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Christoph Völker 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 Völker sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Christoph Völker 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 Völker sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Christoph Völker is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research activity primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology as subfields.

The scientist's work encompasses topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, marine biology and ecology research, methane hydrates and related phenomena, ocean acidification effects and responses, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, as well as geology and paleoclimatology research.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • A call for refining the role of humic-like substances in the oceanic iron cycle, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Climate change driven effects on transport, fate and biogeochemistry of trace element contaminants in coastal marine ecosystems, 2024, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Modeling the Impact of Macrozooplankton on Carbon Export Production in the Southern Ocean, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Exploring the Iron-Binding Potential of the Ocean Using a Combined pH and DOC Parameterization, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Global Assimilation of Ocean-Color Data of Phytoplankton Functional Types: Impact of Different Data Sets, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Christoph Völker frequently publishes in several venues, notably:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Biogeosciences

The scientist collaborates regularly with a set of frequent co-authors, including Judith Hauck, Ying Ye, Onur Karakuş, Özgür Gürses, and Martin Butzin.

Best Publications

  • How well do global ocean biogeochemistry models simulate dissolved iron distributions

    Alessandro Tagliabue;Olivier Aumont;Ros Death;John P. Dunne

  • Drivers and uncertainties of future global marine primary production in marine ecosystem models

    C Laufkötter;C Laufkötter;M Vogt;N Gruber;M Aita-Noguchi

  • The dynamical balance, transport and circulation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

    Dirk Olbers;Daniel Borowski;Christoph Völker;Jorg-Olaf Wölff

  • Geoengineering impact of open ocean dissolution of olivine on atmospheric CO 2 , surface ocean pH and marine biology

    Peter Köhler;Jesse F Abrams;Christoph Völker;Judith Hauck

  • Seasonally different carbon flux changes in the Southern Ocean in response to the southern annular mode

    Judith Hauck;Christoph Völker;Tingting Wang;Mario Hoppema

  • On the Southern Ocean CO2 uptake and the role of the biological carbon pump in the 21st century

    J. Hauck;C. Volker;D. A. Wolf-Gladrow;C. Laufkotter

  • Projected decreases in future marine export production: the role of the carbon flux through the upper ocean ecosystem

    Charlotte Laufkötter;Charlotte Laufkötter;Meike Vogt;Nicolas Gruber;Olivier Aumont

  • The role of Southern Ocean processes in orbital and millennial CO2 variations – A synthesis

    Hubertus Fischer;Hubertus Fischer;Hubertus Fischer;Jochen Schmitt;Jochen Schmitt;Jochen Schmitt;Dieter Lüthi;Dieter Lüthi;Thomas F. Stocker;Thomas F. Stocker

  • Modelling carbon overconsumption and the formation of extracellular particulate organic carbon

    Markus Schartau;Anja Engel;Jens Schröter;Silke Thoms

  • Physical limits on iron uptake mediated by siderophores or surface reductases

    Christoph Völker;Dieter A Wolf-Gladrow

  • Rising atmospheric CO2 leads to large impact of biology on Southern Ocean CO2 uptake via changes of the Revelle factor

    Judith Hauck;Christoph Völker

  • The significance of the episodic nature of atmospheric deposition to Low Nutrient Low Chlorophyll regions

    C. Guieu;O. Aumont;A. Paytan;L. Bopp

  • Modeling organic iron-binding ligands in a three-dimensional biogeochemical ocean model

    Christoph Völker;Alessandro Tagliabue

  • Iron fertilisation and century-scale effects of open ocean dissolution of olivine in a simulated CO2 removal experiment

    Judith Hauck;Peter Köhler;Dieter Wolf-Gladrow;Christoph Völker

  • A laboratory study of ikaite (CaCO3·6H2O) precipitation as a function of pH, salinity, temperature and phosphate concentration

    Yu-Bin Hu;Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow;Gerhard S. Dieckmann;Christoph Völker

  • Perspective on identifying and characterizing the processes controlling iron speciation and residence time at the atmosphere-ocean interface

    Nicholas Meskhidze;Christoph Völker;Hind A. Al-Abadleh;Katherine Barbeau

  • Towards accounting for dissolved iron speciation in global ocean models

    A. Tagliabue;A. Tagliabue;A. Tagliabue;C. Völker

  • Denitrification under glacial and interglacial conditions: A physical approach

    Katrin J. Meissner;Eric D. Galbraith;Christoph Völker

  • A call for refining the role of humic-like substances in the oceanic iron cycle

    Hannah Whitby;Hélène Planquette;Nicolas Cassar;Nicolas Cassar;Eva Bucciarelli

  • Modeling the speciation and biogeochemistry of iron at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site

    L. Weber;Christoph Völker;Markus Schartau;Markus Schartau;Dieter Wolf-Gladrow

  • A skill assessment of the biogeochemical model REcoM2 coupled to the Finite Element Sea Ice–Ocean Model (FESOM 1.3)

    Vibe Schourup-Kristensen;Dmitry Sidorenko;Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow;Christoph Völker

  • Diatom Phenology in the Southern Ocean: Mean Patterns, Trends and the Role of Climate Oscillations

    Mariana Altenburg Soppa;Christoph Völker;Astrid Bracher

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Wolf-Gladrow
Dieter Wolf-Gladrow Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Astrid Bracher
Astrid Bracher University of Bremen
Martin Losch
Martin Losch Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Alessandro Tagliabue
Alessandro Tagliabue University of Liverpool
Mario Hoppema
Mario Hoppema Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Peter Köhler
Peter Köhler Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Olivier Aumont
Olivier Aumont Université Paris Cité
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen
Laurent Bopp
Laurent Bopp École Normale Supérieure
Roland Séférian
Roland Séférian Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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