Julia Pongratz

38.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
134 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Julia Pongratz is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Julia Pongratz has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 44 papers in Atmospheric Science and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Julia Pongratz's work include Climate variability and models (76 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (69 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (37 papers). Julia Pongratz is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (76 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (69 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (37 papers). Julia Pongratz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Julia Pongratz's co-authors include Christian H. Reick, Thomas Raddatz, Martin Claußen, Joanna I. House, Corinne Le Quéré, Ruth DeFries, Steven J. Davis, Matthew C. Hansen, Navin Ramankutty and Guido R. van der Werf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Julia Pongratz

130 papers receiving 8.5k 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. Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change
    2012 911 citations Julia Pongratz, Corinne Le Quéré et al. Biogeosciences profile →
  2. A reconstruction of global agricultural areas and land cover for the last millennium
    2008 455 citations Julia Pongratz, Christian H. Reick et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
  3. Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass
    2017 437 citations Julia Pongratz et al. profile →
  4. Climate forcing reconstructions for use in PMIP simulations of the last millennium (v1.0)
    2011 394 citations Julia Pongratz et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
  5. Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961–2017
    2021 389 citations Julia Pongratz, Julia E. M. S. Nabel et al. profile →
  6. The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP) contribution to CMIP6:rationale and experimental design
    2016 349 citations David M. Lawrence, G. C. Hurtt et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
  7. National contributions to climate change due to historical emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide since 1850
    2023 271 citations Glen P. Peters, Thomas Gasser et al. profile →
  8. Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century
    2021 200 citations Julia Pongratz et al. profile →
  9. Robust increase of Indian monsoon rainfall and its variability under future warming in CMIP6 models
    2021 149 citations Julia Pongratz et al. Earth System Dynamics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Julia Pongratz Germany 45 6.2k 2.7k 1.8k 1.4k 804 134 8.7k
Xiao‐Peng Song United States 38 4.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.4× 3.1k 1.7× 1.7k 1.2× 402 0.5× 80 7.5k
Govindasamy Bala India 46 7.9k 1.3× 4.4k 1.7× 1.8k 1.0× 983 0.7× 424 0.5× 140 10.3k
Quansheng Ge China 55 5.4k 0.9× 3.4k 1.3× 2.8k 1.6× 1.7k 1.2× 427 0.5× 393 10.5k
Gregg Marland United States 41 3.7k 0.6× 1.6k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 1.8k 1.2× 985 1.2× 107 6.8k
Etsushi Kato Japan 28 3.4k 0.6× 1.4k 0.5× 998 0.6× 565 0.4× 367 0.5× 67 5.0k
Philippe Peylin France 55 9.6k 1.5× 5.2k 2.0× 2.4k 1.4× 1.0k 0.7× 237 0.3× 143 11.7k
J. B. Miller United States 53 9.4k 1.5× 6.5k 2.4× 1.6k 0.9× 804 0.6× 258 0.3× 161 11.6k
Qianlai Zhuang United States 56 5.2k 0.8× 3.8k 1.4× 3.2k 1.8× 1.1k 0.8× 208 0.3× 248 10.2k
Steven P. Hamburg United States 47 4.0k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 1.8k 1.2× 401 0.5× 129 8.3k
Daniel Murdiyarso Indonesia 51 5.2k 0.8× 1.1k 0.4× 6.7k 3.7× 778 0.5× 564 0.7× 173 11.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Julia Pongratz

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Fields of papers citing papers by Julia Pongratz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Julia Pongratz

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Julia Pongratz. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Julia Pongratz 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 Julia Pongratz. Julia Pongratz 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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Obermeier, Wolfgang A., Clemens Schwingshackl, Raphael Ganzenmüller, et al.. (2025). Differences and uncertainties in land-use CO2 flux estimates. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(11). 747–766.
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Canadell, Josep G., Benjamin Poulter, Ana Bastos, et al.. (2025). From global to national GHG budgets: the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes-3 (RECCAP3). National Science Review. 12(4). nwaf037–nwaf037. 3 indexed citations
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Canadell, Josep G., Glen P. Peters, Robbie M. Andrew, et al.. (2025). The world’s carbon emissions continue to rise. But 35 countries show progress in cutting carbon.
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Nyawira, Sylvia S., Martin Herold, Rosa María Román-Cuesta, et al.. (2024). Pantropical CO2 emissions and removals for the AFOLU sector in the period 1990–2018. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 29(2). 4 indexed citations
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Schwingshackl, Clemens, et al.. (2024). A consistent budgeting of terrestrial carbon fluxes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7426–7426. 10 indexed citations
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Pongratz, Julia, et al.. (2024). Timescale dependence of airborne fraction and underlying climate–carbon-cycle feedbacks for weak perturbations in CMIP5 models. Biogeosciences. 21(7). 1923–1960. 3 indexed citations
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Egerer, Sabine, et al.. (2024). How to measure the efficiency of bioenergy crops compared to forestation. Biogeosciences. 21(22). 5005–5025. 2 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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Havermann, Felix, Inne Vanderkelen, Fei Luo, et al.. (2023). The biogeophysical effects of idealized land cover and land management changes in Earth system models. Earth System Dynamics. 14(3). 629–667. 20 indexed citations
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Loughran, Tammas, Lena Boysen, Ana Bastos, et al.. (2021). Past and Future Climate Variability Uncertainties in the Global Carbon Budget Using the MPI Grand Ensemble. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(8). 13 indexed citations
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Blyth, Eleanor, Vivek K. Arora, Douglas B. Clark, et al.. (2021). Advances in Land Surface Modelling. Explore Bristol Research. 7(2). 45–71. 91 indexed citations
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Winkler, Alexander J., Ranga B. Myneni, Alexis Hannart, et al.. (2021). Slowdown of the greening trend in natural vegetation with further rise in atmospheric CO 2. Biogeosciences. 18(17). 4985–5010. 78 indexed citations
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Teckentrup, Lina, Martin G. De Kauwe, A. J. Pitman, et al.. (2021). Assessing the representation of the Australian carbon cycle in global vegetation models. Biogeosciences. 18(20). 5639–5668. 23 indexed citations
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Ma, Lei, G. C. Hurtt, Louise Chini, et al.. (2020). Global rules for translating land-use change (LUH2) to land-cover change for CMIP6 using GLM2. Geoscientific model development. 13(7). 3203–3220. 41 indexed citations
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Sonntag, Sebastian, Tatiana Ilyina, Daniela Kracher, et al.. (2018). Quantifying and Comparing Effects of Climate Engineering Methods on the Earth System. Earth s Future. 6(2). 149–168. 18 indexed citations
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Duveiller, Grégory, Giovanni Forzieri, Eddy Robertson, et al.. (2018). Biophysics and vegetation cover change: a process-based evaluation framework for confronting land surface models with satellite observations. Earth system science data. 10(3). 1265–1279. 59 indexed citations
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Lawrence, David M., G. C. Hurtt, Almut Arneth, et al.. (2016). The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP) contribution to CMIP6:rationale and experimental design. Geoscientific model development. 9(9). 2973–2998. 349 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nyawira, Sylvia S., Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Axel Don, Victor Brovkin, & Julia Pongratz. (2016). Soil carbon response to land-use change: Evaluation of a global vegetation model using meta-data. 1 indexed citations
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Lawrence, David M., G. C. Hurtt, Victor Brovkin, et al.. (2014). Advancing Our Understanding of the Impacts of Historic and Projected Land Use in the Earth System: The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Boysen, Lena, Victor Brovkin, Vivek K. Arora, et al.. (2014). Global and regional effects of land-use change on climate in 21st century simulations with interactive carbon cycle. Earth System Dynamics. 5(2). 309–319. 71 indexed citations

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