Jakob Steiner

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Jakob Steiner is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Jakob Steiner has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Atmospheric Science, 21 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 14 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Jakob Steiner's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (45 papers), Climate change and permafrost (27 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (21 papers). Jakob Steiner is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (45 papers), Climate change and permafrost (27 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (21 papers). Jakob Steiner collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Nepal and United Kingdom. Jakob Steiner's co-authors include Walter W. Immerzeel, Francesca Pellicciotti, Evan Miles, Pascal Buri, Ian Willis, Philip Kraaijenbrink, Neil Arnold, Maxime Litt, J. M. Shea and Emmy E. Stigter and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Water Resources Research and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Jakob Steiner

50 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jakob Steiner Netherlands	22	1.5k	593	439	158	153	55	1.7k
David R. Rounce United States	22	2.0k 1.3×	544 0.9×	570 1.3×	345 2.2×	210 1.4×	47	2.2k
Tino Pieczonka Germany	15	1.7k 1.1×	345 0.6×	279 0.6×	154 1.0×	221 1.4×	18	1.8k
Rakesh Bhambri India	22	1.8k 1.2×	327 0.6×	486 1.1×	246 1.6×	138 0.9×	34	2.0k
Zongli Jiang China	20	1.7k 1.2×	315 0.5×	309 0.7×	267 1.7×	176 1.2×	58	1.9k
Sergey Sokratov Russia	16	911 0.6×	221 0.4×	336 0.8×	256 1.6×	65 0.4×	55	1.1k
C. F. Larsen United States	17	1.1k 0.7×	273 0.5×	507 1.2×	75 0.5×	34 0.2×	42	1.3k
Shaun Richardson United Kingdom	9	1.4k 0.9×	268 0.5×	735 1.7×	260 1.6×	83 0.5×	11	1.5k
Nander Wever United States	23	1.5k 1.0×	264 0.4×	566 1.3×	361 2.3×	351 2.3×	57	1.6k
Florence Naaim-Bouvet France	19	792 0.5×	221 0.4×	366 0.8×	173 1.1×	30 0.2×	56	979
Thorsten Seehaus Germany	17	859 0.6×	294 0.5×	206 0.5×	97 0.6×	52 0.3×	43	987

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Chu, Winnie, et al.. (2025). Simulating seasonal evolution of subglacial hydrology at a surging glacier in the Karakoram. Journal of Glaciology. 71.

Pepin, N. C., M. E. Apple, John F. Knowles, et al.. (2025). Elevation-dependent climate change in mountain environments. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(12). 772–788.

Zhang, Guoqing, Tandong Yao, Matthias Huss, et al.. (2025). A Monitoring Network for Mitigating Himalayan Glacial Lake Outburst Floods. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(12). E2579–E2597. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Xue, Wenfeng Chen, Guoqing Zhang, et al.. (2025). Mitigating future glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya. Science Bulletin. 71(1). 159–171.

Posch, Florian, Eszter Nagy, Jakob Steiner, et al.. (2024). Lipoprotein (a) is not associated with thrombus burden derived from CT pulmonary angiography in patients with acute pulmonary embolism. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 25962–25962. 3 indexed citations

Shrestha, Finu, et al.. (2023). A comprehensive and version-controlled database of glacial lake outburst floods in High Mountain Asia. Earth system science data. 15(9). 3941–3961. 56 indexed citations

Steiner, Jakob, et al.. (2023). Review article: Snow and ice avalanches in high mountain Asia – scientific, local and indigenous knowledge. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(7). 2569–2592. 21 indexed citations

Buri, Pascal, Simone Fatichi, Thomas E. Shaw, et al.. (2023). Land Surface Modeling in the Himalayas: On the Importance of Evaporative Fluxes for the Water Balance of a High‐Elevation Catchment. Water Resources Research. 59(10). 14 indexed citations

Steiner, Jakob, et al.. (2022). Integrated, Stretched, and Adiabatic Solid Effects. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(25). 5751–5757. 10 indexed citations

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Steiner, Jakob, Pascal Buri, Jakob Abermann, Rainer Prinz, & Lindsey Nicholson. (2022). Steep ice – progress and future challenges in research on ice cliffs. Annals of Glaciology. 63(87-89). 132–136. 1 indexed citations

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Smeets, Paul C. J. P., Carleen H. Reijmer, Bert Wouters, et al.. (2021). Mapping the aerodynamic roughness of the Greenland Ice Sheet surface using ICESat-2: evaluation over the K-transect. The cryosphere. 15(6). 2601–2621. 15 indexed citations

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Abermann, Jakob, et al.. (2020). The Red Rock ice cliff revisited – six decades of frontal, mass and area changes in the Nunatarssuaq area, Northwest Greenland. Journal of Glaciology. 66(258). 567–576. 5 indexed citations

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He, Xiaobo, et al.. (2020). Models and measurements of seven years of evapotranspiration on a high elevation site on the Central Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Mountain Science. 17(12). 3039–3053. 6 indexed citations

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Bonekamp, Pleun N. J., Chiel C. van Heerwaarden, Jakob Steiner, & Walter W. Immerzeel. (2020). Using 3D turbulence-resolving simulations to understand the impact of surface properties on the energy balance of a debris-covered glacier. The cryosphere. 14(5). 1611–1632. 13 indexed citations

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Steiner, Jakob, et al.. (2019). Sediment supply from lateral moraines to a debris-covered glacier in the Himalaya. Earth Surface Dynamics. 7(2). 411–427. 44 indexed citations

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Kok, Remco de, Jakob Steiner, Maxime Litt, et al.. (2019). Measurements, models and drivers of incoming longwave radiation in the Himalaya. International Journal of Climatology. 40(2). 942–956. 14 indexed citations

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Steiner, Jakob, et al.. (2018). Estimating lateral moraine sediment supply to a debris-covered glacier in the Himalaya. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 2 indexed citations

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Steiner, Jakob, et al.. (2018). Brief communication: The Khurdopin glacier surge revisited – extreme flow velocities and formation of a dammed lake in 2017. The cryosphere. 12(1). 95–101. 64 indexed citations

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Buri, Pascal, Francesca Pellicciotti, Jakob Steiner, Evan Miles, & Walter W. Immerzeel. (2015). A grid-based model of backwasting of supraglacial ice cliffs on debris-covered glaciers. Annals of Glaciology. 57(71). 199–211. 85 indexed citations

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Shisanya, Chris A., Daniel N. Moriasi, Jakob Steiner, et al.. (2007). Fort Cobb Reservoir Watershed, Oklahoma and Thika River Watershed, Kenya Twinning Pilot Project. AGUFM. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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