Howard E. Epstein

17.9k citations

158 papers · 9.1k · 2 hit papers · h-index 50

Impact in

Atmospheric Science top 0.2%
- Climate change and permafrost
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Tree-ring climate responses
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 94
- Climate change and permafrost 80
- Cryospheric studies and observations 59
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 56
- Tree-ring climate responses 13
Ecology 51
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology 20
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 15

Co-authors: Donald A. Walker (47 shared papers)Gensuo Jia (20 shared papers)Gerald V. Frost (15 shared papers)Martha K. Raynolds (21 shared papers)Gregory S. Okin (8 shared papers)Junran Li (5 shared papers)Uma S. Bhatt (16 shared papers)Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón (8 shared papers)
Journals: Environmental Research Letters (16 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (9 papers)Remote Sensing (8 papers)Global Change Biology (7 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Russia

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Howard E. Epstein

153 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Howard E. Epstein's Hit Papers

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Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost 2022 · 215 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2012 Remote Sensing of Environment

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1	Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers Remote Sensing of Environment ·Rasmus Fensholt, Tobias Langanke, Kjeld Rasmussen, Anette Reenberg, Stephen D. Prince, Compton J. Tucker, Robert J. Scholes, Quang Bao Le, Alberte Bondeau, R. Eastman, Howard E. Epstein, Andrea E. Gaughan, Ulf Helldén, Cheikh Mbow, Lennart Olsson, José M. Paruelo, Christian Schweitzer, Jonathan Seaquist, Konrad Wessels Hit paper breakdown →	2012	685
2	Circumpolar Arctic Tundra Vegetation Change Is Linked to Sea Ice Decline Earth Interactions ·Uma S. Bhatt, Donald A. Walker, Martha K. Raynolds, Josefino C. Comiso, Howard E. Epstein, Gensuo Jia, R. Gens, Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón, (unknown), C. E. Tweedie, Patrick J. Webber	2010	333
3	Quantitative effects of vegetation cover on wind erosion and soil nutrient loss in a desert grassland of southern New Mexico, USA Biogeochemistry ·Junran Li, Gregory S. Okin, Lorelei J. Alvarez, Howard E. Epstein	2007	307
4	Greening of arctic Alaska, 1981–2001 Geophysical Research Letters ·Gensuo Jia, Howard E. Epstein, Donald A. Walker	2003	297
5	High stocks of soil organic carbon in the North American Arctic region Nature Geoscience ·Chien‐Lu Ping, G. J. Michaelson, M. Torre Jorgenson, J. M. Kimble, Howard E. Epstein, V. E. Romanovsky, Donald A. Walker	2008	290
6	Tall shrub and tree expansion in Siberian tundra ecotones since the 1960s Global Change Biology ·Gerald V. Frost, Howard E. Epstein	2013	243
7	Plant functional types in Earth system models: past experiences and future directions for application of dynamic vegetation models in high-latitude ecosystems Annals of Botany ·Stan D. Wullschleger, Howard E. Epstein, Elgene O. Box, E. S. Euskirchen, Santonu Goswami, Colleen M. Iversen, Jens Kattge, Richard J. Norby, Peter M. van Bodegom, Xiaofeng Xu	2014	234
8	Dynamics of aboveground phytomass of the circumpolar Arctic tundra during the past three decades Environmental Research Letters ·Howard E. Epstein, Martha K. Raynolds, Donald A. Walker, Uma S. Bhatt, (unknown), Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón	2012	234
9	Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Monique M. P. D. Heijmans, Rúna Í. Magnússon, Mark J. Lara, Gerald V. Frost, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, J. van Huissteden, M. Torre Jorgenson, Alexander N. Fedorov, Howard E. Epstein, David M. Lawrence, Juul Limpens Hit paper breakdown →	2022	215
10	Recent changes in phenology over the northern high latitudes detected from multi-satellite data Environmental Research Letters ·Heqing Zeng, Gensuo Jia, Howard E. Epstein	2011	210
11	Recent Declines in Warming and Vegetation Greening Trends over Pan-Arctic Tundra Remote Sensing ·Uma S. Bhatt, Donald A. Walker, Martha K. Raynolds, Peter A. Bieniek, Howard E. Epstein, Josefino C. Comiso, Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón, (unknown), Igor V. Polyakov	2013	183
12	Reviews and syntheses: Changing ecosystem influences on soil thermal regimes in northern high-latitude permafrost regions Biogeosciences ·M. M. Loranty, Benjamin W. Abbott, Daan Blok, Thomas A. Douglas, Howard E. Epstein, Bruce C. Forbes, Benjamin Jones, Alexander Kholodov, Heather Kropp, Avni Malhotra, Steven D. Mamet, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Susan M. Natali, Jonathan A. O’Donnell, Gareth K. Phoenix, Adrian V. Rocha, Oliver Sonnentag, Ken D. Tape, Donald A. Walker	2018	172
13	Vegetation‐soil‐thaw‐depth relationships along a low‐arctic bioclimate gradient, Alaska: synthesis of information from the ATLAS studies Permafrost and Periglacial Processes ·Donald A. Walker, Gensuo Jia, Howard E. Epstein, Martha K. Raynolds, F. Stuart Chapin, Catharine Copass, L. D. Hinzman, Julie A. Knudson, H. A. Maier, G. J. Michaelson, Frederick E. Nelson, Chien‐Lu Ping, V. E. Romanovsky, N. I. Shiklomanov	2003	163
14	Vulnerability to forest loss through altered postfire recovery dynamics in a warming climate in the Klamath Mountains Global Change Biology ·Alan J. Tepley, Jonathan R. Thompson, Howard E. Epstein, Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira	2017	162
15	Vegetation greening in the canadian arctic related to decadal warming Journal of Environmental Monitoring ·Gensuo Jia, Howard E. Epstein, Donald A. Walker	2009	156
16	Phytomass, LAI, and NDVI in northern Alaska: Relationships to summer warmth, soil pH, plant functional types, and extrapolation to the circumpolar Arctic Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Donald A. Walker, Howard E. Epstein, Gensuo Jia, A. Balser, Catharine Copass, Erika J. Edwards, William A. Gould, J. L. Hollingsworth, Julie A. Knudson, H. A. Maier, Aaron Moody, Martha K. Raynolds	2003	153
17	Effects of wind erosion on the spatial heterogeneity of soil nutrients in two desert grassland communities Biogeochemistry ·Junran Li, Gregory S. Okin, Lorelei J. Alvarez, Howard E. Epstein	2008	149
18	Diurnal hysteresis between soil CO₂ and soil temperature is controlled by soil water content Geophysical Research Letters ·Diego Riveros‐Iregui, R. E. Emanuel, D. J. Muth, B. L. McGlynn, Howard E. Epstein, D. L. Welsch, V. J. Pacific, Jon M. Wraith	2007	146
19	Recent trends and remaining challenges for optical remote sensing of Arctic tundra vegetation: A review and outlook Remote Sensing of Environment ·Alison Beamish, Martha K. Raynolds, Howard E. Epstein, Gerald V. Frost, Matthew J. Macander, Helena Bergstedt, Annett Bartsch, Stefan Kruse, Victoria Miles, Cemal Melih Taniş, Birgit Heim, Matthias Fuchs, Sabine Chabrillat, Iuliia Shevtsova, Mariana Verdonen, Johann Wagner	2020	132
20	Debating the greening vs. browning of the North American boreal forest: differences between satellite datasets Global Change Biology ·Domingo Alcaraz‐Segura, Emilio Chuvieco, Howard E. Epstein, Eric S. Kasischke, Alexander P. Trishchenko	2009	127

About Howard E. Epstein

Howard E. Epstein is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Soil Science, having authored 158 papers that have together received 9.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate change and permafrost (80 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (59 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (56 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (29 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (20 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (15 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (5.1k citations), Global and Planetary Change (3.3k citations), Ecological Modeling (641 citations), Ecology (3.3k citations) and Soil Science (1.0k citations). Howard E. Epstein has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Russia. Frequent co-authors include Donald A. Walker, Gensuo Jia, Gerald V. Frost, Martha K. Raynolds, Gregory S. Okin, Junran Li, Uma S. Bhatt, Jorge Enrique Díaz Pinzón, Ingrid C. Burke and William K. Lauenroth. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing, Global Change Biology and Geophysical Research Letters.

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