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Christoph Mayer 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 Mayer sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 273 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Christoph Mayer 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 Mayer sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christoph Mayer is affiliated with the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Germany and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas such as cryospheric studies and observations, winter sports injuries and performance, landslides and related hazards, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, climate change and permafrost, geology and paleoclimatology research, and climate variability and models.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Christoph Mayer include:

  • Interannual flow dynamics driven by frontal retreat of a lake-terminating glacier in the Chinese Central Himalaya, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Climate change and spatio-temporal trend analysis of climate extremes in the homogeneous climatic zones of Pakistan during 1962-2019, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • Detailed Seismic Bathymetry Beneath Ekström Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Implications for Glacial History and Ice-Ocean Interaction, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Towards Bedmap Himalayas: development of an airborne ice-sounding radar for glacier thickness surveys in High-Mountain Asia, 2020, Annals of Glaciology
  • Seasonal Evolution of Supraglacial Lakes on Baltoro Glacier From 2016 to 2020, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mayer include Astrid Lambrecht, Olaf Eisen, Emma C. Smith, Reinhard Drews, and Todd A. Ehlers, reflecting cooperative work in fields related to glaciology and environmental monitoring.

The scientist has published extensively in notable venues such as The Cryosphere, Journal of Glaciology, Annals of Glaciology, Frontiers in Earth Science, and Polarforschung. These publications often address topics related to glaciers, ice dynamics, and environmental changes impacting cryospheric regions.

Best Publications

  • Reanalysing glacier mass balance measurement series

    M. Zemp;E. Thibert;M. Huss;D. Stumm

  • Physical, chemical and biological processes in Lake Vostok and other Antarctic subglacial lakes

    Martin J. Siegert;J. Cynan Ellis-Evans;Martyn Tranter;Christoph Mayer

  • Ice ablation and meteorological conditions on the debris-covered area of Baltoro glacier, Karakoram, Pakistan

    Claudia Mihalcea;Christoph Mayer;Guglielmina Diolaiuti;Astrid Lambrecht

  • A new global TEC model for estimating transionospheric radio wave propagation errors

    N. Jakowski;M. M. Hoque;C. Mayer

  • A global, high-resolution data set of ice sheet topography, cavity geometry, and ocean bathymetry

    Janin Schaffer;Ralph Timmermann;Jan Erik Arndt;Steen Savstrup Kristensen

  • Total electron content models and their use in ionosphere monitoring

    N. Jakowski;C. Mayer;M. M. Hoque;V. Wilken

  • Spatial distribution of debris thickness and melting from remote-sensing and meteorological data, at debris-covered Baltoro glacier, Karakoram, Pakistan

    C.E. Mihalcea;C. Mayer;G. Diolaiuti;C. D'Agata

  • GPS radio occultation: results from CHAMP, GRACE and FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC.

    Jens Wickert;Grzegorz Michalak;Torsten Schmidt;Georg Beyerle

  • Glaciological characteristics of the ablation zone of Baltoro glacier, Karakoram, Pakistan

    C. Mayer;A. Lambrecht;M. Belò;C. Smiraglia

  • Randolph Glacier Inventory [v3.2]: A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines. Global Land Ice Measurements from Space

    Arendt;T. Bolch;J.G. Cogley

  • Present and past climate control on fjord glaciations in Greenland: Implications for IRD-deposition in the sea

    Niels Reeh;Christoph Mayer;Heinz Miller;Henrik Højmark Thomsen

  • Ice velocity and climate variations for Baltoro Glacier, Pakistan

    D.J. Quincey;L. Copland;C. Mayer;M. Bishop

  • Prediction of future hydrological regimes in poorly gauged high altitude basins: the case study of the upper Indus, Pakistan

    D. Bocchiola;G. Diolaiuti;A. Soncini;C. Mihalcea

  • Impact of varying debris cover thickness on ablation: a case study for Koxkar Glacier in the Tien Shan

    M. Juen;C. Mayer;A. Lambrecht;H. Han

  • Changes in glacierisation, climate and runoff in the second half of the 20th century in the Naryn basin, Central Asia

    David Kriegel;Christoph Mayer;Wilfried Hagg;Sergiy Vorogushyn

  • Water exchange between the subglacial Lake Vostok and the overlying ice sheet

    Martin John Siegert;Ron Kwok;Christopher Mayer;Bryn Hubbard

  • Glacial melt under a porous debris layer

    Geoffrey W. Evatt;I. David Abrahams;Matthias Heil;Christoph Mayer

  • Tidal bending of glaciers: a linear viscoelastic approach

    Niels Reeh;Erik Lintz Christensen;Christoph Mayer;Ole B. Olesen

  • Future Hydrological Regimes in the Upper Indus Basin: A Case Study from a High-Altitude Glacierized Catchment

    Andrea Soncini;Daniele Bocchiola;Gabriele Confortola;Alberto Bianchi

  • Glacier changes in the Big Naryn basin, Central Tian Shan

    W. Hagg;C. Mayer;A. Lambrecht;David Kriegel

  • Randolph Glacier Inventory [v2.0]: A Dataset of Global Glacier Outlines

    A. Arendt;T. Bolch;J.G. Cogley;A. Gardner

Frequent Co-Authors

Krzysztof Redlich
Krzysztof Redlich University of Wrocław
Dagmar Adamová
Dagmar Adamová Czech Academy of Sciences
Jon Christopher Wikne
Jon Christopher Wikne University of Oslo
Sergey Voloshin
Sergey Voloshin Wayne State University
Jørgen André Lien
Jørgen André Lien University of South-Eastern Norway
Joakim Nystrand
Joakim Nystrand University of Bergen

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