Gregor Knorr

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Gregor Knorr is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregor Knorr has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Atmospheric Science, 32 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Gregor Knorr's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (74 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (32 papers) and Geological formations and processes (17 papers). Gregor Knorr is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (74 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (32 papers) and Geological formations and processes (17 papers). Gregor Knorr collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Gregor Knorr's co-authors include Gerrit Lohmann, S. Barker, I.R. Hall, Maryline J. Vautravers, Paula Diz, Xu Zhang, Xu Zhang, Xun Gong, Jennifer Pike and Luke C Skinner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gregor Knorr

77 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Interhemispheric Atlantic seesaw response during the last deglaciation

2009 419 citations S. Barker, Gregor Knorr et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gregor Knorr Germany	29	3.1k	1.1k	771	726	622	85	3.3k
Kerim H. Nisancioglu Norway	25	2.7k 0.9×	519 0.5×	606 0.8×	596 0.8×	411 0.7×	57	2.9k
Trond Dokken Norway	31	3.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	867 1.1×	911 1.3×	593 1.0×	53	3.6k
Mara Weinelt Germany	23	2.4k 0.8×	857 0.8×	981 1.3×	659 0.9×	668 1.1×	47	2.7k
Laurie Menviel Australia	34	3.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.3×	529 0.7×	885 1.4×	109	3.5k
Martin Butzin Germany	23	2.0k 0.6×	611 0.6×	1.0k 1.3×	480 0.7×	585 0.9×	55	2.9k
Mahyar Mohtadi Germany	32	2.7k 0.9×	732 0.7×	1.2k 1.5×	733 1.0×	750 1.2×	94	3.1k
Jón Eiríksson Iceland	36	3.1k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	937 1.2×	924 1.3×	833 1.3×	77	3.6k
Jun Cheng China	21	3.0k 1.0×	467 0.4×	797 1.0×	872 1.2×	389 0.6×	64	3.3k
Ulysses S. Ninnemann Norway	27	2.8k 0.9×	960 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	681 0.9×	843 1.4×	67	3.1k
L. C. Peterson United States	12	2.3k 0.7×	537 0.5×	860 1.1×	492 0.7×	571 0.9×	30	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Gregor Knorr

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gregor Knorr

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lamy, Frank, Nicoletta Ruggieri, Henrik Sadatzki, et al.. (2025). 790,000 years of millennial-scale Cape Horn Current variability and interhemispheric linkages. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3105–3105. 3 indexed citations

Abhik, S., Dietmar Dommenget, Shayne McGregor, et al.. (2025). Stronger and prolonged El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the Early Eocene warmth. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4053–4053.

Naik, T. N., Agatha M. de Boer, Helen K. Coxall, et al.. (2025). Miocene Ocean Gyre Circulation and Gateway Transports—MioMIP1 Ocean Intercomparison. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 40(12).

Alves, J., Cameren Swiggum, Josefa E. Großschedl, et al.. (2025). The Solar System’s passage through the Radcliffe wave during the middle Miocene. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 694. A167–A167. 2 indexed citations

Naik, T. N., Agatha M. de Boer, Helen K. Coxall, et al.. (2025). Ocean Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Early and Middle Miocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 40(4). 3 indexed citations

Scholz, Patrick, et al.. (2025). Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection. Nature Climate Change. 15(5). 521–527.

Niu, Lu, Gregor Knorr, Uta Krebs‐Kanzow, Paul Gierz, & Gerrit Lohmann. (2024). Rapid Laurentide Ice Sheet growth preceding the Last Glacial Maximum due to summer snowfall. Nature Geoscience. 17(5). 440–449. 5 indexed citations

Rackow, Thomas, et al.. (2024). A comprehensive Earth system model (AWI-ESM2.1) with interactive icebergs: effects on surface and deep-ocean characteristics. Geoscientific model development. 17(8). 3279–3301. 3 indexed citations

Knorr, Gregor, Wilfried Jokat, Gerrit Lohmann, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Different Atmospheric CO₂ Concentrations on Large Scale Miocene Temperature Signatures. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 38(2). 8 indexed citations

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Klemann, Volker, et al.. (2023). Evolution of Global Ocean Tide Levels Since the Last Glacial Maximum. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 38(5). 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yurui, Agatha M. de Boer, Daniel J. Lunt, et al.. (2022). Early Eocene Ocean Meridional Overturning Circulation: The Roles of Atmospheric Forcing and Strait Geometry. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 37(3). 26 indexed citations

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Hall, I.R., S. Barker, Thomas Rackow, et al.. (2021). Antarctic icebergs reorganize ocean circulation during Pleistocene glacials. Nature. 589(7841). 236–241. 39 indexed citations

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Knorr, Gregor, S. Barker, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2021). A salty deep ocean as a prerequisite for glacial termination. Nature Geoscience. 14(12). 930–936. 18 indexed citations

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Stap, Lennert B., Gregor Knorr, & Gerrit Lohmann. (2020). Anti‐Phased Miocene Ice Volume and CO₂ Changes by Transient Antarctic Ice Sheet Variability. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 35(11). 3 indexed citations

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Stap, Lennert B., Johannes Sutter, Gregor Knorr, Michael Stärz, & Gerrit Lohmann. (2019). Transient Variability of the Miocene Antarctic Ice Sheet Smaller Than Equilibrium Differences. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(8). 4288–4298. 12 indexed citations

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Gowan, Evan J., Lu Niu, Gregor Knorr, & Gerrit Lohmann. (2019). Geology datasets in North America, Greenland and surrounding areas for use with ice sheet models. Earth system science data. 11(1). 375–391. 16 indexed citations

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Gong, Xun, Lester Lembke‐Jene, Gerrit Lohmann, et al.. (2019). Enhanced North Pacific deep-ocean stratification by stronger intermediate water formation during Heinrich Stadial 1. Nature Communications. 10(1). 656–656. 42 indexed citations

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Huang, Xiaoxia, Michael Stärz, Karsten Gohl, Gregor Knorr, & Gerrit Lohmann. (2017). Impact of Weddell Sea shelf progradation on Antarctic bottom water formation during the Miocene. Paleoceanography. 32(3). 304–317. 23 indexed citations

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Stärz, Michael, Gerrit Lohmann, & Gregor Knorr. (2016). The effect of a dynamic soil scheme on the climate of the mid-Holocene and the Last Glacial Maximum. Climate of the past. 12(1). 151–170. 15 indexed citations

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Forrest, Matthew, Jussi T. Eronen, Torsten Utescher, et al.. (2015). Climate-vegetation modelling and fossil plant data suggest low atmospheric CO ₂ in the late Miocene. Climate of the past. 11(12). 1701–1732. 23 indexed citations

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