Thomas Friborg

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas Friborg is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Friborg has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 42 papers in Atmospheric Science and 29 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Friborg's work include Climate change and permafrost (35 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (27 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers). Thomas Friborg is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (35 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (27 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (25 papers). Thomas Friborg collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Sweden and United Kingdom. Thomas Friborg's co-authors include H. Soegaard, Torben R. Christensen, Patrick Crill, Mikhail Mastepanov, Torbjörn Johansson, J. B. Moncrieff, J.A. Elbers, Anne Verhoef, P. Kabat and Nils Malmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Environmental Science & Technology and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Friborg

71 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

A system to measure surface fluxes of momentum, sensible heat, water vapour and carbon dioxide

1997 867 citations J. B. Moncrieff, J. M. Massheder et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Friborg Denmark	35	2.2k	2.2k	1.7k	466	453	72	4.1k
Ivan Mammarella Finland	38	3.2k 1.5×	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	613 1.3×	354 0.8×	164	4.5k
Mika Aurela Finland	40	3.0k 1.4×	2.5k 1.1×	2.8k 1.7×	833 1.8×	295 0.7×	166	5.3k
Elyn Humphreys Canada	34	2.1k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	2.4k 1.4×	752 1.6×	218 0.5×	95	4.0k
Donatella Zona United States	34	1.5k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	256 0.5×	416 0.9×	97	3.6k
H. Soegaard Denmark	32	2.7k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	694 1.5×	166 0.4×	57	4.3k
Annalea Lohila Finland	34	1.4k 0.6×	878 0.4×	1.9k 1.1×	490 1.1×	381 0.8×	136	3.0k
Fabienne Maignan France	34	2.8k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	275 0.6×	125 0.3×	94	3.7k
Olaf Kolle Germany	40	3.7k 1.6×	2.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	780 1.7×	206 0.5×	105	4.7k
Samuli Launiainen Finland	32	1.6k 0.7×	835 0.4×	656 0.4×	346 0.7×	214 0.5×	109	2.5k
Richard M. Petrone Canada	29	1.3k 0.6×	661 0.3×	1.7k 1.0×	370 0.8×	189 0.4×	134	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Friborg

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Friborg, Thomas, et al.. (2026). Assessing groundwater vulnerability in bedrock islands using the modified GALDIT method. Journal of Hydrology. 667. 134905–134905.

Jensen, Rasmus, et al.. (2024). Independent estimates of net carbon uptake in croplands: UAV-LiDAR and machine learning vs. eddy covariance. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 355. 110106–110106. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Noah, Eleanor Burke, Kjetil Schanke, et al.. (2022). Explicitly modelling microtopography in permafrost landscapes in a land surface model (JULES vn5.4_microtopography). Geoscientific model development. 15(9). 3603–3639. 13 indexed citations

Oehmcke, Stefan, et al.. (2021). Prediction of above ground biomass and C-stocks based on UAV-LiDAR,multispectral imagery and machine learning methods.. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 2 indexed citations

Smith, Noah, Sarah Chadburn, Eleanor Burke, et al.. (2021). Explicitly modelling microtopography in permafrost landscapes in a land-surface model (JULES vn5.4_microtopography). Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 2 indexed citations

Seco, Roger, Thomas Holst, Andreas Westergaard‐Nielsen, et al.. (2020). Volatile Organic Compound fluxes in a subarctic peatland and lake. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1 indexed citations

Seco, Roger, Thomas Holst, Andreas Westergaard‐Nielsen, et al.. (2020). Volatile organic compound fluxes in a subarctic peatland and lake. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(21). 13399–13416. 37 indexed citations

Westergaard‐Nielsen, Andreas, et al.. (2020). Application of drone borne LiDAR technology for monitoring agricultural biomass and plant growth.. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Wenxin, Per‐Erik Jansson, Charlotte Sigsgaard, et al.. (2019). Model-data fusion to assess year-round CO2 fluxes for an arctic heath ecosystem in West Greenland (69°N). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 272-273. 176–186. 30 indexed citations

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Marushchak, Maija E., Thomas Friborg, Christina Biasi, et al.. (2016). Methane dynamics in the subarctic tundra: combining stable isotope analyses, plot- and ecosystem-scale flux measurements. Biogeosciences. 13(2). 597–608. 28 indexed citations

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Nieto, Héctor, et al.. (2016). Estimating evaporation with thermal UAV data and two-source energy balance models. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(2). 697–713. 129 indexed citations

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Jensen, Rasmus, et al.. (2016). Crop water stress maps for an entire growing season from visible and thermal UAV imagery. Biogeosciences. 13(24). 6545–6563. 97 indexed citations

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Marushchak, Maija E., Thomas Friborg, Christina Biasi, et al.. (2015). Methane dynamics in warming tundra of Northeast European Russia. 1 indexed citations

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Lund, Magnus, Mika Aurela, Torben R. Christensen, et al.. (2014). Assessing the spatial variability in peak season CO ₂ exchange characteristics across the Arctic tundra using a light response curve parameterization. Biogeosciences. 11(17). 4897–4912. 22 indexed citations

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Herbst, Michael, Thomas Friborg, Kirsten Schelde, et al.. (2013). Climate and site management as driving factors for the atmospheric greenhouse gas exchange of a restored wetland. Biogeosciences. 10(1). 39–52. 50 indexed citations

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Elberling, Bo, Claus Nordstrøm, Lisbeth Grøndahl, et al.. (2008). Soil CO2 and CH4 Production Controlled by Temperatures, Water, Freezing and Snowmelt.. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 1 indexed citations

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Friborg, Thomas, et al.. (2008). Winter time burst of CO2 from the high arctic soils of Svalbard. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Christensen, Torben R., Thomas Friborg, & Margareta Johansson. (2008). Trace gas budgets of high Arctic permafrost regions. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 1 indexed citations

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Friborg, Thomas, Birger Ulf Hansen, Claus Nordstroem, & H. Soegaard. (1999). Controls on the greenhouse gas exchange of a high-arctic ecosystem. Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography. 99(1). 19–26. 1 indexed citations

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Moncrieff, J. B., J. M. Massheder, Henk de Bruin, et al.. (1997). A system to measure surface fluxes of momentum, sensible heat, water vapour and carbon dioxide. Journal of Hydrology. 188-189. 589–611. 867 indexed citations breakdown →

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