Christian Stepanek

3.7k total citations
35 papers, 649 citations indexed

About

Christian Stepanek is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Stepanek has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 649 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Atmospheric Science, 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Christian Stepanek's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (32 papers), Climate variability and models (11 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (8 papers). Christian Stepanek is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (32 papers), Climate variability and models (11 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (8 papers). Christian Stepanek collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United Kingdom. Christian Stepanek's co-authors include Gerrit Lohmann, Gregor Knorr, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Xiaoxu Shi, Martin Butzin, Todd A. Ehlers, Camille Contoux, Wing‐Le Chan, Qiong Zhang and Ayako Abe‐Ouchi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Christian Stepanek

31 papers receiving 640 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christian Stepanek Germany 13 539 246 121 102 101 35 649
Eva M Niedermeyer Germany 12 517 1.0× 123 0.5× 196 1.6× 93 0.9× 108 1.1× 19 612
Pepijn Bakker Netherlands 13 644 1.2× 236 1.0× 164 1.4× 110 1.1× 57 0.6× 32 746
Ambros Berger Austria 10 469 0.9× 147 0.6× 113 0.9× 84 0.8× 85 0.8× 18 629
Nicholas L. Balascio United States 18 741 1.4× 112 0.5× 184 1.5× 179 1.8× 126 1.2× 41 887
Danielle K. Stoll United States 9 622 1.2× 212 0.9× 248 2.0× 143 1.4× 147 1.5× 11 727
Jenny Brandefelt Sweden 14 495 0.9× 192 0.8× 95 0.8× 69 0.7× 58 0.6× 22 617
Johan Nyberg Sweden 14 459 0.9× 174 0.7× 237 2.0× 71 0.7× 115 1.1× 23 690
Bette Otto-Bliesner France 2 738 1.4× 360 1.5× 146 1.2× 61 0.6× 73 0.7× 3 810
Johan Étourneau France 15 675 1.3× 136 0.6× 286 2.4× 126 1.2× 108 1.1× 34 788

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Stepanek

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Stepanek

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christian Stepanek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christian Stepanek 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 Christian Stepanek. Christian Stepanek 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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Müller, Juliane, Oliver Esper, Wenshen Xiao, et al.. (2025). Ice-proximal sea ice reconstruction in the Powell Basin, Antarctica, since the Last Interglacial. Climate of the past. 21(1). 299–326. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Yong, Lin Ding, Harry J. Dowsett, et al.. (2024). Modeling the mid-piacenzian warm climate using the water isotope-enabled Community Earth System Model (iCESM1.2-ITPCAS). Climate Dynamics. 62(8). 7741–7761. 2 indexed citations
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Dijkstra, Henk A., Anna S. von der Heydt, Ayako Abe‐Ouchi, et al.. (2024). Highly stratified mid-Pliocene Southern Ocean in PlioMIP2. Climate of the past. 20(4). 1067–1086. 4 indexed citations
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Jian, Zhimin, Haowen Dang, Jimin Yu, et al.. (2023). Changes in deep Pacific circulation and carbon storage during the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 605. 118020–118020. 7 indexed citations
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Haywood, Alan M., Julia C. Tindall, Aisling M. Dolan, et al.. (2023). On the climatic influence of CO 2 forcing in the Pliocene. Climate of the past. 19(3). 747–764. 10 indexed citations
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Jian, Shi, Christian Stepanek, Dmitry Sein, Jan Streffing, & Gerrit Lohmann. (2023). East Asian summer precipitation in AWI‐CM3: Comparison with observations and CMIP6 models. International Journal of Climatology. 43(9). 4083–4098. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Hu, Gerrit Lohmann, Christian Stepanek, et al.. (2023). Satellite-observed strong subtropical ocean warming as an early signature of global warming. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 8 indexed citations
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Knorr, Gregor, Wilfried Jokat, Gerrit Lohmann, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Different Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations on Large Scale Miocene Temperature Signatures. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 38(2). 8 indexed citations
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Botsyun, Svetlana, Todd A. Ehlers, Alexander Koptev, et al.. (2022). Middle Miocene Climate and Stable Oxygen Isotopes in Europe Based on Numerical Modeling. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 37(10). 13 indexed citations
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Knorr, Gregor, S. Barker, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2021). A salty deep ocean as a prerequisite for glacial termination. Nature Geoscience. 14(12). 930–936. 18 indexed citations
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Scussolini, Paolo, Dirk Eilander, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, et al.. (2020). Global River Discharge and Floods in the Warmer Climate of the Last Interglacial. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(18). 56 indexed citations
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Lohmann, Gerrit, et al.. (2020). Abrupt Climate and Weather Changes Across Time Scales. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 35(9). 63 indexed citations
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Stepanek, Christian, et al.. (2020). Contribution of the coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea ice–vegetation model COSMOS to the PlioMIP2. Climate of the past. 16(6). 2275–2323. 30 indexed citations
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Stepanek, Christian, et al.. (2020). Sensitivity of mid-Pliocene climate to changes in orbital forcing and PlioMIP's boundary conditions. Climate of the past. 16(4). 1643–1665. 11 indexed citations
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Scussolini, Paolo, Pepijn Bakker, Chuncheng Guo, et al.. (2019). Agreement between reconstructed and modeled boreal precipitation of the Last Interglacial. Science Advances. 5(11). eaax7047–eaax7047. 56 indexed citations
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Mutz, Sebastian G., Todd A. Ehlers, Martin Werner, et al.. (2017). Where is Late Cenozoic climate change most likely to impact denudation?. 3 indexed citations
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Haywood, Alan M., Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Fran Bragg, et al.. (2016). Arctic sea ice simulation in the PlioMIP ensemble. Climate of the past. 12(3). 749–767. 12 indexed citations
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Hill, Daniel J., Alan M. Haywood, Daniel J. Lunt, et al.. (2014). Evaluating the dominant components of warming in Pliocene climate simulations. Climate of the past. 10(1). 79–90. 48 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhongshi, Kerim H. Nisancioglu, Mark A. Chandler, et al.. (2013). Mid-pliocene Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation not unlike modern. Climate of the past. 9(4). 1495–1504. 55 indexed citations
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Stepanek, Christian & Gerrit Lohmann. (2012). Modelling mid-Pliocene climate with COSMOS. Geoscientific model development. 5(5). 1221–1243. 81 indexed citations

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