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Earth Science 48 3902 3579 270 255 167 6742

Klaus Wemmer publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Klaus Wemmer between 1994 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Klaus Wemmer published across 32 years, from 1994 to 2025, averaging 5.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 14 publications in 2017. 14 of the 184 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1994 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 14. Peak 14 publications in 2017. 1994: 2 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 2 publications 1997: 6 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 9 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 13 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 11 publications 2014: 3 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 14 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 13 publications 2020: 3 publications 2021: 9 publications 2022: 6 publications 2023: 4 publications 2024: 7 publications 2025: 7 publications
1994 2025

184 publications in total across all disciplines

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Klaus Wemmer: publications per year, 1994 to 2025
Year Publications
1994 2
1995 0
1996 2
1997 6
1998 0
1999 0
2000 3
2001 5
2002 2
2003 4
2004 6
2005 2
2006 7
2007 8
2008 9
2009 4
2010 6
2011 13
2012 5
2013 11
2014 3
2015 5
2016 9
2017 14
2018 9
2019 13
2020 3
2021 9
2022 6
2023 4
2024 7
2025 7
Total 184
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Klaus Wemmer 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 Klaus Wemmer 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, 158–167 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: 167 publications — 48th percentile

48% 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
158–167 458 167
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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Klaus Wemmer 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 Klaus Wemmer 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, 48 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: 48 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% 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 48
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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Overview

Klaus Wemmer is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and focuses their research within Earth and Planetary Sciences, producing significant work across related subfields such as Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, and Paleontology. Their involvement in the scientific community includes contributions that also intersect with Computer Science, especially in topics related to Artificial Intelligence.

The main areas of Klaus Wemmer's research include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials

Wemmer has frequently published in several academic venues, including:

  • Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Journal of the Geological Society
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Journal of Structural Geology

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Klaus Wemmer include:

  • From widespread faulting to localised rifting: Evidence from K-Ar fault gouge dates from the Norwegian North Sea rift shoulder (2021, Basin Research)
  • Dating recurrent shear zone activity and the transition from ductile to brittle deformation: White mica geochronology applied to the Neoproterozoic Dom Feliciano Belt in South Brazil (2020, Journal of Structural Geology)
  • Archean to early Neoproterozoic crustal growth of the southern South American Platform and its wide-reaching "African" origins (2022, Precambrian Research)
  • Potential, premises, and pitfalls of interpreting illite argon dates - A case study from the German Variscides (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Provenance of metasedimentary rocks of the western Dom Feliciano Belt in Uruguay: Insights from U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology, Hf and Nd model ages, and geochemical data (2021, Journal of South American Earth Sciences)

Collaborations feature prominently in Wemmer's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Mathias Hueck
  • Sebastián Oriolo
  • Pedro Oyhantçabal
  • Siegfried Siegesmund
  • Miguel Ângelo Stipp Basei

Best Publications

  • The Río de la Plata Craton: a review of units, boundaries, ages and isotopic signature

    Pedro Oyhantçabal;Siegfried Siegesmund;Klaus Wemmer

  • New Age Constraints on the Metamorphic Evolution of the High‐Pressure/Low‐Temperature Belt in the Western Tianshan Mountains, NW China

    R. Klemd;M. Bröcker;B. R. Hacker;J. Gao

  • Proterozoic–Paleozoic development of the basement of the Central Andes (18–26°S) — a mobile belt of the South American craton

    F. Lucassen;R. Becchio;R. Becchio;H.G. Wilke;G. Franz

  • Post-collisional transition from calc-alkaline to alkaline magmatism during transcurrent deformation in the southernmost Dom Feliciano Belt (Braziliano-Pan-African, Uruguay)

    Pedro Oyhantçabal;Siegfried Siegesmund;Klaus Wemmer;Robert Frei

  • Geochronological constraints on the evolution of the southern Dom Feliciano Belt (Uruguay)

    Pedro Oyhantçabal;Siegfried Siegesmund;Klaus Wemmer;Sergey Presnyakov

  • La Pacana caldera, N. Chile: a re-evaluation of the stratigraphy and volcanology of one of the world's largest resurgent calderas

    J.M Lindsay;S de Silva;R Trumbull;R Emmermann

  • Contemporaneous assembly of Western Gondwana and final Rodinia break-up: Implications for the supercontinent cycle

    Sebastián Oriolo;Pedro Oyhantçabal;Klaus Wemmer;Siegfried Siegesmund

  • Accretion of first Gondwana-derived terranes at the margin of Baltica

    Z. Belka;P. Valverde-Vaquero;P. Valverde-Vaquero;W. Dörr;H. Ahrendt

  • Thermal and Tectonic History of the Ordos Basin, China: Evidence from Apatite Fission Track Analysis, Vitrinite Reflectance, and K-Ar Dating

    Meng-Wei Zhao;Hans-Jurgen Behr;Hans Ahrendt;Klaus Wemmer

  • Ordovician metamorphism and plutonism in the Sierra de Quilmes metamorphic complex: Implications for the tectonic setting of the northern Sierras Pampeanas (NW Argentina)

    S.H Büttner;S.H Büttner;J Glodny;F Lucassen;K Wemmer

  • Geochronology of shear zones – A review

    Sebastián Oriolo;Klaus Wemmer;Pedro Oyhantçabal;Haakon Fossen

  • Origin of illite in the lower Paleozoic of the Illinois basin: Evidence for brine migrations

    Georg H. Grathoff;Duane M. Moore;Richard L. Hay;Klaus Wemmer

  • Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic events in the Sierra de San Luis: implications for the Famatinian geodynamics in the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas (Argentina)

    André Steenken;Siegfried Siegesmund;Mónica G. López de Luchi;Robert Frei

  • Post‐Variscan thermal and tectonic evolution of the KTB site and its surroundings

    G. A. Wagner;D. A. Coyle;J. Duyster;F. Henjes-Kunst

  • The Baltica-Gondwana suture in central Europe: evidence from K-Ar ages of detrital muscovites and biogeographical data

    Z. Belka;H. Ahrendt;W. Franke;K. Wemmer

  • Provenance of the late Proterozoic to early Cambrian metaclastic sediments of the Sierra de San Luis (Eastern Sierras Pampeanas) and Cordillera Oriental, Argentina

    Malte Drobe;Mónica G. López de Luchi;André Steenken;Robert Frei

  • Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic data on the Birimian of the Kedougou-Kenieba Inlier (Eastern Senegal): Implications on the Palaeoproterozoic evolution of the West African Craton

    Sabine Pawlig;Mamadou Gueye;Ralf Klischies;Stefan Schwarz

  • U/Pb and Sm/Nd dating on ophiolitic rocks of the Song Ma suture zone (northern Vietnam): Evidence for upper paleozoic paleotethyan lithospheric remnants

    Nguyễn V. Vượng;Bent T. Hansen;Klaus Wemmer;Claude Lepvrier

  • Time constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas (Central Argentina)

    Siegfried Siegesmund;Andre Steenken;Roberto D. Martino;Klaus Wemmer

  • Major shear zones of southern Brazil and Uruguay: escape tectonics in the eastern border of Rio de La plata and Paranapanema cratons during the Western Gondwana amalgamation

    C. R. Passarelli;M. A. S. Basei;K. Wemmer;O. Siga

  • Structural Inheritance and Rapid Rift-Length Establishment in a Multiphase Rift: The East Greenland Rift System and its Caledonian Orogenic Ancestry

    Atle Rotevatn;Thomas Berg Kristensen;Anna Katharina Ksienzyk;Klaus Wemmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Siegfried Siegesmund
Siegfried Siegesmund University of Göttingen
István Dunkl
István Dunkl University of Göttingen
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei
Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei Universidade de São Paulo
Paul W. Layer
Paul W. Layer University of Alaska Fairbanks
Robert Frei
Robert Frei University of Copenhagen
Haakon Fossen
Haakon Fossen University of Bergen
Gerhard Franz
Gerhard Franz Technical University of Berlin
Susanne Schmidt
Susanne Schmidt University of Bonn
Hilmar von Eynatten
Hilmar von Eynatten University of Göttingen
Dirk Frei
Dirk Frei University of the Western Cape

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