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Alexander P. Wolfe

Alexander P. Wolfe

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 66 1287 1142 59 52 179 19332

Alexander P. Wolfe publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Alexander P. Wolfe between 1991 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Alexander P. Wolfe published across 35 years, from 1991 to 2025, averaging 5.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 15 publications in 2016. 3 of the 187 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1991 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 15. Peak 15 publications in 2016. 1991: 1 publication 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 0 publications 1996: 5 publications 1997: 4 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 4 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 5 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 7 publications 2005: 11 publications 2006: 11 publications 2007: 10 publications 2008: 11 publications 2009: 13 publications 2010: 12 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 8 publications 2016: 15 publications 2017: 5 publications 2018: 3 publications 2019: 5 publications 2020: 2 publications 2021: 1 publication 2022: 3 publications 2023: 0 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 2 publications
1991 2025

187 publications in total across all disciplines

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Alexander P. Wolfe: publications per year, 1991 to 2025
Year Publications
1991 1
1992 0
1993 0
1994 1
1995 0
1996 5
1997 4
1998 1
1999 4
2000 3
2001 4
2002 5
2003 5
2004 7
2005 11
2006 11
2007 10
2008 11
2009 13
2010 12
2011 12
2012 7
2013 10
2014 5
2015 8
2016 15
2017 5
2018 3
2019 5
2020 2
2021 1
2022 3
2023 0
2024 1
2025 2
Total 187
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Alexander P. Wolfe 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 P. Wolfe 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, 178–187 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: 179 publications — 54th percentile

54% 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
178–187 414 179
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
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 P. Wolfe 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 P. Wolfe 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, 66 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: 66 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% 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
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 66
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 P. Wolfe is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Biomaterials, Paleontology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The researcher's work encompasses a range of main topics, notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Diatoms and Algae Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Effects of Vibration on Health
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Alexander P. Wolfe has published in various scientific journals, including frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Journal of Paleolimnology
  • Science Advances
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Cretaceous Research
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin

Their recent scientific papers include:

  • "An assessment of chlorophyll preservation in lake sediments using multiple analytical techniques applied to the annually laminated lake sediments of Nylandssjön" (2020, Journal of Paleolimnology)
  • "Extinction of austral diatoms in response to large-scale climate dynamics in Antarctica" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "Last interglacial lake sediments preserved beneath Laurentide and Greenland Ice sheets provide insights into Arctic climate amplification and constrain 130 ka of ice-sheet history" (2022, Journal of Quaternary Science)
  • "A new, Late Cretaceous gonorynchiform fish in the genus †Notogoneus from drill core of crater-lake deposits in a kimberlite maar, Northwest Territories, Canada" (2022, Cretaceous Research)
  • "Tephra zircon U-Pb geochronology of kimberlite maar sedimentary fills in subarctic Canada: Implications for Eocene paleoclimate and Late Cretaceous paleogeography" (2024, Geological Society of America Bulletin)

Throughout their research career, Alexander P. Wolfe has frequently collaborated with colleagues such as Alberto V. Reyes, Serhiy D. Buryak, Peter A. Siver, Tongjian You, and Brad Manor. These coauthors have contributed to multiple joint publications with Wolfe.

Best Publications

  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

    Colin N. Waters;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin Summerhayes;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • Arctic Environmental Change of the Last Four Centuries

    J. Overpeck;K. Hughen;D. Hardy;R. Bradley

  • Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes

    John P. Smol;Alexander P. Wolfe;H. John B. Birks;Marianne S. V. Douglas

  • When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Mark Williams;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Juliana A. Ivar do Sul;Patricia L. Corcoran

  • The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Colin N. Waters;Colin P. Summerhayes;Alexander P. Wolfe

  • A Coherent Signature of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Deposition to Remote Watersheds of the Northern Hemisphere

    Gordon W. Holtgrieve;Daniel E. Schindler;William O. Hobbs;Peter R. Leavitt

  • Re-conceptualizing the Anthropocene: A call for collaboration

    Eduardo S. Brondizio;Karen O'Brien;Xuemei Bai;Frank Biermann

  • Mid-Miocene cooling and the extinction of tundra in continental Antarctica

    Adam R. Lewis;David R. Marchant;Allan C. Ashworth;Lars Hedenäs

  • Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition induces rapid ecological changes in alpine lakes of the Colorado Front Range (USA)

    Alexander P. Wolfe;Jill S. Baron;R. Jack Cornett

  • Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic

    G. H. Miller;J. Brigham-Grette;R. B. Alley;L. Anderson

  • Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective:

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Colin N. Waters;Colin N. Waters;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Reinhold Leinfelder;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters

  • Holocene paleohydrology and glacial history of the central Andes using multiproxy lake sediment studies

    Mark B Abbott;Brent B Wolfe;Alexander P Wolfe;Geoffrey O Seltzer

  • Do spectrally inferred determinations of chlorophyll a reflect trends in lake trophic status

    Neal Michelutti;Jules M. Blais;Brian F. Cumming;Andrew M. Paterson

  • Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes : a review

    Jordi Catalan;Sergi Pla-Rabés;Alexander P. Wolfe;John P. Smol

  • Recent ecological and biogeochemical changes in alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado, USA): a response to anthropogenic nitrogen deposition

    Alexander P. Wolfe;Alexander P. Wolfe;Alison C. Van Gorp;Jill S. Baron

  • Recent primary production increases in arctic lakes

    Neal Michelutti;Alexander P. Wolfe;Rolf D. Vinebrooke;Benoit Rivard

  • Stratigraphic expressions of the Holocene-Anthropocene transition revealed in sediments from remote lakes

    Alexander P. Wolfe;William O. Hobbs;Hilary H. Birks;Jason P. Briner

  • A time-calibrated multi-gene phylogeny of the diatom genus Pinnularia.

    Caroline Souffreau;Heroen Verbruggen;Alexander P. Wolfe;Pieter Vanormelingen

  • Resource requirements of Asterionella formosa and Fragilaria crotonensis in oligotrophic alpine lakes : implications for recent phytoplankton community reorganizations

    Jasmine E Saros;Timothy J Michel;Sebastian J Interlandi;Alexander P Wolfe

Frequent Co-Authors

Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Jason P. Briner
Jason P. Briner University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Mark B. Abbott
Mark B. Abbott University of Pittsburgh
Neal Michelutti
Neal Michelutti Queen's University
Colin N. Waters
Colin N. Waters University of Leicester
John P. Smol
John P. Smol Queen's University
Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester
Karlis Muehlenbachs
Karlis Muehlenbachs University of Alberta
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester

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