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Jochen Hinkel publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jochen Hinkel sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 191 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Jochen Hinkel D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jochen Hinkel is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on global and regional aspects of coastal flooding, sea-level rise, and climate change adaptation.

The scientist has produced significant work in key subfields including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Oceanography

The following main topics characterize their research contributions:

  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Climate variability and models

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jochen Hinkel include:

  • Daniël Lincke
  • Robert J. Nicholls
  • Athanasios T. Vafeidis
  • Gonéri Le Cozannet
  • Marta Marcos

Jochen Hinkel has published research in a range of scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Earth's Future
  • Climatic Change
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Selected recent papers by Jochen Hinkel include:

  • Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Economic motivation for raising coastal flood defenses in Europe, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Sea level rise risks and societal adaptation benefits in low-lying coastal areas, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Uncertainty and Bias in Global to Regional Scale Assessments of Current and Future Coastal Flood Risk, 2021, Earth's Future

Best Publications

  • Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise

    Jochen Hinkel;Daniel Lincke;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Mahé Perrette

  • “Indicators of vulnerability and adaptive capacity”: Towards a clarification of the science–policy interface

    Jochen Hinkel

  • Resilience and vulnerability: Complementary or conflicting concepts?

    Fiona Miller;Henny Osbahr;Emily Boyd;Emily Boyd;Frank Thomalla

  • Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise

    Mark Schuerch;Mark Schuerch;Thomas Spencer;Stijn Temmerman;Matthew L Kirwan

  • Comparison of Frameworks for Analyzing Social-ecological Systems

    Claudia R. Binder;Jochen Hinkel;Pieter W. G. Bots;Claudia Pahl-Wostl

  • Sea-level rise and its possible impacts given a 'beyond 4 ◦ C world' in the twenty-first century

    Robert J. Nicholls;Natasha Marinova;Jason A. Lowe;Sally Brown

  • Sea Level Rise and Implications for Low Lying Islands, Coasts and Communities

    Michael Oppenheimer;Bruce Glavovic;Jochen Hinkel;Roderik van de Wal

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century

    Ebru Kirezci;Ian R. Young;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Sanne Muis

  • A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure

    Robert J. Nicholls;Daniel Lincke;Jochen Hinkel;Sally Brown

  • Ocean solutions to address climate change and its effects on marine ecosystems

    Jean Pierre Gattuso;Jean Pierre Gattuso;Jean Pierre Gattuso;Alexandre K. Magnan;Alexandre K. Magnan;Laurent Bopp;Laurent Bopp;William W.L. Cheung

  • Understanding extreme sea levels for broad-scale coastal impact and adaptation analysis

    T. Wahl;I.D. Haigh;R.J. Nicholls;A. Arns

  • A New Global Coastal Database for Impact and Vulnerability Analysis to Sea-Level Rise

    Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Robert J. Nicholls;Loraine McFadden;Richard S. J. Tol

  • Global coastal wetland change under sea-level rise and related stresses: The DIVA Wetland Change Model

    Thomas Spencer;Mark Schuerch;Robert J. Nicholls;Jochen Hinkel

  • Mediterranean UNESCO World Heritage at risk from coastal flooding and erosion due to sea-level rise

    Lena Reimann;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Sally Brown;Sally Brown;Jochen Hinkel

  • Towards a Formal Framework of Vulnerability to Climate Change

    Cezar Ionescu;Richard J. T. Klein;Jochen Hinkel;K. S. Kavi Kumar

  • Gridded population projections for the coastal zone under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

    Jan Ludolf Merkens;Lena Reimann;Jochen Hinkel;Athanasios T. Vafeidis

  • Integrating knowledge to assess coastal vulnerability to sea-level rise : the development of the DIVA tool

    Jochen Hinkel;Richard J.T. Klein

  • The ability of societies to adapt to twenty-first-century sea-level rise

    Jochen Hinkel;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts;Sally Brown;Jose A. Jiménez

  • A global analysis of erosion of sandy beaches and sea-level rise: An application of DIVA

    Jochen Hinkel;Robert James Nicholls;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol;Zheng B. Wang

  • Towards a formal framework for vulnerability to climate change

    C. Ionescu;R.J.T. Klein;J. Hinkel;K.S. Kavi Kumar

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Nicholls
Robert J. Nicholls University of East Anglia
Athanasios T. Vafeidis
Athanasios T. Vafeidis Kiel University
Jason Lowe
Jason Lowe Met Office
Richard S. J. Tol
Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex
Richard J.T. Klein
Richard J.T. Klein Stockholm Environment Institute
Nigel W. Arnell
Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading
Eric D. Galbraith
Eric D. Galbraith McGill University
W. J. Wouter Botzen
W. J. Wouter Botzen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Derek P. Tittensor
Derek P. Tittensor Dalhousie University
Maja Schlüter
Maja Schlüter Stockholm University

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