Daniel Farinotti

11.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
107 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Daniel Farinotti is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Farinotti has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Atmospheric Science, 27 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 24 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Daniel Farinotti's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (97 papers), Climate change and permafrost (66 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (31 papers). Daniel Farinotti is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (97 papers), Climate change and permafrost (66 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (31 papers). Daniel Farinotti collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Belgium. Daniel Farinotti's co-authors include Matthias Huss, Andreas Bauder, Martin Funk, Harry Zekollari, Doris Duethmann, Sergiy Vorogushyn, Fabien Maussion, Johannes Landmann, Horst Machguth and Johannes J. Fürst and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Farinotti

99 papers receiving 5.7k 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.

  1. A consensus estimate for the ice thickness distribution of all glaciers on Earth
    2019 505 citations Daniel Farinotti, Matthias Huss et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  2. Substantial glacier mass loss in the Tien Shan over the past 50 years
    2015 349 citations Daniel Farinotti et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  3. Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters
    2023 284 citations David R. Rounce, Regine Hock et al. Science profile →
  4. Massive collapse of two glaciers in western Tibet in 2016 after surge-like instability
    2018 236 citations Andreas Kääb, Étienne Berthier et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  5. Manifestations and mechanisms of the Karakoram glacier Anomaly
    2020 235 citations Daniel Farinotti, Amaury Dehecq et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  6. Oceanic climate changes threaten the sustainability of Asia’s water tower
    2023 92 citations Qiang Zhang, Zexi Shen et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Daniel Farinotti 4.8k 1.3k 1.0k 951 825 107 5.8k
Yves Arnaud 5.8k 1.2× 750 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 890 0.9× 1.0k 1.2× 65 6.3k
Martin Hoelzle 6.5k 1.3× 527 0.4× 766 0.7× 1.9k 2.0× 714 0.9× 147 6.9k
Frank Paul 7.4k 1.6× 528 0.4× 1.1k 1.0× 1.6k 1.7× 1.1k 1.4× 102 8.2k
Simon Gascoin 2.7k 0.6× 965 0.8× 1.2k 1.2× 654 0.7× 263 0.3× 156 3.7k
Georg Kaser 6.8k 1.4× 822 0.6× 1.9k 1.9× 783 0.8× 936 1.1× 91 7.8k
F. Paul 4.8k 1.0× 457 0.4× 956 0.9× 891 0.9× 734 0.9× 42 5.4k
Matthias Huss 10.5k 2.2× 2.3k 1.8× 2.1k 2.0× 2.1k 2.2× 2.2k 2.6× 212 12.2k
Michael Zemp 3.4k 0.7× 339 0.3× 751 0.7× 666 0.7× 731 0.9× 65 4.1k
Martin Funk 4.5k 0.9× 631 0.5× 513 0.5× 1.4k 1.4× 1.1k 1.3× 105 4.8k
Patrick Wagnon 5.1k 1.1× 514 0.4× 1.2k 1.2× 731 0.8× 1.0k 1.3× 109 5.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Farinotti

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Farinotti

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

All Works

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Zekollari, Harry, Matthias Huss, David R. Rounce, et al.. (2025). Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century. Nature Climate Change. 16(2). 143–147.
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Bauder, Andreas, Mauro Werder, Mylène Jacquemart, et al.. (2025). Subglacial cavity collapses on Swiss glaciers: Spatiotemporal distribution and mass loss contribution. Journal of Glaciology. 71.
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Zhang, Qiang, Zexi Shen, Yadu Pokhrel, et al.. (2023). Oceanic climate changes threaten the sustainability of Asia’s water tower. Nature. 615(7950). 87–93. 92 indexed citations breakdown →
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Manen, Dirk‐Jan van, Hansruedi Maurer, Ludovic Räss, et al.. (2023). Ground penetrating radar in temperate ice: englacial water inclusions as limiting factor for data interpretation. Journal of Glaciology. 1–12. 7 indexed citations
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Rounce, David R., Regine Hock, Fabien Maussion, et al.. (2023). Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters. Science. 379(6627). 78–83. 284 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dehecq, Amaury, Romain Hugonnet, Elias Hodel, et al.. (2022). Halving of Swiss glacier volume since 1931 observed from terrestrial image photogrammetry. ˜The œcryosphere. 16(8). 3249–3268. 14 indexed citations
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Gräff, Dominik, et al.. (2022). Hydraulic Conditions for Stick‐Slip Tremor Beneath an Alpine Glacier. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(21). 8 indexed citations
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Walter, Fabian, Elias Hodel, Kristen Cook, et al.. (2022). Brief communication: An autonomous UAV for catchment-wide monitoring of a debris flow torrent. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(12). 4011–4018. 7 indexed citations
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Hugonnet, Romain, Fanny Brun, Étienne Berthier, et al.. (2022). Uncertainty Analysis of Digital Elevation Models by Spatial Inference From Stable Terrain. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 15. 6456–6472. 47 indexed citations
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Hugonnet, Romain, Robert McNabb, Étienne Berthier, et al.. (2021). Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century. Nature. 592(7856). 726–731. 17 indexed citations
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Gräff, Dominik, et al.. (2021). Fine Structure of Microseismic Glacial Stick‐Slip. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(22). 12 indexed citations
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Frey, Holger, Matthias Huss, Simon Allen, et al.. (2021). A global inventory of potential future glacial lakes.
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Welty, Ethan, Michael Zemp, Francisco Navarro, et al.. (2020). Worldwide version-controlled database of glacier thickness observations. Earth system science data. 12(4). 3039–3055. 47 indexed citations
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Buoncristiani, Jean‐François, Benjamin Pohl, Harry Zekollari, et al.. (2020). The impact of climate change and glacier mass loss on the hydrology in the Mont-Blanc massif. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 10420–10420. 33 indexed citations
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Hugonnet, Romain, Robert McNabb, Étienne Berthier, et al.. (2020). A globally complete, spatially and temporally resolved estimate of glacier mass change: 2000 to 2019. 2 indexed citations
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Brunner, Manuela I., Daniel Farinotti, Harry Zekollari, Matthias Huss, & Massimiliano Zappa. (2019). Future shifts in extreme flow regimes in Alpine regions. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(11). 4471–4489. 62 indexed citations
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Farinotti, Daniel, Matthias Huss, Johannes J. Fürst, et al.. (2019). A consensus estimate for the ice thickness distribution of all glaciers on Earth. Nature Geoscience. 12(3). 168–173. 505 indexed citations breakdown →

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