Christian Heine

5.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
86 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Christian Heine is a scholar working on Geophysics, Geology and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Heine has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Geophysics, 17 papers in Geology and 15 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Christian Heine's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (21 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (19 papers) and Geological and Geophysical Studies (17 papers). Christian Heine is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (21 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (19 papers) and Geological and Geophysical Studies (17 papers). Christian Heine collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and Netherlands. Christian Heine's co-authors include R. Dietmar Müller, Sascha Brune, Bernhard Steinberger, Carmen Gaina, M. Sdrolias, Marta Pérez‐Gussinyé, Maria Seton, S. V. Sobolev, Gerik Scheuermann and Simon Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Christian Heine

81 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Long-Term Sea-Level Fluctuations Driven by Ocean Basin Dynamics

2008 600 citations R. Dietmar Müller, Christian Heine et al. profile →
A Global Plate Model Including Lithospheric Deformation Along Major Rifts and Orogens Since the Triassic

2019 414 citations R. Dietmar Müller, Sabin Zahirovic et al. Tectonics profile →
Kinematics of the South Atlantic rift

2013 342 citations Christian Heine, R. Dietmar Müller et al. Solid Earth profile →
Rift migration explains continental margin asymmetry and crustal hyper-extension

2014 302 citations Sascha Brune, Christian Heine et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Heine Germany	31	2.1k	840	611	568	567	86	4.1k
Grace E. Shephard Norway	20	3.0k 1.4×	927 1.1×	406 0.7×	654 1.2×	417 0.7×	42	4.4k
John A. Barron United States	36	451 0.2×	302 0.4×	673 1.1×	2.9k 5.2×	1.2k 2.2×	194	8.5k
Brian P. Williams United States	31	541 0.3×	440 0.5×	952 1.6×	717 1.3×	691 1.2×	134	3.2k
B. J. J. Embleton Australia	29	1.7k 0.8×	766 0.9×	240 0.4×	1.1k 1.9×	711 1.3×	68	3.6k
Jean‐Yves Royer France	35	3.8k 1.8×	1.2k 1.4×	581 1.0×	954 1.7×	258 0.5×	104	4.9k
Mingsong Li China	28	1.0k 0.5×	627 0.7×	513 0.8×	1.8k 3.1×	1.4k 2.5×	103	3.5k
J Ramón Arrowsmith United States	41	3.7k 1.7×	727 0.9×	426 0.7×	1.5k 2.6×	301 0.5×	153	5.5k
Steven N. Ward United States	36	3.7k 1.7×	445 0.5×	661 1.1×	1.0k 1.8×	249 0.4×	74	4.9k
Alexander Liu United Kingdom	37	358 0.2×	271 0.3×	323 0.5×	1.3k 2.3×	2.1k 3.7×	132	3.9k
Grant Heiken United States	34	2.3k 1.1×	120 0.1×	453 0.7×	1.4k 2.5×	489 0.9×	92	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Heine

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Heine

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Heine

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All Works

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Fyhn, Michael B.W., Paul Green, Jussi Hovikoski, et al.. (2025). Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic denudation of northern Central Vietnam examined through apatite fission track analysis. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 282. 106524–106524.

Haas, Peter, et al.. (2024). Increased metamorphic conditions in the lower crust during oceanic transform fault evolution. Solid Earth. 15(12). 1419–1443.

Haas, Peter, et al.. (2022). Modeling Lithospheric Thickness Along the Conjugate South Atlantic Passive Margins Implies Asymmetric Rift Initiation. Tectonics. 41(9). 6 indexed citations

Müller, R. Dietmar, Sabin Zahirovic, Simon Williams, et al.. (2019). A Global Plate Model Including Lithospheric Deformation Along Major Rifts and Orogens Since the Triassic. Tectonics. 38(6). 1884–1907. 414 indexed citations breakdown →

Descombes, Patrice, et al.. (2017). Linking species diversification to palaeo‐environmental changes: A process‐based modelling approach. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27(2). 233–244. 27 indexed citations

Pellissier, Loïc, Christian Heine, Dan F. Rosauer, & Camille Albouy. (2017). Are global hotspots of endemic richness shaped by plate tectonics?. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 123(1). 247–261. 46 indexed citations

Brune, Sascha, et al.. (2017). Global patterns of Earth's dynamic topography since the Jurassic. publish.UP (University of Potsdam). 2 indexed citations

Brune, Sascha, et al.. (2017). Global patterns in Earth's dynamic topography since the Jurassic: the role of subducted slabs. Solid Earth. 8(5). 899–919. 31 indexed citations

Sippel, Judith, Mauro Cacace, J. Mechie, et al.. (2017). The Kenya rift revisited: insights into lithospheric strength through data-driven 3-D gravity and thermal modelling. Solid Earth. 8(1). 45–81. 43 indexed citations

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Descombes, Patrice, Fabien Leprieur, Camille Albouy, Christian Heine, & Loïc Pellissier. (2017). Spatial imprints of plate tectonics on extant richness of terrestrial vertebrates. Journal of Biogeography. 44(5). 1185–1197. 13 indexed citations

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Heine, Christian, Heike Leitte, Mark W. Hlawitschka, et al.. (2016). A Survey of Topology‐based Methods in Visualization. Computer Graphics Forum. 35(3). 643–667. 85 indexed citations

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Descombes, Patrice, Mary S. Wisz, Fabien Leprieur, et al.. (2015). Forecasted coral reef decline in marine biodiversity hotspots under climate change. Global Change Biology. 21(7). 2479–2487. 83 indexed citations

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Heine, Christian, et al.. (2013). Kinematics of the South Atlantic rift. Solid Earth. 4(2). 215–253. 342 indexed citations breakdown →

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Qin, Xiaodong, R. Dietmar Müller, John Cannon, et al.. (2012). The GPlates Geological Information Model and Markup Language. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2). 111–134. 17 indexed citations

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Qin, Xiaodong, R. Dietmar Müller, John Cannon, et al.. (2012). The GPlates Geological Information Model and Markup Language. 5 indexed citations

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Williams, Simon, Nicolas Flament, Christian Heine, et al.. (2012). Geodynamic modeling of passive margin systems from tectonic reconstructions with deforming plate boundaries. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 6830. 1 indexed citations

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Rijn, Laurentius J. van, C. Nischler, Ralph Michael, et al.. (2009). Prevalence of impairment of visual function in European drivers. Acta Ophthalmologica. 89(2). 124–131. 31 indexed citations

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Heine, Christian & Stefan Kirn. (2004). Adapt at agent.hospital - agent based support of clinical processes.. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 672–685. 5 indexed citations

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Hoffmann, Astrid, et al.. (2003). Intelligente Softwareagenten und betriebswirtschaftliche Anwendungsszenarien im Gesundheitswesen. FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg). 64–82. 1 indexed citations

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Heine, Christian, et al.. (2003). ADAPT: Adaptive Multi-Agent Process Planning and Coordination of Clinical Trials. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 235. 10 indexed citations

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