Sebastian Ostberg

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Ostberg is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Ostberg has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Ostberg's work include Climate variability and models (11 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (10 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers). Sebastian Ostberg is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (11 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (10 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers). Sebastian Ostberg collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and United States. Sebastian Ostberg's co-authors include Dieter Gerten, Wolfgang Lucht, Sibyll Schaphoff, Jens Heinke, Yoshihide Wada, Yadu Pokhrel, Yusuke Satoh, Simon N. Gosling, Taikan Oki and Hyungjun Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Geophysical Research Letters and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Ostberg

27 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century

2017 368 citations Ted Veldkamp, Yoshihide Wada et al. Nature Communications profile →
The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change

2022 181 citations Yusuke Satoh, Kei Yoshimura et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sebastian Ostberg Germany	17	750	544	213	199	176	28	1.4k
B. C. Bates Australia	8	743 1.0×	687 1.3×	194 0.9×	170 0.9×	161 0.9×	8	1.3k
Lianqing Xue China	18	706 0.9×	529 1.0×	151 0.7×	100 0.5×	264 1.5×	78	1.2k
Shugang Wu China	12	527 0.7×	299 0.5×	340 1.6×	141 0.7×	142 0.8×	32	1.1k
Geoff Hodgson Australia	18	549 0.7×	660 1.2×	110 0.5×	132 0.7×	193 1.1×	42	1.2k
Andréas Marx Germany	15	1.0k 1.4×	559 1.0×	335 1.6×	60 0.3×	149 0.8×	29	1.5k
Timo A. Räsänen Finland	14	857 1.1×	915 1.7×	176 0.8×	243 1.2×	382 2.2×	28	1.6k
Tesfay Gebretsadkan Gebremicael Ethiopia	17	674 0.9×	489 0.9×	189 0.9×	101 0.5×	127 0.7×	28	1.1k
José Luis Arumí Chile	22	481 0.6×	717 1.3×	178 0.8×	194 1.0×	176 1.0×	117	1.4k
Baisha Weng China	22	804 1.1×	505 0.9×	336 1.6×	66 0.3×	285 1.6×	88	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Sebastian Ostberg

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sebastian Ostberg

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sebastian Ostberg

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

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Tiwari, Amar Deep, Yadu Pokhrel, Julien Boulangé, et al.. (2025). Similarities and divergent patterns in hydrologic fluxes and storages simulated by global water models. Nature Water. 3(5). 550–560. 2 indexed citations

Tiwari, Amar Deep, Yadu Pokhrel, Farshid Felfelani, et al.. (2025). Underestimation of Historical Terrestrial Water Storage Droughts in Global Water Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(19).

Ostberg, Sebastian, et al.. (2024). lpjmlkit: A toolkit for operating LPJmL andmodel-specific data processing. The Journal of Open Source Software. 9(103). 5447–5447. 2 indexed citations

Stenzel, Fabian, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Dieter Gerten, et al.. (2024). biospheremetrics v1.0.2: an R package to calculate two complementary terrestrial biosphere integrity indicators – human colonization of the biosphere (BioCol) and risk of ecosystem destabilization (EcoRisk). Geoscientific model development. 17(8). 3235–3258. 4 indexed citations

Gnann, Sebastian, Robert Reinecke, Lina Stein, et al.. (2023). Functional relationships reveal differences in the water cycle representation of global water models. Nature Water. 1(12). 1079–1090. 29 indexed citations

Satoh, Yusuke, Kei Yoshimura, Yadu Pokhrel, et al.. (2022). The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3287–3287. 181 indexed citations breakdown →

Gosling, Simon N., Matthew F. Johnson, Matthew D. Jones, et al.. (2022). Multi-model evaluation of catchment- and global-scale hydrological model simulations of drought characteristics across eight large river catchments. Advances in Water Resources. 165. 104212–104212. 16 indexed citations

Shi, Hao, Hanqin Tian, Naiqing Pan, et al.. (2021). Saturation of Global Terrestrial Carbon Sink Under a High Warming Scenario. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(10). 22 indexed citations

Xu, Wenfang, Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2020). Reducing Uncertainties of Future Global Soil Carbon Responses to Climate and Land Use Change With Emergent Constraints. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 34(10). 6 indexed citations

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Liu, Xingcai, Wenfeng Liu, Hong Yang, et al.. (2019). Multimodel assessments of human and climate impacts on mean annual streamflow in China. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(3). 1245–1261. 41 indexed citations

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Ostberg, Sebastian, Jacob Schewe, Katelin Childers, & Katja Frieler. (2018). Changes in crop yields and their variability at different levels of global warming. Earth System Dynamics. 9(2). 479–496. 40 indexed citations

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Döll, Petra, Tim Trautmann, Dieter Gerten, et al.. (2018). Risks for the global freshwater system at 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming. Environmental Research Letters. 13(4). 44038–44038. 76 indexed citations

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Trautmann, Tim, Petra Döll, Dieter Gerten, et al.. (2018). Risks for the global freshwater system at 1.5 ∘C and 2 ∘C global warming. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 4413. 1 indexed citations

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Ros, Anselmo García Cantú, Katja Frieler, Christopher Reyer, et al.. (2018). Evaluating changes of biomass in global vegetation models: the role of turnover fluctuations and ENSO events. Environmental Research Letters. 13(7). 75002–75002. 3 indexed citations

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Veldkamp, Ted, Yoshihide Wada, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, et al.. (2017). Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15697–15697. 368 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ostberg, Sebastian, Sibyll Schaphoff, Wolfgang Lucht, & Dieter Gerten. (2015). Three centuries of dual pressure from land use and climate change on the biosphere. Environmental Research Letters. 10(4). 44011–44011. 53 indexed citations

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Bonsch, Markus, Alexander Popp, Anne Biewald, et al.. (2014). Environmental flow provision: Implications for agricultural water and land-use at the global scale. Global Environmental Change. 30. 113–132. 48 indexed citations

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Heinke, Jens, Sebastian Ostberg, Sibyll Schaphoff, et al.. (2013). A new climate dataset for systematic assessments of climate change impacts as a function of global warming. Geoscientific model development. 6(5). 1689–1703. 26 indexed citations

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Ostberg, Sebastian, Wolfgang Lucht, Sibyll Schaphoff, & Dieter Gerten. (2013). Critical impacts of global warming on land ecosystems. Earth System Dynamics. 4(2). 347–357. 37 indexed citations

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Rammig, Anja, Tim E. Jupp, Kirsten Thonicke, et al.. (2010). Estimating the risk of Amazonian forest dieback. New Phytologist. 187(3). 694–706. 108 indexed citations

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