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Earth Science 35 7441 6891 2538 2243 157 8733

Nathaniel A. Lifton publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Nathaniel A. Lifton between 1992 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Nathaniel A. Lifton published across 34 years, from 1992 to 2025, averaging 5.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 15 publications in 2016. 14 of the 178 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1992 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 15. Peak 15 publications in 2016. 1992: 2 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 1 publication 1995: 0 publications 1996: 2 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 4 publications 2005: 6 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 7 publications 2009: 2 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 2 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 9 publications 2014: 12 publications 2015: 10 publications 2016: 15 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 13 publications 2019: 8 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 6 publications 2023: 11 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 8 publications
1992 2025

178 publications in total across all disciplines

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Nathaniel A. Lifton: publications per year, 1992 to 2025
Year Publications
1992 2
1993 1
1994 1
1995 0
1996 2
1997 1
1998 0
1999 0
2000 0
2001 2
2002 2
2003 1
2004 4
2005 6
2006 7
2007 3
2008 7
2009 2
2010 4
2011 2
2012 8
2013 9
2014 12
2015 10
2016 15
2017 13
2018 13
2019 8
2020 5
2021 7
2022 6
2023 11
2024 6
2025 8
Total 178
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Nathaniel A. Lifton 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 Nathaniel A. Lifton 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, 148–157 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: 157 publications — 43rd percentile

43% 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
148–157 495 157
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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Nathaniel A. Lifton 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 Nathaniel A. Lifton 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, 35 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: 35 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% 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 35
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
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

Nathaniel A. Lifton is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant body of work contributing to Environmental Science. Within these fields, key subfields include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Anthropology, and Paleontology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, particularly in Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Cryospheric studies and observations. Additional research interests include Landslides and related hazards, Polar Research and Ecology, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Climate change and permafrost, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Lifton has published extensively in various academic venues. Some of the most frequent publication venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Geochronology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The Cryosphere

Their recent scholarly articles cover diverse topics relevant to ice dynamics, paleo-ice sheet reconstructions, and Antarctic ice streams. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Nunataks as barriers to ice flow: implications for palaeo ice sheet reconstructions" (2021) published in The Cryosphere
  • "Regional sea-level highstand triggered Holocene ice sheet thinning across coastal Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica" (2022) published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Ice surface changes during recent glacial cycles along the Jutulstraumen and Penck Trough ice streams in western Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica" (2020) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Non-Steady-State 14C-10Be and Transient Hillslope Dynamics in Steep High Mountain Catchments" (2022) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "A thicker Antarctic ice stream during the mid-Pliocene warm period" (2023) published in Communications Earth & Environment

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Jane Lund Andersen
  • Arjen P. Stroeven
  • Jennifer C. H. Newall
  • Irina Rogozhina
  • Yûsuke Suganuma

Best Publications

  • A complete and easily accessible means of calculating surface exposure ages or erosion rates from 10Be and 26Al measurements

    Greg Balco;John O. Stone;Nathaniel A. Lifton;Tibor J. Dunai

  • Scaling in situ cosmogenic nuclide production rates using analytical approximations to atmospheric cosmic-ray fluxes

    Nathaniel Lifton;Tatsuhiko Sato;Tibor J. Dunai

  • Geological calibration of spallation production rates in the CRONUS-Earth project

    Brian Borchers;Shasta Marrero;Greg Balco;Marc Caffee

  • Cosmogenic nuclide systematics and the CRONUScalc program

    Shasta M. Marrero;Fred M. Phillips;Brian Borchers;Nathaniel Lifton

  • Addressing solar modulation and long-term uncertainties in scaling secondary cosmic rays for in situ cosmogenic nuclide applications

    Nathaniel A. Lifton;John W. Bieber;John M. Clem;Marc L. Duldig

  • Tectonic, climatic and lithologic influences on landscape fractal dimension and hypsometry : implications for landscape evolution in the San Gabriel Mountains, California

    Nathaniel A. Lifton;Clement G. Chase

  • The CREp program and the ICE-D production rate calibration database: A fully parameterizable and updated online tool to compute cosmic-ray exposure ages

    L.C.P. Martin;P.-H. Blard;G. Balco;J. Lavé

  • The CRONUS-Earth Project: A synthesis

    Fred M. Phillips;David C. Argento;Greg Balco;Marc W. Caffee

  • A cosmic trip: 25 years of cosmogenic nuclides in geology

    Darryl E. Granger;Nathaniel A. Lifton;Jane K. Willenbring

  • Scaling time-integrated in situ cosmogenic nuclide production rates using a continuous geomagnetic model

    Nathaniel Lifton;D.F. Smart;M.A. Shea

  • Geomagnetic effects on time-integrated cosmogenic nuclide production with emphasis on in situ 14C and 10Be

    Jeffrey S. Pigati;Nathaniel A. Lifton

  • A new extraction technique and production rate estimate for in situ cosmogenic 14C in quartz

    Nathaniel A. Lifton;A.J.Timothy Jull;Jay Quade

  • Development of low-background vacuum extraction and graphitization systems for 14C dating of old (40–60 ka) samples

    Jeffrey S. Pigati;Jay Quade;Jim Wilson;A.J. Timothy Jull

  • The Rhone Glacier was smaller than today for most of the Holocene

    Brent M. Goehring;Brent M. Goehring;Joerg M. Schaefer;Christian Schluechter;Nathaniel A. Lifton;Nathaniel A. Lifton

  • A reevaluation of in situ cosmogenic 3He production rates

    Brent M. Goehring;Mark D. Kurz;Greg Balco;Joerg M. Schaefer

  • Regional and global forcing of glacier retreat during the last deglaciation

    Jeremy D. Shakun;Peter U. Clark;Feng He;Feng He;Nathaniel A. Lifton

  • In situ cosmogenic nuclide production rate calibration for the CRONUS-Earth project from lake Bonneville, Utah, shoreline features

    Nathaniel Lifton;Marc Caffee;Robert C Finkel;Shasta Marrero

  • Implications of two Holocene time-dependent geomagnetic models for cosmogenic nuclide production rate scaling

    Nathaniel Lifton

  • Limited ice-sheet erosion and complex exposure histories derived from in situ cosmogenic 10Be, 26Al, and 14C on Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

    Gifford H. Miller;Jason P. Briner;Nathaniel A. Lifton;Robert C. Finkel

  • A millennial perspective on Arctic warming from 14C in quartz and plants emerging from beneath ice caps

    Rebecca K. Anderson;Gifford H. Miller;Jason P. Briner;Nathaniel A. Lifton

  • Evaluating the timing of former glacier expansions in the Tian Shan : A key step towards robust spatial correlations

    Robin Blomdin;Robin Blomdin;Arjen P. Stroeven;Jonathan M. Harbor;Jonathan M. Harbor;Nathaniel A. Lifton

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc W. Caffee
Marc W. Caffee Purdue University West Lafayette
Arjen P. Stroeven
Arjen P. Stroeven Stockholm University
Clas Hättestrand
Clas Hättestrand Stockholm University
Jakob Heyman
Jakob Heyman University of Gothenburg
Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
Jason P. Briner
Jason P. Briner University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Jon Harbor
Jon Harbor Purdue University West Lafayette
Krister N. Jansson
Krister N. Jansson Stockholm University
Robert C. Finkel
Robert C. Finkel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Joerg M. Schaefer
Joerg M. Schaefer Columbia University

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