Bo Elberling

20.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
252 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Bo Elberling is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Bo Elberling has authored 252 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 171 papers in Atmospheric Science, 81 papers in Ecology and 58 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Bo Elberling's work include Climate change and permafrost (151 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (102 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (50 papers). Bo Elberling is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (151 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (102 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (50 papers). Bo Elberling collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Sweden. Bo Elberling's co-authors include Christian Juncher Jørgensen, Anders Michelsen, Birger Ulf Hansen, Thilde Bech Bruun, Jørgen Hollesen, Edward A. G. Schuur, Elisabeth J. Cooper, Ronald V. Nicholson, Andreas Westergaard‐Nielsen and Hanne H. Christiansen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Bo Elberling

245 papers receiving 9.4k 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.

Estimated stocks of circumpolar permafrost carbon with quantified uncertainty ranges and identified data gaps

2014 1.1k citations Gustaf Hugelius, Bo Elberling et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bo Elberling Denmark	53	5.4k	3.2k	2.1k	1.6k	1.6k	252	9.6k
Mark Williams United States	57	6.0k 1.1×	2.3k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	185	10.0k
Gustaf Hugelius Sweden	43	8.1k 1.5×	3.4k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	127	11.0k
James G. Bockheim United States	52	6.3k 1.2×	3.5k 1.1×	858 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	192	9.4k
P. D. Brooks United States	54	3.6k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	3.3k 2.1×	1.8k 1.1×	157	8.6k
Jason C. Neff United States	53	4.4k 0.8×	4.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	3.9k 2.5×	3.6k 2.3×	117	11.4k
Mark G. Macklin United Kingdom	63	4.3k 0.8×	3.4k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	2.1k 1.3×	228	11.6k
Peter Frenzel Germany	54	2.4k 0.4×	4.3k 1.4×	3.5k 1.7×	1.7k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	225	10.2k
Leif Klemedtsson Sweden	43	1.4k 0.3×	2.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	2.2k 1.4×	1.9k 1.2×	117	6.3k
Peter Kuhry Sweden	49	10.8k 2.0×	4.4k 1.4×	2.0k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	905 0.6×	125	12.9k
Frank Hagedorn Switzerland	51	2.3k 0.4×	2.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	3.1k 2.0×	3.8k 2.4×	181	8.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Bo Elberling

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bo Elberling

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20 of 20 papers shown

Søndergaard, Jens, Bo Elberling, Christian Sonne, Martin Mørk Larsen, & Runé Dietz. (2025). Stable isotopes unveil ocean transport of legacy mercury into Arctic food webs. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5135–5135. 4 indexed citations

Westergaard‐Nielsen, Andreas, Anders Michelsen, Daan Blok, et al.. (2024). Changes in soil and plant carbon pools after 9 years of experimental summer warming and increased snow depth. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175648–175648.

Geers, Aileen U., et al.. (2024). Exploring the biosynthesis potential of permafrost microbiomes. Environmental Microbiome. 19(1). 96–96.

Yun, Hanbo, Philippe Ciais, Qing Zhu, et al.. (2024). Changes in above- versus belowground biomass distribution in permafrost regions in response to climate warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(25). e2314036121–e2314036121. 13 indexed citations

Elberling, Bo, et al.. (2023). Spatial Distribution of Bioavailable Inorganic Nitrogen From Thawing Permafrost. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 37(2). 9 indexed citations

Wang, Jinsong, Bo Elberling, Yang Lu, et al.. (2022). Increased annual methane uptake driven by warmer winters in an alpine meadow. Global Change Biology. 28(10). 3246–3259. 19 indexed citations

Deepagoda, T.K.K. Chamindu, Shoichiro Hamamoto, Bo Elberling, et al.. (2022). A new exponential model for predicting soil gas diffusivity with varying degree of saturation. Vadose Zone Journal. 22(1). 4 indexed citations

Li, Yuan, T.K.K. Chamindu Deepagoda, Wei Fu, et al.. (2022). Soil-Gas Diffusivity-Based Characterization of Variably Saturated Agricultural Topsoils. Water. 14(18). 2900–2900. 3 indexed citations

Deepagoda, T.K.K. Chamindu, Timothy J. Clough, M. C. M. Nasvi, et al.. (2020). Gas‐Diffusivity based characterization of aggregated agricultural soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 84(2). 387–398. 13 indexed citations

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Ambus, Per, et al.. (2020). Slope hydrology and permafrost: The effect of snowmelt N transport on downslope ecosystem. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1 indexed citations

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Oh, Youmi, Qianlai Zhuang, Licheng Liu, et al.. (2020). Reduced net methane emissions due to microbial methane oxidation in a warmer Arctic. Nature Climate Change. 10(4). 317–321. 87 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenxin, Per‐Erik Jansson, Charlotte Sigsgaard, et al.. (2019). Model-data fusion to assess year-round CO2 fluxes for an arctic heath ecosystem in West Greenland (69°N). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 272-273. 176–186. 30 indexed citations

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Hollesen, Jørgen, et al.. (2019). Predicting the loss of organic archaeological deposits at a regional scale in Greenland. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 23 indexed citations

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Westergaard‐Nielsen, Andreas, et al.. (2018). A phenology-based approach to the classification of Arctic tundra ecosystems in Greenland. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 146. 518–529. 33 indexed citations

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Faucherre, Samuel, Christian Juncher Jørgensen, Daan Blok, et al.. (2018). Short and Long‐Term Controls on Active Layer and Permafrost Carbon Turnover Across the Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(2). 372–390. 24 indexed citations

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Kramshøj, Magnus, Christian Nyrop Albers, Thomas Holst, et al.. (2018). Biogenic volatile release from permafrost thaw is determined by the soil microbial sink. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3412–3412. 46 indexed citations

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Elberling, Bo, et al.. (2017). Seasonal variations in methane fluxes in response to summer warming and leaf litter addition in a subarctic heath ecosystem. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 122(8). 2137–2153. 21 indexed citations

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Westermann, Sebastian, Bo Elberling, Stine Højlund Pedersen, et al.. (2015). Future permafrost conditions along environmental gradients in Zackenberg, Greenland. The cryosphere. 9(2). 719–735. 39 indexed citations

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Westermann, Sebastian, Bo Elberling, Stine Højlund Pedersen, et al.. (2014). Future permafrost conditions along environmental gradients in Zackenberg, Greenland. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1 indexed citations

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Elberling, Bo, Claus Nordstrøm, Lisbeth Grøndahl, et al.. (2008). Soil CO2 and CH4 Production Controlled by Temperatures, Water, Freezing and Snowmelt.. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 1 indexed citations

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