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Earth Science
Netherlands
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
88
Citations
28147
World Ranking
306
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2017 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Best Publications

  • Chronology, causes and progression of the Messinian salinity crisis

    W. Krijgsman;F.J. Hilgen;I. Raffi;F.J. Sierro

  • Synchronizing Rock Clocks of Earth History

    K. F. Kuiper;K. F. Kuiper;A. Deino;F. J. Hilgen;W. Krijgsman

  • The Neogene Period

    F.J. Hilgen;L.J. Lourens;Jan A. van Dam

  • Evaluation of the Plio‐Pleistocene astronomical timescale

    L. J. Lourens;A. Antonarakou;F. J. Hilgen;A. A. M. Van Hoof

  • Astronomical calibration of Gauss to Matuyama sapropels in the Mediterranean and implication for the Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale

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  • Late Neogene chronology: New perspectives in high-resolution stratigraphy

    William A. Berggren;F. J. Hilgen;C. G. Langereis;Dennis V. Kent

  • Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

    Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne;Alan L. Deino;Frederik J. Hilgen;Klaudia F. Kuiper

  • The Messinian Salinity Crisis: Past and future of a great challenge for marine sciences

    Marco Roveri;Rachel Flecker;Wout Krijgsman;Johanna Lofi

  • On The Geologic Time Scale

    Felix M. Gradstein;James G. Ogg;Frits J. Hilgen

  • Extension of the astronomically calibrated (polarity) time scale to the Miocene/Pliocene boundary

    F.J. Hilgen

  • A review of calcareous nannofossil astrobiochronology encompassing the past 25 million years

    Isabella Raffi;Jan Backman;Eliana Fornaciari;Heiko Pälike

  • The Paleogene Period

    Noël Vandenberghe;FJ Hilgen;Robert Speijer

  • Extending the astronomical ( polarity) time scale into the Miocene

    F.J. Hilgen;W. Krijgsman;C.G. Langereis;L.J. Lourens

  • The eastern Mediterranean climate at times of sapropel formation: a review

    E.J. Rohling;F.J. Hilgen

  • Age refinement of the Messinian salinity crisis onset in the Mediterranean

    Vinicio Manzi;Rocco Gennari;Frits Hilgen;Wout Krijgsman

  • Long-period astronomical forcing of mammal turnover

    Jan A. Van Dam;Hayfaa Abdul Aziz;Hayfaa Abdul Aziz;M. A'Ngeles A'Lvarez Sierra;Frederik J. Hilgen

  • Synchronous tropical and polar temperature evolution in the Eocene

    Margot J Cramwinckel;Matthew Huber;Ilja J Kocken;Claudia Agnini

  • Cyclostratigraphy and Astrochronology

    L.A. Hinnov;F.J. Hilgen

  • Astrochronology for the Messinian Sorbas basin (SE Spain) and orbital (precessional) forcing for evaporite cyclicity

    W. Krijgsman;A.R. Fortuin;F.J. Hilgen;F.J. Sierro

  • Evolution of the Late Miocene Mediterranean–Atlantic gateways and their impact on regional and global environmental change

    Rachel Flecker;Wout Krijgsman;Walter Capella;Cesar de Castro Martíns

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