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Alexander C. Whittaker

Alexander C. Whittaker

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
5553
World Ranking
6485
National Ranking
676

Alexander C. Whittaker publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander C. Whittaker sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 251 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Alexander C. Whittaker D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander C. Whittaker sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alexander C. Whittaker is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple topics within Earth and Environmental Sciences, focusing primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several subfields that include Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Ecology, and aspects related to Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

The main topics covered in Whittaker's research include:

  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Whittaker has contributed to a number of recent research papers, including the following:

  • The shaping of erosional landscapes by internal dynamics, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Comparison of methods to estimate sediment flux in ancient sediment routing systems, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • River Sediment Geochemistry as a Conservative Mixture of Source Regions: Observations and Predictions From the Cairngorms, UK, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Reconstructing the morphologies and hydrodynamics of ancient rivers from source to sink: Cretaceous Western Interior Basin, Utah, USA, 2021, Sedimentology
  • Earthquake Hazard Uncertainties Improved Using Precariously Balanced Rocks, 2020, AGU Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Whittaker include:

  • Fritz Schlunegger
  • Sinead Lyster
  • Rebecca Bell
  • David Mair
  • Ariel Henrique do Prado

The researcher's work is often published in key scientific journals such as:

  • Basin Research (11 publications)
  • Geology (5 publications)
  • Earth Surface Dynamics (4 publications)
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin (4 publications)
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • How do landscapes record tectonics and climate

    Alexander C. Whittaker

  • Bedrock channel adjustment to tectonic forcing: Implications for predicting river incision rates

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Patience A. Cowie;Mikaël Attal;Gregory E. Tucker

  • Transformation of tectonic and climatic signals from source to sedimentary archive

    John J. Armitage;Robert A. Duller;Alex C. Whittaker;Philip A. Allen

  • Decoding temporal and spatial patterns of fault uplift using transient river long profiles

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Mikaël Attal;Patience A. Cowie;Gregory E. Tucker

  • Tectonic and climatic controls on knickpoint retreat rates and landscape response times

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Sarah J. Boulton

  • Modeling fluvial incision and transient landscape evolution: Influence of dynamic channel adjustment

    Mikael Attal;G. E. Tucker;Alexander C. Whittaker;Patience Cowie

  • Contrasting transient and steady-state rivers crossing active normal faults: new field observations from the Central Apennines, Italy

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Patience A. Cowie;Mikaël Attal;Gregory E. Tucker

  • Characterising the origin, nature and fate of sediment exported from catchments perturbed by active tectonics

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Mikaël Attal;Philip A. Allen

  • The Qs problem: Sediment volumetric balance of proximal foreland basin systems

    Philip A. Allen;John J. Armitage;Andrew Carter;Robert A. Duller

  • New constraints on sediment-flux-dependent river incision: implications for extracting tectonic signals from river profiles

    Patience A. Cowie;Alexander C. Whittaker;Mikaël Attal;Gerald Roberts

  • Investigating the surface process response to fault interaction and linkage using a numerical modelling approach

    P.A. Cowie;M. Attal;G. E. Tucker;A. C. Whittaker

  • Temporal buffering of climate-driven sediment flux cycles by transient catchment response

    John J. Armitage;Tom Dunkley Jones;Robert A. Duller;Alexander C. Whittaker

  • Testing fluvial erosion models using the transient response of bedrock rivers to tectonic forcing in the Apennines, Italy

    M. Attal;P.A. Cowie;A.C. Whittaker;D. Hobley

  • From grain size to tectonics

    R. A. Duller;A. C. Whittaker;J. J. Fedele;A. L. Whitchurch

  • Sediment routing system evolution within a diachronously uplifting orogen: Insights from detrital zircon thermochronological analyses from the South-Central Pyrenees

    A. L. Whitchurch;A. Carter;H. D. Sinclair;R. A. Duller

  • Decoding downstream trends in stratigraphic grain size as a function of tectonic subsidence and sediment supply

    Alexander C. Whittaker;Robert A. Duller;Joshua Springett;Rosie A. Smithells

  • Stresses and plate boundary forces associated with subduction plate margins

    A. Whittaker;M. H. P. Bott;G. D. Waghorn

  • Plate boundary forces at subduction zones and trench-arc compression

    M.H.P. Bott;G.D. Waghorn;A. Whittaker

  • Lithological controls on hillslope sediment supply: insights from landslide activity and grain size distributions

    Duna C. Roda-Boluda;Mitch D'Arcy;Jordan McDonald;Alexander C. Whittaker

  • Fluvial archives, a valuable record of vertical crustal deformation

    Alain Demoulin;Anne Mather;Alexander Whittaker

  • Quantifying the slip-rates, spatial distribution and evolution of active normal faults from geomorphic analysis: Field examples from an oblique-extensional graben, Southern Turkey

    Sarah J. Boulton;Alexander C. Whittaker

  • Characterising the spatial distribution, frequency and geomorphic controls on landslide occurrence, Molise, Italy

    Edoardo Borgomeo;Edoardo Borgomeo;Katy V. Hebditch;Katy V. Hebditch;Alexander C. Whittaker;Lidia Lonergan

  • Geomorphic significance of postglacial bedrock scarps on normal-fault footwalls

    Gregory E. Tucker;Scott W. McCoy;Alexander C. Whittaker;Gerald P. Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip A. Allen
Philip A. Allen Imperial College London
Patience A. Cowie
Patience A. Cowie University of Bergen
Gerald P. Roberts
Gerald P. Roberts Birkbeck, University of London
Rebecca E. Bell
Rebecca E. Bell Imperial College London
Dylan H. Rood
Dylan H. Rood Imperial College London
Lidia Lonergan
Lidia Lonergan Imperial College London
Gregory E. Tucker
Gregory E. Tucker University of Colorado Boulder
Robert L. Gawthorpe
Robert L. Gawthorpe University of Bergen
Peter A. Allison
Peter A. Allison Imperial College London
Gary J. Hampson
Gary J. Hampson Imperial College London

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