Thomas Kleinen

11.7k total citations
55 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Thomas Kleinen is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Kleinen has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Atmospheric Science, 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Kleinen's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (28 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (15 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (15 papers). Thomas Kleinen is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (28 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (15 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (15 papers). Thomas Kleinen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Thomas Kleinen's co-authors include Victor Brovkin, Hermann Held, Gerhard Petschel‐Held, Martin Claußen, Guy Munhoven, Sebastian Bathiany, G. A. Alexandrov, Pavel E. Tarasov, Altug Ekici and B. Steil and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Kleinen

52 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Kleinen Germany 22 837 834 456 183 177 55 1.6k
Nathalie de Noblet France 11 1.1k 1.3× 1.2k 1.4× 310 0.7× 253 1.4× 73 0.4× 19 1.7k
C. Cooper United Kingdom 4 1.5k 1.8× 1.8k 2.1× 207 0.5× 100 0.5× 144 0.8× 7 2.5k
Heather Graven United States 22 1.2k 1.5× 1.8k 2.1× 460 1.0× 152 0.8× 238 1.3× 54 2.6k
M. Steinacher Switzerland 17 721 0.9× 1.1k 1.3× 545 1.2× 55 0.3× 222 1.3× 22 2.2k
Xianmei Lang China 28 1.8k 2.1× 1.7k 2.1× 214 0.5× 126 0.7× 48 0.3× 91 2.4k
Caixia Zhang China 20 567 0.7× 949 1.1× 377 0.8× 178 1.0× 44 0.2× 70 1.8k
Helene T. Banks United Kingdom 13 1.6k 1.9× 2.0k 2.4× 195 0.4× 90 0.5× 168 0.9× 17 2.8k
Sergei N. Rodionov United States 15 1.2k 1.4× 2.0k 2.4× 829 1.8× 124 0.7× 225 1.3× 23 2.9k
Aurore Voldoire France 29 2.0k 2.4× 2.8k 3.4× 236 0.5× 287 1.6× 69 0.4× 72 3.3k
Veronika Gayler Germany 12 1.0k 1.2× 1.6k 1.9× 248 0.5× 267 1.5× 53 0.3× 17 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Kleinen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Kleinen

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All Works

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Claußen, Martin, et al.. (2025). Pattern scaling of simulated vegetation change in northern Africa during glacial cycles. Climate of the past. 21(4). 773–794. 2 indexed citations
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Kapsch, Marie‐Luise, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Lukas Jonkers, et al.. (2024). Towards spatio-temporal comparison of simulated and reconstructed sea surface temperatures for the last deglaciation. Climate of the past. 20(4). 865–890. 3 indexed citations
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Claußen, Martin, et al.. (2024). Dynamic interaction between lakes, climate, and vegetation across northern Africa during the mid-Holocene. Climate of the past. 20(7). 1595–1613. 1 indexed citations
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Kleinen, Thomas, Sergey Gromov, B. Steil, & Victor Brovkin. (2023). Atmospheric methane since the last glacial maximum was driven by wetland sources. Climate of the past. 19(5). 1081–1099. 11 indexed citations
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Kleinen, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Simulated methane emissions from Arctic ponds are highly sensitive to warming. Biogeosciences. 20(14). 2837–2855. 3 indexed citations
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Vrese, Philipp de, et al.. (2023). Sensitivity of Arctic CH4 emissions to landscape wetness diminished by atmospheric feedbacks. Nature Climate Change. 13(8). 832–839. 5 indexed citations
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Dallmeyer, Anne, et al.. (2022). The deglacial forest conundrum. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6035–6035. 28 indexed citations
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Vrese, Philipp de, Tobias Stacke, Thomas Kleinen, & Victor Brovkin. (2021). Diverging responses of high-latitude CO 2 and CH 4 emissions in idealized climate change scenarios. ˜The œcryosphere. 15(2). 1097–1130. 18 indexed citations
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Kleinen, Thomas, Uwe Mikolajewicz, & Victor Brovkin. (2020). Terrestrial methane emissions from the Last Glacial Maximum to the preindustrial period. Climate of the past. 16(2). 575–595. 29 indexed citations
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Alexandrov, G. A., Victor Brovkin, Thomas Kleinen, & Zicheng Yu. (2019). The limits to northern peatland carbon stocks. 1 indexed citations
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Gasser, Thomas, Philippe Ciais, Eleanor Burke, et al.. (2018). Path-dependent reductions in CO2 emission budgets caused by permafrost carbon release. Nature Geoscience. 11(11). 830–835. 98 indexed citations
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Viehberg, Finn, J. Just, Jonathan R. Dean, et al.. (2018). Environmental change during MIS4 and MIS 3 opened corridors in the Horn of Africa for Homo sapiens expansion. Quaternary Science Reviews. 202. 139–153. 22 indexed citations
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Gasser, Thomas, Philippe Ciais, Eleanor Burke, et al.. (2018). Author Correction: Path-dependent reductions in CO2 emission budgets caused by permafrost carbon release. Nature Geoscience. 12(1). 80–80. 2 indexed citations
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Deimling, Thomas Schneider von, Thomas Kleinen, Gustaf Hugelius, et al.. (2018). Long-term deglacial permafrost carbon dynamics in MPI-ESM. Climate of the past. 14(12). 2011–2036. 4 indexed citations
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Alexandrov, G. A., Victor Brovkin, & Thomas Kleinen. (2016). The influence of climate on peatland extent in Western Siberia since the Last Glacial Maximum. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 24784–24784. 22 indexed citations
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Runkle, Benjamin R. K., et al.. (2016). Upscaling methane emission hotspots in boreal peatlands. Geoscientific model development. 9(2). 915–926. 11 indexed citations
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Claußen, Martin, Sebastian Bathiany, Victor Brovkin, & Thomas Kleinen. (2014). Abrupt or not abrupt - biodiversity affects climate-vegetation interaction at the end of the African Humid Period. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 13398. 1 indexed citations
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Brovkin, Victor, Peter M. van Bodegom, Thomas Kleinen, et al.. (2012). Plant-driven variation in decomposition rates improves projections of global litter stock distribution. Biogeosciences. 9(1). 565–576. 80 indexed citations
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Kleinen, Thomas, et al.. (2011). A dynamic model of wetland extent and peat accumulation: results for the Holocene. 2 indexed citations

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