Karina Winkler

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Karina Winkler is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Karina Winkler has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 3 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Karina Winkler's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (3 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (2 papers). Karina Winkler is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (3 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (2 papers). Karina Winkler collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Karina Winkler's co-authors include Richard Fuchs, Martin Herold, Mark Rounsevell, Ursula Geßner, Volker Hochschild, Achim Roth, Anna Wendleder, Christian Wohlfart, Soe W. Myint and Valerio Avitabile and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Karina Winkler

14 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global land use changes are four times greater than previously estimated

2021 853 citations Karina Winkler, Richard Fuchs et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karina Winkler Germany	8	711	349	162	132	125	15	1.1k
Michael Cherlet Italy	14	545 0.8×	424 1.2×	138 0.9×	144 1.1×	159 1.3×	25	929
Cholho Song South Korea	16	528 0.7×	273 0.8×	106 0.7×	154 1.2×	102 0.8×	76	825
Ján Oťaheľ Slovakia	10	510 0.7×	363 1.0×	104 0.6×	137 1.0×	115 0.9×	26	960
Zemeng Fan China	19	572 0.8×	323 0.9×	243 1.5×	248 1.9×	74 0.6×	57	1.0k
Tao Pan China	22	701 1.0×	230 0.7×	272 1.7×	110 0.8×	138 1.1×	50	1.2k
Basanta Paudel China	21	825 1.2×	471 1.3×	226 1.4×	106 0.8×	268 2.1×	58	1.3k
Narcisa G. Pricope United States	18	526 0.7×	301 0.9×	131 0.8×	174 1.3×	156 1.2×	54	964
Miriam Machwitz Germany	19	523 0.7×	492 1.4×	156 1.0×	209 1.6×	79 0.6×	30	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karina Winkler

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15 of 15 papers shown

Alexander, Peter, et al.. (2025). Global assessment of landscape pattern changes from 1992 to 2020. Landscape Ecology. 40(11). 196–196.

Winkler, Karina, Richard Fuchs, Mark Rounsevell, & Martin Herold. (2025). Six decades of global crop yield increase and cropland expansion from 1960 to 2020. Environmental Research Communications. 7(5). 55013–55013. 1 indexed citations

Fuchs, Richard, et al.. (2024). The EU’s new anti-deforestation law has severe loopholes that could be exploited by the forthcoming EU-MERCOSUR trade agreement. Environmental Research Letters. 19(9). 91005–91005. 2 indexed citations

Winkler, Karina, et al.. (2024). From data to insights: Upscaling riverine GHG fluxes in Germany with machine learning. The Science of The Total Environment. 958. 177984–177984. 2 indexed citations

Lee, Heera, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Marco Patacca, et al.. (2023). Three billion new trees in the EU’s biodiversity strategy: low ambition, but better environmental outcomes?. Environmental Research Letters. 18(3). 34020–34020. 9 indexed citations

Winkler, Karina, Hui Yang, Raphael Ganzenmüller, et al.. (2023). Changes in land use and management led to a decline in Eastern Europe’s terrestrial carbon sink. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 26 indexed citations

Estoque, Ronald C., Rajarshi Dasgupta, Karina Winkler, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal pattern of global forest change over the past 60 years and the forest transition theory. Environmental Research Letters. 17(8). 84022–84022. 47 indexed citations

Ganzenmüller, Raphael, Selma Bultan, Karina Winkler, et al.. (2022). Land-use change emissions based on high-resolution activity data substantially lower than previously estimated. Environmental Research Letters. 17(6). 64050–64050. 16 indexed citations

Winkler, Karina, Richard Fuchs, Mark Rounsevell, & Martin Herold. (2021). Global land use changes are four times greater than previously estimated. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2501–2501. 853 indexed citations breakdown →

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Winkler, Karina, Richard Fuchs, Mark Rounsevell, & Martin Herold. (2021). Spatiotemporal patterns of global land use change: Understanding processes and drivers. 2 indexed citations

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Hipondoka, Martin, et al.. (2018). Monitoring flood and drought events - earth observation for multiscale assessment of water-related hazards and exposed elements. Biodiversity & Ecology. 6. 136–143. 5 indexed citations

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Wohlfart, Christian, Karina Winkler, Anna Wendleder, & Achim Roth. (2018). TerraSAR-X and Wetlands: A Review. Remote Sensing. 10(6). 916–916. 35 indexed citations

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Esch, Thomas, Felix Bachofer, Andreas Hirner, et al.. (2018). New Opportunities for Urban Land Governance by Exploiting Big Data from Earth Observation. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1 indexed citations

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Roth, Achim, Ursula Marschalk, Karina Winkler, et al.. (2018). Ten Years of Experience with Scientific TerraSAR-X Data Utilization. Remote Sensing. 10(8). 1170–1170. 13 indexed citations

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Winkler, Karina, Ursula Geßner, & Volker Hochschild. (2017). Identifying Droughts Affecting Agriculture in Africa Based on Remote Sensing Time Series between 2000–2016: Rainfall Anomalies and Vegetation Condition in the Context of ENSO. Remote Sensing. 9(8). 831–831. 113 indexed citations

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