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Torben R. Christensen

Torben R. Christensen

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Ecology and Evolution
Denmark
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
85
Citations
30240
World Ranking
638
National Ranking
15

Torben R. Christensen publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Torben R. Christensen sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 308 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Torben R. Christensen D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Torben R. Christensen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Torben R. Christensen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and specializes in research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

Their work encompasses prominent subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Key research topics covered by Christensen involve Climate change and permafrost, Cryospheric studies and observations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Among Christensen's recent publications are:

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Author Correction: The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data, 2021, Scientific Data
  • CO2-induced terrestrial climate feedback mechanism: From carbon sink to aerosol source and back, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)

Their frequent co-authors include Efrén López-Blanco, Oliver Sonnentag, Mikhail Mastepanov, A. J. Dolman, and Jennifer D. Watts.

Christensen has published regularly in venues such as Nature Climate Change, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biogeosciences, Scientific Data, and Global Change Biology.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change

    Eric Post;Eric Post;Mads C. Forchhammer;M. Syndonia Bret-Harte;Terry V. Callaghan;Terry V. Callaghan

  • Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change

    A. David McGuire;Leif G. Anderson;Torben R. Christensen;Scott Dallimore

  • Key indicators of Arctic climate change : 1971–2017

    Jason E. Box;William T. Colgan;Torben Røjle Christensen;Torben Røjle Christensen;Niels Martin Schmidt

  • Climate change and Arctic ecosystems: 2. Modeling, paleodata‐model comparisons, and future projections

    JO Kaplan;JO Kaplan;NH Bigelow;IC Prentice;SP Harrison;SP Harrison

  • Thawing sub-arctic permafrost - effects on vegetation and methane emissions

    Torben R. Christensen;Torbjörn Johansson;H. Jonas Åkerman;Mihail Mastepanov

  • Factors controlling large scale variations in methane emissions from wetlands

    Torben R. Christensen;Anna Ekberg;Lena Ström;Mihail Mastepanov

  • Vascular plant controls on methane emissions from northern peatforming wetlands.

    Anna Joabsson;Torben Røjle Christensen;Bo Wallén

  • The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world

    Eric Post;Richard B. Alley;Torben R. Christensen;Marc Macias-Fauria

  • An assessment of the carbon balance of Arctic tundra: comparisons among observations, process models, and atmospheric inversions

    A. D. McGuire;Torben Christensen;D. Hayes;Arnaud Heroult

  • Species-specific effects of vascular plants on carbon turnover and methane emissions from wetlands

    Lena Ström;Mikhail Mastepanov;Torben R. Christensen

  • The effect of vascular plants on carbon turnover and methane emissions from a tundra wetland

    Lena Ström;Anna Ekberg;Mikhail Mastepanov;Torben Røjle Christensen

  • Large tundra methane burst during onset of freezing.

    Mikhail Mastepanov;Charlotte Sigsgaard;Edward J. Dlugokencky;Sander Houweling;Sander Houweling

  • Climate change and Arctic ecosystems: 1. Vegetation changes north of 55°N between the last glacial maximum, mid‐Holocene, and present

    Nancy H. Bigelow;Linda B. Brubaker;Mary E. Edwards;Mary E. Edwards;Mary E. Edwards;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison

  • 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

  • Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

    Susan M. Natali;Jennifer D. Watts;Brendan M. Rogers;Stefano Potter

  • Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

    E. A. G. Schuur;B. W. Abbott;W. B. Bowden;V. Brovkin

  • Microbial activity in soils frozen to below-39 degrees C

    NS Panikov;PW Flanagan;WC Oechel;Mikhail Mastepanov

  • Methane emissions from wetlands and their relationship with vascular plants: an Arctic example

    Anna Joabsson;Torben Røjle Christensen

  • Decadal vegetation changes in a northern peatland, greenhouse gas fluxes and net radiative forcing

    Torbjörn Johansson;Nils Malmer;Patrick M. Crill;Thomas Friborg

  • An assessment of the carbon balance of Arctic tundra: Comparisons among observations, process models, and atmospheric inversions

    A. D. McGuire;T. R. Christensen;D. J. Hayes;A. Heroult

Frequent Co-Authors

Terry V. Callaghan
Terry V. Callaghan University of Sheffield
Margareta Johansson
Margareta Johansson Lund University
Frans-Jan W. Parmentier
Frans-Jan W. Parmentier University of Oslo
Magnus Lund
Magnus Lund Aarhus University
Lena Ström
Lena Ström Karolinska Institute
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Thomas Friborg
Thomas Friborg University of Copenhagen
Sven Jonasson
Sven Jonasson University of Copenhagen
Anders Lindroth
Anders Lindroth Lund University
Patrick M. Crill
Patrick M. Crill Stockholm University

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