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Karin A F Zonneveld

Karin A F Zonneveld

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
45
Citations
7057
World Ranking
4493
National Ranking
315

Karin A F Zonneveld 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 Karin A F Zonneveld sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 289 publications — 85th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Karin A F Zonneveld 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 Karin A F Zonneveld sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Karin A F Zonneveld is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their research spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a notable focus on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, primarily concentrated on marine and environmental systems. These include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Karin A F Zonneveld has contributed recent publications addressing these themes. Representative recent papers include:

  • Climate change, society, and pandemic disease in Roman Italy between 200 BCE and 600 CE (2024), published in Science Advances
  • Spatial distribution of small microplastics in the Norwegian Coastal Current (2024), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Dinoflagellate cysts production, excystment and transport in the upwelling off Cape Blanc (NW Africa) (2022), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Flux variability of phyto- and zooplankton communities in the Mauritanian coastal upwelling between 2003 and 2008 (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • Better molecular preservation of organic matter in an oxic than in a sulfidic depositional environment: evidence from Thalassiphora pelagica (Dinoflagellata, Eocene) cysts (2020), published in Biogeosciences

The scientist frequently publishes in key venues including:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Collaborations have been a significant part of their academic output, with frequent co-authors such as:

  • Gerard J M Versteegh
  • Iria García-Moreiras
  • Ana Amorim
  • Jens Hefter
  • Vera Pospelova

Best Publications

  • Atlas of modern organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst distribution

    Fabienne Marret;Karin A.F. Zonneveld

  • Atlas of modern dinoflagellate cyst distribution based on 2405 data points

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Fabienne Marret;Gerard J.M. Versteegh;Kara Bogus

  • Selective preservation of organic matter in marine environments; processes and impact on the sedimentary record

    K. A. F. Zonneveld;G. J. M. Versteegh;Sabine Kasten;T. I. Eglinton

  • Preservation of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in different oxygen regimes: a 10,000 year natural experiment

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Gerard J.M. Versteegh;Gert J. de Lange

  • Palaeoproductivity and post-depositional aerobic organic matter decay reflected by dinoflagellate cyst assemblages of the Eastern Mediterranean S1 sapropel

    K.A.F. Zonneveld;G.J.M. Versteegh;G.J. de Lange

  • A Determination Key for Modern Dinoflagellate Cysts

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Vera Pospelova

  • Preservation and organic chemistry of Late Cenozoic organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts: A review

    Karin A F Zonneveld;Gerard Jm Versteegh;Monika Kodrans-Nsiah

  • Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: Investigating its potential as salinity proxy

    Kenneth N. Mertens;Sofia Ribeiro;Sofia Ribeiro;Ilham Bouimetarhan;Hulya Caner

  • Modem organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in arctic marine environments and their (paleo-) environmental significance

    Jens Matthiessen;Anne de Vernal;Martin Head;Yuri Okolodkov

  • (Palaeo-)ecological significance, transport and preservation of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in the Somali Basin, NW Arabian Sea

    Karin A.F Zonneveld;GeertJan A Brummer

  • Selective preservation of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts as a tool to quantify past net primary production and bottom water oxygen concentrations

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Frank Bockelmann;Ulrike Holzwarth

  • Use of selective degradation to separate preservation from productivity

    Gerard J.M. Versteegh;Karin A.F. Zonneveld

  • New species of organic walled dinoflagellate cysts from modern sediments of the Arabian Sea (Indian Ocean)

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld

  • Mechanisms forcing abrupt fluctuations of the Indian Ocean Summer Monsoon during the last deglaciation

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Gerald Ganssen;Simon Troelstra;Gerald J.M. Versteegh

  • Geographical distributions of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in surficial sediments of the Benguela upwelling region and their relationship to upper ocean conditions

    Karin A.F Zonneveld;Ramses P. Hoek;Henk Brinkhuis;Helmut Willems

  • Distribution of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in shelf surface sediments of the Benguela upwelling system in relationship to environmental conditions

    Ulrike Holzwarth;Oliver Esper;Karin A F Zonneveld

  • Environmental significance of dinoflagellate cysts from the proximal part of the Po-river discharge plume (off southern Italy, Eastern Mediterranean)

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Liang Chen;Jürgen Möbius;Magdy S. Mahmoud

  • Shifts in the position of the north equatorial current and rapid productivity changes in the western tropical Atlantic during the last glacial

    Annemiek Vink;Carsten Rühlemann;Karin A. F. Zonneveld;Stefan Mulitza

  • Geographic distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments

    Karin A F Zonneveld;Fabienne Marret;Gerard J M Versteegh;Kara A Bogus

  • An experimental field study to test the stability of lipids used for the TEX86 and UK'37 palaeothermometers

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Carme Huguet;Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Gerard J.M. Versteegh

  • Organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in western equatorial Atlantic surface sediments: distributions and their relation to environment.

    Annemiek Vink;Karin A.F Zonneveld;Helmut Willems

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard J M Versteegh
Gerard J M Versteegh University of Bremen
Sabine Kasten
Sabine Kasten University of Bremen
Lydie M Dupont
Lydie M Dupont University of Bremen
Gert J. de Lange
Gert J. de Lange Utrecht University
Stefan Mulitza
Stefan Mulitza University of Bremen
Karl-Heinz Baumann
Karl-Heinz Baumann University of Bremen
Enno Schefuß
Enno Schefuß University of Bremen
Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Gerhard Bohrmann
Gerhard Bohrmann University of Bremen

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