Urs Siegenthaler

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
5 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Urs Siegenthaler is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Urs Siegenthaler has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Atmospheric Science, 3 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 1 paper in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Urs Siegenthaler's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (5 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (5 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (3 papers). Urs Siegenthaler is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (5 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (5 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (3 papers). Urs Siegenthaler collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and France. Urs Siegenthaler's co-authors include Jean-Marc Barnola, Hubertus Fischer, Thomas F. Stocker, Dominique Raynaud, Dieter Lüthi, Jean Jouzel, Kenji Kawamura, Bernhard Bereiter, Thomas Blunier and Martine Floch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Urs Siegenthaler

5 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,0... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2008 2005 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present
    2008 1.6k citations Dieter Lüthi, Martine Floch et al. Nature profile →
  2. Stable Carbon CycleClimate Relationship During the Late Pleistocene
    2005 641 citations Urs Siegenthaler, Thomas F. Stocker et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Urs Siegenthaler Switzerland 5 1.8k 724 614 594 507 5 2.6k
Dieter Lüthi Switzerland 7 1.8k 1.0× 710 1.0× 572 0.9× 670 1.1× 522 1.0× 7 2.5k
Bernhard Bereiter Switzerland 13 2.2k 1.2× 759 1.0× 554 0.9× 742 1.2× 464 0.9× 21 2.7k
Eric Monnin Switzerland 11 2.2k 1.2× 783 1.1× 643 1.0× 724 1.2× 421 0.8× 13 2.5k
Martine Floch France 5 1.2k 0.6× 462 0.6× 350 0.6× 424 0.7× 330 0.7× 9 1.7k
J. M. Barnola France 23 2.2k 1.2× 538 0.7× 1.0k 1.7× 429 0.7× 197 0.4× 38 2.7k
Y. S. Korotkevich France 13 2.7k 1.5× 817 1.1× 826 1.3× 743 1.3× 424 0.8× 15 3.1k
Shaun A. Marcott United States 18 3.0k 1.6× 946 1.3× 582 0.9× 762 1.3× 432 0.9× 53 3.8k
Bernhard Stauffer Switzerland 24 3.5k 1.9× 1.2k 1.7× 1.1k 1.8× 1.0k 1.7× 533 1.1× 37 4.1k
Rienk H. Smittenberg Sweden 34 1.7k 0.9× 1.3k 1.8× 392 0.6× 599 1.0× 460 0.9× 73 3.0k
Peter U. Clark United States 23 3.4k 1.8× 924 1.3× 593 1.0× 677 1.1× 446 0.9× 32 4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Urs Siegenthaler

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Fields of papers citing papers by Urs Siegenthaler

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Urs Siegenthaler. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Urs Siegenthaler. The network helps show where Urs Siegenthaler may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Urs Siegenthaler

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Urs Siegenthaler. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Urs Siegenthaler based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Urs Siegenthaler. Urs Siegenthaler is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

5 of 5 papers shown
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Lüthi, Dieter, Martine Floch, Bernhard Bereiter, et al.. (2008). High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present. Nature. 453(7193). 379–382. 1570 indexed citations breakdown →
2.
Siegenthaler, Urs, Thomas F. Stocker, Eric Monnin, et al.. (2005). Stable Carbon CycleClimate Relationship During the Late Pleistocene. Science. 310(5752). 1313–1317. 641 indexed citations breakdown →
3.
Siegenthaler, Urs, Eric Monnin, Kenji Kawamura, et al.. (2005). Supporting evidence from the EPICA Dronning Maud Land ice core for atmospheric CO2 changes during the past millennium. Tellus B. 57(1). 51–57. 77 indexed citations
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Siegenthaler, Urs, Eric Monnin, Kenji Kawamura, et al.. (2005). Supporting evidence from the EPICA Dronning Maud Land ice core for atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> changes during the past millennium. Tellus B. 57(1). 51–51. 27 indexed citations
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Monnin, Eric, Eric J. Steig, Urs Siegenthaler, et al.. (2004). Evidence for substantial accumulation rate variability in Antarctica during the Holocene, through synchronization of CO 2 in the Taylor Dome, Dome C and DML ice cores. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 224(1-2). 45–54. 268 indexed citations

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