Julia Pfeffer

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 610 citations indexed

About

Julia Pfeffer is a scholar working on Oceanography, Molecular Biology and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Julia Pfeffer has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 610 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Oceanography, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Julia Pfeffer's work include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (26 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (12 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (11 papers). Julia Pfeffer is often cited by papers focused on Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (26 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (12 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (11 papers). Julia Pfeffer collaborates with scholars based in France, Australia and United States. Julia Pfeffer's co-authors include Anny Cazenave, Pascal Allemand, Jianli Chen, William Llovel, Christoph Dahle, Lorena Moreira, Isabelle Panet, Anne Barnoud, Jean‐Paul Boy and Michäel Ablain and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Climate, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Julia Pfeffer

28 papers receiving 598 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.

Applications and Challenges of GRACE and GRACE Follow-On Satellite Gravimetry

2022 150 citations Jianli Chen, Anny Cazenave et al. Surveys in Geophysics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Julia Pfeffer France	13	504	191	138	130	115	28	610
Longwei Xiang China	9	399 0.8×	197 1.0×	95 0.7×	105 0.8×	98 0.9×	23	556
Jiangjun Ran China	13	353 0.7×	99 0.5×	98 0.7×	93 0.7×	99 0.9×	40	473
Lucía Seoane France	14	391 0.8×	152 0.8×	125 0.9×	212 1.6×	144 1.3×	28	547
Yulong Zhong China	17	528 1.0×	228 1.2×	344 2.5×	149 1.1×	82 0.7×	51	823
Balaji Devaraju Germany	12	418 0.8×	145 0.8×	305 2.2×	143 1.1×	99 0.9×	21	634
Nengfang Chao China	14	370 0.7×	147 0.8×	255 1.8×	113 0.9×	65 0.6×	38	583
Zhicai Luo China	18	587 1.2×	240 1.3×	289 2.1×	205 1.6×	217 1.9×	69	944
A. A. Cazenave France	10	333 0.7×	90 0.5×	204 1.5×	130 1.0×	89 0.8×	15	523
Zhongshan Jiang China	16	356 0.7×	276 1.4×	166 1.2×	96 0.7×	39 0.3×	48	622

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Julia Pfeffer

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Cazenave, Anny, Julia Pfeffer, Mioara Mandéa, V. Dehant, & Nicolas Gillet. (2025). Why is the Earth System Oscillating at a 6-Year Period?. Surveys in Geophysics. 46(3). 503–528. 3 indexed citations

Storto, Andrea, Julia Pfeffer, Anne Barnoud, et al.. (2024). Variability in manometric sea level from reanalyses and observation-based products over the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans and the Mediterranean Sea. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 4-osr8. 1–13. 1 indexed citations

Cazenave, Anny, Julia Pfeffer, Mioara Mandéa, & V. Dehant. (2023). ESD Ideas: A 6-year oscillation in the whole Earth system?. Earth System Dynamics. 14(4). 733–735. 10 indexed citations

Rosat, S., et al.. (2023). Uncertainty of Low‐Degree Space Gravimetry Observations: Surface Processes Versus Earth's Core Signal. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 128(7). 8 indexed citations

Barnoud, Anne, et al.. (2023). Revisiting the global mean ocean mass budget over 2005–2020. Ocean science. 19(2). 321–334. 22 indexed citations

Pfeffer, Julia, et al.. (2023). A 6-Year Cycle in the Earth System. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Pfeffer, Julia, et al.. (2023). A mass conserving filter based on diffusion for gravity recovery and climate experiment (GRACE) spherical harmonics solutions. Geophysical Journal International. 234(1). 56–72. 3 indexed citations

Pfeffer, Julia, Anny Cazenave, Alejandro Blazquez, et al.. (2023). Assessment of pluri-annual and decadal changes in terrestrial water storage predicted by global hydrological models in comparison with the GRACE satellite gravity mission. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(20). 3743–3768. 9 indexed citations

Allgeyer, S., Paul Tregoning, H. McQueen, et al.. (2022). ANU GRACE Data Analysis: Orbit Modeling, Regularization and Inter‐satellite Range Acceleration Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 127(2). 13 indexed citations

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Marti, Florence, Alejandro Blazquez, Benoît Meyssignac, et al.. (2022). Monitoring the ocean heat content change and the Earth energy imbalance from space altimetry and space gravimetry. Earth system science data. 14(1). 229–249. 27 indexed citations

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Chen, Jianli, Anny Cazenave, Christoph Dahle, et al.. (2022). Applications and Challenges of GRACE and GRACE Follow-On Satellite Gravimetry. Surveys in Geophysics. 43(1). 305–345. 150 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barnoud, Anne, Julia Pfeffer, Marie‐Laure Frery, et al.. (2021). Contributions of Altimetry and Argo to Non‐Closure of the Global Mean Sea Level Budget Since 2016. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(14). 50 indexed citations

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Marti, Florence, Alejandro Blazquez, Benoît Meyssignac, et al.. (2021). Monitoring the ocean heat content change and the Earth energy imbalance from space altimetry and space gravimetry. 4 indexed citations

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Pfeffer, Julia, Anny Cazenave, & Anne Barnoud. (2021). Analysis of the interannual variability in satellite gravity solutions: detection of climate modes fingerprints in water mass displacements across continents and oceans. Climate Dynamics. 58(3-4). 1065–1084. 18 indexed citations

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Pfeffer, Julia, Paul Tregoning, Anthony Purcell, & Malcolm Sambridge. (2018). Multitechnique Assessment of the Interannual to Multidecadal Variability in Steric Sea Levels: A Comparative Analysis of Climate Mode Fingerprints. Journal of Climate. 31(18). 7583–7597. 8 indexed citations

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Frappart, Frédéric, Fabrice Papa, Andreas Güntner, et al.. (2018). The spatio-temporal variability of groundwater storage in the Amazon River Basin. Advances in Water Resources. 124. 41–52. 58 indexed citations

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Pfeffer, Julia & Pascal Allemand. (2016). The key role of vertical land motions in coastal sea level variations: A global synthesis of multisatellite altimetry, tide gauge data and GPS measurements. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 439. 39–47. 58 indexed citations

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Hector, Basile, Jacques Hinderer, Luc Séguis, M. Calvo, & Julia Pfeffer. (2015). Hybrid Gravimetry for the Monitoring of Water Storage Changes in the Critical Zone of West Africa. AGUFM. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Pfeffer, Julia, Marie Boucher, J. Hinderer, et al.. (2011). Local and global hydrological contributions to time-variable gravity in Southwest Niger. Geophysical Journal International. 184(2). 661–672. 30 indexed citations

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Pfeffer, Julia, Marie Boucher, Jacques Hinderer, et al.. (2009). Annual water storage variability in Southwest Niger: confrontation of absolute gravimetric measurements and magnetic resonance soundings surveys with hydrological observations. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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