Ilan Koren

15.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
194 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Ilan Koren is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilan Koren has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 134 papers in Atmospheric Science and 43 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Ilan Koren's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (137 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (108 papers) and Aeolian processes and effects (43 papers). Ilan Koren is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (137 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (108 papers) and Aeolian processes and effects (43 papers). Ilan Koren collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and France. Ilan Koren's co-authors include Yoram J. Kaufman, L. A. Remer, Orit Altaratz, J. Vanderlei Martins, Yinon Rudich, Graham Feingold, Daniel Rosenfeld, Guy Dagan, D. Tanré and E. Hirsch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ilan Koren

186 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global aerosol climatology from the MODIS satellite sensors

2008 656 citations Ilan Koren et al. profile →
Measurement of the Effect of Amazon Smoke on Inhibition of Cloud Formation

2004 547 citations Ilan Koren et al. Science profile →
Dust transport and deposition observed from the Terra‐Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) spacecraft over the Atlantic Ocean

2005 514 citations Ilan Koren et al. profile →
The effect of smoke, dust, and pollution aerosol on shallow cloud development over the Atlantic Ocean

2005 510 citations Ilan Koren, Yinon Rudich et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ilan Koren Israel	49	7.9k	7.7k	1.3k	678	450	194	9.6k
Charles S. Zender United States	47	7.4k 0.9×	8.8k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.6×	639 1.4×	123	10.8k
Michael Schulz Germany	53	8.8k 1.1×	9.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	1.9k 2.8×	434 1.0×	221	12.3k
Peter Knippertz Germany	51	7.4k 0.9×	7.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.4×	444 0.7×	170 0.4×	207	8.3k
Hongbin Yu United States	43	5.8k 0.7×	5.8k 0.8×	570 0.4×	1.1k 1.6×	311 0.7×	100	6.9k
Jim Haywood United Kingdom	61	12.3k 1.6×	12.1k 1.6×	834 0.6×	2.1k 3.1×	223 0.5×	226	14.2k
Jasper F. Kok United States	43	3.7k 0.5×	4.9k 0.6×	3.7k 2.8×	547 0.8×	419 0.9×	114	7.2k
C. A. Hostetler United States	45	7.0k 0.9×	6.5k 0.9×	379 0.3×	596 0.9×	333 0.7×	168	8.2k
Pinhas Alpert Israel	54	7.1k 0.9×	7.1k 0.9×	691 0.5×	723 1.1×	555 1.2×	241	9.9k
Emilio Cuevas Spain	40	4.2k 0.5×	5.0k 0.7×	542 0.4×	1.9k 2.8×	162 0.4×	191	6.6k
Corinna Hoose Germany	37	5.6k 0.7×	6.3k 0.8×	561 0.4×	1.4k 2.1×	264 0.6×	106	7.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ilan Koren

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ilan Koren

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ilan Koren

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Flores, J. Michel, et al.. (2025). Global Diurnal Sea Surface Temperature Variability and the Role of Ocean‐Atmosphere Interactions. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 130(8).

Lang‐Yona, Naama, et al.. (2024). Impact of airborne algicidal bacteria on marine phytoplankton blooms. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 4 indexed citations

Arieli, Y., et al.. (2024). The Role of the Toroidal Vortex in Cumulus Clouds' Entrainment and Mixing. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(14). 3 indexed citations

Arieli, Y., et al.. (2024). Distinct Mixing Regimes in Shallow Cumulus Clouds. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(2). 4 indexed citations

Schechner, Yoav Y., et al.. (2024). NeMF: Neural Microphysics Fields. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 47(9). 7218–7230. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Huan, Ilan Koren, & Orit Altaratz. (2023). Observed decreasing trend in the upper-tropospheric cloud top temperature. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 5 indexed citations

Liu, Huan, Ilan Koren, Orit Altaratz, & Mickaël D. Chekroun. (2023). Opposing trends of cloud coverage over land and ocean under global warming. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(11). 6559–6569. 11 indexed citations

Lang‐Yona, Naama, J. Michel Flores, Adriana Alberti, et al.. (2022). Terrestrial and marine influence on atmospheric bacterial diversity over the north Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 26 indexed citations

Koren, Ilan, et al.. (2022). Faint yet widespread glories reflect microphysics of marine clouds. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 5(1). 2 indexed citations

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Altaratz, Orit, et al.. (2021). The Environmental Conditions Behind the Formation of Small (subLCL) Clouds. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(23). 1 indexed citations

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Flores, J. Michel, Guillaume Bourdin, Alexander B. Kostinski, et al.. (2021). Diel cycle of sea spray aerosol concentration. Nature Communications. 12(1). 13 indexed citations

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Hirsch, E. & Ilan Koren. (2021). Record-breaking aerosol levels explained by smoke injection into the stratosphere. Science. 371(6535). 1269–1274. 92 indexed citations

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Trainic, Miri, J. Michel Flores, Iddo Pinkas, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere. Communications Earth & Environment. 2(1). 1 indexed citations

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Flores, J. Michel, Orit Altaratz, Guy Dagan, et al.. (2020). Sensitivity of warm clouds to large particles in measured marine aerosol size distributions – a theoretical study. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(23). 15297–15306. 7 indexed citations

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Koren, Ilan, et al.. (2020). Longwave radiative effect of the cloud twilight zone. Nature Geoscience. 13(10). 669–673. 25 indexed citations

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Trainic, Miri, J. Michel Flores, Iddo Pinkas, et al.. (2020). Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere. Communications Earth & Environment. 1(1). 209 indexed citations

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Хаин, А., et al.. (2019). Microphysical structure of non-precipitating warm cumulus: adiabatic processes vs entrainment and mixing. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Dagan, Guy, Ilan Koren, A. B. Kostinski, & Orit Altaratz. (2018). Organization and Oscillations in Simulated Shallow Convective Clouds. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 10(9). 2287–2299. 14 indexed citations

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Spierer, Oriel, et al.. (2014). Blinding Orbital Apex Syndrome due to Onodi Cell Mucocele. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2014. 1–3. 8 indexed citations

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Flores, J. Michel, R. Z. Bar-Or, Nir Bluvshtein, et al.. (2012). Absorbing aerosols at high relative humidity: linking hygroscopic growth to optical properties. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 12(12). 5511–5521. 85 indexed citations

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