V. E. Romanovsky

35.7k total citations · 12 hit papers
187 papers, 21.3k citations indexed

About

V. E. Romanovsky is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, V. E. Romanovsky has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 21.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Atmospheric Science, 28 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in V. E. Romanovsky's work include Climate change and permafrost (177 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (153 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (63 papers). V. E. Romanovsky is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (177 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (153 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (63 papers). V. E. Romanovsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Germany. V. E. Romanovsky's co-authors include T. E. Osterkamp, Edward A. G. Schuur, Guido Grosse, J. W. Harden, Sharon L. Smith, Dmitry Nicolsky, David M. Lawrence, S. S. Marchenko, Peter Kuhry and John E. Walsh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

V. E. Romanovsky

187 papers receiving 20.6k 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.

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

2015 2.5k citations Guido Grosse, Charles D. Koven et al. profile →
Observational Evidence of Recent Change in the Northern High-Latitude Environment

2000 1.6k citations T. E. Osterkamp, V. E. Romanovsky et al. profile →
Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle

2008 1.2k citations Stefan Hagemann, Peter Kuhry et al. profile →
Permafrost thermal state in the polar Northern Hemisphere during the international polar year 2007–2009: a synthesis

2010 574 citations V. E. Romanovsky, Sharon L. Smith et al. profile →
Winter Biological Processes Could Help Convert Arctic Tundra to Shrubland

2005 573 citations V. E. Romanovsky et al. profile →
Pan-Arctic ice-wedge degradation in warming permafrost and its influence on tundra hydrology

2016 562 citations Anna Liljedahl, R. P. Daanen et al. profile →
Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017

2019 548 citations Uma S. Bhatt, V. E. Romanovsky et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
Resilience and vulnerability of permafrost to climate changeThis article is one of a selection of papers from The Dynamics of Change in Alaska’s Boreal Forests: Resilience and Vulnerability in Response to Climate Warming.

2010 443 citations V. E. Romanovsky, S. S. Marchenko et al. profile →
Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes

2016 405 citations Guido Grosse, Peter Kuhry et al. profile →
Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century

2018 394 citations V. E. Romanovsky et al. profile →
Thermal state of permafrost in Russia

2010 376 citations V. E. Romanovsky, Dmitry Drozdov et al. profile →
The changing thermal state of permafrost

2022 313 citations Sharon L. Smith, H B O'Neill et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
V. E. Romanovsky United States	69	18.7k	4.0k	4.0k	2.4k	1.0k	187	21.3k
Guido Grosse Germany	59	13.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.5×	2.7k 0.7×	3.8k 1.6×	707 0.7×	274	15.1k
Peter Kuhry Sweden	49	10.8k 0.6×	2.2k 0.5×	4.4k 1.1×	2.0k 0.8×	336 0.3×	125	12.9k
A. David McGuire United States	64	9.8k 0.5×	7.7k 1.9×	5.5k 1.4×	1.8k 0.8×	452 0.4×	143	16.9k
Merritt R. Turetsky United States	67	10.2k 0.5×	7.7k 1.9×	9.0k 2.3×	1.9k 0.8×	803 0.8×	192	18.6k
Edward A. G. Schuur United States	76	18.2k 1.0×	7.0k 1.7×	9.5k 2.4×	3.9k 1.6×	684 0.7×	204	27.0k
Gustaf Hugelius Sweden	43	8.1k 0.4×	2.2k 0.5×	3.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	356 0.3×	127	11.0k
J. W. Harden United States	68	11.3k 0.6×	6.0k 1.5×	6.8k 1.7×	2.3k 1.0×	828 0.8×	178	19.2k
Tingjun Zhang China	64	13.1k 0.7×	2.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.4×	806 0.3×	1.1k 1.1×	235	15.2k
Charles D. Koven United States	53	9.0k 0.5×	5.9k 1.5×	3.4k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	299 0.3×	157	13.7k
S. A. Zimov Russia	43	8.7k 0.5×	2.9k 0.7×	3.3k 0.8×	2.7k 1.1×	160 0.2×	82	11.2k

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Alessa, Lilian, James Valentine, Christopher McComb, et al.. (2023). Toward a Permafrost Vulnerability Index for Critical Infrastructure, Community Resilience and National Security. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 522–542. 6 indexed citations

Heikoop, Jeffrey M., Brent D. Newman, Chonggang Xu, et al.. (2023). Environmental controls on observed spatial variability of soil pore water geochemistry in small headwater catchments underlain with permafrost. The cryosphere. 17(9). 3987–4006. 2 indexed citations

Xiao, Ming, Louise Farquharson, Dmitry Nicolsky, et al.. (2022). Understanding Effects of Permafrost Degradation and Coastal Erosion on Civil Infrastructure in Arctic Coastal Villages: A Community Survey and Knowledge Co-Production. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 10(3). 422–422. 17 indexed citations

Smith, Sharon L., H B O'Neill, Ketil Isaksen, Jeannette Noetzli, & V. E. Romanovsky. (2022). The changing thermal state of permafrost. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 3(1). 10–23. 313 indexed citations breakdown →

Minsley, Burke J., Neal J. Pastick, S. R. James, et al.. (2022). Rapid and Gradual Permafrost Thaw: A Tale of Two Sites. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(21). 13 indexed citations

Epstein, Howard E., Donald A. Walker, Gerald V. Frost, et al.. (2020). Spatial patterns of arctic tundra vegetation properties on different soils along the Eurasia Arctic Transect, and insights for a changing Arctic. Environmental Research Letters. 16(1). 14008–14008. 10 indexed citations

Georgievski, Goran, et al.. (2020). 35 Years of Vegetation and Lake Dynamics in the Pechora Catchment, Russian European Arctic. Remote Sensing. 12(11). 1863–1863. 7 indexed citations

Dafflon, Baptiste, Craig Ulrich, John Peterson, et al.. (2019). Distributed Temperature Profiling System Provides Spatially Dense Measurements and Insights about Permafrost Distribution in an Arctic Watershed. 3 indexed citations

Nicolsky, Dmitry & V. E. Romanovsky. (2018). Modeling Long‐Term Permafrost Degradation. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 123(8). 1756–1771. 41 indexed citations

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Wang, Kang, Elchin Jafarov, Irina Overeem, et al.. (2018). A synthesis dataset of permafrost-affected soil thermal conditions for Alaska, USA. Earth system science data. 10(4). 2311–2328. 23 indexed citations

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Parazoo, N., Charles D. Koven, David M. Lawrence, V. E. Romanovsky, & Charles E. Miller. (2018). Detecting the permafrost carbon feedback: talik formation and increased cold-season respiration as precursors to sink-to-source transitions. The cryosphere. 12(1). 123–144. 47 indexed citations

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Harp, D. R., A. L. Atchley, Scott Painter, et al.. (2016). Effect of soil property uncertainties on permafrost thaw projections: a calibration-constrained analysis. The cryosphere. 10(1). 341–358. 44 indexed citations

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Kumar, Jitendra, Nathan Collier, Gautam Bisht, et al.. (2016). Modeling the spatiotemporal variability in subsurface thermal regimes across a low-relief polygonal tundra landscape. The cryosphere. 10(5). 2241–2274. 31 indexed citations

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Jones, Benjamin, Carson A. Baughman, V. E. Romanovsky, et al.. (2016). Presence of rapidly degrading permafrost plateaus in south-central Alaska. The cryosphere. 10(6). 2673–2692. 39 indexed citations

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Atchley, A. L., Scott Painter, D. R. Harp, et al.. (2015). Using field observations to inform thermal hydrology models of permafrost dynamics with ATS (v0.83). Geoscientific model development. 8(9). 2701–2722. 66 indexed citations

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Stendel, Martin, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen, S. S. Marchenko, R. P. Daanen, & V. E. Romanovsky. (2013). High-Resolution Permafrost Simulations in Western Greenland and an Assessment of Permafrost Degradation Risk. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Grosse, Guido, et al.. (2010). Thermokarst lake drainage in the continuous permafrost zone of NW Alaska and climate feedbacks. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 7234. 3 indexed citations

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Marchenko, S. S., et al.. (2009). Permafrost and Active Layer Modeling in the Northern Eurasia using MODIS Land Surface Temperature as an input data.. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11077. 12 indexed citations

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Mazhitova, G. G., et al.. (2004). Permafrost and Infrastructure in the Usa Basin (Northeast European Russia): Possible Impacts of Global Warming. AMBIO. 33(6). 289–294. 14 indexed citations

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Romanovsky, V. E., et al.. (2001). Permafrost temperature Dynamics Along the East Siberian Transect and an Alaskan Transect (Extended Abstract). The science reports of the Tohoku University. 36(2). 224–229. 6 indexed citations

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