Thomas Litt

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas Litt is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Paleontology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Litt has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Atmospheric Science, 36 papers in Paleontology and 30 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Thomas Litt's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (75 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (33 papers) and Marine and environmental studies (30 papers). Thomas Litt is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (75 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (33 papers) and Marine and environmental studies (30 papers). Thomas Litt collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Thomas Litt's co-authors include Martina Stebich, Achim Brauer, Nadine Pickarski, Andreas Hense, Norbert Kühl, Rachid Cheddadi, Jacques‐Louis de Beaulieu, Jörg F. W. Negendank, Dafna Langgut and Giovanni G. Vendramin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Litt

92 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

A new scenario for the Quaternary history of European beech populations: palaeobotanical evidence and genetic consequences

2006 742 citations Donatella Magri, Giovanni G. Vendramin et al. New Phytologist profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Litt Germany	40	3.9k	1.8k	1.5k	1.3k	993	93	6.2k
Donatella Magri Italy	39	3.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	867 0.7×	350 0.4×	102	5.2k
Maurice Reille France	43	5.0k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	2.3k 1.6×	1.3k 1.0×	789 0.8×	87	6.6k
Polychronis C. Tzedakis United Kingdom	51	6.1k 1.5×	2.7k 1.5×	3.0k 2.0×	1.8k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	109	8.1k
Jacques‐Louis de Beaulieu France	44	4.5k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.3×	911 0.9×	107	8.3k
Jean‐Pierre Suc France	42	4.2k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	884 0.6×	743 0.6×	886 0.9×	127	6.6k
Rachid Cheddadi France	45	4.7k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	618 0.6×	127	8.4k
Laura Sadori Italy	42	3.8k 1.0×	2.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	858 0.7×	603 0.6×	132	5.5k
K. D. Bennett United Kingdom	45	4.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	2.4k 1.9×	603 0.6×	114	8.2k
Hilary H. Birks Norway	52	5.9k 1.5×	1.6k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	2.4k 1.8×	627 0.6×	122	7.8k
Willy Tinner Switzerland	64	8.8k 2.2×	2.6k 1.5×	1.9k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	606 0.6×	247	12.0k

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Ön, Sena Akçer, et al.. (2023). A Late Holocene climate reconstruction from the high-altitude Lake Gölcük sedimentary records, Isparta (SW Anatolia). Quaternary Research. 115. 120–133. 3 indexed citations

Pickarski, Nadine, Ola Kwiecien, & Thomas Litt. (2023). Volcanic impact on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the Eastern Mediterranean. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 11 indexed citations

Richter, Jürgen, Thomas Litt, Frank Lehmkuhl, et al.. (2020). Al-Ansab and the Dead Sea: Mid-MIS 3 archaeology and environment of the early Ahmarian population of the Levantine corridor. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0239968–e0239968. 15 indexed citations

Palmisano, Alessio, Jessie Woodbridge, C. Neil Roberts, et al.. (2019). Holocene landscape dynamics and long-term population trends in the Levant. The Holocene. 29(5). 708–727. 48 indexed citations

Miebach, Andrea, et al.. (2019). A new Dead Sea pollen record reveals the last glacial paleoenvironment of the southern Levant. Quaternary Science Reviews. 214. 98–116. 38 indexed citations

Pickarski, Nadine & Thomas Litt. (2017). A new high-resolution pollen sequence at Lake Van, Turkey: insights into penultimate interglacial–glacial climate change on vegetation history. Climate of the past. 13(6). 689–710. 36 indexed citations

Bechtel, Achim, Marcel T. J. van der Meer, Francien Peterse, et al.. (2017). Biomarkers in Lake Van sediments reveal dry conditions in eastern Anatolia during 110.000–10.000 years B.P.. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 18(2). 571–583. 21 indexed citations

Miebach, Andrea, et al.. (2016). Impacts of climate and humans on the vegetation in northwestern Turkey: palynological insights from Lake Iznik since the Last Glacial. Climate of the past. 12(2). 575–593. 54 indexed citations

Miebach, Andrea, Chunzhu Chen, & Thomas Litt. (2015). Last Glacial vegetation and climate change in the southern Levant. EGUGA. 3841. 2 indexed citations

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Miebach, Andrea, et al.. (2015). Impacts of climate and humans on the vegetation in NW Turkey: palynological insights from Lake Iznik since the Last Glacial. 2 indexed citations

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Pickarski, Nadine, Ola Kwiecien, Dafna Langgut, & Thomas Litt. (2015). Abrupt climate variability of eastern Anatolia vegetation during the last glacial. 2 indexed citations

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Pickarski, Nadine, Ola Kwiecien, Dafna Langgut, & Thomas Litt. (2015). Abrupt climate and vegetation variability of eastern Anatolia during the last glacial. Climate of the past. 11(11). 1491–1505. 53 indexed citations

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Lauterbach, Stefan, Achim Brauer, Thomas Litt, & Georg Schettler. (2012). Re-evaluation of the Bispingen palaeolake record - a revised chronology for the Eemian in Northern Germany. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 8613. 12 indexed citations

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Litt, Thomas, Nadine Pickarski, & Georg Heumann. (2012). 287 A 500,000-year-long continental pollen record of Lake Van in eastern Anatolia. 58. 130–131. 1 indexed citations

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Huguet, Carme, Susanne Fietz, Thomas Litt, et al.. (2012). A seasonal cycle of terrestrial inputs in Lake Van, Turkey. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 19(8). 3628–3635. 5 indexed citations

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Tollefsrud, Mari Mette, Félix Gugerli, Øystein Johnsen, et al.. (2008). Genetic consequences of glacial survival and postglacial colonization in Norway spruce: combined analysis of mitochondrial DNA and fossil pollen. Molecular Ecology. 17(18). 4134–4150. 208 indexed citations

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Cheddadi, Rachid, Giovanni G. Vendramin, Thomas Litt, et al.. (2006). Imprints of glacial refugia in the modern genetic diversity of Pinus sylvestris. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 15(3). 271–282. 211 indexed citations

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Magri, Donatella, Giovanni G. Vendramin, Isabelle Dupanloup, et al.. (2006). A new scenario for the Quaternary history of European beech populations: palaeobotanical evidence and genetic consequences. New Phytologist. 171(1). 199–221. 742 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kaspar, Frank, Norbert Kühl, Ulrich Cubasch, & Thomas Litt. (2005). A model‐data comparison of European temperatures in the Eemian interglacial. Geophysical Research Letters. 32(11). 106 indexed citations

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Litt, Thomas, Achim Brauer, Tomasz Goślar, et al.. (1999). Correlation and synchronisation of Lateglacial continental sequences in northern central Europe based on varved limnic sediments. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences). 2 indexed citations

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