Jonathan F. Donges

19.6k total citations · 10 hit papers
132 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Jonathan F. Donges is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan F. Donges has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 41 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 36 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Jonathan F. Donges's work include Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (48 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (30 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (28 papers). Jonathan F. Donges is often cited by papers focused on Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (48 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (30 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (28 papers). Jonathan F. Donges collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United States. Jonathan F. Donges's co-authors include Norbert Marwan, Reik V. Donner, Jürgen Kurths, Yong Zou, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Johan Rockström, Ricarda Winkelmann, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Steven J. Lade and Sarah Cornell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan F. Donges

128 papers receiving 9.3k 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. 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 →
  2. Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050
    2020 481 citations Ilona M. Otto, Jonathan F. Donges et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Recurrence networks—a novel paradigm for nonlinear time series analysis
    2010 429 citations Reik V. Donner, Jonathan F. Donges et al. profile →
  4. Complex network approach for recurrence analysis of time series
    2009 427 citations Norbert Marwan, Jonathan F. Donges et al. profile →
  5. Complex network approaches to nonlinear time series analysis
    2018 425 citations Reik V. Donner, Norbert Marwan et al. profile →
  6. Human impacts on planetary boundaries amplified by Earth system interactions
    2019 249 citations Steven J. Lade, Will Steffen et al. profile →
  7. Amplified Rossby waves enhance risk of concurrent heatwaves in major breadbasket regions
    2019 246 citations Dim Coumou, Jonathan F. Donges et al. profile →
  8. Armed-conflict risks enhanced by climate-related disasters in ethnically fractionalized countries
    2016 232 citations Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Jonathan F. Donges et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Global polycrisis: the causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement
    2024 165 citations Jonathan F. Donges et al. Global Sustainability profile →
  10. Stewardship of global collective behavior
    2021 164 citations Jonathan F. Donges et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jonathan F. Donges Germany 43 3.6k 2.1k 1.7k 1.6k 1.5k 132 9.6k
Paul Longley United Kingdom 42 2.3k 0.6× 1.8k 0.8× 788 0.5× 834 0.5× 1.0k 0.7× 175 10.6k
Hermann Held Germany 23 5.3k 1.5× 1.4k 0.7× 699 0.4× 1.7k 1.1× 897 0.6× 62 8.6k
George Sugihara United States 50 7.5k 2.1× 1.9k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 867 0.6× 109 16.8k
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Germany 62 8.2k 2.3× 3.7k 1.8× 1.6k 0.9× 3.3k 2.1× 2.7k 1.8× 209 19.9k
Michael Batty United Kingdom 74 8.4k 2.3× 3.5k 1.6× 773 0.4× 1.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.0× 381 20.5k
Vasilis Dakos France 40 8.7k 2.4× 1.4k 0.7× 920 0.5× 1.5k 1.0× 1.0k 0.7× 100 13.3k
Egbert H. van Nes Netherlands 69 12.0k 3.3× 1.5k 0.7× 1.0k 0.6× 2.0k 1.3× 1.3k 0.8× 189 23.5k
Timothy M. Lenton United Kingdom 76 9.6k 2.6× 2.6k 1.2× 994 0.6× 6.1k 3.9× 2.6k 1.7× 271 23.5k
Luís M. A. Bettencourt United States 44 2.3k 0.6× 2.7k 1.3× 1.0k 0.6× 152 0.1× 1.3k 0.8× 158 9.1k
Yu Liu China 49 2.4k 0.7× 532 0.2× 475 0.3× 392 0.2× 767 0.5× 370 12.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan F. Donges

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Everall, Jordan, et al.. (2025). The Pareto effect in tipping social networks: from minority to majority. Earth System Dynamics. 16(1). 189–214. 1 indexed citations
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Schleussner, Carl‐Friedrich, Robin Lamboll, Joeri Rogelj, et al.. (2024). Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions critical to limit climate tipping risks. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6192–6192. 24 indexed citations
3.
Wiedermann, Marc, et al.. (2024). A Dynamic Network Model of Societal Complexity and Resilience Inspired by Tainter’s Theory of Collapse. Entropy. 26(2). 98–98. 2 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, Uma S. Bhatt, Jonathan F. Donges, et al.. (2023). Reducing uncertainty of high-latitude ecosystem models through identification of key parameters. Environmental Research Letters. 18(8). 84032–84032. 1 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, Arie Staal, Boris Sakschewski, et al.. (2022). Recurrent droughts increase risk of cascading tipping events by outpacing adaptive capacities in the Amazon rainforest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(32). e2120777119–e2120777119. 46 indexed citations
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Donges, Jonathan F., et al.. (2021). Dose-response functions and surrogate models for exploring social contagion in the Copenhagen Networks Study. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, et al.. (2020). Dynamics of tipping cascades on complex networks. Physical review. E. 101(4). 42311–42311. 33 indexed citations
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Randers, Jørgen, Johan Rockström, Ulrich Golüke, et al.. (2019). Achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals within 9 planetary boundaries. Global Sustainability. 2. 106 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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Mahecha, Miguel D., Fabian Gans, Sebastian Sippel, et al.. (2017). Detecting impacts of extreme events with ecological in situ monitoring networks. Biogeosciences. 14(18). 4255–4277. 36 indexed citations
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Kretschmer, Marlene, Dim Coumou, Jonathan F. Donges, & Jakob Runge. (2016). Using Causal Effect Networks to analyze different Arctic drivers of mid-latitude winter circulation. Publication Database PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)). 3 indexed citations
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Kretschmer, Marlene, Dim Coumou, Jonathan F. Donges, & Jakob Runge. (2016). Using Causal Effect Networks to Analyze Different Arctic Drivers of Midlatitude Winter Circulation. Journal of Climate. 29(11). 4069–4081. 212 indexed citations
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Siegmund, Jonatan F., et al.. (2016). Impact of temperature and precipitation extremes on the flowering dates of four German wildlife shrub species. Biogeosciences. 13(19). 5541–5555. 39 indexed citations
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Rammig, Anja, Marc Wiedermann, Jonathan F. Donges, et al.. (2015). Coincidences of climate extremes and anomalous vegetation responses: comparing tree ring patterns to simulated productivity. Biogeosciences. 12(2). 373–385. 85 indexed citations
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Donges, Jonathan F., Reik V. Donner, Norbert Marwan, et al.. (2015). Non-linear regime shifts in Holocene Asian monsoon variability: potential impacts on cultural change and migratory patterns. Climate of the past. 11(5). 709–741. 41 indexed citations
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Zemp, Delphine Clara, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, et al.. (2014). On the importance of cascading moisture recycling in South America. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(23). 13337–13359. 202 indexed citations
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Rammig, Anja, Marc Wiedermann, Jonathan F. Donges, et al.. (2014). Tree-ring responses to extreme climate events as benchmarks for terrestrial dynamic vegetation models. 15 indexed citations
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Donges, Jonathan F., Irina Y. Petrova, Alexander Loew, Norbert Marwan, & Jürgen Kurths. (2013). Relationships between eigen and complex network techniques for the statistical analysis of climate data. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Donges, Jonathan F., Jobst Heitzig, Jakob Runge, et al.. (2013). Advanced functional network analysis in the geosciences: The pyunicorn package. EGUGA. 7 indexed citations

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