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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 72 849 749 51 47 267 18983

Bodo Bookhagen publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Bodo Bookhagen between 2001 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Bodo Bookhagen published across 26 years, from 2001 to 2026, averaging 14.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 27 publications in 2014. 27 of the 369 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2001 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 27. Peak 27 publications in 2014. 2001: 1 publication 2002: 2 publications 2003: 6 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 8 publications 2012: 17 publications 2013: 14 publications 2014: 27 publications 2015: 24 publications 2016: 24 publications 2017: 25 publications 2018: 26 publications 2019: 22 publications 2020: 20 publications 2021: 20 publications 2022: 24 publications 2023: 22 publications 2024: 20 publications 2025: 23 publications 2026: 4 publications
2001 2026

369 publications in total across all disciplines

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Bodo Bookhagen: publications per year, 2001 to 2026
Year Publications
2001 1
2002 2
2003 6
2004 2
2005 5
2006 9
2007 4
2008 5
2009 5
2010 10
2011 8
2012 17
2013 14
2014 27
2015 24
2016 24
2017 25
2018 26
2019 22
2020 20
2021 20
2022 24
2023 22
2024 20
2025 23
2026 4
Total 369
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Bodo Bookhagen 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 Bodo Bookhagen 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, 258–267 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: 267 publications — 82nd percentile

82% 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
258–267 185 267
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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Bodo Bookhagen 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 Bodo Bookhagen 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, 72 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: 72 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% 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
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62 72
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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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Bodo Bookhagen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research covers a broad array of topics such as:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Bookhagen's recent academic papers include the following:

  • "Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia," published in 2021 in Science
  • "Beyond Vertical Point Accuracy: Assessing Inter-pixel Consistency in 30 m Global DEMs for the Arid Central Andes," published in 2021 in Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Assessing Multi-Temporal Snow-Volume Trends in High Mountain Asia From 1987 to 2016 Using High-Resolution Passive Microwave Data," published in 2020 in Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Climatic and Biotic Controls on Topographic Asymmetry at the Global Scale," published in 2020 in Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • "Tracking Downstream Variability in Large Grain-Size Distributions in the South-Central Andes," published in 2021 in Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Bookhagen include:

  • Manfred R. Strecker
  • Taylor Smith
  • Asfaw Erbello
  • Daniel Melnick
  • Heiko Pingel

Bookhagen has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among the honors received is the Hellman Fellow award in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Toward a complete Himalayan hydrological budget: Spatiotemporal distribution of snowmelt and rainfall and their impact on river discharge

    Bodo Bookhagen;Douglas W. Burbank

  • Spatially variable response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change affected by debris cover

    Dirk Scherler;Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Topography, relief, and TRMM-derived rainfall variations along the Himalaya

    Bodo Bookhagen;Bodo Bookhagen;Douglas W. Burbank

  • Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

    Matthias Huss;Matthias Huss;B Bookhagen;Christian Huggel;Dean Jacobsen

  • Urban tree species mapping using hyperspectral and lidar data fusion

    Michael Alonzo;Bodo Bookhagen;Dar A. Roberts

  • Tectonics and Climate of the Southern Central Andes

    M.R. Strecker;R.N. Alonso;B. Bookhagen;B. Carrapa

  • Complex networks reveal global pattern of extreme-rainfall teleconnections

    Niklas Boers;Bedartha Goswami;Aljoscha Rheinwalt;Bodo Bookhagen

  • Late Quaternary intensified monsoon phases control landscape evolution in the northwest Himalaya

    Bodo Bookhagen;Rasmus Christoph Thiede;Martin R. Strecker

  • Orographic barriers, high‐resolution TRMM rainfall, and relief variations along the eastern Andes

    Bodo Bookhagen;Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Climatic control on rapid exhumation along the Southern Himalayan Front

    Rasmus C. Thiede;Bodo Bookhagen;J.Ramón Arrowsmith;Edward R. Sobel

  • Abnormal monsoon years and their control on erosion and sediment flux in the high, arid northwest Himalaya

    Bodo Bookhagen;Rasmus C. Thiede;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Analysis of spatial and temporal extreme monsoonal rainfall over South Asia using complex networks

    Nishant Malik;Nishant Malik;Bodo Bookhagen;Norbert Marwan;Jürgen Kurths;Jürgen Kurths

  • Comparison of gully erosion estimates using airborne and ground-based LiDAR on Santa Cruz Island, California

    Ryan L. Perroy;Bodo Bookhagen;Gregory P. Asner;Oliver A. Chadwick

  • Exceptional increases in fluvial sediment fluxes in a warmer and wetter High Mountain Asia.

    Dongfeng Li;Xixi Lu;Irina Overeem;Desmond E. Walling

  • Prediction of extreme floods in the eastern Central Andes based on a complex networks approach

    N. Boers;N. Boers;B. Bookhagen;B. Bookhagen;H. M. J. Barbosa;N. Marwan

  • Segmentation of megathrust rupture zones from fore-arc deformation patterns over hundreds to millions of years, Arauco peninsula, Chile

    Daniel Melnick;Bodo Bookhagen;Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker;Helmut Peter Echtler

  • Spatiotemporal trends in erosion rates across a pronounced rainfall gradient: Examples from the southern Central Andes

    Bodo Bookhagen;Manfred R. Strecker

  • δ18O and δD of streamwaters across the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau: Implications for moisture sources and paleoelevation reconstructions

    Michael T. Hren;Bodo Bookhagen;Peter M. Blisniuk;Amanda L. Booth

  • Changes in seasonal snow water equivalent distribution in High Mountain Asia (1987 to 2009)

    Taylor Smith;Bodo Bookhagen

  • Multi-phased uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes

    T. F. Schildgen;D Cosentino;B. Bookhagen;S. Niedermann

  • Complex networks identify spatial patterns of extreme rainfall events of the South American Monsoon System

    Niklas Boers;Niklas Boers;Bodo Bookhagen;Norbert Marwan;Jürgen Kurths;Jürgen Kurths

  • Climatic forcing of erosion, landscape, and tectonics in the Bhutan Himalayas

    Djordje Grujic;Isabelle Coutand;Bodo Bookhagen;Stéphane Bonnet

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred R. Strecker
Manfred R. Strecker University of Potsdam
Douglas W. Burbank
Douglas W. Burbank University of California, Santa Barbara
Jürgen Kurths
Jürgen Kurths Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Dirk Scherler
Dirk Scherler Freie Universität Berlin
Taylor F. Schildgen
Taylor F. Schildgen University of Potsdam
Dirk Sachse
Dirk Sachse University of Potsdam
Helmut Echtler
Helmut Echtler University of Potsdam
Edward R. Sobel
Edward R. Sobel University of Potsdam
Djordje Grujic
Djordje Grujic Dalhousie University
Martin H. Trauth
Martin H. Trauth University of Potsdam

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