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Minna Väliranta

Minna Väliranta

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
7350
World Ranking
6750
National Ranking
102

Minna Väliranta 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 Minna Väliranta sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 128 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Minna Väliranta 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 Minna Väliranta sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Minna Väliranta is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to the study of peatlands, wetlands ecology, geology, and paleoclimatology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Geological formations and processes

Väliranta has published extensively in fields such as:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

The subfields of study associated with their research include:

  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Geology

Among frequent co-authors are:

  • Sanna Piilo
  • Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
  • Angela Gallego-Sala
  • Atte Korhola
  • Michelle Garneau

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Boreas
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers include:

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Decreased carbon accumulation feedback driven by climate-induced drying of two southern boreal bogs over recent centuries, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Widespread recent ecosystem state shifts in high-latitude peatlands of northeastern Canada and implications for carbon sequestration, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Spatially varying peatland initiation, Holocene development, carbon accumulation patterns and radiative forcing within a subarctic fen, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • A Database and Synthesis of Northern Peatland Soil Properties and Holocene Carbon and Nitrogen Accumulation

    Julie Loisel;Zicheng Yu;David W. Beilman;Philip Camill

  • Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

    D. J. Charman;D. W. Beilman;M. Blaauw;R. K. Booth

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

    J. Loisel;A. V. Gallego-Sala;Matthew J. Amesbury;Matthew J. Amesbury;G. Magnan

  • Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming

    Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Daniel J. Charman;Simon Brewer;Susan E. Page

  • The distribution of late-Quaternary woody taxa in northern Eurasia: evidence from a new macrofossil database

    Heather A. Binney;Katherine J. Willis;Katherine J. Willis;Mary E. Edwards;Shonil A. Bhagwat

  • Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries

    Graeme T. Swindles;Graeme T. Swindles;Graeme T. Swindles;Paul J. Morris;Donal J. Mullan;Richard J. Payne

  • A new European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands

    Dan J. Charman;Antony Blundell;Jukka Alm;Sue Bartlett

  • High-resolution reconstruction of wetness dynamics in a southern boreal raised bog, Finland, during the late Holocene: a quantitative approach

    Minna Väliranta;Atte Korhola;Heikki Seppä;Eeva-Stiina Tuittila

  • Conservative composition of n-alkane biomarkers in Sphagnum species: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction in ombrotrophic peat bogs

    Elizabeth M. Bingham;Erin L. McClymont;Minna Väliranta;Minna Väliranta;Dmitri Mauquoy

  • The importance of northern peatland expansion to the late-Holocene rise of atmospheric methane

    Atte Korhola;Meri Ruppel;Heikki Seppä;Minna Väliranta

  • Effects of permafrost aggradation on peat properties as determined from a pan-Arctic synthesis of plant macrofossils

    C. C. Treat;C. C. Treat;M. C. Jones;P. Camill;A. Gallego-Sala

  • Warm summers during the Younger Dryas cold reversal.

    Frederik Schenk;Frederik Schenk;Minna Väliranta;Francesco Muschitiello;Francesco Muschitiello;Francesco Muschitiello;Lev Tarasov

  • Widespread global peatland establishment and persistence over the last 130,000 y

    Claire C. Treat;Claire C. Treat;Thomas Kleinen;Nils Broothaerts;April S. Dalton

  • Plant macrofossil evidence for an early onset of the Holocene summer thermal maximum in northernmost Europe

    M. Valiranta;J. S. Salonen;M. Heikkila;L. Amon

  • Postglacial spatiotemporal peatland initiation and lateral expansion dynamics in North America and northern Europe

    Meri Ruppel;Meri Ruppel;Minna Väliranta;Tarmo Virtanen;Atte Korhola

  • Quantifying patterns and controls of mire vegetation succession in a southern boreal bog in Finland using partial ordinations

    E.-S. Tuittila;M. Väliranta;J. Laine;A. Korhola

  • Wetland chronosequence as a model of peatland development: Vegetation succession, peat and carbon accumulation

    Eeva-Stiina Tuittila;Eeva-Stiina Tuittila;Sari Juutinen;Steve Frolking;Minna Väliranta

  • Scattered late‐glacial and early Holocene tree populations as dispersal nuclei for forest development in north‐eastern European Russia

    Minna Väliranta;Anu Kaakinen;Peter Kuhry;Seija Kultti

  • Shotgun Environmental DNA, Pollen, and Macrofossil Analysis of Lateglacial Lake Sediments From Southern Sweden

    Laura Parducci;Inger Greve Alsos;Per Unneberg;Mikkel Winther Pedersen

  • Proxy comparison in ancient peat sediments: pollen, macrofossil and plant DNA.

    Laura Parducci;Laura Parducci;Minna Väliranta;J. Sakari Salonen;Tiina Ronkainen

  • Abrupt high-latitude climate events and decoupled seasonal trends during the Eemian

    J. Sakari Salonen;Karin F. Helmens;Jo Brendryen;Niina Kuosmanen

Frequent Co-Authors

Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila University of Eastern Finland
Atte Korhola
Atte Korhola University of Helsinki
Sari Juutinen
Sari Juutinen University of Helsinki
Karin F. Helmens
Karin F. Helmens Stockholm University
Heikki Seppä
Heikki Seppä University of Helsinki
Angela V. Gallego-Sala
Angela V. Gallego-Sala University of Exeter
Dan J. Charman
Dan J. Charman University of Exeter
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Barbara Wohlfarth
Barbara Wohlfarth Stockholm University
Annalea Lohila
Annalea Lohila Finnish Meteorological Institute

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