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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 65 1372 1217 85 75 332 19714

John Hellstrom publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by John Hellstrom between 1998 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. John Hellstrom published across 29 years, from 1998 to 2026, averaging 14.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 36 publications in 2015. 22 of the 408 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1998 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 36. Peak 36 publications in 2015. 1998: 4 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 0 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 1 publication 2005: 2 publications 2006: 10 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 12 publications 2009: 6 publications 2010: 17 publications 2011: 21 publications 2012: 32 publications 2013: 25 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 36 publications 2016: 28 publications 2017: 22 publications 2018: 21 publications 2019: 26 publications 2020: 25 publications 2021: 25 publications 2022: 19 publications 2023: 13 publications 2024: 18 publications 2025: 21 publications 2026: 1 publication
1998 2026

408 publications in total across all disciplines

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John Hellstrom: publications per year, 1998 to 2026
Year Publications
1998 4
1999 0
2000 1
2001 0
2002 0
2003 2
2004 1
2005 2
2006 10
2007 7
2008 12
2009 6
2010 17
2011 21
2012 32
2013 25
2014 13
2015 36
2016 28
2017 22
2018 21
2019 26
2020 25
2021 25
2022 19
2023 13
2024 18
2025 21
2026 1
Total 408
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John Hellstrom 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 Hellstrom 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, 328–337 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: 332 publications — 90th percentile

90% 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
328–337 87 332
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 Hellstrom 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 Hellstrom 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

John Hellstrom is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a research record of 146 publications in this primary field. Their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, Anthropology, and Archaeology.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics focused mainly on geological and paleoclimatological studies. Their main topics of work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Karst Systems and Hydrogeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

John Hellstrom has contributed to various publication venues, evidencing a consistent output in respected journals with the most frequent venues being:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • Climate of the past
  • Science

Among their recent papers are several highly cited works, including:

  • Synchronous timing of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period, 2020, Science
  • Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa, 2020, Science
  • Persistent influence of obliquity on ice age terminations since the Middle Pleistocene transition, 2020, Science
  • Ubiquitous karst hydrological control on speleothem oxygen isotope variability in a global study, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Speleothem record attests to stable environmental conditions during Neanderthal-modern human turnover in southern Italy, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Hellstrom regularly collaborates with a set of frequent co-authors, including Russell N. Drysdale, Jon Woodhead, Giovanni Zanchetta, Petra Bajo, and Adam Hartland, with collaboration counts ranging from 11 to 31 publications per co-author.

Best Publications

  • Iolite: Freeware for the visualisation and processing of mass spectrometric data

    Chad Paton;John Hellstrom;Bence Paul;Bence Paul;Jon Woodhead

  • Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Chuan Chou Shen;Victor J. Polyak

  • Improved laser ablation U‐Pb zircon geochronology through robust downhole fractionation correction

    Chad Paton;Chad Paton;Jon D. Woodhead;John C. Hellstrom;Janet M. Hergt

  • Isotopic and Elemental Imaging of Geological Materials by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry

    Jon D. Woodhead;John Hellstrom;Janet M. Hergt;Alan Greig

  • Increasing Australian–Indonesian monsoon rainfall linked to early Holocene sea-level rise

    Michael L Griffiths;Russell N Drysdale;Michael Gagan;Jian-xin Zhao

  • Late Holocene drought responsible for the collapse of Old World civilizations is recorded in an Italian cave flowstone

    Russell Drysdale;Giovanni Zanchetta;John Hellstrom;Roland Maas

  • U–Th dating of speleothems with high initial 230Th using stratigraphical constraint

    John Hellstrom

  • The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa

    P.H.G.M. Dirks;P.H.G.M. Dirks;Eric M. Roberts;Eric M. Roberts;Hannah Louise Hilbert-Wolf;Jan Dirk Kramers

  • Timing and dynamics of the last deglaciation from European and North African δ13C stalagmite profiles—comparison with Chinese and South Hemisphere stalagmites

    D. Genty;D. Genty;D. Blamart;B. Ghaleb;V. Plagnes

  • Rapid and accurate U/Th dating using parallel ion-counting multi-collector ICP-MS

    John Hellstrom

  • Fossil dripwater in stalagmites reveals Holocene temperature and rainfall variation in Amazonia

    M. R. van Breukelen;M. R. van Breukelen;H. B. Vonhof;J. C. Hellstrom;W. C. G. Wester

  • Enhanced rainfall in the Western Mediterranean during deposition of sapropel S1: stalagmite evidence from Corchia cave (Central Italy)

    G Zanchetta;Russell N Drysdale;John Charles Hellstrom;A.E. Fallick

  • Evidence for Obliquity Forcing of Glacial Termination II

    R.N. Drysdale;J. C. Hellstrom;G. Zanchetta;G. Zanchetta;G. Zanchetta;A. E. Fallick

  • A Detailed 31,000-Year Record of Climate and Vegetation Change, from the Isotope Geochemistry of Two New Zealand Speleothems

    John Hellstrom;Malcolm McCulloch;John Stone

  • Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and Implications for the Origins of the Genus Homo

    Robyn Pickering;Robyn Pickering;Paul H. G. M. Dirks;Paul H. G. M. Dirks;Zubair Jinnah;Darryl J. de Ruiter;Darryl J. de Ruiter

  • Multi-proxy constraints on the climatic significance of trace element records from a New Zealand speleothem

    J Hellstrom;Malcolm McCulloch

  • 500 ka precipitation record from southeastern Australia: Evidence for interglacial relative aridity

    Linda K. Ayliffe;Pyramo C. Marianelli;Kevin C. Moriarty;Rod T. Wells

  • Rapid interhemispheric climate links via the Australasian monsoon during the last deglaciation

    Linda K. Ayliffe;Michael K. Gagan;Jian Xin Zhao;Russell N. Drysdale;Russell N. Drysdale

  • Stalagmite evidence for the onset of the Last Interglacial in southern Europe at 129±1 ka

    Russell N. Drysdale;Giovanni Zanchetta;John C. Hellstrom;Anthony E. Fallick

  • U–Pb geochronology of speleothems by MC-ICPMS

    Jon Woodhead;John Hellstrom;Roland Maas;Russell Drysdale

  • A composite annual-resolution stalagmite record of North Atlantic climate over the last three millennia.

    Andy Baker;John C. Hellstrom;Bryce F. J. Kelly;Gregoire Mariethoz

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell N. Drysdale
Russell N. Drysdale University of Melbourne
Jon D. Woodhead
Jon D. Woodhead University of Melbourne
Giovanni Zanchetta
Giovanni Zanchetta University of Pisa
Ilaria Isola
Ilaria Isola National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Silvia Frisia
Silvia Frisia University of Newcastle Australia
Michael K. Gagan
Michael K. Gagan Australian National University
Linda K. Ayliffe
Linda K. Ayliffe Australian National University
Andrea Borsato
Andrea Borsato University of Newcastle Australia
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Alan Greig
Alan Greig University of Melbourne

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