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Joshua J. Roering 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 Joshua J. Roering sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 200 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Joshua J. Roering 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 Joshua J. Roering sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Joshua J. Roering is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on landslides and related hazards, geology and paleoclimatology, hydrology and sediment transport processes, fire effects on ecosystems, cryospheric studies and observations, tree root and stability studies, as well as soil erosion and sediment transport.

They have contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Rainfall triggers more deep-seated landslides than Cascadia earthquakes in the Oregon Coast Range, USA (2020, Science Advances)
  • Particle motion on burned and vegetated hillslopes (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Dendrochronological dating of landslides in western Oregon: Searching for signals of the Cascadia A.D. 1700 earthquake (2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin)
  • Runoff-initiated post-fire debris flow Western Cascades, Oregon (2020, Landslides)
  • Extensive Frost Weathering Across Unglaciated North America During the Last Glacial Maximum (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)

Frequent co-authors in their work include William Struble, Ben Leshchinsky, David Jon Furbish, William J. Burns, and Nancy Calhoun.

Their publications often appear in specific venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earth Surface Dynamics

Joshua J. Roering has also contributed to book literature, including the publication "Residential Landslide Insurance in Sitka, Alaska: Market Conditions and Options for Improving Availability" (2023) through RAND Corporation eBooks.

Their subfields of study encompass management, monitoring, policy and law, atmospheric science, ecology, global and planetary change, and soil science, indicating a broad multidisciplinary approach within environmental and earth sciences.

Best Publications

  • Evidence for nonlinear, diffusive sediment transport on hillslopes and implications for landscape morphology

    Joshua J. Roering;James W. Kirchner;William E. Dietrich

  • The variability of root cohesion as an influence on shallow landslide susceptibility in the Oregon Coast Range

    K M Schmidt;J J Roering;J D Stock;W E Dietrich

  • Objective landslide detection and surface morphology mapping using high-resolution airborne laser altimetry

    J. McKean;J. Roering

  • Geomorphic transport laws for predicting landscape form and dynamics

    William E. Dietrich;Dino G. Bellugi;Leonard S. Sklar;Jonathan D. Stock

  • Shallow landsliding, root reinforcement, and the spatial distribution of trees in the Oregon Coast Range

    Joshua J Roering;Kevin M Schmidt;Jonathan D Stock;William E Dietrich

  • Automated landslide mapping using spectral analysis and high-resolution topographic data: Puget Sound lowlands, Washington, and Portland Hills, Oregon

    Adam M. Booth;Josh J. Roering;J. Taylor Perron

  • Climatic controls on frost cracking and implications for the evolution of bedrock landscapes

    Tristram Hales;Joshua J. Roering

  • Hillslope evolution by nonlinear, slope‐dependent transport: Steady state morphology and equilibrium adjustment timescales

    Joshua J. Roering;James W. Kirchner;William E. Dietrich

  • Functional relationships between denudation and hillslope form and relief

    Joshua J. Roering;J. Taylor Perron;James W. Kirchner

  • Evidence for biotic controls on topography and soil production

    Joshua J. Roering;Jill Marshall;Adam M. Booth;Michele Mort

  • Hillslope evolution by nonlinear creep and landsliding: An experimental study

    Joshua J. Roering;James W. Kirchner;Leonard S. Sklar;William E. Dietrich

  • Reviews and syntheses: on the roles trees play in building and plumbing the critical zone

    Susan L. Brantley;David M. Eissenstat;Jill A. Marshall;Jill A. Marshall;Sarah E. Godsey

  • How well can hillslope evolution models “explain” topography? Simulating soil transport and production with high-resolution topographic data

    Joshua J. Roering

  • Characterizing structural and lithologic controls on deep-seated landsliding: Implications for topographic relief and landscape evolution in the Oregon Coast Range, USA

    Joshua J. Roering;James W. Kirchner;William E. Dietrich

  • Controls on the seasonal deformation of slow-moving landslides

    Alexander L. Handwerger;Joshua J. Roering;David A. Schmidt

  • A lithospheric instability origin for Columbia River flood basalts and Wallowa Mountains uplift in northeast Oregon

    Tristram Hales;D. L. Abt;D. L. Abt;E. D. Humphreys;Joshua J. Roering

  • Climate-controlled variations in scree production, Southern Alps, New Zealand

    Tristram Hales;Joshua J. Roering

  • 'You are HERE': Connecting the dots with airborne lidar for geomorphic fieldwork

    Joshua J. Roering;Benjamin H. Mackey;Jill A. Marshall;Kristin E. Sweeney

  • Fire and the evolution of steep, soil-mantled landscapes

    Joshua J. Roering;Molly Gerber

  • Sediment yield, spatial characteristics, and the long-term evolution of active earthflows determined from airborne LiDAR and historical aerial photographs, Eel River, California

    Benjamin H. Mackey;Joshua J. Roering

Frequent Co-Authors

William E. Dietrich
William E. Dietrich University of California, Berkeley
Daniel G. Gavin
Daniel G. Gavin University of Oregon
Darryl E. Granger
Darryl E. Granger Purdue University West Lafayette
David R. Montgomery
David R. Montgomery University of Washington
Rebecca J. Dorsey
Rebecca J. Dorsey University of Oregon
Leonard S. Sklar
Leonard S. Sklar Concordia University
Douglas R. Toomey
Douglas R. Toomey University of Oregon
Gregory E. Tucker
Gregory E. Tucker University of Colorado Boulder
Patrick J. Bartlein
Patrick J. Bartlein University of Oregon

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