Kevin Schaefer

17.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
94 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Kevin Schaefer is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Schaefer has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Atmospheric Science, 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kevin Schaefer's work include Climate change and permafrost (49 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (38 papers) and Climate variability and models (28 papers). Kevin Schaefer is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (49 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (38 papers) and Climate variability and models (28 papers). Kevin Schaefer collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Kevin Schaefer's co-authors include Tingjun Zhang, Edward A. G. Schuur, V. E. Romanovsky, Gustaf Hugelius, Daniel J. Hayes, Guido Grosse, Charles D. Koven, Susan M. Natali, David M. Lawrence and A. David McGuire and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Schaefer

89 papers receiving 7.8k 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.

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

2015 2.5k citations Daniel J. Hayes, Charles D. Koven et al. profile →
Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements

2019 323 citations Dmitry Yumashev, Chris Hope et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kevin Schaefer	5.0k	3.3k	1.7k	722	608	94	8.0k
Gerhard Krinner	7.5k 1.5×	5.2k 1.6×	1.7k 1.0×	611 0.8×	475 0.8×	141	10.5k
Xiaodong Liu	8.5k 1.7×	5.5k 1.7×	1.6k 1.0×	477 0.7×	668 1.1×	339	13.5k
M. Noguer	3.0k 0.6×	3.6k 1.1×	766 0.5×	344 0.5×	380 0.6×	12	5.9k
Jasmin G. John	3.1k 0.6×	5.2k 1.6×	1.4k 0.8×	621 0.9×	391 0.6×	70	8.0k
Daniel J. Hayes	4.4k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	954 1.3×	769 1.3×	86	6.7k
Sylvie Joussaume	3.9k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	984 0.6×	366 0.5×	306 0.5×	55	5.8k
Glen M. MacDonald	9.4k 1.9×	4.0k 1.2×	4.4k 2.6×	1.0k 1.4×	351 0.6×	207	13.6k
Susan M. Natali	4.8k 1.0×	1.7k 0.5×	2.0k 1.2×	844 1.2×	296 0.5×	100	6.6k
J. B. Miller	6.5k 1.3×	9.4k 2.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.7×	804 1.3×	161	11.6k
Peter Huybers	4.5k 0.9×	2.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	624 0.9×	256 0.4×	151	8.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Schaefer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Schaefer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Schaefer

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

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Schaefer, Kevin, Roger Michaelides, Richard H. Chen, et al.. (2025). Permafrost Dynamics Observatory: 3. Remote Sensing Big Data for the Active Layer, Soil Moisture, and Greening and Browning. Earth and Space Science. 12(1). 1 indexed citations

Huang, Lingcao, M. J. Willis, Trevor C. Lantz, et al.. (2023). Identifying active retrogressive thaw slumps from ArcticDEM. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 205. 301–316. 20 indexed citations

Fisher, Joshua B., Christopher R. Schwalm, Nicholas C. Parazoo, et al.. (2022). The Terrestrial Biosphere Model Farm. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(2). e2021MS002676–e2021MS002676. 6 indexed citations

Chen, Richard H., Roger Michaelides, Lingcao Huang, et al.. (2022). Permafrost Dynamics Observatory (PDO): 2. Joint Retrieval of Permafrost Active Layer Thickness and Soil Moisture From L‐Band InSAR and P‐Band PolSAR. Earth and Space Science. 10(1). 11 indexed citations

Michaelides, Roger, Richard H. Chen, Kevin Schaefer, et al.. (2021). Permafrost Dynamics Observatory—Part I: Postprocessing and Calibration Methods of UAVSAR L‐Band InSAR Data for Seasonal Subsidence Estimation. Earth and Space Science. 8(7). e2020EA001630–e2020EA001630. 19 indexed citations

Jia, Binghao, Xin Luo, Ximing Cai, et al.. (2020). Impacts of land use change and elevated CO ₂ on the interannual variations and seasonal cycles of gross primary productivity in China. Earth System Dynamics. 11(1). 235–249. 21 indexed citations

Andresen, Christian, David M. Lawrence, Cathy J. Wilson, et al.. (2020). Soil moisture and hydrology projections of the permafrost region – a model intercomparison. The cryosphere. 14(2). 445–459. 114 indexed citations

Schwalm, Christopher R., Kevin Schaefer, Joshua B. Fisher, et al.. (2019). Divergence in land surface modeling: linking spread to structure. Environmental Research Communications. 1(11). 111004–111004. 18 indexed citations

Haynes, Katherine, Ian Baker, Scott Denning, et al.. (2019). Representing Grasslands Using Dynamic Prognostic Phenology Based on Biological Growth Stages: 1. Implementation in the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB4). Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(12). 4423–4439. 30 indexed citations

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Yumashev, Dmitry, Chris Hope, Kevin Schaefer, et al.. (2019). Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1900–1900. 323 indexed citations breakdown →

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Frost, Gerald V., et al.. (2019). Does Tundra Fire Accelerate Drainage of Lakes in Discontinuous Permafrost? Evidence from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Shiga, Yoichi P., A. M. Michalak, Yuanyuan Fang, et al.. (2018). Forests dominate the interannual variability of the North American carbon sink. Environmental Research Letters. 13(8). 84015–84015. 23 indexed citations

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Wang, Kang, Elchin Jafarov, Irina Overeem, et al.. (2018). A synthesis dataset of permafrost-affected soil thermal conditions for Alaska, USA. Earth system science data. 10(4). 2311–2328. 23 indexed citations

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Velde, Ivar R. van der, J. B. Miller, M. K. van der Molen, et al.. (2018). The CarbonTracker Data Assimilation System for CO ₂ and δ ¹³ C (CTDAS-C13 v1.0): retrieving information on land–atmosphere exchange processes. Geoscientific model development. 11(1). 283–304. 7 indexed citations

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Velde, Ivar R. van der, J. B. Miller, M. K. van der Molen, et al.. (2017). A multi-species data assimilation system to retrieve information on land-atmosphere exchange processes. 1 indexed citations

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Schaefer, Kevin, et al.. (2017). Data Integration Tool: Permafrost Data Debugging. AGUFM. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Overeem, Irina, et al.. (2017). Coupling of snow and permafrost processes using the Basic Modeling Interface (BMI). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Velde, Ivar R. van der, J. B. Miller, Kevin Schaefer, et al.. (2014). Towards multi-tracer data-assimilation: biomass burning and carbon isotope exchange in SiBCASA. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2 indexed citations

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Huntzinger, D. N., Christopher R. Schwalm, A. M. Michalak, et al.. (2013). Global net land carbon sink: Results from the Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP). AGUFM. 2013.

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Schaefer, Kevin, et al.. (2010). Strength and Timing of the Permafrost Carbon Feedback. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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