Helfried Scheifinger

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Helfried Scheifinger is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Helfried Scheifinger has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Helfried Scheifinger's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (10 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers). Helfried Scheifinger is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (10 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (7 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (5 papers). Helfried Scheifinger collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Helfried Scheifinger's co-authors include Annette Menzel, Rein Ahas, Nicole Estrella, Wolfgang Papesch, K. Froehlich, Martin Králík, D. Rank, Willibald Stichler, Anto Aasa and Violetta Fedotova and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Scientific Reports and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Helfried Scheifinger

29 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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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.

Climate change fingerprints in recent European plant phenology

2020 245 citations Annette Menzel, Ye Yuan et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Helfried Scheifinger Austria	16	970	641	635	405	337	29	1.8k
Edmund C. February South Africa	24	1.3k 1.4×	665 1.0×	449 0.7×	114 0.3×	353 1.0×	71	2.2k
Troy W. Ocheltree United States	25	1.2k 1.3×	538 0.8×	359 0.6×	193 0.5×	548 1.6×	51	2.1k
Jennifer Velez United States	4	1.7k 1.7×	531 0.8×	1.0k 1.6×	165 0.4×	134 0.4×	5	2.3k
Howard E. Epstein United States	17	748 0.8×	909 1.4×	327 0.5×	144 0.4×	208 0.6×	20	1.7k
Hendrik Davi France	28	1.4k 1.4×	773 1.2×	640 1.0×	253 0.6×	619 1.8×	64	2.3k
Javier E. Silva‐Espejo Peru	22	1.5k 1.5×	585 0.9×	326 0.5×	162 0.4×	298 0.9×	24	2.2k
Rütger Rollenbeck Germany	21	663 0.7×	260 0.4×	464 0.7×	119 0.3×	119 0.4×	43	1.3k
Julieta N. Aranibar Argentina	23	579 0.6×	559 0.9×	455 0.7×	49 0.1×	283 0.8×	48	1.7k
Chung‐Te Chang Taiwan	21	453 0.5×	410 0.6×	263 0.4×	97 0.2×	156 0.5×	58	1.2k
Veiko Lehsten Sweden	24	844 0.9×	348 0.5×	364 0.6×	111 0.3×	136 0.4×	49	1.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schirpke, Uta, Erich Tasser, Stefan Borsky, et al.. (2023). Past and future impacts of land-use changes on ecosystem services in Austria. Journal of Environmental Management. 345. 118728–118728. 61 indexed citations

Ye, Yongchang, Xiaoyang Zhang, Yu Shen, et al.. (2022). An optimal method for validating satellite-derived land surface phenology using in-situ observations from national phenology networks. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 194. 74–90. 18 indexed citations

Dörler, Daniel, Johann G. Zaller, Helfried Scheifinger, et al.. (2021). Predicting spring migration of two European amphibian species with plant phenology using citizen science data. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 21611–21611. 2 indexed citations

Tian, Feng, Zhanzhang Cai, Hongxiao Jin, et al.. (2021). Calibrating vegetation phenology from Sentinel-2 using eddy covariance, PhenoCam, and PEP725 networks across Europe. Remote Sensing of Environment. 260. 112456–112456. 95 indexed citations

Scheifinger, Helfried, et al.. (2021). PEP725 a European phenological database. 1 indexed citations

Clot, Bernard, Stefan Gilge, Donát Magyar, et al.. (2020). The EUMETNET AutoPollen programme: establishing a prototype automatic pollen monitoring network in Europe. Aerobiologia. 40(1). 3–11. 32 indexed citations

Menzel, Annette, Ye Yuan, Michael Matiu, et al.. (2020). Climate change fingerprints in recent European plant phenology. Global Change Biology. 26(4). 2599–2612. 245 indexed citations breakdown →

Tiefenbrunner, W., et al.. (2019). Modelling time‐varying low‐temperature‐induced mortality rates for pupae of Tuta absoluta (Gelechiidae, Lepidoptera). Journal of Applied Entomology. 143(10). 1143–1153. 9 indexed citations

Templ, Barbara, Elisabeth Koch, Kjell Bolmgren, et al.. (2018). Pan European Phenological database (PEP725): a single point of access for European data. International Journal of Biometeorology. 62(6). 1109–1113. 182 indexed citations

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Scheifinger, Helfried & Barbara Templ. (2016). Is Citizen Science the Recipe for the Survival of Paper-Based Phenological Networks in Europe?. BioScience. 66(7). 533–534. 8 indexed citations

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Froehlich, K., Martin Králík, Wolfgang Papesch, et al.. (2008). Deuterium excess in precipitation of Alpine regions – moisture recycling. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies. 44(1). 61–70. 332 indexed citations

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Scheifinger, Helfried, Elisabeth Koch, & Hans Winkler. (2005). Results of a first look into the Austrian animal phenological records. Meteorologische Zeitschrift. 14(2). 203–209. 4 indexed citations

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Matulla, Christoph, Helfried Scheifinger, Annette Menzel, & E. Koch. (2003). Exploring two methods for statistical downscaling of Central European phenological time series. International Journal of Biometeorology. 48(2). 56–64. 21 indexed citations

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Menzel, Annette, Gert Jakobi, Rein Ahas, Helfried Scheifinger, & Nicole Estrella. (2003). Variations of the climatological growing season (1951–2000) in Germany compared with other countries. International Journal of Climatology. 23(7). 793–812. 152 indexed citations

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Ahas, Rein, Anto Aasa, Annette Menzel, Violetta Fedotova, & Helfried Scheifinger. (2002). Changes in European spring phenology. International Journal of Climatology. 22(14). 1727–1738. 216 indexed citations

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Lexer, Manfred J., Karl Hönninger, Helfried Scheifinger, et al.. (2002). The sensitivity of Austrian forests to scenarios of climatic change: a large-scale risk assessment based on a modified gap model and forest inventory data. Forest Ecology and Management. 162(1). 53–72. 80 indexed citations

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Scheifinger, Helfried, et al.. (2002). Atmospheric mechanisms governing the spatial and temporal variability of phenological phases in central Europe. International Journal of Climatology. 22(14). 1739–1755. 89 indexed citations

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Scheifinger, Helfried & Helga Kromp-Kolb. (2000). Modelling global radiation in complex terrain: comparing two statistical approaches. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 100(2-3). 127–136. 11 indexed citations

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Scheifinger, Helfried & Gerhard Held. (1997). Aerosol behaviour on the South African highveld. Atmospheric Environment. 31(21). 3497–3509. 14 indexed citations

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Stohl, A. & Helfried Scheifinger. (1994). Eine Wetterlagenklassifikation mittels Trajektorienclusterung. Meteorologische Zeitschrift. 3(6). 333–336. 12 indexed citations

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