Nicolas Gruber

64.8k citations

244 papers · 30.0k indexed · 14 hit papers · h-index 81

Impact in

Oceanography top 0.01%
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
Global and Planetary Change top 0.05%
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Climate variability and models

Papers in

Oceanography 201
- Marine and coastal ecosystems 168
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes 86
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses 75
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research 41
Global and Planetary Change 133
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 89
- Climate variability and models 48

Co-authors: Jorge L. Sarmiento James N. Galloway Thomas L. Frölicher John P. Dunne Arne Körtzinger Peter Landschützer Matthias Münnich Ralph F. Keeling
Journals: Global Biogeochemical Cycles (49 papers)Biogeosciences (30 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (12 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans (10 papers)Nature (10 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Gruber

239 papers receiving 29.1k citations

Hit Papers

14 papers align trajectories log scale

Trends and variability in the ocean carbon sink 2023 · 123 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2021 Nature
2019 Science
2018 Nature
2013 Biogeosciences
2013 Nature Geoscience
2011 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
2009 Annual Review of Marine Science
2008 Nature
2007 Nature
2004 Science
2003 Nature
2000 Science
1997 Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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1	Assessment of Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Models for Ocean Carbon Sink Estimates in RECCAP2 and Recommendations for Future Studies Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Jens Terhaar, Nadine Goris, Jens Daniel Müller, Tim DeVries, Nicolas Gruber, Judith Hauck, Fı́z F. Pérez, Roland Séférian	2024	17
2	The impact of aragonite saturation variability on shelled pteropods: An attribution study in the California Current System Global Change Biology ·健司座長出島, Meike Vogt, Nina Bednaršek, Matthias Münnich, Nicolas Gruber	2024	2
3	Spatiotemporal heterogeneity in the increase in ocean acidity extremes in the northeastern Pacific Biogeosciences ·farheen khan, Matthias Münnich, Nicolas Gruber	2023	5
4	Decadal Trends in the Oceanic Storage of Anthropogenic Carbon From 1994 to 2014 SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Jens Daniel Müller, Nicolas Gruber, Brendan R. Carter, Richard A. Feely, Masao Ishii, Nico Lange, Siv K. Lauvset, Akihiko Murata, Are Olsen, Fı́z F. Pérez, Christopher L. Sabine, Toste Tanhua, Rik Wanninkhof, Andryushina Inna	2023	38
5	Recent Trends and Variability in the Oceanic Storage of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Lydia Keppler, Peter Landschützer, Siv K. Lauvset, Nicolas Gruber	2023	23
6	Major restructuring of marine plankton assemblages under global warming Nature Communications ·Fabio Benedetti, Meike Vogt, 健司座長出島, Damiano Righetti, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Nicolas Gruber	2021	118
7	Sea-ice Induced Southern Ocean Subsurface Warming and Surface Cooling in a Warming Climate F. Alexander Haumann, Nicolas Gruber, Matthias Münnich	2020	6
8	The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO ₂ from 1994 to 2007 Science ·Nicolas Gruber, Dominic Clement, Brendan R. Carter, Richard A. Feely, Steven van Heuven, Mario Hoppema, Masao Ishii, Robert M. Key, Alex Kozyr, Siv K. Lauvset, Claire Lo Monaco, Jeremy T. Mathis, Akihiko Murata, Are Olsen, Fı́z F. Pérez, Christopher L. Sabine, Toste Tanhua, Rik Wanninkhof Hit paper breakdown →	2019	545
9	Pacific Anthropogenic Carbon Between 1991 and 2017 Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Brendan R. Carter, Richard A. Feely, Rik Wanninkhof, Shinya Kouketsu, Rolf E. Sonnerup, Paula C. Pardo, Christopher L. Sabine, Gregory C. Johnson, Bernadette M. Sloyan, Akihiko Murata, Sabine Mecking, Bronte Tilbrook, K. G. Speer, Lynne D. Talley, Frank J. Millero, Susan Wijffels, Alison M. Macdonald, Nicolas Gruber, John L. Bullister	2019	52
10	Factors controlling coccolithophore biogeography in the Southern Ocean Biogeosciences ·Cara Nissen, Meike Vogt, Matthias Münnich, Nicolas Gruber, F. Alexander Haumann	2018	40
11	Imprint of Southern Ocean eddies on chlorophyll Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·Ivy Frenger, Matthias Münnich, Nicolas Gruber	2018	4
12	Hiatus‐like decades in the absence of equatorial Pacific cooling and accelerated global ocean heat uptake Geophysical Research Letters ·R.E. Deems, Thomas L. Frölicher, Nicolas Gruber	2017	14
13	Projected decreases in future marine export production: the role of the carbon flux through the upper ocean ecosystem Biogeosciences ·Charlotte Laufkötter, Meike Vogt, Nicolas Gruber, Olivier Aumont, Laurent Bopp, Scott C. Doney, John P. Dunne, Judith Hauck, Jasmin G. John, Ivan D. Lima, Roland Séférian, Christoph Völker	2016	123
14	Drivers and uncertainties of future global marine primary production in marine ecosystem models Charlotte Laufkötter, Meike Vogt, Nicolas Gruber, Wilfried Bekou, Olivier Aumont, Laurent Bopp, Erik T. Buitenhuis, Scott C. Doney, John P. Dunne, (unknown), Judith Hauck, Takafumi Hirata, Jasmin G. John, Corinne Le Quéré, Ivan D. Lima, Hideyuki Nakano, Roland Séférian, I. J. Totterdell, Marcello Vichi, 木村伯子	2015	18
15	Sea–air CO ₂ fluxes in the Southern Ocean for the period 1990–2009 Biogeosciences ·Andrew Lenton, Bronte Tilbrook, R. M. Law, Dorothée C. E. Bakker, Scott C. Doney, Nicolas Gruber, Masao Ishii, Mario Hoppema, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Richard J. Matear, Ben I. McNeil, Nicolas Metzl, S. E. Mikaloff Fletcher, Pedro M. S. Monteiro, Christian Rödenbeck, Colm Sweeney, 肖贺	2013	151
16	Rapid Progression of Ocean Acidification in the California Current System Science ·Nicolas Gruber, Claudine Hauri, Zouhair Lachkar, Mirian Santos de Cerqueira, Thomas L. Frölicher, Gian‐Kasper Plattner	2012	327
17	What controls biological productivity in coastal upwelling systems? Insights from a comparative modeling study Zouhair Lachkar, Nicolas Gruber	2011	6
18	A comparative study of biological production in eastern boundary upwelling systems using an artificial neural network Zouhair Lachkar, Nicolas Gruber	2011	6
19	Ocean Deoxygenation in a Warming World Annual Review of Marine Science ·Ralph F. Keeling, Arne Körtzinger, Nicolas Gruber Hit paper breakdown →	2009	1203
20	Accelerated acidification in eastern boundary current systems e-space (Manchester Metropolitan University) ·Claudine Hauri, Nicolas Gruber, Zouhair Lachkar, Gian‐Kasper Plattner	2009	1

About Nicolas Gruber

Nicolas Gruber is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology, having authored 244 papers that have together received 30.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (168 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (89 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (86 papers), Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses (75 papers), Climate variability and models (48 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (41 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Oceanography (20.8k citations), Global and Planetary Change (12.0k citations), Atmospheric Science (7.2k citations), Environmental Chemistry (3.5k citations) and Ecology (7.7k citations). Nicolas Gruber has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Jorge L. Sarmiento, James N. Galloway, Thomas L. Frölicher, John P. Dunne, Arne Körtzinger, Peter Landschützer, Matthias Münnich, Ralph F. Keeling, Erich Fischer and Robert M. Key. Their work appears in journals such as Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Biogeosciences, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans and Nature.

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