Gustaf Hugelius

25.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
127 papers, 11.0k citations indexed

About

Gustaf Hugelius is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gustaf Hugelius has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 11.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Atmospheric Science, 38 papers in Ecology and 17 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Gustaf Hugelius's work include Climate change and permafrost (96 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (60 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (43 papers). Gustaf Hugelius is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (96 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (60 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (43 papers). Gustaf Hugelius collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Germany. Gustaf Hugelius's co-authors include Peter Kuhry, Charles D. Koven, Guido Grosse, Edward A. G. Schuur, David Olefeldt, Merritt R. Turetsky, David M. Lawrence, J. W. Harden, V. E. Romanovsky and A. David McGuire and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gustaf Hugelius

119 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

2015 2.5k citations Edward A. G. Schuur, J. W. Harden et al. profile →
Estimated stocks of circumpolar permafrost carbon with quantified uncertainty ranges and identified data gaps

2014 1.1k citations Gustaf Hugelius, Jens Strauß et al. Biogeosciences profile →
The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls

2017 809 citations Gustaf Hugelius et al. profile →
Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw

2020 576 citations Edward A. G. Schuur, Peter Kuhry et al. profile →
Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw

2020 405 citations Gustaf Hugelius, Sarah Chadburn et al. profile →
Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes

2016 405 citations Gustaf Hugelius, Peter Kuhry et al. Nature Communications profile →
An observation-based constraint on permafrost loss as a function of global warming

2017 316 citations Sarah Chadburn, Eleanor Burke et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

2019 285 citations Edward A. G. Schuur, Charles D. Koven et al. profile →

Peers

Gustaf Hugelius

ECOLO

GPC

Peter Kuhry Sweden

Bo Elberling Denmark

Charles D. Koven United States

James G. Bockheim United States

S. A. Zimov Russia

C. Tarnocai Canada

Susan M. Natali United States

Torben R. Christensen Sweden

V. E. Romanovsky United States

Robert G. Striegl United States

Peter Kuhry Sweden

Gustaf Hugelius

10.8k ×1.3

4.4k ×1.3

ECOLO

2.2k ×1.0

GPC

2.0k ×1.1

905 ×0.6

Citations per year, relative to Gustaf Hugelius Gustaf Hugelius (= 1×) peers Peter Kuhry

Countries citing papers authored by Gustaf Hugelius

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gustaf Hugelius

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gustaf Hugelius

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hugelius, Gustaf, et al.. (2026). Higher carbon storage in primary than secondary boreal forests in Sweden. Science. 391(6791). 1256–1261.

Xi, Yi, Philippe Ciais, Dan Zhu, et al.. (2025). Representing high-latitude deep carbon in the pre-industrial state of the ORCHIDEE-MICT land surface model (r8704). Geoscientific model development. 18(18). 6043–6062.

Xi, Yi, Chunjing Qiu, Yuan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Assessment of a tiling energy budget approach in a land surface model, ORCHIDEE-MICT (r8205). Geoscientific model development. 17(12). 4727–4754. 1 indexed citations

Gumbricht, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Mapping of peatlands in the forested landscape of Sweden using lidar-based terrain indices. Earth system science data. 15(8). 3473–3482. 6 indexed citations

Hugelius, Gustaf, et al.. (2023). Long‐term soil organic carbon changes after cropland conversion to grazed grassland in Southern Sweden. Soil Use and Management. 40(1). 5 indexed citations

Goeckede, Mathias, Bo Elberling, Susan M. Natali, et al.. (2023). Pan-Arctic soil element bioavailability estimations. Earth system science data. 15(3). 1059–1075. 7 indexed citations

Nauels, Alexander, Robert M. DeConto, Helen S. Findlay, et al.. (2022). Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere thresholds. Nature Climate Change. 13(1). 9–11. 6 indexed citations

Tanski, George, Victoria Martin, Julia Wagner, et al.. (2022). Dissolved organic matter characterization in soils and streams in a small coastal low-Arctic catchment. Biogeosciences. 19(12). 3073–3097. 22 indexed citations

Hartley, Iain P., et al.. (2021). Temperature effects on carbon storage are controlled by soil stabilisation capacities. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6713–6713. 110 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhen, Etienne Fluet‐Chouinard, Katherine Jensen, et al.. (2021). Development of the global dataset of Wetland Area and Dynamics for Methane Modeling (WAD2M). Earth system science data. 13(5). 2001–2023. 68 indexed citations

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Oh, Youmi, Qianlai Zhuang, Licheng Liu, et al.. (2020). Reduced net methane emissions due to microbial methane oxidation in a warmer Arctic. Nature Climate Change. 10(4). 317–321. 87 indexed citations

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Tanski, George, Victoria Martin, Julia Wagner, et al.. (2020). Landscape-driven carbon export from small coastal permafrost watersheds. 2 indexed citations

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Varney, Rebecca, Sarah Chadburn, Pierre Friedlingstein, et al.. (2020). A spatial emergent constraint on the sensitivity of soil carbon turnover to global warming. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5544–5544. 69 indexed citations

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Varney, Rebecca, Peter M. Cox, Sarah Chadburn, et al.. (2020). A spatial emergent constraint on the sensitivity of soil carbon turnover time to global warming. Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter). 1 indexed citations

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López–Blanco, Efrén, Jean‐François Exbrayat, Magnus Lund, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of terrestrial pan-Arctic carbon cycling using a data-assimilation system. Earth System Dynamics. 10(2). 233–255. 23 indexed citations

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Palmtag, Juri, et al.. (2019). Land cover and landform-based upscaling of soil organic carbon stocks on the Brøgger Peninsula, Svalbard. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 51(1). 40–57. 17 indexed citations

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Faucherre, Samuel, Christian Juncher Jørgensen, Daan Blok, et al.. (2018). Short and Long‐Term Controls on Active Layer and Permafrost Carbon Turnover Across the Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(2). 372–390. 24 indexed citations

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López–Blanco, Efrén, Jean‐François Exbrayat, Magnus Lund, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of terrestrial pan-Arctic carbon cycling using a data-assimilation system. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations

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Vonk, Jorien E., Tommaso Tesi, Lisa Bröder, et al.. (2017). Distinguishing between old and modern permafrost sources with compound-specific δ ² H analysis. 1 indexed citations

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Hugelius, Gustaf, Peter Kuhry, C. Tarnocai, & Tarmo Virtanen. (2009). Total Storage and Landscape Distribution of Soil Carbon in continuous permafrost terrain of the Central Canadian Arctic. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9573. 1 indexed citations

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