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Christopher D. Charles 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 D. Charles sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 154 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher D. Charles 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 D. Charles sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christopher D. Charles is affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the United States. Their research involves multiple intersecting fields and topics focusing on environmental and planetary sciences.

The scientist's work spans several subfields of study including:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Ecology

Main topics covered by their research include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies

Christopher D. Charles has frequently collaborated with coauthors such as:

  • Sidney R. Hemming
  • I.R. Hall
  • S.K.V. Hines
  • F.J. Jiménez-Espejo
  • N. Lathika

Their publication record includes contributions to a variety of academic venues. The most frequent venues for their work are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Science
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Christopher D. Charles include:

  • No consistent ENSO response to volcanic forcing over the last millennium (2020), published in Science
  • Persistent influence of precession on northern ice sheet variability since the early Pleistocene (2022), published in Science
  • A Continuous Record of Central Tropical Pacific Climate Since the Midnineteenth Century Reconstructed From Fanning and Palmyra Island Corals: A Case Study in Coral Data Reanalysis (2020), published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Little Change in Ice Age Water Mass Structure From Cape Basin Benthic Neodymium and Carbon Isotopes (2021), published in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Strong glacial-interglacial variability in upper ocean hydrodynamics, biogeochemistry, and productivity in the southern Indian Ocean (2021), published in Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • El Niño/Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millennium

    Kim M. Cobb;Kim M. Cobb;Christopher D. Charles;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards

  • Highly variable El Niño-Southern Oscillation throughout the Holocene.

    Kim M. Cobb;Niko Westphal;Hussein R. Sayani;Jordan T. Watson

  • The oxygen isotopic composition of seawater during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Daniel P. Schrag;Jess F. Adkins;Katherine McIntyre;Jane L. Alexander

  • Interaction between the ENSO and the Asian monsoon in a coral record of tropical climate

    C.D. Charles;D.E. Hunter;R.G. Fairbanks

  • Evidence from Southern Ocean sediments for the effect of North Atlantic deep-water flux on climate

    Christopher D. Charles;Richard G. Fairbanks

  • Climate connections between the hemisphere revealed by deep sea sediment core/ice core correlations

    Christopher D. Charles;Jean Lynch-Stieglitz;Ulysses S. Ninnemann;Richard G. Fairbanks

  • Evidence for lower productivity in the Antarctic Ocean during the last glaciation

    R. A. Mortlock;C. D. Charles;P. N. Froelich;M. A. Zibello

  • Evaluating climate indices and their geochemical proxies measured in corals

    R. G. Fairbanks;M. N. Evans;J. L. Rubenstone;R. A. Mortlock

  • Glacial-Interglacial Changes in Moisture Sources for Greenland: Influences on the Ice Core Record of Climate

    C. D. Charles;D. Rind;J. Jouzel;R. D. Koster

  • Pleistocene vertical carbon isotope and carbonate gradients in the South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

    David A. Hodell;Kathryn A. Venz;Christopher D. Charles;Ulysses S. Ninnemann;Ulysses S. Ninnemann

  • Abrupt Cooling of Antarctic Surface Waters and Sea Ice Expansion in the South Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean at 5000 cal yr B.P.

    David A. Hodell;Sharon L. Kanfoush;Aldo Shemesh;Xavier Crosta

  • Biogenic opal in Southern Ocean sediments over the last 450,000 years: Implications for surface water chemistry and circulation

    Christopher D. Charles;Philip N. Froelich;Michael A. Zibello;Richard A. Mortlock

  • Origin of Global Meltwater Pulses

    Richard G. Fairbanks;Christopher D. Charles;James D. Wright

  • Millennial-scale instability of the antarctic ice sheet during the last glaciation

    Sharon L. Kanfoush;David A. Hodell;Christopher D. Charles;Thomas P. Guilderson

  • Glacial to Interglacial Changes in the Isotopic Gradients of Southern Ocean Surface Water

    C. D. Charles;R. G. Fairbanks

  • Planktonic Foraminifera of the California Current Reflect 20th-Century Warming

    David B. Field;Timothy R. Baumgartner;Christopher D. Charles;Vicente Ferreira-Bartrina

  • Comparison of interglacial stages in the South Atlantic sector of the southern ocean for the past 450 kyr: implifications for Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 11

    David A. Hodell;Christopher D. Charles;Ulysses S. Ninnemann

  • A central tropical Pacific coral demonstrates Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic decadal climate connections

    Kim M. Cobb;Christopher D. Charles;David E. Hunter

  • Oxygen Isotopes in Biogenic Silica: Global Changes in Ocean Temperature and Isotopic Composition

    A. Shemesh;C. D. Charles;R. G. Fairbanks

  • Changes in the mode of Southern Ocean circulation over the last glacial cycle revealed by foraminiferal stable isotopic variability

    Ulysses S Ninnemann;Christopher D Charles

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulysses S Ninnemann
Ulysses S Ninnemann University of Bergen
David A Hodell
David A Hodell University of Cambridge
Kim M. Cobb
Kim M. Cobb Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard D. Norris
Richard D. Norris University of California, San Diego
Richard G. Fairbanks
Richard G. Fairbanks Columbia University
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Sidney R. Hemming
Sidney R. Hemming Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Stephen Barker
Stephen Barker Cardiff University
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz Georgia Institute of Technology
Jason H. Curtis
Jason H. Curtis University of Florida

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