Hinrich Schaefer

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Hinrich Schaefer is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Hinrich Schaefer has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Atmospheric Science, 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 22 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Hinrich Schaefer's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (22 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers). Hinrich Schaefer is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (22 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers). Hinrich Schaefer collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Germany. Hinrich Schaefer's co-authors include S. E. Mikaloff Fletcher, Michael J. Whiticar, Edward J. Brook, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, V. V. Petrenko, Gordon Brailsford, Dave Lowe, Tony Bromley, Keith R. Lassey and Sylvia Michel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hinrich Schaefer

37 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

A 21st-century shift from fossil-fuel to biogenic methane emissions indicated by ¹³ CH ₄

2016 311 citations Hinrich Schaefer, S. E. Mikaloff Fletcher et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hinrich Schaefer United States	16	724	680	409	291	175	39	1.2k
A.K. Snover United States	13	368 0.5×	726 1.1×	180 0.4×	228 0.8×	76 0.4×	18	1.1k
Gordon Brailsford New Zealand	19	754 1.0×	1.0k 1.5×	331 0.8×	213 0.7×	201 1.1×	41	1.3k
David F. Pollard New Zealand	17	823 1.1×	797 1.2×	93 0.2×	118 0.4×	75 0.4×	46	1.2k
Angela F. Dickens United States	15	801 1.1×	438 0.6×	219 0.5×	329 1.1×	99 0.6×	24	1.4k
Stanley C. Tyler United States	23	909 1.3×	1.4k 2.0×	915 2.2×	575 2.0×	483 2.8×	28	2.1k
Albert S. Colman United States	22	465 0.6×	199 0.3×	259 0.6×	645 2.2×	59 0.3×	38	1.7k
Shuhui Zheng United States	7	476 0.7×	311 0.5×	179 0.4×	442 1.5×	47 0.3×	8	1.2k
Owen A. Sherwood Canada	25	482 0.7×	1.3k 1.9×	299 0.7×	1.1k 3.9×	308 1.8×	56	2.1k
L. R. Welp United States	21	1.2k 1.7×	1.9k 2.7×	98 0.2×	469 1.6×	58 0.3×	46	2.3k
Clayton Magill United Kingdom	13	923 1.3×	215 0.3×	164 0.4×	595 2.0×	140 0.8×	26	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hinrich Schaefer

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20 of 20 papers shown

Morgenstern, Olaf, Rowena Moss, Martin Manning, et al.. (2025). Radiocarbon monoxide indicates increasing atmospheric oxidizing capacity. Nature Communications. 16(1). 249–249. 7 indexed citations

Newell, Felicity L., María‐José Endara, Juan Ernesto Guevara, et al.. (2025). Reassembly of a tropical rainforest: A new chronosequence in the Chocó tested with the recovery of tree attributes. Ecosphere. 16(2). 6 indexed citations

Michel, Sylvia, Xin Lan, J. B. Miller, et al.. (2024). Rapid shift in methane carbon isotopes suggests microbial emissions drove record high atmospheric methane growth in 2020–2022. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(44). e2411212121–e2411212121. 11 indexed citations

Müller, Jörg, Zuzana Buřivalová, Nico Blüthgen, et al.. (2024). The impact of land use on the acoustic behaviour of cicadas in the Chocó lowland tropical forest of Ecuador. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 18(2). 177–190. 2 indexed citations

Vogel, Felix, et al.. (2022). Using carbon-14 and carbon-13 measurements for source attribution of atmospheric methane in the Athabasca oil sands region. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(3). 2121–2133. 5 indexed citations

Vogel, Felix, et al.. (2021). Using carbon-14 and carbon-13 measurements for source attribution of atmospheric methane in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region. 2 indexed citations

Schaefer, Hinrich. (2019). On the Causes and Consequences of Recent Trends in Atmospheric Methane. 5(4). 259–274. 40 indexed citations

Schaefer, Hinrich, Dan Smale, Tony Bromley, et al.. (2018). Limited impact of El Niño – Southern Oscillation on the methane cycle. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations

Schaefer, Hinrich, Dan Smale, Tony Bromley, et al.. (2018). Limited impact of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on variability and growth rate of atmospheric methane. Biogeosciences. 15(21). 6371–6386. 9 indexed citations

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Petrenko, V. V., Andrew Smith, Hinrich Schaefer, et al.. (2017). Minimal geological methane emissions during the Younger Dryas–Preboreal abrupt warming event. Nature. 548(7668). 443–446. 73 indexed citations

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Baggenstos, Daniel, Thomas Bauska, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, et al.. (2017). Atmospheric gas records from Taylor Glacier, Antarctica, reveal ancient ice with ages spanning the entire last glacial cycle. Climate of the past. 13(7). 943–958. 16 indexed citations

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Sperlich, Peter, Hinrich Schaefer, S. E. Mikaloff Fletcher, et al.. (2015). Carbon isotope ratios suggest no additional methane from boreal wetlands during the rapid Greenland Interstadial 21.2. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 29(11). 1962–1976. 7 indexed citations

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Schilt, A., Edward J. Brook, Thomas Bauska, et al.. (2014). Isotopic constraints on marine and terrestrial N2O emissions during the last deglaciation. Nature. 516(7530). 234–237. 34 indexed citations

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Sperlich, Peter, Mathieu Guillevic, Christo Buizert, et al.. (2012). A combustion setup to precisely reference δ ¹³ C and δ ² H isotope ratios of pure CH ₄ to produce isotope reference gases of δ ¹³ C-CH ₄ in synthetic air. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 5(9). 2227–2236. 7 indexed citations

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Melton, Joe R., Hinrich Schaefer, & Michael J. Whiticar. (2012). Enrichment in ¹³ C of atmospheric CH ₄ during the Younger Dryas termination. Climate of the past. 8(4). 1177–1197. 14 indexed citations

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Schaefer, Hinrich, A. Lourantou, J. Chappellaz, et al.. (2011). On the suitability of partially clathrated ice for analysis of concentration and δ13C of palaeo-atmospheric CO2. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 307(3-4). 334–340. 12 indexed citations

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Lassey, Keith R., Gordon Brailsford, A. M. Bromley, et al.. (2010). Recent changes in methane mixing ratio and its¹³C content observed in the southwest Pacific region. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences. 7(sup1). 109–117. 8 indexed citations

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Petrenko, V. V., Andrew Smith, Edward J. Brook, et al.. (2009). ¹⁴ CH ₄ Measurements in Greenland Ice: Investigating Last Glacial Termination CH ₄ Sources. Science. 324(5926). 506–508. 68 indexed citations

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Schaefer, Hinrich, Michael J. Whiticar, & Edward J. Brook. (2003). Changes in the Stable Carbon Isotope Composition of Methane at the end of the Younger Dryas. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 4 indexed citations

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Rudolph, M.G., et al.. (1994). Zur Problematik der Bewertung von Energieträgern und Energieumwandlungsprozessen. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen).

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