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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 86 362 310 9 9 399 24675

Henk Brinkhuis publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Henk Brinkhuis between 1986 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Henk Brinkhuis published across 40 years, from 1986 to 2025, averaging 14 papers a year. Output peaked at 143 publications in 2023. 18 of the 559 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
25 50 75 100 125
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1986 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 143. Peak 143 publications in 2023. 1986: 1 publication 1987: 1 publication 1988: 2 publications 1989: 0 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 1 publication 1993: 1 publication 1994: 2 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 4 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 2 publications 1999: 3 publications 2000: 5 publications 2001: 17 publications 2002: 10 publications 2003: 23 publications 2004: 25 publications 2005: 25 publications 2006: 28 publications 2007: 11 publications 2008: 20 publications 2009: 26 publications 2010: 27 publications 2011: 16 publications 2012: 28 publications 2013: 45 publications 2014: 28 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 7 publications 2019: 3 publications 2020: 4 publications 2021: 3 publications 2022: 2 publications 2023: 143 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 12 publications
1986 2025

559 publications in total across all disciplines

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Henk Brinkhuis: publications per year, 1986 to 2025
Year Publications
1986 1
1987 1
1988 2
1989 0
1990 0
1991 1
1992 1
1993 1
1994 2
1995 1
1996 4
1997 1
1998 2
1999 3
2000 5
2001 17
2002 10
2003 23
2004 25
2005 25
2006 28
2007 11
2008 20
2009 26
2010 27
2011 16
2012 28
2013 45
2014 28
2015 11
2016 8
2017 6
2018 7
2019 3
2020 4
2021 3
2022 2
2023 143
2024 6
2025 12
Total 559
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Henk Brinkhuis 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 Henk Brinkhuis 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, 398–407 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: 399 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
388–397 50
398–407 44 399
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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Henk Brinkhuis 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 Henk Brinkhuis 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, 86 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: 86 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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 86
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
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
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2016 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Henk Brinkhuis is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research spans a range of topics related to Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular focus on Environmental Science and its subfields. Brinkhuis's work covers Environmental Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Geological Modeling and Analysis
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include Joost Frieling, Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian, Reed P. Scherer, Dustin T. Harper, and Christian Berndt.

Brinkhuis has contributed publications to several venues, often disseminating research through components of open and environmental sciences. Notable publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Micropalaeontology
  • Climate of the Past
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Newsletters on Stratigraphy

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Brinkhuis include the following:

  • Shallow-water hydrothermal venting linked to the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • Late Eocene-early Miocene evolution of the southern Australian subtropical front: a marine palynological approach, 2021, Journal of Micropalaeontology
  • A Warm, Stratified, and Restricted Labrador Sea Across the Middle Eocene and Its Climatic Optimum, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Temperate Oligocene surface ocean conditions offshore of Cape Adare, Ross Sea, Antarctica, 2021, Climate of the Past
  • Deoxygenation and organic carbon sequestration in the Tethyan realm associated with the middle Eocene climatic optimum, 2022, Geological Society of America Bulletin

In 2016, Brinkhuis was recognized by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Appy Sluijs;Stefan Schouten;Mark Pagani;Martijn Woltering

  • Global cooling during the eocene-oligocene climate transition.

    Zhonghui Liu;Zhonghui Liu;Mark Pagani;David Zinniker;Robert DeConto

  • The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean.

    Kathryn Moran;Jan Backman;Henk Brinkhuis;Steven C. Clemens

  • A Paleolatitude Calculator for Paleoclimate Studies

    Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Lennart V. de Groot;Sebastiaan J. van Schaik;Wim Spakman

  • Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Mark Pagani;Nikolai Pedentchouk;Matthew Huber;Appy Sluijs

  • From greenhouse to icehouse; organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts as paleoenvironmental indicators in the Paleogene

    Appy Sluijs;Jörg Pross;Jörg Pross;Jörg Pross;Henk Brinkhuis

  • Extreme warming of mid-latitude coastal ocean during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Inferences from TEX86 and isotope data

    J.C. Zachos;S. Schouten;S. Bohaty;T. Quattlebaum

  • Episodic fresh surface waters in the Eocene Arctic Ocean

    Henk Brinkhuis;Stefan Schouten;Margaret E Collinson;Appy Sluijs

  • Early Palaeogene temperature evolution of the southwest Pacific Ocean

    Peter K. Bijl;Stefan Schouten;Appy Sluijs;Gert-Jan Reichart

  • Southern Ocean and Global Dinoflagellate Cyst Events Compared: Index Events for the Late Cretaceous–Neogene

    G.L. Williams;H. Brinkhuis;M.A. Pearce;R.A. Fensome

  • Environmental precursors to rapid light carbon injection at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary

    Appy Sluijs;Henk Brinkhuis;Stefan Schouten;Steven M. Bohaty

  • Late Eocene to Early Oligocene dinoflagellate cysts from the Priabonian type-area (Northeast Italy): biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental interpretation

    Henk Brinkhuis

  • Global dinoflagellate event associated with the late Paleocene thermal maximum

    Erica M. Crouch;Claus Heilmann-Clausen;Henk Brinkhuis;Hugh E.G. Morgans

  • Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch

    Jörg Pross;Lineth Contreras;Peter K. Bijl;David R. Greenwood

  • Dinoflagellate cysts, sea level changes and planktonic foraminifers across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary at El Haria, northwest Tunisia

    H. Brinkhuis;W.J. Zachariasse

  • Dynamic behaviour of the East Antarctic ice sheet during Pliocene warmth

    Carys P. Cook;Tina van de Flierdt;Trevor Williams;Sidney R. Hemming;Sidney R. Hemming

  • Timing and nature of the deepening of the Tasmanian Gateway

    Catherine E. Stickley;Henk Brinkhuis;Stephen A. Schellenberg;Appy Sluijs

  • The early Miocene onset of a ventilated circulation regime in the Arctic Ocean

    Martin Jakobsson;Jan Backman;Bert Rudels;Jonas Nycander

  • Eocene circulation of the Southern Ocean: Was Antarctica kept warm by subtropical waters?

    Matthew Huber;Henk Brinkhuis;Catherine E. Stickley;Kristofer Döös

  • Late Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous palaeoclimatic evolution of the southern North Sea

    Oscar Abbink;Jordi Targarona;Henk Brinkhuis;Henk Visscher

  • The terminal Paleozoic fungal event: evidence of terrestrial ecosystem destabilization and collapse.

    Henk Visscher;Henk Brinkhuis;David L. Dilcher;William C. Elsik

  • Eocene cooling linked to early flow across the Tasmanian Gateway

    Peter K. Bijl;James A. P. Bendle;Steven M. Bohaty;Jörg Pross

Frequent Co-Authors

Appy Sluijs
Appy Sluijs Utrecht University
Peter K Bijl
Peter K Bijl Utrecht University
Francesca Sangiorgi
Francesca Sangiorgi Utrecht University
Jörg Pross
Jörg Pross Heidelberg University
Steven M Bohaty
Steven M Bohaty University of Southampton
Gert-Jan Reichart
Gert-Jan Reichart Utrecht University
Stefan Schouten
Stefan Schouten Utrecht University
Lisa Tauxe
Lisa Tauxe University of California, San Diego
Matthew Huber
Matthew Huber Purdue University West Lafayette
Graham L. Williams
Graham L. Williams Bedford Institute of Oceanography

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