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Christian Reick

Christian Reick

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
42
Citations
14959
World Ranking
7251
National Ranking
464

Christian Reick 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 Christian Reick sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 151 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christian Reick 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 Christian Reick sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christian Reick is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular attention to climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

The scientist has contributed to multiple research topics including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and earth-surface processes. Specific areas of work encompass biocrusts and microbial ecology, aeolian processes and effects, and lichen and fungal ecology.

Christian Reick has published research in the following venues:

  • Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
  • Max Planck Digital Library
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Geoscientific Model Development

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Christian Reick include:

  • "JSBACH 3 - The land component of the MPI Earth System Model: documentation of version 3.2" (2021), published in Max Planck Digital Library
  • "The ICON Earth System Model Version 1.0" (2022), published in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Global cycling and climate effects of aeolian dust controlled by biological soil crusts" (2022), published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Identification of linear response functions from arbitrary perturbation experiments in the presence of noise - Part 1: Method development and toy model demonstration" (2021), published in Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
  • "Assessment of JSBACHv4.30 as a land component of ICON-ESM-V1 in comparison to its predecessor JSBACHv3.2 of MPI-ESM1.2" (2022), published in Geoscientific Model Development

The scientist frequently collaborates with Veronika Gayler, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Thomas Raddatz, Reiner Schnur, and Guilherme L. Torres Mendonça, each of whom has co-authored at least three papers alongside Christian Reick.

Best Publications

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • Climate and carbon cycle changes from 1850 to 2100 in MPI‐ESM simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5

    Marco A. Giorgetta;Johann H. Jungclaus;Christian H. Reick;Stephanie Legutke

  • Developments in the MPI-M Earth System Model version 1.2 (MPI-ESM1.2) and Its Response to Increasing CO2.

    Thorsten Mauritsen;Thorsten Mauritsen;Jürgen Bader;Tobias Becker;Jörg Behrens

  • A reconstruction of global agricultural areas and land cover for the last millennium

    Julia Pongratz;C. Reick;T. Raddatz;Martin Claussen;Martin Claussen

  • Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study

    A. J. Pitman;N. de Noblet-Ducoudré;F. T. Cruz;E. L. Davin;E. L. Davin

  • Representation of natural and anthropogenic land cover change in MPI‐ESM

    Christian Reick;Thomas Raddatz;Victor Brovkin;Veronika Gayler

  • Determining Robust Impacts of Land-Use-Induced Land Cover Changes on Surface Climate over North America and Eurasia: Results from the First Set of LUCID Experiments

    N de Noblet-Ducoudre;J.P. Boisier;A. Pitman;G.B. Bonan

  • Climate and carbon-cycle variability over the last millennium

    Johann H. Jungclaus;S. J. Lorenz;C. Timmreck;C. H. Reick

  • Nutrient limitation reduces land carbon uptake in simulations with a model of combined carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling

    Daniel Goll;Victor Brovkin;Bikash Parida;Christian H. Reick

  • Global biogeophysical interactions between forest and climate

    Victor Brovkin;Thomas Raddatz;Christian H. Reick;Martin Claussen;Martin Claussen

  • Twenty-First-Century Compatible CO2 Emissions and Airborne Fraction Simulated by CMIP5 Earth System Models under Four Representative Concentration Pathways

    Chris Jones;Eddy Robertson;Vivek Arora;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • Biogeophysical versus biogeochemical climate response to historical anthropogenic land cover change

    Julia Pongratz;Julia Pongratz;C. H. Reick;T. Raddatz;Martin Claussen

  • Effects of anthropogenic land cover change on the carbon cycle of the last millennium

    Julia Pongratz;C. H. Reick;T. Raddatz;Martin Claussen;Martin Claussen

  • Terminology as a key uncertainty in net land use and land cover change carbon flux estimates

    Julia Pongratz;Christian H. Reick;Richard Houghton;Joanna House

  • JSBACH 3 - The land component of the MPI Earth System Model: documentation of version 3.2

    Christian H. Reick;Veronika Gayler;Daniel Goll;Stefan Hagemann

  • Robust Identification of Local Biogeophysical Effects of Land-Cover Change in a Global Climate Model

    Johannes Winckler;Christian H. Reick;Julia Pongratz

  • Forests, savannas, and grasslands: bridging the knowledge gap between ecology and Dynamic Global Vegetation Models

    M. Baudena;S. C. Dekker;P. M. van Bodegom;P. M. van Bodegom;B. Cuesta

  • Global cycling and climate effects of aeolian dust controlled by biological soil crusts

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  • Improving the global applicability of the RUSLE model – adjustment of the topographical and rainfall erosivity factors

    Victoria Naipal;Christian H. Reick;Julia Pongratz;K. Van Oost

  • The BETHY/JSBACH Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation System: experiences and challenges

    T. Kaminski;W. Knorr;G. Schürmann;M. Scholze

  • Radiative forcing from anthropogenic land cover change since A.D. 800

    Julia Pongratz;T. Raddatz;C. H. Reick;M. Esch

  • Nonlocal Effects Dominate the Global Mean Surface Temperature Response to the Biogeophysical Effects of Deforestation

    Johannes Winckler;Quentin Lejeune;Christian H. Reick;Julia Pongratz;Julia Pongratz

  • Effects of anthropogenic land cover change on the carbon cycle of the last millennium Global Biogeochem

    J. Pongratz;C. H. Reick;T. Raddatz;M. Claussen

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Claussen
Martin Claussen Universität Hamburg
Julia Pongratz
Julia Pongratz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Thomas Raddatz
Thomas Raddatz Max Planck Society
Victor Brovkin
Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society
Johann H. Jungclaus
Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society
Erich Roeckner
Erich Roeckner Max Planck Society
Marco A. Giorgetta
Marco A. Giorgetta Max Planck Society
Hauke Schmidt
Hauke Schmidt Max Planck Society
Monika Esch
Monika Esch Max Planck Society
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke Max Planck Society

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