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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Physics 82 2825 2684 1388 1292 411 31990

Guenter Ahlers publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Guenter Ahlers between 1961 and 2022, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Guenter Ahlers published across 62 years, from 1961 to 2022, averaging 6.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 18 publications in 1996. 3 of the 419 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1961 to 2022. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 18. Peak 18 publications in 1996. 1961: 1 publication 1962: 0 publications 1963: 1 publication 1964: 5 publications 1965: 0 publications 1966: 4 publications 1967: 3 publications 1968: 2 publications 1969: 5 publications 1970: 2 publications 1971: 4 publications 1972: 6 publications 1973: 6 publications 1974: 6 publications 1975: 7 publications 1976: 1 publication 1977: 1 publication 1978: 5 publications 1979: 1 publication 1980: 5 publications 1981: 7 publications 1982: 6 publications 1983: 5 publications 1984: 6 publications 1985: 9 publications 1986: 6 publications 1987: 7 publications 1988: 9 publications 1989: 1 publication 1990: 4 publications 1991: 15 publications 1992: 10 publications 1993: 8 publications 1994: 6 publications 1995: 9 publications 1996: 18 publications 1997: 6 publications 1998: 13 publications 1999: 6 publications 2000: 13 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 9 publications 2003: 8 publications 2004: 11 publications 2005: 17 publications 2006: 18 publications 2007: 12 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 14 publications 2010: 7 publications 2011: 13 publications 2012: 17 publications 2013: 11 publications 2014: 8 publications 2015: 12 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 3 publications 2018: 1 publication 2019: 4 publications 2020: 4 publications 2021: 1 publication 2022: 2 publications
1961 2022

419 publications in total across all disciplines

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Guenter Ahlers: publications per year, 1961 to 2022
Year Publications
1961 1
1962 0
1963 1
1964 5
1965 0
1966 4
1967 3
1968 2
1969 5
1970 2
1971 4
1972 6
1973 6
1974 6
1975 7
1976 1
1977 1
1978 5
1979 1
1980 5
1981 7
1982 6
1983 5
1984 6
1985 9
1986 6
1987 7
1988 9
1989 1
1990 4
1991 15
1992 10
1993 8
1994 6
1995 9
1996 18
1997 6
1998 13
1999 6
2000 13
2001 4
2002 9
2003 8
2004 11
2005 17
2006 18
2007 12
2008 5
2009 14
2010 7
2011 13
2012 17
2013 11
2014 8
2015 12
2016 9
2017 3
2018 1
2019 4
2020 4
2021 1
2022 2
Total 419
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Guenter Ahlers publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Guenter Ahlers sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 70 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 103–122 to 1,469+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 162. Most scientists, 162, have 323–342 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 403–422 publications, is where this scientist sits. 103–122 publications: 7 scientists 123–142 publications: 10 scientists 143–162 publications: 31 scientists 163–182 publications: 35 scientists 183–202 publications: 53 scientists 203–222 publications: 81 scientists 223–242 publications: 85 scientists 243–262 publications: 112 scientists 263–282 publications: 114 scientists 283–302 publications: 126 scientists 303–322 publications: 136 scientists 323–342 publications: 162 scientists 343–362 publications: 155 scientists 363–382 publications: 156 scientists 383–402 publications: 134 scientists 403–422 publications: 145 scientists 423–442 publications: 147 scientists 443–462 publications: 131 scientists 463–482 publications: 131 scientists 483–502 publications: 116 scientists 503–522 publications: 106 scientists 523–542 publications: 103 scientists 543–562 publications: 87 scientists 563–582 publications: 84 scientists 583–602 publications: 94 scientists 603–622 publications: 70 scientists 623–642 publications: 76 scientists 643–662 publications: 60 scientists 663–682 publications: 54 scientists 683–702 publications: 60 scientists 703–722 publications: 48 scientists 723–742 publications: 64 scientists 743–762 publications: 48 scientists 763–782 publications: 37 scientists 783–802 publications: 43 scientists 803–822 publications: 34 scientists 823–842 publications: 36 scientists 843–862 publications: 32 scientists 863–882 publications: 32 scientists 883–902 publications: 31 scientists 903–922 publications: 25 scientists 923–942 publications: 15 scientists 943–962 publications: 24 scientists 963–982 publications: 13 scientists 983–1,002 publications: 21 scientists 1,003–1,022 publications: 21 scientists 1,023–1,042 publications: 16 scientists 1,043–1,062 publications: 9 scientists 1,063–1,082 publications: 19 scientists 1,083–1,102 publications: 11 scientists 1,103–1,122 publications: 17 scientists 1,123–1,142 publications: 11 scientists 1,143–1,162 publications: 7 scientists 1,163–1,182 publications: 4 scientists 1,183–1,202 publications: 10 scientists 1,203–1,222 publications: 8 scientists 1,223–1,242 publications: 16 scientists 1,243–1,262 publications: 4 scientists 1,263–1,282 publications: 10 scientists 1,283–1,302 publications: 5 scientists 1,303–1,322 publications: 7 scientists 1,323–1,342 publications: 4 scientists 1,343–1,362 publications: 8 scientists 1,363–1,382 publications: 6 scientists 1,383–1,402 publications: 7 scientists 1,403–1,422 publications: 3 scientists 1,423–1,442 publications: 4 scientists 1,443–1,462 publications: 4 scientists 1,463–1,468 publications: 3 scientists 1,469+ publications: 100 scientists
103–122 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 411 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

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Number of Physics scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,678 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
103–122 7
123–142 10
143–162 31
163–182 35
183–202 53
203–222 81
223–242 85
243–262 112
263–282 114
283–302 126
303–322 136
323–342 162
343–362 155
363–382 156
383–402 134
403–422 145 411
423–442 147
443–462 131
463–482 131
483–502 116
503–522 106
523–542 103
543–562 87
563–582 84
583–602 94
603–622 70
623–642 76
643–662 60
663–682 54
683–702 60
703–722 48
723–742 64
743–762 48
763–782 37
783–802 43
803–822 34
823–842 36
843–862 32
863–882 32
883–902 31
903–922 25
923–942 15
943–962 24
963–982 13
983–1,002 21
1,003–1,022 21
1,023–1,042 16
1,043–1,062 9
1,063–1,082 19
1,083–1,102 11
1,103–1,122 17
1,123–1,142 11
1,143–1,162 7
1,163–1,182 4
1,183–1,202 10
1,203–1,222 8
1,223–1,242 16
1,243–1,262 4
1,263–1,282 10
1,283–1,302 5
1,303–1,322 7
1,323–1,342 4
1,343–1,362 8
1,363–1,382 6
1,383–1,402 7
1,403–1,422 3
1,423–1,442 4
1,443–1,462 4
1,463–1,468 3
1,469+ 100
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Guenter Ahlers D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Guenter Ahlers sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 59 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 70–71 to 185+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 167. Most scientists, 167, have 80–81 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 82–83 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 70–71 D-Index: 76 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 110 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 143 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 153 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 144 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 167 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 167 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 166 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 132 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 155 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 134 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 137 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 102 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 112 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 110 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 116 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 97 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 103 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 87 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 90 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 78 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 75 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 67 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 69 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 59 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 53 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 42 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 41 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 33 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 32 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 45 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 19 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 24 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 28 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 31 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 20 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 12 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 24 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 23 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 15 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 15 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 11 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 17 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 12 scientists 166–167 D-Index: 11 scientists 168–169 D-Index: 9 scientists 170–171 D-Index: 9 scientists 172–173 D-Index: 11 scientists 174–175 D-Index: 4 scientists 176–177 D-Index: 8 scientists 178–179 D-Index: 5 scientists 180–181 D-Index: 3 scientists 182–183 D-Index: 4 scientists 184 D-Index: 4 scientists 185+ D-Index: 99 scientists
70–71 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

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Number of Physics scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,678 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
70–71 76
72–73 110
74–75 143
76–77 153
78–79 144
80–81 167
82–83 167 82
84–85 166
86–87 132
88–89 155
90–91 134
92–93 137
94–95 102
96–97 112
98–99 110
100–101 116
102–103 97
104–105 103
106–107 87
108–109 90
110–111 67
112–113 78
114–115 75
116–117 67
118–119 69
120–121 60
122–123 59
124–125 53
126–127 42
128–129 41
130–131 33
132–133 32
134–135 45
136–137 19
138–139 24
140–141 28
142–143 31
144–145 22
146–147 20
148–149 12
150–151 16
152–153 24
154–155 23
156–157 15
158–159 15
160–161 11
162–163 17
164–165 12
166–167 11
168–169 9
170–171 9
172–173 11
174–175 4
176–177 8
178–179 5
180–181 3
182–183 4
184 4
185+ 99
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society (APS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1982 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1978 - Fritz London Memorial Prize, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
  • 1971 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)

Overview

Guenter Ahlers is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily within engineering and environmental science, with a focus on computational mechanics and global and planetary change as notable subfields.

Their scholarly work broadly covers topics including fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, wind and air flow studies, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and combustion and flame dynamics.

Frequent co-authors working alongside Ahlers include Eberhard Bodenschatz, Xiaozhou He, Marcel Wedi, Lukas Zwirner, and Stephan Weiss.

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters.

Recent representative papers are:

  • Aspect Ratio Dependence of Heat Transfer in a Cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard Cell, 2022, Physical Review Letters
  • Universal scaling of temperature variance in Rayleigh-Bénard convection near the transition to the ultimate state, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Boundary Zonal Flow in Rotating Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Aspect ratio dependence of the ultimate-state transition in turbulent thermal convection, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • He et al. Reply:, 2020, Physical Review Letters

Ahlers has received multiple recognitions including the Fluid Dynamics Prize from the American Physical Society in 2007, fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1997. Other notable distinctions include fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1990, membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 1982, the Fritz London Memorial Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics in 1978, and fellowship in the American Physical Society since 1971.

Best Publications

  • Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

    H. Eugene Stanley;Guenter Ahlers

  • Heat transfer and large scale dynamics in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

    Guenter Ahlers;Siegfried Grossmann;Detlef Lohse

  • Recent Developments in Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Eberhard Bodenschatz;Werner Pesch;Guenter Ahlers

  • Spiral defect chaos in large aspect ratio Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

    Stephen W. Morris;Eberhard Bodenschatz;David S. Cannell;Guenter Ahlers

  • Evolution of Turbulence from the Rayleigh-Bénard Instability

    Guenter Ahlers;R. P. Behringer

  • Transition to the Ultimate State of Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Xiaozhou He;Denis Funfschilling;Holger Nobach;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Transitions between patterns in thermal convection.

    E. Bodenschatz;J. R. De Bruyn;J. R. De Bruyn;G. Ahlers;G. Ahlers;D. S. Cannell;D. S. Cannell

  • Reorientation of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection.

    Eric Brown;Alexei Nikolaenko;Guenter Ahlers

  • Localized traveling-wave states in binary-fluid convection.

    Joseph J. Niemela;Guenter Ahlers;David S. Cannell

  • Rotations and cessations of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection

    Eric Brown;Guenter Ahlers

  • Low-Temperature Studies of the Rayieigh-Bénard Instability and Turbulence

    Guenter Ahlers

  • Apparatus for the study of Rayleigh–Bénard convection in gases under pressure

    John R. de Bruyn;Eberhard Bodenschatz;Stephen W. Morris;Steven P. Trainoff

  • Plume motion and large-scale circulation in a cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard cell.

    Denis Funfschilling;Guenter Ahlers

  • Heat transport by turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection in cylindrical cells with aspect ratio one and less

    Alexei Nikolaenko;Eric Brown;Denis Funfschilling;Guenter Ahlers

  • Non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq effects in strongly turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

    Guenter Ahlers;Eric Brown;Francisco Fontenele Araujo;Denis Funfschilling

  • Prandtl-, Rayleigh-, and Rossby-number dependence of heat transport in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

    Jin-Qiang Zhong;Richard J. A. M. Stevens;Herman J. H. Clercx;Herman J. H. Clercx;Roberto Verzicco

  • Traveling waves and spatial variation in the convection of a binary mixture

    Richard Heinrichs;Guenter Ahlers;David S. Cannell

  • Prandtl-Number Dependence of Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Guenter Ahlers;Xiaochao Xu

  • The amplitude equation near the convective threshold: application to time-dependent heating experiments

    Guenter Ahlers;M. C. Cross;P. C. Hohenberg;S. Safran

  • Thermally Induced Fluctuations below the Onset of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

    Mingming Wu;Guenter Ahlers;David S. Cannell

Frequent Co-Authors

Eberhard Bodenschatz
Eberhard Bodenschatz Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
David S. Cannell
David S. Cannell University of California, Santa Barbara
Detlef Lohse
Detlef Lohse University of Twente
Robert E. Ecke
Robert E. Ecke Los Alamos National Laboratory
Siegfried Grossmann
Siegfried Grossmann Philipp University of Marburg
Chao Sun
Chao Sun Tsinghua University
Richard J. A. M. Stevens
Richard J. A. M. Stevens University of Twente
Victor Steinberg
Victor Steinberg Weizmann Institute of Science
Robert Behringer
Robert Behringer Duke University
Roberto Verzicco
Roberto Verzicco University of Rome Tor Vergata

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