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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 50 3360 3076 156 138 183 10705

Katja Fennel publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Katja Fennel between 1999 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Katja Fennel published across 28 years, from 1999 to 2026, averaging 10.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 30 publications in 2023. 13 of the 303 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1999 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 30. Peak 30 publications in 2023. 1999: 3 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 3 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 12 publications 2009: 7 publications 2010: 7 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 8 publications 2014: 18 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 27 publications 2017: 18 publications 2018: 18 publications 2019: 23 publications 2020: 21 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 25 publications 2023: 30 publications 2024: 22 publications 2025: 12 publications 2026: 1 publication
1999 2026

303 publications in total across all disciplines

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Katja Fennel: publications per year, 1999 to 2026
Year Publications
1999 3
2000 1
2001 3
2002 0
2003 4
2004 2
2005 5
2006 2
2007 3
2008 12
2009 7
2010 7
2011 5
2012 7
2013 8
2014 18
2015 9
2016 27
2017 18
2018 18
2019 23
2020 21
2021 10
2022 25
2023 30
2024 22
2025 12
2026 1
Total 303
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Katja Fennel 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 Katja Fennel 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, 178–187 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: 183 publications — 56th percentile

56% 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
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414 183
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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Katja Fennel 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 Katja Fennel 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, 50 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: 50 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% 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
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 50
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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Overview

Katja Fennel is a researcher affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Oceanography, with significant contributions to subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

Their scholarly work extensively covers a range of topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics. Other notable topics include ocean acidification effects and responses, marine biology and ecology research, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Katja Fennel has published in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • State of the Planet
  • Limnology and Oceanography

Their recent publications feature the following:

  • "Monitoring ocean biogeochemistry with autonomous platforms" (2020) in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Ocean biogeochemical modelling" (2022) in Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • "Reanalysis in Earth System Science: Toward Terrestrial Ecosystem Reanalysis" (2021) in Reviews of Geophysics
  • "A Synthesis of Global Coastal Ocean Greenhouse Gas Fluxes" (2024) in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "An observation-based evaluation and ranking of historical Earth system model simulations in the northwest North Atlantic Ocean" (2021) in Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Katja Fennel include:

  • Bin Wang
  • Arnaud Laurent
  • Krysten Rutherford
  • Adam C. Stoer
  • Lina Garcia Suarez

Best Publications

  • Ocean forecasting in terrain-following coordinates: Formulation and skill assessment of the Regional Ocean Modeling System

    D. B. Haidvogel;H. Arango;W. P. Budgell;B. D. Cornuelle

  • Nitrogen cycling in the Middle Atlantic Bight: Results from a three‐dimensional model and implications for the North Atlantic nitrogen budget

    Katja Fennel;John Wilkin;Julia Levin;John Moisan

  • On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

    Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

  • The rise of oxygen over the past 205 million years and the evolution of large placental mammals.

    Paul G. Falkowski;Miriam E. Katz;Allen J. Milligan;Katja Fennel

  • Biogeochemical Controls on Coastal Hypoxia

    Katja Fennel;Jeremy M Testa

  • Globally consistent quantitative observations of planktonic ecosystems

    F. Lombard;F. Lombard;E. Boss;A.M. Waite;J. Uitz

  • Subsurface maxima of phytoplankton and chlorophyll: Steady-state solutions from a simple model

    Katja Fennel;Emmanuel Boss

  • A reevaluation of the magnitude and impacts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen inputs on the ocean

    T. D. Jickells;E. Buitenhuis;K. Altieri;A. R. Baker

  • Testing a marine ecosystem model: Sensitivity analysis and parameter optimization

    Katja Fennel;Martin Losch;Jens Schröter;Manfred Wenzel

  • Denitrification effects on air-sea CO2 flux in the coastal ocean: Simulations for the northwest North Atlantic

    Katja Fennel;John Wilkin;Michael Previdi;Raymond Najjar

  • The co-evolution of the nitrogen, carbon and oxygen cycles in the Proterozoic ocean

    Katja Fennel;Mick Follows;Paul G. Falkowski

  • Monitoring ocean biogeochemistry with autonomous platforms

    Fei Chai;Fei Chai;Kenneth S. Johnson;Hervé Claustre;Xiaogang Xing

  • Biological overprint of the geological carbon cycle

    Miriam E. Katz;James D. Wright;Kenneth G. Miller;Benjamin S. Cramer

  • A coupled physical-biological model of the Northern Gulf of Mexico shelf: model description, validation and analysis of phytoplankton variability

    K. Fennel;R. Hetland;Y. Feng;S. DiMarco

  • Sensitivity of hypoxia predictions for the northern Gulf of Mexico to sediment oxygen consumption and model nesting

    Katja Fennel;Jiatang Hu;Jiatang Hu;Arnaud Laurent;Martinho Marta-Almeida

  • What proportion of riverine nutrients reaches the open ocean

    Jonathan Sharples;Jack J. Middelburg;Katja Fennel;Timothy D. Jickells

  • Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report

    Karina von Schuckmann;Pierre-Yves Le Traon;Neville Smith;Ananda Pascual

  • Modeling denitrification in aquatic sediments

    Katja Fennel;Damian Brady;Dominic DiToro;Robinson W. Fulweiler

  • Developing priority variables (“ecosystem Essential Ocean Variables” — eEOVs) for observing dynamics and change in Southern Ocean ecosystems

    Andrew J. Constable;Andrew J. Constable;Daniel P. Costa;Oscar Schofield;Louise Newman

  • Eutrophication‐induced acidification of coastal waters in the northern Gulf of Mexico: insights into origin and processes from a coupled physical‐biogeochemical model

    Arnaud Laurent;Katja Fennel;Wei-Jun Cai;Wei-Jen Huang;Wei-Jen Huang

  • Advancing marine biogeochemical and ecosystem reanalyses and forecasts as tools for monitoring and managing ecosystem health

    Katja Fennel;Marion Gehlen;Pierre Brasseur;Christopher Brown

  • Climate Change Projected to Exacerbate Impacts of Coastal Eutrophication in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Arnaud Laurent;Katja Fennel;Dong S. Ko;John Lehrter

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D. Hetland
Robert D. Hetland Texas A&M University
Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs
Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs Virginia Institute of Marine Science
John Wilkin
John Wilkin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Wei-Jun Cai
Wei-Jun Cai University of Delaware
Emmanuel Boss
Emmanuel Boss University of Maine
Ruoying He
Ruoying He North Carolina State University
Steven E. Lohrenz
Steven E. Lohrenz University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Hervé Claustre
Hervé Claustre Université Paris Cité
Paul G. Falkowski
Paul G. Falkowski Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ilana Berman-Frank
Ilana Berman-Frank University of Haifa

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