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Douglas E. LaRowe 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 Douglas E. LaRowe sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 84 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Douglas E. LaRowe 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 Douglas E. LaRowe sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Douglas E. LaRowe is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily covers areas within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Environmental Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology, Oceanography, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work explores several main topics including Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Planetary Science and Exploration.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with LaRowe include Jan P. Amend, James A. Bradley, Heidi S. Aronson, Sandra Arndt, and Jennifer L. Macalady. Their research has been published notably in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Microbiology, Astrobiology, Icarus, and Earth-Science Reviews.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Douglas E. LaRowe include:

  • The fate of organic carbon in marine sediments - New insights from recent data and analysis (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Trace gas oxidizers are widespread and active members of soil microbial communities (2021, Nature Microbiology)
  • Widespread energy limitation to life in global subseafloor sediments (2020, Science Advances)
  • Organic carbon and microbial activity in marine sediments on a global scale throughout the Quaternary (2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)
  • Transfer efficiency of organic carbon in marine sediments (2022, Nature Communications)

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

    Pierre Regnier;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais;Fred T. Mackenzie

  • Quantifying the degradation of organic matter in marine sediments: A review and synthesis

    Sandra Arndt;Sandra Arndt;Bo Barker Jørgensen;Douglas E. LaRowe;Jack Middelburg

  • Degradation of natural organic matter: a thermodynamic analysis

    Douglas E. LaRowe;Douglas E. LaRowe;Philippe Van Cappellen;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • The fate of organic carbon in marine sediments - New insights from recent data and analysis

    D.E. LaRowe;S. Arndt;J.A. Bradley;E.R. Estes

  • Quantitative analysis of anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) in marine sediments: A modeling perspective

    P. Regnier;P. Regnier;Andy W. Dale;S. Arndt;D. E. LaRowe;D. E. LaRowe

  • Trace gas oxidizers are widespread and active members of soil microbial communities.

    Sean K. Bay;Xiyang Dong;James A. Bradley;Pok Man Leung

  • The relative abundances of resolved l2 CH 2 D 2 and 13 CH 3 D and mechanisms controlling isotopic bond ordering in abiotic and biotic methane gases

    E. D. Young;I. E. Kohl;B. Sherwood Lollar;G. Etiope;G. Etiope

  • Chemolithotrophy in the continental deep subsurface: Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), USA.

    Magdalena R. Osburn;Magdalena R. Osburn;Douglas E. LaRowe;Lily M. Momper;Jan P. Amend

  • Thallium isotope evidence for a permanent increase in marine organic carbon export in the early Eocene

    Sune G. Nielsen;Sarah Mar-Gerrison;Abdelmouhcine Gannoun;Doug LaRowe

  • The energetics of organic synthesis inside and outside the cell

    Jan P. Amend;Douglas E. LaRowe;Thomas M. McCollom;Everett L. Shock

  • Microbial activity in the marine deep biosphere: progress and prospects

    Beth N. Orcutt;Douglas E. LaRowe;Jennifer F. Biddle;Frederick S. Colwell

  • Widespread energy limitation to life in global subseafloor sediments.

    J. A. Bradley;S. Arndt;J. P. Amend;E. Burwicz

  • Thermal and geochemical influences on microbial biogeography in the hydrothermal sediments of Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California.

    Luke McKay;Luke McKay;Vincent W. Klokman;Vincent W. Klokman;Howard P. Mendlovitz;Douglas E. LaRowe

  • Thermodynamic limitations on microbially catalyzed reaction rates

    Douglas E. LaRowe;Andrew W. Dale;Jan P. Amend;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Power limits for microbial life.

    Douglas E. LaRowe;Jan P. Amend

  • Biosphere frontiers of subsurface life in the sedimented hydrothermal system of Guaymas Basin

    Andreas Teske;Amy V. Callaghan;Douglas E. LaRowe

  • Methane sources and sinks in continental sedimentary systems: New insights from paired clumped isotopologues 13CH3D and 12CH2D2

    Thomas Giunta;Edward D. Young;Oliver Warr;Issaku Kohl

  • Thermodynamic potential for the abiotic synthesis of adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, uracil, ribose, and deoxyribose in hydrothermal systems.

    Douglas E. LaRowe;Pierre Regnier

  • Catabolic rates, population sizes and doubling/replacement times of microorganisms in natural settings

    Douglas E. LaRowe;Jan P. Amend

  • Temperature, pressure, and electrochemical constraints on protein speciation: Group additivity calculation of the standard molal thermodynamic properties of ionized unfolded proteins

    J. M. Dick;D. E. LaRowe;H. C. Helgeson

  • Biomolecules in hydrothermal systems: Calculation of the standard molal thermodynamic properties of nucleic-acid bases, nucleosides, and nucleotides at elevated temperatures and pressures

    Douglas E. LaRowe;Harold C. Helgeson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan P. Amend
Jan P. Amend University of Southern California
Sandra Arndt
Sandra Arndt Université Libre de Bruxelles
Andrew W. Dale
Andrew W. Dale GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Pierre Regnier
Pierre Regnier Université Libre de Bruxelles
Sune G. Nielsen
Sune G. Nielsen Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
David A. Fike
David A. Fike Washington University in St. Louis
Philippe Van Cappellen
Philippe Van Cappellen University of Waterloo
Harold C. Helgeson
Harold C. Helgeson University of California, Berkeley
Christoph Heinze
Christoph Heinze University of Bergen
Alain F. Plante
Alain F. Plante University of Pennsylvania

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