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John W. King 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 W. King sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 225 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

John W. King 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 W. King sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

John W. King is affiliated with the University of Rhode Island in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, notably Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Ecology.

The main topics explored by John W. King include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine and fisheries research, Geological formations and processes, Marine animal studies overview, Geological and Geophysical Studies, and Marine and coastal plant biology.

John W. King has contributed to several scientific publications, often collaborating with frequent co-authors such as Bryan A. Oakley, Brian Caccioppoli, Monique LaFrance Bartley, Alan L. Deino, and Zoë L. Hutchison.

Significant publication venues for King's work include Estuaries and Coasts, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Science Advances, Scientific Reports, and Renewable Energy.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by John W. King include:

  • Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution (2020), Science Advances
  • Anthropogenic electromagnetic fields (EMF) influence the behaviour of bottom-dwelling marine species (2020), Scientific Reports
  • A modelling evaluation of electromagnetic fields emitted by buried subsea power cables and encountered by marine animals: Considerations for marine renewable energy development (2021), Renewable Energy
  • Offshore Wind Energy and Benthic Habitat Changes: Lessons from Block Island Wind Farm (2020), Oceanography
  • Chronostratigraphy and age modeling of Pleistocene drill cores from the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania (Olduvai Gorge Coring Project) (2020), Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

John W. King has also contributed to book publications, including a synthesis of case studies from Narragansett Bay (RI/MA, USA) emphasizing implementation of the US Clean Water Act using adaptive management, published by La Trobe University in 2021.

Best Publications

  • A comparison of different magnetic methods for determining the relative grain size of magnetite in natural materials: Some results from lake sediments

    John King;Subir K. Banerjee;James Marvin;Özden Özdemir

  • Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Appy Sluijs;Stefan Schouten;Mark Pagani;Martijn Woltering

  • Rock magnetism of Late Neogene and Pleistocene deep-sea sediments: Relationship to sediment source, diagenetic processes, and sediment lithology

    J. Bloemendal;J. W. King;F. R. Hall;S.-J. Doh

  • The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean.

    Kathryn Moran;Jan Backman;Henk Brinkhuis;Steven C. Clemens

  • East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins

    Christopher A. Scholz;Thomas C. Johnson;Andrew S. Cohen;John W. King

  • A rapid method for magnetic granulometry with applications to environmental studies

    Subir K. Banerjee;John King;James Marvin

  • High-resolution magnetostratigraphy of the Neogene Huaitoutala section in the eastern Qaidam Basin on the NE Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai Province, China and its implication on tectonic uplift of the NE Tibetan Plateau

    Xiaomin Fang;Xiaomin Fang;Weilin Zhang;Qingquan Meng;Junping Gao

  • The time-transgressive termination of the African Humid Period

    Timothy Michael Shanahan;Nicholas P. Mckay;Konrad A. Hughen;Jonathan T. Overpeck

  • A new rock‐magnetic approach to selecting sediments for geomagnetic paleointensity studies: Application to paleointensity for the last 4000 years

    John W. King;Subir K. Banerjee;James Marvin

  • SEDIMENTARY MAGNETISM, ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNETISM, AND MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY

    John W. King;James E.T. Channell

  • Atlantic Forcing of Persistent Drought in West Africa

    T. M. Shanahan;T. M. Shanahan;J. T. Overpeck;K. J. Anchukaitis;J. W. Beck

  • Controlled Biomineralization of Magnetite (Fe(inf3)O(inf4)) and Greigite (Fe(inf3)S(inf4)) in a Magnetotactic Bacterium.

    Dennis A. Bazylinski;Richard B. Frankel;Brigid R. Heywood;Stephen Mann

  • Lake Baikal Record of Continental Climate Response to Orbital Insolation During the Past 5 Million Years

    D. F. Williams;J. Peck;E. B. Karabanov;A. A. Prokopenko

  • Continental climate response to orbital forcing from biogenic silica records in Lake Baikal

    Steven M. Colman;J.A. Peck;E.B. Karabanov;Susan J. Carter

  • Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa.

    Andrew S. Cohen;Jeffery R. Stone;Kristina R.M. Beuning;Lisa E. Park

  • The early Miocene onset of a ventilated circulation regime in the Arctic Ocean

    Martin Jakobsson;Jan Backman;Bert Rudels;Jonas Nycander

  • Age model and core-seismic integration for the Cenozoic Arctic Coring Expedition sediments from the Lomonosov Ridge

    Jan Backman;Martin Jakobsson;Martin Frank;Francesca Sangiorgi

  • Paleoenvironmental implications of rock‐magnetic properties of Late Quaternary sediment cores from the eastern equatorial Atlantic

    Jan Bloemendal;Bonnie Lamb;John King

  • Paleoclimatic variations in West Africa from a record of late Pleistocene and Holocene lake level stands of Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana

    Timothy Michael Shanahan;Jonathan T. Overpeck;C. Winston Wheeler;J. Warren Beck

  • A rock-magnetic record from Lake Baikal, Siberia: Evidence for Late Quaternary climate change

    J.A. Peck;J.W. King;Steven M. Colman;V.A. Kravchinsky

  • Consequences of Early Late-Pleistocene Megadroughts in Tropical Africa

    Andrew S Cohen;Jeffery R. Stone;Kristina R M Beuning;Lisa E Park

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher A. Scholz
Christopher A. Scholz Syracuse University
Junsheng Nie
Junsheng Nie Lanzhou University
Xiaomin Fang
Xiaomin Fang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Andrew S. Cohen
Andrew S. Cohen University of Arizona
Thomas C. Johnson
Thomas C. Johnson University of Massachusetts Amherst
Erik T. Brown
Erik T. Brown University of Minnesota
Jonathan T. Overpeck
Jonathan T. Overpeck University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Steven M. Colman
Steven M. Colman University of Minnesota
Matt O'Regan
Matt O'Regan Stockholm University
Yougui Song
Yougui Song Chinese Academy of Sciences

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