Álvaro Montenegro

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Álvaro Montenegro is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Álvaro Montenegro has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Atmospheric Science, 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Álvaro Montenegro's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (13 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (10 papers). Álvaro Montenegro is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (13 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (10 papers). Álvaro Montenegro collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Brazil. Álvaro Montenegro's co-authors include Michael Eby, Andrew J. Weaver, Vivek K. Arora, David Archer, Victor Brovkin, Kirsten Zickfeld, Katrin J. Meißner, Guy Munhoven, Ken Caldeira and Uwe Mikolajewicz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Álvaro Montenegro

42 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Álvaro Montenegro United States	21	1.0k	731	366	344	235	43	2.1k
Kristen M. Krumhardt United States	20	920 0.9×	833 1.1×	499 1.4×	501 1.5×	43 0.2×	41	2.1k
T. F. Stocker Switzerland	8	747 0.7×	851 1.2×	230 0.6×	215 0.6×	149 0.6×	13	1.5k
Chris Brierley United Kingdom	18	546 0.5×	962 1.3×	314 0.9×	399 1.2×	62 0.3×	44	1.6k
J. T. Overpeck United States	3	477 0.5×	504 0.7×	189 0.5×	124 0.4×	140 0.6×	5	1.1k
Daniel E. Horton United States	27	2.1k 2.1×	1.9k 2.6×	180 0.5×	265 0.8×	77 0.3×	63	3.5k
Steve Vavrus United States	26	1.9k 1.8×	1.8k 2.5×	364 1.0×	266 0.8×	34 0.1×	40	2.8k
Andrew Schurer United Kingdom	27	1.7k 1.7×	1.7k 2.3×	152 0.4×	274 0.8×	122 0.5×	59	2.4k
A. Barrie Pittock Australia	26	1.6k 1.6×	1.1k 1.5×	277 0.8×	257 0.7×	195 0.8×	87	2.6k
Joyce Bosmans Netherlands	18	858 0.9×	817 1.1×	399 1.1×	210 0.6×	41 0.2×	25	2.0k
R. A. Pielke United States	15	1.7k 1.7×	1.5k 2.1×	456 1.2×	159 0.5×	154 0.7×	34	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Álvaro Montenegro

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Fields of papers citing papers by Álvaro Montenegro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Álvaro Montenegro

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Montenegro, Álvaro, et al.. (2025). Seafaring and navigation in the Nordic Bronze Age: The application of an ocean voyage tool and boat performance data for comparing direct open water crossings with sheltered coastal routes. PLoS ONE. 20(4). e0320791–e0320791. 1 indexed citations

Gaffney, Dylan, et al.. (2025). Culturing island biomes: marsupial translocation and bone tool production around New Guinea during the Pleistocene–Holocene. Journal of Archaeological Science. 179. 106241–106241. 1 indexed citations

Montenegro, Álvaro, et al.. (2024). Do stormy seas lead to better boats? Exploring the origins of the southern Californian plank canoe through ocean voyage modeling. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 20(3). 588–608. 4 indexed citations

Montenegro, Álvaro, et al.. (2023). Estimated energetic demands of thermoregulation during ancient canoe passages from Tahiti to Hawaii and New Zealand, a simulation analysis. PLoS ONE. 18(7). e0287290–e0287290. 5 indexed citations

Montenegro, Álvaro, et al.. (2022). Marine heatwave impacts on newly-hatched planktonic larvae of an estuarine crab. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 278. 108122–108122. 11 indexed citations

Zou, Xun, David H. Bromwich, Álvaro Montenegro, Sheng‐Hung Wang, & Lesheng Bai. (2021). Major surface melting over the Ross Ice Shelf part I: Foehn effect. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 147(738). 2874–2894. 20 indexed citations

Zou, Xun, David H. Bromwich, Álvaro Montenegro, Sheng‐Hung Wang, & Lesheng Bai. (2021). Major surface melting over the Ross Ice Shelf part II: Surface energy balance. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 147(738). 2895–2916. 12 indexed citations

Meißner, Katrin J., Álvaro Montenegro, Luciana F. Prado, et al.. (2021). Magnitude of the 8.2 ka event freshwater forcing based on stable isotope modelling and comparison to future Greenland melting. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 5473–5473. 14 indexed citations

Montenegro, Álvaro, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of regional climate model simulated rainfall over Indonesia and its application for downscaling future climate projections. International Journal of Climatology. 40(4). 2026–2047. 5 indexed citations

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Beltrami, Hugo, Jean‐Claude Mareschal, Francisco Suárez, et al.. (2018). Recent climate variations in Chile: constraints from borehole temperature profiles. Climate of the past. 14(4). 559–575. 8 indexed citations

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Montenegro, Álvaro, et al.. (2016). Deforestation Induced Climate Change: Effects of Spatial Scale. PLoS ONE. 11(4). e0153357–e0153357. 51 indexed citations

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Kim, Hie Lim, Aakrosh Ratan, George H. Perry, et al.. (2014). Khoisan hunter-gatherers have been the largest population throughout most of modern-human demographic history. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5692–5692. 57 indexed citations

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Kistler, Logan, Álvaro Montenegro, Bruce D. Smith, et al.. (2014). Transoceanic drift and the domestication of African bottle gourds in the Americas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(8). 2937–2941. 78 indexed citations

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Okey, Thomas A., Hussein M. Alidina, Álvaro Montenegro, Veronica Lo, & Sabine Jessen. (2012). Climate Change Impacts and Vulnerabilities in Canada’s Pacific Marine Ecosystems. 10 indexed citations

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Montenegro, Álvaro, et al.. (2012). Spatial scale dependency of the modelled climatic response to deforestation. 5 indexed citations

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Montenegro, Álvaro, et al.. (2011). Temperature, albedo and evapotranspiration differences between forested and non-forested areas from MODIS observations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 9033. 1 indexed citations

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Arora, Vivek & Álvaro Montenegro. (2010). Assessment of large-scale afforestation as a climate change mitigation strategy. AGUFM. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Spence, Paul, John C. Fyfe, Álvaro Montenegro, & Andrew J. Weaver. (2010). Southern Ocean Response to Strengthening Winds in an Eddy-Permitting Global Climate Model. Journal of Climate. 23(19). 5332–5343. 48 indexed citations

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Montenegro, Álvaro, Michael Eby, Andrew J. Weaver, & Steven R. Jayne. (2007). Response of a climate model to tidal mixing parameterization under present day and last glacial maximum conditions. Ocean Modelling. 19(3-4). 125–137. 28 indexed citations

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Montenegro, Álvaro, Adauto Araújo, Michael Eby, et al.. (2006). Parasites, Paleoclimate, and the Peopling of the Americas. Current Anthropology. 47(1). 193–200. 27 indexed citations

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