Elchin Jafarov

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Elchin Jafarov is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Elchin Jafarov has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Atmospheric Science, 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Elchin Jafarov's work include Climate change and permafrost (38 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (32 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (15 papers). Elchin Jafarov is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (38 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (32 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (15 papers). Elchin Jafarov collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Elchin Jafarov's co-authors include Kevin Schaefer, V. E. Romanovsky, S. S. Marchenko, Yasin Elshorbany, Eleanor Burke, Tingjun Zhang, Lin Liu, Kathrin Riemann‐Campe, Paul J. Young and Gail Whiteman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Elchin Jafarov

43 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements

2019 323 citations Dmitry Yumashev, Chris Hope et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elchin Jafarov United States	19	1.1k	271	238	178	138	48	1.7k
Jean‐Charles Gallet Norway	20	837 0.7×	287 1.1×	126 0.5×	78 0.4×	57 0.4×	46	1.2k
Jacopo Gabrieli Italy	24	833 0.7×	276 1.0×	385 1.6×	240 1.3×	23 0.2×	65	1.3k
Kalle Nordling Finland	8	1.1k 1.0×	694 2.6×	59 0.2×	312 1.8×	44 0.3×	23	1.7k
Elizabeth C. Weatherhead United States	21	1.5k 1.3×	1.3k 4.8×	238 1.0×	118 0.7×	29 0.2×	35	2.1k
Maya P. Bhatia Canada	16	1.2k 1.1×	120 0.4×	41 0.2×	647 3.6×	155 1.1×	26	2.1k
Scott Elliott United States	30	1.6k 1.4×	1.1k 4.2×	240 1.0×	219 1.2×	55 0.4×	104	2.7k
Joseph M. Cook United Kingdom	27	1.6k 1.4×	457 1.7×	65 0.3×	1.2k 6.9×	73 0.5×	58	2.3k
David McKee United Kingdom	26	196 0.2×	537 2.0×	56 0.2×	425 2.4×	41 0.3×	126	2.2k
Yasin Elshorbany United States	16	908 0.8×	429 1.6×	478 2.0×	49 0.3×	14 0.1×	31	1.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jafarov, Elchin, Hélène Genet, Velimir V. Vesselinov, et al.. (2025). Estimation of above- and below-ground ecosystem parameters for DVM-DOS-TEM v0.7.0 using MADS v1.7.3. Geoscientific model development. 18(12). 3857–3875.

Matthes, Heidrun, Sebastian Westermann, Christian Beer, et al.. (2025). Advances in Permafrost Representation: Biophysical Processes in Earth System Models and the Role of Offline Models. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 36(2). 302–318. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Wenjuan, Elchin Jafarov, Satish Karra, et al.. (2024). Open‐Source Anaerobic Digestion Modeling Platform, Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 Fast (ADM1F). Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 122(4). 792–803.

Jafarov, Elchin, Hélène Genet, Brendan M. Rogers, et al.. (2024). Exploring the interplay between soil thermal and hydrological changes and their impact on carbon fluxes in permafrost ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters. 19(7). 74003–74003. 2 indexed citations

Clark, Jason A., Elchin Jafarov, Ken D. Tape, Benjamin Jones, & Victor Stepanenko. (2022). Thermal modeling of three lakes within the continuous permafrost zone in Alaska using the LAKE 2.0 model. Geoscientific model development. 15(19). 7421–7448. 4 indexed citations

Jafarov, Elchin, et al.. (2022). The importance of freeze–thaw cycles for lateral tracer transport in ice-wedge polygons. The cryosphere. 16(3). 851–862. 5 indexed citations

Jafarov, Elchin, et al.. (2021). The importance of freeze/thaw cycles on lateral tracer transport in ice-wedge polygons. 1 indexed citations

Andresen, Christian, David M. Lawrence, Cathy J. Wilson, et al.. (2020). Soil moisture and hydrology projections of the permafrost region – a model intercomparison. The cryosphere. 14(2). 445–459. 114 indexed citations

Jafarov, Elchin, D. R. Harp, Ethan T. Coon, et al.. (2020). Estimation of subsurface porosities and thermal conductivities of polygonal tundra by coupled inversion of electrical resistivity, temperature, and moisture content data. The cryosphere. 14(1). 77–91. 8 indexed citations

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Harp, D. R., Vitaly A. Zlotnik, Charles J. Abolt, et al.. (2020). New insights into the drainage of inundated Arctic polygonal tundra using fundamental hydrologic principles. 3 indexed citations

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Zlotnik, Vitaly A., D. R. Harp, Elchin Jafarov, & Charles J. Abolt. (2020). A Model of Ice Wedge Polygon Drainage in Changing Arctic Terrain. Water. 12(12). 3376–3376. 5 indexed citations

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Yumashev, Dmitry, Chris Hope, Kevin Schaefer, et al.. (2019). Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1900–1900. 323 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jafarov, Elchin, D. R. Harp, Ethan T. Coon, et al.. (2019). Estimation of soil properties by coupled inversion of electrical resistance, temperature, and moisture content data. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Kang, Elchin Jafarov, Irina Overeem, et al.. (2018). A synthesis dataset of permafrost-affected soil thermal conditions for Alaska, USA. Earth system science data. 10(4). 2311–2328. 23 indexed citations

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Overeem, Irina, et al.. (2017). Coupling of snow and permafrost processes using the Basic Modeling Interface (BMI). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Albert C., A. Parsekian, Kevin Schaefer, et al.. (2016). Ground-penetrating radar-derived measurements of active-layer thickness on the landscape scale with sparse calibration at Toolik and Happy Valley, Alaska. Geophysics. 81(2). H9–H19. 15 indexed citations

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Schaefer, Kevin & Elchin Jafarov. (2016). A parameterization of respiration in frozen soils based on substrate availability. Biogeosciences. 13(7). 1991–2001. 30 indexed citations

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Jafarov, Elchin & Kevin Schaefer. (2016). The importance of a surface organic layer in simulating permafrost thermal and carbon dynamics. The cryosphere. 10(1). 465–475. 39 indexed citations

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Jafarov, Elchin, S. S. Marchenko, & V. E. Romanovsky. (2012). Numerical modeling of permafrost dynamics in Alaska using a high spatial resolution dataset. The cryosphere. 6(3). 613–624. 164 indexed citations

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Jafarov, Elchin, S. S. Marchenko, & V. E. Romanovsky. (2012). Numerical modeling of permafrost dynamics in Alaska using a high spatial resolution dataset. 6 indexed citations

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