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Climate change and permafrost

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Kai-Qi Li
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2
Yichen Zhang
Peking University
3
Adrià Descals
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
4
Rúna Í. Magnússon
Wageningen University & Research
5
Wenyi Xu
Nanjing Forestry University
6
Chenchen Peng
Wuxi Institute of Technology
7
Bin Wei
Chinese Academy of Sciences
8
Huiwen Li
Northwestern Polytechnical University
9
Ying Liu
Peking University
10
Joanmarie Del Vecchio
William & Mary

Papers

1
Spatial Representativeness of Soil Moisture Stations and Its Influential Factors at a Global Scale
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing|2024
30 cit.
2
Global mapping of oil palm planting year from 1990 to 2021
Earth system science data|2024
26 cit.
3
Scale dependency of anisotropic thermal conductivity of heterogeneous geomaterials
Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment|2024
21 cit.
4
Weakened connection between spring leaf‐out and autumn senescence in the Northern Hemisphere
Global Change Biology|2024
19 cit.
5
Evaluating Sentinel-2 for Monitoring Drought-Induced Crop Failure in Winter Cereals
Remote Sensing|2025
10 cit.
6
State of the art of mechanical behaviors of frozen soils through experimental investigation
Cold Regions Science and Technology|2025
9 cit.
7
Publication in Nature Geoscience (2025) [9 citations, W4413908485]
Nature Geoscience|2025
9 cit.
8
Data-driven modeling indicates projected increase in plant production confines warming-induced topsoil organic carbon change in China within a small range in the 21st Century
Sustainable Horizons|2025
8 cit.
9
Physics-informed neural networks for solving steady-state temperature field in artificial ground freezing
Canadian Geotechnical Journal|2025
8 cit.
10
Publication in The Science of The Total Environment (2024) [6 citations, W4399358701]
The Science of The Total Environment|2024
6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Kaitlin McNeil
University of Toronto
2
Defu Zou
Chinese Academy of Sciences
3
Clint Seinen
Environment and Climate Change Canada
4
Christian Seiler
Queen's University
5
Duo Yang
Environment and Climate Change Canada
6
Barbara Winter
Environment and Climate Change Canada
7
Christoph Kittel
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
8
Karl Brix Zinglersen
Grønlands Naturinstitut
9
Wangping Li
Lanzhou University of Technology
10
Ji Chen
Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources

Papers

1
Are Terrestrial Biosphere Models Fit for Simulating the Global Land Carbon Sink?
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems|2022
133 cit.
2
Clouds drive differences in future surface melt over the Antarctic ice shelves
˜The œcryosphere|2022
52 cit.
3
Ice Shelf Basal Melt Rates in the Amundsen Sea at the End of the 21st Century
Geophysical Research Letters|2022
47 cit.
4
Continued Warming of the Permafrost Regions Over the Northern Hemisphere Under Future Climate Change
Earth s Future|2022
45 cit.
5
Improvements in the Canadian Earth System Model (CanESM) through systematic model analysis: CanESM5.0 and CanESM5.1
Geoscientific model development|2023
38 cit.
6
Estimation of Permafrost Ground Ice to 10 m Depth on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes|2024
36 cit.
7
Clean air policies are key for successfully mitigating Arctic warming
Communications Earth & Environment|2022
32 cit.
8
Identification of ecological security pattern in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Ecological Indicators|2025
26 cit.
9
Dynamics of the freeze–thaw front of active layer on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Geoderma|2023
25 cit.
10
Landscape Ecological Risk Assessment and Analysis of Influencing Factors in Selenga River Basin
Remote Sensing|2023
19 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Thomas A. McMahon
The University of Melbourne
2
F. Stuart Chapin
University of Alaska Fairbanks
3
M. R. van den Broeke
Utrecht University
4
Wilfried Haeberli
University of Zurich
5
Guido Grosse
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
6
Julia Boike
Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
7
V. E. Romanovsky
University of Alaska Fairbanks
8
Markus Stoffel
University of Geneva
9
Philip A. Wookey
University of Stirling
10
Tingjun Zhang
Lanzhou University

Papers

1
Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification
Hydrology and earth system sciences|2007
12.8k cit.
2
The Mineral Nutrition of Wild Plants
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics|1980
4.2k cit.
3
Resource Availability and Plant Antiherbivore Defense
Science|1985
4k cit.
4
The State and Fate of Himalayan Glaciers
Science|2012
2.2k cit.
5
The Ecology and Economics of Storage in Plants
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics|1990
1.7k cit.
6
On the Economy of Plant Form and Function.
Journal of Ecology|1988
1.6k cit.
7
Responses of Arctic Tundra to Experimental and Observed Changes in Climate
Ecology|1995
1.4k cit.
8
Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming
Science|2005
1.4k cit.
9
Plant community responses to experimental warming across the tundra biome
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2006
1.3k cit.
10
Plant Responses to Multiple Environmental Factors
BioScience|1987
1.3k cit.

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