2026 Daniel P. Schrag: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	90	262	222	143	119	251	32216

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2001 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2001 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2000 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Daniel P. Schrag is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Ecology, and Geophysics.

The scientist's work spans a variety of main topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Daniel P. Schrag has contributed to scientific literature with publications in prominent venues. They have published two papers in Science, two papers in Geophysical Monograph series, as well as contributions to Earth-Science Reviews, Joule, and Precambrian Research.

Energy transition needs new materials (2024), Science
Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia) (2021), Earth-Science Reviews
Carbon abatement costs of green hydrogen across end-use sectors (2024), Joule
Effect of dolomitization on isotopic records from Neoproterozoic carbonates in southwestern Mongolia (2020), Precambrian Research
The role of authigenic carbonate in Neoproterozoic carbon isotope excursions (2020), Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent collaborators with Daniel P. Schrag include Henry Lee, Francis A. Macdonald, Thomas A. Laakso, Peter U. Clark, and Jeremy D. Shakun, indicating a sustained collaborative network across related research fields.

The scientist's published work also includes a book titled Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China, released in 2021 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

A Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

Paul F. Hoffman;Alan J. Kaufman;Galen P. Halverson;Daniel P. Schrag

3230
Citations
The snowball Earth hypothesis: testing the limits of global change

Paul F. Hoffman;Daniel P. Schrag

1892
Citations
Toward a Neoproterozoic composite carbon-isotope record

Galen P. Halverson;Paul F. Hoffman;Daniel P. Schrag;Adam C. Maloof

1045
Citations
13 C- 18 O bonds in carbonate minerals: A new kind of paleothermometer

Prosenjit Ghosh;Jess Adkins;Hagit Affek;Brian Balta

1016
Citations
Large Perturbations of the Carbon Cycle During Recovery from the End-Permian Extinction

Jonathan L. Payne;Daniel J. Lehrmann;Jiayong Wei;Michael J. Orchard

968
Citations
The Salinity, Temperature, and δ18O of the Glacial Deep Ocean

Jess F. Adkins;Katherine McIntyre;Daniel P. Schrag

889
Citations
Heterotrophic Archaea dominate sedimentary subsurface ecosystems off Peru

Jennifer F. Biddle;Julius S. Lipp;Mark A. Lever;Karen G. Lloyd

842
Citations
Defining an absolute reference frame for 'clumped' isotope studies of CO 2

Kate J. Dennis;Hagit P. Affek;Benjamin H. Passey;Daniel P. Schrag

694
Citations
Calibrating the Cryogenian.

Francis Alexander Macdonald;Mark D. Schmitz;James L. Crowley;Charles F. Roots

663
Citations
Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change

Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Shaun A. Marcott;Alan C. Mix

604
Citations
New views of tropical paleoclimates from corals

M.K. Gagan;L.K. Ayliffe;J.W. Beck;J.E. Cole

586
Citations
Authigenic Carbonate and the History of the Global Carbon Cycle

Daniel P. Schrag;John A. Higgins;Francis Alexander Macdonald;David T Johnston

557
Citations
Permanent carbon dioxide storage in deep-sea sediments

Kurt Zenz House;Daniel P. Schrag;Charles F. Harvey;Klaus S. Lackner

553
Citations
Pore fluid constraints on the temperature and oxygen isotopic composition of the glacial ocean

Daniel P. Schrag;Gretchen Hampt;David W. Murray

536
Citations
Preparing to Capture Carbon

Daniel P. Schrag

516
Citations
The oxygen isotopic composition of seawater during the Last Glacial Maximum

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

440
Citations
Rapid analysis of high‐precision Sr/Ca ratios in corals and other marine carbonates

Daniel P. Schrag

429
Citations
On the initiation of a snowball Earth

Daniel P. Schrag;Robert A. Berner;Paul F. Hoffman;Galen P. Halverson

400
Citations
Reconstructing past sea surface temperatures: Correcting for diagenesis of bulk marine carbonate

Daniel P. Schrag;Daniel P. Schrag;Donald J. DePaolo;Donald J. DePaolo;Frank M. Richter

392
Citations
Clumped isotope thermometry of carbonatites as an indicator of diagenetic alteration

Kate J. Dennis;Daniel P. Schrag

382
Citations
Decadal Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Subtropical South Pacific from 1726 to 1997 A.D.

Braddock K. Linsley;Gerard M. Wellington;Daniel P. Schrag

377
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandra V. Turchyn University of Cambridge

Francis A. Macdonald University of California, Santa Barbara

Paul F. Hoffman University of Edinburgh

John A. Higgins Princeton University

Galen P. Halverson McGill University

Donald J. DePaolo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jess F. Adkins California Institute of Technology

Braddock K. Linsley Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Andrew H. Knoll Harvard University

Itay Halevy Weizmann Institute of Science

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