Roman Zweifel

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Roman Zweifel is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Roman Zweifel has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 53 papers in Atmospheric Science and 40 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Roman Zweifel's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (66 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (53 papers) and Forest ecology and management (33 papers). Roman Zweifel is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (66 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (53 papers) and Forest ecology and management (33 papers). Roman Zweifel collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Netherlands. Roman Zweifel's co-authors include R. Häsler, Nina Buchmann, Andreas Rigling, Frank J. Sterck, David M. Newbery, Werner Eugster, Britta Eilmann, Lukas Zimmermann, Matthias Haeni and Matthias Dobbertin and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Roman Zweifel

76 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Why trees grow at night

2021 157 citations Roman Zweifel, Frank J. Sterck et al. New Phytologist profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roman Zweifel Switzerland	38	4.4k	3.4k	2.5k	1.2k	638	80	5.1k
Tommaso Anfodillo Italy	34	4.7k 1.1×	3.8k 1.1×	3.0k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	476 0.7×	99	5.7k
Patrick Fonti Switzerland	46	5.4k 1.2×	5.2k 1.5×	3.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	561 0.9×	150	6.6k
Nathalie Bréda France	31	4.0k 0.9×	2.6k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	684 1.1×	56	5.0k
Daniel M. Johnson United States	36	3.4k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 1.3×	517 0.8×	85	4.1k
Antonio Gazol Spain	40	4.0k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	3.3k 1.4×	900 0.7×	753 1.2×	153	5.4k
Georg von Arx Switzerland	38	3.4k 0.8×	3.1k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	773 0.6×	396 0.6×	120	4.5k
Jennifer A. Plaut United States	9	3.4k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	669 1.0×	9	4.2k
Marco Carrer Italy	45	5.1k 1.2×	4.9k 1.5×	3.6k 1.5×	784 0.6×	465 0.7×	111	6.3k
Tamir Klein Israel	33	3.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	1.9k 1.6×	485 0.8×	95	4.8k
Akkın Semerci Türkiye	5	4.4k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	2.8k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.9×	8	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Roman Zweifel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roman Zweifel

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roman Zweifel

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zweifel, Roman, et al.. (2025). Mitigating drought stress in European beech and pedunculate oak: The role of competition reduction. Forest Ecosystems. 13. 100303–100303. 2 indexed citations

D’Odorico, Petra, Dominic Fawcett, Richard L. Peters, et al.. (2025). Deciphering tree drought responses across species: linking leaf water potentials with remote sensing greenness and photoprotection dynamics. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 375. 110856–110856.

Bloom, Colin K., Katrin Meusburger, Roman Zweifel, et al.. (2025). Towards near real-time drought stress assessment in Europe’s temperate forests – comparing remote sensing time series with continuous in-situ tree-level measurements. Ecological Indicators. 177. 113757–113757. 1 indexed citations

Lever, J. Jelle, Arthur Geßler, Roman Zweifel, et al.. (2025). Stability and transferability of broadly trained phenology models in a changing climate. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 372. 110685–110685. 1 indexed citations

Leach, Heather, et al.. (2024). Shifts in water use in grapevine due to an invasive sap-feeding planthopper persist following insect removal. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 378. 109321–109321.

Vitali, Valentina, Philipp Schuler, Meisha Holloway‐Phillips, et al.. (2024). Finding balance: Tree‐ring isotopes differentiate between acclimation and stress‐induced imbalance in a long‐term irrigation experiment. Global Change Biology. 30(3). e17237–e17237. 6 indexed citations

Shekhar, Ankit, Lukas Hörtnagl, Eugénie Paul‐Limoges, et al.. (2024). Contrasting impact of extreme soil and atmospheric dryness on the functioning of trees and forests. The Science of The Total Environment. 916. 169931–169931. 10 indexed citations

Peters, Richard L., Kathy Steppe, Christoforos Pappas, et al.. (2023). Daytime stomatal regulation in mature temperate trees prioritizes stem rehydration at night. New Phytologist. 239(2). 533–546. 36 indexed citations

Eitel, Jan U.H., David Basler, Sabine Braun, et al.. (2023). Towards monitoring stem growth phenology from space with high resolution satellite data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 339. 109549–109549. 8 indexed citations

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Gugerli, Félix, Sabine Brodbeck, Peter Bebi, et al.. (2023). Swiss stone pine - portrait of a mountain forest tree. DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 2 indexed citations

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Schönbeck, Leonie, Charlotte Grossiord, Arthur Geßler, et al.. (2022). Photosynthetic acclimation and sensitivity to short- and long-term environmental changes in a drought-prone forest. Journal of Experimental Botany. 73(8). 2576–2588. 24 indexed citations

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Bader, Martin Karl‐Friedrich, Daniel Scherrer, Roman Zweifel, & Christian Körner. (2022). Less Pronounced Drought Responses in Ring-Porous than in Diffuse-Porous Temperate Tree Species. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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D’Odorico, Petra, Leonie Schönbeck, Valentina Vitali, et al.. (2021). Drone‐based physiological index reveals long‐term acclimation and drought stress responses in trees. Plant Cell & Environment. 44(11). 3552–3570. 45 indexed citations

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Peters, Richard L., Christoforos Pappas, Rafael Poyatos, et al.. (2020). Assimilate, process and analyse thermal dissipation sap flow data using the TREX r package. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(2). 342–350. 17 indexed citations

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Zweifel, Roman, et al.. (2019). Disentangling the net: concomitant xylem and over-bark size measurements reveal the phloem-generated turgor signal behind daytime stem swelling in the mangrove Avicennia marina. Functional Plant Biology. 46(5). 393–406. 8 indexed citations

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Dietrich, Lars, Roman Zweifel, & Ansgar Kahmen. (2018). Daily stem diameter variations can predict the canopy water status of mature temperate trees. Tree Physiology. 38(7). 941–952. 88 indexed citations

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Lazzarin, Martina, Roman Zweifel, Niels P. R. Anten, & Frank J. Sterck. (2018). Does phloem osmolality affect diurnal diameter changes of twigs but not of stems in Scots pine?. Tree Physiology. 39(2). 275–283. 19 indexed citations

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Etzold, Sophia, et al.. (2014). NEP of a Swiss subalpine forest is significantly driven not only by current but also by previous year's weather. Biogeosciences. 11(6). 1627–1635. 51 indexed citations

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Zweifel, Roman, David M. Drew, Fritz Hans Schweingruber, & Geoffrey M. Downes. (2014). Xylem as the main origin of stem radius changes in Eucalyptus. Functional Plant Biology. 41(5). 520–534. 61 indexed citations

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Rigling, Andreas, Christof Bigler, Matthias Bürgi, et al.. (2007). Scots pine decline in inner-alpine valleys – system analysis and management options. 47–48. 1 indexed citations

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