Ramdane Alkama

11.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
45 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Ramdane Alkama is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ramdane Alkama has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 23 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Ramdane Alkama's work include Climate variability and models (18 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (13 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers). Ramdane Alkama is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (18 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (13 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers). Ramdane Alkama collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and United States. Ramdane Alkama's co-authors include Alessandro Cescatti, Giovanni Forzieri, Bertrand Decharme, Diego G. Miralles, Vasilis Dakos, Nate G. McDowell, Masa Kageyama, Aurélien Ribes, M. Becker and Didier Swingedouw and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ramdane Alkama

44 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Biophysical climate impacts of recent changes in global forest cover

2016 623 citations Ramdane Alkama, Alessandro Cescatti profile →
Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change

2022 379 citations Giovanni Forzieri, Vasilis Dakos et al. Nature profile →
Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth

2017 313 citations Giovanni Forzieri, Ramdane Alkama et al. profile →
Vegetation-based climate mitigation in a warmer and greener World

2022 116 citations Ramdane Alkama, Giovanni Forzieri et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ramdane Alkama France	28	2.3k	1.1k	624	560	469	45	3.1k
Huei‐Ping Huang United States	18	1.9k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	543 0.9×	313 0.6×	311 0.7×	46	3.0k
Cuihua Li China	22	2.8k 1.2×	2.1k 1.9×	658 1.1×	476 0.8×	230 0.5×	56	4.0k
Qi Hu United States	28	2.1k 0.9×	871 0.8×	512 0.8×	1.3k 2.3×	495 1.1×	55	3.4k
Josyane Ronchail France	33	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	680 1.1×	1.1k 2.0×	339 0.7×	75	3.7k
Fabienne Maignan France	34	2.8k 1.2×	1.5k 1.3×	1.1k 1.8×	300 0.5×	641 1.4×	94	3.7k
Christian H. Reick Germany	30	2.9k 1.3×	1.8k 1.6×	651 1.0×	205 0.4×	354 0.8×	67	4.1k
Taotao Qian United States	13	2.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.6×	278 0.4×	895 1.6×	343 0.7×	21	3.7k
Michael Notaro United States	38	2.8k 1.2×	2.3k 2.1×	692 1.1×	436 0.8×	315 0.7×	91	3.9k
Christine Delire France	37	4.0k 1.8×	1.9k 1.7×	909 1.5×	524 0.9×	689 1.5×	70	5.0k
Kumiko Takata Japan	18	2.5k 1.1×	2.2k 1.9×	348 0.6×	428 0.8×	173 0.4×	37	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ramdane Alkama

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ramdane Alkama

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Zeroual, Ayoub, et al.. (2024). Changes in extreme precipitation indices across Algeria climate zones. International Journal of Climatology. 44(8). 2537–2560. 6 indexed citations

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Yue, Chao, Binbin He, Kaiguang Zhao, et al.. (2024). Growing biomass carbon stock in China driven by expansion and conservation of woody areas. Nature Geoscience. 17(11). 1127–1134. 16 indexed citations

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Roebroek, Caspar T. J., Luca Caporaso, Ramdane Alkama, et al.. (2024). Climate policies for carbon neutrality should not rely on the uncertain increase of carbon stocks in existing forests. Environmental Research Letters. 19(4). 44050–44050. 6 indexed citations

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Forzieri, Giovanni, Vasilis Dakos, Nate G. McDowell, Ramdane Alkama, & Alessandro Cescatti. (2022). Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change. Nature. 608(7923). 534–539. 379 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alkama, Ramdane, Giovanni Forzieri, Grégory Duveiller, et al.. (2022). Vegetation-based climate mitigation in a warmer and greener World. Nature Communications. 13(1). 606–606. 116 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pilli, Roberto, Ramdane Alkama, Alessandro Cescatti, Werner A. Kurz, & Giacomo Grassi. (2022). The European forest carbon budget under future climate conditions and current management practices. Biogeosciences. 19(13). 3263–3284. 29 indexed citations

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Zeroual, Ayoub, et al.. (2022). Improving Future Estimation of Cheliff-Mactaa-Tafna Streamflow via an Ensemble of Bias Correction Approaches. Climate. 10(8). 123–123. 2 indexed citations

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Duveiller, Grégory, Federico Filipponi, Andrej Ceglar, et al.. (2021). Revealing the widespread potential of forests to increase low level cloud cover. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4337–4337. 74 indexed citations

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Vavrus, Stephen J. & Ramdane Alkama. (2021). Future trends of arctic surface wind speeds and their relationship with sea ice in CMIP5 climate model simulations. Climate Dynamics. 59(5-6). 1833–1848. 21 indexed citations

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Collalti, Alessio, Andreas Ibrom, Anders Stockmarr, et al.. (2020). Forest production efficiency increases with growth temperature. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5322–5322. 72 indexed citations

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Alkama, Ramdane, Patrick C. Taylor, Hervé Douville, et al.. (2020). Clouds damp the radiative impacts of polar sea ice loss. The cryosphere. 14(8). 2673–2686. 32 indexed citations

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Zeroual, Ayoub, et al.. (2020). Past and future drought in Northwestern Algeria: the Beni Bahdel Dam catchment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 383. 315–318. 9 indexed citations

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Alkama, Ramdane, Alessandro Cescatti, Patrick C. Taylor, et al.. (2019). Clouds damp the impacts of Polar sea ice loss. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 2 indexed citations

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Alkama, Ramdane, et al.. (2013). Detection of global runoff changes: results from observations and CMIP5 experiments. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(7). 2967–2979. 70 indexed citations

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Becker, M., et al.. (2011). Past terrestrial water storage (1980–2008) in the Amazon Basin reconstructed from GRACE and in situ river gauging data. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 15(2). 533–546. 62 indexed citations

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Kageyama, Masa, Emmanuel Mignot, Didier Swingedouw, et al.. (2009). Glacial climate sensitivity to different states of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: results from the IPSL model. 60 indexed citations

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Tagliabue, Alessandro, Laurent Bopp, Didier M. Roche, et al.. (2009). Quantifying the roles of ocean circulation and biogeochemistry in governing ocean carbon-13 and atmospheric carbon dioxide at the last glacial maximum. Climate of the past. 5(4). 695–706. 66 indexed citations

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Kageyama, Masa, Emmanuel Mignot, Didier Swingedouw, et al.. (2009). Glacial climate sensitivity to different states of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: results from the IPSL model. Climate of the past. 5(3). 551–570. 58 indexed citations

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Arsouze, Thomas, Jean‐Claude Dutay, Masa Kageyama, et al.. (2008). A modeling sensitivity study of the influence of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation on neodymium isotopic composition at the Last Glacial Maximum. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

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Arsouze, Thomas, Jean‐Claude Dutay, Masa Kageyama, et al.. (2008). A modeling sensitivity study of the influence of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation on neodymium isotopic composition at the Last Glacial Maximum. Climate of the past. 4(3). 191–203. 27 indexed citations

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