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Hugues Lantuit 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 Hugues Lantuit sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 468 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Hugues Lantuit 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 Hugues Lantuit sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hugues Lantuit is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work focuses extensively on topics related to climate change and permafrost, with additional research interests spanning methane hydrates and related phenomena, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, geology and paleoclimatology, indigenous studies and ecology, and Arctic and Russian policy studies.

Within their research, Lantuit has contributed to various scientific publications, including papers published between 2020 and 2022. Notable publications include:

  • Drivers, dynamics and impacts of changing Arctic coasts, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Population living on permafrost in the Arctic, 2021, Population and Environment
  • Burial and Origin of Permafrost-Derived Carbon in the Nearshore Zone of the Southern Canadian Beaufort Sea, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Permafrost Carbon and CO2 Pathways Differ at Contrasting Coastal Erosion Sites in the Canadian Arctic, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Nearshore Zone Dynamics Determine Pathway of Organic Carbon From Eroding Permafrost Coasts, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Lantuit frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Regular co-authors include Michael Fritz, Jorien E. Vonk, Gustaf Hugelius, Pier Paul Overduin, and George Tanski. This collaborative approach spans numerous publications.

The scientist's research is often published in recurring venues such as Frontiers in Earth Science, the Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) associated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Geophysical Research Letters, and Biogeosciences.

Best Publications

  • Permafrost is warming at a global scale

    Boris K. Biskaborn;Sharon L. Smith;Jeannette Noetzli;Heidrun Matthes

  • The Arctic Coastal Dynamics Database: A New Classification Scheme and Statistics on Arctic Permafrost Coastlines

    Hugues Lantuit;Hugues Lantuit;Pier Paul Overduin;Nicole Couture;Sebastian Wetterich

  • Fifty years of coastal erosion and retrogressive thaw slump activity on Herschel Island, southern Beaufort Sea, Yukon Territory, Canada

    Hugues Lantuit;W. H. Pollard

  • The impact of the permafrost carbon feedback on global climate

    Kevin Schaefer;Hugues Lantuit;Hugues Lantuit;Vladimir E Romanovsky;Edward A G Schuur

  • Drivers, dynamics and impacts of changing Arctic coasts

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  • Collapsing Arctic coastlines

    Michael Fritz;Michael Fritz;Jorien E. Vonk;Jorien E. Vonk;Hugues Lantuit;Hugues Lantuit

  • The new database of the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P)

    B. K. Biskaborn;J.-P. Lanckman;H. Lantuit;H. Lantuit;K. Elger

  • Multi-Decadal Changes in Tundra Environments and Ecosystems: Synthesis of the International Polar Year-Back to the Future Project (IPY-BTF)

    Terry V. Callaghan;Terry V. Callaghan;Craig E. Tweedie;Patrick J. Webber

  • Erosion and Flooding—Threats to Coastal Infrastructure in the Arctic: A Case Study from Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

    Boris Radosavljevic;Boris Radosavljevic;Hugues Lantuit;Hugues Lantuit;Wayne Pollard;Paul Overduin

  • Modern and Late Holocene Retrogressive Thaw Slump Activity on the Yukon Coastal Plain and Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

    Hugues Lantuit;W. H. Pollard;N. Couture;N. Couture;Michael Fritz

  • Coastal erosion dynamics on the permafrost-dominated Bykovsky Peninsula, north Siberia, 1951–2006

    Hugues Lantuit;David Atkinson;Pier Paul Overduin;Mikhail Grigoriev

  • Temporal stereophotogrammetric analysis of retrogressive thaw slumps on Herschel Island, Yukon Territory

    Hugues Lantuit;W. H. Pollard

  • Methane‐cycling communities in a permafrost‐affected soil on Herschel Island, Western Canadian Arctic: active layer profiling of mcrA and pmoA genes

    Béatrice A. Barbier;Isabel Dziduch;Susanne Liebner;Lars Ganzert

  • Submarine Permafrost Map in the Arctic Modeled Using 1‐D Transient Heat Flux (SuPerMAP)

    P.P. Overduin;T. Schneider von Deimling;F. Miesner;M.N. Grigoriev

  • Origin and characteristics of massive ground ice on Herschel Island (western Canadian Arctic) as revealed by stable water isotope and Hydrochemical signatures

    Michael Fritz;Sebastian Wetterich;Hanno Meyer;Lutz Schirrmeister

  • Coastal erosion and mass wasting along the Canadian Beaufort Sea based on annual airborne LiDAR elevation data

    Jaroslav Obu;Hugues Lantuit;Hugues Lantuit;Guido Grosse;Frank Günther

  • Recent Progress Regarding Permafrost Coasts

    Hugues Lantuit;Paul Overduin;Sebastian Wetterich

  • Microbial functional potential and community composition in permafrost-affected soils of the NW Canadian Arctic.

    Béatrice A. Frank-Fahle;Étienne Yergeau;Charles W. Greer;Hugues Lantuit

  • Eastern Beringia and beyond: Late Wisconsinan and Holocene landscape dynamics along the Yukon Coastal Plain, Canada

    Michael Fritz;Sebastian Wetterich;Lutz Schirrmeister;Hanno Meyer

  • Rapid CO2 Release From Eroding Permafrost in Seawater

    George Tanski;George Tanski;Dirk Wagner;Christian Knoblauch;Michael Fritz

  • Coastal changes in the Arctic

    Paul P. Overduin;M. C. Strzelecki;M. C. Strzelecki;M. N. Grigoriev;N. Couture

  • Distribution of Thermokarst Lakes and Ponds at Three Yedoma Sites in Siberia

    Guido Grosse;V. Romanovsky;K. Walter;Anne Morgenstern

Frequent Co-Authors

Wayne H. Pollard
Wayne H. Pollard McGill University
Sebastian Wetterich
Sebastian Wetterich Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Lutz Schirrmeister
Lutz Schirrmeister Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam
Julia Boike
Julia Boike Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Torsten Sachs
Torsten Sachs Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Moritz Langer
Moritz Langer Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Vladimir E. Romanovsky
Vladimir E. Romanovsky University of Alaska Fairbanks
Hanno Meyer
Hanno Meyer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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