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Isabel P. Montañez 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 Isabel P. Montañez sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 249 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Isabel P. Montañez 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 Isabel P. Montañez sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2016 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2011 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Isabel P. Montañez is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific engagement in several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics of their work focus extensively on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils. Additional research interests include Geological formations and processes, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, as well as Karst Systems and Hydrogeology.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Barbara E. Wortham, Jon D. Richey, Neil Griffis, Sophia I. Macarewich, and Jennifer C. McElwain.

Isabel P. Montañez has published widely in several prominent venues. Their most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Recent representative papers authored or co-authored by Montañez include:

  • "Past climates inform our future," 2020, Science
  • "A 485-million-year history of Earth's surface temperature," 2024, Science
  • "Influence of temporally varying weatherability on CO2-climate coupling and ecosystem change in the late Paleozoic," 2020, Climate of the Past
  • "Current synthesis of the penultimate icehouse and its imprint on the Upper Devonian through Permian stratigraphic record," 2021, Geological Society London Special Publications
  • "Enhanced continental weathering and large igneous province induced climate warming at the Permo-Carboniferous transition," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

The scientist has received recognition in the form of several fellowships and honors, including:

  • Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2020
  • Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, 2016
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2011

Best Publications

  • CO 2 as a primary driver of Phanerozoic climate

    Dana L. Royer;Robert A. Berner;Isabel P. Montañez;Neil J. Tabor

  • The Late Paleozoic Ice Age: An Evolving Paradigm

    Isabel P. Montañez;Christopher J. Poulsen

  • CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation

    Isabel P. Montañez;Neil J. Tabor;Deb Niemeier;William A. DiMichele

  • Past climates inform our future

    Jessica E. Tierney;Christopher J. Poulsen;Isabel P. Montañez;Tripti Bhattacharya

  • A 400 million year carbon isotope record of pedogenic carbonate; implications for paleoatomospheric carbon dioxide

    Douglas D. Ekart;Thure E. Cerling;Isabel P. Montanez;Neil J. Tabor

  • Evolution of the Sr and C Isotope Composition of Cambrian Oceans

    Isabel P. Montañez;David A. Osleger;Jay L. Banner;Larry E. Mack

  • A Basal Dinosaur from the Dawn of the Dinosaur Era in Southwestern Pangaea

    Ricardo N. Martinez;Paul C. Sereno;Oscar A. Alcober;Carina E. Colombi

  • High-Precision U-Pb Calibration of Carboniferous Glaciation and Climate History, Paganzo Group, NW Argentina

    Erik L. Gulbranson;Isabel P. Montañez;M. D. Schmitz;Carlos Oscar Limarino;Carlos Oscar Limarino

  • Climate, pCO2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial-interglacial cycles

    Isabel P. Montañez;Jennifer C. McElwain;Christopher J. Poulsen;Joseph D. White

  • Climate and vegetational regime shifts in the late Paleozoic ice age earth

    William A. DiMichele;I. P. Montañez;C. J. Poulsen;Neil J. Tabor

  • Integrated Sr isotope variations and sea-level history of Middle to Upper Cambrian platform carbonates: Implications for the evolution of Cambrian seawater 87Sr/86Sr

    Isabel P. Montañez;Jay L. Banner;David A. Osleger;Lars E. Borg

  • Sequence Stratigraphy and Onlap History of the Donets Basin, Ukraine: Insight into Carboniferous Icehouse Dynamics

    J. M. Eros;I. P. Montañez;D. A. Osleger;Vladimir Davydov

  • Late Paleozoic tropical climate response to Gondwanan deglaciation

    Christopher J. Poulsen;David Pollard;Isabel P. Montañez;David Rowley

  • On the Labeling, Length, and Objective Basis of Fischer Plots

    Peter M. Sadler;David A. Osleger;Isabel P. Montanez

  • Cyclic changes in Pennsylvanian paleoclimate and effects on floristic dynamics in tropical Pangaea

    William A. DiMichele;C. Blaine Cecil;C. Blaine Cecil;Isabel P. Montañez;Howard J. Falcon-Lang

  • Toward an orbital chronology for the early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE1a, ~ 120 Ma)

    Yong Xiang Li;Timothy J. Bralower;Isabel P. Montañez;David A. Osleger

  • Morphology and distribution of fossil soils in the Permo-Pennsylvanian Wichita and Bowie Groups, north-central Texas, USA: implications for western equatorial Pangean palaeoclimate during icehouse-greenhouse transition

    Neil John Tabor;Isabel P. Montañez

  • Late Diagenetic Dolomitization of Lower Ordovician, Upper Knox Carbonates: A Record of the Hydrodynamic Evolution of the Southern Appalachian Basin

    Isabel P. Montanez

  • Evolution of Cupido and Coahuila carbonate platforms, Early Cretaceous, northeastern Mexico

    Christoph Lehmann;David A. Osleger;Isabel P. Montañez;William V. Sliter

  • A new stratigraphic framework built on U-Pb single-zircon TIMS ages and implications for the timing of the penultimate icehouse (Paraná Basin, Brazil)

    Neil Patrick Griffis;Roland Mundil;Isabel Patricia Montañez;John Isbell

  • Shifts in late Paleozoic atmospheric circulation over western equatorial Pangea: Insights from pedogenic mineral δ18O compositions

    Neil J. Tabor;Isabel P. Montañez

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil J. Tabor
Neil J. Tabor Southern Methodist University
Christopher J. Poulsen
Christopher J. Poulsen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Roland Mundil
Roland Mundil Berkeley Geochronology Center
William A. DiMichele
William A. DiMichele Smithsonian Institution
Qing-Zhu Yin
Qing-Zhu Yin University of California, Davis
Jennifer C. McElwain
Jennifer C. McElwain Trinity College Dublin
John L. Isbell
John L. Isbell University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Sergio A. Marenssi
Sergio A. Marenssi University of Buenos Aires
Warren D. Sharp
Warren D. Sharp Berkeley Geochronology Center
Yongxiang Li
Yongxiang Li RMIT University

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