Boris Sakschewski

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Boris Sakschewski is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Boris Sakschewski has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 3 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Boris Sakschewski's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (12 papers) and Climate variability and models (9 papers). Boris Sakschewski is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (12 papers) and Climate variability and models (9 papers). Boris Sakschewski collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Brazil and Netherlands. Boris Sakschewski's co-authors include Sina Loriani, Ricarda Winkelmann, Timothy M. Lenton, Jesse F. Abrams, David I. Armstrong McKay, Johan Rockström, Arie Staal, Ingo Fetzer, Sarah Cornell and Werner von Bloh and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Boris Sakschewski

29 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

2022 799 citations David I. Armstrong McKay, Arie Staal et al. Science profile →
Quantifying the human cost of global warming

2023 168 citations Timothy M. Lenton, Chi Xu et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Boris Sakschewski Germany	16	944	349	315	235	168	30	1.8k
Arie Staal Netherlands	24	1.9k 2.0×	439 1.3×	640 2.0×	473 2.0×	152 0.9×	54	2.9k
Jesse F. Abrams Germany	18	672 0.7×	104 0.3×	243 0.8×	372 1.6×	230 1.4×	36	1.9k
Julia E. M. S. Nabel Germany	23	1.3k 1.4×	356 1.0×	370 1.2×	463 2.0×	58 0.3×	51	2.1k
J. M. Melillo United States	9	824 0.9×	212 0.6×	399 1.3×	392 1.7×	84 0.5×	20	1.7k
V. Chirkov Austria	5	1.4k 1.5×	163 0.5×	811 2.6×	317 1.3×	242 1.4×	6	2.5k
Remus Prăvălie Romania	27	1.2k 1.3×	192 0.6×	277 0.9×	609 2.6×	57 0.3×	42	2.8k
Shicheng Li China	30	1.9k 2.0×	240 0.7×	470 1.5×	899 3.8×	231 1.4×	102	2.9k
Jason Evans United States	17	437 0.5×	157 0.4×	248 0.8×	272 1.2×	77 0.5×	35	1.2k
Edward A. Parson United States	21	935 1.0×	141 0.4×	208 0.7×	137 0.6×	96 0.6×	64	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Boris Sakschewski

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boris Sakschewski

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sakschewski, Boris, et al.. (2025). What if extreme droughts occur more frequently? Mechanisms and limits of forest adaptation in pine monocultures and mixed forests in Berlin–Brandenburg, Germany. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(9). 3309–3331.

Loriani, Sina, Annett Bartsch, Elisa Calamita, et al.. (2025). Monitoring the Multiple Stages of Climate Tipping Systems from Space: Do the GCOS Essential Climate Variables Meet the Needs?. Surveys in Geophysics. 46(2). 327–374. 1 indexed citations

Nadeem, Imran, Nebojša Nakićenović, Boris Sakschewski, et al.. (2024). Permafrost Thawing and Estimates of Vulnerable Carbon in the Northern High Latitude. Earth Systems and Environment. 9(2). 715–740. 2 indexed citations

Drüke, Markus, Wolfgang Lucht, Werner von Bloh, et al.. (2024). The long-term impact of transgressing planetary boundaries on biophysical atmosphere–land interactions. Earth System Dynamics. 15(2). 467–483. 1 indexed citations

Abrams, Jesse F., Chris Huntingford, Mark S. Williamson, et al.. (2023). Committed Global Warming Risks Triggering Multiple Climate Tipping Points. Earth s Future. 11(11). 14 indexed citations

Lenton, Timothy M., Chi Xu, Jesse F. Abrams, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the human cost of global warming. Nature Sustainability. 6(10). 1237–1247. 168 indexed citations breakdown →

Drüke, Markus, et al.. (2023). Fire may prevent future Amazon forest recovery after large-scale deforestation. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 23 indexed citations

McKay, David I. Armstrong, Arie Staal, Jesse F. Abrams, et al.. (2022). Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points. Science. 377(6611). eabn7950–eabn7950. 799 indexed citations breakdown →

Wunderling, Nico, Arie Staal, Boris Sakschewski, et al.. (2022). Recurrent droughts increase risk of cascading tipping events by outpacing adaptive capacities in the Amazon rainforest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(32). e2120777119–e2120777119. 46 indexed citations

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Wunderling, Nico, Ricarda Winkelmann, Johan Rockström, et al.. (2022). Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model. Nature Climate Change. 13(1). 75–82. 83 indexed citations

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Papastefanou, Phillip, Christian Zang, Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, et al.. (2022). Recent extreme drought events in the Amazon rainforest: assessment of different precipitation and evapotranspiration datasets and drought indicators. Biogeosciences. 19(16). 3843–3861. 21 indexed citations

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Thonicke, Kirsten, et al.. (2022). Future tree survival in European forests depends on understorey tree diversity. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 20750–20750. 5 indexed citations

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Drüke, Markus, Werner von Bloh, Boris Sakschewski, et al.. (2021). Climate-induced hysteresis of the tropical forest in a fire-enabled Earth system model. The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 230(14-15). 3153–3162. 9 indexed citations

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Sakschewski, Boris, Werner von Bloh, Markus Drüke, et al.. (2021). Variable tree rooting strategies are key for modelling the distribution, productivity and evapotranspiration of tropical evergreen forests. Biogeosciences. 18(13). 4091–4116. 21 indexed citations

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Drüke, Markus, Werner von Bloh, Stefan Petri, et al.. (2021). CM2Mc-LPJmL v1.0: biophysical coupling of a process-based dynamic vegetation model with managed land to a general circulation model. Geoscientific model development. 14(6). 4117–4141. 18 indexed citations

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Maréchaux, Isabelle, Fanny Langerwisch, Andreas Huth, et al.. (2021). Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models. Ecology and Evolution. 11(9). 3746–3770. 54 indexed citations

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Sakschewski, Boris, Werner von Bloh, Markus Drüke, et al.. (2020). Variable tree rooting strategies improve tropical productivity and evapotranspiration in a dynamic global vegetation model. 9 indexed citations

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Papastefanou, Phillip, Christian Zang, Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, et al.. (2020). Quantifying the spatial extent and intensity of recent extremedrought events in the Amazon rainforest and their impacts on thecarbon cycle. 3 indexed citations

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Drüke, Markus, Matthias Forkel, Werner von Bloh, et al.. (2019). Improving the LPJmL4-SPITFIRE vegetation–fire model for South America using satellite data. Geoscientific model development. 12(12). 5029–5054. 21 indexed citations

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Drüke, Markus, Matthias Forkel, Werner von Bloh, et al.. (2019). Improving the LPJmL4-SPITFIRE vegetation-fire model for SouthAmerica using satellite data. 5 indexed citations

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