Kira Rehfeld

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Kira Rehfeld is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Kira Rehfeld has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Atmospheric Science, 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Kira Rehfeld's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 papers), Climate variability and models (21 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (19 papers). Kira Rehfeld is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 papers), Climate variability and models (21 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (19 papers). Kira Rehfeld collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Kira Rehfeld's co-authors include Jürgen Kurths, Norbert Marwan, Thomas Laepple, Jobst Heitzig, Jens Mingram, Frank Schlütz, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Jiaqi Liu, Pavel E. Tarasov and Martina Stebich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kira Rehfeld

56 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Consistent multidecadal variability in global temperature reconstructions and simulations over the Common Era

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kira Rehfeld Germany	19	1.4k	521	290	283	257	63	1.8k
J. A. Rial United States	18	1.0k 0.8×	271 0.5×	246 0.8×	301 1.1×	235 0.9×	56	2.0k
Sushma Prasad Germany	23	1.5k 1.1×	183 0.4×	556 1.9×	436 1.5×	537 2.1×	51	2.1k
Nathan M. Urban United States	21	833 0.6×	650 1.2×	101 0.3×	169 0.6×	117 0.5×	52	1.5k
Reinhard Calov Germany	22	1.9k 1.4×	591 1.1×	136 0.5×	178 0.6×	114 0.4×	44	2.3k
Bedartha Goswami India	28	2.0k 1.5×	2.2k 4.2×	226 0.8×	168 0.6×	114 0.4×	58	3.0k
Hezi Gildor Israel	25	1.2k 0.9×	731 1.4×	181 0.6×	609 2.2×	187 0.7×	107	2.2k
Willie Soon United States	29	1.2k 0.9×	946 1.8×	84 0.3×	210 0.7×	127 0.5×	114	2.9k
J. W. C. White United States	11	1.8k 1.3×	422 0.8×	248 0.9×	513 1.8×	204 0.8×	21	2.1k
D. M. Sonechkin Russia	13	1.4k 1.0×	937 1.8×	106 0.4×	164 0.6×	186 0.7×	64	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Kira Rehfeld

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kira Rehfeld

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All Works

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Jonkers, Lukas, et al.. (2025). Testing the reliability of global surface temperature reconstructions of the Last Glacial Cycle with pseudo-proxy experiments. Climate of the past. 21(2). 381–403. 1 indexed citations

Fohlmeister, Jens, Andrea Columbu, Guido Vettoretti, et al.. (2023). Global reorganization of atmospheric circulation during Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(36). e2302283120–e2302283120. 12 indexed citations

May, Matthias M. & Kira Rehfeld. (2022). Negative Emissions as the New Frontier of Photoelectrochemical CO₂ Reduction. Advanced Energy Materials. 12(21). 16 indexed citations

Lechleitner, Franziska A., Jens Fohlmeister, Allegra N. LeGrande, et al.. (2022). Investigating stable oxygen and carbon isotopic variability in speleothem records over the last millennium using multiple isotope-enabled climate models. Climate of the past. 18(7). 1625–1654. 12 indexed citations

Bothe, Oliver, Kira Rehfeld, Bronwen Konecky, & Lukas Jonkers. (2021). Towards increased interoperability of paleoenvironmental observation data. Past Global Change Magazine. 29(1). 59–59. 1 indexed citations

Werner, Martin, et al.. (2021). Parameterization dependence of the hydrological cycle in a general circulation model of intermediate complexity.

Rehfeld, Kira, et al.. (2021). TransEBM v. 1.0: description, tuning, and validation of a transient model of the Earth's energy balance in two dimensions. Geoscientific model development. 14(5). 2843–2866. 8 indexed citations

Hébert, Raphaël, Kira Rehfeld, & Thomas Laepple. (2021). Comparing estimation techniques for timescale-dependent scaling ofclimate variability in paleoclimate time series. 2 indexed citations

Sime, Louise C., et al.. (2021). Comparison of the oxygen isotope signatures in speleothem records and iHadCM3 model simulations for the last millennium. Climate of the past. 17(3). 985–1004. 13 indexed citations

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Hébert, Raphaël, Kira Rehfeld, & Thomas Laepple. (2021). Comparing estimation techniques for temporal scaling in palaeoclimate time series. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 28(3). 311–328. 8 indexed citations

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Kölbach, Moritz, Kira Rehfeld, & Matthias M. May. (2021). Efficiency gains for thermally coupled solar hydrogen production in extreme cold. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(8). 4410–4417. 11 indexed citations

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Rehfeld, Kira, Raphaël Hébert, Juan M. Lora, Marcus Löfverström, & Chris Brierley. (2020). Variability of surface climate in simulations of past and future. Earth System Dynamics. 11(2). 447–468. 26 indexed citations

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Comas‐Bru, Laia, Sandy P. Harrison, Martin Werner, et al.. (2019). Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change since the last glacial. Climate of the past. 15(4). 1557–1579. 43 indexed citations

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Rehfeld, Kira, et al.. (2019). Empirical estimate of the signal content of Holocene temperature proxy records. Climate of the past. 15(2). 521–537. 12 indexed citations

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Rehfeld, Kira, Mathias Trachsel, Richard J. Telford, & Thomas Laepple. (2016). Assessing performance and seasonal bias of pollen-based climate reconstructions in a perfect model world. Climate of the past. 12(12). 2255–2270. 29 indexed citations

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Donges, Jonathan F., Reik V. Donner, Norbert Marwan, et al.. (2015). Non-linear regime shifts in Holocene Asian monsoon variability: potential impacts on cultural change and migratory patterns. Climate of the past. 11(5). 709–741. 41 indexed citations

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Goswami, Bedartha, Jobst Heitzig, Kira Rehfeld, et al.. (2014). Estimation of sedimentary proxy records together with associated uncertainty. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 21(6). 1093–1111. 8 indexed citations

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Rehfeld, Kira & Jürgen Kurths. (2014). Similarity estimators for irregular and age-uncertain time series. Climate of the past. 10(1). 107–122. 40 indexed citations

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Breitenbach, Sebastian F. M., Kira Rehfeld, Bedartha Goswami, et al.. (2012). COnstructing Proxy-Record Age models (COPRA). 4 indexed citations

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Breitenbach, Sebastian F. M., Kira Rehfeld, Bedartha Goswami, et al.. (2012). COnstructing Proxy Records from Age models (COPRA). Climate of the past. 8(5). 1765–1779. 192 indexed citations

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