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Katharine W. Huntington

Katharine W. Huntington

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 36 7273 6727 2508 2215 143 4665

Katharine W. Huntington publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Katharine W. Huntington between 2005 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Katharine W. Huntington published across 22 years, from 2005 to 2026, averaging 7.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 15 publications in 2019. 11 of the 164 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2005 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 15. Peak 15 publications in 2019. 2005: 1 publication 2006: 3 publications 2007: 6 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 8 publications 2012: 3 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 8 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 12 publications 2018: 10 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 13 publications 2021: 12 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 7 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 10 publications 2026: 1 publication
2005 2026

164 publications in total across all disciplines

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Katharine W. Huntington: publications per year, 2005 to 2026
Year Publications
2005 1
2006 3
2007 6
2008 3
2009 5
2010 3
2011 8
2012 3
2013 7
2014 8
2015 11
2016 10
2017 12
2018 10
2019 15
2020 13
2021 12
2022 10
2023 7
2024 6
2025 10
2026 1
Total 164
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Katharine W. Huntington 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 Katharine W. Huntington sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 138–147 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 143 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491 143
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Katharine W. Huntington 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 Katharine W. Huntington sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 36 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389 36
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal), The Geological Society of America

Overview

Katharine W. Huntington is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses primarily on geology, paleoclimatology, and isotope geochemistry, covering a range of subfields including atmospheric science, ecology, earth-surface processes, geophysics, and paleontology.

The scientist's published work includes papers on carbonate clumped isotope thermometry and Quaternary geological processes. Among their recent publications are:

  • InterCarb: A Community Effort to Improve Interlaboratory Standardization of the Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer Using Carbonate Standards (2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems)
  • A Unified Clumped Isotope Thermometer Calibration (0.5-1,100°C) Using Carbonate-Based Standardization (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • A proxy for all seasons? A synthesis of clumped isotope data from Holocene soil carbonates (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Frontiers of Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometry (2023, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences)
  • Provenance and erosional impact of Quaternary megafloods through the Yarlung-Tsangpo Gorge from zircon U-Pb geochronology of flood deposits, eastern Himalaya (2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)

Frequent co-authors in Huntington's research network include Andrew J. Schauer (23 joint works), Susannah Morey (8), Emma Heitmann (8), Julia R. Kelson (7), and Daniel O. Breecker (6).

Their papers have been frequently published in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Geophysical Research Letters, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and Chemical Geology.

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Chemical Geology

Main areas of study for Huntington span several key topics:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Their research contributions have been recognized with awards such as the Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) from The Geological Society of America in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Methods and limitations of 'clumped' CO2 isotope (Delta47) analysis by gas-source isotope ratio mass spectrometry.

    K. W. Huntington;J. M. Eiler;H. P. Affek;W. Guo

  • A Unified Clumped Isotope Thermometer Calibration (0.5–1,100°C) Using Carbonate-Based Standardization

    Noah Anderson;J R Kelson;S Kele;M Daëron

  • Effects of Improved 17O Correction on Interlaboratory Agreement in Clumped Isotope Calibrations, Estimates of Mineral-Specific Offsets, and Temperature Dependence of Acid Digestion Fractionation

    S. V. Petersen;W. F. Defliese;W. F. Defliese;C. Saenger;M. Daëron

  • Toward a universal carbonate clumped isotope calibration: Diverse synthesis and preparatory methods suggest a single temperature relationship

    Julia R. Kelson;Katharine W. Huntington;Andrew J. Schauer;Casey Saenger;Casey Saenger

  • Choice of 17O correction affects clumped isotope (Δ47) values of CO2 measured with mass spectrometry

    Andrew J. Schauer;Julia Kelson;Casey Saenger;Katharine W. Huntington

  • Influence of climate change and uplift on Colorado Plateau paleotemperatures from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

    K. W. Huntington;B. P. Wernicke;J. M. Eiler

  • Use of Clumped-Isotope Thermometry to Constrain the Crystallization Temperature of Diagenetic Calcite

    Katharine W. Huntington;David A. Budd;Brian P. Wernicke;John M. Eiler

  • Climate change and Late Pliocene acceleration of erosion in the Himalaya

    Katharine W. Huntington;Ann E. Blythe;Ann E. Blythe;Kip V. Hodges

  • Plio‐Quaternary exhumation history of the central Nepalese Himalaya: 2. Thermokinematic and thermochronometer age prediction model

    David M. Whipp;Todd A. Ehlers;Ann E. Blythe;Ann E. Blythe;Katharine W. Huntington;Katharine W. Huntington

  • Hot or not? Impact of seasonally variable soil carbonate formation on paleotemperature and O-isotope records from clumped isotope thermometry

    Nathan A. Peters;Katharine W. Huntington;Gregory D. Hoke

  • Spatial controls on erosion in the Three Rivers Region, southeastern Tibet and southwestern China

    Amanda C. Henck;Katharine W. Huntington;John O. Stone;David R. Montgomery

  • Erosion of the Tsangpo Gorge by megafloods, Eastern Himalaya

    Karl A. Lang;Katharine W. Huntington;David R. Montgomery

  • Antecedence of the Yarlung–Siang–Brahmaputra River, eastern Himalaya

    Karl A. Lang;Katharine W. Huntington

  • Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry in continental tectonics

    Katharine W. Huntington;Alex R. Lechler;Alex R. Lechler

  • High late Miocene–Pliocene elevation of the Zhada Basin, southwestern Tibetan Plateau, from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

    Katharine W. Huntington;Joel Saylor;Jay Quade;Adam M. Hudson

  • A proxy for all seasons? A synthesis of clumped isotope data from Holocene soil carbonates

    Julia R. Kelson;Julia R. Kelson;Katharine W. Huntington;Daniel O. Breecker;Landon K. Burgener

  • Rapid exhumation of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis since the late Miocene

    Karl A. Lang;Katharine W. Huntington;Russ Burmester;Bernard Housen

  • The Geomorphic Impact of Outburst Floods: Integrating Observations and Numerical Simulations of the 2000 Yigong Flood, Eastern Himalaya

    Michael D. Turzewski;Katharine W. Huntington;Randall J. LeVeque

  • Syndepositional Deformation Features In High-Relief Carbonate Platforms: Long-Lived Conduits for Diagenetic Fluids

    David A. Budd;Edmund L. Frost;Katharine W. Huntington;Patricia F. Allwardt

  • The growth of the central Andes, 22°S–26°S

    J. Quade;M.P. Dettinger;B. Carrapa;P. DeCelles

  • Monsoon control of effective discharge, Yunnan and Tibet

    Amanda C. Henck;David R. Montgomery;Katharine W. Huntington;Chuan Liang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay Quade
Jay Quade University of Arizona
John M. Eiler
John M. Eiler California Institute of Technology
David R. Montgomery
David R. Montgomery University of Washington
Gregory D. Hoke
Gregory D. Hoke Syracuse University
Kip V. Hodges
Kip V. Hodges Arizona State University
Brian P. Wernicke
Brian P. Wernicke California Institute of Technology
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet University of Rennes
Randall J. LeVeque
Randall J. LeVeque University of Washington
Benjamin H. Passey
Benjamin H. Passey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Andreas Mulch
Andreas Mulch Goethe University Frankfurt

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