Frank Flechtner

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
121 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Frank Flechtner is a scholar working on Oceanography, Aerospace Engineering and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Flechtner has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Oceanography, 68 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 57 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Frank Flechtner's work include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (114 papers), GNSS positioning and interference (56 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (43 papers). Frank Flechtner is often cited by papers focused on Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (114 papers), GNSS positioning and interference (56 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (43 papers). Frank Flechtner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and China. Frank Flechtner's co-authors include Christoph Dahle, Christoph Förste, Franz Barthelmes, Roland Schmidt, R. Biancale, Karl-Hans Neumayer, Rolf König, Henryk Dobslaw, Sean Bruinsma and Ulrich Meyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Frank Flechtner

112 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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, Oleh Abrykosov et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Frank Flechtner	3.1k	1.5k	1.3k	1.3k	696	121	3.7k
R. Biancale	3.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	913 1.3×	85	4.3k
Ch. Reigber	2.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	2.1k 1.6×	1.2k 1.7×	78	4.5k
Shin‐Chan Han	2.3k 0.7×	885 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	980 0.8×	890 1.3×	105	3.1k
Minkang Cheng	2.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	783 0.6×	916 0.7×	617 0.9×	40	2.8k
Nikolaos K. Pavlis	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	898 0.7×	678 0.5×	1.0k 1.5×	32	3.5k
Jean‐Michel Lemoine	2.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	777 0.6×	898 0.7×	545 0.8×	71	2.6k
Roland Pail	2.8k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	784 0.6×	988 1.4×	173	3.4k
Sean Bruinsma	2.9k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.4×	3.7k 2.8×	1.1k 1.6×	136	5.6k
Benjamin F. Chao	3.0k 1.0×	823 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	912 1.3×	166	4.2k
Tonie van Dam	3.7k 1.2×	2.7k 1.8×	742 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.5×	129	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Flechtner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Flechtner

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Dahle, Christoph, Eva Boergens, Ingo Sasgen, et al.. (2025). GravIS: mass anomaly products from satellite gravimetry. Earth system science data. 17(2). 611–631. 1 indexed citations

Balidakis, Kyriakos, et al.. (2024). Accounting for residual errors in atmosphere–ocean background models applied in satellite gravimetry. Journal of Geodesy. 98(4). 5 indexed citations

Voigt, Christian, Henryk Dobslaw, A. Weise, et al.. (2024). Non‐Tidal Ocean Loading Signals of the North and Baltic Sea From Terrestrial Gravimetry, GNSS, and High‐Resolution Modeling. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(13).

Hart‐Davis, Michael, et al.. (2023). Satellite Gravity Field Recovery Using Variance‐Covariance Information From Ocean Tide Models. Earth and Space Science. 10(10). 3 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

Murböck, Michael, et al.. (2023). In-Orbit Performance of the GRACE Accelerometers and Microwave Ranging Instrument. Remote Sensing. 15(3). 563–563. 8 indexed citations

Boergens, Eva, Andreas Kvas, Annette Eicker, et al.. (2022). Uncertainties of GRACE‐Based Terrestrial Water Storage Anomalies for Arbitrary Averaging Regions. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 127(2). 23 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

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Boergens, Eva, Henryk Dobslaw, Robert Dill, et al.. (2020). Modelling spatial covariances for terrestrial water storage variations verified with synthetic GRACE-FO data. GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics. 11(1). 15 indexed citations

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Dobslaw, Henryk, Robert Dill, Meike Bagge, et al.. (2020). Gravitationally Consistent Mean Barystatic Sea Level Rise From Leakage‐Corrected Monthly GRACE Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 125(11). 27 indexed citations

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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

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Meyer, Ulrich, C. Dahle, Frank Flechtner, et al.. (2020). International Combination Service for Time-variable Gravity Fields (COST-G) Monthly GRACE-FO Series. 8 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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Dahle, Christoph, Frank Flechtner, Michael Murböck, et al.. (2019). GRACE-FO D-103919 (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On), GFZ Level-2 Processing Standards Document for Level-2 Product Release 06 (Rev. 1.0, June 3, 2019). GFZpublic. 5 indexed citations

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Gouweleeuw, Ben, Andreas Kvas, Christian Gruber, et al.. (2018). Daily GRACE gravity field solutions track major flood events in the Ganges–Brahmaputra Delta. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(5). 2867–2880. 66 indexed citations

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Dahle, Christoph, Frank Flechtner, Michael Murböck, et al.. (2018). GRACE-FO Geopotential GSM Coefficients GFZ RL06. 9 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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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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