2026 Martin Beniston: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	73	1378	1305	45	42	228	33367

Research.com Recognitions

1999 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Martin Beniston is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research focuses primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science.

The scientist's work spans several subfields, including:

Ecology
Plant Science
Insect Science
Atmospheric Science
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Key topics covered in their research include:

Forest Insect Ecology and Management
Horticultural and Viticultural Research
Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
Zoonotic diseases and public health
Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
Insect behavior and control techniques

Recent papers by Martin Beniston include:

Assembling and testing a generic phenological model to predict Lobesia botrana voltinism for impact studies, 2020, Ecological Modelling
The values and risks of an Intergovernmental Panel for One Health to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response, 2023, The Lancet Global Health
Exploring future changes in synchrony between grapevine (Vitis vinifera) and its major insect pest, Lobesia botrana, 2023, OENO One
Icy mountains in a warming world: Revisiting science from the end of the 1990s in the early 2020s, 2021, AMBIO

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include:

Victorine Castex
Iñaki García de Cortázar Atauri
Pierluigi Calanca
Jérôme Moreau
Alexandre Hobeika

The primary venues for publication are:

Ecological Modelling
The Lancet Global Health
OENO One
AMBIO

In 1999, Martin Beniston was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

Regional climate projections

J. H. Christensen;B. Hewitson;A. Busuioc;A. Chen

5269
Citations
Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

3266
Citations
Climatic Change in Mountain Regions: A Review of Possible Impacts

Martin Beniston

1857
Citations
Future extreme events in European climate: an exploration of regional climate model projections

Martin Beniston;David B. Stephenson;Ole B. Christensen;Christopher A. T. Ferro

1850
Citations
21st century climate change in the European Alps--a review.

Andreas Gobiet;Sven Kotlarski;Martin Beniston;Georg Heinrich

1197
Citations
Climate change impacts on glaciers and runoff in Tien Shan (Central Asia)

Annina Sorg;Annina Sorg;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Olga Solomina

984
Citations
Climatic Change at High Elevation Sites: An Overview

M. Beniston;H. F. Diaz;R. S. Bradley

950
Citations
The 2003 heat wave in Europe: A shape of things to come? An analysis based on Swiss climatological data and model simulations

Martin Beniston

875
Citations
The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges

Martin Beniston;Daniel Farinotti;Daniel Farinotti;Markus Stoffel;Liss M. Andreassen

675
Citations
Climate change and its impacts on glaciers and permafrost in the Alps

W. Haeberli;M. Beniston

639
Citations
Mountain weather and climate : A general overview and a focus on climatic change in the Alps

Martin Beniston

479
Citations
Elevation Dependency of the Surface Climate Change Signal: A Model Study

Filippo Giorgi;James W. Hurrell;Maria Rosaria Marinucci;Martin Beniston

470
Citations
Extreme climatic events and their evolution under changing climatic conditions

Martin Beniston;David B. Stephenson

453
Citations
NONLINEARITIES, FEEDBACKS AND CRITICAL THRESHOLDS WITHIN THE EARTH'S CLIMATE SYSTEM

José A. Rial;Roger A. Pielke;Martin Beniston;Martin Claussen

437
Citations
On interpreting hydrological change from regional climate models

L. Phil Graham;Stefan Hagemann;Simon Jaun;Martin Beniston

394
Citations
Predicting future distributions of mountain plants under climate change: does dispersal capacity matter?

Robin Engler;Christophe F. Randin;Pascal Vittoz;Thomas Czáka

389
Citations
VARIATIONS OF SNOW DEPTH AND DURATION IN THE SWISS ALPS OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS: LINKS TO CHANGES IN LARGE-SCALE CLIMATIC FORCINGS

Martin Beniston

365
Citations
Effects of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on combined temperature and precipitation winter modes in the Mediterranean mountains: Observed relationships and projections for the 21st century

J.I. López-Moreno;S.M. Vicente-Serrano;E. Morán-Tejeda;J. Lorenzo-Lacruz

360
Citations
Estimates of volcanic-induced cooling in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 1,500 years

Markus Stoffel;Myriam Khodri;Christophe Corona;Sébastien Guillet

338
Citations
Mountain Climates and Climatic Change: An Overview of Processes Focusing on the European Alps

Martin Beniston

337
Citations
21st Century Climate Change in the European Alps

Andreas Gobiet;Sven Kotlarski;Markus Stoffel;Georg Heinrich

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Stoffel University of Geneva

Anthony Lehmann University of Geneva

Enrique Morán-Tejeda University of the Balearic Islands

Juan I. López-Moreno Spanish National Research Council

Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Filippo Giorgi International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Jürg Fuhrer University of Bern

Martine Rebetez Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

John L. Innes University of British Columbia

Michel M. Verstraete University of the Witwatersrand

External Links

Personal website of Martin Beniston

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