Nils Andersen

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
130 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Nils Andersen is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Nils Andersen has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Atmospheric Science, 61 papers in Ecology and 37 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Nils Andersen's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (100 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (54 papers) and Geological formations and processes (28 papers). Nils Andersen is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (100 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (54 papers) and Geological formations and processes (28 papers). Nils Andersen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Spain and United States. Nils Andersen's co-authors include Ann Holbourn, Wolfgang Kuhnt, Ralph R Schneider, Syee Weldeab, David W. Lea, Thomas Larsen, José‐Abel Flores, Karlos Guilherme Diemer Kochhann, Michael Schulz and Dieter Garbe‐Schönberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nils Andersen

125 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

155,000 Years of West African Monsoon and Ocean Thermal Evolution

2007 361 citations Ralph R Schneider, Nils Andersen et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nils Andersen Germany	43	3.5k	1.7k	1.3k	953	940	130	5.0k
Timothy D. Herbert United States	44	5.0k 1.4×	2.0k 1.2×	2.0k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	131	6.5k
Josef P. Werne United States	36	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	813 0.9×	597 0.6×	94	4.6k
Torsten Bickert Germany	35	3.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	939 1.0×	886 0.9×	69	3.7k
Dirk Nürnberg Germany	39	4.4k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	972 0.7×	1.5k 1.5×	954 1.0×	150	5.4k
Ahuva Almogi‐Labin Israel	40	3.9k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	1.8k 1.4×	2.2k 2.3×	1.3k 1.4×	141	6.0k
Daniel Arizteguí Switzerland	45	4.0k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	580 0.6×	1.5k 1.6×	187	5.7k
Birgit Plessen Germany	38	3.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	897 0.7×	770 0.8×	859 0.9×	118	4.0k
Ana Christina Ravelo United States	37	5.2k 1.5×	2.6k 1.6×	1.5k 1.1×	1.9k 2.0×	873 0.9×	103	6.2k
Bernhard Diekmann Germany	41	4.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	772 0.6×	546 0.6×	1.5k 1.6×	134	4.6k
Johan W.H. Weijers Netherlands	34	4.8k 1.4×	2.9k 1.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	822 0.9×	43	6.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nils Andersen

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

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Laukert, Georgi, Dorothea Bauch, Benjamin Rabe, et al.. (2025). Dynamic ice–ocean pathways along the Transpolar Drift amplify the dispersal of Siberian matter. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3172–3172. 1 indexed citations

Wünnemann, Bernd, Dada Yan, Yongzhan Zhang, & Nils Andersen. (2025). Ice-thermal feedback-driven temperature variability on the Tibetan Plateau. Gondwana Research. 145. 29–35.

Mroczek, Przemysław, Nils Andersen, Renata Stachowicz‐Rybka, et al.. (2025). Climatic and geological controls on the hydrological response of two neighbouring Eemian palaeolakes (Central Poland): A multi-proxy study. CATENA. 255. 109039–109039.

Holbourn, Ann, Wolfgang Kuhnt, Denise K. Kulhanek, et al.. (2024). Re-organization of Pacific overturning circulation across the Miocene Climate Optimum. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8135–8135. 6 indexed citations

Andersen, Nils, et al.. (2024). Changes in the Red Sea overturning circulation during Marine Isotope Stage 3. Climate of the past. 20(1). 267–280. 1 indexed citations

Schmiedl, Gerhard, et al.. (2023). Impact of hydrological changes and vertical motions on Pleistocene marine environments of the eastern coast of the island of Rhodes (Greece). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 636. 111980–111980. 3 indexed citations

Kochhann, Karlos Guilherme Diemer, et al.. (2023). Disentangling environmental and diagenetic δ18O and δ13C signals from marine carbonates deposited under warm climate conditions during the early Danian. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 622. 111576–111576. 2 indexed citations

Holbourn, Ann, Wolfgang Kuhnt, Bradley N. Opdyke, et al.. (2023). Middle Pleistocene re-organization of Australian Monsoon. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2002–2002. 8 indexed citations

Sierro, Francisco Javier & Nils Andersen. (2022). An exceptional record of millennial-scale climate variability in the southern Iberian Margin during MIS 6: Impact on the formation of sapropel S6. Quaternary Science Reviews. 286. 107527–107527. 3 indexed citations

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Prasad, Sushma, Praveen K. Mishra, P. Priya, et al.. (2022). Impact of precipitation and temperature changes on limnology and sediment characteristics in NW Himalaya. Applied Geochemistry. 137. 105200–105200. 7 indexed citations

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Yan, Dada, Bernd Wünnemann, Yongzhan Zhang, et al.. (2021). Neotectonic Subsidence Along the Cenozoic Kunlun Fault (Tibetan Plateau). Geophysical Research Letters. 48(20). 6 indexed citations

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Alberti, Matthias, Horacio Parent, Alberto C. Garrido, et al.. (2020). Stable isotopes (δ ¹³ C, δ ¹⁸ O) and element ratios (Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca) of Jurassic belemnites, bivalves and brachiopods from the Neuquén Basin (Argentina): challenges and opportunities for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Journal of the Geological Society. 178(1). 5 indexed citations

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Naafs, B. David A., Antje H L Voelker, Cyrus Karas, Nils Andersen, & Francisco Javier Sierro. (2020). Repeated Near‐Collapse of the Pliocene Sea Surface Temperature Gradient in the North Atlantic. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 35(5). 14 indexed citations

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Sierro, Francisco Javier, David A Hodell, Nils Andersen, et al.. (2020). Mediterranean Overflow Over the Last 250 kyr: Freshwater Forcing From the Tropics to the Ice Sheets. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 35(9). 49 indexed citations

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Weinelt, Mara, et al.. (2019). Multi-decadal atmospheric and marine climate variability in southern Iberia during the mid- to late-Holocene. Climate of the past. 15(2). 617–634. 21 indexed citations

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Wünnemann, Bernd, Dada Yan, Nils Andersen, et al.. (2018). A 14 ka high-resolution δ18O lake record reveals a paradigm shift for the process-based reconstruction of hydroclimate on the northern Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews. 200. 65–84. 55 indexed citations

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Weinelt, Mara, et al.. (2018). Multi-decadal climate variability in southern Iberia during the mid- to late-Holocene. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 3 indexed citations

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Keul, Nina, Katja T. C. A. Peijnenburg, Nils Andersen, et al.. (2017). Pteropods are excellent recorders of surface temperature and carbonate ion concentration. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 12645–12645. 17 indexed citations

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Matthews, Ian, Fabio Trincardi, J. John Lowe, et al.. (2014). Developing a robust tephrochronological framework for Late Quaternary marine records in the Southern Adriatic Sea: new data from core station SA03-11. Quaternary Science Reviews. 118. 84–104. 38 indexed citations

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Repschläger, Janne, Mara Weinelt, Nils Andersen, & Dieter Garbe‐Schönberg. (2009). Monitoring multi-decadal to multi-centennial variability of AMOC strength in the subtropical Northeast Atlantic over Holocene and Eemian. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11306. 1 indexed citations

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