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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 58 2108 1910 141 129 234 24320

Catherine Ritz publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Catherine Ritz between 1982 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Catherine Ritz published across 44 years, from 1982 to 2025, averaging 5.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 33 publications in 2013. 4 of the 247 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1982 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 33. Peak 33 publications in 2013. 1982: 1 publication 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 2 publications 1986: 1 publication 1987: 0 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 3 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 2 publications 1993: 3 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 3 publications 1996: 7 publications 1997: 3 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 3 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 4 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 13 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 0 publications 2009: 6 publications 2010: 15 publications 2011: 14 publications 2012: 19 publications 2013: 33 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 8 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 14 publications 2018: 17 publications 2019: 6 publications 2020: 10 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 4 publications 2023: 6 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 3 publications
1982 2025

247 publications in total across all disciplines

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Catherine Ritz: publications per year, 1982 to 2025
Year Publications
1982 1
1983 0
1984 0
1985 2
1986 1
1987 0
1988 0
1989 3
1990 0
1991 1
1992 2
1993 3
1994 1
1995 3
1996 7
1997 3
1998 1
1999 3
2000 1
2001 4
2002 2
2003 4
2004 13
2005 2
2006 6
2007 5
2008 0
2009 6
2010 15
2011 14
2012 19
2013 33
2014 7
2015 8
2016 6
2017 14
2018 17
2019 6
2020 10
2021 10
2022 4
2023 6
2024 1
2025 3
Total 247
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Catherine Ritz 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 Catherine Ritz 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, 228–237 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: 234 publications — 74th percentile

74% 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
228–237 262 234
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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Catherine Ritz 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 Catherine Ritz 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, 58 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: 58 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% 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 58
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

Catherine Ritz is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and focuses their research primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly output includes a substantial number of publications related to Antarctic and cryospheric studies.

The primary areas of study covered in their work include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change

Key research topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Polar Research and Ecology

Their recent research papers include:

  • "Quantarctica, an integrated mapping environment for Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, and sub-Antarctic islands," 2021, published in Environmental Modelling & Software
  • "Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum," 2021, published in Science
  • "Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change," 2022, published in Nature
  • "Brief communication: New radar constraints support presence of ice older than 1.5 Myr at Little Dome C," 2021, published in The Cryosphere
  • "Geothermal heat flux from measured temperature profiles in deep ice boreholes in Antarctica," 2020, published in The Cryosphere

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Catherine Ritz include:

  • Robert Mulvaney
  • Carlos Martín
  • Massimo Frezzotti
  • Olaf Eisen
  • Aurélien Quiquet

The principal publication venues for their work are:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Earth System Science Data
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Science

Best Publications

  • Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica

    J. R. Petit;J. Jouzel;D. Raynaud;N. I. Barkov

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

    Laurent Augustin;Carlo Barbante;Piers R. F. Barnes;Jean Marc Barnola

  • A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice

    C. Lorius;J. Jouzel;C. Ritz;L. Merlivat

  • Extending the Vostok ice-core record of palaeoclimate to the penultimate glacial period

    Jean Jouzel;Jean Jouzel;N.I. Barkov;J.M. Barnola;M. Bender;M. Bender

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • An optimized multi-proxy, multi-site Antarctic ice and gas orbital chronology (AICC2012): 120--800 ka

    L. Bazin;A. Landais;B. Lemieux-Dudon;H. Toyé Mahamadou Kele

  • Potential sea-level rise from Antarctic ice-sheet instability constrained by observations

    Catherine Ritz;Catherine Ritz;Tamsin L. Edwards;Tamsin L. Edwards;Gaël Durand;Gaël Durand;Anthony J. Payne

  • Modeling the evolution of Antarctic ice sheet over the last 420,000 years: Implications for altitude changes in the Vostok region

    Catherine Ritz;Vincent Rommelaere;Christophe Dumas

  • Ice-sheet mass balance and climate change

    Edward Hanna;Francisco J. Navarro;Frank Pattyn;Catia M. Domingues

  • Revisiting Antarctic ice loss due to marine ice-cliff instability

    Tamsin L. Edwards;Mark A. Brandon;Gael Durand;Neil R. Edwards

  • Consistent dating for Antarctic and Greenland ice cores

    Bénédicte Lemieux-Dudon;Eric Blayo;Jean-Robert Petit;Claire Waelbroeck

  • Past and future polar amplification of climate change: climate model intercomparisons and ice-core constraints

    Valérie Masson-Delmotte;Masa Kageyama;Pascale Braconnot;S. Charbit

  • Sensitivity of a Greenland ice sheet model to ice flow and ablation parameters: consequences for the evolution through the last climatic cycle

    C. Ritz;A. Fabre;A. Letréguilly

  • Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea-level rise from a new-generation ice-sheet model

    Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Olivier Gagliardini;Olivier Gagliardini;Hakime Seddik;Maëlle Nodet

  • Modeling the densification of polar firn including heat diffusion: Application to close-off characteristics and gas isotopic fractionation for Antarctica and Greenland sites

    C. Goujon;J.-M. Barnola;C. Ritz

  • Expression of the bipolar see-saw in Antarctic climate records during the last deglaciation

    B. Stenni;D. Buiron;M. Frezzotti;S. Albani

  • Results from the EISMINT model intercomparison : the effects of thermomechanical coupling

    A. J. Payne;Philippe Huybrechts;A. Abe-Ouchi;R. Calov

  • Where to find 1.5 million yr old ice for the IPICS "Oldest-Ice" ice core

    H. Fischer;J. Severinghaus;E. Brook;E. Wolff;E. Wolff

  • Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Christo Buizert;T. J. Fudge;William H. G. Roberts;Eric J. Steig

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Parrenin
Frédéric Parrenin Grenoble Alpes University
Olivier Gagliardini
Olivier Gagliardini Grenoble Alpes University
Jean Jouzel
Jean Jouzel Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Gaël Durand
Gaël Durand Grenoble Alpes University
Eric W. Wolff
Eric W. Wolff University of Cambridge
Robert Mulvaney
Robert Mulvaney British Antarctic Survey
Jérôme Chappellaz
Jérôme Chappellaz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Philippe Huybrechts
Philippe Huybrechts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Jason L. Roberts
Jason L. Roberts Australian Antarctic Division
Dominique Raynaud
Dominique Raynaud Grenoble Alpes University

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