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Carlota Escutia

Carlota Escutia

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
40
Citations
5549
World Ranking
5882
National Ranking
108

Carlota Escutia 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 Carlota Escutia sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 267 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Carlota Escutia 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 Carlota Escutia sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America

Overview

Carlota Escutia is affiliated with the University of Granada in Spain and works primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses strongly on several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ocean Engineering, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Ecology.

Their work encompasses a range of main topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Geological formations and processes, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological Studies and Exploration, and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

Among Carlota Escutia's recent scientific publications are:

  • New insights into the nature of glauconite (2020, American Mineralogist)
  • Multi-decadal trends in Antarctic sea-ice extent driven by ENSO-SAM over the last 2,000 years (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • Late Oligocene-Miocene proto-Antarctic Circumpolar Current dynamics off the Wilkes Land margin, East Antarctica (2020, Global and Planetary Change)
  • Mid-Holocene Antarctic sea-ice increase driven by marine ice sheet retreat (2021, Climate of the past)
  • Vegetation change across the Drake Passage region linked to late Eocene cooling and glacial disturbance after the Eocene-Oligocene transition (2022, Climate of the past)

Their research is frequently published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe at La Trobe University), Climate of the past, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature Geoscience.

Carlota Escutia collaborates regularly with a number of colleagues. Frequent co-authors include Robert M. McKay, Adrián López-Quirós, Johan Étourneau, Peter K. Bijl, and Dimitris Evangelinos.

The work of Carlota Escutia has been recognized with the GSA Honorary Fellow Award from The Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch

    Jörg Pross;Lineth Contreras;Peter K. Bijl;David R. Greenwood

  • Dynamic behaviour of the East Antarctic ice sheet during Pliocene warmth

    Carys P. Cook;Tina van de Flierdt;Trevor Williams;Sidney R. Hemming;Sidney R. Hemming

  • Eocene cooling linked to early flow across the Tasmanian Gateway

    Peter K. Bijl;James A. P. Bendle;Steven M. Bohaty;Jörg Pross

  • A roadmap for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science for the next two decades and beyond

    M.C. Kennicutt;S.L. Chown;J.J. Cassano;D. Liggett

  • Influence of the Atlantic inflow and Mediterranean outflow currents on late Quaternary sedimentary facies of the Gulf of Cadiz continental margin

    C.Hans Nelson;Jesus Baraza;Andrés Maldonado;Jésus Rodero

  • Orbital forcing of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene

    M O Patterson;R McKay;T Naish;C Escutia

  • Holocene earthquake record offshore Portugal (SW Iberia): testing turbidite paleoseismology in a slow-convergence margin

    Eulalia Gracia;Alexis Vizcaino;Carlota Escutia;Alessandra Asioli

  • Ice loss from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet during late Pleistocene interglacials

    David J. Wilson;Rachel A. Bertram;Emma F. Needham;Tina van de Flierdt

  • Reorganization of southern ocean plankton ecosystem at the onset of Antarctic glaciation

    Alexander J. P. Houben;Peter K. Bijl;Jörg Pross;Steven M. Bohaty

  • Southern Ocean warming and Wilkes Land ice sheet retreat during the mid-Miocene

    Francesca Sangiorgi;Peter K. Bijl;Sandra Passchier;Ulrich Salzmann

  • Deciphering bottom current velocity and paleoclimate signals from contourite deposits in the Gulf of Cádiz during the last 140 kyr: An inorganic geochemical approach

    André Bahr;Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo;Nada Kolasinac;Patrick Grunert

  • Morphology and Acoustic Character of the Antarctic Wilkes Land Turbidite Systems: Ice-Sheet-Sourced Versus River-Sourced Fans

    C. Escutia;S.L. Eittreim;A.K. Cooper;C.H. Nelson

  • Cenozoic ice sheet history from East Antarctic Wilkes Land continental margin sediments

    C. Escutia;L. De Santis;F. Donda;R.B. Dunbar

  • Miocene to Recent contourite drifts development in the northern Weddell Sea (Antarctica)

    Andrés Maldonado;Antonio Barnolas;Fernando Bohoyo;Carlota Escutia

  • Chronostratigraphic framework for the IODP Expedition 318 cores from the Wilkes Land Margin: Constraints for paleoceanographic reconstruction

    L. Tauxe;C.E. Stickley;S. Sugisaki;P.K. Bijl

  • Persistent monsoonal forcing of Mediterranean Outflow Water dynamics during the late Pleistocene

    André Bahr;André Bahr;S Kaboth;Francisco J Jiménez-Espejo;Francisco Javier Sierro

  • Interplay of Mass-Transport and Turbidite-System Deposits in Different Active Tectonic and Passive Continental Margin Settings: External and Local Controlling Factors

    C. Hans Nelson;Carlota Escutia;John E. Damuth;David C. Twichell

  • Tectonic and sediment supply control of deep rift lake turbidite systems: Lake Baikal, Russia

    C. Hans Nelson;Evgeny B. Karabanov;Steven M. Colman;Carlota Escutia

  • Circum-Antarctic warming events between 4 and 3.5 Ma recorded in marine sediments from the Prydz Bay (ODP Leg 188) and the Antarctic Peninsula (ODP Leg 178) margins.

    C. Escutia;M.A. Bárcena;R.G. Lucchi;O. Romero

  • Onset of Cenozoic Antarctic glaciation

    Peter F. Barker;Bernhard Diekmann;Carlota Escutia

  • Glaucony authigenesis, maturity and alteration in the Weddell Sea: An indicator of paleoenvironmental conditions before the onset of Antarctic glaciation

    Adrián López-Quirós;Carlota Escutia;Antonio Sánchez-Navas;Fernando Nieto

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco J Jiménez-Espejo
Francisco J Jiménez-Espejo Spanish National Research Council
Peter K Bijl
Peter K Bijl Utrecht University
Henk Brinkhuis
Henk Brinkhuis Utrecht University
Robert M. McKay
Robert M. McKay Victoria University of Wellington
Ursula Röhl
Ursula Röhl University of Bremen
Francesca Sangiorgi
Francesca Sangiorgi Utrecht University
Tina van de Flierdt
Tina van de Flierdt Imperial College London
Robert B. Dunbar
Robert B. Dunbar Stanford University
Jörg Pross
Jörg Pross Heidelberg University
Trevor Williams
Trevor Williams Texas A&M University

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