Michelle Tigchelaar

3.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
23 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Michelle Tigchelaar is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Michelle Tigchelaar has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Atmospheric Science, 6 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Michelle Tigchelaar's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (3 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (3 papers). Michelle Tigchelaar is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (3 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (3 papers). Michelle Tigchelaar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Malaysia and Netherlands. Michelle Tigchelaar's co-authors include David S. Battisti, Rosamond L. Naylor, Raymond B. Huey, Joshua J. Tewksbury, Curtis Deutsch, Scott C. Merrill, D. K. Ray, Axel Timmermann, June T. Spector and Tobias Friedrich and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michelle Tigchelaar

20 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate

2018 827 citations Curtis Deutsch, Joshua J. Tewksbury et al. Science profile →
Future warming increases probability of globally synchronized maize production shocks

2018 328 citations Michelle Tigchelaar, David S. Battisti et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Blue food demand across geographic and temporal scales

2021 225 citations Rosamond L. Naylor, Avinash Kishore et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michelle Tigchelaar United States	12	637	389	350	305	296	23	1.8k
Weiguo Sang China	27	618 1.0×	518 1.3×	299 0.9×	635 2.1×	441 1.5×	118	2.3k
Zafar A. Reshi India	28	1.4k 2.1×	597 1.5×	272 0.8×	158 0.5×	431 1.5×	156	2.5k
Bharat Babu Shrestha Nepal	22	617 1.0×	406 1.0×	304 0.9×	455 1.5×	460 1.6×	94	2.0k
Erwin Bergmeier Germany	25	1.3k 2.1×	904 2.3×	390 1.1×	663 2.2×	531 1.8×	140	2.7k
Xubin Pan China	21	294 0.5×	144 0.4×	238 0.7×	295 1.0×	378 1.3×	67	1.5k
Adam R. Martin Canada	25	620 1.0×	298 0.8×	298 0.9×	766 2.5×	331 1.1×	71	2.1k
Céline Boutin Canada	30	1.2k 2.0×	615 1.6×	330 0.9×	384 1.3×	734 2.5×	77	3.0k
Nobuhiro Kaneko Japan	27	492 0.8×	543 1.4×	293 0.8×	358 1.2×	668 2.3×	109	2.1k
Alan House Australia	24	286 0.4×	534 1.4×	222 0.6×	565 1.9×	571 1.9×	52	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Michelle Tigchelaar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michelle Tigchelaar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michelle Tigchelaar

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Agostini, Vera N., Erik Olsen, Edward H. Allison, et al.. (2025). Charting a science course for the sustainable transformation of aquatic food systems. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 82(1).

Tigchelaar, Michelle, Bethany Jackson, Elizabeth R. Selig, et al.. (2025). Decent work in fishing in a changing climate. Marine Policy. 181. 106846–106846.

Tigchelaar, Michelle, Elizabeth R. Selig, Ali Sarhadi, et al.. (2024). Nutrition-sensitive climate risk across food production systems. Environmental Research Letters. 20(1). 14046–14046. 2 indexed citations

Kruijssen, Froukje, Michelle Tigchelaar, Colette C. C. Wabnitz, et al.. (2024). Climate-resilient aquatic food systems require transformative change to address gender and intersectional inequalities. PLOS Climate. 3(7). e0000309–e0000309. 2 indexed citations

Bograd, Steven J., Gabrielle Canonico, Sanae Chiba, et al.. (2024). Advancing the climate-biodiversity-fisheries nexus in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 81(9). 1705–1711.

Masuda, Yuta J., Luke Parsons, June T. Spector, et al.. (2024). Impacts of warming on outdoor worker well-being in the tropics and adaptation options. One Earth. 7(3). 382–400. 18 indexed citations

Naylor, Rosamond L., Avinash Kishore, U. Rashid Sumaila, et al.. (2021). Blue food demand across geographic and temporal scales. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5413–5413. 225 indexed citations breakdown →

Parsons, Luke, Drew Shindell, Michelle Tigchelaar, Yuqiang Zhang, & June T. Spector. (2021). Increased labor losses and decreased adaptation potential in a warmer world. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7286–7286. 58 indexed citations

Tigchelaar, Michelle. (2020). Satellites for supply-side water balancing. Nature Food. 1(2). 104–104. 1 indexed citations

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Tigchelaar, Michelle, David S. Battisti, & June T. Spector. (2020). Work adaptations insufficient to address growing heat risk for U.S. agricultural workers. Environmental Research Letters. 15(9). 94035–94035. 51 indexed citations

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Tigchelaar, Michelle, Axel Timmermann, Tobias Friedrich, Malte Heinemann, & David Pollard. (2019). Nonlinear response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to late Quaternary sea level and climate forcing. The cryosphere. 13(10). 2615–2631. 9 indexed citations

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Tigchelaar, Michelle, Axel Timmermann, David Pollard, Tobias Friedrich, & Malte Heinemann. (2018). Local insolation changes enhance Antarctic interglacials: Insights from an 800,000-year ice sheet simulation with transient climate forcing. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 495. 69–78. 21 indexed citations

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Deutsch, Curtis, Joshua J. Tewksbury, Michelle Tigchelaar, et al.. (2018). Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate. Science. 361(6405). 916–919. 827 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tigchelaar, Michelle, David S. Battisti, Rosamond L. Naylor, & D. K. Ray. (2018). Future warming increases probability of globally synchronized maize production shocks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(26). 6644–6649. 328 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stuecker, Malte F., Michelle Tigchelaar, & Michael B. Kantar. (2018). Climate variability impacts on rice production in the Philippines. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0201426–e0201426. 78 indexed citations

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Friedrich, Tobias, Axel Timmermann, Michelle Tigchelaar, O. Elison Timm, & Andrey Ganopolski. (2016). Nonlinear climate sensitivity and its implications for future greenhouse warming. Science Advances. 2(11). e1501923–e1501923. 116 indexed citations

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Tigchelaar, Michelle & Axel Timmermann. (2015). Mechanisms rectifying the annual mean response of tropical Atlantic rainfall to precessional forcing. Climate Dynamics. 47(1-2). 271–293. 7 indexed citations

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Tigchelaar, Michelle, Anna S. von der Heydt, & Henk A. Dijkstra. (2011). A new mechanism for the two-step δ ¹⁸ O signal at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary. Climate of the past. 7(1). 235–247. 13 indexed citations

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Tigchelaar, Michelle, et al.. (2010). A new interpretation of the two-step δ18O signal at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University). 7 indexed citations

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Tigchelaar, Michelle, J. Meijer, H. KLEIJN, H. J. T. BOS, & P. Vermeer. (1981). Alkylcopper-and alkylsilver-induced substitution in enynyl oxiranes. Novel route to butatrienyl carbinols. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 221(1). 117–121. 13 indexed citations

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