Alexis Berg

14.9k total citations · 12 hit papers
44 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Alexis Berg is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexis Berg has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alexis Berg's work include Climate variability and models (34 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers). Alexis Berg is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (34 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (17 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (13 papers). Alexis Berg collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Switzerland. Alexis Berg's co-authors include Tim R. McVicar, Hylke E. Beck, Noemi Vergopolan, Eric F. Wood, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Pierre Gentine, Justin Sheffield, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Kirsten L. Findell and Stefan Hagemann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alexis Berg

44 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate class... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2018 2019 2021 2019 2011 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution
    2018 4.3k citations Hylke E. Beck, Niklaus E. Zimmermann et al. Scientific Data profile →
  2. Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake
    2019 539 citations Julia K. Green, Sonia I. Seneviratne et al. Nature profile →
  3. Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world
    2021 482 citations Xu Lian, Shilong Piao et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →
  4. Land–atmosphere feedbacks exacerbate concurrent soil drought and atmospheric aridity
    2019 447 citations Sha Zhou, Park Williams et al. profile →
  5. The impact of future climate change on West African crop yields: What does the recent literature say?
    2011 389 citations Philippe Roudier, Benjamin Sultan et al. Global Environmental Change profile →
  6. Soil moisture–atmosphere feedback dominates land carbon uptake variability
    2021 386 citations Vincent Humphrey, Alexis Berg et al. Nature profile →
  7. Land–atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming
    2016 362 citations Alexis Berg, Kirsten L. Findell et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  8. High-resolution (1 km) Köppen-Geiger maps for 1901–2099 based on constrained CMIP6 projections
    2023 317 citations Hylke E. Beck, Tim R. McVicar et al. Scientific Data profile →
  9. Land–Atmosphere Interactions: The LoCo Perspective
    2017 296 citations Joseph A. Santanello, Kirsten L. Findell et al. profile →
  10. Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands
    2021 253 citations Sha Zhou, Park Williams et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  11. No projected global drylands expansion under greenhouse warming
    2021 167 citations Alexis Berg, Kaighin A. McColl Nature Climate Change profile →
  12. The Greening of the Sahara: Past Changes and Future Implications
    2020 138 citations Alexis Berg et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexis Berg United States 31 5.7k 3.1k 2.2k 1.5k 1.3k 44 10.4k
Jürgen Grieser Germany 15 4.0k 0.7× 2.2k 0.7× 2.3k 1.1× 1.5k 1.0× 1.2k 0.9× 38 10.5k
Christoph Beck Germany 27 4.9k 0.9× 3.6k 1.2× 2.9k 1.3× 1.5k 1.0× 836 0.6× 87 12.1k
Franz Rubel Austria 28 3.5k 0.6× 2.1k 0.7× 2.4k 1.1× 1.7k 1.1× 941 0.7× 70 11.8k
Mikiko Kainuma Japan 25 7.5k 1.3× 4.0k 1.3× 1.7k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 1.9k 1.5× 56 13.2k
M. Kottek Austria 6 3.0k 0.5× 1.6k 0.5× 2.3k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 839 0.7× 7 9.6k
Jiyuan Liu China 41 7.1k 1.2× 2.6k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 4.0k 2.7× 929 0.7× 201 10.2k
Chris Funk United States 49 8.6k 1.5× 5.3k 1.7× 1.2k 0.5× 1.5k 1.0× 1.9k 1.5× 144 12.4k
Govindasamy Bala India 46 7.9k 1.4× 4.4k 1.4× 983 0.4× 1.8k 1.2× 1.6k 1.3× 140 10.3k
Jürgen Böhner Germany 37 3.4k 0.6× 3.2k 1.0× 2.5k 1.1× 2.4k 1.6× 696 0.5× 98 9.8k
J. P. Verdin United States 33 6.7k 1.2× 3.2k 1.0× 1.6k 0.7× 1.7k 1.2× 2.6k 2.0× 93 9.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexis Berg

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexis Berg

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexis Berg. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexis Berg based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alexis Berg. Alexis Berg is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Laibao, Rosie A. Fisher, Hervé Douville, et al.. (2024). No constraint on long-term tropical land carbon-climate feedback uncertainties from interannual variability. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 6 indexed citations
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Beck, Hylke E., Tim R. McVicar, Noemi Vergopolan, et al.. (2023). High-resolution (1 km) Köppen-Geiger maps for 1901–2099 based on constrained CMIP6 projections. Scientific Data. 10(1). 724–724. 317 indexed citations breakdown →
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McColl, Kaighin A., Michael L. Roderick, Alexis Berg, & Jacob Scheff. (2022). The terrestrial water cycle in a warming world. Nature Climate Change. 12(7). 604–606. 32 indexed citations
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Lian, Xu, Shilong Piao, Anping Chen, et al.. (2021). Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2(4). 232–250. 482 indexed citations breakdown →
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Humphrey, Vincent, Alexis Berg, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2021). Soil moisture–atmosphere feedback dominates land carbon uptake variability. Nature. 592(7852). 65–69. 386 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhou, Sha, Park Williams, Benjamin R. Lintner, et al.. (2021). Publisher Correction: Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands. Nature Climate Change. 11(3). 274–274. 5 indexed citations
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Findell, Kirsten L., Patrick Keys, Ruud van der Ent, et al.. (2019). Rising Temperatures Increase Importance of Oceanic Evaporation as a Source for Continental Precipitation. Journal of Climate. 32(22). 7713–7726. 50 indexed citations
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Green, Julia K., Sonia I. Seneviratne, Alexis Berg, et al.. (2019). Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake. Nature. 565(7740). 476–479. 539 indexed citations breakdown →
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Berg, Alexis & Justin Sheffield. (2019). Evapotranspiration Partitioning in CMIP5 Models: Uncertainties and Future Projections. Journal of Climate. 32(10). 2653–2671. 53 indexed citations
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Beck, Hylke E., Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Tim R. McVicar, et al.. (2018). Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180214–180214. 4326 indexed citations breakdown →
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Findell, Kirsten L., Alexis Berg, Pierre Gentine, et al.. (2017). The impact of anthropogenic land use and land cover change on regional climate extremes. Nature Communications. 8(1). 989–989. 265 indexed citations
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Berg, Alexis, Benjamin R. Lintner, Kirsten L. Findell, & Alessandra Giannini. (2017). Uncertain soil moisture feedbacks in model projections of Sahel precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(12). 6124–6133. 14 indexed citations
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Berg, Alexis, Kirsten L. Findell, Benjamin R. Lintner, et al.. (2016). Land–atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming. Nature Climate Change. 6(9). 869–874. 362 indexed citations breakdown →
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Berg, Alexis, Benjamin R. Lintner, Sonia I. Seneviratne, et al.. (2014). Interannual Coupling between Summertime Surface Temperature and Precipitation over Land: Processes and Implications for Climate Change*. Journal of Climate. 28(3). 1308–1328. 159 indexed citations
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Mougin, É., Valérie Demarez, Mamadou Diawara, et al.. (2014). Estimation of LAI, fAPAR and fCover of Sahel rangelands (Gourma, Mali). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 198-199. 155–167. 44 indexed citations
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Berg, Alexis, Sebastian Lehmann, Neimantas Vainorius, et al.. (2013). Growth and characterization of wurtzite GaP nanowires with control over axial and radial growth by use of HCl in-situ etching. Journal of Crystal Growth. 386. 47–51. 29 indexed citations
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Berg, Alexis, Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré, Benjamin Sultan, Matthieu Lengaigne, & Matthieu Guimberteau. (2012). Projections of climate change impacts on potential C4 crop productivity over tropical regions. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 170. 89–102. 86 indexed citations
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Roudier, Philippe, Benjamin Sultan, Philippe Quirion, & Alexis Berg. (2011). The impact of future climate change on West African crop yields: What does the recent literature say?. Global Environmental Change. 21(3). 1073–1083. 389 indexed citations breakdown →
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Berg, Alexis, Benjamin Sultan, & Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré. (2010). What are the dominant features of rainfall leading to realistic large‐scale crop yield simulations in West Africa?. Geophysical Research Letters. 37(5). 22 indexed citations
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Berg, Alexis, Philippe Quirion, & Benjamin Sultan. (2009). Weather-Index Drought Insurance in Burkina-Faso: Assessment of Its Potential Interest to Farmers. Weather Climate and Society. 1(1). 71–84. 36 indexed citations

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