Jo Smith

15.1k citations

170 papers · 8.8k · 3 hit papers · h-index 43

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.05%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Environmental Chemistry top 0.2%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Papers in

Soil Science 73
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 65
Ecology 51
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology 36

Co-authors: Pete Smith (90 shared papers)D. S. Powlson (23 shared papers)K. Coleman (13 shared papers)Changming Fang (1 shared paper)M. J. Glendining (15 shared papers)John B. Moncrieff (1 shared paper)M. Wattenbach (7 shared papers)Pete Falloon (17 shared papers)
Journals: Biomass and Bioenergy (8 papers)Geoderma (7 papers)Global Change Biology (7 papers)GCB Bioenergy (6 papers)Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (5 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Ethiopia

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Jo Smith

162 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Jo Smith's Hit Papers

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Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture 2007 · 1.8k citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2007 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
2005 Nature
1997 Geoderma

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1	Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Pete Smith, Daniel Martino, Zucong Cai, D. M. Gwary, H. H. Janzen, Pushpam Kumar, Bruce A. McCarl, Stephen M. Ogle, F.P. O’Mara, Charles W. Rice, Robert J. Scholes, O. D. Sirotenko, Mark Howden, Tim A. McAllister, Genxing Pan, В. А. Романенков, Uwe A. Schneider, Sirintornthep Towprayoon, M. Wattenbach, Jo Smith Hit paper breakdown →	2007	1788
2	A comparison of the performance of nine soil organic matter models using datasets from seven long-term experiments Geoderma ·Pete Smith, Jo Smith, D. S. Powlson, W. B. McGill, J. R. M. Arah, Oleg Chertov, K. Coleman, Uwe Franko, Steve Frolking, D. S. Jenkinson, Lars Stoumann Jensen, R. Kelly, H. Klein-Gunnewiek, Alexander Komarov, Chengdao Li, J. A. E. Molina, Torsten Müeller, William J. Parton, J. H. M. Thornley, A. P. Whitmore Hit paper breakdown →	1997	892
3	Similar response of labile and resistant soil organic matter pools to changes in temperature Nature ·Changming Fang, Pete Smith, John B. Moncrieff, Jo Smith Hit paper breakdown →	2005	618
4	Evaluation of Soil Organic Matter Models using Existing, Long-Term Datasets Medical Entomology and Zoology ·D. S. Powlson, Pete Smith, Jo Smith	1996	332
5	Potential for carbon sequestration in European soils: preliminary estimates for five scenarios using results from long‐term experiments Global Change Biology ·Pete Smith, D. S. Powlson, M. J. Glendining, Jo Smith	1997	312
6	Meeting Europe's climate change commitments: quantitative estimates of the potential for carbon mitigation by agriculture Global Change Biology ·Pete Smith, D. S. Powlson, Jo Smith, Pete Falloon, K. Coleman	2000	299
7	Projected changes in mineral soil carbon of European croplands and grasslands, 1990–2080 Global Change Biology ·Jo Smith, Pete Smith, M. Wattenbach, Sönke Zaehle, Roland Hiederer, Robert Jones, Luca Montanarella, Mark Rounsevell, Isabelle Reginster, Frank Ewert	2005	294
8	Soil salinity decreases global soil organic carbon stocks The Science of The Total Environment ·Raj Setia, Pia Gottschalk, Pete Smith, Petra Marschner, Jeff Baldock, Deepika Setia, Jo Smith	2012	217
9	Preliminary estimates of the potential for carbon mitigation in European soils through no‐till farming Global Change Biology ·Pete Smith, D. S. Powlson, M. J. Glendining, Jo Smith	1998	206
10	Integrating plant–soil interactions into global carbon cycle models Journal of Ecology ·Nick Ostle, Pete Smith, Rosie A. Fisher, F. I. Woodward, Joshua B. Fisher, Jo Smith, David Galbraith, Peter Levy, Patrick Meir, Niall P. McNamara, Richard D. Bardgett	2009	195
11	Salinity effects on carbon mineralization in soils of varying texture Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Raj Setia, Petra Marschner, Jeff Baldock, David J. Chittleborough, Pete Smith, Jo Smith	2011	154
12	Enhancing the carbon sink in European agricultural soils: including trace gas fluxes in estimates of carbon mitigation potential Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems ·Pete Smith, K. W. T. Goulding, Keith A. Smith, D. S. Powlson, Jo Smith, Pete Falloon, K. Coleman	2001	153
13	Climate change cannot be entirely responsible for soil carbon loss observed in England and Wales, 1978–2003 Global Change Biology ·Pete Smith, Stephen J. Chapman, William Scott, Helaina I. J. Black, M. Wattenbach, R. Milne, Colin D. Campbell, Allan Lilly, Nick Ostle, Peter Levy, David G. Lumsdon, Peter Millard, W. Towers, Sönke Zaehle, Jo Smith	2007	126
14	How will organic carbon stocks in mineral soils evolve under future climate? Global projections using RothC for a range of climate change scenarios Biogeosciences ·Pia Gottschalk, Jo Smith, M. Wattenbach, Jessica Bellarby, Elke Stehfest, Nigel W. Arnell, Timothy J. Osborn, Chris Jones, Pete Smith	2012	112
15	Revised estimates of the carbon mitigation potential of UK agricultural land Soil Use and Management ·Pete Smith, R. Milne, D. S. Powlson, Jo Smith, Pete Falloon, K. Coleman	2000	104
16	Regional estimates of carbon sequestration potential: linking the Rothamsted Carbon Model to GIS databases Biology and Fertility of Soils ·Pete Falloon, Pete Smith, Jo Smith, Judit Szabó, K. Coleman, S.J. Marshall	1998	100
17	SUNDIAL: A PC‐Based System for Simulating Nitrogen Dynamics in Arable Land Agronomy Journal ·Jo Smith, N. J. Bradbury, T. M. Addiscott	1996	96
18	When is a measured soil organic matter fraction equivalent to a model pool? European Journal of Soil Science ·Jo Smith, Pete Smith, R. M. Monaghan, A. J. Macdonald	2002	86
19	Environmental Modelling: An Introduction Jo Smith, Pete Smith	2007	79
20	Meeting the UK's climate change commitments: options for carbon mitigation on agricultural land Soil Use and Management ·Pete Smith, D. S. Powlson, Jo Smith, Pete Falloon, K. Coleman	2000	75

About Jo Smith

Jo Smith is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Agronomy and Crop Science and Pollution, having authored 170 papers that have together received 8.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (65 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (36 papers), Bioenergy crop production and management (19 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (18 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (17 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (11 papers), Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (10 papers) and Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (5.1k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.8k citations), Ecology (3.2k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (1.2k citations) and Global and Planetary Change (1.8k citations). Jo Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ethiopia. Frequent co-authors include Pete Smith, D. S. Powlson, K. Coleman, Changming Fang, M. J. Glendining, John B. Moncrieff, M. Wattenbach, Pete Falloon, В. А. Романенков and O. D. Sirotenko. Their work appears in journals such as Biomass and Bioenergy, Geoderma, Global Change Biology, GCB Bioenergy and Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment.

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