Nico Wunderling

1.6k total citations
27 papers, 600 citations indexed

About

Nico Wunderling is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nico Wunderling has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 600 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Nico Wunderling's work include Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (17 papers), Climate variability and models (6 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 papers). Nico Wunderling is often cited by papers focused on Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (17 papers), Climate variability and models (6 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 papers). Nico Wunderling collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United States. Nico Wunderling's co-authors include Jonathan F. Donges, Ricarda Winkelmann, Jürgen Kurths, Matteo Willeit, Arie Staal, Boris Sakschewski, Obbe A. Tuinenburg, Johan Rockström, Sina Loriani and Paul Ritchie and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Nico Wunderling

26 papers receiving 575 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nico Wunderling Germany 10 327 133 88 84 58 27 600
Paul Ritchie United Kingdom 11 288 0.9× 89 0.7× 39 0.4× 37 0.4× 51 0.9× 21 420
Peter Pfleiderer Germany 13 394 1.2× 212 1.6× 69 0.8× 90 1.1× 75 1.3× 21 671
Bo Wiman Sweden 11 307 0.9× 159 1.2× 71 0.8× 149 1.8× 38 0.7× 37 621
Gerrit Hansen Germany 10 289 0.9× 116 0.9× 62 0.7× 163 1.9× 48 0.8× 12 537
Joseph Daron United Kingdom 15 446 1.4× 192 1.4× 16 0.2× 142 1.7× 43 0.7× 27 706
Luke Kemp Australia 9 220 0.7× 37 0.3× 58 0.7× 140 1.7× 149 2.6× 18 569
Stuart Jenkins United Kingdom 13 483 1.5× 205 1.5× 72 0.8× 42 0.5× 246 4.2× 20 775
Zhao Zhi China 14 346 1.1× 103 0.8× 103 1.2× 17 0.2× 87 1.5× 36 692
Sébastien Dutreuil France 5 125 0.4× 82 0.6× 16 0.2× 56 0.7× 7 0.1× 13 321
Matz A. Haugen United States 5 509 1.6× 326 2.5× 53 0.6× 34 0.4× 34 0.6× 5 792

Countries citing papers authored by Nico Wunderling

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nico Wunderling

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nico Wunderling

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nico Wunderling. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nico Wunderling 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 Nico Wunderling. Nico Wunderling 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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Hedlund, Johanna, et al.. (2025). Food trade disruption after global catastrophes. Earth System Dynamics. 16(5). 1585–1603.
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Loriani, Sina, Annett Bartsch, Elisa Calamita, et al.. (2025). Monitoring the Multiple Stages of Climate Tipping Systems from Space: Do the GCOS Essential Climate Variables Meet the Needs?. Surveys in Geophysics. 46(2). 327–374. 1 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, et al.. (2025). Constraining safe and unsafe overshoots in saddle-node bifurcations. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 35(1). 1 indexed citations
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Donges, Jonathan F., Niklas Boers, Marina Hirota, et al.. (2024). Measuring tropical rainforest resilience under non-Gaussian disturbances. Environmental Research Letters. 19(2). 24029–24029. 3 indexed citations
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Schleussner, Carl‐Friedrich, Robin Lamboll, Joeri Rogelj, et al.. (2024). Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions critical to limit climate tipping risks. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6192–6192. 24 indexed citations
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Staal, Arie, Jolanda Theeuwen, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Nico Wunderling, & Stefan C. Dekker. (2024). Targeted rainfall enhancement as an objective of forestation. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17096–e17096. 16 indexed citations
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Schlüter‬, Maja, Juan Rocha, Nico Wunderling, et al.. (2024). Crop booms as regime shifts. Royal Society Open Science. 11(6). 5 indexed citations
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Winkelmann, Ricarda, et al.. (2024). Polar ice sheets are decisive contributors to uncertainty in climate tipping projections. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 1 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, Uma S. Bhatt, Jonathan F. Donges, et al.. (2023). Reducing uncertainty of high-latitude ecosystem models through identification of key parameters. Environmental Research Letters. 18(8). 84032–84032. 1 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, et al.. (2022). Network motifs shape distinct functioning of Earth’s moisture recycling hubs. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6574–6574. 9 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, Arie Staal, Boris Sakschewski, et al.. (2022). Recurrent droughts increase risk of cascading tipping events by outpacing adaptive capacities in the Amazon rainforest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(32). e2120777119–e2120777119. 46 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, Ricarda Winkelmann, Johan Rockström, et al.. (2022). Global warming overshoots increase risks of climate tipping cascades in a network model. Nature Climate Change. 13(1). 75–82. 83 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico. (2021). Nichtlineare Dynamiken und Interaktionen von Kippelementen im Erdsystem. publish.UP (University of Potsdam). 1 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, Jonathan F. Donges, Jürgen Kurths, & Ricarda Winkelmann. (2021). Interacting tipping elements increase risk of climate domino effects under global warming. Earth System Dynamics. 12(2). 601–619. 154 indexed citations
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Köhler, Jan, Nico Wunderling, Jonathan F. Donges, & Jürgen Vollmer. (2021). Complex networks of interacting stochastic tipping elements: Cooperativity of phase separation in the large-system limit. Physical review. E. 104(4). 44301–44301. 1 indexed citations
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Drüke, Markus, Werner von Bloh, Boris Sakschewski, et al.. (2021). Climate-induced hysteresis of the tropical forest in a fire-enabled Earth system model. The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 230(14-15). 3153–3162. 9 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, Jan Köhler, Jobst Heitzig, et al.. (2021). Modelling nonlinear dynamics of interacting tipping elements on complex networks: the PyCascades package. The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 230(14-15). 3163–3176. 12 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, et al.. (2020). Dynamics of tipping cascades on complex networks. Physical review. E. 101(4). 42311–42311. 33 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, Matteo Willeit, Jonathan F. Donges, & Ricarda Winkelmann. (2020). Global warming due to loss of large ice masses and Arctic summer sea ice. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5177–5177. 86 indexed citations
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Wunderling, Nico, et al.. (2020). How motifs condition critical thresholds for tipping cascades in complex networks: Linking micro- to macro-scales. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 30(4). 43129–43129. 18 indexed citations

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