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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 42 5183 4789 1939 1725 86 7873

John A. Robbins publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by John A. Robbins between 1967 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. John A. Robbins published across 60 years, from 1967 to 2026, averaging 2.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 10 publications in 2023. 5 of the 130 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
2 4 6 8 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1967 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 10. Peak 10 publications in 2023. 1967: 1 publication 1968: 0 publications 1969: 3 publications 1970: 3 publications 1971: 2 publications 1972: 1 publication 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 2 publications 1976: 2 publications 1977: 1 publication 1978: 1 publication 1979: 2 publications 1980: 4 publications 1981: 1 publication 1982: 1 publication 1983: 2 publications 1984: 5 publications 1985: 1 publication 1986: 5 publications 1987: 3 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 3 publications 1990: 4 publications 1991: 3 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 3 publications 1994: 3 publications 1995: 5 publications 1996: 2 publications 1997: 2 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 0 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 5 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 1 publication 2007: 1 publication 2008: 1 publication 2009: 2 publications 2010: 2 publications 2011: 0 publications 2012: 0 publications 2013: 2 publications 2014: 3 publications 2015: 0 publications 2016: 0 publications 2017: 1 publication 2018: 0 publications 2019: 1 publication 2020: 1 publication 2021: 1 publication 2022: 5 publications 2023: 10 publications 2024: 7 publications 2025: 3 publications 2026: 2 publications
1967 2026

130 publications in total across all disciplines

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John A. Robbins: publications per year, 1967 to 2026
Year Publications
1967 1
1968 0
1969 3
1970 3
1971 2
1972 1
1973 0
1974 0
1975 2
1976 2
1977 1
1978 1
1979 2
1980 4
1981 1
1982 1
1983 2
1984 5
1985 1
1986 5
1987 3
1988 1
1989 3
1990 4
1991 3
1992 2
1993 3
1994 3
1995 5
1996 2
1997 2
1998 2
1999 4
2000 1
2001 0
2002 3
2003 1
2004 5
2005 3
2006 1
2007 1
2008 1
2009 2
2010 2
2011 0
2012 0
2013 2
2014 3
2015 0
2016 0
2017 1
2018 0
2019 1
2020 1
2021 1
2022 5
2023 10
2024 7
2025 3
2026 2
Total 130
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John A. Robbins 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 John A. Robbins 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, 78–87 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: 86 publications — 6th percentile

6% 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 86
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
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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John A. Robbins 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 John A. Robbins 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, 42 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: 42 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% 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 42
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
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

John A. Robbins is primarily affiliated with the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields within medicine, with a focus on bone health, nutrition, and aging.

The scientist's main fields of study include Medicine, with particular expertise in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Surgery, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their work extensively covers topics such as bone health and osteoporosis research, nutrition and health in aging, hip and femur fractures, nutritional studies and diet, frailty in older adults, obesity, physical activity, diet, and menopause-related health impacts and treatments.

John A. Robbins has published research in several notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include Menopause The Journal of The North American Menopause Society, Archives of Osteoporosis, JAMA Internal Medicine, The American Journal of Medicine, and Nature Aging.

  • Bone health and osteoporosis research
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Hip and Femur Fractures
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors throughout their research career. Frequent co-authors include Petra Bůžková, Howard A Fink, Joshua I. Barzilay, Jane A. Cauley, and Laura Carbone.

Some of the recent papers by John A. Robbins include:

  • Effect of dietary sources of calcium and protein on hip fractures and falls in older adults in residential care: cluster randomised controlled trial, 2021, BMJ
  • Risk of Subsequent Fractures in Postmenopausal Women After Nontraumatic vs Traumatic Fractures, 2021, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Association of skeletal muscle mass, kidney disease and mortality in older men and women: the cardiovascular health study, 2020, Aging
  • Race and Ethnicity and Fracture Prediction Among Younger Postmenopausal Women in the Women's Health Initiative Study, 2023, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Dietary inflammatory index and cardiovascular disease risk in Hispanic women from the Women's Health Initiative, 2023, Nutrition Journal

Best Publications

  • DETERMINATION OF RECENT SEDIMENTATION RATES IN LAKE MICHIGAN USING PB – 210 AND CS – 137

    John A. Robbins;David N. Edgington

  • Isotopic record of lead pollution in lake sediments from the northeastern United States

    J.R. Graney;A.N. Halliday;G.J. Keeler;J.O. Nriagu

  • Accumulation and diagenesis of chlorinated hydrocarbons in lacustrine sediments

    Steven J. Eisenreich;Paul D. Capel;John A. Robbins;Richard Bourbonniere

  • Radioactivity in sediments of the Great Lakes: Post-depositional redistribution by deposit-feeding organisms

    John A. Robbins;John R. Krezoski;S. C. Mozley

  • Effect of deposit feeders on migration of137Cs in lake sediments

    John A. Robbins;Peter L. McCall;J. Berton Fisher;John R. Krezoski

  • Comparative 210Pb, 137Cs, and pollen geochronologies of sediments from Lakes Ontario and Erie

    John A. Robbins;David N. Edgington;A. L. W. Kemp

  • Records of lead deposition in Lake Michigan sediments since 1800.

    David N. Edgington;John A. Robbins

  • Early eutrophication in the lower great lakes

    Claire L. Schelske;Eugene F. Stoermer;Daniel J. Conley;John A. Robbins

  • Vertical mixing of lake sediments by tubificid oligochaetes

    J. B. Fisher;W. J. Lick;P. L. McCall;J. A. Robbins

  • Historical atmospheric mercury emissions and depositions in North America compared to mercury accumulations in sedimentary records

    Nicola Pirrone;Ivo Allegrini;Gerald J. Keeler;Jerome O. Nriagu

  • Sedimentation rates, residence times and radionuclide inventories in Lake Baikal from 137 Cs and 210 Pb in sediment cores

    David N. Edgington;J. Val Klump;John A. Robbins;Yuri S. Kusner

  • A new approach to historical reconstruction: Combining descriptive and experimental paleolimnology

    W. Charles Kerfoot;John A. Robbins;Lawrence J. Weider

  • Effects of aryl hydrocarbon receptor-mediated early life stage toxicity on lake trout populations in Lake Ontario during the 20th century.

    Philip M. Cook;John A. Robbins;Douglas D. Endicott;Keith B. Lodge

  • A model for particle‐selective transport of tracers in sediments with conveyor belt deposit feeders

    John A. Robbins

  • Records of nutrient-enhanced coastal ocean productivity in sediments from the Louisiana continental shelf

    Brian J. Eadie;Brent A. McKee;Margaret B. Lansing;John A. Robbins

  • Response of atmospheric lead to decreased use of lead in gasoline.

    Steven J. Eisenreich;Nancy A. Metzer;Noel R. Urban;John A. Robbins

  • The Role of Particulate Matter in the Movement of Contaminants in the Great Lakes

    Brian J. Eadie;John A. Robbins

  • 137Cs and 210Pb transport and geochronologies in urbanized reservoirs with rapidly increasing sedimentation rates

    P.L. McCall;J.A. Robbins;G. Matisoff

  • The partitioning of 7beryllium in fresh water

    N Hawley;J.A Robbins;B.J Eadie

  • Sediment Record of Biogeochemical Responses to Anthropogenic Perturbations of Nutrient Cycles in Lake Ontario

    Claire L. Schelske;John A. Robbins;Wayne S. Gardner;Daniel J. Conley

  • Seasonal cycling of trace elements 137Cs, 7Be, and 239+240Pu in Lake Michigan

    John A. Robbins;Brian J. Eadie

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Eadie
Brian J. Eadie Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
Philip A. Meyers
Philip A. Meyers University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
W. Charles Kerfoot
W. Charles Kerfoot Michigan Technological University
David J. Schwab
David J. Schwab Michigan Technological University
Gerald J. Keeler
Gerald J. Keeler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gerald Matisoff
Gerald Matisoff Case Western Reserve University
Steven M. Colman
Steven M. Colman University of Minnesota
Thomas H. Johengen
Thomas H. Johengen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jerome O. Nriagu
Jerome O. Nriagu University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Peter F. Landrum
Peter F. Landrum Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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