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Frank Wilhelms 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 Frank Wilhelms sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 309 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Frank Wilhelms 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 Frank Wilhelms sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Frank Wilhelms is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research spans several main fields, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these disciplines, they concentrate on subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass cryospheric studies and observations, geology and paleoclimatology research, landslides and related hazards, winter sports injuries and performance, polar research and ecology, climate change and permafrost, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Notable recent papers by Frank Wilhelms include the following:

  • Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska's Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period, 2020, Climate of the Past
  • A first chronology for the East Greenland Ice-core Project (EGRIP) over the Holocene and last glacial termination, 2020, Climate of the Past
  • Cosmogenic radionuclides reveal an extreme solar particle storm near a solar minimum 9125 years BP, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Airborne ultra-wideband radar sounding over the shear margins and along flow lines at the onset region of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, 2022, Earth System Science Data

Frank Wilhelms collaborates frequently with several researchers in their field. Their most frequent co-authors include Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Johannes Freitag, Sepp Kipfstuhl, Seyedhamidreza Mojtabavi, and Anders Svensson.

The scientist's work is published in a range of scientific venues, with multiple publications appearing in the Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Other frequent venues include Nature Communications, Annals of Glaciology, The Cryosphere, and Climate of the Past.

Best Publications

  • High-resolution record of Northern Hemisphere climate extending into the last interglacial period.

    K. K. Andersen;N. Azuma;J.-M. Barnola;M. Bigler

  • Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

    Laurent Augustin;Carlo Barbante;Piers R. F. Barnes;Jean Marc Barnola

  • One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica.

    C. Barbante;J.-M. Barnola;J.-M. Barnola;S. Becagli;J. Beer;J. Beer

  • 9,400 years of cosmic radiation and solar activity from ice cores and tree rings

    Friedhelm Steinhilber;Jose A. Abreu;Jürg Beer;Irene Brunner

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • 8 glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

    E. W. Wolff;Epica Community Members;Hubertus Fischer;Philippe Huybrechts

  • A first chronology for the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) ice core

    S. O. Rasmussen;P. M. Abbott;T. Blunier;A. J. Bourne

  • Where to find 1.5 million yr old ice for the IPICS "Oldest-Ice" ice core

    H. Fischer;J. Severinghaus;E. Brook;E. Wolff;E. Wolff

  • EDML1: a chronology for the EPICA deep ice core from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, over the last 150 000 years

    Urs Ruth;Jean-Marc Barnola;Jurg Beer;Matthias Bigler;Matthias Bigler

  • Accumulation rates in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, as revealed by dielectric-profiling measurements of shallow firn cores

    Hans Oerter;Frank Wilhelms;F. Jung-Rothenhäusler;F. Göktas

  • Amplified melt and flow of the Greenland ice sheet driven by late-summer cyclonic rainfall

    Samuel H. Doyle;Alun Hubbard;Roderik S. W. van de Wal;Jason E. Box;Jason E. Box

  • Little Ice Age clearly recorded in northern Greenland ice cores

    Hubertus Fischer;Martin Werner;D. Wagenbach;M. Schwager

  • Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom

    Joseph R. McConnell;Joseph R. McConnell;Michael Sigl;Gill Plunkett;Andrea Burke

  • The densification of layered polar firn

    Maria Hörhold;Sepp Kipfstuhl;Frank Wilhelms;Johannes Freitag

  • Layer disturbances and the radio-echo free zone in ice sheets

    Reinhard Drews;Olaf Eisen;Olaf Eisen;Ilka Weikusat;Sepp Kipfstuhl

  • Self-regulation of ice flow varies across the ablation area in south-west Greenland

    R. S. W. van de Wal;C. J. P. P. Smeets;W. Boot;M. Stoffelen

  • Spatial and temporal variability of snow accumulation rate on the East Antarctic ice divide between Dome Fuji and EPICA DML

    S. Fujita;Per Holmlund;I. Andersson;Ian Brown

  • Balance velocities and measured properties of the Antarctic ice sheet from a new compilation of gridded data for modelling

    Philippe Huybrechts;Daniel Steinhage;Frank Wilhelms;Jonathan Bamber

  • Direct evidence for continuous radar reflector originating from changes in crystal-orientation fabric

    O. Eisen;I. Hamann;S. Kipfstuhl;D. Steinhage

  • Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period

    Anders Svensson;Dorthe Dahl-Jensen;Jørgen Peder Steffensen;Thomas Blunier

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

  • Balance velocities and measured properties of the Antarctic ice sheet from a new compilation of gridded data for modeling

    Philippe Huybrechts;Daniel Steinhage;Frank Wilhelms

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Oerter
Hans Oerter Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Olaf Eisen
Olaf Eisen University of Bremen
Heinz Miller
Heinz Miller Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jakob Schwander
Jakob Schwander University of Bern
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen University of Copenhagen
Robert Mulvaney
Robert Mulvaney British Antarctic Survey
Sepp Kipfstuhl
Sepp Kipfstuhl Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Hanno Meyer
Hanno Meyer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Hubertus Fischer
Hubertus Fischer University of Bern
Matthias Bigler
Matthias Bigler University of Bern

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