Dorothea Frank

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Dorothea Frank is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Dorothea Frank has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 3 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Dorothea Frank's work include Climate variability and models (6 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (3 papers). Dorothea Frank is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (6 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (5 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (3 papers). Dorothea Frank collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Dorothea Frank's co-authors include Markus Reichstein, Miguel D. Mahecha, Jakob Zscheischler, Christian Beer, Pete Smith, Michael Bahn, Philippe Ciais, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Sara Vicca and David Frank and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Dorothea Frank

12 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

2013 1.4k citations Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dorothea Frank Germany	8	1.3k	524	426	323	260	12	1.8k
Andrew M. S. McMillan New Zealand	20	1.0k 0.8×	447 0.9×	429 1.0×	249 0.8×	279 1.1×	27	1.6k
Cate Macinnis‐Ng New Zealand	28	1.2k 0.9×	533 1.0×	462 1.1×	508 1.6×	180 0.7×	67	2.0k
Yanzheng Yang China	21	897 0.7×	289 0.6×	571 1.3×	362 1.1×	294 1.1×	89	1.6k
S. E. Bush United States	19	1.1k 0.8×	593 1.1×	259 0.6×	344 1.1×	108 0.4×	38	1.4k
Jun Du China	23	949 0.7×	373 0.7×	489 1.1×	192 0.6×	314 1.2×	61	1.9k
Haicheng Zhang China	24	945 0.7×	341 0.7×	739 1.7×	265 0.8×	489 1.9×	49	1.8k
Angelo Nolè Italy	21	1.2k 0.9×	556 1.1×	374 0.9×	548 1.7×	155 0.6×	29	1.7k
Mingkui Cao China	24	1.8k 1.3×	594 1.1×	992 2.3×	257 0.8×	428 1.6×	31	2.5k
James M. Sulzman United States	7	690 0.5×	401 0.8×	431 1.0×	206 0.6×	494 1.9×	8	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Dorothea Frank

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dorothea Frank

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dorothea Frank

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

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Reichstein, Markus, Gustau Camps‐Valls, Felix Creutzig, et al.. (2025). Early warning of complex climate risk with integrated artificial intelligence. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2564–2564. 14 indexed citations

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Bastos, Ana, Sebastian Sippel, Dorothea Frank, et al.. (2023). A joint framework for studying compound ecoclimatic events. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 4(5). 333–350. 40 indexed citations

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Ward, Philip J., et al.. (2023). Quantifying impact-relevant heatwave durations. Environmental Research Letters. 18(10). 104005–104005. 9 indexed citations

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Brenning, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Official heat warnings miss situations with a detectable societal heat response in European countries. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 100. 104206–104206. 4 indexed citations

5.

Guenther, Lars, Markus Reichstein, Dorothea Frank, et al.. (2023). Societal Attention to Heat Waves Can Indicate Public Health Impacts. Weather Climate and Society. 15(3). 557–569. 8 indexed citations

6.

Reichstein, Markus, Felix Riede, & Dorothea Frank. (2021). More floods, fires and cyclones — plan for domino effects on sustainability goals. Nature. 592(7854). 347–349. 68 indexed citations

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Sippel, Sebastian, Markus Reichstein, Xuanlong Ma, et al.. (2018). Drought, Heat, and the Carbon Cycle: a Review. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 4(3). 266–286. 188 indexed citations

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Reichstein, Markus, Michael Bahn, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2013). Climate extremes and the carbon cycle. Nature. 500(7462). 287–295. 1443 indexed citations breakdown →

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Poulter, Benjamin, Dorothea Frank, E. L. Hodson, & Niklaus E. Zimmermann. (2011). Impacts of land cover and climate data selection on understanding terrestrial carbon dynamics and the CO ₂ airborne fraction. 3 indexed citations

10.

Frank, Dorothea. (2003). Patientenaufklärung – aktueller Stand der Rechtssprechung. Fuß & Sprunggelenk. 1(4). 296–297. 1 indexed citations

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Frank, Dorothea, et al.. (1997). Impactos de las plantaciones de pino oregón sobre la vegetación y el suelo en la zona centro-sur de Chile. Revista chilena de historia natural. 70(2). 191–211. 16 indexed citations

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Frank, Dorothea, et al.. (1965). Kinetische Gleichungen und Integrabilitätsbedingung im Vielzeitenformalismus. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A. 20(1). 147–152b. 1 indexed citations

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