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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 49 3528 3231 1395 1238 178 11626

Duncan A. Young publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Duncan A. Young between 2000 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Duncan A. Young published across 26 years, from 2000 to 2025, averaging 8.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 25 publications in 2016. 27 of the 229 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2000 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 25. Peak 25 publications in 2016. 2000: 2 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 1 publication 2003: 1 publication 2004: 0 publications 2005: 1 publication 2006: 3 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 1 publication 2011: 11 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 14 publications 2015: 7 publications 2016: 25 publications 2017: 9 publications 2018: 17 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 22 publications 2021: 14 publications 2022: 17 publications 2023: 13 publications 2024: 10 publications 2025: 17 publications
2000 2025

229 publications in total across all disciplines

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Duncan A. Young: publications per year, 2000 to 2025
Year Publications
2000 2
2001 1
2002 1
2003 1
2004 0
2005 1
2006 3
2007 7
2008 4
2009 5
2010 1
2011 11
2012 8
2013 10
2014 14
2015 7
2016 25
2017 9
2018 17
2019 9
2020 22
2021 14
2022 17
2023 13
2024 10
2025 17
Total 229
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Duncan A. Young 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 Duncan A. Young 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, 178–187 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: 178 publications — 54th percentile

54% 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
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414 178
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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Duncan A. Young 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 Duncan A. Young 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, 49 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: 49 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% 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
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204 49
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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Overview

Duncan A. Young is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans multiple overlapping domains within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Physics and Astronomy.

The scientist's work primarily involves the following fields of study:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science
  • Physics and Astronomy

Their subfields of expertise include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Ecology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Duncan A. Young's main research topics cover areas such as:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Astro and Planetary Science

Their publication record includes several papers published in notable scientific venues. Recent significant papers include:

  • The Scientific Legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge (2021), Reviews of Geophysics
  • Getz Ice Shelf melt enhanced by freshwater discharge from beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (2020), The Cryosphere
  • Bed topography of Princess Elizabeth Land in East Antarctica (2020), Earth system science data
  • Brine Migration and Impact-Induced Cryovolcanism on Europa (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Multisystem Synthesis of Radar Sounding Observations of the Amundsen Sea Sector From the 2004-2005 Field Season (2021), Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

The most frequent publication venues in which Duncan A. Young has contributed include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Cryosphere
  • Earth system science data
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Space Science Reviews

Frequent coauthors with whom Duncan A. Young has collaborated are:

  • Donald D. Blankenship
  • Jamin S. Greenbaum
  • Dustin M. Schroeder
  • Kirk M. Scanlan
  • Jason L. Roberts

Best Publications

  • Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica

    Peter Fretwell;Hamish D. Pritchard;David G. Vaughan;J. L. Bamber

  • A reconciled estimate of ice-sheet mass balance

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik R. Ivins;A. Geruo;Valentina R. Barletta

  • Radar Sounding Evidence for Buried Glaciers in the Southern Mid-Latitudes of Mars

    John W. Holt;Ali Safaeinili;Jeffrey J. Plaut;James W. Head

  • New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic ice sheet: Subglacial topography beneath Pine Island Glacier

    David G. Vaughan;Hugh F. J. Corr;Fausto Ferraccioli;Nicholas Frearson

  • Ocean access to a cavity beneath Totten Glacier in East Antarctica

    J. S. Greenbaum;Donald D Blankenship;Duncan A Young;Thomas G Richter

  • Evidence for a water system transition beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica.

    Dustin M. Schroeder;Donald D. Blankenship;Duncan A. Young

  • A dynamic early East Antarctic Ice Sheet suggested by ice-covered fjord landscapes

    Duncan A. Young;Andrew P. Wright;Jason L. Roberts;Jason L. Roberts;Roland C. Warner;Roland C. Warner

  • New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Subglacial topography of the Thwaites and Smith glacier catchments

    John W. Holt;Donald D. Blankenship;David L. Morse;Duncan A. Young

  • Radar-based subglacial lake classification in Antarctica

    Sasha P. Carter;Donald D. Blankenship;Matthew E. Peters;Duncan A. Young

  • Along-Track Focusing of Airborne Radar Sounding Data From West Antarctica for Improving Basal Reflection Analysis and Layer Detection

    M.E. Peters;D.D. Blankenship;S.P. Carter;S.D. Kempf

  • The subglacial geology of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

    Alan Robert Alexander Aitken;Duncan Young;Fausto Ferraccioli;Peter Graham Betts

  • Evidence for elevated and spatially variable geothermal flux beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

    Dustin M. Schroeder;Donald D. Blankenship;Duncan A. Young;Enrica Quartini

  • Steep reverse bed slope at the grounding line of the Weddell Sea sector in West Antarctica

    Neil Ross;Robert George Bingham;Hugh F.J. Corr;Fausto Ferraccioli

  • Antarctic regional ice loss rates from GRACE

    Jianli Chen;Clark R Wilson;Byron D Tapley;Donald D Blankenship

  • Evidence of a hydrological connection between the ice divide and ice sheet margin in the Aurora Subglacial Basin, East Antarctica

    A. P. Wright;D. A. Young;J. L. Roberts;J. L. Roberts;D. M. Schroeder

  • The Australo-Antarctic Columbia to Gondwana transition

    A. R.A. Aitken;P. G. Betts;Duncan A Young;Donald D Blankenship

  • The Scientific Legacy of NASA’s Operation IceBridge

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Linette N. Boisvert;Brooke Medley;Alek A. Petty;Alek A. Petty

  • New Magnetic Anomaly Map of the Antarctic

    A. V. Golynsky;F. Ferraccioli;J. K. Hong;D. A. Golynsky

  • Repeated large-scale retreat and advance of Totten Glacier indicated by inland bed erosion

    A. R. A. Aitken;J. L. Roberts;J. L. Roberts;T. D. van Ommen;T. D. van Ommen;D. A. Young

  • New Antarctic Gravity Anomaly Grid for Enhanced Geodetic and Geophysical Studies in Antarctica.

    M. Scheinert;F. Ferraccioli;J. Schwabe;R. Bell

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald D. Blankenship
Donald D. Blankenship The University of Texas at Austin
Jason L. Roberts
Jason L. Roberts Australian Antarctic Division
Martin J. Siegert
Martin J. Siegert University of Exeter
Dustin M. Schroeder
Dustin M. Schroeder Stanford University
Fausto Ferraccioli
Fausto Ferraccioli National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics
Tas D. van Ommen
Tas D. van Ommen Australian Antarctic Division
John W. Holt
John W. Holt University of Arizona
Hugh F. J. Corr
Hugh F. J. Corr British Antarctic Survey
Julian A. Dowdeswell
Julian A. Dowdeswell University of Cambridge
John Paden
John Paden University of Kansas

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