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Alexander V. Kirdyanov

Alexander V. Kirdyanov

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
40
Citations
7184
World Ranking
8009
National Ranking
607

Alexander V. Kirdyanov publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander V. Kirdyanov sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 112 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Alexander V. Kirdyanov D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander V. Kirdyanov sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alexander V. Kirdyanov is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with specific attention to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Geology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers key topics including Tree-ring climate responses, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate change and permafrost, Climate variability and models, Fire effects on ecosystems, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Recent publications illustrate the scope of their research interests. These include:

  • "Long-term ecological consequences of forest fires in the continuous permafrost zone of Siberia," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history," 2020, Dendrochronologia
  • "The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Ranking of tree-ring based hydroclimate reconstructions of the past millennium," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Global fading of the temperature-growth coupling at alpine and polar treelines," 2021, Global Change Biology

Kirdyanov collaborates frequently with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include Ulf Büntgen, Alberto Arzac, Olga V. Churakova, Jan Esper, and Marina V. Fonti.

The bulk of their publications appear in a concentrated set of academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Dendrochronologia
  • Forests
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Best Publications

  • Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

    Ulf Büntgen;Vladimir S. Myglan;Frederik Chaprentier Ljungqvist;Michael McCormick

  • Influence of snowfall and melt timing on tree growth in subarctic Eurasia

    E. A. Vaganov;M. K. Hughes;A. V. Kirdyanov;F. H. Schweingruber

  • Woody biomass production lags stem-girth increase by over one month in coniferous forests

    Henri E. Cuny;Henri E. Cuny;Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber;Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber;David Frank;Patrick Fonti

  • The importance of early summer temperature and date of snow melt for tree growth in the Siberian Subarctic

    Alexander Kirdyanov;Malcolm Hughes;Eugene Vaganov;Fritz Schweingruber

  • Revising midlatitude summer temperatures back to A.D. 600 based on a wood density network

    Lea Schneider;Jason E. Smerdon;Ulf Büntgen;Rob J. S. Wilson;Rob J. S. Wilson

  • Tree rings and volcanic cooling

    Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Petra Breitenmoser;Keith R. Briffa;Agata Buchwal

  • Forests synchronize their growth in contrasting Eurasian regions in response to climate warming

    Tatiana A. Shestakova;Emilia Gutiérrez;Alexander V. Kirdyanov;Alexander V. Kirdyanov;Jesús Julio Camarero

  • Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE.

    Ulf Büntgen;Lukas Wacker;J. Diego Galván;Stephanie Arnold

  • Limited capacity of tree growth to mitigate the global greenhouse effect under predicted warming.

    Ulf Büntgen;Paul J. Krusic;Paul J. Krusic;Alma Piermattei;David A. Coomes

  • The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions

    Ulf Büntgen;Kathy Allen;Kathy Allen;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Dominique Arseneault

  • Trends and uncertainties in Siberian indicators of 20th century warming

    Jan Esper;David Frank;Ulf Büntgen;Anne Verstege

  • Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history

    Ulf Büntgen;Dominique Arseneault;Étienne Boucher;Olga V. Churakova

  • Reassessing the evidence for tree-growth and inferred temperature change during the Common Era in Yamalia, northwest Siberia

    Keith R. Briffa;Thomas M. Melvin;Timothy J. Osborn;Rashit M. Hantemirov

  • Ranking of tree-ring based temperature reconstructions of the past millennium

    Jan Esper;Paul J. Krusic;Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist;Jürg Luterbacher

  • Scientific merits and analytical challenges of tree-ring densitometry

    J. Björklund;J. Björklund;J. Björklund;G. von Arx;D. Nievergelt;R. Wilson;R. Wilson

  • Climate signals in tree-ring width, density and δ13C from larches in Eastern Siberia (Russia)

    Alexander V. Kirdyanov;Kerstin S. Treydte;Anatolii Nikolaev;Gerhard Helle

  • 20th century tree-line advance and vegetation changes along an altitudinal transect in the Putorana Mountains, northern Siberia

    Alexander V. Kirdyanov;Frank Hagedorn;Anastasia A. Knorre;Elena V. Fedotova

  • Temperature‐induced recruitment pulses of Arctic dwarf shrub communities

    Ulf Büntgen;Lena Hellmann;Willy Tegel;Signe Normand

  • Temperature-induced responses of xylem structure of Larix sibirica (Pinaceae) from the Russian Altay

    Patrick Fonti;Marina V. Bryukhanova;Vladimir S. Myglan;Alexander V. Kirdyanov

  • VS-oscilloscope: A new tool to parameterize tree radial growth based on climate conditions

    Vladimir V. Shishov;Ivan I. Tychkov;Margarita I. Popkova;Viсtor A. Ilyin

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Eugene A. Vaganov
Eugene A. Vaganov Siberian Federal University
Paul J. Krusic
Paul J. Krusic University of Cambridge
Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf Paul Scherrer Institute
Matthias Saurer
Matthias Saurer Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Fritz H. Schweingruber
Fritz H. Schweingruber Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Malcolm K. Hughes
Malcolm K. Hughes University of Arizona
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews
Patrick Fonti
Patrick Fonti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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