Gerhard Bönisch

12.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Gerhard Bönisch is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerhard Bönisch has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 12 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Gerhard Bönisch's work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (12 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (9 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 papers). Gerhard Bönisch is often cited by papers focused on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (12 papers), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (9 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 papers). Gerhard Bönisch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Gerhard Bönisch's co-authors include Peter Schlösser, Jens Kattge, Reinhold Bayer, Monika Rhein, Dorothea Bauch, Richard G. Fairbanks, Bernd Heinold, Kerstin Schepanski, Ina Tegen and Martin C. Todd and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Gerhard Bönisch

25 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

  1. Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf area
    2017 374 citations Sarah Greenwood, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gerhard Bönisch Germany 22 1.1k 985 616 496 378 25 2.2k
Gregory T. Pederson United States 26 1.7k 1.5× 1.9k 1.9× 337 0.5× 124 0.3× 236 0.6× 58 2.9k
Michio Kawamiya Japan 24 1.6k 1.4× 2.3k 2.3× 179 0.3× 177 0.4× 886 2.3× 77 3.3k
Thomas Raddatz Germany 30 2.2k 1.9× 3.2k 3.3× 319 0.5× 199 0.4× 313 0.8× 53 4.2k
Ramdane Alkama France 28 1.1k 1.0× 2.3k 2.3× 308 0.5× 130 0.3× 362 1.0× 45 3.1k
Michael Notaro United States 38 2.3k 2.0× 2.8k 2.8× 404 0.7× 165 0.3× 332 0.9× 91 3.9k
Raymond A. Assel United States 23 1.5k 1.3× 911 0.9× 531 0.9× 495 1.0× 579 1.5× 66 2.8k
Bent Vad Odgaard Denmark 29 1.8k 1.6× 174 0.2× 359 0.6× 472 1.0× 261 0.7× 69 2.6k
Noah Knowles United States 15 718 0.6× 898 0.9× 307 0.5× 124 0.3× 269 0.7× 34 1.8k
C. Cooper United Kingdom 4 1.5k 1.3× 1.8k 1.8× 114 0.2× 144 0.3× 575 1.5× 7 2.5k
Arnoud Boom United Kingdom 31 1.4k 1.2× 826 0.8× 317 0.5× 97 0.2× 139 0.4× 89 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Gerhard Bönisch

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerhard Bönisch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerhard Bönisch

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Greenwood, Sarah, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito, Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta, et al.. (2017). Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf area. Ecology Letters. 20(4). 539–553. 374 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tautenhahn, Susanne, et al.. (2017). Advances in flowering phenology across the Northern Hemisphere are explained by functional traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27(3). 310–321. 82 indexed citations
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Verheijen, Lieneke M., Rien Aerts, Gerhard Bönisch, Jens Kattge, & Peter M. van Bodegom. (2015). Variation in trait trade‐offs allows differentiation among predefined plant functional types: implications for predictive ecology. New Phytologist. 209(2). 563–575. 32 indexed citations
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Manning, Peter, Franciska T. de Vries, J. R. B. Tallowin, et al.. (2015). Simple measures of climate, soil properties and plant traits predict national‐scale grassland soil carbon stocks. Journal of Applied Ecology. 52(5). 1188–1196. 82 indexed citations
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Pietsch, Katherina A., Kiona Ogle, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, et al.. (2014). Global relationship of wood and leaf litter decomposability: the role of functional traits within and across plant organs. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 23(9). 1046–1057. 159 indexed citations
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Verheijen, Lieneke M., Victor Brovkin, Rien Aerts, et al.. (2013). Impacts of trait variation through observed trait–climate relationships on performance of an Earth system model: a conceptual analysis. Biogeosciences. 10(8). 5497–5515. 110 indexed citations
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Kattge, Jens, Kiona Ogle, Gerhard Bönisch, et al.. (2010). A generic structure for plant trait databases. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2(2). 202–213. 71 indexed citations
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Schepanski, Kerstin, Ina Tegen, Martin C. Todd, et al.. (2009). Meteorological processes forcing Saharan dust emission inferred from MSG‐SEVIRI observations of subdaily dust source activation and numerical models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 114(D10). 223 indexed citations
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Schepanski, Kerstin, Ina Tegen, Bernd Heinold, Gerhard Bönisch, & Andreas Macke. (2008). Meteorological processes forcing Saharan dust emission inferred from MSG-SEVIRI observations of sub-daily dust source activation. The EGU General Assembly. 6 indexed citations
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Smethie, William M., Peter Schlösser, Gerhard Bönisch, & Tom Sawyer Hopkins. (2000). Renewal and circulation of intermediate waters in the Canadian Basin observed on the SCICEX 96 cruise. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 105(C1). 1105–1121. 79 indexed citations
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Schlösser, Peter, Reinhold Bayer, Gerhard Bönisch, et al.. (1999). Pathways and mean residence times of dissolved pollutants in the ocean derived from transient tracers and stable isotopes. The Science of The Total Environment. 237-238. 15–30. 30 indexed citations
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Bönisch, Gerhard, Johan Blindheim, John L. Bullister, Peter Schlösser, & Douglas W.R. Wallace. (1997). Long‐term trends of temperature, salinity, density, and transient tracers in the central Greenland Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 102(C8). 18553–18571. 63 indexed citations
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Weppernig, R., et al.. (1997). Mass spectrometric measurement of helium isotopes and tritium. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 58 indexed citations
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Schlösser, Peter, Bernd Kromer, B. Ekwurzel, et al.. (1997). The first trans-Arctic 14C section: comparison of the mean ages of the deep waters in the Eurasian and Canadian basins of the Arctic Ocean. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 123(1-4). 431–437. 70 indexed citations
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Bönisch, Gerhard & Peter Schlösser. (1995). Deep water formation and exchange rates in the Greenland/Norwegian Seas and the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean derived from tracer balances. Progress In Oceanography. 35(1). 29–52. 66 indexed citations
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Schlösser, Peter, Gerhard Bönisch, Bernd Kromer, et al.. (1995). Mid-1980s distribution of tritium, 3He, 14C and 39Ar in the Greenland/Norwegian Seas and the Nansen Basin of the Arctic Ocean. Progress In Oceanography. 35(1). 1–28. 38 indexed citations
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Wallace, Douglas W.R., Peter Schlösser, Mikael Krysell, & Gerhard Bönisch. (1992). Halocarbon ratio and tritium/3He dating of water masses in the Nansen Basin, Arctic Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part A Oceanographic Research Papers. 39(2). S435–S458. 41 indexed citations
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Schlösser, Peter, Gerhard Bönisch, Monika Rhein, & Reinhold Bayer. (1991). Reduction of Deepwater Formation in the Greenland Sea During the 1980s: Evidence from Tracer Data. Science. 251(4997). 1054–1056. 153 indexed citations
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Michaelis, Walter, Gerhard Bönisch, Angela Jenisch, et al.. (1990). Methane and 3He anomalies related to submarine intraplate volcanic activities. 69. 117–127. 7 indexed citations
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