Markus Stoffel

30.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
436 papers, 20.1k citations indexed

About

Markus Stoffel is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Stoffel has authored 436 papers receiving a total of 20.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 304 papers in Atmospheric Science, 221 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 194 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Markus Stoffel's work include Landslides and related hazards (192 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (181 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (129 papers). Markus Stoffel is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (192 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (181 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (129 papers). Markus Stoffel collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and Spain. Markus Stoffel's co-authors include Michelle Bollschweiler, Christophe Corona, Martin Beniston, Christian Huggel, Juan Antonio Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Tobias Bolch, Annina Sorg, Virginia Ruíz‐Villanueva, Jérôme Lopez‐Saez and Anil V. Kulkarni and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Markus Stoffel

422 papers receiving 19.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The State and Fate of Himalayan Glaciers

2012 1.6k citations Anil V. Kulkarni, Christian Huggel et al. profile →
21st century climate change in the European Alps—A review

2013 786 citations Markus Stoffel et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →
Climate change impacts on glaciers and runoff in Tien Shan (Central Asia)

2012 735 citations Markus Stoffel et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Hydrogeomorphic response to extreme rainfall in headwater systems: Flash floods and debris flows

2014 366 citations Markus Stoffel et al. profile →
Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation

2021 240 citations Guoxiong Zheng, Simon Allen et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Markus Stoffel	13.1k	8.5k	8.1k	3.7k	2.7k	436	20.1k
Douglas W. Burbank	10.6k 0.8×	3.4k 0.4×	3.9k 0.5×	2.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	162	21.7k
Rens van Beek	4.6k 0.4×	7.1k 0.8×	1.9k 0.2×	1.8k 0.5×	7.7k 2.8×	143	18.3k
John J. Clague	9.0k 0.7×	2.4k 0.3×	5.0k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	796 0.3×	351	13.6k
Yaning Chen	6.9k 0.5×	11.3k 1.3×	1.1k 0.1×	2.9k 0.8×	6.9k 2.5×	558	19.8k
David R. Montgomery	4.5k 0.3×	1.9k 0.2×	4.4k 0.5×	2.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	124	11.5k
Martin Beniston	7.7k 0.6×	7.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.1×	1.9k 0.5×	2.6k 1.0×	171	14.0k
Juan Ignacio López‐Moreno	8.9k 0.7×	17.5k 2.1×	1.1k 0.1×	2.4k 0.6×	7.1k 2.6×	296	23.5k
Zhenlin Chen	7.6k 0.6×	10.0k 1.2×	827 0.1×	3.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	13	19.6k
John T. Abatzoglou	6.8k 0.5×	19.4k 2.3×	2.9k 0.4×	6.8k 1.8×	2.7k 1.0×	294	25.8k
Christian Huggel	9.9k 0.8×	3.2k 0.4×	5.7k 0.7×	973 0.3×	1.3k 0.5×	218	13.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Markus Stoffel

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Corona, Christophe, Jérôme Lopez‐Saez, Simon J. Allen, et al.. (2025). Coupling tree-ring and geomorphic analyses to reconstruct the 1950s massive Glacier Lake Outburst Flood at Grosse Glacier, Chilean Patagonia. The Science of The Total Environment. 961. 178368–178368. 3 indexed citations

Muccione, Veruska, et al.. (2024). Trends in climate adaptation solutions for mountain regions. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 29(7). 3 indexed citations

Jacquemart, Mylène, Samuel Weber, Marta Chiarle, et al.. (2024). Detecting the impact of climate change on alpine mass movements in observational records from the European Alps. Earth-Science Reviews. 258. 104886–104886. 29 indexed citations

Liébault, Frédéric, Juan Antonio Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Jérôme Lopez‐Saez, et al.. (2024). A supply-limited torrent that does not feel the heat of climate change. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9078–9078. 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Guanyu, Mengzhen Xu, Chao Ma, et al.. (2023). Assessment of check dams and afforestation in mitigating debris flows based on dendrogeomorphic reconstructions, field surveys and semi-empirical models. CATENA. 232. 107434–107434. 4 indexed citations

Corona, Christophe, et al.. (2023). Vessels in a Rhododendron ferrugineum (L.) population do not trace temperature anymore at the alpine shrubline. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 1023384–1023384. 6 indexed citations

Björklund, Jesper, Kristina Seftigen, Markus Stoffel, et al.. (2023). Fennoscandian tree-ring anatomy shows a warmer modern than medieval climate. Nature. 620(7972). 97–103. 42 indexed citations

Allen, Simon, Stephen G. Evans, Jeffrey S. Kargel, et al.. (2022). Geomorphic process chains in high-mountain regions - A review and classification approach for natural hazards assessment. 1 indexed citations

Allen, Kathryn, Chris Gouramanis, Benjamin Keenan, et al.. (2022). Coupled insights from the palaeoenvironmental, historical and archaeological archives to support social-ecological resilience and the sustainable development goals. Environmental Research Letters. 17(5). 55011–55011. 11 indexed citations

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Schauwecker, Simone, et al.. (2021). Heavy precipitation forecasts over Switzerland – An evaluation of bias-corrected ECMWF predictions. Weather and Climate Extremes. 34. 100372–100372. 9 indexed citations

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Zheng, Guoxiong, Simon Allen, Anming Bao, et al.. (2021). Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation. Nature Climate Change. 11(5). 411–417. 240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schauwecker, Simone, Estíbaliz Gascón, Shinju Park, et al.. (2019). Anticipating cascading effects of extreme precipitation with pathway schemes - Three case studies from Europe. Environment International. 127. 291–304. 28 indexed citations

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Ruíz‐Villanueva, Virginia, Bruno Mazzorana, Ernest Bladé, et al.. (2019). Characterization of wood‐laden flows in rivers. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 44(9). 1694–1709. 80 indexed citations

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Churakova, Olga V., Marina V. Fonti, Matthias Saurer, et al.. (2018). Heterogeneous response of Siberian tree-ring and stable isotope proxies to the largest Common Era volcanic eruptions. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 3 indexed citations

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Huggel, Christian, Christian Huggel, Christian Huggel, et al.. (2015). The High-Mountain Cryosphere. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 35 indexed citations

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Rohrer, Mario, Nadine Salzmann, Markus Stoffel, & Anil V. Kulkarni. (2013). Missing (in-situ) snow cover data hampers climate change and runoff studies in the Greater Himalayas. The Science of The Total Environment. 468-469. S60–S70. 47 indexed citations

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Astrade, Laurent, et al.. (2011). Quantification des vitesses d'érosion au moyen de racines déchaussées: validation de la méthode dans les badlands marneux des bassins versants expérimentaux de Draix (Alpes de Haute-Provence). Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 3 indexed citations

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Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Juan Antonio, Markus Stoffel, Michelle Bollschweiler, et al.. (2008). Wood anatomy of debris-flood scars in broadleaved tree species of central Spain. UPM Digital Archive (Technical University of Madrid). 1 indexed citations

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Herrero, Andrés Díez, et al.. (2008). Towards a classificatión of dendrogeomorphological evidences and their utility in flood hazard analysis. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 3 indexed citations

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Herrero, Andrés Díez, et al.. (2007). Mejoras en la estimación de la frecuencia y magnitud de avenidas torrenciales mediante técnicas dendrogeomorfológicas. UPM Digital Archive (Technical University of Madrid). 7 indexed citations

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