Katja Frieler

20.5k total citations · 10 hit papers
106 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Katja Frieler is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Katja Frieler has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 42 papers in Atmospheric Science and 18 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Katja Frieler's work include Climate variability and models (35 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (19 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (18 papers). Katja Frieler is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (35 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (19 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (18 papers). Katja Frieler collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Katja Frieler's co-authors include Jacob Schewe, Malte Meinshausen, Bill Hare, Lila Warszawski, Franziska Piontek, Nicolai Meinshausen, Reto Knutti, Anders Levermann, Myles Allen and S. C. B. Raper and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Katja Frieler

104 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

Greenhouse-gas emission t... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2013 2013 2016 2019 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C
    2009 2.1k citations Malte Meinshausen, Bill Hare et al. profile →
  2. A trend-preserving bias correction – the ISI-MIP approach
    2013 898 citations Sabrina Hempel, Katja Frieler et al. Earth System Dynamics profile →
  3. The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI–MIP): Project framework
    2013 897 citations Lila Warszawski, Katja Frieler et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Science and policy characteristics of the Paris Agreement temperature goal
    2016 644 citations Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Joeri Rogelj et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  5. The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields
    2019 549 citations Malte Meinshausen, Katja Frieler et al. profile →
  6. Differential climate impacts for policy-relevant limits to global warming: the case of 1.5 °C and 2 °C
    2016 512 citations Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Tabea Lissner et al. Earth System Dynamics profile →
  7. Increased human and economic losses from river flooding with anthropogenic warming
    2018 508 citations Katja Frieler et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  8. Consistent negative response of US crops to high temperatures in observations and crop models
    2017 349 citations Philippe Ciais, Christoph Müller et al. Nature Communications profile →
  9. Increased record-breaking precipitation events under global warming
    2015 334 citations Katja Frieler et al. profile →
  10. Contribution of climate change to the spatial expansion of West Nile virus in Europe
    2024 51 citations Matthias Mengel, Katja Frieler et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Katja Frieler Germany 39 5.2k 2.6k 1.4k 1.4k 1.4k 106 10.0k
Richard H. Moss United States 27 7.8k 1.5× 4.0k 1.6× 1.8k 1.3× 1.8k 1.3× 1.3k 0.9× 62 13.5k
Mikiko Kainuma Japan 25 7.5k 1.4× 4.0k 1.5× 1.6k 1.1× 1.9k 1.3× 1.8k 1.3× 56 13.2k
Steven K. Rose United States 28 7.8k 1.5× 3.8k 1.5× 1.7k 1.2× 1.9k 1.4× 2.5k 1.8× 65 14.2k
Osvaldo Canziani 5 4.7k 0.9× 2.0k 0.8× 2.3k 1.6× 1.1k 0.8× 917 0.7× 5 11.7k
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 3 3.4k 0.7× 2.0k 0.8× 696 0.5× 672 0.5× 1.0k 0.8× 3 9.7k
Katherine Calvin United States 53 5.6k 1.1× 2.4k 0.9× 983 0.7× 1.7k 1.2× 3.1k 2.2× 158 12.3k
Thomas J. Wilbanks United States 25 4.6k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 920 0.7× 943 0.7× 68 8.4k
Roberto Zecchin Italy 12 5.6k 1.1× 3.8k 1.5× 1.0k 0.7× 998 0.7× 627 0.5× 28 13.4k
Tom Kram Netherlands 28 8.6k 1.7× 4.1k 1.6× 1.9k 1.4× 2.3k 1.6× 2.4k 1.7× 55 15.5k
Timothy R. Carter Finland 44 8.5k 1.6× 3.7k 1.4× 2.9k 2.1× 1.7k 1.2× 1.7k 1.2× 110 15.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katja Frieler

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Frieler, Katja, et al.. (2025). Socioeconomic predictors of vulnerability to flood-induced displacement. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8296–8296.
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Frieler, Katja, et al.. (2024). Limited progress in global reduction of vulnerability to flood impacts over the past two decades. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 9 indexed citations
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Shi, Hao, Hanqin Tian, Naiqing Pan, et al.. (2021). Saturation of Global Terrestrial Carbon Sink Under a High Warming Scenario. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(10). 22 indexed citations
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Thiery, Wim, Stefan Lange, Joeri Rogelj, et al.. (2020). The kids aren’t alright.
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Ueckerdt, Falko, Katja Frieler, Stefan Lange, et al.. (2019). The economically optimal warming limit of the planet. Earth System Dynamics. 10(4). 741–763. 16 indexed citations
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Ostberg, Sebastian, Jacob Schewe, Katelin Childers, & Katja Frieler. (2018). Changes in crop yields and their variability at different levels of global warming. Earth System Dynamics. 9(2). 479–496. 40 indexed citations
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Rückamp, Martin, Ulrike Falk, Katja Frieler, Stefan Lange, & Angelika Humbert. (2018). The effect of overshooting 1.5 °C global warming on the mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet. Earth System Dynamics. 9(4). 1169–1189. 11 indexed citations
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Schleussner, Carl‐Friedrich, Tabea Lissner, Erich Fischer, et al.. (2016). Differential climate impacts for policy-relevant limits to global warming: the case of 1.5 °C and 2 °C. Earth System Dynamics. 7(2). 327–351. 512 indexed citations breakdown →
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Frieler, Katja, Matthias Mengel, & Anders Levermann. (2016). Delaying future sea-level rise by storing water in Antarctica. Earth System Dynamics. 7(1). 203–210. 15 indexed citations
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Ruane, Alex C., Claas Teichmann, Timothy R. Carter, et al.. (2016). The Vulnerability, Impacts, Adaptation, and Climate Services (VIACS) Advisory Board for CMIP6. LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). 2 indexed citations
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Levermann, Anders, Ricarda Winkelmann, Sophie Nowicki, et al.. (2014). Projecting Antarctic ice discharge using response functions from SeaRISE ice-sheet models. Earth System Dynamics. 5(2). 271–293. 85 indexed citations
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Warszawski, Lila, Katja Frieler, Veronika Huber, et al.. (2013). The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI–MIP): Project framework. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(9). 3228–3232. 897 indexed citations breakdown →
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Frieler, Katja, et al.. (2013). Limiting global warming to 2 degrees C is unlikely to save most coral reefs. Nature Climate Change. 3(2). 14 indexed citations
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Huber, Veronika, et al.. (2013). ISI-MIP: The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project. AGUFM. 2013. 2 indexed citations
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Heinke, Jens, Sebastian Ostberg, Sibyll Schaphoff, et al.. (2013). A new climate dataset for systematic assessments of climate change impacts as a function of global warming. Geoscientific model development. 6(5). 1689–1703. 26 indexed citations
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Levermann, Anders, Ricarda Winkelmann, Sophie Nowicki, et al.. (2013). Projecting Antarctic ice discharge using response functions from SeaRISE ice-sheet models. 1 indexed citations
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Hempel, Sabrina, Katja Frieler, Lila Warszawski, Jacob Schewe, & Franziska Piontek. (2013). A trend-preserving bias correction – the ISI-MIP approach. Earth System Dynamics. 4(2). 219–236. 898 indexed citations breakdown →
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Perrette, Mahé, Felix W. Landerer, Riccardo Riva, Katja Frieler, & Malte Meinshausen. (2012). Probabilistic projection of sea-level change along the world's coastlines. 3 indexed citations
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Kremser, Stefanie, Robyn Schofield, G. E. Bodeker, et al.. (2011). Retrievals of chlorine chemistry kinetic parameters from Antarctic ClO microwave radiometer measurements. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 11(11). 5183–5193. 7 indexed citations
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Frieler, Katja, T. Canty, M. Dorf, et al.. (2005). Towards a Better Quantitative Understanding of Polar Stratospheric Ozone Loss. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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