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David Williamson 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 David Williamson sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 93 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Williamson 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 David Williamson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David Williamson is affiliated with the World Agroforestry Centre in Kenya. Their research spans several areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, water science and technology, nature and landscape conservation, and global and planetary change.

Williamson's work encompasses multiple specialized topics, including:

  • Environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology
  • Water quality monitoring technologies
  • Fish ecology and management studies
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

The scientist has contributed to several publications in notable venues, such as:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Toxicology Reports
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Oceanography
  • New Phytologist

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Williamson include:

  • "Modeling the GABLS4 Strongly-Stable Boundary Layer With a GCM Turbulence Parameterization: Parametric Sensitivity or Intrinsic Limits?" (2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems)
  • "Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) embryos are highly sensitive to short-term 3,4-dichloroaniline exposure" (2021, Toxicology Reports)
  • "De-Tuning Albedo Parameters in a Coupled Climate Ice Sheet Model to Simulate the North American Ice Sheet at the Last Glacial Maximum" (2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface)
  • "Monitoring Algal Blooms with Complementary Sensors on Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales" (2023, Oceanography)
  • "First archeomagnetic data from Kenya and Chad: Analysis of iron furnaces from Mount Kenya and Guéra Massif" (2020, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors)

Williamson frequently collaborates with other scientists in their field. Notable coauthors include:

  • Bjørn Henrik Hansen
  • Emlyn J. Davies
  • Martin Ludvigsen
  • Bjarne Kvæstad
  • Trond Nordtug

Best Publications

  • Climate variations in Europe over the past 140 kyr deduced from rock magnetism

    Nicolas Thouveny;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Eugène Bonifay;Ken M. Creer

  • Climatic patterns in equatorial and southern Africa from 30,000 to 10,000 years ago reconstructed from terrestrial and near-shore proxy data

    Françoise Gasse;Françoise Chalié;Annie Vincens;Martin A.J. Williams

  • Phytolith indices as proxies of grass subfamilies on East African tropical mountains

    Laurent Bremond;Anne Alexandre;Matthew J. Wooller;Christelle Hély

  • Timing of the Younger Dryas event in East Africa from lake-level changes

    Nell Roberts;Maurice Taieb;Philip Barker;Brahlm Damnati

  • Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

    Rob Marchant;Suzi Richer;Oliver Boles;Claudia Capitani

  • The Ziway–Shala lake basin system, Main Ethiopian Rift: Influence of volcanism, tectonics, and climatic forcing on basin formation and sedimentation

    Caroline Le Turdu;Jean-Jacques Tiercelin;Elisabeth Gibert;Yves Travi

  • Relationship between heavy metals and magnetic properties in a large polluted catchment: The Etang de Berre (south of France)

    V.M. Georgeaud;P. Rochette;J.P. Ambrosi;D. Vandamme

  • Abrupt resumption of the African Monsoon at the Younger Dryas—Holocene climatic transition

    Yannick Garcin;Annie Vincens;David Williamson;Guillaume Buchet

  • Mineral-magnetic proxies of erosion/oxidation cycles in tropical maar-lake sediments (Lake Tritrivakely, Madagascar): paleoenvironmental implications

    D Williamson;A Jelinowska;C Kissel;P Tucholka

  • Pollen-based vegetation changes in southern Tanzania during the last 4200 years: climate change and/or human impact

    Annie Vincens;David Williamson;Florian Thevenon;Maurice Taieb

  • The sensitivity of a Tanzanian crater lake to catastrophic tephra input and four millennia of climate change

    Philip Barker;Richard Telford;Ouassila Merdaci;David Williamson

  • Centennial to millennial changes in maar-lake deposition during the last 45,000 years in tropical Southern Africa (Lake Masoko, Tanzania)

    Yannick Garcin;David Williamson;Maurice Taieb;Annie Vincens

  • The Rungwe Volcanic Province, Tanzania: a volcanological review

    Karen Fontijn;David Williamson;Evelyne Mbede;Gerald G.J. Ernst

  • Combining charcoal and elemental black carbon analysis in sedimentary archives: Implications for past fire regimes, the pyrogenic carbon cycle, and the human–climate interactions

    Florian Thevenon;David Williamson;Edouard Bard;Flavio S. Anselmetti

  • Climatic and volcanic forcing revealed in a 50,000-year diatom record from Lake Massoko, Tanzania

    Philip A. Barker;David Williamson;Françoise Gasse;Elisabeth Gibert

  • A biomass burning record from the West Equatorial Pacific over the last 360 ky: methodological, climatic and anthropic implications

    Florian Thevenon;Edouard Bard;David Williamson;Luc Beaufort

  • A 23,000 yr pollen record from Lake Rukwa (8°S, SW Tanzania): New data on vegetation dynamics and climate in Central Eastern Africa

    Annie Vincens;Guillaume Buchet;David Williamson;Maurice Taieb

  • Wet phases in tropical southern Africa during the last glacial period

    Yannick Garcin;Annie Vincens;David Williamson;Joël Guiot

  • Late‐Quaternary Transgressive and Highstand Deposits of a Deltaic Shelf (Rhône Delta, France)

    B. Gensous;D. Williamson;M. Tesson

  • A 250 ka sedimentary record from a small karstic lake in the Northern Levant (Yammoûneh, Lebanon): Paleoclimatic implications

    A. L. Develle;F. Gasse;L. Vidal;David Williamson

Frequent Co-Authors

Annie Vincens
Annie Vincens Aix-Marseille University
Sylvie Derenne
Sylvie Derenne Université Paris Cité
Nicolas Thouveny
Nicolas Thouveny Aix-Marseille University
Joël Guiot
Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University
Françoise Gasse
Françoise Gasse Aix-Marseille University
Fatima Laggoun-Défarge
Fatima Laggoun-Défarge University of Orléans
Philip A. Barker
Philip A. Barker University of British Columbia
Thomas Wagner
Thomas Wagner Heriot-Watt University
Pierre Giresse
Pierre Giresse University of Perpignan
Raymonde Bonnefille
Raymonde Bonnefille Aix-Marseille University

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