Sophia Etzold

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Sophia Etzold is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sophia Etzold has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 15 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Sophia Etzold's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (21 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (14 papers) and Forest ecology and management (13 papers). Sophia Etzold is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (21 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (14 papers) and Forest ecology and management (13 papers). Sophia Etzold collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Spain. Sophia Etzold's co-authors include Nina Buchmann, Werner Eugster, Roman Zweifel, Matthias Dobbertin, Nadine K. Ruehr, R. Häsler, Kasia Ziemińska, Andreas Zingg, Sabine Braun and Arthur Geßler 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

Sophia Etzold

26 papers receiving 991 citations

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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.

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2021 157 citations Roman Zweifel, Sabine Braun et al. New Phytologist profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sophia Etzold Switzerland	14	785	429	428	271	214	28	1.0k
Norbert Kunert Germany	18	871 1.1×	646 1.5×	374 0.9×	178 0.7×	223 1.0×	40	1.1k
Joshua Mantooth United States	4	689 0.9×	367 0.9×	238 0.6×	251 0.9×	377 1.8×	4	975
Brett T. Wolfe United States	16	837 1.1×	372 0.9×	344 0.8×	276 1.0×	457 2.1×	26	1.1k
Michael Cai United States	4	1.4k 1.8×	606 1.4×	740 1.7×	358 1.3×	256 1.2×	5	1.6k
Kerrie M. Sendall United States	14	886 1.1×	441 1.0×	318 0.7×	237 0.9×	463 2.2×	18	1.2k
Anthony R. Ambrose United States	13	935 1.2×	370 0.9×	444 1.0×	196 0.7×	311 1.5×	16	1.2k
Oliver Binks Spain	14	955 1.2×	492 1.1×	448 1.0×	181 0.7×	343 1.6×	25	1.1k
Laura Dobor Czechia	17	538 0.7×	365 0.9×	189 0.4×	277 1.0×	138 0.6×	31	878
Loïc D’Orangeville Canada	19	1.2k 1.5×	786 1.8×	850 2.0×	184 0.7×	132 0.6×	51	1.5k
Daniel J. Chmura Poland	12	572 0.7×	449 1.0×	215 0.5×	144 0.5×	254 1.2×	35	851

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sophia Etzold

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Baranger, Anne, Benoı̂t Courbaud, Thomas Cordonnier, et al.. (2025). Shade tolerance controls the spectrum of crown sizes and its response to local competition across European and North American tree species. Implications for light interception strategies. Oikos. 2025(8).

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

Etzold, Sophia, Arthur Geßler, Frank Hagedorn, et al.. (2025). 25 Jahre Wachstumsentwicklung in 19 Schweizer Wäldern unter zunehmender Trockenheit. Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen. 2(176). 77–77. 1 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

Vallicrosa, Helena, Arthur Geßler, Sophia Etzold, et al.. (2024). Temperature and leaf form drive contrasting sensitivity to nitrogen deposition across European forests. The Science of The Total Environment. 955. 176904–176904. 1 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

Thimonier, Anne, Sophia Etzold, Katrin Meusburger, et al.. (2022). Variation in Leaf Morphological Traits of European Beech and Norway Spruce Over Two Decades in Switzerland. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4. 13 indexed citations

Gharun, Mana, Lukas Hörtnagl, Eugénie Paul‐Limoges, et al.. (2020). Physiological response of Swiss ecosystems to 2018 drought across plant types and elevation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1810). 20190521–20190521. 60 indexed citations

Etzold, Sophia, Kasia Ziemińska, Brigitte Rohner, et al.. (2019). One Century of Forest Monitoring Data in Switzerland Reveals Species- and Site-Specific Trends of Climate-Induced Tree Mortality. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 307–307. 81 indexed citations

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Rigling, Andreas, Sophia Etzold, Peter Bebi, et al.. (2019). Wie viel Trockenheit ertragen unsere Wälder? Lehren aus extremen Trockenjahren. DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 39–51. 3 indexed citations

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Conedera, Marco, et al.. (2018). High growth potential of Ailanthus altissima in warm and dry weather conditions in novel forests of southern Switzerland. Trees. 33(2). 395–409. 11 indexed citations

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Waldner, Peter, Sophia Etzold, Arthur Geßler, et al.. (2016). Patterns of mast fruiting of common beech, sessile and common oak, Norway spruce and Scots pine in Central and Northern Europe. Forest Ecology and Management. 363. 237–251. 61 indexed citations

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Klesse, Stefan, Sophia Etzold, & David Frank. (2016). Integrating tree-ring and inventory-based measurements of aboveground biomass growth: research opportunities and carbon cycle consequences from a large snow breakage event in the Swiss Alps. European Journal of Forest Research. 135(2). 297–311. 34 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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Etzold, Sophia, Peter Waldner, Anne Thimonier, Maria Schmitt, & Matthias Dobbertin. (2013). Tree growth in Swiss forests between 1995 and 2010 in relation to climate and stand conditions: Recent disturbances matter. Forest Ecology and Management. 311. 41–55. 54 indexed citations

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Etzold, Sophia, Roman Zweifel, Nadine K. Ruehr, Werner Eugster, & Nina Buchmann. (2013). Long‐term stem CO₂ concentration measurements in Norway spruce in relation to biotic and abiotic factors. New Phytologist. 197(4). 1173–1184. 39 indexed citations

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Etzold, Sophia, Nina Buchmann, & Werner Eugster. (2010). Contribution of advection to the carbon budget measured by eddy covariance at a steep mountain slope forest in Switzerland. Biogeosciences. 7(8). 2461–2475. 43 indexed citations

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Zweifel, Roman, Werner Eugster, Sophia Etzold, et al.. (2010). Link between continuous stem radius changes and net ecosystem productivity of a subalpine Norway spruce forest in the Swiss Alps. New Phytologist. 187(3). 819–830. 89 indexed citations

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Ahrends, Hella Ellen, Sophia Etzold, Werner Eugster, et al.. (2009). Use of digital images to observe forest phenology and drought stress. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 10886. 1 indexed citations

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Sturm, Patrick, Matti Barthel, Sophia Etzold, et al.. (2008). Ecosystem Fluxes of Stable Isotopes in Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor Above a Forest Measured by Laser Spectroscopy. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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