Boris K. Biskaborn

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Boris K. Biskaborn is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Boris K. Biskaborn has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Atmospheric Science, 22 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 20 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Boris K. Biskaborn's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (47 papers), Climate change and permafrost (36 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (21 papers). Boris K. Biskaborn is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (47 papers), Climate change and permafrost (36 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (21 papers). Boris K. Biskaborn collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Russia and China. Boris K. Biskaborn's co-authors include Ulrike Herzschuh, Bernhard Diekmann, Luidmila A. Pestryakova, Larissa A Savelieva, D. Bolshiyanov, Larisa Nazarova, D. A. Streletskiy, Kathleen R. Stoof‐Leichsenring, Hugues Lantuit and Kirsten Elger and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Boris K. Biskaborn

68 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle 2024 2026 2025 2024 50 100 150
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. The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle
    2024 185 citations Xingxing Kuang, Junguo Liu et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Boris K. Biskaborn Germany 21 1.0k 342 281 141 131 73 1.4k
Carsten Meyer‐Jacob Sweden 19 654 0.6× 311 0.9× 310 1.1× 241 1.7× 95 0.7× 46 1.0k
Jie Liang China 18 688 0.7× 272 0.8× 215 0.8× 75 0.5× 91 0.7× 65 1.1k
Qianli Sun China 23 966 0.9× 361 1.1× 153 0.5× 127 0.9× 57 0.4× 60 1.4k
Jennie Fluin Australia 15 412 0.4× 476 1.4× 261 0.9× 95 0.7× 58 0.4× 22 936
Jianbao Liu China 14 440 0.4× 184 0.5× 170 0.6× 64 0.5× 142 1.1× 35 742
Helong Wei China 15 562 0.5× 430 1.3× 207 0.7× 157 1.1× 99 0.8× 22 1.1k
Joshua Kurek Canada 21 667 0.6× 602 1.8× 416 1.5× 176 1.2× 25 0.2× 55 1.4k
Raj K. Singh India 16 667 0.6× 257 0.8× 137 0.5× 211 1.5× 34 0.3× 43 986
Yanhong Zheng China 20 1.2k 1.1× 691 2.0× 199 0.7× 88 0.6× 56 0.4× 43 1.5k
George E. A. Swann United Kingdom 23 1.2k 1.2× 625 1.8× 351 1.2× 378 2.7× 107 0.8× 65 1.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boris K. Biskaborn

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Biskaborn, Boris K., Ulrike Herzschuh, A. Marent, et al.. (2025). Diatom shifts and limnological changes in a Siberian boreal lake: a multiproxy perspective on climate warming and anthropogenic air pollution. Biogeosciences. 22(10). 2327–2350. 1 indexed citations
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Kuang, Xingxing, Junguo Liu, Bridget R. Scanlon, et al.. (2024). The changing nature of groundwater in the global water cycle. Science. 383(6686). eadf0630–eadf0630. 185 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rudaya, Natalia, Larisa Frolova, Xianyong Cao, et al.. (2023). Terrestrial vegetation and lake aquatic community diversity under climate change during the mid–late Holocene in the Altai Mountains. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 623. 111623–111623. 8 indexed citations
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Biskaborn, Boris K., et al.. (2023). Diatom responses and geochemical feedbacks to environmental changes at Lake Rauchuagytgyn (Far East Russian Arctic). Biogeosciences. 20(9). 1691–1712. 5 indexed citations
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Stoof‐Leichsenring, Kathleen R., Peter A. Seeber, Laura S. Epp, et al.. (2022). Long-term fungus–plant covariation from multi-site sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding. Quaternary Science Reviews. 295. 107758–107758. 9 indexed citations
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Diekmann, Bernhard, et al.. (2022). Improving age–depth relationships by using the LANDO (“Linked age and depth modeling”) model ensemble. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 269–295. 3 indexed citations
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Overduin, Pier Paul, Ellen Damm, Ingeborg Bussmann, et al.. (2021). Methane pathways in winter ice of a thermokarst lake–lagoon–coastal water transect in north Siberia. ˜The œcryosphere. 15(3). 1607–1625. 13 indexed citations
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Herzschuh, Ulrike, Stefan Kruse, Andrei Andreev, et al.. (2021). Wildfire history of the boreal forest of south-western Yakutia (Siberia) over the last two millennia documented by a lake-sediment charcoal record. Biogeosciences. 18(13). 4185–4209. 27 indexed citations
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Diekmann, Bernhard, et al.. (2021). Harmonizing heterogeneous multi-proxy data from lake systems. Computers & Geosciences. 153. 104791–104791. 4 indexed citations
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Biskaborn, Boris K., Larisa Nazarova, Luidmila A. Pestryakova, et al.. (2021). Late Quaternary Climate Reconstruction and Lead-Lag Relationships of Biotic and Sediment-Geochemical Indicators at Lake Bolshoe Toko, Siberia. Frontiers in Earth Science. 9. 12 indexed citations
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Overduin, Pier Paul, Ellen Damm, Ingeborg Bussmann, et al.. (2020). Methane Pathways in Winter Ice of Thermokarst Lakes, Lagoons and Coastal Waters in North Siberia. 5 indexed citations
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Biskaborn, Boris K., Larisa Nazarova, Luidmila A. Pestryakova, et al.. (2019). Spatial distribution of environmental indicators in surface sediments of Lake Bolshoe Toko, Yakutia, Russia. Biogeosciences. 16(20). 4023–4049. 31 indexed citations
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Heinecke, Liv, Steffen Mischke, Boris K. Biskaborn, et al.. (2017). Climatic and limnological changes at Lake Karakul (Tajikistan) during the last ~29 cal ka. Journal of Paleolimnology. 58(3). 317–334. 39 indexed citations
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Shiklomanov, N. I., Frederick E. Nelson, D. A. Streletskiy, & Boris K. Biskaborn. (2016). Long-term active-layer dynamics: results of 22 years of field observations in Northern Hemisphere permafrost regions.. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 3 indexed citations
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Heinecke, Liv, Steffen Mischke, Boris K. Biskaborn, et al.. (2016). Late Pleistocene to Holocene climate and limnological changes at Lake Karakul (Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan). 7 indexed citations
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Biskaborn, Boris K., Jean-Pierre Lanckman, Hugues Lantuit, et al.. (2015). The new database of the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P). Earth system science data. 7(2). 245–259. 108 indexed citations
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Wang, Rong, Yongzhan Zhang, Bernd Wünnemann, et al.. (2015). Linkages between Quaternary climate change and sedimentary processes in Hala Lake, northern Tibetan Plateau, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 107. 140–150. 29 indexed citations

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