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Mordechai Stein 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 Mordechai Stein sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 216 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mordechai Stein 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 Mordechai Stein sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Israel Leader Award
  • 2019 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

Overview

Mordechai Stein is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing extensively on various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, Paleontology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's body of work revolves around several key research topics:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Karst Systems and Hydrogeology
  • Geological formations and processes

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Mordechai Stein include:

  • Carbonate 17Oexcess as a paleo-hydrology proxy: Triple oxygen isotope fractionation between H2O and biogenic aragonite, derived from freshwater mollusks, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Revised chronology of the ICDP Dead Sea deep drill core relates drier-wetter-drier climate cycles to insolation over the past 220 kyr, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Synoptic stability and anomalies in NE China inferred from dust provenance of Sihailongwan maar sediments during the past ∼80 kyr, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Droughts, flooding events, and shifts in water sources and seasonality characterize last interglacial Levant climate, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Development of the Nile Littoral Cell during the past 8.2 kyr, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequent collaboration has been established with several researchers, notably:

  • Boáz Lazar
  • S. L. Goldstein
  • Yael Kiro
  • Ittai Gavrieli
  • Amir Sandler

The most common venues for scientific dissemination include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Quaternary Research
  • CATENA

Mordechai Stein has been recognized with the Geochemistry Fellow Honor by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Mantle plumes and episodic crustal growth

    M. Stein;A. W. Hofmann

  • Holocene climate variability and cultural evolution in the Near East from the Dead Sea sedimentary record

    Claudia Migowski;Mordechai Stein;Sushma Prasad;Jörg F.W. Negendank

  • Lake Levels and Sequence Stratigraphy of Lake Lisan, the Late Pleistocene Precursor of the Dead Sea

    Yuval Bartov;Mordechai Stein;Yehouda Enzel;Amotz Agnon

  • Long-term earthquake clustering: A 50,000-year paleoseismic record in the Dead Sea Graben

    Shmuel Marco;Mordechai Stein;Amotz Agnon;Hagai Ron

  • Late Holocene climates of the Near East deduced from Dead Sea level variations and modern regional winter rainfall

    Yehouda Enzel;Revital Bookman;David Sharon;Haim Gvirtzman

  • From plume head to continental lithosphere in the Arabian–Nubian shield

    Mordechai Stein;Steven L. Goldstein;Steven L. Goldstein

  • The Petrogenesis of A-type Magmas from the Amram Massif, Southern Israel

    Amit Mushkin;Oded Navon;Ludwik Halicz;Gerald Hartmann

  • Stable isotope records of Late Quaternary climate and hydrology from Mediterranean lakes : the ISOMED synthesis

    Neil Roberts;M.D. Jones;A. Benkaddour;W. J. Eastwood

  • Strontium isotopic, chemical, and sedimentological evidence for the evolution of Lake Lisan and the Dead Sea

    M. Stein;A. Starinsky;A. Katz;S.L. Goldstein

  • Catastrophic arid episodes in the Eastern Mediterranean linked with the North Atlantic Heinrich events

    Yuval Bartov;Steven L. Goldstein;Mordechai Stein;Yehouda Enzel

  • Late Holocene lake levels of the Dead Sea

    R. Bookman;Y. Enzel;A. Agnon;M. Stein

  • Recurrence pattern of Holocene earthquakes along the Dead Sea transform revealed by varve-counting and radiocarbon dating of lacustrine sediments

    Claudia Migowski;Amotz Agnon;Revital Bookman;Jörg F.W Negendank

  • Fossil plume head beneath the Arabian lithosphere

    Mordechai Stein;Albrecht W. Hofmann

  • TIMS U-series dating and stable isotopes of the last interglacial event in Papua New Guinea

    M Stein;G.J Wasserburg;P Aharon;J.H Chen

  • High-resolution geological record of historic earthquakes in the Dead Sea basin

    Revital Ken-Tor;Amotz Agnon;Yehouda Enzel;Mordechai Stein

  • U-Th dating of Lake Lisan (late Pleistocene dead sea) aragonite and implications for glacial east Mediterranean climate change

    Alexandra Haase-Schramm;Steven L. Goldstein;Steven L. Goldstein;Mordechai Stein;Mordechai Stein

  • The sedimentary and geochemical record of Neogene- Quaternary water bodies in the Dead Sea Basin - inferences for the regional paleoclimatic history*

    Mordechai Stein

  • Holocene climate variability in the Levant from the Dead Sea pollen record

    Thomas Litt;Christian Ohlwein;Frank H. Neumann;Andreas Hense

  • Impacts of abrupt climate changes in the Levant from Last Glacial Dead Sea levels

    Adi Torfstein;Steven L. Goldstein;Steven L. Goldstein;Mordechai Stein;Yehouda Enzel

  • The Sahara-East Mediterranean dust and climate connection revealed by strontium and uranium isotopes in a Jerusalem speleothem

    Amos Frumkin;Mordechai Stein

  • Calibration of the 14C time scale to > 40 ka by 234U-230Th dating of Lake Lisan sediments (last glacial Dead Sea)

    Alexandra Schramm;Mordechai Stein;Steven L Goldstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Boaz Lazar
Boaz Lazar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Steven L. Goldstein
Steven L. Goldstein Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Amotz Agnon
Amotz Agnon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ittai Gavrieli
Ittai Gavrieli Geological Survey of Israel
Frank Neumann
Frank Neumann University of Adelaide
Yehouda Enzel
Yehouda Enzel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shmuel Marco
Shmuel Marco Tel Aviv University
Yigal Erel
Yigal Erel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yoseph Yechieli
Yoseph Yechieli Geological Survey of Israel
Ahuva Almogi-Labin
Ahuva Almogi-Labin Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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