Alexander P. Wolfe

14.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
135 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Alexander P. Wolfe is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Paleontology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander P. Wolfe has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Atmospheric Science, 37 papers in Paleontology and 34 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alexander P. Wolfe's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (84 papers), Climate change and permafrost (30 papers) and Diatoms and Algae Research (21 papers). Alexander P. Wolfe is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (84 papers), Climate change and permafrost (30 papers) and Diatoms and Algae Research (21 papers). Alexander P. Wolfe collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Alexander P. Wolfe's co-authors include Gifford H. Miller, Neal Michelutti, Colin A. Cooke, Jill S. Baron, Jasmine E. Saros, Peter A. Siver, Michael R. Kaplan, Jason P. Briner, Ryan C. McKellar and Rolf D. Vinebrooke and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Alexander P. Wolfe

134 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander P. Wolfe Canada	49	3.6k	2.1k	1.5k	1.2k	961	135	7.0k
Richard W. Battarbee United Kingdom	47	3.8k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	690 0.7×	114	6.5k
Xiangdong Yang China	40	3.0k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	756 0.7×	608 0.6×	122	5.5k
Antonio Martı́nez Cortizas Spain	49	3.2k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	402 0.3×	526 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	258	8.0k
Michael Sturm Switzerland	47	3.4k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	891 0.9×	162	6.2k
Neil L. Rose United Kingdom	48	3.0k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	986 0.9×	267 0.3×	228	7.2k
F. Alayne Street‐Perrott United Kingdom	39	4.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	566 0.4×	426 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	81	7.9k
Atte Korhola Finland	49	4.3k 1.2×	3.1k 1.4×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	417 0.4×	125	6.4k
Roland I. Hall Canada	43	2.8k 0.8×	2.6k 1.2×	2.0k 1.3×	981 0.8×	289 0.3×	154	5.9k
Peter Frenzel Germany	54	2.4k 0.7×	4.3k 2.0×	3.5k 2.3×	977 0.8×	622 0.6×	225	10.2k
Steve Juggins United Kingdom	45	4.8k 1.4×	3.8k 1.8×	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.4×	850 0.9×	120	8.3k

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Wolfe, Alexander P., Junhong Zhou, Wanting Yu, et al.. (2025). The effects of type 2 diabetes mellitus on postural adaptation and complexity during a visual search task in older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 17. 1650484–1650484.

Siver, Peter A., et al.. (2025). Palm phytoliths in subarctic Canada imply ice-free winters 48 million years ago during the late early Eocene. Annals of Botany. 1 indexed citations

McKellar, Ryan C., Emma Jones, Michael S. Engel, et al.. (2019). A direct association between amber and dinosaur remains provides paleoecological insights. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17916–17916. 10 indexed citations

Reyes, Alberto V., Jessica E. Tierney, Peter A. Siver, et al.. (2019). Post-eruptive maar lake sediments in kimberlite pipes: progress and prospects for reconstructing "greenhouse" paleoenvironments in subarctic Canada. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 17164. 1 indexed citations

Wolfe, Alexander P., Alberto V. Reyes, Dana L. Royer, et al.. (2017). Middle Eocene CO₂and climate reconstructed from the sediment fill of a subarctic kimberlite maar. Geology. 45(7). 619–622. 33 indexed citations

Xing, Lida, Ryan C. McKellar, Xing Xu, et al.. (2016). A Feathered Dinosaur Tail with Primitive Plumage Trapped in Mid-Cretaceous Amber. Current Biology. 26(24). 3352–3360. 88 indexed citations

Michelutti, Neal, Alexander P. Wolfe, Colin A. Cooke, et al.. (2015). Climate Change Forces New Ecological States in Tropical Andean Lakes. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0115338–e0115338. 87 indexed citations

Siver, Peter A., et al.. (2015). Assessing the evolutionary history of the class Synurophyceae (Heterokonta) using molecular, morphometric, and paleobiological approaches. American Journal of Botany. 102(6). 921–941. 50 indexed citations

Wolfe, Alexander P., Adam Csank, Alberto V. Reyes, et al.. (2012). Pristine Early Eocene Wood Buried Deeply in Kimberlite from Northern Canada. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e45537–e45537. 40 indexed citations

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Souffreau, Caroline, Heroen Verbruggen, Alexander P. Wolfe, et al.. (2011). A time-calibrated multi-gene phylogeny of the diatom genus Pinnularia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 61(3). 866–879. 42 indexed citations

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Cooke, Colin A., et al.. (2010). Pre-Colombian Mercury Pollution Associated with the Smelting of Argentiferous Ores in the Bolivian Andes. AMBIO. 40(1). 18–25. 39 indexed citations

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Hobbs, William O., Richard J. Telford, H. J. B. Birks, et al.. (2010). Quantifying Recent Ecological Changes in Remote Lakes of North America and Greenland Using Sediment Diatom Assemblages. PLoS ONE. 5(4). e10026–e10026. 100 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alexander P. & Peter A. Siver. (2009). Three extant genera of freshwater thalassiosiroid diatoms from Middle Eocene sediments in northern Canada. American Journal of Botany. 96(2). 487–497. 29 indexed citations

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Michelutti, Neal, Antonio Simonetti, Jason P. Briner, et al.. (2009). Temporal trends of pollution Pb and other metals in east-central Baffin Island inferred from lake sediment geochemistry. The Science of The Total Environment. 407(21). 5653–5662. 31 indexed citations

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Rull, Valentı́, Bryan G. Mark, P. J. Polissar, et al.. (2005). 15,000-yr Pollen Record of Vegetation change in the High Altitude Tropical Andes at Laguna Verde Alta, Venezuela. Quaternary Research. 64(3). 308–317. 33 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alexander P., et al.. (2003). Recent ecological and biogeochemical changes in alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado, USA): a response to anthropogenic nitrogen deposition. Geobiology. 1(2). 153–168. 172 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alexander P., et al.. (2001). Paleoenvironmental inference models from sediment diatom assemblages in Baffin Island lakes (Nunavut, Canada) and reconstruction of summer water temperature. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 58(6). 1222–1243. 7 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alexander P., Jill S. Baron, & R. J. Cornett. (2001). Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition induces rapid ecological changes in alpine lakes of the Colorado Front Range (USA). Journal of Paleolimnology. 25(1). 1–7. 212 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alexander P. & Bianca Perren. (2001). Chrysophyte microfossils record marked responses to recent environmental changes in high- and mid-arctic lakes. Canadian Journal of Botany. 79(6). 747–752. 32 indexed citations

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Wolfe, Alexander P., et al.. (1997). Early Holocene Trace Metal Enrichment in Organic Lake Sediments, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Arctic and Alpine Research. 29(1). 24–31. 1 indexed citations

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