Marcus Christl

11.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
280 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Marcus Christl is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcus Christl has authored 280 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 198 papers in Atmospheric Science, 70 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 60 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Marcus Christl's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (195 papers), Radioactive contamination and transfer (65 papers) and Geological formations and processes (53 papers). Marcus Christl is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (195 papers), Radioactive contamination and transfer (65 papers) and Geological formations and processes (53 papers). Marcus Christl collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Marcus Christl's co-authors include Peter W. Kubik, Hans‐Arno Synal, Susan Ivy‐Ochs, Christof Vockenhuber, Lukas Wacker, Johannes Lachner, H.-A. Synal, Christian Schlüchter, Núria Casacuberta and Augusto Mangini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Marcus Christl

266 papers receiving 6.9k 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.

9,400 years of cosmic radiation and solar activity from ice cores and tree rings

2012 557 citations Marcus Christl et al. profile →
Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier variations in the European Alps

2009 382 citations Susan Ivy‐Ochs, Marcus Christl et al. Quaternary Science Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marcus Christl Switzerland	38	4.6k	1.8k	1.3k	1.1k	883	280	7.1k
Hans‐Arno Synal Switzerland	48	4.5k 1.0×	2.5k 1.5×	853 0.7×	1.5k 1.5×	1.2k 1.3×	226	8.7k
Lukas Wacker Switzerland	56	7.5k 1.6×	2.6k 1.5×	950 0.7×	2.5k 2.4×	567 0.6×	277	11.6k
Sheng Xu United Kingdom	39	2.8k 0.6×	635 0.4×	947 0.7×	745 0.7×	318 0.4×	221	4.8k
G. M. Raisbeck France	54	6.6k 1.4×	1.0k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	567 0.6×	167	8.9k
Ian W. Croudace United Kingdom	42	2.8k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	907 1.0×	175	7.1k
Gideon M. Henderson United Kingdom	63	7.4k 1.6×	1.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.8×	3.1k 2.9×	260 0.3×	206	11.6k
Hiroyuki Matsuzaki Japan	36	1.9k 0.4×	876 0.5×	460 0.4×	781 0.7×	545 0.6×	238	4.2k
Friedhelm von Blanckenburg Germany	64	6.6k 1.4×	546 0.3×	2.7k 2.1×	1.6k 1.5×	247 0.3×	204	14.1k
Fred M. Phillips United States	52	6.3k 1.4×	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	1.3k 1.2×	288 0.3×	172	10.1k
J. Beer Switzerland	50	9.7k 2.1×	3.3k 1.9×	1.5k 1.2×	1.7k 1.7×	630 0.7×	179	13.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Marcus Christl

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marcus Christl

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcus Christl

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

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Šamonil, Pavel, Pavel Daněk, Dušan Adam, et al.. (2025). Trees slow down erosion and allow soil progression in an extremely high-rainfall old-growth mixed dipterocarp forest of southwest Sri Lanka. CATENA. 254. 108911–108911. 1 indexed citations

Ballato, Paolo, Marta Della Seta, Reza Nozaem, et al.. (2025). Coupling of Tectonics, Climate, and Lithology in Orogenic Systems: Insights From Cosmogenic ¹⁰Be Erosion Rates and River Profile Inversion Modeling in the Talesh Mountains, NW Iranian Plateau. Tectonics. 44(2).

Vanacker, Veerle, et al.. (2025). Constraining the timing and processes of pediment formation and dissection: implications for long-term evolution in the Western Cape, South Africa. Earth Surface Dynamics. 13(2). 315–339.

Ivy‐Ochs, Susan, Florian Kober, Bernhard Salcher, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive temporal and spatial analysis of Early Pleistocene drainage patterns on the Swiss Alpine foreland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 50(2). 1–23.

Raab, Gerald, Gonçalo Vieira, Piotr Migoń, et al.. (2024). Multi-millennia surface dynamics: Novel investigation approach unveils climate relation to mountain erosion (Serra da Estrela, Portugal). Geomorphology. 466. 109416–109416. 1 indexed citations

Scherler, Dirk, et al.. (2024). Prolonged sediment aggradation in an internal Himalayan valley due to out-of-sequence lateral fault growth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 647. 119054–119054.

García, Juan‐Luis, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Dmitry Tikhomirov, et al.. (2024). 10Be chronology of the Last Glacial Maximum and Termination in the Andes of central Chile: The record of the Universidad Glacier (34° S). Quaternary Science Reviews. 344. 108968–108968. 1 indexed citations

Akçar, Naki, et al.. (2024). The onset of Pliocene–Early Pleistocene fluvial aggradation in the Southeastern Alpine Foreland (Velenje Basin, Slovenia) and its paleoenvironmental implications. Journal of Quaternary Science. 39(5). 691–709. 3 indexed citations

Burg, Jean‐Pierre, et al.. (2023). Tectonics, Base‐Level Fluctuations, and Climate Impact on the Eocene to Present‐Day Erosional Pattern of the Arabia‐Eurasia Collision Zone (NNW Iranian Plateau and West Alborz Mountains). Tectonics. 42(8). 9 indexed citations

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Šamonil, Pavel, Pavel Daněk, Dmitry Tikhomirov, et al.. (2023). Soil erosion affected by trees in a tropical primary rain forest, Papua New Guinea. Geomorphology. 425. 108589–108589. 6 indexed citations

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Adolphi, Florian, Marcus Christl, K. C. Welten, et al.. (2023). Synchronizing ice-core and U ∕ Th timescales in the Last Glacial Maximum using Hulu Cave ¹⁴ C and new ¹⁰ Be measurements from Greenland and Antarctica. Climate of the past. 19(6). 1153–1175. 3 indexed citations

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Hippe, Kristina, John D. Jansen, Maarten Lupker, et al.. (2021). Cosmogenic in situ 14C-10Be reveals abrupt Late Holocene soil loss in the Andean Altiplano. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2546–2546. 20 indexed citations

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Baroni, Carlo, et al.. (2021). Last Lateglacial glacier advance in the Gran Paradiso Group reveals relatively drier climatic conditions established in the Western Alps since at least the Younger Dryas. Quaternary Science Reviews. 255. 106815–106815. 11 indexed citations

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Dai, X., et al.. (2021). Ultrasensitive Analytical Method for Direct Search of Primordial ²⁴⁴Pu in Bastnaesite. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 5(6). 1316–1324. 5 indexed citations

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Lin, Huei‐Ting, Hong‐Wei Chiang, Tsai‐Luen Yu, et al.. (2021). ²³⁶U/²³⁸U Analysis of Femtograms of ²³⁶U by MC-ICPMS. Analytical Chemistry. 93(24). 8442–8449. 5 indexed citations

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Akçar, Naki, Serdar Yeșilyurt, Kristina Hippe, et al.. (2020). Build-up and chronology of blue ice moraines in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Quaternary Science Advances. 2. 100012–100012. 8 indexed citations

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Lupker, Maarten, et al.. (2020). Timing of exotic, far-traveled boulder emplacement and paleo-outburst flooding in the central Himalayas. Earth Surface Dynamics. 8(3). 769–787. 20 indexed citations

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Gallen, Sean F., Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Susan Ivy‐Ochs, et al.. (2019). Chemical Versus Mechanical Denudation in Meta‐Clastic and Carbonate Bedrock Catchments on Crete, Greece, and Mechanisms for Steep and High Carbonate Topography. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 124(12). 2943–2961. 19 indexed citations

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Castrillejo, Maxi, Núria Casacuberta, Marcus Christl, et al.. (2018). Tracing water masses with ¹²⁹ I and ²³⁶ U in the subpolar North Atlantic along the GEOTRACES GA01 section. Biogeosciences. 15(18). 5545–5564. 24 indexed citations

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Dixon, J. L., Friedhelm von Blanckenburg, Kurt Stüwe, & Marcus Christl. (2016). Glaciation's topographic control on Holocene erosion at the eastern edge of the Alps. Earth Surface Dynamics. 4(4). 895–909. 16 indexed citations

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