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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Chemistry 63 8617 7814 200 193 273 11342
Earth Science 65 1431 1271 89 79 324 12960

Joël Brugger publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Joël Brugger between 1955 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Joël Brugger published across 71 years, from 1955 to 2025, averaging 5.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 34 publications in 2020. 46 of the 407 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1955 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 34. Peak 34 publications in 2020. 1955: 1 publication 1956: 0 publications 1957: 0 publications 1958: 0 publications 1959: 0 publications 1960: 0 publications 1961: 0 publications 1962: 0 publications 1963: 0 publications 1964: 0 publications 1965: 0 publications 1966: 0 publications 1967: 0 publications 1968: 0 publications 1969: 0 publications 1970: 0 publications 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 0 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 0 publications 1996: 1 publication 1997: 2 publications 1998: 5 publications 1999: 8 publications 2000: 5 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 6 publications 2004: 4 publications 2005: 6 publications 2006: 15 publications 2007: 14 publications 2008: 13 publications 2009: 28 publications 2010: 20 publications 2011: 14 publications 2012: 20 publications 2013: 16 publications 2014: 15 publications 2015: 13 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 14 publications 2018: 13 publications 2019: 18 publications 2020: 34 publications 2021: 24 publications 2022: 18 publications 2023: 17 publications 2024: 21 publications 2025: 25 publications
1955 2025

407 publications in total across all disciplines

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Joël Brugger: publications per year, 1955 to 2025
Year Publications
1955 1
1956 0
1957 0
1958 0
1959 0
1960 0
1961 0
1962 0
1963 0
1964 0
1965 0
1966 0
1967 0
1968 0
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 0
1987 0
1988 0
1989 0
1990 0
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 1
1995 0
1996 1
1997 2
1998 5
1999 8
2000 5
2001 4
2002 3
2003 6
2004 4
2005 6
2006 15
2007 14
2008 13
2009 28
2010 20
2011 14
2012 20
2013 16
2014 15
2015 13
2016 9
2017 14
2018 13
2019 18
2020 34
2021 24
2022 18
2023 17
2024 21
2025 25
Total 407
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Joël Brugger 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 Joël Brugger 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, 318–327 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: 324 publications — 89th percentile

89% 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 93 324
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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Joël Brugger 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 Joël Brugger 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, 65 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: 65 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% 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 65
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

Joël Brugger is a researcher affiliated with Monash University in Australia, focusing primarily on fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. Their academic work spans a range of scientific disciplines, encompassing both fundamental and applied aspects of geosciences and engineering.

The main fields of study associated with Joël Brugger include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Engineering

The subfields of their expertise cover:

  • Geophysics
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence

Joël Brugger's research addresses several core topics, such as:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Metal Extraction and Bioleaching
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Extraction and Separation Processes

Their recent publications illustrate a wide range of interests within those fields:

  • Carbonate complexation enhances hydrothermal transport of rare earth elements in alkaline fluids, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Love is in the Earth: A review of tellurium (bio)geochemistry in surface environments, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Large S isotope and trace element fractionations in pyrite of uranium roll front systems result from internally-driven biogeochemical cycle, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Germanium speciation in experimental and natural sphalerite: Implications for critical metal enrichment in hydrothermal Zn-Pb ores, 2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Nutrient Supply to Planetary Biospheres from Anoxic Weathering of Mafic Oceanic Crust, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

The venues in which Joël Brugger frequently publishes include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Chemical Geology
  • Mineralogical Magazine

They have collaborated regularly with several authors, with whom they have co-authored multiple papers. These frequent coauthors are:

  • Barbara Etschmann
  • Rahul Ram
  • Yuan Mei
  • Qiushi Guan
  • Weihua Liu

Best Publications

  • Hydrothermal transport, deposition, and fractionation of the REE: experimental data and thermodynamic calculations

    A. Migdisov;A. E. Williams-Jones;Joel Brugger;F. A. Caporuscio

  • Mechanisms of gold biomineralization in the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans

    Frank Reith;Barbara E Etschmann;Cornelia Grosse;Hugo Moors

  • Invisible gold in arsenian pyrite and arsenopyrite from a multistage Archaean gold deposit: Sunrise Dam, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia

    Y Sung;Y Sung;Joel Brugger;Joel Brugger;Cristiana Ciobanu;Cristiana Ciobanu;Allan Pring;Allan Pring

  • A review of the coordination chemistry of hydrothermal systems, or do coordination changes make ore deposits?

    Joël Brugger;Weihua Liu;Barbara Etschmann;Yuan Mei;Yuan Mei

  • Mechanism and kinetics of pseudomorphic mineral replacement reactions: A case study of the replacement of pentlandite by violarite

    Fang Xia;Joël Brugger;Joël Brugger;Guorong Chen;Yung Ngothai

  • Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

    Andrew Bissett;Anna Fitzgerald;Thys Meintjes;Pauline M. Mele

  • A spectrophotometric study of aqueous Au(III) halide–hydroxide complexes at 25–80 °C

    Alistair Usher;Alistair Usher;Derry McPhail;Derry McPhail;Joel Brugger;Joel Brugger;Joel Brugger

  • Inhomogeneous distribution of REE in scheelite and dynamics of Archaean hydrothermal systems (Mt. Charlotte and Drysdale gold deposits, Western Australia)

    Joël Brugger;Yann Lahaye;Sylvie Costa;David Lambert

  • Modeling of gold scavenging by bismuth melts coexisting with hydrothermal fluids

    Blake Tooth;Joel Brugger;Joel Brugger;Cristiana Liana Ciobanu;Cristiana Liana Ciobanu;Weihua Liu

  • Bi-melt formation and gold scavenging from hydrothermal fluids: An experimental study

    Blake Tooth;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Leonard Green;Brian O’Neill

  • Oxidation state of europium in scheelite: Tracking fluid–rock interaction in gold deposits

    Joel Brugger;Barbara E Etschmann;Barbara E Etschmann;Mark Ian Pownceby;Weihua Liu

  • Textural and compositional complexities resulting from coupled dissolution–reprecipitation reactions in geomaterials

    Alexander Altree-Williams;Allan Pring;Yung Ngothai;Joël Brugger

  • Speciation and thermodynamic properties for cobalt chloride complexes in hydrothermal fluids at 35-440 degrees C and 600 bar: An in-situ XAS study

    Weihua Liu;Stacey J. Borg;Stacey J. Borg;Denis Testemale;Barbara Etschmann;Barbara Etschmann

  • Nanoparticle factories: Biofilms hold the key to gold dispersion and nugget formation

    Frank Reith;Frank Reith;Lintern Fairbrother;Lintern Fairbrother;Gert Nolze;Oliver Wilhelmi

  • Speciation of aqueous tellurium(IV) in hydrothermal solutions and vapors, and the role of oxidized tellurium species in Te transport and gold deposition

    Pascal V. Grundler;Joël Brugger;Barbara E. Etschmann;Lothar Helm

  • An XAS study of the structure and thermodynamics of Cu(I) chloride complexes in brines up to high temperature (400 °C, 600 bar)

    J. Brugger;J. Brugger;Barbara Etschmann;Barbara Etschmann;W. Liu;W. Liu;Denis Testemale

  • Determination of the oxidation state of Cu in substituted Cu-In-Fe-bearing sphalerite via μ-XANES spectroscopy

    Nigel J. Cook;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Joël Brugger;Joël Brugger;Barbara Etschmann

  • Contrasting regimes of Cu, Zn and Pb transport in ore-forming hydrothermal fluids

    Richen Zhong;Richen Zhong;Joël Brugger;Joël Brugger;Yanjing Chen;Wenbo Li

  • UV–Vis spectrophotometric and XAFS studies of ferric chloride complexes in hyper-saline LiCl solutions at 25–90 °C

    Weihua Liu;Weihua Liu;Barbara Etschmann;Joël Brugger;Joël Brugger;Leone Spiccia

  • 'Invisible gold' in bismuth chalcogenides

    Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Cristiana L. Ciobanu;Nigel J. Cook;Allan Pring;Allan Pring;Joël Brugger;Joël Brugger

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan Pring
Allan Pring Flinders University
Barbara Etschmann
Barbara Etschmann Monash University
Frank Reith
Frank Reith University of Adelaide
Cristiana L. Ciobanu
Cristiana L. Ciobanu University of Adelaide
Jean-Louis Hazemann
Jean-Louis Hazemann Grenoble Alpes University
Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan University of Waikato
Thomas Armbruster
Thomas Armbruster University of Bern
Nigel J. Cook
Nigel J. Cook University of Adelaide
Gordon Southam
Gordon Southam University of Queensland
Sergey V. Krivovichev
Sergey V. Krivovichev Russian Academy of Sciences

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