Bert Bolin

11.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
74 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Bert Bolin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Bert Bolin has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 15 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Bert Bolin's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (20 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (7 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (6 papers). Bert Bolin is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (20 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (7 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (6 papers). Bert Bolin collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Tunisia and United States. Bert Bolin's co-authors include Henning Rodhe, Carl Folke, Partha Dasgupta, Simon A. Levin, Bengt‐Owe Jansson, C. S. Holling, Charles Perrings, Karl-Göran Mäler, Robert Costanza and Kenneth J. Arrow and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Bert Bolin

70 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Enviro... 1973 2026 1990 2008 1995 2000 1995 1973 250 500 750 1000
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. Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment
    1995 1.1k citations Bert Bolin, Partha Dasgupta et al. Science profile →
  2. Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry: A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    2000 604 citations Robert T. Watson, Ian Noble et al. profile →
  3. Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment
    1995 569 citations Bert Bolin, Partha Dasgupta et al. profile →
  4. A note on the concepts of age distribution and transit time in natural reservoirs
    1973 432 citations Bert Bolin, Henning Rodhe Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bert Bolin Sweden 32 2.2k 1.4k 1.2k 923 878 74 5.8k
Thomas J. Wilbanks United States 25 4.6k 2.1× 943 0.7× 1.8k 1.6× 648 0.7× 681 0.8× 68 8.4k
Michael E. Schlesinger United States 43 5.0k 2.3× 1.6k 1.1× 3.7k 3.2× 649 0.7× 316 0.4× 125 8.9k
Susan Gross Solomon Canada 10 4.0k 1.8× 468 0.3× 2.8k 2.4× 777 0.8× 352 0.4× 32 8.3k
B.A. Callander United Kingdom 7 2.7k 1.2× 520 0.4× 1.9k 1.6× 455 0.5× 190 0.2× 15 4.9k
Gregg Marland United States 24 2.8k 1.3× 1.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 1.5k 1.6× 198 0.2× 40 6.2k
John P. Weyant United States 37 4.0k 1.8× 3.0k 2.1× 1.8k 1.6× 1.6k 1.7× 376 0.4× 116 9.3k
Klaus Keller United States 40 2.5k 1.1× 1.1k 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 455 0.5× 240 0.3× 179 5.1k
Joseph Alcamo Germany 37 3.0k 1.4× 841 0.6× 866 0.7× 1.4k 1.5× 394 0.4× 86 8.4k
Bill Hare Germany 29 2.7k 1.2× 2.2k 1.5× 937 0.8× 1.1k 1.2× 369 0.4× 59 6.8k
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele de Strihou Belgium 21 1.9k 0.9× 487 0.3× 1.1k 1.0× 333 0.4× 321 0.4× 57 4.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bert Bolin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bert Bolin

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

All Works

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Bolin, Bert & Haroon S. Kheshgi. (2001). On strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98(9). 4850–4854. 31 indexed citations
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Watson, Robert T., Ian Noble, Bert Bolin, et al.. (2000). Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry: A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 604 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bolin, Bert, Josep G. Canadell, Berrien Moore, Ian Noble, & Will Steffen. (1999). Effect on the Biosphere of Elevated Atmospheric CO 2. Science. 285(5435). 1849–1849. 3 indexed citations
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Bolin, Bert. (1998). Environmental scares, science and media. Environment and Development Economics. 3(4). 491–537. 1 indexed citations
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Daily, Gretchen C., Partha Dasgupta, Bert Bolin, et al.. (1998). Food Production, Population Growth, and the Environment. Science. 281(5381). 1291–1292. 92 indexed citations
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Bolin, Bert & J. T. Houghton. (1995). Berlin and global warming policy. Nature. 375(6528). 176–176. 4 indexed citations
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Bolin, Bert & Inez Fung. (1992). The carbon cycle revisited. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 2 indexed citations
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Bolin, Bert. (1986). The Greenhouse effect, climatic change, and ecosystems. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 322 indexed citations
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Bolin, Bert, et al.. (1983). The simultaneous use of tracers for ocean circulation studies. Tellus B. 35(3). 206–206. 45 indexed citations
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Bolin, Bert & Henning Rodhe. (1973). A note on the concepts of age distribution and transit time in natural reservoirs. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 25(1). 58–58. 432 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bolin, Bert & Walter Bischof. (1970). Variations of the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere. Tellus. 22(4). 431–442. 107 indexed citations
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Bolin, Bert. (1970). The Carbon Cycle. Scientific American. 223(3). 124–132. 68 indexed citations
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Keeling, Charles D. & Bert Bolin. (1968). The simultaneous use of chemical tracers in oceanic studies: II. A three-reservoir model of the North and South Pacific Ocean. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 20(1). 17–17. 8 indexed citations
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Bischof, Walter & Bert Bolin. (1966). Space and time variations of the CO<sub>2</sub> content of the troposphere and lower stratosphere. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 18(2-3). 155–155. 45 indexed citations
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Bischof, Walter & Bert Bolin. (1966). Space and time variations of the CO2content of the troposphere and lower stratosphere. Tellus. 18(2-3). 155–159. 17 indexed citations
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Bolin, Bert, et al.. (1960). The Atmosphere and the Sea in Motion: The Rossby Memorial Volume. Geographical Journal. 126(4). 532–532. 21 indexed citations
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Grant, Alison M. & Bert Bolin. (1955). On «Results of forecasting with the barotropic models». Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 7(2). 275–276. 2 indexed citations
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Bolin, Bert. (1955). Numerical Forecasting with the Barotropic Model. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 7(1). 27–49. 88 indexed citations

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