Oliver Sonnentag

11.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Oliver Sonnentag is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Sonnentag has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Atmospheric Science, 46 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 42 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Oliver Sonnentag's work include Climate change and permafrost (53 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (36 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (32 papers). Oliver Sonnentag is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (53 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (36 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (32 papers). Oliver Sonnentag collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Oliver Sonnentag's co-authors include Youngryel Ryu, Trevor F. Keenan, Mirco Migliavacca, Andrew D. Richardson, Michael Toomey, Dennis Baldocchi, Hideki Kobayashi, Ajit Govind, Manuel Helbig and Alan Barr and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Environmental Science & Technology and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Sonnentag

90 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Climate change, phenology, and phenological control of vegetation feedbacks to the climate system

2012 1.7k citations Oliver Sonnentag et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Oliver Sonnentag

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Oliver Sonnentag's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Oliver Sonnentag with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Oliver Sonnentag more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Oliver Sonnentag

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Oliver Sonnentag. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Oliver Sonnentag. The network helps show where Oliver Sonnentag may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver Sonnentag

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Determining the influence of meteorological, environmental, and anthropogenic activity variables on the atmospheric CO2 concentration in the arid and semi-arid regions: A case study in the Middle East 2025 ·Atmospheric Research ·Seyed Mohsen Mousavi, Naghmeh Mobarghaee Dinan, (unknown), (unknown), Oliver Sonnentag, Seyed Amir Naghibi	1
2	Shrub Expansion Can Counteract Carbon Losses From Warming Tundra 2025 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·(unknown), Gil Bohrer, Oliver Sonnentag, Bo Qu, Matteo Detto, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Benoit S. Lecavalier, Philip Marsh, Alex J. Cannon, W. J. Riley, Qing Zhu, Fengming Yuan, Benjamin N. Sulman	0
3	Simulating net ecosystem exchange under seasonal snow cover at an Arctic tundra site 2024 ·Biogeosciences ·(unknown), Nick Rutter, Leanne Wake, Oliver Sonnentag, (unknown), Melody Sandells, Chris Derksen, (unknown), Gesa Meyer, Richard Essery, Richard Kelly, (unknown), Julia Boike, Matteo Detto	0
4	Optimal rainfall threshold for monsoon rice production in India varies across space and time 2024 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown), Md Kamrul Hasan, Srikanta Sannigrahi, Somnath Bar, Suman Chakraborti, Shanti Shwarup Mahto, Sumanta Chatterjee, Suvamoy Pramanik, Francesco Pilla, Jeremy Auerbach, Oliver Sonnentag, Conghe Song, Qi Zhang	9
5	Reviews and syntheses: Recent advances in microwave remote sensing in support of terrestrial carbon cycle science in Arctic–boreal regions 2023 ·Biogeosciences ·(unknown), Oliver Sonnentag, Juha Lemmetyinen, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Christophe Kinnard, Alexandre Roy	5
6	Concentrations and Yields of Mercury, Methylmercury, and Dissolved Organic Carbon From Contrasting Catchments in the Discontinuous Permafrost Region, Western Canada 2023 ·Water Resources Research ·Lauren Thompson, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Oliver Sonnentag, Suzanne E. Tank, David Olefeldt	5
7	A boreal forest model benchmarking dataset for North America: a case study with the Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC) 2023 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Bo Qu, Alexandre Roy, Joe R. Melton, T. Andrew Black, B. D. Amiro, E. S. Euskirchen, Masahito Ueyama, Hideki Kobayashi, (unknown), (unknown), Alex J. Cannon, Matteo Detto, Oliver Sonnentag	3
8	Oil and natural gas wells across the NASA ABoVE domain: fugitive methane emissions and broader environmental impacts 2023 ·Environmental Research Letters ·(unknown), Oliver Sonnentag, Ziming Wang, Jonathan Wang, Mary Kang	10
9	Analyzing spatio-temporal patterns in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration across Iran from 2003 to 2020 2022 ·Atmospheric Environment X ·Seyed Mohsen Mousavi, Naghmeh Mobarghaee Dinan, (unknown), Oliver Sonnentag	20
10	Snowmelt Water Use at Transpiration Onset: Phenology, Isotope Tracing, and Tree Water Transit Time 2022 ·Water Resources Research ·Magali F. Nehemy, (unknown), (unknown), Christoforos Pappas, Oliver Sonnentag, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Colin P. Laroque, Jeffrey J. McDonnell	24
11	Range shifts in a foundation sedge potentially induce large Arctic ecosystem carbon losses and gains 2022 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Salvatore R. Curasi, Ned Fetcher, Rebecca E. Hewitt, Peter M. Lafleur, M. M. Loranty, Michelle C. Mack, Jeremy L. May, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Susan M. Natali, Steven F. Oberbauer, Thomas C. Parker, Oliver Sonnentag, (unknown), Stan D. Wullschleger, Adrian V. Rocha	9
12	L-band vegetation optical depth as an indicator of plant water potential in a temperate deciduous forest stand 2021 ·Natan Holtzman, Leander D. L. Anderegg, Simon Kraatz, (unknown), Oliver Sonnentag, Christoforos Pappas, Michael H. Cosh, Alexandre Langlois, Tarendra Lakhankar, (unknown), N. Steiner, Andreas Colliander, Alexandre Roy, Alexandra G. Konings	3
13	Aboveground tree growth is a minor and decoupled fraction of boreal forest carbon input 2020 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Christoforos Pappas, (unknown), (unknown), Jennifer L. Baltzer, Alan Barr, T. Andrew Black, Simone Fatichi, Colin P. Laroque, Ashley M. Matheny, Alexandre Roy, Oliver Sonnentag, Tianshan Zha	34
14	Nitrous oxide emissions from permafrost-affected soils 2020 ·Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Carolina Voigt, Maija E. Marushchak, Benjamin W. Abbott, Christina Biasi, Bo Elberling, Steven D. Siciliano, Oliver Sonnentag, Katherine Stewart, Yuanhe Yang, Pertti J. Martikainen	116
15	A synthesis of three decades of hydrological research at Scotty Creek, NWT, Canada 2019 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·William L. Quinton, Aaron Berg, (unknown), (unknown), L. Chasmer, Ryan Connon, James R. Craig, Élise Devoie, Masaki Hayashi, (unknown), David Olefeldt, Alain Pietroniro, Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Robert A. Schincariol, Oliver Sonnentag	43
16	Boreal tree hydrodynamics: asynchronous, diverging, yet complementary 2018 ·Tree Physiology ·Christoforos Pappas, Ashley M. Matheny, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Alan Barr, T. Andrew Black, Gil Bohrer, Matteo Detto, (unknown), Alexandre Roy, Oliver Sonnentag, Jilmarie Stephens	50
17	Airborne Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence to Characterize Arctic Boreal Zone Productivity 2018 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·D. Drewry, Oliver Sonnentag, Charles E. Miller, David Schimel, Nicholas C. Parazoo, Christian Frankenberg, E. S. Euskirchen, Adrian V. Rocha, M. Syndonia Bret‐Harte, Donatella Zona	1
18	Addressing a systematic bias in carbon dioxide flux measurements with the EC150 and the IRGASON open-path gas analyzers 2016 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Manuel Helbig, Karoline Wischnewski, (unknown), Sébastien Biraud, (unknown), Stephen Chan, E. S. Euskirchen, Aaron J. Glenn, (unknown), William L. Quinton, Oliver Sonnentag	29
19	Permafrost thaw and fire history: implications of boreal tree cover changes on land surface properties and turbulent energy fluxes in the Taiga Plains, Canada 2016 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Oliver Sonnentag, Manuel Helbig, (unknown), Karoline Wischnewski, Natascha Kljun, L. Chasmer, Christoforos Pappas, Matteo Detto, Jennifer L. Baltzer, William L. Quinton, Philip Marsh	1
20	Effects of biased CO2 flux measurements by open-path sensors on the interpretation of CO2 flux dynamics at contrasting ecosystems 2015 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Manuel Helbig, Elyn Humphreys, (unknown), William L. Quinton, (unknown), Oliver Sonnentag	1

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact