Christoph Förste

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Christoph Förste is a scholar working on Oceanography, Molecular Biology and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Förste has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Oceanography, 28 papers in Molecular Biology and 25 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christoph Förste's work include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (48 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (28 papers) and GNSS positioning and interference (25 papers). Christoph Förste is often cited by papers focused on Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (48 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (28 papers) and GNSS positioning and interference (25 papers). Christoph Förste collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and France. Christoph Förste's co-authors include Sean Bruinsma, Frank Flechtner, Franz Barthelmes, Jean‐Charles Marty, R. Biancale, O. A. Abrikosov, Oleh Abrykosov, Jean‐Michel Lemoine, E. Sinem Ince and Sylvain Bonvalot and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Geophysical Research Letters and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Förste

49 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

EIGEN-6C4 The latest combined global gravity field model including GOCE data up to degree and order 2190 of GFZ Potsdam and GRGS Toulouse

2014 355 citations Christoph Förste, Sean Bruinsma et al. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christoph Förste Germany	18	1.7k	926	849	617	491	52	2.1k
Franz Barthelmes Germany	20	1.3k 0.8×	660 0.7×	648 0.8×	557 0.9×	432 0.9×	48	1.8k
Thomas Gruber Germany	22	1.4k 0.8×	739 0.8×	705 0.8×	494 0.8×	390 0.8×	101	1.7k
S. Kenyon United States	13	1.8k 1.0×	964 1.0×	642 0.8×	840 1.4×	441 0.9×	31	2.6k
Pavel Novák Czechia	27	1.5k 0.9×	491 0.5×	700 0.8×	912 1.5×	278 0.6×	105	1.8k
P. Schwintzer Germany	19	1.4k 0.8×	646 0.7×	816 1.0×	791 1.3×	1.0k 2.1×	51	2.3k
Torsten Mayer‐Gürr Germany	26	2.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	915 1.1×	365 0.6×	860 1.8×	96	2.3k
Wolf‐Dieter Schuh Germany	17	1.2k 0.7×	589 0.6×	652 0.8×	367 0.6×	307 0.6×	40	1.4k
Jean‐Michel Lemoine France	23	2.1k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	777 0.9×	545 0.9×	898 1.8×	71	2.6k
C. C. Tscherning Denmark	20	1.6k 0.9×	846 0.9×	674 0.8×	578 0.9×	256 0.5×	54	1.9k
T. Fecher Germany	11	974 0.6×	469 0.5×	546 0.6×	398 0.6×	204 0.4×	27	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Förste

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Yılmaz, M. Tuğrul, Henryk Dobslaw, E. Sinem Ince, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of globally gridded precipitation data and satellite-based terrestrial water storage products using hydrological drought recovery time. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(14). 3359–3377. 1 indexed citations

Ince, E. Sinem, Oleh Abrykosov, & Christoph Förste. (2024). GDEMM2024: Global Digital Elevation Merged Model 2024 for surface, bedrock, ice thickness, and land-type masks. Scientific Data. 11(1). 4 indexed citations

Meyer, Ulrich, et al.. (2023). Combined monthly GRACE-FO gravity fields for a Global Gravity-based Groundwater Product. Geophysical Journal International. 236(1). 456–469. 9 indexed citations

Voigt, Christian, Ludger Timmen, Henryk Dobslaw, et al.. (2023). A superconducting gravimeter on the island of Heligoland for the high-accuracy determination of regional ocean tide loading signals of the North Sea. Geophysical Journal International. 234(3). 1585–1602. 1 indexed citations

Voigt, Christian, Karsten Schulz, Franziska Koch, et al.. (2021). Introduction of a Superconducting Gravimeter as Novel HydrologicalSensor for the Alpine Research Catchment Zugspitze. 2 indexed citations

Voigt, Christian, Karsten Schulz, Franziska Koch, et al.. (2021). Technical note: Introduction of a superconducting gravimeter as novel hydrological sensor for the Alpine research catchment Zugspitze. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(9). 5047–5064. 15 indexed citations

Förste, Christoph, Franz Barthelmes, Svetozar Petrović, et al.. (2020). Using real polar ground gravimetry data to solve the GOCE polar gap problem in satellite-only gravity field recovery. Journal of Geodesy. 94(3). 5 indexed citations

Förste, Christoph, et al.. (2020). Marine Gravimetry Activities on the Baltic Sea in the Framework of the EU Project FAMOS. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 2 indexed citations

Förste, Christoph, Oleh Abrykosov, Sean Bruinsma, et al.. (2019). ESA’s Release 6 GOCE gravity field model by means of the direct approach based on improved filtering of the reprocessed gradients of the entire mission (GO_CONS_GCF_2_DIR_R6). 20 indexed citations

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Dahle, Christoph, Michael Murböck, Frank Flechtner, et al.. (2019). The GFZ GRACE RL06 Monthly Gravity Field Time Series: Processing Details and Quality Assessment. Remote Sensing. 11(18). 2116–2116. 88 indexed citations

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Barthelmes, Franz, Min Li, Christoph Förste, et al.. (2019). Shipborne gravimetry in the Baltic Sea: data processing strategies, crucial findings and preliminary geoid determination tests. Journal of Geodesy. 93(7). 1059–1071. 18 indexed citations

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Ince, E. Sinem, Franz Barthelmes, Kirsten Elger, et al.. (2019). ICGEM – 15 years of successful collection and distribution of global gravitational models, associated services, and future plans. Earth system science data. 11(2). 647–674. 210 indexed citations

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Barthelmes, Franz, Svetozar Petrović, Christoph Förste, et al.. (2017). Airborne Gravimetry of GEOHALO Mission: Data Processing and Gravity Field Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 122(12). 26 indexed citations

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Zhong, Bo, Hao Zhou, Frank Flechtner, et al.. (2017). The gravity field model IGGT_R1 based on the second invariant of the GOCE gravitational gradient tensor. Journal of Geodesy. 92(5). 561–572. 19 indexed citations

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Voigt, Christian, Christoph Förste, Hartmut Wziontek, et al.. (2017). The Data Base of the International Geodynamics and Earth Tide Service (IGETS). Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 4947. 2 indexed citations

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He, Kaifei, Tianhe Xu, Christoph Förste, et al.. (2016). GNSS Precise Kinematic Positioning for Multiple Kinematic Stations Based on A Priori Distance Constraints. Sensors. 16(4). 470–470. 11 indexed citations

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Förste, Christoph, Sean Bruinsma, Oleh Abrykosov, et al.. (2014). EIGEN-6C4 The latest combined global gravity field model including GOCE data up to degree and order 2190 of GFZ Potsdam and GRGS Toulouse. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 3707. 355 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bock, H., Adrian Jäggi, Ulrich Meyer, et al.. (2010). Rapid and Precise Orbit Determination for the GOCE Satellite. EGUGA. 8347. 5 indexed citations

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Flechtner, Frank, Roland Schmidt, Ulrich Meyer, et al.. (2006). The Benefit of Eigen Gravity Field Models for Altimetry and Vice Versa. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 614. 57. 6 indexed citations

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Förste, Christoph, et al.. (2000). Superconducting Gravimeter Data from Sutherland - Level 1. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 4 indexed citations

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