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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 44 4695 4320 42 38 257 7823

James Shulmeister publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by James Shulmeister between 1989 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. James Shulmeister published across 37 years, from 1989 to 2025, averaging 7.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 25 publications in 2019. 3 of the 275 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1989 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 25. Peak 25 publications in 2019. 1989: 2 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 3 publications 1993: 3 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 1 publication 1996: 1 publication 1997: 2 publications 1998: 3 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 4 publications 2002: 7 publications 2003: 6 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 8 publications 2007: 11 publications 2008: 7 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 11 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 12 publications 2013: 8 publications 2014: 11 publications 2015: 14 publications 2016: 15 publications 2017: 22 publications 2018: 18 publications 2019: 25 publications 2020: 17 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 13 publications 2024: 2 publications 2025: 1 publication
1989 2025

275 publications in total across all disciplines

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James Shulmeister: publications per year, 1989 to 2025
Year Publications
1989 2
1990 0
1991 1
1992 3
1993 3
1994 1
1995 1
1996 1
1997 2
1998 3
1999 4
2000 1
2001 4
2002 7
2003 6
2004 5
2005 9
2006 8
2007 11
2008 7
2009 4
2010 11
2011 5
2012 12
2013 8
2014 11
2015 14
2016 15
2017 22
2018 18
2019 25
2020 17
2021 7
2022 11
2023 13
2024 2
2025 1
Total 275
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James Shulmeister 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 James Shulmeister 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, 248–257 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: 257 publications — 80th percentile

80% 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
248–257 208 257
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
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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James Shulmeister 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 James Shulmeister 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, 44 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: 44 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% 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 44
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
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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Overview

James Shulmeister is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Their academic work focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these fields, their research spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research topics encompass a wide range of geological and environmental phenomena. These include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Shulmeister has contributed to numerous publications, with recent papers including:

  • "A review of modern treeline migration, the factors controlling it and the implications for carbon storage" (2021), published in Journal of Mountain Science
  • "Proglacial Lakes Control Glacier Geometry and Behavior During Recession" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Effects of change in streamflow patterns on water quality" (2021), published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Revisiting growth and decline of late Quaternary mega-lakes across the south-central Tibetan Plateau" (2020), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "An 800 kyr record of dune emplacement in relationship to high sea level forcing, Cooloola Sand Mass, Queensland, Australia" (2020), published in Geomorphology

Their frequent coauthors include colleagues such as Nicholas R. Patton, Daniel Ellerton, Tammy M. Rittenour, Allen Gontz, and Rupesh Patil. This collaboration reflects a consistent network of research partnerships contributing to their fields of study.

Shulmeister's work is often published in venues that regularly feature research in geological and environmental sciences. These frequent publication venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Quaternary Research
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geomorphology
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Best Publications

  • Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago

    Chris Clarkson;Zenobia Jacobs;Zenobia Jacobs;Ben Marwick;Ben Marwick;Richard Fullagar

  • Pollen evidence from tropical Australia for the onset of an ENSO-dominated climate at c. 4000 BP

    James Shulmeister;Brian G. Lees

  • A field based classification scheme for gravel beaches

    Richard Jennings;James Shulmeister

  • The Southern Hemisphere westerlies in the Australasian sector over the last glacial cycle: a synthesis

    J. Shulmeister;I. Goodwin;J. Renwick;K. Harle

  • Effects of debris on ice-surface melting rates: an experimental study

    Natalya Reznichenko;Tim Davies;James Shulmeister;Mauri McSaveney

  • Glacial and deglacial climatic patterns in Australia and surrounding regions from 35 000 to 10 000 years ago reconstructed from terrestrial and near-shore proxy data

    Martin Williams;Ellyn Cook;Sander van der Kaars;Tim Barrows

  • Australasian evidence for mid-Holocene climate change implies precessional control of Walker Circulation in the Pacific

    James Shulmeister

  • The hydrological legacy of deforestation on global wetlands

    C. Woodward;J. Shulmeister;J. Larsen;G. E. Jacobsen

  • Evidence Against a Significant Younger Dryas Cooling Event in New Zealand

    Christiane Singer;James Shulmeister;Bill McLea

  • An early colonisation pathway into northwest Australia 70-60,000 years ago

    Kasih Norman;Kasih Norman;Josha Inglis;Christopher Clarkson;J Tyler Faith

  • River response to an active fold-and-thrust belt in a convergent margin setting, North Island, New Zealand

    Merri Lisa Formento-Trigilio;Douglas W Burbank;Andrew Nicol;James Shulmeister

  • El Niño suppresses Antarctic warming

    Nancy A.N. Bertler;Nancy A.N. Bertler;Peter J. Barrett;Paul Andrew Mayewski;Ryan L. Fogt

  • A Holocene Pollen record from Lowland Tropical Australia

    James Shulmeister

  • Catastrophic landslides, glacier behaviour and moraine formation : a view from an active plate margin.

    James Shulmeister;Tim R. Davies;David J. A. Evans;Olivia M. Hyatt

  • Holocene high-resolution quantitative summer temperature reconstruction based on subfossil chironomids from the southeast margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Enlou Zhang;Jie Chang;Jie Chang;Yanmin Cao;Weiwei Sun

  • Proglacial Lakes Control Glacier Geometry and Behavior During Recession

    J. L. Sutherland;J. L. Carrivick;N. Gandy;J. Shulmeister

  • A cosmogenic nuclide chronology of the last glacial transition in North-West Nelson, New Zealand—new insights in Southern Hemisphere climate forcing during the last deglaciation

    James Shulmeister;David Fink;Paul C. Augustinus

  • Evidence for a landslide origin of New Zealand’s Waiho Loop moraine

    D. Santamaria Tovar;J. Shulmeister;T. R. Davies

  • New Zealand chironomids as proxies for human-induced and natural environmental change: Transfer functions for temperature and lake production (chlorophyll a)

    Craig Woodward;J. Shulmeister

  • Determining the origin and age of the Westland beech (Nothofagus) gap, New Zealand, using fungus beetle genetics.

    Richard A. B. Leschen;Thomas R. Buckley;Helen M. Harman;James Shulmeister

  • The timing and cause of glacial advances in the southern mid-latitudes during the last glacial cycle based on a synthesis of exposure ages from Patagonia and New Zealand

    Christopher M. Darvill;Michael J. Bentley;Chris R. Stokes;James Shulmeister

  • An 80 kyr-long continuous speleothem record from Dim Cave, SW Turkey with paleoclimatic implications for the Eastern Mediterranean

    Ezgi Ünal-İmer;James Shulmeister;Jian-Xin Zhao;I. Tonguç Uysal;I. Tonguç Uysal

  • Towards a climate event stratigraphy for New Zealand over the past 30,000 years

    D.J. A. Barrell;B. V. Alloway;J. Shulmeister;R. M. Newnham

Frequent Co-Authors

David Fink
David Fink Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Tammy M. Rittenour
Tammy M. Rittenour Utah State University
Enlou Zhang
Enlou Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tim Davies
Tim Davies University of Canterbury
Jian-xin Zhao
Jian-xin Zhao University of Queensland
Enfeng Liu
Enfeng Liu Shandong Normal University
David J.A. Evans
David J.A. Evans Durham University
Patrick Moss
Patrick Moss University of Queensland
Ji Shen
Ji Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Geraldine Jacobsen
Geraldine Jacobsen Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

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