Matthias Braun

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
159 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Matthias Braun is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthias Braun has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Atmospheric Science, 52 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 32 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Matthias Braun's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (112 papers), Climate change and permafrost (56 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (51 papers). Matthias Braun is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (112 papers), Climate change and permafrost (56 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (51 papers). Matthias Braun collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Matthias Braun's co-authors include Thorsten Seehaus, Melanie Rankl, Björn Waske, Saurabh Vijay, Regine Hock, Philipp Malz, Ioannis Manakos, Christian Sommer, Angelika Humbert and N. Blindow and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Matthias Braun

147 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

The safety band of Antarctic ice shelves 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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.

  1. The safety band of Antarctic ice shelves
    2016 314 citations Johannes J. Fürst, Matthias Braun et al. profile →

Peers

Matthias Braun
Stef Lhermitte Netherlands
Michael P. Bishop United States
Michael Zemp Switzerland
Duncan J. Quincey United Kingdom
Hongxing Liu United States
A. W. Nolin United States
F. Paul Switzerland
John M. Reynolds United Kingdom
Anil V. Kulkarni India
Dorothy K. Hall United States
Stef Lhermitte Netherlands
Matthias Braun
Citations per year, relative to Matthias Braun Matthias Braun (= 1×) peers Stef Lhermitte

Countries citing papers authored by Matthias Braun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthias Braun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthias Braun

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Humbert, Angelika, et al.. (2025). Multi-annual patterns of rapidly draining supraglacial lakes in Northeast Greenland. ˜The œcryosphere. 19(7). 2601–2614.
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Sandhage‐Hofmann, Alexandra, Matthias Braun, Lydia M. Chabala, et al.. (2025). Anthropogenic Disturbances Superimpose Climate Effects on Soil Organic Carbon in Savanna Woodlands of Sub‐Saharan Africa. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(2). 2 indexed citations
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Sommer, Christian, N. Blindow, Pedro Skvarca, et al.. (2025). The state and fate of Glaciar Perito Moreno Patagonia. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).
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Mölg, Thomas, Matthias Braun, Nicolas J. Cullen, et al.. (2024). Tropical glacier loss in East Africa: recent areal extents on Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and in the Rwenzori Range from high-resolution remote sensing data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 11003–11003. 4 indexed citations
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Braun, Matthias, et al.. (2024). Design and Verification of a Versatile and Lightweight Radar Platform for High-Resolution Imaging of Glacial Subsurface Structures. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 871–880. 1 indexed citations
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Graiff, Angelika, Matthias Braun, Amelie Driemel, et al.. (2023). Big data in Antarctic sciences – current status, gaps, and future perspectives. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 91. 45–57. 1 indexed citations
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Humbert, Angelika, Dietmar Groß, Ralf Müller, et al.. (2023). Fractures in glaciers—Crack tips and their stress fields by observation and modeling. PAMM. 23(3). 1 indexed citations
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Morgenshtern, Veniamin I., et al.. (2022). A Self-Trained Model for Cloud, Shadow and Snow Detection in Sentinel-2 Images of Snow- and Ice-Covered Regions. Remote Sensing. 14(8). 1825–1825. 12 indexed citations
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Seehaus, Thorsten, et al.. (2022). Pixelwise Distance Regression for Glacier Calving Front Detection and Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–10. 11 indexed citations
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Seehaus, Thorsten, et al.. (2022). How to Get the Most Out of U-Net for Glacier Calving Front Segmentation. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 15. 1712–1723. 16 indexed citations
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Rounce, David R., Regine Hock, Robert McNabb, et al.. (2021). Distributed Global Debris Thickness Estimates Reveal Debris Significantly Impacts Glacier Mass Balance. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(8). e2020GL091311–e2020GL091311. 94 indexed citations
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Richter, Andreas, Philipp Malz, J. L. Hormaechea, et al.. (2020). Perito Moreno Glacier dam rupture - A recurrent natural experiment to probe solid-earth elasticity. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 104. 102904–102904. 2 indexed citations
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Fürst, Johannes J., et al.. (2020). Brief communication: Glacier thickness reconstruction on Mt. Kilimanjaro. ˜The œcryosphere. 14(10). 3399–3406. 2 indexed citations
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Seehaus, Thorsten, et al.. (2020). Glacier Front Detection at Tidewater Glaciers from Radar Images. 1 indexed citations
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Braun, Matthias, et al.. (2019). The RETREAT-project: derivation and distribution of remotely sensed variables for glaciers and ice caps outside of the polar ice sheets. EGUGA. 6837. 1 indexed citations
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Láska, Kamil, Zbyněk Engel, Daniel Nývlt, et al.. (2017). Response of glacier mass on recent temperature cooling in northeastern Antarctic Peninsula. EGUGA. 2601. 1 indexed citations
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Bers, A. Valeria, Fernando Momo, Irene R Schloss, Doris Abele, & Matthias Braun. (2012). Analysis of trends and sudden changes in environmental long-term data from King George Island (Antarctica): Relationships between global climatic oscillations and local system response. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations
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Möller, Marco, Roman Finkelnburg, Matthias Braun, et al.. (2011). Climatic mass balance of the ice cap Vestfonna, Svalbard: A spatially distributed assessment using ERA-Interim and MODIS data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116(F3). 29 indexed citations
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Thonfeld, Frank, et al.. (2010). From Algorithms to Processing Chains: A Review of Land Cover and Land Use Change Detection Methodologies. 686. 478. 1 indexed citations
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Vogt, Steffen, Matthias Braun, & Ricardo Jaña. (2004). The King George Island Geographic Information System project. 4(1). 183–185. 5 indexed citations

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