Jan Petzold

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 907 citations indexed

About

Jan Petzold is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Petzold has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 907 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 9 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Jan Petzold's work include Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (18 papers), Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (11 papers) and Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (9 papers). Jan Petzold is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (18 papers), Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (11 papers) and Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (9 papers). Jan Petzold collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Jan Petzold's co-authors include Aleksandra Kosanic, Beate Ratter, Alexandre Magnan, James D. Ford, Theo Ungerer, Christopher Hedemann, Julio C. Postigo, Wolfgang Trumler, Faruk Bagci and Berta Martín‐López and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Climatic Change.

In The Last Decade

Jan Petzold

39 papers receiving 848 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.

  1. Sea level rise risks and societal adaptation benefits in low-lying coastal areas
    2022 101 citations Alexandre Magnan, Michael Oppenheimer et al. Scientific Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jan Petzold Germany 14 320 316 139 116 94 41 907
Yongwan Chun United States 20 186 0.6× 308 1.0× 57 0.4× 41 0.4× 114 1.2× 73 1.3k
Daniel Miller Runfola United States 18 296 0.9× 485 1.5× 165 1.2× 51 0.4× 138 1.5× 52 1.2k
Andrea De Montis Italy 24 209 0.7× 750 2.4× 155 1.1× 285 2.5× 385 4.1× 83 1.8k
Femke Reitsma New Zealand 17 132 0.4× 914 2.9× 488 3.5× 139 1.2× 224 2.4× 39 1.9k
Zengwang Xu United States 10 359 1.1× 220 0.7× 50 0.4× 52 0.4× 76 0.8× 22 940
John Radke United States 14 83 0.3× 368 1.2× 156 1.1× 74 0.6× 119 1.3× 43 1.1k
Peter Zeil Austria 13 561 1.8× 725 2.3× 62 0.4× 141 1.2× 187 2.0× 39 1.5k
Walter Musakwa South Africa 17 132 0.4× 401 1.3× 64 0.5× 166 1.4× 153 1.6× 75 961
Levi John Wolf United Kingdom 16 220 0.7× 508 1.6× 183 1.3× 44 0.4× 79 0.8× 53 1.5k
David J. Yu United States 23 420 1.3× 661 2.1× 46 0.3× 107 0.9× 75 0.8× 53 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Jan Petzold

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jan Petzold

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Petzold

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jan Petzold. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jan Petzold 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 Jan Petzold. Jan Petzold is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ford, James D., Jan Petzold, Graham McDowell, et al.. (2025). Climate change adaptation in global mountain regions requires a multi-sectoral approach. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations
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Petzold, Jan, et al.. (2024). Systematic Mapping of Climate Change Impacts on Human Security in Bangladesh. Climate. 12(9). 141–141. 6 indexed citations
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Petzold, Jan & Jürgen Scheffran. (2024). Climate change and human security in coastal regions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. e5–e5. 2 indexed citations
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Petzold, Jan, et al.. (2024). Identifying future challenges for climate change adaptation through insights from participatory scenario-downscaling in Mumbai. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 5 indexed citations
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Wannewitz, Mia, Jan Petzold, & Matthias Garschagen. (2023). What makes people adapt together? An empirically grounded conceptual model on the enablers and barriers of collective climate change adaptation. Frontiers in Climate. 5. 6 indexed citations
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Petzold, Jan, et al.. (2023). Urban Greening as a Response to Climate-Related Heat Risk: A Social–Geographical Review. Sustainability. 15(6). 4996–4996. 8 indexed citations
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Petzold, Jan, Elphin Tom Joe, Ilan Kelman, et al.. (2023). Between tinkering and transformation: A contemporary appraisal of climate change adaptation research on the world's islands. Frontiers in Climate. 4. 11 indexed citations
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Magnan, Alexandre, Michael Oppenheimer, Matthias Garschagen, et al.. (2022). Sea level rise risks and societal adaptation benefits in low-lying coastal areas. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 10677–10677. 101 indexed citations breakdown →
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Petzold, Jan. (2017). Social Capital, Resilience and Adaptation on Small Islands. 8 indexed citations
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Petzold, Jan. (2017). Social adaptability in ecotones: sea-level rise and climate change adaptation in Flushing and the Isles of Scilly, UK. Island Studies Journal. 13(1). 101–118. 3 indexed citations
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Petzold, Jan & Beate Ratter. (2015). Climate change adaptation under a social capital approach – An analytical framework for small islands. Ocean & Coastal Management. 112. 36–43. 71 indexed citations
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Bagci, Faruk, et al.. (2006). The reflective mobile agent paradigm implemented in a smart office environment. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 11(1). 11–19. 5 indexed citations
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Trumler, Wolfgang, Faruk Bagci, Jan Petzold, & Theo Ungerer. (2004). Towards an Organic Middleware for the Smart Doorplate Project.. OPUS (Augsburg University). 626–630.
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Petzold, Jan, Faruk Bagci, Wolfgang Trumler, Theo Ungerer, & Lucian Vinţan. (2004). Global State Context Prediction Techniques Applied to a Smart Office Building. OPUS (Augsburg University). 9 indexed citations
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Vinţan, Lucian, Árpád Gellért, Jan Petzold, & Theo Ungerer. (2004). Person Movement Prediction Using Neural Networks. OPUS (Augsburg University). 46 indexed citations
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Trumler, Wolfgang, Faruk Bagci, Jan Petzold, & Theo Ungerer. (2003). Smart Doorplates - toward an autonomic computing. OPUS (Augsburg University). 42–47. 6 indexed citations
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Bagci, Faruk, Jan Petzold, Wolfgang Trumler, & Theo Ungerer. (2003). Einsatz von XML zur Kontextspeicherung in einem agentenbasierten ubiquitären System. OPUS (Augsburg University). 89–94. 1 indexed citations
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König, Rolf & Jan Petzold. (1998). Diez años de experiencia con el sistema electrónico de iniciación "DYNATRONIC". 60–66. 1 indexed citations
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Petzold, Jan. (1991). Southeast Asian Refugees and Sudden Unexplained Death Syndrome. Social Work. 36(5). 387–387. 4 indexed citations

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