Niklas Boers

7.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
116 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Niklas Boers is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Niklas Boers has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 67 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Niklas Boers's work include Climate variability and models (59 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (51 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (30 papers). Niklas Boers is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (59 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (51 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (30 papers). Niklas Boers collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Niklas Boers's co-authors include Jürgen Kurths, Bodo Bookhagen, Norbert Marwan, Taylor Smith, Chris A. Boulton, Timothy M. Lenton, José A. Marengo, Aljoscha Rheinwalt, Henrique M. J. Barbosa and Bedartha Goswami and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Niklas Boers

108 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience s... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2022 2019 2021 2021 2023 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. Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s
    2022 317 citations Chris A. Boulton, Timothy M. Lenton et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
  2. Complex networks reveal global pattern of extreme-rainfall teleconnections
    2019 311 citations Niklas Boers, Bedartha Goswami et al. Nature profile →
  3. Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
    2021 220 citations Niklas Boers Nature Climate Change profile →
  4. Towards neural Earth system modelling by integrating artificial intelligence in Earth system science
    2021 160 citations Niklas Boers et al. profile →
  5. Global vegetation resilience linked to water availability and variability
    2023 138 citations Taylor Smith, Niklas Boers Nature Communications profile →
  6. Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience
    2022 132 citations Taylor Smith, Niklas Boers et al. Nature Climate Change profile →

Peers

Niklas Boers
Bruce D. Malamud United Kingdom
Valerie Livina United Kingdom
Guolin Feng China
Vladimir Petoukhov Germany
Ethan R. Deyle United States
Paul J. Roebber United States
Werner von Bloh Germany
François G. Schmitt France
Philippe Naveau France
Anastasios A. Tsonis United States
Bruce D. Malamud United Kingdom
Niklas Boers
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Fields of papers citing papers by Niklas Boers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Niklas Boers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Niklas Boers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Niklas Boers 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 Niklas Boers. Niklas Boers 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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Boers, Niklas, Teng Liu, Sebastian Bathiany, et al.. (2025). Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements. Nature Geoscience. 18(10). 949–960.
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Rypdal, Martin, et al.. (2025). Reconstructing historical climate fields with deep learning. Science Advances. 11(14). eadp0558–eadp0558. 2 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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Good, Peter, Laura Jackson, Michel Crucifix, et al.. (2024). Impacts of AMOC Collapse on Monsoon Rainfall: A Multi‐Model Comparison. Earth s Future. 12(9). 8 indexed citations
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Bathiany, Sebastian, Robbin Bastiaansen, Ana Bastos, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem Resilience Monitoring and Early Warning Using Earth Observation Data: Challenges and Outlook. Surveys in Geophysics. 46(2). 265–301. 11 indexed citations
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Li, Kaiwen, et al.. (2024). Key propagation pathways of extreme precipitation events revealed by climate networks. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 6 indexed citations
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Boers, Niklas, et al.. (2024). Increasing fluctuations in the Arctic summer sea ice cover are expected with future global warming. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 35007–35007. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hao, Jin‐Jian Xu, Hongwei Cui, et al.. (2024). When Geoscience Meets Foundation Models: Toward a general geoscience artificial intelligence system. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 13(4). 79–118. 10 indexed citations
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Akabane, Thomas Kenji, Cristiano Mazur Chiessi, Marina Hirota, et al.. (2024). Weaker Atlantic overturning circulation increases the vulnerability of northern Amazon forests. Nature Geoscience. 17(12). 1284–1290. 4 indexed citations
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Zheng, Yayun & Niklas Boers. (2023). Mean exit times as global measure of resilience of tropical forest systems under climatic disturbances—Analytical and numerical results. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 33(11). 2 indexed citations
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Robinson, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Overshooting the critical threshold for the Greenland ice sheet. Nature. 622(7983). 528–536. 33 indexed citations
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Geen, Ruth, et al.. (2023). Propagation pathways of Indo-Pacific rainfall extremes are modulated by Pacific sea surface temperatures. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5708–5708. 15 indexed citations
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Boers, Niklas, et al.. (2023). The role of atmospheric rivers in the distribution of heavy precipitation events over North America. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(14). 2645–2660. 15 indexed citations
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Bathiany, Sebastian, et al.. (2023). Uncertainties in critical slowing down indicators of observation-based fingerprints of the Atlantic Overturning Circulation. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8344–8344. 19 indexed citations
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Boulton, Chris A., Timothy M. Lenton, & Niklas Boers. (2022). Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s. Nature Climate Change. 12(3). 271–278. 317 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lenton, Timothy M., David I. Armstrong McKay, Jesse F. Abrams, et al.. (2022). A resilience sensing system for the biosphere. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1857). 20210383–20210383. 17 indexed citations
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Boers, Niklas & Martin Rypdal. (2021). Critical slowing down suggests that the western Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a tipping point. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(21). 94 indexed citations
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Boers, Niklas, Bedartha Goswami, & Michael Ghil. (2017). A complete representation of uncertainties in layer-counted paleoclimatic archives. Climate of the past. 13(9). 1169–1180. 19 indexed citations
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Goswami, Bedartha, Niklas Boers, Aljoscha Rheinwalt, et al.. (2017). Abrupt transitions in time series with uncertainties. Nature Communications. 9(1). 48–48. 54 indexed citations
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Boers, Niklas, Bodo Bookhagen, Henrique M. J. Barbosa, et al.. (2014). Prediction of extreme floods in the Central Andes by means of Complex Networks. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 7173. 3 indexed citations

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