Thomas Röckmann

16.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
295 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas Röckmann is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Röckmann has authored 295 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 242 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 224 papers in Atmospheric Science and 37 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Thomas Röckmann's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (224 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (183 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (131 papers). Thomas Röckmann is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (224 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (183 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (131 papers). Thomas Röckmann collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United States. Thomas Röckmann's co-authors include Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer, Frank Keppler, M. Braß, Rupert Holzinger, Jan Kaiser, John T. G. Hamilton, Maarten Krol, Dušan Materić, Sander Houweling and Matthias Egger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Röckmann

281 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

Methane emissions from terrestrial plants under aerobic conditions

2006 687 citations Thomas Röckmann et al. profile →
Methane Feedbacks to the Global Climate System in a Warmer World

2018 401 citations Thomas Röckmann, Matthias Egger et al. profile →
Nanoplastics measurements in Northern and Southern polar ice

2022 192 citations Jean‐Louis Tison, Thomas Röckmann et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Röckmann Netherlands	52	5.8k	5.4k	1.7k	1.6k	916	295	10.0k
Naohiro Yoshida Japan	60	2.9k 0.5×	3.6k 0.7×	2.6k 1.6×	3.6k 2.3×	1.4k 1.5×	320	11.6k
M. A. K. Khalil United States	56	5.2k 0.9×	5.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	885 1.0×	192	9.8k
Heike Knicker Germany	71	3.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	3.8k 2.4×	1.8k 2.0×	288	14.8k
W. Seiler Germany	52	5.9k 1.0×	4.2k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	480 0.5×	117	10.2k
R. A. Rasmussen United States	57	5.9k 1.0×	7.0k 1.3×	1.1k 0.7×	896 0.6×	638 0.7×	164	10.4k
Jens Hartmann Germany	56	3.0k 0.5×	2.4k 0.4×	2.8k 1.7×	1.9k 1.2×	494 0.5×	196	13.8k
Ramón Aravena Canada	63	1.6k 0.3×	3.0k 0.6×	2.3k 1.4×	3.4k 2.1×	1.7k 1.9×	214	11.7k
Ping’an Peng China	63	1.8k 0.3×	3.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	2.3k 2.5×	414	14.1k
Michael D. Krom United Kingdom	59	1.9k 0.3×	2.6k 0.5×	2.4k 1.5×	2.9k 1.8×	1.2k 1.3×	145	10.8k
David Bastviken Sweden	61	6.6k 1.1×	3.0k 0.6×	5.6k 3.4×	5.0k 3.1×	691 0.8×	198	14.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Röckmann

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Röckmann

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Röckmann

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Szurgacz, Dawid, Dariusz Strąpoć, Magdalena Misz‐Kennan, et al.. (2025). Understanding coalbed gas distribution from longwall mining: Geochemical and isotopic approach. International Journal of Coal Geology. 309. 104859–104859.

Herpen, Maarten M. J. W. van, et al.. (2025). Photocatalytic Chlorine Production From Iron Chlorides in Atmospheric Aerosols: Strategies for Quantifying Methane and Tropospheric Ozone Control. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(6). 1 indexed citations

Michel, Sylvia, Xin Lan, Pieter P. Tans, et al.. (2025). Microbial driver of 2006–2023 CH ₄ growth indicated by trends in atmospheric δD–CH ₄ and δ ¹³ C–CH ₄. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(50). e2516543122–e2516543122. 1 indexed citations

Röckmann, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Harmonisation of atmospheric methane isotope ratio measurements from different laboratories: Procedures and Protocols. 1 indexed citations

Warneke, Thorsten, Alessandro Araùjo, Bruce R. Forsberg, et al.. (2024). The emission of CO from tropical rainforest soils. Biogeosciences. 21(13). 3183–3199.

Chandra, Naveen, Prabir K. Patra, Ryo Fujita, et al.. (2024). Methane emissions decreased in fossil fuel exploitation and sustainably increased in microbial source sectors during 1990–2020. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 13 indexed citations

Ramond, Pierre, et al.. (2023). Diel and seasonal methane dynamics in the shallow and turbulent Wadden Sea. Biogeosciences. 20(18). 3857–3872. 8 indexed citations

Dietrich, Florian, Jia Chen, Ankit Shekhar, et al.. (2023). Climate Impact Comparison of Electric and Gas‐Powered End‐User Appliances. Earth s Future. 11(2). 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Zhao, Marcel de Vries, Jarosław Nęcki, et al.. (2023). Local-to-regional methane emissions from the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (USCB) quantified using UAV-based atmospheric measurements. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(9). 5191–5216. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Qinyi, Daphne Meidan, Peter Hess, et al.. (2023). Global environmental implications of atmospheric methane removal through chlorine-mediated chemistry-climate interactions. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4045–4045. 24 indexed citations

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Menoud, Malika, Carina van der Veen, David Lowry, et al.. (2022). New contributions of measurements in Europe to the global inventory of the stable isotopic composition of methane. Earth system science data. 14(9). 4365–4386. 15 indexed citations

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Christiansen, Jesper Riis, Thomas Röckmann, María Elena Popa, Célia Sapart, & Christian Juncher Jørgensen. (2021). Carbon Emissions From the Edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet Reveal Subglacial Processes of Methane and Carbon Dioxide Turnover. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(11). 15 indexed citations

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Krol, Maarten, et al.. (2021). A GC-IRMS method for measuring sulfur isotope ratios of carbonyl sulfide from small air samples. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 105–105. 4 indexed citations

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Popa, María Elena, Thomas Röckmann, Jens‐Uwe Grooß, et al.. (2020). Wildfire smoke in the lower stratosphere identified by in situ CO observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(22). 13985–14003. 13 indexed citations

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Pandey, Sudhanshu, Sander Houweling, Maarten Krol, et al.. (2019). Influence of Atmospheric Transport on Estimates of Variability in the Global Methane Burden. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(4). 2302–2311. 20 indexed citations

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Sapart, Célia, Natalia Shakhova, Igor Semiletov, et al.. (2017). The origin of methane in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf unraveled with triple isotope analysis. Biogeosciences. 14(9). 2283–2292. 53 indexed citations

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Martinerie, Patricia, Célia Sapart, Emmanuel Witrant, et al.. (2017). Constraining N ₂ O emissions since 1940 using firn air isotope measurements in both hemispheres. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(7). 4539–4564. 10 indexed citations

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Pandey, Sudhanshu, Sander Houweling, Maarten Krol, et al.. (2016). Inverse modeling of GOSAT-retrieved ratios of total column CH ₄ and CO ₂ for 2009 and 2010. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(8). 5043–5062. 28 indexed citations

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Haumann, F. Alexander, A. M. Batenburg, G. Pieterse, et al.. (2013). Emission ratio and isotopic signatures of molecular hydrogen emissions from tropical biomass burning. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(18). 9401–9413. 3 indexed citations

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Ringeval, Bruno, Sander Houweling, Peter M. van Bodegom, et al.. (2013). Methane emissions from floodplains in the Amazon Basin: towards a process-based model for global applications. 1 indexed citations

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