Tobias Sprafke

1.5k total citations
37 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Tobias Sprafke is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tobias Sprafke has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Atmospheric Science, 16 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 15 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Tobias Sprafke's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (31 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (15 papers) and Geological formations and processes (11 papers). Tobias Sprafke is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (31 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (15 papers) and Geological formations and processes (11 papers). Tobias Sprafke collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. Tobias Sprafke's co-authors include Igor Obreht, Birgit Terhorst, Christine Thiel, Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons, Robert Peticzka, Frank Lehmkuhl, Philipp Schulte, Christian Zeeden, Manfred Frechen and Slobodan B. Marković and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Earth-Science Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Tobias Sprafke

35 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tobias Sprafke Switzerland 19 832 344 312 206 189 37 1.1k
Philipp Schulte Germany 19 950 1.1× 328 1.0× 448 1.4× 192 0.9× 175 0.9× 62 1.2k
Lenka Lisá Czechia 16 687 0.8× 319 0.9× 213 0.7× 172 0.8× 285 1.5× 88 1.0k
Igor Obreht Germany 22 1.0k 1.2× 391 1.1× 269 0.9× 496 2.4× 229 1.2× 48 1.4k
Peter J. Holmes South Africa 17 620 0.7× 296 0.9× 528 1.7× 83 0.4× 227 1.2× 42 1.0k
Barbara Woronko Poland 21 923 1.1× 162 0.5× 548 1.8× 184 0.9× 87 0.5× 103 1.2k
A. Bronger Germany 18 974 1.2× 265 0.8× 348 1.1× 228 1.1× 134 0.7× 33 1.2k
Freek S. Busschers Netherlands 19 998 1.2× 230 0.7× 686 2.2× 92 0.4× 210 1.1× 47 1.3k
Holger Kuhlmann Germany 20 1.1k 1.3× 221 0.6× 474 1.5× 333 1.6× 204 1.1× 29 1.3k
Stephan Opitz Germany 17 1.0k 1.2× 154 0.4× 637 2.0× 87 0.4× 174 0.9× 40 1.3k
Abdelfattah Benkaddour Morocco 14 668 0.8× 133 0.4× 207 0.7× 122 0.6× 241 1.3× 28 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tobias Sprafke

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tobias Sprafke

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All Works

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Sprafke, Tobias, Robert Peticzka, Christine Thiel, & Birgit Terhorst. (2024). Brunhes to burials – loess region of Krems, Lower Austria. Online Publication Service of Würzburg University (Würzburg University). 5. 41–54.
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Fülling, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Multi-method study of the Middle Pleistocene loess–palaeosol sequence of Köndringen, SW Germany. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 72(1). 1–21. 10 indexed citations
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Waroszewski, Jarosław, Anna Pietranik, Tobias Sprafke, et al.. (2021). Provenance and paleoenvironmental context of the Late Pleistocene thin aeolian silt mantles in southwestern Poland – A widespread parent material for soils. CATENA. 204. 105377–105377. 31 indexed citations
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Händel, Marc, Tobias Sprafke, Philipp Schulte, et al.. (2021). Using archaeological data and sediment parameters to review the formation of the Gravettian layers at Krems‐Wachtberg. Journal of Quaternary Science. 36(8). 1397–1413. 8 indexed citations
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Sprafke, Tobias, et al.. (2021). A comparison of polymineral and K-feldspar post-infrared infrared stimulated luminescence ages of loess from Franconia, southern Germany. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 70(1). 53–71. 4 indexed citations
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Rodrigues, Leonor, Tobias Sprafke, Bernard Barthès, et al.. (2020). A Congo Basin ethnographic analogue of pre-Columbian Amazonian raised fields shows the ephemeral legacy of organic matter management. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 10851–10851. 8 indexed citations
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Sprafke, Tobias, et al.. (2020). Pedosedimentary and geoarcheological archives from clay-dominated sinkhole infillings in Middle Franconia, Germany. CATENA. 195. 104893–104893. 8 indexed citations
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Lücke, Bernhard, et al.. (2020). Relationships between spectral features, iron oxides and colours of surface soils in northern Jordan. European Journal of Soil Science. 72(1). 80–97. 19 indexed citations
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Zehetner, Franz, Martin H. Gerzabek, J. Gregory Shellnutt, et al.. (2020). Linking rock age and soil cover across four islands on the Galápagos archipelago. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 99. 102500–102500. 20 indexed citations
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Lehmkuhl, Frank, Janina Bösken, Jan Hošek, et al.. (2018). Loess distribution and related Quaternary sediments in the Carpathian Basin. Journal of Maps. 14(2). 661–670. 37 indexed citations
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Sprafke, Tobias, et al.. (2017). Are fixed grain size ratios useful proxies for loess sedimentation dynamics? Experiences from Remizovka, Kazakhstan. Aeolian Research. 31. 131–140. 27 indexed citations
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Fitzsimmons, Kathryn E., Раду Йовита, Tobias Sprafke, et al.. (2017). A chronological framework connecting the early Upper Palaeolithic across the Central Asian piedmont. Journal of Human Evolution. 113. 107–126. 26 indexed citations
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Marković, Slobodan B., Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons, Tobias Sprafke, et al.. (2015). The history of Danube loess research. Quaternary International. 399. 86–99. 26 indexed citations
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Heiri, Oliver, Karin A. Koinig, Christoph Spötl, et al.. (2014). Palaeoclimate records 60–8 ka in the Austrian and Swiss Alps and their forelands. Quaternary Science Reviews. 106. 186–205. 138 indexed citations
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Terhorst, Birgit, Sergey Sedov, Tobias Sprafke, et al.. (2014). Austrian MIS 3/2 loess–palaeosol records—Key sites along a west–east transect. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 418. 43–56. 52 indexed citations
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Sprafke, Tobias, Birgit Terhorst, Robert Peticzka, & Christine Thiel. (2013). Paudorf locus typicus (Lower Austria) revisited: The potential of the classic loess outcrop for Middle to Late Pleistocene landscape reconstructions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 62(1). 59–72. 18 indexed citations
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Sprafke, Tobias, Christine Thiel, & Birgit Terhorst. (2013). From micromorphology to palaeoenvironment: The MIS 10 to MIS 5 record in Paudorf (Lower Austria). CATENA. 117. 60–72. 33 indexed citations
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Thiel, Christine, Jan‐Pieter Buylaert, Andrew Murray, et al.. (2011). Investigating the chronostratigraphy of prominent palaeosols in Lower Austria using post-IR IRSL dating. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 60(1). 137–152. 46 indexed citations

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