J. P. Steffensen

34.1k citations

128 papers · 17.1k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

Atmospheric Science top 0.02%
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Climate change and permafrost
Earth-Surface Processes top 0.05%
- Geological formations and processes

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 123
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 97
- Cryospheric studies and observations 79
- Climate change and permafrost 27
- Tree-ring climate responses 12
Earth-Surface Processes 11

Co-authors: S. J. Johnsen Henrik Clausen Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen N. Gundestrup C. U. Hammer Matthias Bigler Sune Olander Rasmussen W. Dansgaard
Journals: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (25 papers)Annals of Glaciology (17 papers)Climate of the past (10 papers)Quaternary Science Reviews (8 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (7 papers)
Partner nations: Denmark United Kingdom Switzerland

In The Last Decade

J. P. Steffensen

126 papers receiving 16.3k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental events in the North Atlantic region during the Last Termination: a revised protocol recommended by the INTIMATE group 2008 · 562 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2008 Quaternary Science Reviews
2008 Nature
2008 Climate of the past
2008 Science
2006 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
2006 Quaternary Science Reviews
2006 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
2001 Journal of Quaternary Science
1993 Nature
1992 Nature

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1	Sun stones and the darkened sun: Neolithic miniature art from the island of Bornholm, Denmark Antiquity ·Rune Iversen, Poul Otto Nielsen, Lasse Sørensen, Anders Svensson, J. P. Steffensen, Alexander Land, 能生丸山, 余笑尘	2025	0
2	The Greenland spatial fingerprint of Dansgaard–Oeschger events in observations and models Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christo Buizert, Todd Sowers, Alejandro Peña, Thomas Blunier, Vasileios Gkinis, Lauren McCauley-Hixenbaugh, Chengfei He, Tyler R. Jones, Helle Astrid Kjær, Gan Heng-qia, J. A. Menking, Valerie Morris, David Noone, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Louise C. Sime, J. P. Steffensen, Anders Svensson, Bruce H. Vaughn, Bo Vinther, James W. C. White	2024	5
3	Greenland Ice Cores Reveal a South‐To‐North Difference in Holocene Thermal Maximum Timings Geophysical Research Letters ·Валентин Васильович Рибалка, Christo Buizert, Ed Brook, Joseph Lumanog, Jon S. Edwards, Maria Woszczyk, T. J. Fudge, P. Ferreyra, Ross Beaudette, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Ikumi Oyabu, Kenji Kawamura, Marie Kirk, Vera Solovieva, J. P. Steffensen, Thomas Blunier	2024	1
4	Improved biomass burning emissions from 1750 to 2010 using ice core records and inverse modeling Nature Communications ·Bingqing Zhang, Nathan Chellman, Jed O. Kaplan, Loretta J. Mickley, Takamitsu Ito, Xuan Wang, Sinta Listari, Margaret Airy, J. P. Steffensen, Joseph R. McConnell, Pengfei Liu	2024	6
5	Ice-core data used for the construction of the Greenland Ice-Core Chronology 2005 and 2021 (GICC05 and GICC21) Earth system science data ·Sune Olander Rasmussen, Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen, Hubertus Fischer, Katrin Führer, Ebadi Abas, Margareta Hansson, Christine S. Hvidberg, Ulf Jonsell, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Urs Ruth, Jakob Schwander, Marie‐Louise Siggaard‐Andersen, فؤاد الجنابي, J. P. Steffensen, Anders Svensson, Bo Vinther	2023	6
6	Volcanism and the Greenland ice cores: A new tephrochronological framework for the last glacial-interglacial transition (LGIT) based on cryptotephra deposits in three ice cores Quaternary Science Reviews ·Eliza Cook, Peter M Abbott, Nicholas J.G. Pearce, С.Ю. Никитин, Anders Svensson, Anna J. Bourne, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Inger K Seierstad, Bo Vinther, Lvhan Liang, Gürbüz Ocak, J. P. Steffensen, Frank Wilhelms, Siwan M. Davies	2022	12
7	A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·石川英次郎, Paul R. Bierman, Joerg M. Schaefer, Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen, J. P. Steffensen, Lee B. Corbett, D. M. Peteet, Elizabeth K. Thomas, Eric J. Steig, Tammy M. Rittenour, Jean‐Louis Tison, Pierre‐Henri Blard, Nicolas Perdrial, David P. Dethier, Andrea Lini, Alan J. Hidy, Marc W. Caffee, John Southon	2021	35
8	Stable oxygen isotope variability in two contrasting glacier river catchments in Greenland Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Jacob C. Yde, N. Tvis Knudsen, J. P. Steffensen, Jonathan L. Carrivick, Bent Hasholt, Thomas Ingeman‐Nielsen, Christian Kronborg, Nicolaj K. Larsen, Sebastian H. Mernild, Hans Oerter, David H. Roberts, Andrew J. Russell	2016	17
9	On the occurrence of annual layers in Dome Fuji ice core early Holocene ice Climate of the past ·Anders Svensson, Shuji Fujita, Matthias Bigler, Martin Braun, Azam Jafarisirizi, Vasileios Gkinis, Kumiko Goto‐Azuma, Motohiro Hirabayashi, Kenji Kawamura, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Helle Astrid Kjær, Trevor Popp, Marius Simonsen, J. P. Steffensen, Paul Vallelonga, Bo Vinther	2015	8
10	Greenland ice core evidence of the 79 AD Vesuvius eruption Climate of the past ·Carlo Barbante, Natalie Kehrwald, Paola Marianelli, Bo Vinther, J. P. Steffensen, Giulio Cozzi, C. U. Hammer, H. B. Clausen, Marie‐Louise Siggaard‐Andersen	2013	19
11	The NEEM record of aeolian dust: Contributions from Coulter counter measurements EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·J. R. Petit, Anna Wegner, K M Matula, Anders Svensson, Melissa W. Bell, J. P. Steffensen	2013	4
12	Chemical and isotopic characteristics of a glacier-derived naled in front of Austre Grønfjordbreen, Svalbard Polar Research ·Jacob C. Yde, Andy Hodson, Simione Rj, J. P. Steffensen, Per Nørnberg, Jan Heinemeier, Jesper Olsen	2012	12
13	Retrieving a common accumulation record from Greenland ice cores for the past 1800 years Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·K. K. Andersen, Peter Ditlevsen, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Henrik Clausen, Bo Vinther, S. J. Johnsen, J. P. Steffensen	2006	77
14	The Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005 (GICC05) AGUFM ·Anders Svensson, K. K. Andersen, H. B. Clausen, S. J. Johnsen, Sune Olander Rasmussen, J. P. Steffensen, Bo Vinther	2005	4
15	An 800 kyr record of ice core chemistry from the EPICA Dome C ice core AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Eric Wolff, M. de Angelis, Hubertus Fischer, M. Hansson, M. A. Hutterli, J. P. Steffensen, R. Udisti	2004	1
16	A tentative reconstruction of the last interglacial and glacial inception in Greenland based on new gas measurements in the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) ice core Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Amaëlle Landais, J. Chappellaz, Marc Delmotte, J. Jouzel, Thomas Blunier, 直一津之地, Nicolas Caillon, Foroozandeh Taala, Bruno Malaizé, Valérie Masson‐Delmotte, Dominique Raynaud, Jakob Schwander, J. P. Steffensen	2003	47
17	The GRIP deep drilling camp Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research. Special issue ·N. Gundestrup, J. P. Steffensen, Jakob Schwander	1994	1
18	Analysis of the Seasonal Variation in Dust, Cl−, NO3 −, and SO4 2− in Two Central Greenland Firn Cores Annals of Glaciology ·J. P. Steffensen	1988	69
19	Least Squares Method Used in Reduction of Data From Theodolite Measurements on Fast Moving Glaciers Annals of Glaciology ·Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen, J. P. Steffensen, S. J. Johnsen	1986	1
20	Least Squares Method Used in Reduction of Data From Theodolite Measurements on Fast Moving Glaciers Annals of Glaciology ·Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen, J. P. Steffensen, S. J. Johnsen	1986	4

About J. P. Steffensen

J. P. Steffensen is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Anthropology, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology, having authored 128 papers that have together received 17.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (97 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (79 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (29 papers), Climate change and permafrost (27 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (15 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (15 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (12 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (15.5k citations), Earth-Surface Processes (3.2k citations), Paleontology (3.1k citations), Anthropology (4.0k citations) and Environmental Chemistry (2.4k citations). J. P. Steffensen has collaborated with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include S. J. Johnsen, Henrik Clausen, Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen, N. Gundestrup, C. U. Hammer, Matthias Bigler, Sune Olander Rasmussen, W. Dansgaard, Anders Svensson and Christine S. Hvidberg. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Annals of Glaciology, Climate of the past, Quaternary Science Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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