Allan Buras

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Allan Buras is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Allan Buras has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 56 papers in Atmospheric Science and 33 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Allan Buras's work include Tree-ring climate responses (54 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (52 papers) and Forest ecology and management (21 papers). Allan Buras is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (54 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (52 papers) and Forest ecology and management (21 papers). Allan Buras collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Allan Buras's co-authors include Christian Zang, Anja Rammig, Annette Menzel, Martin Wilmking, Cornelius Senf, Rupert Seidl, Ernst van der Maaten, Tobias Scharnweber, Andrea Hevia and Niels Thevs and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Allan Buras

75 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Quantifying impacts of the 2018 drought on European ecosystems in comparison to 2003

2020 351 citations Allan Buras, Anja Rammig et al. Biogeosciences profile →
Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe

2020 350 citations Allan Buras, Christian Zang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Allan Buras Germany	27	2.1k	1.7k	1.4k	454	353	79	2.8k
Christian Zang Germany	25	2.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.3×	1.8k 1.4×	425 0.9×	344 1.0×	51	3.2k
Anna T. Trugman United States	27	3.0k 1.4×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	541 1.2×	541 1.5×	67	3.5k
N. G. McDowell United States	20	2.8k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	591 1.3×	705 2.0×	31	3.4k
Carlo Urbinati Italy	25	2.2k 1.1×	2.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	286 0.6×	349 1.0×	64	2.8k
Raúl Sánchez‐Salguero Spain	33	2.5k 1.2×	2.1k 1.2×	1.9k 1.4×	381 0.8×	380 1.1×	95	3.0k
Choimaa Dulamsuren Germany	30	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	306 0.7×	294 0.8×	69	2.3k
Martin P. Girardin Canada	38	3.8k 1.9×	2.6k 1.5×	1.7k 1.3×	838 1.8×	288 0.8×	101	4.5k
Clifton W. Meyer United States	9	2.1k 1.0×	974 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	768 1.7×	457 1.3×	13	2.8k
Lucy Rowland United Kingdom	30	2.3k 1.1×	936 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	536 1.2×	705 2.0×	71	3.0k
Charlotte Grossiord Switzerland	28	3.1k 1.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	508 1.1×	1.0k 2.9×	70	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Allan Buras

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Fields of papers citing papers by Allan Buras

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Allan Buras

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Allan Buras. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Allan Buras 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 Allan Buras. Allan Buras is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Buras, Allan, et al.. (2025). Evaluating the 2023–2024 record dry-hot conditions in the Amazon in the context of historical compound extremes. Environmental Research Letters. 20(8). 84055–84055.

Buras, Allan, Andreas Krause, Daijun Liu, et al.. (2025). Simulating the drought response of European tree species with the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS (v4.1, 97c552c5). Geoscientific model development. 18(14). 4643–4666.

Rammig, Anja, et al.. (2025). The Forest After Tomorrow: Projecting the Impact of a Collapsing Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on European Tree‐Species Distributions. Global Change Biology. 31(4). e70185–e70185.

Popa, Andreï, Jernej Jevšenak, Ionel Popa, Ovidiu Badea, & Allan Buras. (2024). In pursuit of change: Divergent temporal shifts in climate sensitivity of Norway spruce along an elevational and continentality gradient in the Carpathians. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 358. 110243–110243. 2 indexed citations

Estrella, Nicole, et al.. (2024). The linkage between functional traits and drone-derived phenology of 74 Northern Hemisphere tree species. The Science of The Total Environment. 952. 175753–175753. 2 indexed citations

Buras, Allan, et al.. (2024). Frost matters: incorporating late-spring frost into a dynamic vegetation model regulates regional productivity dynamics in European beech forests. Biogeosciences. 21(5). 1355–1370. 7 indexed citations

Rammig, Anja, et al.. (2024). Species-specific responses of canopy greenness to the extreme droughts of 2018 and 2022 for four abundant tree species in Germany. The Science of The Total Environment. 958. 177938–177938. 5 indexed citations

Thom, Dominik, et al.. (2023). Varying growth response of Central European tree species to the extraordinary drought period of 2018 – 2020. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 338. 109506–109506. 33 indexed citations

Jevšenak, Jernej, Allan Buras, & Flurin Babst. (2023). Shifting potential for high-resolution climate reconstructions under global warming. Quaternary Science Reviews. 325. 108486–108486. 3 indexed citations

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Feinberg, Aryeh, et al.. (2023). A Spatial Assessment of Current and Future Foliar Hg Uptake Fluxes Across European Forests. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(10). 6 indexed citations

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Buras, Allan, et al.. (2022). Changing climate sensitivity of secondary growth following extreme drought events in forest ecosystems: a global analysis. Environmental Research Letters. 18(1). 14021–14021. 16 indexed citations

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Shekhar, Ankit, Jia Chen, Shrutilipi Bhattacharjee, et al.. (2020). Capturing the Impact of the 2018 European Drought and Heat across Different Vegetation Types Using OCO-2 Solar-Induced Fluorescence. Remote Sensing. 12(19). 3249–3249. 36 indexed citations

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Bose, Arun K., Arthur Geßler, Andreas Bolte, et al.. (2020). Growth and resilience responses of Scots pine to extreme droughts across Europe depend on predrought growth conditions. Global Change Biology. 26(8). 4521–4537. 154 indexed citations

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Buras, Allan, Anja Rammig, & Christian Zang. (2020). Quantifying impacts of the 2018 drought on European ecosystems in comparison to 2003. Biogeosciences. 17(6). 1655–1672. 351 indexed citations breakdown →

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Buras, Allan, Anja Rammig, & Christian Zang. (2019). Quantifying impacts of the drought 2018 on European ecosystems in comparison to 2003. 35 indexed citations

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Land, Alexander, Sabine Remmele, Jutta Hofmann, et al.. (2019). Two millennia of Main region (southern Germany) hydroclimate variability. Climate of the past. 15(5). 1677–1690. 8 indexed citations

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Buras, Allan, Ute Sass‐Klaassen, & Martin Wilmking. (2017). Growth divergence: a challenging opportunity for dendrochronology. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9915. 1 indexed citations

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Buras, Allan, Florian Hirsch, Ernst van der Maaten, et al.. (2015). Charcoal kiln relicts - a favorable site for tree growth?. EGUGA. 3257. 2 indexed citations

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Buras, Allan, Markus Czymzik, Nadine Dräger, et al.. (2014). SINOMA - a better tool for proxy based reconstructions?. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 1708. 1 indexed citations

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Buras, Allan, et al.. (2014). SINOMA - A new iterative statistical approach for the identification of linear relationships between noisy time series. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1714. 1 indexed citations

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