Keith R. Briffa

36.9k total citations · 10 hit papers
145 papers, 23.7k citations indexed

About

Keith R. Briffa is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith R. Briffa has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 23.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Atmospheric Science, 120 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Keith R. Briffa's work include Tree-ring climate responses (105 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (80 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (65 papers). Keith R. Briffa is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (105 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (80 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (65 papers). Keith R. Briffa collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and United States. Keith R. Briffa's co-authors include P. D. Jones, Timothy J. Osborn, T. M. L. Wigley, Fritz Hans Schweingruber, Thomas Melvin, Jonathan Barichivich, Gerard van der Schrier, Edward R. Cook, Kevin E. Trenberth and Justin Sheffield and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Keith R. Briffa

145 papers receiving 22.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

On the Average Value of Correlated Time Series, with Applications in Dendroclimatology and Hydrometeorology

1984 3.0k citations T. M. L. Wigley, Keith R. Briffa et al. profile →
Global warming and changes in drought

2013 2.5k citations P. D. Jones, Keith R. Briffa et al. profile →
Reduced sensitivity of recent tree-growth to temperature at high northern latitudes

1998 637 citations Keith R. Briffa, Fritz Hans Schweingruber et al. Nature profile →
Fennoscandian summers from ad 500: temperature changes on short and long timescales

1992 607 citations Keith R. Briffa, P. D. Jones et al. Climate Dynamics profile →
Seasonal temperatures in Britain during the past 22,000 years, reconstructed using beetle remains

1987 602 citations T. C. Atkinson, Keith R. Briffa et al. Nature profile →
High-resolution palaeoclimatic records for the last millennium: interpretation, integration and comparison with General Circulation Model control-run temperatures

1998 600 citations P. D. Jones, Keith R. Briffa et al. The Holocene profile →
Influence of volcanic eruptions on Northern Hemisphere summer temperature over the past 600 years

1998 599 citations Keith R. Briffa, P. D. Jones et al. Nature profile →
The 'segment length curse' in long tree-ring chronology development for palaeoclimatic studies

1995 556 citations Keith R. Briffa et al. The Holocene profile →
A scPDSI‐based global data set of dry and wet spells for 1901–2009

2013 495 citations Keith R. Briffa, P. D. Jones et al. profile →
A 3,500-year tree-ring record of annual precipitation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

2014 432 citations Bao Yang, Chun Qin et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Climate Control on Tree Growth at the Upper and Lower Treelines: A Case Study in the Qilian Mountains, Tibetan Plateau 2013 ·PLoS ONE ·Bao Yang, Minhui He, Thomas Melvin, Yan Zhao, Keith R. Briffa	66
2	Radial Growth of Qilian Juniper on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau and Potential Climate Associations 2013 ·PLoS ONE ·Chun Qin, Bao Yang, Thomas Melvin, Ze‐Xin Fan, Yan Zhao, Keith R. Briffa	26
3	Potential bias in ‘updating’ tree-ring chronologies using regional curve standardisation: Re-processing 1500 years of Torneträsk density and ring-width data 2012 ·The Holocene ·Thomas Melvin, Håkan Grudd, Keith R. Briffa	86
4	Construction of a 10‐min‐gridded precipitation data set for the Greater Alpine Region for 1800–2003 2006 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Dimitrios Efthymiadis, P. D. Jones, Keith R. Briffa, Ingeborg Auer, Reinhard Böhm, Wolfgang Schöner, Christoph Frei, Jürg Schmidli	94
5	Extending Greenland temperature records into the late eighteenth century 2006 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Bo Vinther, K. K. Andersen, P. D. Jones, Keith R. Briffa, John Cappelen	92
6	Towards an absolute chronology for the marine environment: the development of a 1000-year record from Arctica islandica 2003 ·EAEJA ·(unknown), James Scourse, Ian Harris, C. A. Richardson, P. D. Jones, Keith R. Briffa, Jan Heinemeier	4
7	Tree-ring width and density data around the Northern Hemisphere: Part 1, local and regional climate signals 2002 ·The Holocene ·Keith R. Briffa, Timothy J. Osborn, Fritz Hans Schweingruber, P. D. Jones, S. G. Shiyatov, Еugene А. Vaganov	281
8	ADVANCE-10K: a European contribution towards a hemispheric dendroclimatology for the Holocene 2002 ·The Holocene ·Keith R. Briffa, John A. Matthews	14
9	Revisiting timescale-dependent reconstruction of climate from tree-ring chronologies 2000 ·Dendrochronologia ·Timothy J. Osborn, Keith R. Briffa	26
10	Global warming: the world heats up 2000 ·UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) ·David Viner, Timothy J. Osborn, P. D. Jones, Keith R. Briffa, (unknown), S. C. B. Raper	1
11	Evaluation of the North Atlantic Oscillation as simulated by a coupled climate model 1999 ·Climate Dynamics ·Timothy J. Osborn, Keith R. Briffa, Simon F. B. Tett, P. D. Jones, Ricardo M. Trigo	268
12	Historical climatology and dendroclimatology in the Blue Nile River basin, northern Ethiopia 1998 ·UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) ·Declan Conway, Nicholas J. Brooks, Keith R. Briffa, (unknown)	9
13	Potential long-chronology development on the Northwest Siberian Plain: early results 1996 ·UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) ·S. G. Shiyatov, Rashit Hantemirov, Fritz Hans Schweingruber, Keith R. Briffa, (unknown)	7
14	Glacier change in northern Sweden from AD 500: a simple geometric model of Storglaciären 1996 ·Journal of Glaciology ·(unknown), Keith R. Briffa, (unknown)	7
15	Cod and climate: the spatial and temporal context 1994 ·Figshare ·Robert R. Dickson, Keith R. Briffa, Timothy J. Osborn	9
16	Tree-ring density reconstructions of summer temperature patterns across Western North America since 1600 1992 ·UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) ·Keith R. Briffa, (unknown), (unknown)	1
17	Global Surface Air Temperature Variations During the Twentieth Century: Part 1, Spatial, Temporal and Seasonal Details 1992 ·The Holocene ·P. D. Jones, Keith R. Briffa	241
18	Patterns of tree growth and related pressure variability in Europe 1987 ·Dendrochronologia ·Keith R. Briffa, T. M. L. Wigley, P. D. Jones, J. R. Pilcher, Claire Hughes	11
19	Seasonal temperatures in Britain during the past 22,000 years, reconstructed using beetle remains breakdown → 1987 ·Nature ·T. C. Atkinson, Keith R. Briffa, G. Russell Coope	602
20	Climate reconstruction from tree rings: Part 2, spatial reconstruction of summer mean sea‐level pressure patterns over Great Britain 1986 ·Journal of Climatology ·Keith R. Briffa, P. D. Jones, T. M. L. Wigley, J. R. Pilcher, M. G. L. Baillie	51

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