Philipp Rastner

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Philipp Rastner is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Philipp Rastner has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Atmospheric Science, 9 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 7 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Philipp Rastner's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (30 papers), Climate change and permafrost (27 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (11 papers). Philipp Rastner is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (30 papers), Climate change and permafrost (27 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (11 papers). Philipp Rastner collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Italy and Austria. Philipp Rastner's co-authors include Tobias Bolch, Frank Paul, Nico Mölg, F. Paul, Raymond Le Bris, Simon Allen, Christian Huggel, Markus Stoffel, Tazio Strozzi and Maninder Singh Arora and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Scientific Reports and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Philipp Rastner

30 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

On the accuracy of glacier outlines derived from remote-sensing data

2013 422 citations F. Paul, Nicholas E. Barrand et al. Annals of Glaciology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philipp Rastner Switzerland	15	1.5k	428	340	182	71	31	1.6k
Rakesh Bhambri India	22	1.8k 1.2×	486 1.1×	327 1.0×	246 1.4×	57 0.8×	34	2.0k
Tino Pieczonka Germany	15	1.7k 1.1×	279 0.7×	345 1.0×	154 0.8×	42 0.6×	18	1.8k
Thorsten Seehaus Germany	17	859 0.6×	206 0.5×	294 0.9×	97 0.5×	79 1.1×	43	987
Atanu Bhattacharya India	15	736 0.5×	241 0.6×	138 0.4×	109 0.6×	57 0.8×	36	918
Zongli Jiang China	20	1.7k 1.1×	309 0.7×	315 0.9×	267 1.5×	80 1.1×	58	1.9k
D. C. Finnegan United States	14	778 0.5×	243 0.6×	178 0.5×	134 0.7×	111 1.6×	45	1.0k
Ankur Pandit India	10	668 0.4×	177 0.4×	121 0.4×	99 0.5×	58 0.8×	31	760
L. H. Pitcher United States	19	710 0.5×	169 0.4×	226 0.7×	343 1.9×	227 3.2×	38	1.1k
Hester Jiskoot Canada	21	1.4k 0.9×	548 1.3×	310 0.9×	146 0.8×	60 0.8×	41	1.5k
T. M. Haran United States	16	1.7k 1.1×	278 0.6×	537 1.6×	316 1.7×	173 2.4×	33	1.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Möller, Marco, et al.. (2024). Heterogeneous impacts of ocean thermal forcing on ice discharge from Greenland's peripheral tidewater glaciers over 2000–2021. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 11316–11316.

Falaschi, Daniel, Atanu Bhattacharya, Lei Huang, et al.. (2023). Annual to seasonal glacier mass balance in High Mountain Asia derived from Pléiades stereo images: examples from the Pamir and the Tibetan Plateau. The cryosphere. 17(12). 5435–5458. 6 indexed citations

Hock, Regine, Fabien Maussion, Frank Paul, et al.. (2022). Which glaciers are the largest in the world?. Journal of Glaciology. 69(274). 301–310. 5 indexed citations

Bolch, Tobias, Tandong Yao, Atanu Bhattacharya, et al.. (2022). Earth Observation to Investigate Occurrence, Characteristics and Changes of Glaciers, Glacial Lakes and Rock Glaciers in the Poiqu River Basin (Central Himalaya). Remote Sensing. 14(8). 1927–1927. 12 indexed citations

Paul, Frank, et al.. (2021). A new glacier inventory for Svalbard from Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 for improved calculation of climate change impacts. 1 indexed citations

Paul, Frank, Philipp Rastner, Roberto Sergio Azzoni, et al.. (2020). Glacier shrinkage in the Alps continues unabated as revealed by a new glacier inventory from Sentinel-2. Earth system science data. 12(3). 1805–1821. 99 indexed citations

Rastner, Philipp, Rainer Prinz, Claudia Notarnicola, et al.. (2019). On the Automated Mapping of Snow Cover on Glaciers and Calculation of Snow Line Altitudes from Multi-Temporal Landsat Data. Remote Sensing. 11(12). 1410–1410. 42 indexed citations

Mölg, Nico, Tobias Bolch, Philipp Rastner, Tazio Strozzi, & Frank Paul. (2018). A consistent glacier inventory for Karakoram and Pamir derived from Landsat data: distribution of debris cover and mapping challenges. Earth system science data. 10(4). 1807–1827. 116 indexed citations

Nicholson, Lindsey, et al.. (2017). Glacier Snowline Determination from Terrestrial Laser Scanning Intensity Data. Geosciences. 7(3). 60–60. 23 indexed citations

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Rastner, Philipp, Tazio Strozzi, & Frank Paul. (2017). Fusion of Multi-Source Satellite Data and DEMs to Create a New Glacier Inventory for Novaya Zemlya. Remote Sensing. 9(11). 1122–1122. 16 indexed citations

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Falaschi, Daniel, et al.. (2016). Mass changes of alpine glaciers at the eastern margin of the Northern and Southern Patagonian Icefields between 2000 and 2012. Journal of Glaciology. 63(238). 258–272. 23 indexed citations

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Callegari, Mattia, Luca Carturan, Carlo Marín, et al.. (2016). A Pol-SAR Analysis for Alpine Glacier Classification and Snowline Altitude Retrieval. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 9(7). 3106–3121. 14 indexed citations

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Allen, Simon, Philipp Rastner, Manohar Arora, Christian Huggel, & Markus Stoffel. (2015). Rainfall and snow-melt triggered glacial lake outbursts: a systematic analysis of the Kedarnath (Uttarakhand, India), June 2013 disaster. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9936. 1 indexed citations

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Allen, Simon, Philipp Rastner, Maninder Singh Arora, Christian Huggel, & Markus Stoffel. (2015). Lake outburst and debris flow disaster at Kedarnath, June 2013: hydrometeorological triggering and topographic predisposition. Landslides. 13(6). 1479–1491. 202 indexed citations

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Rastner, Philipp, Lindsey Nicholson, Rudolf Sailer, Claudia Notarnicola, & Rainer Prinz. (2015). Mapping the snow line altitude for large glacier samples from multitemporal Landsat imagery. 94. 1–4. 2 indexed citations

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Paul, F., Nicholas E. Barrand, Sabine Baumann, et al.. (2013). On the accuracy of glacier outlines derived from remote-sensing data. Annals of Glaciology. 54(63). 171–182. 422 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carturan, Luca, Roberto Seppi, Paolo Gabrielli, et al.. (2013). Area and volume loss of the glaciers in the Ortles-Cevedale group (Eastern Italian Alps): controls and imbalance of the remaining glaciers. The cryosphere. 7(5). 1339–1359. 63 indexed citations

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Bolch, Tobias, Louise Sandberg Sørensen, Sebastian B. Simonsen, et al.. (2013). Mass loss of Greenland's glaciers and ice caps 2003–2008 revealed from ICESat laser altimetry data. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(5). 875–881. 104 indexed citations

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Rastner, Philipp, Tobias Bolch, Nico Mölg, et al.. (2012). The first complete inventory of the local glaciers and ice caps on Greenland. The cryosphere. 6(6). 1483–1495. 120 indexed citations

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Rastner, Philipp, Thomas Schellenberger, Stefano Della Chiesa, et al.. (2009). Snow Cover Monitoring and Modelling in the Alps Using Multi Temporal Modis Data. 214–218. 8 indexed citations

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