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Christoph A. Heinrich

Christoph A. Heinrich

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Earth Science
Switzerland
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
80
Citations
25220
World Ranking
526
National Ranking
12

Christoph A. Heinrich 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 Christoph A. Heinrich sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 254 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christoph A. Heinrich 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 Christoph A. Heinrich sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% 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

  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Christoph A. Heinrich is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Medicine.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics related to magmatic and hydrothermal processes as well as geological analysis. Selected papers include:

  • "Mechanisms and patterns of magmatic fluid transport in cooling hydrous intrusions" (2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • "Copper-mineralised porphyries sample the evolution of a large-volume silicic magma reservoir from rapid assembly to solidification" (2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • "Resolving the timescales of magmatic and hydrothermal processes associated with porphyry deposit formation using zircon U-Pb petrochronology" (2020, Geochronology)
  • "The Chain of Processes Forming Porphyry Copper Deposits-An Invited Paper" (2024, Economic Geology)
  • "Melt and fluid evolution in an upper-crustal magma reservoir, preserved by inclusions in juvenile clasts from the Kos Plateau Tuff, Aegean Arc, Greece" (2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Vincent Zimmer
  • Albrecht von Quadt
  • Thomas Driesner
  • Marcel Guillong
  • Simon Large

They regularly publish in the following venues:

  • Economic Geology
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology
  • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  • GE Portuguese Journal of Gastroenterology

The main fields of study for Christoph A. Heinrich include:

  • Medicine
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

More specifically, subfields of interest are:

  • Geophysics
  • Surgery
  • Gastroenterology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The primary topics of their research cover:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments
  • Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes

Best Publications

  • The system H2O–NaCl. Part I: Correlation formulae for phase relations in temperature–pressure–composition space from 0 to 1000 °C, 0 to 5000 bar, and 0 to 1 XNaCl

    Thomas Driesner;Christoph A. Heinrich

  • 100th Anniversary Special Paper: Vapor Transport of Metals and the Formation of Magmatic-Hydrothermal Ore Deposits

    Anthony E. Williams-Jones;Christoph A. Heinrich

  • Segregation of ore metals between magmatic brine and vapor; a fluid inclusion study using PIXE microanalysis

    Christoph A. Heinrich;Christopher G. Ryan;Terrence P. Mernagh;Peter J. Eadington

  • Quantitative multi-element analysis of minerals, fluid and melt inclusions by laser-ablation inductively-coupled-plasma mass-spectrometry

    Christoph A. Heinrich;Thomas Pettke;W. Halter;M. Aigner-Torres

  • Metal fractionation between magmatic brine and vapor, determined by microanalysis of fluid inclusions

    Christoph A. Heinrich;Detlef Günther;Andreas Audétat;Thomas Ulrich

  • Gold concentrations of magmatic brines and the metal budget of porphyry copper deposits

    T. Ulrich;D. Günther;C. A. Heinrich

  • The chemistry of hydrothermal tin(-tungsten) ore deposition

    Christoph A. Heinrich

  • The physical and chemical evolution of low-salinity magmatic fluids at the porphyry to epithermal transition: a thermodynamic study

    Christoph A. Heinrich;Christoph A. Heinrich

  • SILLS: A MATLAB-based program for the reduction of laser ablation ICP-MS data of homogeneous materials and inclusions

    Marcel Guillong;Dimitri L. Meier;Murray M. Allan;Christoph A. Heinrich

  • The Evolution of a Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit, Based on LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Fluid Inclusions: Bajo de la Alumbrera, Argentina

    Thomas Ulrich;Detlef Günther;Christoph A. Heinrich

  • Formation of a Magmatic-Hydrothermal Ore Deposit: Insights with LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Fluid Inclusions

    Andreas Audétat;Detlef Günther;Christoph A. Heinrich

  • Capabilities of an Argon Fluoride 193 nm Excimer Laser for LaserAblation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectometry Microanalysis ofGeological Materials

    Detlef Günther;Rolf Frischknecht;Christoph A. Heinrich;Hans-J. Kahlert

  • Special Paper: The Composition of Magmatic-Hydrothermal Fluids in Barren and Mineralized Intrusions

    Andreas Audétat;Thomas Pettke;Christoph A. Heinrich;Robert J. Bodnar

  • Quantitative analysis of major, minor and trace elements in fluid inclusions using laser ablation–inductively coupled plasmamass spectrometry

    Detlef Günther;Andreas Audétat;Rolf Frischknecht;Christoph A. Heinrich

  • Magmatic vapor contraction and the transport of gold from the porphyry environment to epithermal ore deposits

    Christoph A. Heinrich;Thomas Driesner;Andri Stefánsson;Terry M. Seward

  • Magmatic-hydrothermal evolution in a fractionating granite : a microchemical study of the Sn-W-F-mineralized Mole Granite (Australia)

    A Audt́at;D Gn̈ther;C.A Heinrich

  • Fluid and source magma evolution of the Questa porphyry Mo deposit, New Mexico, USA

    Leonhard M. Klemm;Thomas Pettke;Christoph A. Heinrich

  • Copper deposition by fluid cooling in intrusion-centered systems: New insights from the Bingham porphyry ore deposit, Utah

    Patrick B. Redmond;Marco T. Einaudi;E. Esra Inan;Marianne R. Landtwing

  • Copper deposition during quartz dissolution by cooling magmatic–hydrothermal fluids: The Bingham porphyry

    Marianne R. Landtwing;Thomas Pettke;Werner E. Halter;Christoph A. Heinrich

  • Hydrothermal Evolution of the El Teniente Deposit, Chile: Porphyry Cu-Mo Ore Deposition from Low-Salinity Magmatic Fluids

    Leonhard M. Klemm;Thomas Pettke;Christoph A. Heinrich;Eduardo Campos

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Pettke
Thomas Pettke University of Bern
Irena Peytcheva
Irena Peytcheva Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Markus Wälle
Markus Wälle ETH Zurich
Sebastian Geiger
Sebastian Geiger Heriot-Watt University
Andreas Audétat
Andreas Audétat University of Bayreuth
Dim Coumou
Dim Coumou Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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