K. Tokos

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

K. Tokos is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, K. Tokos has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Oceanography, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in K. Tokos's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (8 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (6 papers). K. Tokos is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (8 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (6 papers). K. Tokos collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. K. Tokos's co-authors include Katsumi Matsumoto, Michael Eby, Andy Ridgwell, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Ken Caldeira, Long Cao, David Archer, Guy Munhoven, Álvaro Montenegro and Victor Brovkin and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Remote Sensing of Environment and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

K. Tokos

17 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400 500
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. Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide
    2009 514 citations David Archer, Michael Eby et al. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary 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
K. Tokos United States 12 553 528 521 216 127 18 1.2k
Philip Goodwin United Kingdom 21 538 1.0× 616 1.2× 304 0.6× 188 0.9× 132 1.0× 48 1.1k
David P. Keller Germany 21 285 0.5× 664 1.3× 562 1.1× 220 1.0× 178 1.4× 52 1.3k
Matthias Hofmann Germany 19 858 1.6× 763 1.4× 860 1.7× 248 1.1× 181 1.4× 25 1.5k
Vassil Roussenov United Kingdom 22 645 1.2× 868 1.6× 1.2k 2.3× 111 0.5× 174 1.4× 37 1.6k
Jörg Schwinger Norway 20 590 1.1× 1000 1.9× 862 1.7× 181 0.8× 119 0.9× 52 1.5k
Judith Hauck Germany 22 439 0.8× 903 1.7× 1.4k 2.6× 376 1.7× 310 2.4× 67 1.9k
J.A. Hughes United Kingdom 16 271 0.5× 258 0.5× 594 1.1× 178 0.8× 423 3.3× 26 1.1k
Antony Gomez New Zealand 11 544 1.0× 891 1.7× 585 1.1× 130 0.6× 169 1.3× 15 1.2k
Neil C. Swart Canada 22 1.4k 2.5× 1.4k 2.7× 779 1.5× 97 0.4× 173 1.4× 43 2.2k
Evgenia S Kandiano Germany 21 1.4k 2.6× 304 0.6× 334 0.6× 665 3.1× 419 3.3× 28 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by K. Tokos

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Fields of papers citing papers by K. Tokos

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by K. Tokos. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by K. Tokos. The network helps show where K. Tokos may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of K. Tokos

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Ng, G. H. C., et al.. (2021). Modeling the impact of spatiotemporal vegetation dynamics on groundwater recharge. Journal of Hydrology. 601. 126584–126584. 15 indexed citations
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Fichot, Cédric G., Katsumi Matsumoto, Benjamin Holt, Michelle M. Gierach, & K. Tokos. (2019). Assessing change in the overturning behavior of the Laurentian Great Lakes using remotely sensed lake surface water temperatures. Remote Sensing of Environment. 235. 111427–111427. 40 indexed citations
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Matsumoto, Katsumi, et al.. (2019). Climate projection of Lake Superior under a future warming scenario. Journal of Limnology. 78(3). 9 indexed citations
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Tokos, K., et al.. (2018). Modeling nearshore-offshore exchange in Lake Superior. PLoS ONE. 13(2). e0193183–e0193183. 10 indexed citations
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Chiang, John C. H., K. Tokos, Shih‐Yu Lee, & Katsumi Matsumoto. (2018). Contrasting Impacts of the South Pacific Split Jet and the Southern Annular Mode Modulation on Southern Ocean Circulation and Biogeochemistry. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 33(1). 2–20. 12 indexed citations
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Fichot, Cédric G., et al.. (2017). Assessing change in the overturning behaviors of the Laurentian Great Lakes using remote sensing.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Matsumoto, Katsumi, et al.. (2015). Ventilation and dissolved oxygen cycle in Lake Superior: Insights from a numerical model. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 16(9). 3097–3110. 11 indexed citations
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Matsumoto, Katsumi, K. Tokos, Alan L. Huston, & Hannah L. Joy‐Warren. (2013). MESMO 2: a mechanistic marine silica cycle and coupling to a simple terrestrial scheme. Geoscientific model development. 6(2). 477–494. 24 indexed citations
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Weaver, Andrew J., Jan Sedláčék, Michael Eby, et al.. (2012). Stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: A model intercomparison. Geophysical Research Letters. 39(20). 173 indexed citations
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Lee, Shih‐Yu, John C. H. Chiang, Katsumi Matsumoto, & K. Tokos. (2011). Southern Ocean wind response to North Atlantic cooling and the rise in atmospheric CO2: Modeling perspective and paleoceanographic implications. Paleoceanography. 26(1). 121 indexed citations
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Matsumoto, Katsumi, K. Tokos, M. O. Chikamoto, & Andy Ridgwell. (2010). Characterizing post-industrial changes in the ocean carbon cycle in an Earth system model. Tellus B. 62(4). 296–296. 25 indexed citations
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Matsumoto, Katsumi, K. Tokos, M. O. Chikamoto, & Andy Ridgwell. (2010). Characterizing post-industrial changes in the ocean carbon cycle in an Earth system model. Tellus B. 62(4).
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Cao, Long, Michael Eby, Andy Ridgwell, et al.. (2009). The role of ocean transport in the uptake of anthropogenic CO 2. Biogeosciences. 6(3). 375–390. 88 indexed citations
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Archer, David, Michael Eby, Victor Brovkin, et al.. (2009). Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 37(1). 117–134. 514 indexed citations breakdown →
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Matsumoto, Katsumi, K. Tokos, Andrew Price, & Simón Cox. (2008). First description of the Minnesota Earth System Model for Ocean biogeochemistry (MESMO 1.0). Geoscientific model development. 1(1). 1–15. 31 indexed citations
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Matsumoto, Katsumi, K. Tokos, A. Price, & Simón Cox. (2008). GENIE-M: a new and improved GENIE-1 developed in Minnesota. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1(1). 1–37. 4 indexed citations
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Zenk, Walter, K. Tokos, & Olaf Boebel. (1992). New observations of Meddy Movement south of the Tejo Plateau. Geophysical Research Letters. 19(24). 2389–2392. 41 indexed citations
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Tokos, K. & T. Rossby. (1991). Kinematics and Dynamics of a Mediterranean Salt Lens. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 21(6). 879–892. 65 indexed citations

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