Earth System Science Data

Papers
(The H4-Index of Earth System Science Data is 57. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Global Carbon Budget 20201543
ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications1500
The 30 m annual land cover dataset and its dynamics in China from 1990 to 20191174
Global Carbon Budget 2021812
Global Carbon Budget 2022778
GLC_FCS30: global land-cover product with fine classification system at 30 m using time-series Landsat imagery489
An extended time series (2000–2018) of global NPP-VIIRS-like nighttime light data from a cross-sensor calibration377
Country-level and gridded estimates of wastewater production, collection, treatment and reuse331
A global anthropogenic emission inventory of atmospheric pollutants from sector- and fuel-specific sources (1970–2017): an application of the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS)261
An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets244
The Berkeley Earth Land/Ocean Temperature Record220
Changes in China's anthropogenic emissions and air quality during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020195
Improved estimate of global gross primary production for reproducing its long-term variation, 1982–2017188
Global Carbon Budget 2023184
The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations168
A cultivated planet in 2010 – Part 2: The global gridded agricultural-production maps142
A 6-year-long (2013–2018) high-resolution air quality reanalysis dataset in China based on the assimilation of surface observations from CNEMC130
A long-term (2005–2016) dataset of hourly integrated land–atmosphere interaction observations on the Tibetan Plateau124
Annual 30 m dataset for glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017115
A multi-scale daily SPEI dataset for drought characterization at observation stations over mainland China from 1961 to 2018112
Early-season mapping of winter wheat in China based on Landsat and Sentinel images110
High-resolution global map of smallholder and industrial closed-canopy oil palm plantations100
OceanSODA-ETHZ: a global gridded data set of the surface ocean carbonate system for seasonal to decadal studies of ocean acidification98
Validation of GRASP algorithm product from POLDER/PARASOL data and assessment of multi-angular polarimetry potential for aerosol monitoring96
A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science93
A synthesis dataset of permafrost thermal state for the Qinghai–Tibet (Xizang) Plateau, China90
GOCO06s – a satellite-only global gravity field model87
A comprehensive and synthetic dataset for global, regional, and national greenhouse gas emissions by sector 1970–2018 with an extension to 201987
EUREC<sup>4</sup>A87
An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.202086
FLUXNET-CH<sub>4</sub>: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands86
New high-resolution estimates of the permafrost thermal state and hydrothermal conditions over the Northern Hemisphere86
CAMS-REG-v4: a state-of-the-art high-resolution European emission inventory for air quality modelling83
GISD30: global 30 m impervious-surface dynamic dataset from 1985 to 2020 using time-series Landsat imagery on the Google Earth Engine platform82
Distribution and characteristics of wastewater treatment plants within the global river network78
Synthesis of global actual evapotranspiration from 1982 to 201978
Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data77
A global dataset of annual urban extents (1992–2020) from harmonized nighttime lights76
A global seamless 1 km resolution daily land surface temperature dataset (2003–2020)74
Global patterns and drivers of soil total phosphorus concentration74
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence74
Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database73
GeoDAR: georeferenced global dams and reservoirs dataset for bridging attributes and geolocations73
Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions72
Pre- and post-production processes increasingly dominate greenhouse gas emissions from agri-food systems71
The TROPOSIF global sun-induced fluorescence dataset from the Sentinel-5P TROPOMI mission70
Stable water isotope monitoring network of different water bodies in Shiyang River basin, a typical arid river in China69
A 30 m resolution dataset of China's urban impervious surface area and green space, 2000–201867
LGHAP: the Long-term Gap-free High-resolution Air Pollutant concentration dataset, derived via tensor-flow-based multimodal data fusion67
Changes in global air pollutant emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a dataset for atmospheric modeling63
SeaFlux: harmonization of air–sea CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes from surface <i>p</i>CO<sub>2</sub> data products using a st63
A comprehensive geospatial database of nearly 100 000 reservoirs in China62
An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.202162
META3.1exp: a new global mesoscale eddy trajectory atlas derived from altimetry59
A fine-resolution soil moisture dataset for China in 2002–201857
CDIAC-FF: global and national CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement manufacture: 1751–201757
A 1 km daily soil moisture dataset over China using in situ measurement and machine learning57
0.1429169178009