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Karl B. Föllmi 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 Karl B. Föllmi sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 190 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Karl B. Föllmi 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 Karl B. Föllmi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Karl B. Föllmi is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans several areas within Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on ocean engineering, paleontology, geochemistry, and mechanics of materials.

Their work prominently addresses topics including reservoir engineering and simulation methods, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geochemistry and elemental analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, drilling and well engineering, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, and mercury impact and mitigation studies.

Recent publications by Karl B. Föllmi include:

  • Effect of Intense Weathering and Postdepositional Degradation of Organic Matter on Hg/TOC Proxy in Organic-rich Sediments and its Implications for Deep-Time Investigations, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Pliensbachian environmental perturbations and their potential link with volcanic activity: Swiss and British geochemical records, 2020, Sedimentary Geology
  • Paleoenvironment and paleobiogeography of Lower Cretaceous carbonate successions of the northern Tethyan margin: Examples from Northeastern and Central Iran, 2021, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • Late Toarcian continental palaeoenvironmental conditions: An example from the Cañadón Asfalto Formation in southern Argentina, 2020, Gondwana Research
  • Organic Matter Sulfurization as a Mechanism of Enhanced Burial of Reduced Carbon and Sulfur Across the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, 2020, Goldschmidt Abstracts

Karl B. Föllmi frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Kiyoshi Suyehiro
  • James C. Ingle
  • Marta T von Breymann
  • James S. Bristow
  • Lloyd H. Burckle

Their work has been published repeatedly in certain venues, indicating ongoing engagement with these platforms:

  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Sedimentary Geology
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Best Publications

  • The phosphorus cycle, phosphogenesis and marine phosphate-rich deposits

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  • Correlation of Early Cretaceous carbon isotope stratigraphy and platform drowning events: a possible link?

    Helmut Weissert;Andrea Lini;Karl B. Föllmi;O. Kuhn

  • Early Cretaceous life, climate and anoxia

    K.B. Föllmi

  • Phosphogenesis, carbon-isotope stratigraphy, and carbonate-platform evolution along the Lower Cretaceous northern Tethyan margin

    Karl B. Föllmi;Helmut Weissert;Martin Bisping;Hanspeter Funk

  • Interactions between environmental change and shallow water carbonate buildup along the northern Tethyan margin and their impact on the Early Cretaceous carbon isotope record

    Karl B. Föllmi;Alexis Godet;Stephane Bodin;Pascal Linder

  • Phosphorus and the roles of productivity and nutrient recycling during oceanic anoxic event 2

    Haydon P. Mort;Thierry Adatte;Karl B. Föllmi;Gerta Keller

  • The Cenomanian/Turonian anoxic event at the Bonarelli Level in Italy and Spain: enhanced productivity and/or better preservation?

    Haydon Mort;Olivier Jacquat;Thierry Adatte;Philip Steinmann

  • 160 m.y. record of marine sedimentary phosphorus burial: Coupling of climate and continental weathering under greenhouse and icehouse conditions

    Karl B. Föllmi

  • Variations in the Global Phosphorus Cycle

    J. Compton;D. Mallinson;C. R. Glenn;G. Filippelli

  • Polar record of Early Jurassic massive carbon injection

    Guillaume Suan;Guillaume Suan;Boris L. Nikitenko;Mikhail A. Rogov;François Baudin

  • Continental weathering and redox conditions during the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in the northwestern Tethys: Insight from the Posidonia Shale section in the Swiss Jura Mountains

    Jean-Carlos Montero-Serrano;Jean-Carlos Montero-Serrano;Jean-Carlos Montero-Serrano;Karl B. Föllmi;Thierry Adatte;Jorge E. Spangenberg

  • Investigating the history of East Asian monsoon and climate during the last glacial-interglacial period (0-140 000 years): Mineralogy and geochemistry of ODP Sites 1143 and 1144, South China Sea

    F. Tamburini;T. Adatte;K. Föllmi;S.M. Bernasconi

  • Paleoceanographic changes during the early Cretaceous (Valanginian-Hauterivian): evidence from oxygen and carbon stable isotopes

    Bas van de Schootbrugge;Karl B. Föllmi;Luc G. Bulot;Stephen J. Burns

  • Platform-induced clay-mineral fractionation along a northern Tethyan basin-platform transect: implications for the interpretation of Early Cretaceous climate change (Late Hauterivian-Early Aptian)

    Alexis Godet;Stéphane Bodin;Thierry Adatte;Karl B. Föllmi

  • Carbon cycle perturbation and stabilization in the wake of the Triassic‐Jurassic boundary mass‐extinction event

    B. van de Schootbrugge;J. L. Payne;A. Tomasovych;J. Pross

  • Progressive palaeoenvironmental change during the Late Barremian-Early Aptian as prelude to Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a: Evidence from the Gorgo a Cerbara section (Umbria-Marche basin, central Italy)

    Melody Stein;Karl B. Föllmi;Stéphane Westermann;Alexis Godet

  • Rapid changes in the redox conditions of the western Tethys Ocean during the early Aptian oceanic anoxic event

    Stéphane Westermann;Stéphane Westermann;Melody Stein;Virginie Matera;Nicolas Fiet

  • Evolution of the marine stable carbon-isotope record during the early Cretaceous : A focus on the late Hauterivian and Barremian in the Tethyan realm

    Alexis Godet;Stéphane Bodin;Karl B. Föllmi;Jean Vermeulen

  • Carbonate platform evidence of ocean acidification at the onset of the early Toarcian oceanic anoxic event

    Alberto Trecalli;Jorge Spangenberg;Thierry Adatte;Karl B. Föllmi

  • Demise of the northern Tethyan Urgonian carbonate platform and subsequent transition towards pelagic conditions: The sedimentary record of the Col de la Plaine Morte area, central Switzerland

    Karl B. Föllmi;François Gainon

  • Early Cretaceous (late Berriasian to early Aptian) palaeoceanographic change along the northwestern Tethyan margin (Vocontian Trough, southeastern France): δ13C, δ18O and Sr-isotope belemnite and whole-rock records

    Stéphane Bodin;Nicolas Fiet;Alexis Godet;Virginie Matera

Frequent Co-Authors

Thierry Adatte
Thierry Adatte University of Lausanne
Jorge E. Spangenberg
Jorge E. Spangenberg University of Lausanne
Dominik Fleitmann
Dominik Fleitmann University of Basel
Guillaume Suan
Guillaume Suan University of Lyon System
Ulrich Heimhofer
Ulrich Heimhofer University of Hannover
Bas van de Schootbrugge
Bas van de Schootbrugge Utrecht University
Emanuela Mattioli
Emanuela Mattioli Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Larryn William Diamond
Larryn William Diamond University of Bern
Stephan Kempe
Stephan Kempe Technical University of Darmstadt
Charles S. Cockell
Charles S. Cockell University of Edinburgh

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