson

854
Citations
A model for microwave emission from vegetation-covered fields

T. Mo;B. J. Choudhury;T. J. Schmugge;J. R. Wang

842
Citations
Soil moisture mapping at regional scales using microwave radiometry: the Southern Great Plains Hydrology Experiment

T.J. Jackson;D.M. Le Vine;A.Y. Hsu;A. Oldak

829
Citations
Remote sensing in hydrology

Thomas J. Schmugge;William P. Kustas;Jerry C. Ritchie;Thomas J. Jackson

738
Citations
Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

A. Colliander;T.J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;S. Chan

730
Citations
Field observations of soil moisture variability across scales

James S. Famiglietti;Dongryeol Ryu;Aaron A. Berg;Matthew Rodell

692
Citations
Vegetation water content estimation for corn and soybeans using spectral indices derived from MODIS near- and short-wave infrared bands

Daoyi Chen;Jingfeng Huang;Thomas J. Jackson

672
Citations
Survey of methods for soil moisture determination

T. J. Schmugge;T. J. Jackson;H. L. McKim

669
Citations
Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

Steven K. Chan;Rajat Bindlish;Peggy E. O'Neill;Eni Njoku

653
Citations
Validation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Soil Moisture Products

T J Jackson;M H Cosh;R Bindlish;P J Starks

641
Citations
Crop condition and yield simulations using Landsat and MODIS

P.C. Doraiswamy;J.L. Hatfield;T.J. Jackson;B. Akhmedov

588
Citations
Ground‐based investigation of soil moisture variability within remote sensing footprints During the Southern Great Plains 1997 (SGP97) Hydrology Experiment

J. S. Famiglietti;J. A. Devereaux;C. A. Laymon;T. Tsegaye

510
Citations
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN)

Garry L. Schaefer;Michael H. Cosh;Thomas J. Jackson

509
Citations
Estimating soil water‐holding capacities by linking the Food and Agriculture Organization Soil map of the world with global pedon databases and continuous pedotransfer functions

C. A. Reynolds;T. J. Jackson;W. J. Rawls

475
Citations
Modelling the Passive Microwave Signature from Land Surfaces: A Review of Recent Results and Application to the L-Band SMOS SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms

J.-P. Wigneron;T.J. Jackson;P. O'Neill;G. De Lannoy

473
Citations
Validation of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Soil Moisture Over Watershed Networks in the U.S.

T. J. Jackson;R. Bindlish;M. H. Cosh;Tianjie Zhao

471
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajat Bindlish Goddard Space Flight Center

Michael H. Cosh Agricultural Research Service

Peggy E. O'Neill Goddard Space Flight Center

Andreas Colliander California Institute of Technology

Eni G. Njoku Jet Propulsion Lab

Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University

Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab

Venkat Lakshmi University of Virginia

Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph

Dara Entekhabi MIT

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