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Erwin Appel 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 Erwin Appel sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 276 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Erwin Appel 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 Erwin Appel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Erwin Appel is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 61 publications in this field. Within this broad domain, Appel's work frequently intersects with several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Molecular Biology, Geology, and Paleontology.

The scientist's main research topics cover a variety of aspects related to the Earth's geological and climatic history. These topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological formations and processes

During their career, Erwin Appel has published several scientific papers with notable contributions including:

  • "Past, present, and future geo-biosphere interactions on the Tibetan Plateau and implications for permafrost" (2022) published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "First Paleomagnetic Result From the Early Permian Volcanic Rocks in Northeastern Mongolia: Evolutional Implication for the Paleo-Asian Ocean and the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean" (2020) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Palaeomagnetic indication for India-Asia collision at 12°N and maximum 810 km Greater India extent in the western suture zone" (2021) published in Geophysical Journal International
  • "Climate transition in the Asia inland at 0.8-0.6 Ma related to astronomically forced ice sheet expansion" (2020) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Reversible Thermal Hysteresis in Heating-Cooling Cycles of Magnetic Susceptibility: A Fine Particle Effect of Magnetite" (2023) published in Geophysical Research Letters

Appel works in collaboration with other researchers frequently. The most common coauthors include:

  • Xiaomin Fang (10 collaborative works)
  • Wolfgang Rösler (7 collaborative works)
  • Andreas Koutsodendris (7 collaborative works)
  • Jörg Pross (7 collaborative works)
  • Qi Zhang (5 collaborative works)

Erwin Appel's research has appeared in various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth (5 publications)
  • Geophysical Journal International (3 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (2 publications)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University) (2 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Timing of India‐Asia collision: Geological, biostratigraphic, and palaeomagnetic constraints

    Yani Najman;Erwin Appel;Marcelle Boudagher-Fadel;Paul Bown

  • Magnetic susceptibility mapping of roadside pollution

    V. Hoffmann;M. Knab;E. Appel

  • Redox cycling of Fe(II) and Fe(III) in magnetite by Fe-metabolizing bacteria.

    James M. Byrne;Nicole Klueglein;Carolyn Pearce;Carolyn Pearce;Kevin M. Rosso

  • Palaeomagnetism of Cretaceous to Tertiary sediments from southern Tibet: evidence for the extent of the northern margin of India prior to the collision with Eurasia

    A. Patzelt;Huamei Li;Junda Wang;E. Appel

  • Magnetic susceptibility of dust-loaded leaves as a proxy of traffic-related heavy metal pollution in Kathmandu city, Nepal

    Pitambar Gautam;Ulrich Blaha;Erwin Appel

  • Pliocene-Pleistocene stepwise drying of Central Asia: Evidence from paleomagnetism and sporopollen record of the deep borehole SG-3 in the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau

    Maotang Cai;Xiaomin Fang;Fuli Wu;Yunfa Miao

  • Magnetic screening of a pollution hotspot in the Lausitz area, Eastern Germany: correlation analysis between magnetic proxies and heavy metal contamination in soils

    C. Spiteri;V. Kalinski;W. Rösler;V. Hoffmann

  • Discriminating sources of anthropogenic heavy metals in urban street dusts using magnetic and chemical methods

    Chunxia Zhang;Qingqing Qiao;Erwin Appel;Baochun Huang

  • Magnetic properties of road dust from Visakhapatnam (India)––relationship to industrial pollution and road traffic

    Srinivasa Rao Goddu;Erwin Appel;Diana Jordanova;Diana Jordanova;Florian Wehland

  • Position of the Lhasa terrane prior to India–Asia collision derived from palaeomagnetic inclinations of 53 Ma old dykes of the Linzhou Basin: constraints on the age of collision and post-collisional shortening within the Tibetan Plateau

    Ursina Liebke;Erwin Appel;Lin Ding;Udo Neumann

  • Micro-scale grain-size analysis and magnetic properties of coal-fired power plant fly ash and its relevance for environmental magnetic pollution studies

    U. Blaha;B. Sapkota;E. Appel;H. Stanjek

  • Cenozoic magnetostratigraphy of the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, and its constraints on paleontological, sedimentological and tectonomorphological evolution

    Xiaomin Fang;Yahui Fang;Jinbo Zan;Weilin Zhang

  • Environmental magnetic approach towards the quantification of pollution in Kathmandu urban area, Nepal

    Pitambar Gautam;Pitambar Gautam;Ulrich Blaha;Erwin Appel;Ghanashyam Neupane

  • Magnetostratigraphy of deep drilling core SG-1 in the western Qaidam Basin (NE Tibetan Plateau) and its tectonic implications

    Weilin Zhang;Weilin Zhang;Erwin Appel;Xiaomin Fang;Chunhui Song

  • Initial India-Asia Continental Collision and Foreland Basin Evolution in the Tethyan Himalaya of Tibet: Evidence from Stratigraphy and Paleontology

    Qinghai Zhang;Helmut Willems;Lin Ding;Kai-Uwe Gräfe

  • Magnetostratigraphy of the Miocene-Pleistocene Surai Khola Siwaliks in West Nepal

    E. Appel;W. Rösler;G. Corvinus

  • Determination of anthropogenic boundary depth in industrially polluted soil and semi-quantification of heavy metal loads using magnetic susceptibility.

    U. Blaha;E. Appel;H. Stanjek

  • Dependence of microbial magnetite formation on humic substance and ferrihydrite concentrations

    Annette Piepenbrock;Urs Dippon;Katharina Porsch;Erwin Appel

  • Tectonosedimentary evolution model of an intracontinental flexural (foreland) basin for paleoclimatic research

    Xiaomin Fang;Xiaomin Fang;Jiuyi Wang;Weilin Zhang;Jinbo Zan

  • Cenozoic tectonic deformation and uplift of the South Tian Shan: Implications from magnetostratigraphy and balanced cross-section restoration of the Kuqa depression

    Tao Zhang;Xiaomin Fang;Xiaomin Fang;Chunhui Song;Erwin Appel

  • Late Neogene magnetostratigraphy in the western Qaidam Basin (NE Tibetan Plateau) and its constraints on active tectonic uplift and progressive evolution of growth strata

    Weilin Zhang;Weilin Zhang;Xiaomin Fang;Chunhui Song;Erwin Appel

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaomin Fang
Xiaomin Fang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lin Ding
Lin Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jörg Pross
Jörg Pross Heidelberg University
István Dunkl
István Dunkl University of Göttingen
Andreas Kappler
Andreas Kappler University of Tübingen
Silke Voigt
Silke Voigt Goethe University Frankfurt
Peter Dietrich
Peter Dietrich University of Tübingen
Chunhui Song
Chunhui Song Lanzhou University
Chiara Montomoli
Chiara Montomoli University of Turin
Richard Gloaguen
Richard Gloaguen Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

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