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D-Index
66
Citations
15799
World Ranking
2094
National Ranking
857

Karl W. Butzer publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karl W. Butzer sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 255 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Karl W. Butzer D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karl W. Butzer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1976 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Karl W. Butzer was a scholar affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their career included contributions recognized by prestigious institutions.

In 1976, they were named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Later, in 1996, they became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Details related to their research publications, co-authors, main fields, subfields, and specific research topics were not provided.

They passed away prior to the compilation of this profile.

Best Publications

  • Early hydraulic civilization in Egypt: A study in cultural ecology

    Karl Wilhelm Butzer

  • Environment and Archaeology

    Anthony J. Tankard;K. W. Butzer

  • Archaeology as human ecology : method and theory for a contextual approach

    Karl Wilhelm Butzer

  • Collapse, environment, and society

    Karl W. Butzer

  • Radiocarbon dating of East african lake levels.

    Karl W. Butzer;Glynn L. Isaac;Jonathan L. Richardson;Celia Washbourn-Kamau

  • Adaptation Opportunities, Constraints, and Limits

    Richard J.T. Klein;Guy F. Midgley;Benjamin L. Preston;Mozaharul Alam

  • Archaeology as human ecology

    John Parkington;K. W. Butzer

  • Adaptation Opportunities, Constraints, and Limits

    R J T Klein;G F Midgley;B Preston;Mozaharu Alam

  • Desert and River in Nubia: Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments at the Aswan Reservoir

    Karl Wilhelm Butzer;Carl L. Hansen;Egbert G. Leigh;Madeleine van Campo

  • Environmental history in the Mediterranean world: cross-disciplinary investigation of cause-and-effect for degradation and soil erosion

    Karl W. Butzer

  • Research and Development in the Stone Age: Technological Transitions among Hunter-Gatherers [and Comments and Reply]

    Brian Hayden;Sandra Bowdler;Karl W. Butzer;Mark N. Cohen

  • Critical perspectives on historical collapse

    Karl W. Butzer;Georgina H. Endfield

  • Early hydraulic civilization in Egypt

    Andrew B. Smith;Karl W. Butzer

  • Quaternary stratigraphy and climate in the Near East

    Karl Wilhelm Butzer

  • Late Cenozoic paleoclimates of the Gaap Escarpment, Kalahari margin, South Africa

    Karl W Butzer;R. Stuckenrath;A. J. Bruzewicz;D. M. Helgren

  • Adaptation opportunities, constraints and limits. Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

    R Klein;G Midgley;B Preston;M Alam

  • Environment and archeology;: An ecological approach to prehistory

    Karl Wilhelm Butzer

  • Ecology in the Long View: Settlement Histories, Agrosystemic Strategies, and Ecological Performance

    Karl W. Butzer

  • After the Australopithecines : stratigraphy, ecology, and culture, change in the Middle Pleistocene

    Karl Wilhelm Butzer;Glynn Llywelyn Isaac

  • Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt: A Study in Cultural Ecology

    Yi-Fu Tuan;Karl W. Butzer

  • Pre-Hispanic maya agriculture

    Karl W. Butzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Frans Berkhout
Frans Berkhout King's College London
W. J. Wouter Botzen
W. J. Wouter Botzen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Guy F. Midgley
Guy F. Midgley Stellenbosch University
Richard J.T. Klein
Richard J.T. Klein Stockholm Environment Institute
Benjamin L. Preston
Benjamin L. Preston RAND Corporation
Timothy Beach
Timothy Beach The University of Texas at Austin
Halvard Buhaug
Halvard Buhaug Peace Research Institute
Louis Scott
Louis Scott University of the Free State
Christian Pfister
Christian Pfister University of Bern
Kenneth Gregory
Kenneth Gregory University of Southampton

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