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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 42 5240 4841 9 9 123 6880

Claudio Latorre publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Claudio Latorre between 1997 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Claudio Latorre published across 29 years, from 1997 to 2025, averaging 6 papers a year. Output peaked at 18 publications in 2017. 20 of the 175 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1997 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 18. Peak 18 publications in 2017. 1997: 2 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 1 publication 2000: 1 publication 2001: 0 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 1 publication 2005: 3 publications 2006: 1 publication 2007: 5 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 1 publication 2011: 6 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 1 publication 2014: 3 publications 2015: 7 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 18 publications 2018: 17 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 9 publications 2021: 17 publications 2022: 7 publications 2023: 16 publications 2024: 12 publications 2025: 8 publications
1997 2025

175 publications in total across all disciplines

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Claudio Latorre: publications per year, 1997 to 2025
Year Publications
1997 2
1998 1
1999 1
2000 1
2001 0
2002 2
2003 1
2004 1
2005 3
2006 1
2007 5
2008 5
2009 4
2010 1
2011 6
2012 8
2013 1
2014 3
2015 7
2016 9
2017 18
2018 17
2019 9
2020 9
2021 17
2022 7
2023 16
2024 12
2025 8
Total 175
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Claudio Latorre 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 Claudio Latorre sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 118–127 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 123 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540 123
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Claudio Latorre 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 Claudio Latorre sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 42 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277 42
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Chile Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Chile Leader Award

Overview

Claudio Latorre is affiliated with the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Their research spans multiple fields with a strong focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

The primary subfields of study in Claudio Latorre's work include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology, Anthropology, and Molecular Biology. Their main research topics encompass Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Plant ecological genomics at the limits of life in the Atacama Desert (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • 'White gold' guano fertilizer drove agricultural intensification in the Atacama Desert from ad 1000 (2021, Nature Plants)
  • Predictive metabolomics of multiple Atacama plant species unveils a core set of generic metabolites for extreme climate resilience (2022, New Phytologist)
  • High- and low-latitude forcings drive Atacama Desert rainfall variations over the past 16,000 years (2021, Science Advances)
  • Ecology of the collapse of Rapa Nui society (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)

Frequent collaborators in Claudio Latorre's work include Calógero M. Santoro, Eugenia M. Gayó, Francisca P. Díaz, Rodrigo A. Gutieݩrrez, and Matías Frugone-Álvarez.

Their research has been published predominantly in venues such as Plant Systematics and Evolution, Quaternary Science Reviews, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, Global and Planetary Change, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

    Connor Nolan;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Judy R.M. Allen;Patricia M. Anderson

  • A 22,000-Year Record of Monsoonal Precipitation from Northern Chile's Atacama Desert.

    J.L. Betancourt;C. Latorre;J.A. Rech;Jay Quade

  • The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource

    John W. Williams;Eric C. Grimm;Jessica L. Blois;Donald F. Charles

  • The expansion of C4 grasses and global change in the late Miocene: Stable isotope evidence from the Americas

    Claudio Latorre;Jay Quade;William C. McIntosh

  • Vegetation invasions into absolute desert: A 45;th000 yr rodent midden record from the Calama–Salar de Atacama basins, northern Chile (lat 22°–24°S)

    Claudio Latorre;Julio L. Betancourt;Kate A. Rylander;Jay Quade

  • Paleowetlands and regional climate change in the central Atacama Desert, northern Chile

    Jay Quade;Jason A. Rech;Julio L. Betancourt;Claudio Latorre

  • A vegetation history from the arid prepuna of northern Chile (22^23‡S) over the last 13 500 years

    Claudio Latorre;Julio L Betancourt;Kate A Rylander;Jay Quade

  • Late Quaternary hydrological and ecological changes in the hyperarid core of the northern Atacama Desert (~ 21°S)

    Eugenia M. Gayo;Claudio Latorre;Teresa E. Jordan;Peter L. Nester

  • Late Quaternary vegetation and climate history of a perennial river canyon in the Río Salado basin (22°S) of Northern Chile

    Claudio Latorre;Claudio Latorre;Julio L. Betancourt;Mary T.K. Arroyo

  • Perennial stream discharge in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of northern Chile during the latest Pleistocene

    Peter L. Nester;Eugenia Gayó;Claudio Latorre;Teresa E. Jordan

  • Late Pleistocene human occupation of the hyperarid core in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile

    Claudio Latorre;Calogero M. Santoro;Paula C. Ugalde;Eugenia M. Gayo

  • Pollen analyses from a 50 000-yr rodent midden series in the southern Atacama Desert (25° 30′ S)

    Antonio Maldonado;Julio L. Betancourt;Claudio Latorre;Carolina Villagran

  • Soils at the hyperarid margin: The isotopic composition of soil carbonate from the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile

    Jay Quade;Jason A. Rech;Claudio Latorre;Claudio Latorre;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Climate in the dry central andes over geologic, millennial, and interannual timescales

    Christa Placzek;Jay Quade;Julio L. Betancourt;P. Jonathan Patchett

  • Emergence of social complexity among coastal hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

    Pablo A. Marquet;Pablo A. Marquet;Calogero M. Santoro;Claudio Latorre;Vivien G. Standen

  • The structure and rate of late Miocene expansion of C4 plants: Evidence from lateral variation in stable isotopes in paleosols of the Siwalik Group, northern Pakistan

    Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Jay Quade;Thure E. Cerling;John W Kappelman

  • Global patterns and environmental controls of perchlorate and nitrate co-occurrence in arid and semi-arid environments

    W Andrew Jackson;John K. Böhlke;Brian J. Andraski;Lynne S. Fahlquist

  • Continuities and discontinuities in the socio-environmental systems of the Atacama Desert during the last 13,000 years

    Calogero M. Santoro;José M. Capriles;Eugenia M. Gayo;María Eugenia de Porras

  • Hydroclimate variability in the low-elevation Atacama Desert over the last 2500 yr

    E. M. Gayo;C. Latorre;C. M. Santoro;A. Maldonado

  • THE IMPACT OF ENSO IN THE ATACAMA DESERT AND AUSTRALIAN ARID ZONE: EXPLORATORY TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS

    Alan Williams;Calogero M Santoro;Michael A Smith;Claudio Latorre

Frequent Co-Authors

Julio L. Betancourt
Julio L. Betancourt United States Geological Survey
Jay Quade
Jay Quade University of Arizona
Ricardo De Pol-Holz
Ricardo De Pol-Holz University of Magallanes
Rodrigo A. Gutiérrez
Rodrigo A. Gutiérrez Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Pablo A. Marquet
Pablo A. Marquet Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Blas L. Valero-Garcés
Blas L. Valero-Garcés Spanish National Research Council
Santiago Giralt
Santiago Giralt Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN - CSIC)
Janet M. Wilmshurst
Janet M. Wilmshurst Landcare Research
Mauricio Lima
Mauricio Lima Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Marcus A. Koch
Marcus A. Koch Heidelberg University

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