Tree-ring climate responses
Tree-ring climate responses is a research topic within Atmospheric Science. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 25.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the causes and impacts of climate change over the past millennia, focusing on temperature variability, tree ring analysis, historical climate reconstructions, extreme events, and precipitation variability. It encompasses studies on dendrochronology, global warming, and the shifting of tree lines in response to environmental changes.
- Climate Change
- Tree Rings
- Temperature Variability
- Dendrochronology
- Global Warming
- Historical Climate
- Extreme Events
- Paleoclimatology
- Precipitation Variability
- Tree Line Shifts
- Research works
- 19k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 4.7k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 25.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +26% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Tree-ring climate responses research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (839 and 452 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 839 works
- 2 United States 452 works
- 3 Russia 195 works
- 4 Germany 186 works
- 5 France 160 works
- 6 Spain 140 works
- 7 India 115 works
- 8 Canada 114 works
- 9 United Kingdom 103 works
- 10 Italy 92 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Tree-ring climate responses research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Tree-ring climate responses research, followed by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Lanzhou University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 77 works
- 2 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 38 works
- 3 Lanzhou UniversityChina 31 works
- 4 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 24 works
- 5 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape ResearchSwitzerland 21 works
- 6 Instituto Pirenaico de EcologíaSpain 19 works
- 7 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 19 works
- 8 Northeast Forestry UniversityChina 17 works
- 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 15 works
- 10 University of GöttingenGermany 15 works
Who are the leading researchers in Tree-ring climate responses?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Tree-ring climate responses include Josep Peñuelas, Peter B. Reich and Dennis Baldocchi.
- 1 Josep Peñuelas Spain 4.1k citations
- 2 Peter B. Reich United States 4.1k citations
- 3 Dennis Baldocchi United States 3.5k citations
- 4 P. D. Jones United Kingdom 3.4k citations
- 5 Hai Cheng China 2.9k citations
- 6 Annette Menzel Germany 2.7k citations
- 7 Bernd Kromer Germany 2.7k citations
- 8 F. Stuart Chapin United States 2.7k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Tree-ring climate responses research done?
The largest centres of Tree-ring climate responses research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Lanzhou (China), Moscow (Russia) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Birmensdorf and Krasnoyarsk.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- BirmensdorfCH · 21.3 works203×
- KrasnoyarskRU · 29.9 works30×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Tree-ring climate responses than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Tree-ring climate responses?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Freiburg, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and University of Göttingen score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of FreiburgGermany | 62.6 | 37.8% | 12.4× | 14 | +75.5% |
| 2 | Czech University of Life Sciences PragueCzechia | 60.2 | 35.6% | 29.0× | 10 | +67.9% |
| 3 | University of GöttingenGermany | 58.7 | 39.3% | 16.2× | 14 | -17.4% |
| 4 | Beijing Forestry UniversityChina | 55.9 | 20.7% | 25.2× | 24 | +106.3% |
| 5 | ETH ZurichSwitzerland | 53.2 | 53.0% | 5.4× | 12 | -0.2% |
| 6 | Beijing Normal UniversityChina | 52.7 | 25.8% | 8.1× | 18 | +119.7% |
| 7 | Northern Arizona UniversityUnited States | 52.2 | 32.4% | 31.5× | 10 | +26.4% |
| 8 | Lanzhou UniversityChina | 51.4 | 22.7% | 16.1× | 31 | -25.6% |
| 9 | University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina | 50.8 | 25.4% | 6.9× | 38 | +58.3% |
| 10 | University of BernSwitzerland | 49.0 | 27.9% | 9.2× | 12 | -24.2% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Tree-ring climate responses research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 26% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Tree-ring climate responses.
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Which topics inside it are moving
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