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Peter John Huybers

Peter John Huybers

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 48 3767 3452 1485 1318 243 9781

Peter John Huybers publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Peter John Huybers between 2001 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Peter John Huybers published across 25 years, from 2001 to 2025, averaging 14 papers a year. Output peaked at 28 publications in 2015. 24 of the 351 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2001 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 28. Peak 28 publications in 2015. 2001: 2 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 4 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 9 publications 2009: 18 publications 2010: 20 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 17 publications 2013: 18 publications 2014: 19 publications 2015: 28 publications 2016: 22 publications 2017: 20 publications 2018: 20 publications 2019: 27 publications 2020: 25 publications 2021: 14 publications 2022: 17 publications 2023: 11 publications 2024: 8 publications 2025: 16 publications
2001 2025

351 publications in total across all disciplines

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Peter John Huybers: publications per year, 2001 to 2025
Year Publications
2001 2
2002 2
2003 3
2004 4
2005 4
2006 7
2007 8
2008 9
2009 18
2010 20
2011 12
2012 17
2013 18
2014 19
2015 28
2016 22
2017 20
2018 20
2019 27
2020 25
2021 14
2022 17
2023 11
2024 8
2025 16
Total 351
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Peter John Huybers 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 Peter John Huybers 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, 238–247 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: 243 publications — 76th percentile

76% 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
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243 243
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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Peter John Huybers 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 Peter John Huybers 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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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2009 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2009 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Peter John Huybers is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily covers Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Oceanography.

The scholar's work addresses core topics including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Peter John Huybers has published extensively in well-known venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Climate (10 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (6 publications)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (5 publications)
  • Harvard Dataverse (5 publications)

Recent papers illustrate a range of interdisciplinary concerns and include:

  • Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric evaporative demand is important for accurately predicting US maize yields (2020, Nature Food)
  • The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Sustainable food systems and nutrition in the 21st century: a report from the 22nd annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium (2021, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
  • Global evidence for ultraviolet radiation decreasing COVID-19 growth rates (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • More accurate specification of water supply shows its importance for global crop production (2022, Nature Food)

Huybers frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Duo Chan (18 joint publications)
  • Jonathan Proctor (17 joint publications)
  • A. J. Rigden (11 joint publications)
  • Parker Liautaud (8 joint publications)
  • Tamma Carleton (7 joint publications)

Their recognition includes several awards from the American Geophysical Union and the MacArthur Foundation, received in 2009, among them the James B. Macelwane Medal and fellowships from both the AGU and the MacArthur Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations

    T. Naish;T. Naish;R. Powell;R. Levy;R. Levy;G. Wilson

  • Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence

    Michael McCormick;Ulf Büntgen;Mark A. Cane;Edward R. Cook

  • Early Pleistocene Glacial Cycles and the Integrated Summer Insolation Forcing

    Peter John Huybers

  • Obliquity pacing of the late Pleistocene glacial terminations

    Peter John Huybers;Carl Wunsch

  • Links between annual, Milankovitch and continuum temperature variability

    Peter John Huybers;William Thomas Curry

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E.J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H.A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

  • Feedback between deglaciation, volcanism, and atmospheric CO2

    Peter John Huybers;Charles H. Langmuir

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E. J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H. A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

  • Glacial variability over the last two million years: an extended depth-derived agemodel, continuous obliquity pacing, and the Pleistocene progression

    Peter Huybers

  • Antarctic temperature at orbital timescales controlled by local summer duration

    Peter John Huybers;George Denton

  • A Depth-Derived Pleistocene Age-Model: Uncertainty Estimates, Sedimentation Variability, and Nonlinear Climate Change

    Peter John Huybers;Carl Wunsch

  • Recent temperature extremes at high northern latitudes unprecedented in the past 600 years

    Martin Tingley;Peter John Huybers

  • Combined influence of soil moisture and atmospheric evaporative demand is important for accurately predicting US maize yields

    A. J. Rigden;N. D. Mueller;N. M. Holbrook;N. Pillai

  • Combined obliquity and precession pacing of late Pleistocene deglaciations

    Peter Huybers

  • Ocean surface temperature variability: Large model–data differences at decadal and longer periods

    Thomas R. Laepple;Peter John Huybers

  • Sea level as a stabilizing factor for marine-ice-sheet grounding lines

    Natalya Alissa Gomez;Jerry Mitrovica;Peter John Huybers;Peter U. Clark

  • Consequences of pacing the Pleistocene 100 kyr ice ages by nonlinear phase locking to Milankovitch forcing

    Eli Tziperman;Maureen E. Raymo;Peter John Huybers;Carl Wunsch

  • Unlocking the mysteries of the ice ages

    Maureen E. Raymo;Peter John Huybers

  • A detection of Milankovitch frequencies in global volcanic activity

    Steffen Kutterolf;Marion Jegen;Jerry Mitrovica;Tom Kwasnitschka

  • Reckoning wheat yield trends

    Marena Lin;Peter John Huybers

  • The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions

    Ulf Büntgen;Kathy Allen;Kathy Allen;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Dominique Arseneault

  • The Mean Age of Ocean Waters Inferred from Radiocarbon Observations: Sensitivity to Surface Sources and Accounting for Mixing Histories

    Geoffrey Gebbie;Peter John Huybers

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles H. Langmuir
Charles H. Langmuir Harvard University
Jerry X. Mitrovica
Jerry X. Mitrovica Harvard University
Jerry F. McManus
Jerry F. McManus Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Suzanne M. Carbotte
Suzanne M. Carbotte Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Gisela Winckler
Gisela Winckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Peter U. Clark
Peter U. Clark Oregon State University
N. Michele Holbrook
N. Michele Holbrook Harvard University
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay University of California, Davis
Carl Wunsch
Carl Wunsch Harvard University
Thomas Laepple
Thomas Laepple Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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