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Curtis Deutsch publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Curtis Deutsch sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 165 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Curtis Deutsch D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Curtis Deutsch sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Curtis Deutsch is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work mainly focuses on oceanography, ecology, and related subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and paleontology.

The primary areas of Curtis Deutsch's research cover marine and coastal ecosystems, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine biology and ecology research, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, physiological and biochemical adaptations, microbial community ecology and physiology, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

Frequently publishing in numerous scientific journals and venues, Curtis Deutsch has been featured repeatedly in:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biogeosciences

Some of the recent notable papers include:

  • Metabolic trait diversity shapes marine biogeography, 2020, Nature
  • Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warming, 2022, Science
  • Climate-driven aerobic habitat loss in the California Current System, 2020, Science Advances
  • Coastal eutrophication drives acidification, oxygen loss, and ecosystem change in a major oceanic upwelling system, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Oxygen supply capacity in animals evolves to meet maximum demand at the current oxygen partial pressure regardless of size or temperature, 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology

Curtis Deutsch frequently collaborates with other researchers including Keisuke Inomura, Hartmut Frenzel, Justin L. Penn, Fayçal Kessouri, and Lionel Renault. These collaborations have produced a significant number of joint publications, reflecting active engagement within their research community.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude.

    Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Raymond B. Huey;Kimberly S. Sheldon

  • Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate

    Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Michelle Tigchelaar;David S. Battisti

  • Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals

    Joshua J. Tewksbury;Raymond B. Huey;Curtis A. Deutsch

  • Why tropical forest lizards are vulnerable to climate warming

    Raymond B. Huey;Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Laurie J. Vitt

  • Spatial coupling of nitrogen inputs and losses in the ocean

    Curtis Deutsch;Jorge L. Sarmiento;Daniel M. Sigman;Nicolas Gruber;Nicolas Gruber

  • Climate change tightens a metabolic constraint on marine habitats

    Curtis Deutsch;Aaron Ferrel;Brad Seibel;Hans Otto Pörtner

  • Denitrification and N2 fixation in the Pacific Ocean

    Curtis Deutsch;Nicolas Gruber;Robert M. Key;Jorge Louis Sarmiento

  • Climate-forced variability of ocean hypoxia.

    Curtis Deutsch;Holger Brix;Taka Ito;Hartmut Frenzel

  • Temperature-dependent hypoxia explains biogeography and severity of end-Permian marine mass extinction.

    Justin L. Penn;Curtis Deutsch;Jonathan L. Payne;Erik A. Sperling

  • New developments in the marine nitrogen cycle.

    Jay A. Brandes;and Allan H. Devol;Curtis Deutsch

  • Ocean nutrient ratios governed by plankton biogeography

    Thomas S. Weber;Curtis Deutsch

  • Global niche of marine anaerobic metabolisms expanded by particle microenvironments

    Daniele Bianchi;Thomas S. Weber;Rainer Kiko;Curtis Deutsch

  • The dual isotopes of deep nitrate as a constraint on the cycle and budget of oceanic fixed nitrogen

    Daniel M. Sigman;Peter J. DiFiore;Mathis P. Hain;Curtis Deutsch

  • Upper ocean O2 trends: 1958–2015

    Takamitsu Ito;Shoshiro Minobe;Matthew C. Long;Curtis Deutsch

  • Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warming

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  • Isotopic constraints on glacial/interglacial changes in the oceanic nitrogen budget

    Curtis Deutsch;Curtis Deutsch;Daniel M. Sigman;Robert C. Thunell;Anna Nele Meckler

  • Metabolic trait diversity shapes marine biogeography.

    Curtis Deutsch;Justin L. Penn;Brad Seibel

  • Finding forced trends in oceanic oxygen

    Matthew C. Long;Curtis Deutsch;Taka Ito

  • The sequestration efficiency of the biological pump

    Tim DeVries;Francois Primeau;Curtis Deutsch

  • Centennial changes in North Pacific anoxia linked to tropical trade winds

    Curtis Deutsch;William Berelson;Robert Thunell;Thomas Weber

  • Nutrient Ratios as a Tracer and Driver of Ocean Biogeochemistry

    Curtis Deutsch;Thomas Weber

Frequent Co-Authors

Lionel Renault
Lionel Renault University of California, Los Angeles
James C. McWilliams
James C. McWilliams University of California, Los Angeles
Joshua J. Tewksbury
Joshua J. Tewksbury University of Colorado Boulder
Raymond B. Huey
Raymond B. Huey University of Washington
Ondřej Prášil
Ondřej Prášil Institute of Microbiology
Daniel M. Sigman
Daniel M. Sigman Princeton University
Matthew C. Long
Matthew C. Long National Center for Atmospheric Research
Brad A. Seibel
Brad A. Seibel University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington

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