Are S. Olsen

25.9k citations
154 papers · 18.6k · 15 hit papers · h-index 52

Impact in

  • Oceanography top 0.05%
    • Marine and coastal ecosystems
    • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
    • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
    • Climate variability and models
    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Papers in

  • Oceanography 112
    • Marine and coastal ecosystems 97
    • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses 11
    • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes 4
  • Global and Planetary Change 11
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 9
Co-authors
Siv Kari Lauvset (25 shared papers)Truls Johannessen (30 shared papers)Rik H. Wanninkhof (17 shared papers)Abdirahman M Omar (27 shared papers)Richard A. Feely (6 shared papers)Toste Tanhua (15 shared papers)Fı́z F. Pérez (14 shared papers)Steven M. A. C. van Heuven (11 shared papers)
Journals
Earth system science data (31 papers)Biogeosciences (12 papers)Global Biogeochemical Cycles (11 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (7 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans (6 papers)
Partner nations
NorwayUnited StatesGermany

In The Last Decade

Are S. Olsen

149 papers receiving 18.2k citations

Are S. Olsen's Hit Papers

Global Carbon Budget 2024 2025 · 363 citations
3630+5+11Years since publication50010001.5k
What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

  1. 2025 Earth system science data
  2. 2023 Earth system science data
  3. 2022 Earth system science data
  4. 2020 Earth system science data
  5. 2019 Science
  6. 2019 Frontiers in Marine Science
  7. 2019 Scientific Reports
  8. 2018 Earth system science data
  9. 2016 Earth system science data
  10. 2016 Earth system science data
  11. 2016 Earth system science data
  12. 2016 Earth system science data
  13. 2015 Earth system science data
  14. 2015 Earth system science data
  15. 2009 INRIA a CCSD electronic archive server

Peers

Are S. Olsen
Comparison fields: 5 of 106
  • Oceanography 7.6k
  • Global and Planetary Change 2.6k
  • Atmospheric Science 926
  • Soil Science 597
  • Environmental Engineering 431
Replace Nicolas Metzl with:
Nicolas Metzl France
Dorothée C. E. Bakker United Kingdom
Bronte David Tilbrook Australia
Peter Landschützer Germany
Tsuneo Ono Japan
Nicholas Robert Bates United States
Ralph F. Keeling United States
Rik H. Wanninkhof United States
Nathalie Lefèvre France
Marion Gehlen France
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Global Carbon Budget 2020
Earth system science data ·Pierre Friedlingstein, Michael O’Sullivan, Matthew W. Jones, Robbie M. Andrew, Judith Hauck, Are S. Olsen, Glen P. Peters, Wouter Peters
Hit paper breakdown →		20201811
2
Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea-air CO2 flux over the global oceans
INRIA a CCSD electronic archive server ·Taro Takahashi, Stewart C Sutherland, Rik H. Wanninkhof, Colm Sweeney, Richard A. Feely, D.W. Chipman, Burke Hales, Gernot E. Friederich
Hit paper breakdown →		20091799
3
Global Carbon Budget 2022
Earth system science data ·Pierre Friedlingstein, Michael O’Sullivan, Matthew W. Jones, Robbie M. Andrew, Luke Gregor, Judith Hauck, Corinne Le Quéré, Ingrid T. Luijkx
Hit paper breakdown →		20221362
4
Global Carbon Budget 2018
Earth system science data ·Corinne Le Quéré, Robbie M. Andrew, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen A. Sitch, Judith Hauck, Julia Pongratz, Penelope A. Pickers, Jan Ivar Korsbakken
Hit paper breakdown →		20181268
5
Global Carbon Budget 2023
Earth system science data ·Pierre Friedlingstein, Michael O’Sullivan, Matthew W. Jones, Robbie M. Andrew, Dorothée C. E. Bakker, Judith Hauck, Peter Landschützer, Corinne Le Quéré
Hit paper breakdown →		20231009
6
Global Carbon Budget 2016
Earth system science data ·Corinne Le Quéré, Robbie M. Andrew, Josep G. Canadell, Stephen A. Sitch, Jan Ivar Korsbakken, Glen P. Peters, Andrew C. Manning, Thomas A. Boden
Hit paper breakdown →		2016898
7
The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO 2 from 1994 to 2007
Science ·Nicolas Gruber, Dominic Clement, Brendan Rae Carter, Richard A. Feely, Steven M. A. C. van Heuven, Mario Hoppema, Masao Ishii, Robert M. Key
Hit paper breakdown →		2019645
8
Global carbon budget 2014
Earth system science data ·Corinne Le Quéré, R. Moriarty, Robbie M. Andrew, Glen P. Peters, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Friedlingstein, S. D. M. Jones, Stephen A. Sitch
Hit paper breakdown →		2015627
9
Global Carbon Budget 2015
Earth system science data ·Corinne Le Quéré, R. Moriarty, Robbie M. Andrew, Josep G. Canadell, Stephen A. Sitch, Jan Ivar Korsbakken, Pierre Friedlingstein, Glen P. Peters
Hit paper breakdown →		2015595
10
The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project version 2 (GLODAPv2) – an internally consistent data product for the world ocean
Earth system science data ·Are S. Olsen, Robert M. Key, Steven M. A. C. van Heuven, Siv Kari Lauvset, Anton Velo, Xiaohua Lin, Carsten Schirnick, Alex Kozyr
Hit paper breakdown →		2016515
11
A multi-decade record of high-quality f CO 2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO 2 Atlas (SOCAT)
Earth system science data ·Dorothée C. E. Bakker, Benjamin Pfeil, Camilla S. Landa, Nicolas Metzl, Are S. Olsen, Karl M. Smith, Cathy Cosca, S. Harasawa
Hit paper breakdown →		2016504
12
THE ROLE OF THE BARENTS SEA IN THE ARCTIC CLIMATE SYSTEM
Reviews of Geophysics ·Lars H. Smedsrud, Igor Esau, Randi B. Ingvaldsen, Tor Eldevik, Peter M. Haugan, Camille Li, Vidar S. Lien, Are S. Olsen
2013405
13
A new global interior ocean mapped climatology: the 1° × 1° GLODAP version 2
Earth system science data ·Siv Kari Lauvset, Robert M. Key, Are S. Olsen, Steven M. A. C. van Heuven, Anton Velo, Xiaohua Lin, Carsten Schirnick, Alex Kozyr
Hit paper breakdown →		2016367
14
Global Carbon Budget 2024
Earth system science data ·Pierre Friedlingstein, Michael O’Sullivan, Matthew W. Jones, Robbie M. Andrew, Judith Hauck, Peter Landschützer, Corinne Le Quéré, Hongmei Li
Hit paper breakdown →		2025363
15
On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array
Frontiers in Marine Science ·Dean H. Roemmich, Matthew H. Alford, Hervé Claustre, Kenneth S. Johnson, Brian King, James N. Moum, Peter R. Oke, W. Brechner Owens
Hit paper breakdown →		2019341
16
Surface ocean pH and buffer capacity: past, present and future
Scientific Reports ·Li‐Qing Jiang, Brendan Rae Carter, Richard A. Feely, Siv Kari Lauvset, Are S. Olsen
Hit paper breakdown →		2019302
17
Recommendations for autonomous underway pCO2 measuring systems and data-reduction routines
Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography ·Denis Pierrot, Craig C. Neill, R. D. Castle, Rik H. Wanninkhof, Heike Lüger, Truls Johannessen, Are S. Olsen, Richard A. Feely
2008288
18
Data-based estimates of the ocean carbon sink variability – first results of the Surface Ocean p CO 2 Mapping intercomparison (SOCOM)
Biogeosciences ·Christian Rödenbeck, Dorothée C. E. Bakker, Nicolas Gruber, Yosuke Iida, A. R. Jacobson, Peter Landschützer, Nicolas Metzl, Shin‐Ichiro Nakaoka
2015208
19
A uniform, quality controlled Surface Ocean CO 2 Atlas (SOCAT)
Earth system science data ·Benjamin Pfeil, Are S. Olsen, Dorothée C. E. Bakker, S. Hankin, Heather Koyuk, Alex Kozyr, Jeremy T. Malczyk, A. Manke
2013175
20
Global surface-ocean p CO 2 and sea–air CO 2 flux variability from an observation-driven ocean mixed-layer scheme
Ocean science ·Christian Rödenbeck, Ralph F. Keeling, Dorothée C. E. Bakker, Nicolas Metzl, Are S. Olsen, Christopher L. Sabine, Martin Heimann
2013154

About Are S. Olsen

Are S. Olsen is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Information Systems and Astronomy and Astrophysics, having authored 154 papers that have together received 18.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (97 papers), Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses (11 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (9 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (4 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (4 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (4 papers), Research Data Management Practices (2 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Oceanography (7.6k citations), Global and Planetary Change (2.6k citations), Atmospheric Science (926 citations), Soil Science (597 citations) and Environmental Engineering (431 citations). Are S. Olsen has collaborated with scholars based in Norway, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Siv Kari Lauvset, Truls Johannessen, Rik H. Wanninkhof, Abdirahman M Omar, Richard A. Feely, Toste Tanhua, Fı́z F. Pérez, Steven M. A. C. van Heuven, Robert M. Key and Mario Hoppema. Their work appears in journals such as Earth system science data, Biogeosciences, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans.

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