Timothy M. Lenton

64.9k total citations · 21 hit papers
271 papers, 23.5k citations indexed

About

Timothy M. Lenton is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy M. Lenton has authored 271 papers receiving a total of 23.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 113 papers in Atmospheric Science and 47 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Timothy M. Lenton's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (55 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (54 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (47 papers). Timothy M. Lenton is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (55 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (54 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (47 papers). Timothy M. Lenton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Timothy M. Lenton's co-authors include Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Marten Scheffer, Stefan Rahmstorf, Johan Rockström, Stuart J. Daines, Benjamin Mills, Andrew Watson, Wolfgang Lucht, Elmar Kriegler and Hermann Held and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Timothy M. Lenton

259 papers receiving 22.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

2008 2.3k citations Timothy M. Lenton, Hermann Held et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

2018 1.6k citations Johan Rockström, Timothy M. Lenton et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Anticipating Critical Transitions

2012 1.4k citations Marten Scheffer, Timothy M. Lenton et al. profile →
Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against

2019 1.0k citations Timothy M. Lenton, Johan Rockström et al. profile →
Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points

2022 799 citations David I. Armstrong McKay, Jesse F. Abrams et al. profile →
Early warning of climate tipping points

2011 521 citations Timothy M. Lenton Nature Climate Change profile →
Future of the human climate niche

2020 374 citations Chi Xu, Timothy A. Kohler et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The impact of temperature on marine phytoplankton resource allocation and metabolism

2013 354 citations Stuart J. Daines, Timothy M. Lenton et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

2022 350 citations Chi Xu, Timothy A. Kohler et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Climate models predict increasing temperature variability in poor countries

2018 345 citations Sebastian Bathiany, Vasilis Dakos et al. profile →
Co-evolution of eukaryotes and ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic era

2014 334 citations Timothy M. Lenton, Richard A. Boyle et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s

2022 317 citations Chris A. Boulton, Timothy M. Lenton et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021

2021 283 citations William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf et al. BioScience profile →
The emergence and evolution of Earth System Science

2020 261 citations Johan Rockström, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber et al. profile →
Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen

2016 241 citations Timothy M. Lenton, Stuart J. Daines et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Stepwise oxygenation of the Paleozoic atmosphere

2018 208 citations Alexander J. Krause, Benjamin Mills et al. Nature Communications profile →
Quantifying the human cost of global warming

2023 168 citations Timothy M. Lenton, Chi Xu et al. profile →
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory

2023 98 citations William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf et al. BioScience profile →
The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth

2024 98 citations William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf et al. BioScience profile →
Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally

2024 79 citations Jens‐Christian Svenning, Jesse F. Abrams et al. Nature Communications profile →
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system

2024 74 citations Edmund R. R. Moody, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The relative productivity index: Mapping human impacts on rangeland vegetation productivity with quantile regression forests 2025 ·Ecological Indicators ·Guy Lomax, Tom Powell, Timothy M. Lenton, Andrew M. Cunliffe	1
2	Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements 2025 ·Nature Geoscience ·Niklas Boers, Teng Liu, Sebastian Bathiany, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Chris A. Boulton, Timothy M. Lenton, (unknown), Da Nian, Martin Rypdal, Taylor Smith	0
3	Evaluating GEDI for quantifying forest structure across a gradient of degradation in Amazonian rainforests 2025 ·Environmental Research Letters ·(unknown), Hugh A. Graham, Chris A. Boulton, Timothy M. Lenton, Ted R. Feldpausch, Andrew M. Cunliffe	0
4	The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system breakdown → 2024 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Edmund R. R. Moody, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Tara Mahendrarajah, James Clark, (unknown), Nina Dombrowski, Lénárd L. Szánthó, Richard A. Boyle, Stuart J. Daines, Xi Chen, Nick Lane, Ziheng Yang, Graham Shields, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Anja Spang, Davide Pisani, Tom A. Williams, Timothy M. Lenton, Philip C. J. Donoghue	74
5	A Climate Science Toolkit for High Impact‐Low Likelihood Climate Risks 2023 ·Earth s Future ·Richard Wood, Michel Crucifix, Timothy M. Lenton, Katharine J. Mach, (unknown), Mark New, Simon Sharpe, Thomas F. Stocker, Rowan Sutton	10
6	Enhanced clay formation key in sustaining the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum 2023 ·Nature Geoscience ·Alexander J. Krause, Appy Sluijs, Robin van der Ploeg, Timothy M. Lenton, Philip A.E. Pogge von Strandmann	21
7	The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory breakdown → 2023 ·BioScience ·William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Jillian W. Gregg, Johan Rockström, Thomas M. Newsome, B. E. Law, Luiz Marques, Timothy M. Lenton, Chi Xu, Saleemul Huq, Leon Simons, (unknown)	98
8	Committed Global Warming Risks Triggering Multiple Climate Tipping Points 2023 ·Earth s Future ·Jesse F. Abrams, Chris Huntingford, Mark S. Williamson, David I. Armstrong McKay, Chris A. Boulton, (unknown), Boris Sakschewski, Sina Loriani, Caroline Zimm, Ricarda Winkelmann, Timothy M. Lenton	14
9	Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s breakdown → 2022 ·Nature Climate Change ·Chris A. Boulton, Timothy M. Lenton, Niklas Boers	317
10	A resilience sensing system for the biosphere 2022 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Timothy M. Lenton, (unknown), David I. Armstrong McKay, Jesse F. Abrams, Chris A. Boulton, Kirsten Lees, Thomas W. Powell, Niklas Boers, Andrew M. Cunliffe, Vasilis Dakos	17
11	All options, not silver bullets, needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C: a scenario appraisal 2021 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Lila Warszawski, Elmar Kriegler, Timothy M. Lenton, Owen Gaffney, Daniela Jacob, (unknown), Ryu Koide, María Máñez Costa, Dirk Messner, Nebojša Nakićenović, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Peter Schlösser, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Sander van der Leeuw, Gail Whiteman, Johan Rockström	64
12	Future of the human climate niche breakdown → 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Chi Xu, Timothy A. Kohler, Timothy M. Lenton, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Marten Scheffer	374
13	Implications of different stellar spectra for the climate of tidally locked Earth-like exoplanets 2020 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·(unknown), (unknown), Nathan J. Mayne, F. Hugo Lambert, Denis E. Sergeev, (unknown), James Manners, Ian Boutle, Timothy M. Lenton, K. Koháry	22
14	Phosphorus-limited conditions in the early Neoproterozoic ocean maintained low levels of atmospheric oxygen 2020 ·Nature Geoscience ·Romain Guilbaud, Simon W. Poulton, Jennifer Thompson, (unknown), Maoyan Zhu, Ying Zhou, Graham Shields, Timothy M. Lenton	86
15	Signatures Consistent with Multifrequency Tipping in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation 2020 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Bernd Krauskopf, Timothy M. Lenton	4
16	Early Palaeozoic ocean anoxia and global warming driven by the evolution of shallow burrowing 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Sebastiaan van de Velde, Benjamin Mills, Filip J. R. Meysman, Timothy M. Lenton, Simon W. Poulton	66
17	The time scale of the silicate weathering negative feedback on atmospheric CO ₂ 2015 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·(unknown), Andy Ridgwell, Timothy M. Lenton	78
18	Interactions between reducing CO2 emissions, CO2 removal and solar radiation management 2012 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ·Naomi E. Vaughan, Timothy M. Lenton	9
19	Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system breakdown → 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Timothy M. Lenton, Hermann Held, Elmar Kriegler, Jim W. Hall, Wolfgang Lucht, Stefan Rahmstorf, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber	2271
20	Spora and Gaia: how microbes fly with their clouds 1998 ·Ethology Ecology & Evolution ·W D Hamilton, Timothy M. Lenton	89

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