Christopher Reyer

12.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
75 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Christopher Reyer is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Reyer has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 37 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Christopher Reyer's work include Forest Management and Policy (30 papers), Forest ecology and management (26 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (23 papers). Christopher Reyer is often cited by papers focused on Forest Management and Policy (30 papers), Forest ecology and management (26 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (23 papers). Christopher Reyer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Christopher Reyer's co-authors include Giorgio Vacchiano, Petra Lasch‐Born, Rupert Seidl, Manfred J. Lexer, Michal Petr, Mikko Peltoniemi, Paola Mairota, Davide Ascoli, Dominik Thom and Markus Kautz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Reyer

72 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Forest disturbances under climate change

2017 1.8k citations Rupert Seidl, Dominik Thom et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Buildings as a global carbon sink

2020 615 citations Galina Churkina, Alan Organschi et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
Climate change and European forests: What do we know, what are the uncertainties, and what are the implications for forest management?

2014 471 citations Marcus Lindner, Joanne Fitzgerald et al. Journal of Environmental Management profile →
Land use change and carbon emissions of a transformation to timber cities

2022 168 citations Abhijeet Mishra, Florian Humpenöder et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Christopher Reyer	3.6k	2.2k	1.1k	966	727	75	5.8k
Rodney J. Keenan	4.0k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	399 0.4×	476 0.7×	145	6.0k
Marcus Lindner	6.1k 1.7×	3.5k 1.6×	1.8k 1.7×	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	128	9.0k
Matthias Bürgi	4.0k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	626 0.6×	248 0.3×	129	5.6k
Felix Kienast	4.5k 1.3×	2.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.7×	1.1k 1.2×	491 0.7×	152	7.9k
G.M.J. Mohren	3.6k 1.0×	3.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	885 0.9×	470 0.6×	141	5.7k
G.J. Nabuurs	6.1k 1.7×	3.9k 1.8×	1.9k 1.7×	1.2k 1.2×	1.5k 2.0×	176	9.1k
Manfred J. Lexer	5.8k 1.6×	4.2k 1.9×	1.9k 1.7×	1.2k 1.2×	678 0.9×	100	8.1k
Mart‐Jan Schelhaas	4.8k 1.3×	3.6k 1.6×	1.8k 1.6×	923 1.0×	681 0.9×	112	7.1k
Paulo Moutinho	4.5k 1.2×	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	393 0.4×	402 0.6×	59	6.7k
E. A. Howard	5.8k 1.6×	1.8k 0.8×	3.4k 3.1×	774 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	4	10.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Reyer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Reyer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Reyer

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Bosello, Francesco, Elisa Delpiazzo, Irene Monasterolo, et al.. (2025). Cascading socio-economic and financial impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war differ across sectors and regions. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Stevanović, Miodrag, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Jonathan Doelman, et al.. (2025). Future land-use pattern projections and their differences within the ISIMIP3b framework. Earth System Dynamics. 16(3). 753–801. 1 indexed citations

Reyer, Christopher, Thomas A. Nagel, Annikki Mäkelä, et al.. (2024). Reconciling the EU forest, biodiversity, and climate strategies. Global Change Biology. 30(8). e17431–e17431. 10 indexed citations

Swaminathan, Ranjini, Jacob Schewe, Jeremy Walton, et al.. (2024). Regional Impacts Poorly Constrained by Climate Sensitivity. Earth s Future. 12(12). 6 indexed citations

Park, Chae Yeon, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Shinichiro Fujimori, et al.. (2024). Attributing human mortality from fire PM2.5 to climate change. Nature Climate Change. 14(11). 1193–1200. 13 indexed citations

Hansen, Winslow D., Naomi B. Schwartz, Park Williams, et al.. (2022). Global forests are influenced by the legacies of past inter-annual temperature variability. mediaTUM (Technical University of Munich). 1(1). 11001–11001. 13 indexed citations

Gädeke, Anne, Moritz Langer, Julia Boike, et al.. (2021). Climate change reduces winter overland travel across the Pan-Arctic even under low-end global warming scenarios. Environmental Research Letters. 16(2). 24049–24049. 23 indexed citations

Shi, Hao, Hanqin Tian, Naiqing Pan, et al.. (2021). Saturation of Global Terrestrial Carbon Sink Under a High Warming Scenario. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(10). 22 indexed citations

Mishra, Abhijeet, Florian Humpenöder, Jan Philipp Dietrich, et al.. (2021). Estimating global land system impacts of timber plantations using MAgPIE 4.3.5. Geoscientific model development. 14(10). 6467–6494. 11 indexed citations

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Mishra, Abhijeet, Florian Humpenöder, Jan Philipp Dietrich, et al.. (2021). Estimating global land system impacts of timber plantations using MAgPIE 4.3.2. 1 indexed citations

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Lasch‐Born, Petra, Felicitas Suckow, Christopher Reyer, et al.. (2020). Description and evaluation of the process-based forest model 4C v2.2 at four European forest sites. Geoscientific model development. 13(11). 5311–5343. 16 indexed citations

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Churkina, Galina, Alan Organschi, Christopher Reyer, et al.. (2020). Buildings as a global carbon sink. Nature Sustainability. 3(4). 269–276. 615 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ruiz‐Benito, Paloma, Giorgio Vacchiano, Emily R. Lines, et al.. (2019). Available and missing data to model impact of climate change on European forests. Ecological Modelling. 416. 108870–108870. 50 indexed citations

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Collalti, Alessio, Carlo Trotta, Trevor F. Keenan, et al.. (2018). Thinning Can Reduce Losses in Carbon Use Efficiency and Carbon Stocks in Managed Forests Under Warmer Climate. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(10). 2427–2452. 56 indexed citations

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Gutsch, Martin, Petra Lasch‐Born, Chris Kollas, Felicitas Suckow, & Christopher Reyer. (2018). Balancing trade-offs between ecosystem services in Germany’s forests under climate change. Environmental Research Letters. 13(4). 45012–45012. 74 indexed citations

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Seidl, Rupert, Dominik Thom, Markus Kautz, et al.. (2017). Forest disturbances under climate change. Nature Climate Change. 7(6). 395–402. 1833 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rosenzweig, Cynthia, Nigel W. Arnell, Kristie L. Ebi, et al.. (2017). Assessing inter-sectoral climate change risks: the role of ISIMIP. Environmental Research Letters. 12(1). 10301–10301. 55 indexed citations

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Yousefpour, Rasoul, Christian Temperli, Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, et al.. (2017). A framework for modeling adaptive forest management and decision making under climate change. Ecology and Society. 22(4). 75 indexed citations

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Lasch‐Born, Petra, et al.. (2015). Economic analysis of carbon sequestration in beech stands in the context of forest management and climate change.. 186. 72–84. 1 indexed citations

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Lindner, Marcus, Joanne Fitzgerald, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, et al.. (2014). Climate change and European forests: What do we know, what are the uncertainties, and what are the implications for forest management?. Journal of Environmental Management. 146. 69–83. 471 indexed citations breakdown →

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