Jonas Schwaab

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 725 citations indexed

About

Jonas Schwaab is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonas Schwaab has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 725 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 5 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jonas Schwaab's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers), Climate variability and models (7 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (6 papers). Jonas Schwaab is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers), Climate variability and models (7 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (6 papers). Jonas Schwaab collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Jonas Schwaab's co-authors include Édouard L. Davin, Ronny Meier, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Gianluca Mussetti, Adrienne Grêt‐Regamey, Michael Sprenger, Kalyanmoy Deb, Sven Lautenbach, Elizabeth Lewis and Maarten J. van Strien and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Jonas Schwaab

21 papers receiving 704 citations

Hit Papers

The role of urban trees in reducing land surface temperat... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 100 200 300
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. The role of urban trees in reducing land surface temperatures in European cities
    2021 316 citations Jonas Schwaab, Ronny Meier et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jonas Schwaab Switzerland 14 436 320 264 116 63 23 725
Shisong Cao China 19 435 1.0× 385 1.2× 240 0.9× 175 1.5× 76 1.2× 48 777
Xuewei Dang China 11 611 1.4× 311 1.0× 282 1.1× 179 1.5× 95 1.5× 19 852
Milap Punia India 15 515 1.2× 298 0.9× 203 0.8× 149 1.3× 53 0.8× 39 763
Santanu Dinda India 14 483 1.1× 266 0.8× 240 0.9× 101 0.9× 39 0.6× 19 709
Milan Saha United States 10 458 1.1× 390 1.2× 194 0.7× 161 1.4× 58 0.9× 11 691
Caige Sun China 14 543 1.2× 288 0.9× 271 1.0× 81 0.7× 70 1.1× 26 745
Hüseyi̇n Toros Türkiye 16 549 1.3× 333 1.0× 278 1.1× 362 3.1× 59 0.9× 50 967
S. K. Pathan India 7 420 1.0× 220 0.7× 221 0.8× 127 1.1× 29 0.5× 13 589

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jonas Schwaab

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonas Schwaab

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jonas Schwaab. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jonas Schwaab 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 Jonas Schwaab. Jonas Schwaab 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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Hauser, Mathias, Jonas Schwaab, Fulden Batıbeniz, et al.. (2025). Conversion from coniferous to broadleaved trees can make European forests more climate-effective. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9536–9536. 1 indexed citations
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Schwaab, Jonas, et al.. (2025). Spectral Decomposition and Signal Separation of Climate Responses to Land Cover Changes. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(5).
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Schwaab, Jonas, et al.. (2024). Mapping heat-related risks in Swiss cities under different urban tree scenarios. City and Environment Interactions. 24. 100175–100175.
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Schwaab, Jonas, Yann Quilcaille, Jonathan Doelman, et al.. (2024). Fire weather compromises forestation-reliant climate mitigation pathways. Earth System Dynamics. 15(4). 1055–1071. 7 indexed citations
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Schwaab, Jonas, Mathias Hauser, Robin Lamboll, et al.. (2024). Spatially resolved emulated annual temperature projections for overshoot pathways. Scientific Data. 11(1). 1262–1262. 3 indexed citations
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Nath, Shruti, Lukas Gudmundsson, Jonas Schwaab, et al.. (2023). TIMBER v0.1: a conceptual framework for emulating temperature responses to tree cover change. Geoscientific model development. 16(14). 4283–4313. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Laibao, Philippe Ciais, Ryan S. Padrón, et al.. (2023). Increasingly negative tropical water–interannual CO2 growth rate coupling. Nature. 618(7966). 755–760. 36 indexed citations
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Schwaab, Jonas. (2022). Sprawl or compactness? How urban form influences urban surface temperatures in Europe. City and Environment Interactions. 16. 100091–100091. 18 indexed citations
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Mussetti, Gianluca, Édouard L. Davin, Jonas Schwaab, et al.. (2022). Do Electric Vehicles Mitigate Urban Heat? The Case of a Tropical City. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10. 16 indexed citations
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Schwaab, Jonas, et al.. (2021). The role of urban trees in reducing land surface temperatures in European cities. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6763–6763. 316 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schwaab, Jonas, et al.. (2021). Participatory multi-objective optimization for planning dense and green cities. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 64(14). 2532–2551. 23 indexed citations
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Meier, Ronny, Jonas Schwaab, Sonia I. Seneviratne, et al.. (2021). Empirical estimate of forestation-induced precipitation changes in Europe. Nature Geoscience. 14(7). 473–478. 82 indexed citations
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Schwaab, Jonas, Édouard L. Davin, Peter Bebi, et al.. (2020). Increasing the broad-leaved tree fraction in European forests mitigates hot temperature extremes. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 14153–14153. 46 indexed citations
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Schwaab, Jonas, et al.. (2020). Moving towards integrating soil into spatial planning: No net loss of soil-based ecosystem services. Journal of Environmental Management. 263. 110406–110406. 15 indexed citations
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Meier, Ronny, Édouard L. Davin, Sean Swenson, David M. Lawrence, & Jonas Schwaab. (2019). Biomass heat storage dampens diurnal temperature variations in forests. Environmental Research Letters. 14(8). 84026–84026. 25 indexed citations
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Schwaab, Jonas, Kalyanmoy Deb, Erik D. Goodman, et al.. (2018). Using multi-objective optimization to secure fertile soils across municipalities. Applied Geography. 97. 75–84. 16 indexed citations
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Schwaab, Jonas, Kalyanmoy Deb, Erik D. Goodman, et al.. (2017). Reducing the loss of agricultural productivity due to compact urban development in municipalities of Switzerland. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 65. 162–177. 29 indexed citations
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Schwaab, Jonas, Mathias Bavay, Édouard L. Davin, et al.. (2015). Carbon storage versus albedo change: radiative forcing of forest expansion in temperate mountainous regions of Switzerland. Biogeosciences. 12(2). 467–487. 29 indexed citations

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