Ingo Fetzer

25.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
83 papers, 13.1k citations indexed

About

Ingo Fetzer is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ingo Fetzer has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 13.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 20 papers in Ecology and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ingo Fetzer's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (9 papers) and Climate variability and models (9 papers). Ingo Fetzer is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (9 papers) and Climate variability and models (9 papers). Ingo Fetzer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and Netherlands. Ingo Fetzer's co-authors include Johan Rockström, Sarah Cornell, Will Steffen, Katherine Richardson, Carl Folke, Dieter Gerten, Georgina M. Mace, Stephen R. Carpenter, Cynthia A. de Wit and Linn Persson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ingo Fetzer

79 papers receiving 12.5k 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.

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

2015 7.1k citations Will Steffen, Katherine Richardson et al. Science profile →
Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

2018 1.6k citations Will Steffen, Johan Rockström et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

2022 799 citations David I. Armstrong McKay, Arie Staal et al. Science profile →
Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries

2020 397 citations Dieter Gerten, Ingo Fetzer et al. profile →
A planetary boundary for green water

2022 179 citations Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Arne Tobian et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ingo Fetzer Germany	34	3.5k	2.4k	1.7k	1.6k	1.6k	83	13.1k
Sarah Cornell Sweden	38	4.6k 1.3×	2.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	2.3k 1.4×	2.0k 1.3×	101	15.9k
Reinette Biggs Sweden	31	4.5k 1.3×	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	1.9k 1.2×	58	12.7k
Katherine Richardson Denmark	45	5.4k 1.5×	3.8k 1.5×	1.7k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	148	17.6k
Jens Heinke Germany	34	4.8k 1.4×	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	69	13.0k
Linn Persson Sweden	12	1.9k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	23	8.5k
Sverker Sörlin Sweden	24	2.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	159	9.4k
Belinda Reyers South Africa	50	7.6k 2.2×	3.3k 1.4×	1.5k 0.9×	3.0k 1.8×	1.9k 1.2×	109	16.7k
Marshall Burke United States	50	4.9k 1.4×	1.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	3.1k 2.0×	129	16.9k
Other Australia	47	2.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	817 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	306	11.6k
Jason Hill United States	39	2.5k 0.7×	3.6k 1.5×	2.4k 1.4×	729 0.4×	698 0.4×	79	18.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Ingo Fetzer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ingo Fetzer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ingo Fetzer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ingo Fetzer 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 Ingo Fetzer. Ingo Fetzer 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

Pranindita, Agnes, Adriaan J. Teuling, Ingo Fetzer, & Lan Wang‐Erlandsson. (2025). Forests support global crop supply through atmospheric moisture transport. Nature Water. 3(11). 1243–1255.

Hahn, Thomas P., et al.. (2024). Estimating countries’ additional carbon accountability for closing the mitigation gap based on past and future emissions. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9707–9707. 11 indexed citations

Singh, Chandrakant, Ruud van der Ent, Ingo Fetzer, & Lan Wang‐Erlandsson. (2024). Multi-fold increase in rainforest tipping risk beyond 1.5–2 °C warming. Earth System Dynamics. 15(6). 1543–1565.

Tobian, Arne, Dieter Gerten, Ingo Fetzer, et al.. (2024). Climate change critically affects the status of the land-system change planetary boundary. Environmental Research Letters. 19(5). 54060–54060. 3 indexed citations

Fetzer, Ingo, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Fabian Stenzel, et al.. (2024). African rainforest moisture contribution to continental agricultural water consumption. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 346. 109867–109867. 8 indexed citations

Crona, Beatrice, et al.. (2023). Going beyond carbon: An "Earth System Impact" score to better capture corporate and investment impacts on the Earth system. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

McKay, David I. Armstrong, Arie Staal, Jesse F. Abrams, et al.. (2022). Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points. Science. 377(6611). eabn7950–eabn7950. 799 indexed citations breakdown →

Hileman, Jacob, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, María Mancilla García, et al.. (2021). An Earth system law perspective on governing social-hydrological systems in the Anthropocene. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 100120–100120. 14 indexed citations

Pranindita, Agnes, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Ingo Fetzer, & Adriaan J. Teuling. (2021). Moisture recycling and the potential role of forests as moisture source during European heatwaves. Climate Dynamics. 58(1-2). 609–624. 22 indexed citations

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Zipper, Samuel C., Fernando Jaramillo, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, et al.. (2020). Integrating the Water Planetary Boundary With Water Management From Local to Global Scales. Earth s Future. 8(2). e2019EF001377–e2019EF001377. 76 indexed citations

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Lade, Steven J., Jon Norberg, John M. Anderies, et al.. (2019). Potential feedbacks between loss of biosphere integrity and climate change. Global Sustainability. 2. 12 indexed citations

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Lade, Steven J., Jonathan F. Donges, Ingo Fetzer, et al.. (2018). Analytically tractable climate–carbon cycle feedbacks under 21st century anthropogenic forcing. Earth System Dynamics. 9(2). 507–523. 5 indexed citations

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Wang‐Erlandsson, Lan, Ingo Fetzer, Patrick Keys, et al.. (2018). Remote land use impacts on river flows through atmospheric teleconnections. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(8). 4311–4328. 95 indexed citations

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Fetzer, Ingo, et al.. (2016). Influence of dormancy on microbial competition under intermittent substrate supply: insights from model simulations. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 92(6). fiw071–fiw071. 11 indexed citations

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Steffen, Will, Katherine Richardson, Johan Rockström, et al.. (2015). Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science. 347(6223). 1259855–1259855. 7139 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fetzer, Ingo, et al.. (2015). The extent of functional redundancy changes as species’ roles shift in different environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(48). 14888–14893. 132 indexed citations

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Saleem, Muhammad, Ingo Fetzer, Hauke Harms, & Antonis Chatzinotas. (2013). Diversity of protists and bacteria determines predation performance and stability. The ISME Journal. 7(10). 1912–1921. 86 indexed citations

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Kleinsteuber, Sabine, Kathleen M. Schleinitz, Ingo Fetzer, et al.. (2013). Microbial communities along biogeochemical gradients in a hydrocarbon‐contaminated aquifer. Environmental Microbiology. 15(9). 2603–2615. 68 indexed citations

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Lamshöft, Marc, et al.. (2011). Biodegradation of ciprofloxacin in water and soil and its effects on the microbial communities. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 198. 22–30. 294 indexed citations

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Fetzer, Ingo, et al.. (2002). The influence of freshwater discharge on the distribution of zooplankton in the southern Kara Sea. Polar Biology. 25(6). 404–415. 40 indexed citations

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