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Eelco J. Rohling

Eelco J. Rohling

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Earth Science
Netherlands
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 94 197 168 7 7 381 33219

Eelco J. Rohling publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Eelco J. Rohling between 1988 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Eelco J. Rohling published across 38 years, from 1988 to 2025, averaging 11.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 28 publications in 2022. 21 of the 437 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1988 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 28. Peak 28 publications in 2022. 1988: 1 publication 1989: 1 publication 1990: 0 publications 1991: 3 publications 1992: 1 publication 1993: 12 publications 1994: 3 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 1 publication 1997: 3 publications 1998: 6 publications 1999: 13 publications 2000: 9 publications 2001: 6 publications 2002: 13 publications 2003: 16 publications 2004: 9 publications 2005: 8 publications 2006: 12 publications 2007: 10 publications 2008: 16 publications 2009: 12 publications 2010: 19 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 25 publications 2013: 19 publications 2014: 17 publications 2015: 13 publications 2016: 15 publications 2017: 18 publications 2018: 19 publications 2019: 27 publications 2020: 14 publications 2021: 23 publications 2022: 28 publications 2023: 12 publications 2024: 15 publications 2025: 6 publications
1988 2025

437 publications in total across all disciplines

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Eelco J. Rohling: publications per year, 1988 to 2025
Year Publications
1988 1
1989 1
1990 0
1991 3
1992 1
1993 12
1994 3
1995 1
1996 1
1997 3
1998 6
1999 13
2000 9
2001 6
2002 13
2003 16
2004 9
2005 8
2006 12
2007 10
2008 16
2009 12
2010 19
2011 11
2012 25
2013 19
2014 17
2015 13
2016 15
2017 18
2018 19
2019 27
2020 14
2021 23
2022 28
2023 12
2024 15
2025 6
Total 437
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Eelco J. Rohling 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 Eelco J. Rohling 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, 378–387 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: 381 publications — 94th percentile

94% 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
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 34 381
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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Eelco J. Rohling 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 Eelco J. Rohling 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, 94 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: 94 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% 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
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 94
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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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2008 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Eelco J. Rohling is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has a research focus within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with over 100 publications in this area. Their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics covered in Rohling's research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Climate variability and models

Several frequent co-authors have contributed significantly alongside Rohling in research publications:

  • Andrew P. Roberts (25 papers)
  • David Heslop (21 papers)
  • Katharine Grant (18 papers)
  • Fabio Florindo (11 papers)
  • Laura Rodríguez-Sanz (11 papers)

The primary venues where Rohling publishes include:

  • Communications Earth & Environment (7 publications)
  • Reviews of Geophysics (6 publications)
  • Nature Geoscience (6 publications)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (6 publications)
  • Quaternary Research (5 publications)

Recent publications by Rohling reflect a focus on paleoclimate and environmental reconstructions:

  • "Sea level and deep-sea temperature reconstructions suggest quasi-stable states and critical transitions over the past 40 million years," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Mineral-enriched biochar delivers enhanced nutrient recovery and carbon dioxide removal," 2022, Communications Earth & Environment

Other significant recent papers associated with Rohling's research area, though authored by collaborators, indicate the interdisciplinary scope of the scientific network:

  • "An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence," 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "The Sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a Changing Climate: Past, Present, and Future," 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Possible obliquity-forced warmth in southern Asia during the last glacial stage," 2020, Science Bulletin

Awards marking the career include being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2017 and election to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Sea-level fluctuations during the last glacial cycle

    M. Siddall;E. J. Rohling;A. Almogi-Labin;Ch. Hemleben

  • Assessing "dangerous climate change": required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature.

    James E. Hansen;Pushker A. Kharecha;Pushker A. Kharecha;Makiko H. Sato;Valerie Masson-Delmotte

  • Centennial-scale climate cooling with a sudden cold event around 8,200 years ago

    Eelco J. Rohling;Heiko Pälike

  • Magnitudes of sea-level lowstands of the past 500,000 years

    E.J. Rohling;M. Fenton;F.J. Jorissen;P. Bertrand

  • Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years

    Eelco Rohling;Gavin L Foster;Katharine Grant;Gianluca Marino

  • Rapid coupling between ice volume and polar temperature over the past 150,000 years

    Katharine Grant;Eelco Rohling;Eelco Rohling;M Bar-Matthews;A Ayalon

  • Escape of methane gas from the seabed along the West Spitsbergen continental margin

    Graham K. Westbrook;Kate E. Thatcher;Eelco J. Rohling;Alexander M. Piotrowski

  • Antarctic temperature and global sea level closely coupled over the past five glacial cycles

    Eelco J. Rohling;K Grant;M Bolshaw;Andrew Roberts

  • Review and new aspects concerning the formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels

    Eelco J. Rohling

  • Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum

    C. Waelbroeck;A. Paul;M. Kucera;A. Rosell-Melé

  • High rates of sea-level rise during the last interglacial period

    Eelco Rohling;Katharine Grant;Ch Hemleben;M. Siddall

  • Mediterranean climate and oceanography, and the periodic development of anoxic events (sapropels)

    E.J. Rohling;E.J. Rohling;G. Marino;K.M. Grant

  • Sea-level variability over five glacial cycles

    K. M. Grant;E. J. Rohling;E. J. Rohling;C. Bronk Ramsey;H. Cheng;H. Cheng

  • Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records

    Miguel A. Martínez-Botí;Gavin L Foster;Tom B. Chalk;Eelco J Rohling

  • Three million years of monsoon variability over the northern Sahara

    J. C. Larrasoaña;A. P. Roberts;E. J. Rohling;M. Winklhofer

  • Holocene atmosphere-ocean interactions: records from Greenland and the Aegean Sea

    E. J. Rohling;P. A. Mayewski;R. H. Abu-Zied;J. S. L. Casford

  • A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth

    Heiko Pälike;Mitchell W. Lyle;Hiroshi Nishi;Isabella Raffi

  • LATE QUATERNARY CHANGES IN MEDITERRANEAN INTERMEDIATE WATER DENSITY AND FORMATION RATE

    Eelco J. Rohling;Winifried W. C. Gieskes

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E.J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H.A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

  • POSTGLACIAL CONNECTION OF THE BLACK SEA TO THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ITS RELATION TO THE TIMING OF SAPROPEL FORMATION

    Gregory F. Lane-Serff;Eelco J. Rohling;Harry L. Bryden;Henry Charnock

  • A New Method for Reconstructing Sea-Level and Deep-Sea-Temperature Variability over the Past 5.3 Million Years

    Eelco Rohling

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew P. Roberts
Andrew P. Roberts Australian National University
Gianluca Marino
Gianluca Marino Universidade de Vigo
Gavin L. Foster
Gavin L. Foster University of Southampton
Frans Jorissen
Frans Jorissen University of Angers
Willem-Jan Zachariasse
Willem-Jan Zachariasse Utrecht University
Jimin Yu
Jimin Yu Australian National University
Heiko Pälike
Heiko Pälike University of Bremen
David Heslop
David Heslop Australian National University
Michal Kucera
Michal Kucera University of Bremen
Derek Vance
Derek Vance ETH Zurich

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