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3780
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Julian P. Sachs 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 Julian P. Sachs sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 159 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Julian P. Sachs 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 Julian P. Sachs sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Julian P. Sachs is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has an extensive publication record focusing primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research intersects multiple subfields, including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Geography, Planning and Development, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, with notable emphasis on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Some of their recent publications include:

  • Human settlement of East Polynesia earlier, incremental, and coincident with prolonged South Pacific drought (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Central eastern China hydrological changes and ENSO-like variability over the past 1800 yr (2021) in Geology
  • Data-Model Comparisons of Tropical Hydroclimate Changes Over the Common Era (2021) in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Leaf Wax Hydrogen Isotopes as a Hydroclimate Proxy in the Tropical Pacific (2021) in Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Phytoplankton community changes in a coastal upwelling system during the last century (2023) in Global and Planetary Change

Julian P. Sachs frequently coauthors with a number of researchers, notably including Meixun Zhao, Rong Bi, Yaoyao Wang, Jiawei Gao, and Jie Shi. These repeated collaborations indicate ongoing partnerships in various studies within their fields of interest.

Their publications have appeared multiple times in key scientific venues. Among these, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) hosts the highest number of their works, followed by Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Organic Geochemistry. They also have multiple papers published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Communications Earth & Environment.

Best Publications

  • Molecular Paleohydrology: Interpreting the Hydrogen-Isotopic Composition of Lipid Biomarkers from Photosynthesizing Organisms

    Dirk Sachse;Isabelle Billault;Gabriel J. Bowen;Yoshito Chikaraishi

  • El Niño-Like Pattern in Ice Age Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature

    Athanasios Koutavas;Jean Lynch-Stieglitz;Thomas M. Marchitto;Julian P. Sachs

  • Southward movement of the Pacific intertropical convergence zone AD 1400-1850

    Julian P. Sachs;Dirk Sachse;Dirk Sachse;Rienk H. Smittenberg;Rienk H. Smittenberg;Zhaohui Zhang;Zhaohui Zhang

  • Coral reefs will transition to net dissolving before end of century

    Bradley D. Eyre;Tyler Cyronak;Patrick Drupp;Eric Heinen De Carlo

  • Oligotrophy and nitrogen fixation during eastern mediterranean sapropel events

    Julian P. Sachs;Daniel J. Repeta

  • The geochemical cycle of rhenium: a reconnaissance

    Debra Colodner;Julian Sachs;Gregory Ravizza;Karl Turekian

  • Holocene history of ENSO variance and asymmetry in the eastern tropical Pacific

    Matthieu Carré;Julian P. Sachs;Sara Purca;Andrew J. Schauer

  • Sea surface temperatures of southern midlatitudes 0–160 kyr B.P.

    Katharina Pahnke;Katharina Pahnke;Julian P. Sachs;Julian P. Sachs

  • Subtropical North Atlantic Temperatures 60,000 to 30,000 Years Ago

    Julian P. Sachs;Scott J. Lehman

  • The Southern Ocean's biological pump during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Robert F Anderson;Robert F Anderson;Zanna Chase;Zanna Chase;Zanna Chase;Martin Q Fleisher;Julian Sachs

  • Hydrogen isotope fractionation in freshwater algae: I. Variations among lipids and species

    Zhaohui Zhang;Julian P. Sachs

  • Stable isotope constraints on the nitrogen cycle of the Mediterranean Sea water column

    Silvio Pantoja;Daniel J Repeta;Julian P Sachs;Daniel M Sigman

  • Eastern tropical Pacific hydrologic changes during the past 27,000 years from D/H ratios in alkenones

    Katharina Pahnke;Katharina Pahnke;Julian P. Sachs;Julian P. Sachs;Lloyd D. Keigwin;Axel Timmermann

  • The 8200 year B.P. event in the slope water system, western subpolar North Atlantic

    Lloyd D. Keigwin;Julian P. Sachs;Yair Rosenthal;Edward A. Boyle

  • Nitrogen and carbon isotopic ratios of chlorophyll from marine phytoplankton

    Julian P. Sachs;Daniel J. Repeta;Ralf Goericke

  • Determination of sediment provenance at drift sites using hydrogen isotopes and unsaturation ratios in alkenones

    Amy C. Englebrecht;Julian P. Sachs

  • Use and legacy of mercury in the Andes.

    Colin A. Cooke;Holger Hintelmann;Jay J. Ague;Richard Burger

  • Cooling of Northwest Atlantic slope waters during the Holocene

    Julian P. Sachs

  • Glacial surface temperatures of the southeast Atlantic Ocean.

    Julian P. Sachs;Robert F. Anderson;Scott J. Lehman

  • A late-glacial high-resolution site and source temperature record derived from the EPICA Dome C isotope records (East Antarctica)

    Barbara Stenni;Jean Jouzel;V. Masson-Delmotte;Regine Röthlisberger

  • Increased productivity in the subantarctic ocean during Heinrich events.

    Julian P. Sachs;Robert F. Anderson

  • El Niño evolution during the Holocene revealed by a biomarker rain gauge in the Galápagos Islands

    Zhaohui Zhang;Zhaohui Zhang;Guillaume Leduc;Guillaume Leduc;Julian P. Sachs

  • SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL FOR "Molecular paleohydrology: interpreting the hydrogen-isotopic composition of lipid biomarkers from photosynthesizing organisms"

    Dirk Sachse;Isabelle Billault;Gabriel J. Bowen;Yoshito Chikaraishi

Frequent Co-Authors

Rienk H. Smittenberg
Rienk H. Smittenberg Stockholm University
Robert F. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson Columbia University
Dirk Sachse
Dirk Sachse University of Potsdam
Katharina Pahnke
Katharina Pahnke Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Meixun Zhao
Meixun Zhao Ocean University of China
Lloyd D Keigwin
Lloyd D Keigwin Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Stjepko Golubic
Stjepko Golubic Boston University
Scott J. Lehman
Scott J. Lehman Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
David Sear
David Sear University of Southampton

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