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Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics is a research topic within Global and Planetary Change. Science Explorer counts 56k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of drought and heat-induced tree mortality on global forests, highlighting emerging climate change risks. It delves into mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought, ecosystem dynamics, carbon cycling, and the role of stomata in driving environmental change. The research also evaluates the vulnerability of forests to drought, the global distribution of terrestrial carbon dioxide uptake, and the implications of widespread tree mortality triggered by climate stress.

  • Drought
  • Tree Mortality
  • Climate Change
  • Ecosystem Resilience
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Carbon Balance
  • Hydraulic Conductance
  • Stomatal Response
  • Global Vegetation Models
  • Eddy Covariance
Research works
56k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Which countries lead Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (4.1k and 1.7k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 4.1k works
  2. 2 United States 1.7k works
  3. 3 Germany 544 works
  4. 4 India 453 works
  5. 5 Spain 384 works
  6. 6 France 359 works
  7. 7 Brazil 335 works
  8. 8 Italy 314 works
  9. 9 Australia 290 works
  10. 10 Canada 274 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 46.3%United States: 19.9%Germany: 6.2%India: 5.2%6 others listed: 22.4%46%largest
China4,050 · 46.3%United States1,738 · 19.9%Germany544 · 6.2%India453 · 5.2%6 others listed1,956 · 22.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics research, followed by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and United States Department of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 675 works
  2. 2 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 134 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 125 works
  4. 4 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 106 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 100 works
  6. 6 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 90 works
  7. 7 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 89 works
  8. 8 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 87 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 87 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 76 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics include Jun Wang, Martin McKee and Mark A. Bradford.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  3. 3 Mark A. Bradford United States 268k citations
  4. 4 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  5. 5 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  6. 6 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  7. 7 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  8. 8 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  9. 9 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  10. 10 Olaf Ronneberger Germany 188k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics is "World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated" (Markus Kottek, Jürgen Grieser, Christoph Beck et al., 2006), with 11,611 citations. Next come "A biochemical model of photosynthetic CO2 assimilation in leaves of C3 species" (9,134) and "The worldwide leaf economics spectrum" (9,121).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 World Map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated Markus Kottek, Jürgen Grieser, Christoph Beck et al. · Meteorologische Zeitschrift Open access 2 Jul 2006 11,611
2 A biochemical model of photosynthetic CO2 assimilation in leaves of C3 species Graham D. Farquhar, Susanne von Caemmerer, Joseph A. Berry · Planta Jun 1980 9,134
3 The worldwide leaf economics spectrum Ian J. Wright et al. · Nature Open access Apr 2004 9,121
4 LARGE AREA HYDROLOGIC MODELING AND ASSESSMENT PART I: MODEL DEVELOPMENT 1 J. G. Arnold, Raghavan Srinivasan, R. S. Muttiah et al. · JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association Feb 1998 8,054
5 A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests Craig D. Allen, Alison K. Macalady, Haroun Chenchouni et al. · Forest Ecology and Management Open access 22 Oct 2009 7,876
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Where is Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Lanzhou (China) and Ürümqi (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zaragoza, Birmensdorf and Yangling.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 1.4k works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 260 works
  3. 3 LanzhouChina 185 works
  4. 4 ÜrümqiChina 121 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 121 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 120 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 115 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 105 works
  9. 9 YanglingChina 89 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 84 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZaragozaES · 21.3 works175×
  2. BirmensdorfCH · 38.5 works98×
  3. YanglingCN · 39.1 works75×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Normal University, Northwest A&F University and Peking University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 15.53%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →ETH ZurichPeking UniversityBeijing Normal Unive…Northwest A&F Univer…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Beijing Normal UniversityChina 76.716.0%13.0×106 +24.8%
2Northwest A&F UniversityChina 73.814.6%22.3×89 +15.1%
3Peking UniversityChina 71.117.0%2.8×58 +46.7%
4ETH ZurichSwitzerland 69.620.6%5.6×40 -31.2%
5China Agricultural UniversityChina 67.613.9%11.1×63 +17.8%
6University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 67.411.9%8.0×134 +7.2%
7Hohai UniversityChina 66.616.5%8.1×49 +25.6%
8Nanjing University of Information Science and TechnologyChina 65.412.7%14.6×60 +35.1%
9Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 64.218.8%8.4×24 -12.7%
10Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 63.613.3%11.4×42 -1.3%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, country by country

Is Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics0.043% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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