Nico Mölg

3.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
21 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Nico Mölg is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nico Mölg has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Atmospheric Science, 5 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 3 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nico Mölg's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (21 papers), Climate change and permafrost (13 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (6 papers). Nico Mölg is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (21 papers), Climate change and permafrost (13 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (6 papers). Nico Mölg collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United Kingdom. Nico Mölg's co-authors include Tobias Bolch, Frank Paul, Philipp Rastner, Bruce Raup, F. Paul, Georg Kaser, Geir Moholdt, Regine Hock, A. A. Arendt and Martin Sharp and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Geophysical Research Letters and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Nico Mölg

21 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers

2014 912 citations W. T. Pfeffer, A. A. Arendt et al. Journal of Glaciology profile →
On the accuracy of glacier outlines derived from remote-sensing data

2013 422 citations F. Paul, Nicholas E. Barrand et al. Annals of Glaciology profile →
Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods

2024 52 citations Guoqing Zhang, Jonathan L. Carrivick et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nico Mölg Switzerland	15	1.9k	432	340	222	130	21	2.1k
Christian Kienholz United States	17	1.8k 0.9×	392 0.9×	308 0.9×	189 0.9×	136 1.0×	34	1.9k
Guðfinna Ađalgeirsdóttir Iceland	25	1.7k 0.9×	325 0.8×	374 1.1×	279 1.3×	101 0.8×	62	1.8k
Isabelle Gärtner‐Roer Switzerland	17	1.5k 0.8×	232 0.5×	511 1.5×	141 0.6×	65 0.5×	37	1.7k
David Burgess Canada	23	1.6k 0.8×	373 0.9×	271 0.8×	216 1.0×	65 0.5×	53	1.7k
Kjetil Melvold Norway	26	1.5k 0.8×	323 0.7×	380 1.1×	127 0.6×	134 1.0×	39	1.6k
Zongli Jiang China	20	1.7k 0.9×	315 0.7×	309 0.9×	267 1.2×	176 1.4×	58	1.9k
Liss M. Andreassen Norway	27	1.8k 0.9×	359 0.8×	323 0.9×	283 1.3×	198 1.5×	67	1.9k
Adina Racoviteanu United States	17	2.2k 1.1×	316 0.7×	374 1.1×	271 1.2×	272 2.1×	37	2.4k
Lindsey Nicholson Austria	25	2.4k 1.3×	795 1.8×	572 1.7×	281 1.3×	177 1.4×	60	2.6k
E. Le Meur France	24	1.8k 0.9×	592 1.4×	543 1.6×	156 0.7×	41 0.3×	55	1.9k

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Haeberli, Wilfried, et al.. (2024). Discriminating viscous-creep features (rock glaciers) in mountain permafrost from debris-covered glaciers – a commented test at the Gruben and Yerba Loca sites, Swiss Alps and Chilean Andes. The cryosphere. 18(4). 1669–1683. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Guoqing, Jonathan L. Carrivick, Adam Emmer, et al.. (2024). Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(6). 447–462. 52 indexed citations breakdown →

Hetzenecker, Markus, et al.. (2023). An Adaptive Method for the Estimation of Snow-Covered Fraction with Error Propagation for Applications from Local to Global Scales. Remote Sensing. 15(5). 1231–1231. 7 indexed citations

Nägler, Thomas, Helmut Rott, Nico Mölg, et al.. (2022). Airborne Experiment on Insar Snow Mass Retrieval in Alpine Environment. IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 4549–4552. 9 indexed citations

Mölg, Nico, Christian Huggel, Florian R. Storck, et al.. (2021). Inventory and evolution of glacial lakes since the Little Ice Age: Lessons from the case of Switzerland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 46(13). 2551–2564. 32 indexed citations

Mölg, Nico, et al.. (2020). On the influence of debris cover on glacier morphology: How high-relief structures evolve from smooth surfaces. Geomorphology. 357. 107092–107092. 47 indexed citations

Mölg, Nico, et al.. (2019). The role of debris cover in the evolution of Zmuttgletscher, Switzerland, since the end of the Little Ice Age. 2 indexed citations

Mölg, Nico, et al.. (2019). Unravelling the evolution of Zmuttgletscher and its debris cover since the end of the Little Ice Age. The cryosphere. 13(7). 1889–1909. 44 indexed citations

Mölg, Nico, et al.. (2018). Evolution of surface topography, debris cover, ice flow, and downwasting features: a holistic reconstruction of a heavily debris-covered Alpine glacier from 1860-2017. EGUGA. 17352. 1 indexed citations

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Mölg, Nico, Tobias Bolch, Philipp Rastner, Tazio Strozzi, & Frank Paul. (2018). A consistent glacier inventory for Karakoram and Pamir derived from Landsat data: distribution of debris cover and mapping challenges. Earth system science data. 10(4). 1807–1827. 116 indexed citations

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Mölg, Nico & Tobias Bolch. (2017). Structure-from-Motion Using Historical Aerial Images to Analyse Changes in Glacier Surface Elevation. Remote Sensing. 9(10). 1021–1021. 68 indexed citations

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Mölg, Nico, Jorge Luís Ceballos, Christian Huggel, et al.. (2017). Ten years of monthly mass balance of Conejeras glacier, Colombia, and their evaluation using different interpolation methods. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography. 99(2). 155–176. 14 indexed citations

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Rabatel, Antoine, Jorge Luís Ceballos, Natan Micheletti, et al.. (2017). Toward an imminent extinction of Colombian glaciers?. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography. 100(1). 75–95. 40 indexed citations

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Pfeffer, W. T., A. A. Arendt, Andrew Bliss, et al.. (2014). The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers. Journal of Glaciology. 60(221). 537–552. 912 indexed citations breakdown →

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Paul, Frank & Nico Mölg. (2014). Hasty retreat of glaciers in northern Patagonia from 1985 to 2011. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 8077. 1 indexed citations

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Paul, F., Nicholas E. Barrand, Sabine Baumann, et al.. (2013). On the accuracy of glacier outlines derived from remote-sensing data. Annals of Glaciology. 54(63). 171–182. 422 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bolch, Tobias, Louise Sandberg Sørensen, Sebastian B. Simonsen, et al.. (2013). Mass loss of Greenland's glaciers and ice caps 2003–2008 revealed from ICESat laser altimetry data. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(5). 875–881. 104 indexed citations

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Machguth, Horst, Tobias Bolch, Nico Mölg, et al.. (2013). The future sea-level rise contribution of Greenland’s glaciers and ice caps. Environmental Research Letters. 8(2). 25005–25005. 29 indexed citations

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Rastner, Philipp, Tobias Bolch, Nico Mölg, et al.. (2012). The first complete inventory of the local glaciers and ice caps on Greenland. The cryosphere. 6(6). 1483–1495. 120 indexed citations

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Thirel, Guillaume, Claudia Notarnicola, Milan Kalaš, et al.. (2012). Assessing the quality of a real-time Snow Cover Area product for hydrological applications. Remote Sensing of Environment. 127. 271–287. 21 indexed citations

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