2026 Arne Körtzinger: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	62	1639	1467	107	100	321	29201

Arne Körtzinger 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 Arne Körtzinger sits on this spectrum.

38 publications 510+

This scientist: 321 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Arne Körtzinger 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 Arne Körtzinger sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Arne Körtzinger is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with further specialization in Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

Marine and coastal ecosystems
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
Marine Biology and Ecology Research
Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
Climate change and permafrost

Arne Körtzinger has contributed to numerous publications in frequent collaboration with other researchers. Some of their most common co-authors include:

Karel Castro-Morales
Anna Canning
Kirsten Küsel
Olaf Kolle
N. Zimov

The scientist's research has appeared repeatedly in several specialized venues, among them:

Biogeosciences
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Frontiers in Marine Science
Earth system science data
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Notable recent publications associated with Arne Körtzinger include:

Global Carbon Budget 2021, 2022, published in Earth system science data
Global Carbon Budget 2023, 2023, published in Earth system science data
Schoolchildren discover hotspots of floating plastic litter in rivers using a large-scale collaborative approach, 2021, published in The Science of The Total Environment
Effects of Reversal of Water Flow in an Arctic Floodplain River on Fluvial Emissions of CO₂ and CH₄, 2021, published in Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
In situ observations show vertical community structure of pelagic fauna in the eastern tropical North Atlantic off Cape Verde, 2020, published in Scientific Reports

Best Publications

Global Carbon Budget 2016

Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

4532
Citations
Global carbon budget 2013

C. Le Quere;G.P. Peters;R.J. Andres;Robbie M Andrew

2739
Citations
Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea–air CO2 flux over the global oceans

Taro Takahashi;Stewart C. Sutherland;Rik H. Wanninkhof;Colm Sweeney

2686
Citations
Ocean Deoxygenation in a Warming World

Ralph F. Keeling;Arne Körtzinger;Nicolas Gruber

1908
Citations
Global Carbon Budget 2019

Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Matthew W. Jones;Michael O'Sullivan;Robbie Andrew

1662
Citations
Global Carbon Budget 2017

Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

1267
Citations
Total alkalinity: The explicit conservative expression and its application to biogeochemical processes

Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow;Richard E. Zeebe;Christine Klaas;Arne Körtzinger

874
Citations
A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Benjamin Pfeil;Benjamin Pfeil;Camilla S. Landa;Camilla S. Landa;Nicolas Metzl

675
Citations
Expansion of oxygen minimum zones may reduce available habitat for tropical pelagic fishes

Lothar Stramma;Eric D. Prince;Sunke Schmidtko;Sunke Schmidtko;Jiangang Luo

626
Citations
Future ocean acidification will be amplified by hypoxia in coastal habitats

Frank Melzner;Jörn Thomsen;Wolfgang Koeve;Andreas Oschlies

590
Citations
Food availability outweighs ocean acidification effects in juvenileMytilus edulis: laboratory and field experiments

Jörn Thomsen;Isabel Casties;Christian Pansch;Arne Körtzinger

509
Citations
Calcifying invertebrates succeed in a naturally CO 2 -rich coastal habitat but are threatened by high levels of future acidification

Jörn Thomsen;Magdalena Gutowska;Julia Saphörster;Agnes Heinemann

444
Citations
On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

424
Citations
Sensitivities of marine carbon fluxes to ocean change

Ulf Riebesell;Arne Körtzinger;Andreas Oschlies

384
Citations
The salinity normalization of marine inorganic carbon chemistry data

Karsten Friis;Arne Körtzinger;Douglas W.R. Wallace

330
Citations
Corrigendum to "Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea-air CO2 flux over the global oceans" Deep Sea Res. II 56 (2009) 554-577 (DOI:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.009)

T Takahashi;SC Sutherland;R Wanninkhof;C Sweeney

315
Citations
Corrigendum to "Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea-air CO2 flux over the global oceans" [Deep Sea Res. II 56 (2009) 554-577]

Taro Takahashi;Stewart C. Sutherland;Rik H. Wanninkhof;Colm Sweeney

305
Citations
Evaluation of a lifetime-based optode to measure oxygen in aquatic systems

Anders Tengberg;Jostein Hovdenes;Henrik Johan Andersson;Olivier Brocandel

297
Citations
A uniform, quality controlled Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;A. Olsen;D.C.E. Bakker;S. Hankin

266
Citations
An Alternative to Static Climatologies: Robust Estimation of Open Ocean CO2 Variables and Nutrient Concentrations From T, S, and O2 Data Using Bayesian Neural Networks.

Henry C. Bittig;Tobias Steinhoff;Hervé Claustre;Björn Fiedler

238
Citations
Climatological Mean and Decadal Change in Surface Ocean Pco(2), and Net Sea-Air Co2 Flux Over the Global Oceans (Vol 56, Pg 554, 2009)

T. Takahashi;S. C. Sutherland;R. Wanninkhof;C. Sweeney

150
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes Karstensen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Peter Brandt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Douglas W.R. Wallace Dalhousie University

Bronte Tilbrook CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Truls Johannessen University of Bergen

Are Olsen University of Bergen

Ute Schuster University of Exeter

Abdirahman M Omar NORCE Research

Andrew J. Watson University of Exeter

Martin Visbeck GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

External Links

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