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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 67 1212 1073 549 471 225 17292

John W. King publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by John W. King between 1981 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. John W. King published across 45 years, from 1981 to 2025, averaging 5.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 30 publications in 2008. 2 of the 236 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1981 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 30. Peak 30 publications in 2008. 1981: 1 publication 1982: 1 publication 1983: 2 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 1 publication 1987: 0 publications 1988: 2 publications 1989: 9 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 2 publications 1992: 3 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 4 publications 1995: 4 publications 1996: 5 publications 1997: 5 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 2 publications 2000: 19 publications 2001: 6 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 9 publications 2005: 6 publications 2006: 10 publications 2007: 17 publications 2008: 30 publications 2009: 6 publications 2010: 15 publications 2011: 4 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 7 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 1 publication 2018: 4 publications 2019: 4 publications 2020: 7 publications 2021: 2 publications 2022: 3 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 1 publication
1981 2025

236 publications in total across all disciplines

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John W. King: publications per year, 1981 to 2025
Year Publications
1981 1
1982 1
1983 2
1984 0
1985 0
1986 1
1987 0
1988 2
1989 9
1990 1
1991 2
1992 3
1993 2
1994 4
1995 4
1996 5
1997 5
1998 1
1999 2
2000 19
2001 6
2002 2
2003 5
2004 9
2005 6
2006 10
2007 17
2008 30
2009 6
2010 15
2011 4
2012 6
2013 7
2014 5
2015 7
2016 11
2017 1
2018 4
2019 4
2020 7
2021 2
2022 3
2023 3
2024 1
2025 1
Total 236
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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.

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, 218–227 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: 225 publications — 71st percentile

71% 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
218–227 290 225
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 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.

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, 67 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: 67 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% 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
66 89
67 92 67
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 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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