Daniel A. Sims

7.7k citations

45 papers · 7.5k · 1 hit paper · h-index 35

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Ecology top 0.2%
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
Global and Planetary Change top 1%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Papers in

Ecology 19
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 19
Plant Science 23
- Plant responses to elevated CO2 15
- Light effects on plants 7
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control 4
- Plant Virus Research Studies 1

Co-authors: John A. Gamon (12 shared papers)Robert W. Pearcy (7 shared papers)Abdullah Faiz Rahman (17 shared papers)Jeffrey R. Seemann (8 shared papers)Vicente D. Cordova (6 shared papers)Yiqi Luo (13 shared papers)Bassil El Masri (3 shared papers)S.‐H. Cheng (1 shared paper)
Journals: Remote Sensing of Environment (11 papers)Plant Cell & Environment (7 papers)Global Change Biology (6 papers)Functional Ecology (2 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Germany

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Daniel A. Sims

45 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Daniel A. Sims's Hit Papers

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Relationships between leaf pigment content and spectral reflectance across a wide range of species, leaf structures and developmental stages 2002 · 2.9k citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2002 Remote Sensing of Environment

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1	Relationships between leaf pigment content and spectral reflectance across a wide range of species, leaf structures and developmental stages Remote Sensing of Environment ·Daniel A. Sims, John A. Gamon Hit paper breakdown →	2002	2906
2	Estimation of vegetation water content and photosynthetic tissue area from spectral reflectance: a comparison of indices based on liquid water and chlorophyll absorption features Remote Sensing of Environment ·Daniel A. Sims, John A. Gamon	2003	476
3	The biochemical and molecular basis for photosynthetic acclimation to elevated atmospheric CO2 Plant Cell & Environment ·B. D. Moore, S.‐H. Cheng, Daniel A. Sims, Jeffrey R. Seemann	1999	414
4	A new model of gross primary productivity for North American ecosystems based solely on the enhanced vegetation index and land surface temperature from MODIS Remote Sensing of Environment ·Daniel A. Sims, Abdullah Faiz Rahman, Vicente D. Cordova, Bassil El Masri, Dennis Baldocchi, Paul V. Bolstad, Lawrence B. Flanagan, Allen H. Goldstein	2007	389
5	On the use of MODIS EVI to assess gross primary productivity of North American ecosystems Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Daniel A. Sims, Abdullah Faiz Rahman, Vicente D. Cordova, Bassil El Masri, Dennis Baldocchi, Lawrence B. Flanagan, Allen H. Goldstein, David Y. Hollinger	2006	322
6	Parallel adjustments in vegetation greenness and ecosystem CO2 exchange in response to drought in a Southern California chaparral ecosystem Remote Sensing of Environment ·Daniel A. Sims, Walter C. Oechel, Abdullah Faiz Rahman, John A. Gamon +2 others	2006	206
7	Potential of MODIS EVI and surface temperature for directly estimating per‐pixel ecosystem C fluxes Geophysical Research Letters ·Abdullah Faiz Rahman, Daniel A. Sims, Vicente D. Cordova, Bassil El Masri	2005	202
8	Photosynthetic Acclimation to Changing Light Environments: Scaling from the Leaf to the Whole Plant Elsevier eBooks ·Robert W. Pearcy, Daniel A. Sims	1994	198
9	RESPONSE OF LEAF ANATOMY AND PHOTOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY IN ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZA (ARACEAE) TO A TRANSFER FROM LOW TO HIGH LIGHT American Journal of Botany ·Daniel A. Sims, Robert W. Pearcy	1992	183
10	Chronic water stress reduces tree growth and the carbon sink of deciduous hardwood forests Global Change Biology ·Edward Brzostek, D. Dragoni, Hans Peter Schmid, Abdullah Faiz Rahman, Daniel A. Sims, Craig A. Wayson, Daniel J. Johnson, Richard P. Phillips	2014	168
11	Concepts of plant biotic stress. Some insights into the stress physiology of virus-infected plants, from the perspective of photosynthesis Physiologia Plantarum ·Suchandra Balachandran, Vaughan Hurry, Steven E. Kelley, Charles Osmond, Sharon A. Robinson, Jan Rohozinski, George G. R. Seaton, Daniel A. Sims	1997	166
12	Midday values of gross CO2 flux and light use efficiency during satellite overpasses can be used to directly estimate eight-day mean flux Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Daniel A. Sims, Abdullah Faiz Rahman, Vicente D. Cordova, Dennis Baldocchi, Lawrence B. Flanagan, Allen H. Goldstein, David Y. Hollinger, Laurent Misson	2005	119
13	Photosynthetic characteristics of a tropical forest understory herb, Alocasia macrorrhiza, and a related crop species, Colocasia esculenta grown in contrasting light environments Oecologia ·Daniel A. Sims, Robert W. Pearcy	1989	115
14	Monitoring drought effects on vegetation water content and fluxes in chaparral with the 970 nm water band index Remote Sensing of Environment ·H CLAUDIO, David Fuentes, John A. Gamon, Walter C. Oechel, Abdullah Faiz Rahman, Daniel A. Sims +3 others	2006	115
15	Photosynthesis and respiration in Alocasia macrorrhiza following transfers to high and low light Oecologia ·Daniel A. Sims, Robert W. Pearcy	1991	107
16	Potential of MODIS ocean bands for estimating CO 2 flux from terrestrial vegetation: A novel approach Geophysical Research Letters ·Abdullah Faiz Rahman, Vicente D. Cordova, John A. Gamon, Hans Peter Schmid, Daniel A. Sims	2004	103
17	Optimum pixel size for hyperspectral studies of ecosystem function in southern California chaparral and grassland Remote Sensing of Environment ·Abdullah Faiz Rahman, John A. Gamon, Daniel A. Sims, Miriam Schmidts	2002	94
18	A mobile tram system for systematic sampling of ecosystem optical properties Remote Sensing of Environment ·John A. Gamon, H CLAUDIO, L. Mackinney, Daniel A. Sims +1 other	2006	86
19	Scaling sun and shade photosynthetic acclimation ofAlocasia macrorrhizato whole‐plant performance – I. Carbon balance and allocation at different daily photon flux densities Plant Cell & Environment ·Daniel A. Sims, Robert W. Pearcy	1994	74
20	Comparison of photosynthetic acclimation to elevated CO2 and limited nitrogen supply in soybean Plant Cell & Environment ·Daniel A. Sims, Yiqi Luo, Jeffrey R. Seemann	1998	69

About Daniel A. Sims

Daniel A. Sims is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology and Media Technology, having authored 45 papers that have together received 7.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (19 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (15 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (11 papers), Light effects on plants (7 papers), Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control (4 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (2 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (3.8k citations), Global and Planetary Change (1.3k citations), Plant Science (2k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (449 citations) and Media Technology (375 citations). Daniel A. Sims has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Frequent co-authors include John A. Gamon, Robert W. Pearcy, Abdullah Faiz Rahman, Jeffrey R. Seemann, Vicente D. Cordova, Yiqi Luo, Bassil El Masri, S.‐H. Cheng, B. D. Moore and Walter C. Oechel. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Plant Cell & Environment, Global Change Biology, Functional Ecology and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

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