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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry · Germany

Sönke Zaehle

Sönke Zaehle publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology, on topics such as Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics and Climate variability and models.

ORCID 0000-0001-5602-7956 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,700
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#139
of 364,343
Works
612
Citations
62k
Citations per work
101.5
h-index
108
i10-index 242Top 0.1% in Global and Planetary Change
Sönke Zaehle

What does Sönke Zaehle research?

Sönke Zaehle's work is mostly in Environmental Science (55%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (14%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (13%).

Physical Sciences: 422 works · 69.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 335 works · 54.7% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 274 works · 44.8% of their workEcology: 43 works · 7.1% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 17 works · 2.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 88 works · 14.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 88 works · 14.3% of their workEverything else: 111 works · 18.2% of their workLife Sciences: 78 works · 12.8% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 78 works · 12.8% of their workPlant Science: 40 works · 6.6% of their workSoil Science: 38 works · 6.2% of their workTHEIR WORKSönke Zaehle612works
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences69%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science33554.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences8814.3%
  2. Everything else11118.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences7812.8%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change45% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science14% of their works
  3. 3Ecology7% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science7% of their works
  5. 5Soil Science6% of their works
  6. 6Environmental Chemistry3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sönke Zaehle's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Ecosystem Resilience, Emissions, Methane, Drought, Tree Mortality, Extreme Events and Global Warming.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change5956 topics
  2. Ecosystem Resilience2673 topics
  3. Emissions2661 topic
  4. Methane2661 topic
  5. Drought1731 topic
  6. Tree Mortality1731 topic
  7. Extreme Events1531 topic
  8. Global Warming1531 topic
  9. Nitrogen Cycle901 topic
  10. Soil Carbon Sequestration901 topic
  11. CO2 Enrichment851 topic
  12. Ozone Effects851 topic
  13. Atmospheric Aerosols801 topic
  14. Black Carbon801 topic
  15. Carbon621 topic
  16. Peatlands621 topic
  17. Forest Fires321 topic
  18. Wildfire Activity321 topic

Where does Sönke Zaehle work?

Sönke Zaehle's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Sönke Zaehle have?

OpenAlex counts 612 works and 62,137 citations for Sönke Zaehle, an h-index of 108, ranking #3,700 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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