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Christopher A. Scholz

Christopher A. Scholz

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
44
Citations
8240
World Ranking
4669
National Ranking
1781

Christopher A. Scholz 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 Christopher A. Scholz sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 200 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher A. Scholz 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 Christopher A. Scholz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% 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

  • 1982 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Christopher A. Scholz is affiliated with Syracuse University in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Geology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics related to geology and geosciences, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Scholz's recent publications demonstrate an emphasis on rift systems and tectonics, particularly focusing on the East African region. Notable papers include:

  • Intrarift fault fabric, segmentation, and basin evolution of the Lake Malawi (Nyasa) Rift, East Africa (2020), published in Geosphere
  • Preferential localized thinning of lithospheric mantle in the melt-poor Malawi Rift (2020), published in Nature Geoscience
  • Controls on Rift Faulting in the North Basin of the Malawi (Nyasa) Rift, East Africa (2020), published in Tectonics
  • The Malawi Active Fault Database: An Onshore-Offshore Database for Regional Assessment of Seismic Hazard and Tectonic Evolution (2022), published in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Spatiotemporal Variations in Upper Crustal Extension Across the Different Basement Terranes of the Lake Tanganyika Rift, East Africa (2020), published in Tectonics

Scholz frequently collaborators with a number of researchers, including:

  • D. J. Shillington
  • Lachlan J. M. Wright
  • P. R. N. Chindandali
  • Folarin Kolawole
  • James D. Muirhead

The scientist's work appears regularly in specialized venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Tectonics
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

In addition to journal articles, Scholz has contributed to book publications, including Geldmarktsteuerung und Krisenprävention published by Mohr Siebeck eBooks in 2021.

Recognition for Scholz's career includes being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1982.

Best Publications

  • Late pleistocene desiccation of Lake Victoria and rapid evolution of cichlid fishes

    Thomas C. Johnson;Christopher A. Scholz;Michael R. Talbot;Kerry Kelts

  • East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins

    Christopher A. Scholz;Thomas C. Johnson;Andrew S. Cohen;John W. King

  • The time-transgressive termination of the African Humid Period

    Timothy Michael Shanahan;Nicholas P. Mckay;Konrad A. Hughen;Jonathan T. Overpeck

  • Atlantic Forcing of Persistent Drought in West Africa

    T. M. Shanahan;T. M. Shanahan;J. T. Overpeck;K. J. Anchukaitis;J. W. Beck

  • Estimating the age of formation of lakes: An example from Lake Tanganyika, East African Rift system

    Andrew S. Cohen;Michael J. Soreghan;Christopher A. Scholz

  • Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa.

    Andrew S. Cohen;Jeffery R. Stone;Kristina R.M. Beuning;Lisa E. Park

  • Depositional and tectonic framework of the rift basins of Lake Baikal from multichannel seismic data

    D.R. Hutchinson;A.J. Golmshtok;L.P. Zonenshain;T.C. Moore

  • Low lake stands in lakes Malawi and tanganyika, East Africa, delineated with multifold seismic data.

    Christopher A Scholz;B R Rosendahl

  • Paleoclimatic variations in West Africa from a record of late Pleistocene and Holocene lake level stands of Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana

    Timothy Michael Shanahan;Jonathan T. Overpeck;C. Winston Wheeler;J. Warren Beck

  • Abrupt change in tropical African climate linked to the bipolar seesaw over the past 55,000 years

    E. T. Brown;T. C. Johnson;C. A. Scholz;A. S. Cohen

  • Development of coarse-grained facies in lacustrine rift basins: Examples from East Africa

    Christopher A. Scholz;Bruce R. Rosendahl;Deborah L. Scott

  • Tropical East African climate change and its relation to global climate: A record from Lake Tanganyika, Tropical East Africa, over the past 90+kyr

    Allison P. Burnett;Michael J. Soreghan;Christopher A. Scholz;Erik T. Brown

  • A magnetic mineral record of Late Quaternary tropical climate variability from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana

    John A. Peck;Ryan R. Green;Timothy Michael Shanahan;John W. King

  • Late Quaternary stratigraphic analysis of the Lake Malawi Rift, East Africa: An integration of drill-core and seismic-reflection data

    Robert P. Lyons;Christopher A. Scholz;Matthew R. Buoniconti;Matthew R. Martin

  • An international and multidisciplinary drilling project into a young complex impact structure: The 2004 ICDP Bosumtwi Crater Drilling Project—An overview

    Christian Koeberl;Bernd Milkereit;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Christopher A. Scholz

  • Scientific drilling in the Great Rift Valley: The 2005 Lake Malawi Scientific Drilling Project — An overview of the past 145,000years of climate variability in Southern Hemisphere East Africa

    C. A. Scholz;A. S. Cohen;T. C. Johnson;J. King

  • Continuous 1.3-million-year record of East African hydroclimate, and implications for patterns of evolution and biodiversity

    Robert P. Lyons;Christopher A. Scholz;Andrew S. Cohen;John W. King

  • A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 million years

    T. C. Johnson;T. C. Johnson;J. P. Werne;Erik T Brown;A. Abbott

  • Control of normal fault interaction on the distribution of major Neogene sedimentary depocenters, Lake Tanganyika, East African rift

    Kiram E. Lezzar;Jean Jacques Tiercelin;Caroline Le Turdu;Andrew S. Cohen

  • Coarse-Grained, Deep-Water Sedimentation Along a Border Fault Margin of Lake Malawi, Africa: Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis

    Michael J. Soreghan;Christopher A. Scholz;John T. Wells

  • Consequences of Early Late-Pleistocene Megadroughts in Tropical Africa

    Andrew S Cohen;Jeffery R. Stone;Kristina R M Beuning;Lisa E Park

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. King
John W. King University of Rhode Island
Thomas C. Johnson
Thomas C. Johnson University of Massachusetts Amherst
Andrew S. Cohen
Andrew S. Cohen University of Arizona
Jonathan T. Overpeck
Jonathan T. Overpeck University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Erik T. Brown
Erik T. Brown University of Minnesota
Cynthia J. Ebinger
Cynthia J. Ebinger Tulane University
Michael R. Talbot
Michael R. Talbot University of Bergen
Christine S. Lane
Christine S. Lane University of Cambridge
Andrew A. Nyblade
Andrew A. Nyblade Pennsylvania State University
James M. Russell
James M. Russell Brown University

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