Frank Wilhelms

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Frank Wilhelms is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Wilhelms has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Atmospheric Science, 20 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 20 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Frank Wilhelms's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (74 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (44 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (21 papers). Frank Wilhelms is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (74 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (44 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (21 papers). Frank Wilhelms collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Denmark. Frank Wilhelms's co-authors include Heinrich Miller, Olaf Eisen, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Hubertus Fischer, Hans Oerter, Daniel Steinhage, J. Kipfstuhl, Johannes Freitag, Uwe Nixdorf and Marcus Christl 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

Frank Wilhelms

89 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

9,400 years of cosmic radiation and solar activity from ice cores and tree rings

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frank Wilhelms Germany	30	2.8k	556	475	463	357	95	3.1k
Hans Oerter Germany	29	2.5k 0.9×	309 0.6×	532 1.1×	361 0.8×	417 1.2×	91	3.0k
D. L. Morse United States	27	2.8k 1.0×	623 1.1×	800 1.7×	780 1.7×	223 0.6×	57	3.1k
Massimo Frezzotti Italy	39	3.8k 1.4×	356 0.6×	1.1k 2.2×	671 1.4×	779 2.2×	117	4.4k
Sepp Kipfstuhl Germany	37	3.8k 1.4×	479 0.9×	679 1.4×	490 1.1×	727 2.0×	139	4.3k
Pippa L. Whitehouse United Kingdom	31	2.8k 1.0×	443 0.8×	419 0.9×	653 1.4×	261 0.7×	72	3.4k
Lev Tarasov Canada	36	3.8k 1.4×	485 0.9×	497 1.0×	213 0.5×	428 1.2×	123	4.4k
Okitsugu Watanabe Japan	27	2.7k 1.0×	356 0.6×	644 1.4×	420 0.9×	463 1.3×	167	3.0k
Edwin D. Waddington United States	38	5.2k 1.9×	1.1k 2.0×	1.0k 2.2×	1.0k 2.3×	441 1.2×	125	5.5k
Niels Reeh Denmark	38	5.1k 1.8×	824 1.5×	589 1.2×	782 1.7×	706 2.0×	135	5.4k
J. L. Fastook United States	30	2.2k 0.8×	387 0.7×	235 0.5×	353 0.8×	181 0.5×	102	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Wilhelms

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Wilhelms

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Gkinis, Vasileios, et al.. (2025). Assessment of continuous flow analysis (CFA) for high-precision profiles of water isotopes in snow cores. The cryosphere. 19(3). 1067–1083. 1 indexed citations

Weikusat, Ilka, Daniela Jansen, Paul D. Bons, et al.. (2025). Linking crystallographic orientation and ice stream dynamics: evidence from the EastGRIP ice core. The cryosphere. 19(9). 3805–3830. 1 indexed citations

Bagherzadeh, Faramarz, Johannes Freitag, Udo Frese, & Frank Wilhelms. (2024). Resolution enhancement and segmentation of polar bubbly ice micro CT scans via 3D convolutional neural network. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 23. 100193–100193. 1 indexed citations

Hofstede, Coen, Frank Wilhelms, Niklas Neckel, et al.. (2023). The Subglacial Lake That Wasn't There: Improved Interpretation From Seismic Data Reveals a Sediment Bedform at Isunnguata Sermia. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 128(10). 1 indexed citations

Cook, Eliza, Peter M Abbott, Nicholas J.G. Pearce, et al.. (2022). Volcanism and the Greenland ice cores: A new tephrochronological framework for the last glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT) based on cryptotephra deposits in three ice cores. Quaternary Science Reviews. 292. 107596–107596. 12 indexed citations

Franke, Steven, Daniela Jansen, Tobias Binder, et al.. (2022). Airborne ultra-wideband radar sounding over the shear margins and along flow lines at the onset region of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream. Earth system science data. 14(2). 763–779. 18 indexed citations

Franke, Steven, Daniela Jansen, Tobias Binder, et al.. (2021). Airborne ultra-wideband radar sounding over the shear margins and along flow lines at the onset region of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream. Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations

Smith, Emma C., Tore Hattermann, Gerhard Kühn, et al.. (2020). Detailed Seismic Bathymetry Beneath Ekström Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Implications for Glacial History and Ice‐Ocean Interaction. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(10). 17 indexed citations

Schrod, Jann, Maria Hörhold, Tobias Erhardt, et al.. (2020). Ice-nucleating particle concentrations of the past: insights from a 600-year-old Greenland ice core. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(21). 12459–12482. 8 indexed citations

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Freitag, Johannes, et al.. (2020). A dual-tube sampling technique for snowpack studies. Journal of Glaciology. 67(261). 84–90. 1 indexed citations

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Jansen, Daniela, Ilka Weikusat, Thomas Kleiner, et al.. (2017). In situ-measurement of ice deformation from repeated borehole logging of the EPICA Dronning Maud Land (EDML) ice core, East Antarctica.. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 16368. 1 indexed citations

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Wal, Roderik S. W. van de, C. J. P. P. Smeets, W. Boot, et al.. (2015). Self-regulation of ice flow varies across the ablation area in south-west Greenland. The cryosphere. 9(2). 603–611. 81 indexed citations

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Drews, Reinhard, Olaf Eisen, Ilka Weikusat, et al.. (2009). Layer disturbances and the radio-echo free zone in ice sheets. The cryosphere. 3(2). 195–203. 71 indexed citations

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Ruth, Urs, J. Beer, Matthias Bigler, et al.. (2007). "EDML1": a chronology for the EPICA deep ice core from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, over the last 150 000 years. Climate of the past. 3(3). 475–484. 116 indexed citations

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Eisen, Olaf, Ilka Hamann, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Daniel Steinhage, & Frank Wilhelms. (2007). Direct evidence for continuous radar reflector originating from changes in crystal-orientation fabric. The cryosphere. 1(1). 1–10. 70 indexed citations

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Wilhelms, Frank, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Sérgio H. Faria, et al.. (2006). Physical properties of ice sheets implications for, and findings from deep ice core drilling. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations

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Wolff, Eric, Hubertus Fischer, Philippe Huybrechts, et al.. (2004). 8 glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 166 indexed citations

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Sommer, Stefan, Christof Appenzeller, Regine Röthlisberger, et al.. (2000). Glacio-chemical study covering the past 2 kyr on three ice cores from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica 1. annually resolved accumulation rates. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 2 indexed citations

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Gundestrup, N., et al.. (2000). Sticking deep ice core drills: Why and how to recover. Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research. Special issue. 56(56). 181–195. 11 indexed citations

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Oerter, Hans, et al.. (1999). Continuous density log of a 181 metre long ice core from the summit of Berkner Island, Antarctica. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations

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