Bert Bolin

11.5k citations

74 papers · 5.8k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 32

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 0.5%
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

Papers in ⓘ

Global and Planetary Change 25
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 20
Atmospheric Science 15
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 6
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 6
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 4

Co-authors: Henning Rodhe (2 shared papers)Carl Folke (8 shared papers)Bengt‐Owe Jansson (7 shared papers)Partha Dasgupta (7 shared papers)Simon A. Levin (7 shared papers)Charles Perrings (5 shared papers)C. S. Holling (5 shared papers)Karl-Göran Mäler (6 shared papers)
Journals: Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography (17 papers)Science (5 papers)Tellus B (5 papers)Nature (4 papers)Environment and Development Economics (4 papers)
Partner nations: Sweden Tunisia United States

In The Last Decade

Bert Bolin

70 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry: A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2000 · 604 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2000 Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry: A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
1995 Science
1995 Ecological Economics
1973 Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

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1	Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment Science ·Kenneth J. Arrow, Bert Bolin, Robert Costanza, Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, C. S. Holling, Bengt‐Owe Jansson, Simon A. Levin, Karl-Göran Mäler, Charles Perrings, David Pimentel Hit paper breakdown →	1995	1112
2	Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry: A Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Robert T. Watson, Ian Noble, Bert Bolin, N. H. Ravindranath, David J. Verardo, David Jon Dokken Hit paper breakdown →	2000	604
3	Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment Ecological Economics ·Kenneth J. Arrow, Bert Bolin, Robert Costanza, Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, C. S. Holling, Bengt‐Owe Jansson, Simon A. Levin, Karl-Göran Mäler, Charles Perrings, David Pimentel Hit paper breakdown →	1995	569
4	A note on the concepts of age distribution and transit time in natural reservoirs Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography ·Bert Bolin, Henning Rodhe Hit paper breakdown →	1973	432
5	The Greenhouse effect, climatic change, and ecosystems Medical Entomology and Zoology ·Bert Bolin	1986	322
6	A note on the concepts of age distribution and transit time in natural reservoirs Tellus ·Bert Bolin, Henning Rodhe	1973	254
7	Resilience in natural and socioeconomic systems Environment and Development Economics ·Simon A. Levin, Scott Barrett, Sara Aniyar, William J. Baumöl, Christopher Bliss, Bert Bolin, Partha Dasgupta, Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Folke, Ing‐Marie Gren, C. S. Holling, Ann-Mari Jansson, Bengt‐Owe Jansson, Karl-Göran Mäler, Daniel Martín, Charles Perrings, Eytan Sheshinski	1998	219
8	Changes of Land Biota and Their Importance for the Carbon Cycle Science ·Bert Bolin	1977	198
9	Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment Environment and Development Economics ·Kenneth J. Arrow, Bert Bolin, Robert Costanza, Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, C. S. Holling, Bengt‐Owe Jansson, Simon A. Levin, Karl-Göran Mäler, Charles Perrings, David Pimentel	1996	171
10	Variations of the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere Tellus ·Bert Bolin, Walter Bischof	1970	107
11	On the Exchange of Carbon Dioxide between the Atmosphere and the Sea Tellus ·Bert Bolin	1960	106
12	On the abyssal circulation of the world ocean—IV Deep Sea Research (1953) ·Bert Bolin, Henry Stommel	1961	104
13	A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Bert Bolin	2007	97
14	A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Bert Bolin	2007	95
15	Food Production, Population Growth, and the Environment Science ·Gretchen C. Daily, Partha Dasgupta, Bert Bolin, Pierre Crosson, Jacques du Guerny, Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Folke, Ann Mari Jansson, Bengt‐Owe Jansson, Nils Kautsky, Ann P. Kinzig, Simon A. Levin, Karl-Göran Mäler, Per Pinstrup‐Andersen, Domenico Siniscalco, Brian Walker	1998	92
16	Numerical Forecasting with the Barotropic Model Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography ·Bert Bolin	1955	88
17	The Kyoto Negotiations on Climate Change: A Science Perspective Science ·Bert Bolin	1998	85
18	Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment Ecological Applications ·Kenneth J. Arrow, Bert Bolin, Robert Costanza, Partha Dasgupta, Carl Folke, C. S. Holling, Bengt‐Owe Jansson, Simon A. Levin, KaR. L -Goran Maler, Charles Perrings, David Pimentel	1996	80
19	Variations of the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography ·Bert Bolin, Walter Bischof	1970	76
20	The Carbon Cycle Scientific American ·Bert Bolin	1970	68

About Bert Bolin

Bert Bolin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 74 papers that have together received 5.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (20 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (7 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (6 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (6 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (6 papers), Scientific Research and Discoveries (4 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (4 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (2.2k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (878 citations), Oceanography (858 citations), Atmospheric Science (1.2k citations) and Environmental Engineering (923 citations). Bert Bolin has collaborated with scholars based in Sweden, Tunisia and United States. Frequent co-authors include Henning Rodhe, Carl Folke, Bengt‐Owe Jansson, Partha Dasgupta, Simon A. Levin, Charles Perrings, C. S. Holling, Karl-Göran Mäler, Robert Costanza and Kenneth J. Arrow. Their work appears in journals such as Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, Science, Tellus B, Nature and Environment and Development Economics.

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