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Alexander C. Whittaker

Alexander C. Whittaker

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 38 6485 6006 676 629 251 5553

Alexander C. Whittaker publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Alexander C. Whittaker between 1997 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Alexander C. Whittaker published across 30 years, from 1997 to 2026, averaging 9.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 37 publications in 2025. 40 of the 277 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1997 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 37. Peak 37 publications in 2025. 1997: 1 publication 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 0 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 0 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 1 publication 2007: 4 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 18 publications 2018: 14 publications 2019: 14 publications 2020: 24 publications 2021: 25 publications 2022: 25 publications 2023: 20 publications 2024: 25 publications 2025: 37 publications 2026: 3 publications
1997 2026

277 publications in total across all disciplines

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Alexander C. Whittaker: publications per year, 1997 to 2026
Year Publications
1997 1
1998 0
1999 0
2000 0
2001 0
2002 0
2003 1
2004 0
2005 3
2006 1
2007 4
2008 5
2009 10
2010 5
2011 5
2012 6
2013 6
2014 7
2015 9
2016 9
2017 18
2018 14
2019 14
2020 24
2021 25
2022 25
2023 20
2024 25
2025 37
2026 3
Total 277
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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.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 248–257 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 251 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208 251
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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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.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 38 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344 38
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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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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