Urs Ruth

9.0k citations

35 papers · 4.9k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 24

Impact in

Atmospheric Science top 0.2%
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Cryospheric studies and observations
Earth-Surface Processes top 0.5%
- Geological formations and processes
- Aeolian processes and effects

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 33
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 29
- Cryospheric studies and observations 21
- Climate change and permafrost 6
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 4
Earth-Surface Processes 10
- Aeolian processes and effects 7
- Geological formations and processes 3

Co-authors: Matthias Bigler J. P. Steffensen Regine Röthlisberger S. J. Johnsen Hubertus Fischer Anders Svensson K. K. Andersen Sune Olander Rasmussen
Journals: Climate of the past (4 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (3 papers)Quaternary Science Reviews (3 papers)Journal of Glaciology (3 papers)Annals of Glaciology (3 papers)
Partner nations: Germany Switzerland Denmark

In The Last Decade

Urs Ruth

35 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core 2008 · 528 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2008 Nature
2008 Science
2006 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
2006 Quaternary Science Reviews

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network

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1	Ice-core data used for the construction of the Greenland Ice-Core Chronology 2005 and 2021 (GICC05 and GICC21) Earth system science data ·Sune Olander Rasmussen, Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen, Hubertus Fischer, Katrin Führer, Ebadi Abas, Margareta Hansson, Christine S. Hvidberg, Ulf Jonsell, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Urs Ruth, Jakob Schwander, Marie‐Louise Siggaard‐Andersen, فؤاد الجنابي, J. P. Steffensen, Anders Svensson, Bo Vinther	2023	6
2	Impurity Analysis and Microstructure Along the Climatic Transition From MIS 6 Into 5e in the EDML Ice Core Using Cryo-Raman Microscopy Frontiers in Earth Science ·Jan Eichler, Christian Weikusat, Anna Wegner, Birthe Twarloh, Melanie Behrens, Hubertus Fischer, Maria Hörhold, Daniela Jansen, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Urs Ruth, Frank Wilhelms, Ilka Weikusat	2019	25
3	Change in dust variability in the Atlantic sector of Antarctica at the end of the last deglaciation Climate of the past ·Anna Wegner, Paolo Gabrielli, Andrei A. Karpov, Urs Ruth, Michael Kriews, Patrick De Deckker, Carlo Barbante, Giulio Cozzi, Barbara Delmonte, Hubertus Fischer	2012	33
4	Rare Earth Elements from an ice core in the Atlantic sector of Antarctica indicate a dust provenance change at the end of the last deglaciation ARCA (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia) ·Anna Wegner, Paolo Gabrielli, Andrei A. Karpov, Urs Ruth, Michael Kriews, Patrick De Deckker, Carlo Barbante, Giulio Cozzi, Barbara Delmonte, Hubertus Fischer	2011	2
5	Coherent composition of glacial dust on opposite sides of the East Antarctic Plateau inferred from the deep EPICA ice cores Geophysical Research Letters ·F. Marino, E. Castellano, S. Nava, M. Chiari, Urs Ruth, Anna Wegner, F. Lucarelli, R. Udisti, Barbara Delmonte, Valter Maggi	2009	16
6	115 year ice-core data from Akademii Nauk ice cap, Severnaya Zemlya: high-resolution record of Eurasian Arctic climate change Journal of Glaciology ·Thomas Opel, Diedrich Fritzsche, Hanno Meyer, A.S. WILSON, Karin Weiler, Urs Ruth, Frank Wilhelms, Hubertus Fischer	2009	18
7	A major glacial-interglacial change in aeolian dust composition inferred from Rare Earth Elements in Antarctic ice Quaternary Science Reviews ·Paolo Gabrielli, Anna Wegner, Vince Dominique Silvosa, Barbara Delmonte, Patrick De Deckker, Vania Gaspari, Hubertus Fischer, Urs Ruth, Michael Kriews, Claude F. Boutron, Paolo Cescon, Carlo Barbante	2009	84
8	Ammonium and non-sea salt sulfate in the EPICA ice cores as indicator of biological activity in the Southern Ocean Quaternary Science Reviews ·P. Kaufmann, Felix Fundel, Hubertus Fischer, Matthias Bigler, Urs Ruth, R. Udisti, Margareta Hansson, M. de Angelis, Carlo Barbante, Eric Wolff, M. A. Hutterli, Dietmar Wagenbach	2009	49
9	Small-scale spatio-temporal characteristics of accumulation rates in western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica Journal of Glaciology ·H. Anschütz, Daniel Steinhage, Olaf Eisen, Hans Oerter, Martin Horwath, Urs Ruth	2008	8
10	An Improved Continuous Flow Analysis System for High-Resolution Field Measurements on Ice Cores Environmental Science & Technology ·P. Kaufmann, Urs Federer, M. A. Hutterli, Matthias Bigler, Simon Schüpbach, Urs Ruth, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, Thomas F. Stocker	2008	103
11	Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core Nature ·Fabrice Lambert, Barbara Delmonte, J. R. Petit, Matthias Bigler, P. Kaufmann, M. A. Hutterli, Thomas F. Stocker, Urs Ruth, J. P. Steffensen, Valter Maggi Hit paper breakdown →	2008	528
12	High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years Science ·J. P. Steffensen, K. K. Andersen, Matthias Bigler, Henrik Clausen, Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen, Hubertus Fischer, Kumiko Goto‐Azuma, Margareta Hansson, S. J. Johnsen, Jean Jouzel, Valérie Masson‐Delmotte, Trevor Popp, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Regine Röthlisberger, Urs Ruth, Bernhard Stauffer, M.‐L. Siggaard‐Andersen, Árný E. Sveinbjörnsdóttir, Anders Svensson, James W. C. White Hit paper breakdown →	2008	588
13	Synchronisation of the EDML and EDC ice cores for the last 52 kyr by volcanic signature matching Climate of the past ·Mirko Severi, Silvia Becagli, E. Castellano, A. Morganti, Rita Traversi, R. Udisti, Urs Ruth, Hubertus Fischer, Philippe Huybrechts, Eric Wolff, Frédéric Parrenin, P. Kaufmann, Fabrice Lambert, J. P. Steffensen	2007	55
14	"EDML1": a chronology for the EPICA deep ice core from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, over the last 150 000 years Climate of the past ·Urs Ruth, G Jean-philippe, J. Beer, Matthias Bigler, G Hornzee, 千秋上田, Tang Zhao-xi, Man-Jung Kim, Philippe Huybrechts, Siti Asma Mohammed, M. E. Armacanqui, Astrid Lambrecht, 张慧楠, H. Oerter, Frédéric Parrenin, Oleg Rybak, Khin Mie Mie, R. Udisti, Frank Wilhelms, Eric Wolff	2007	116
15	Ice thinning, upstream advection, and non-climatic biases for the upper 89% of the EDML ice core from a nested model of the Antarctic ice sheet Climate of the past ·Philippe Huybrechts, Oleg Rybak, Frank Pattyn, Urs Ruth, Daniel Steinhage	2007	54
16	A new Greenland ice core chronology for the last glacial termination Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Sune Olander Rasmussen, K. K. Andersen, Anders Svensson, J. P. Steffensen, Bo Vinther, Henrik Clausen, M.‐L. Siggaard‐Andersen, S. J. Johnsen, L. B. Larsen, Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen, Matthias Bigler, Regine Röthlisberger, Hubertus Fischer, Kumiko Goto‐Azuma, Margareta Hansson, Urs Ruth Hit paper breakdown →	2006	1565
17	Temporal Variability in the Provenance of Recent Mineral Dust Deposits on Berkner Island, Antarctica AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Aloys Bory, E. Jagoutz, Anna Wegner, Urs Ruth, Robert Mulvaney, Eric Wolff	2005	1
18	Comprehensive 1000 year climatic history from an intermediate-depth ice core from the south dome of Berkner Island, Antarctica: methods, dating and first results Annals of Glaciology ·Urs Ruth, Dietmar Wagenbach, Robert Mulvaney, Hans Oerter, Wolfgang Graf, Zhuang Hui-di, Geneviève C Littot	2004	11
19	High-resolution microparticle profiles at NorthGRIP, Greenland: case studies of the calcium–dust relationship Annals of Glaciology ·Urs Ruth, Dietmar Wagenbach, Matthias Bigler, J. P. Steffensen, Regine Röthlisberger, Heinrich Miller	2002	41
20	Nitrate in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores: a detailed description of post-depositional processes Annals of Glaciology ·Regine Röthlisberger, M. A. Hutterli, Eric Wolff, Robert Mulvaney, Hubertus Fischer, Matthias Bigler, Kumiko Goto‐Azuma, Margareta Hansson, Urs Ruth, Marie‐Louise Siggaard‐Andersen, J. P. Steffensen	2002	121

About Urs Ruth

Urs Ruth is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Anthropology and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 35 papers that have together received 4.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (29 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (21 papers), Polar Research and Ecology (8 papers), Aeolian processes and effects (7 papers), Climate change and permafrost (6 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (5 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (4 papers) and Geological formations and processes (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (4.4k citations), Earth-Surface Processes (1.0k citations), Anthropology (1.1k citations), Paleontology (766 citations) and Environmental Chemistry (605 citations). Urs Ruth has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Denmark. Frequent co-authors include Matthias Bigler, J. P. Steffensen, Regine Röthlisberger, S. J. Johnsen, Hubertus Fischer, Anders Svensson, K. K. Andersen, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Dorthe Dahl‐Jensen and Margareta Hansson. Their work appears in journals such as Climate of the past, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Quaternary Science Reviews, Journal of Glaciology and Annals of Glaciology.

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