2026 Peter Landschützer: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	52	4352	4167	299	293	120	29551

Peter Landschützer publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Landschützer sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 690+

This scientist: 120 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Peter Landschützer D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Landschützer sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Peter Landschützer is a researcher affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their body of work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications in subfields such as Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include:

Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Marine and coastal ecosystems
Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Climate variability and models
Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Peter Landschützer has contributed to several recent scientific publications. Among these are:

Global Carbon Budget 2020, published in 2020 in Earth system science data
Global Carbon Budget 2021, published in 2022 in Earth system science data
Global Carbon Budget 2022, published in 2022 in Earth system science data
Global Carbon Budget 2023, published in 2023 in Earth system science data
Revised estimates of ocean-atmosphere CO2 flux are consistent with ocean carbon inventory, published in 2020 in Nature Communications

Their frequent co-authors include:

Judith Hauck
Nicolas Gruber
Christian Rödenbeck
Tatiana Ilyina
Corinne Le Quéré

Peter Landschützer's work appears frequently in several publication venues. The most common places of publication are:

Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Earth system science data
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Best Publications

Global Carbon Budget 2016

Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

4532
Citations
Global Carbon Budget 2015

C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;J. G. Canadell

3035
Citations
Global carbon budget 2014

C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

2742
Citations
Global Carbon Budget 2018

Corinne Le Quéré;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

2446
Citations
Global Carbon Budget 2020

Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael O'Sullivan;Matthew W. Jones;Robbie M. Andrew

2252
Citations
Global Carbon Budget 2019

Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Matthew W. Jones;Michael O'Sullivan;Robbie Andrew

1662
Citations
Global Carbon Budget 2017

Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

1267
Citations
Global Carbon Budget 2023

Unknown

1220
Citations
A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Benjamin Pfeil;Benjamin Pfeil;Camilla S. Landa;Camilla S. Landa;Nicolas Metzl

675
Citations
The reinvigoration of the Southern Ocean carbon sink

Peter Landschützer;Nicolas Gruber;F. Alexander Haumann;Christian Rödenbeck

560
Citations
Recent variability of the global ocean carbon sink

Peter Landschutzer;Peter Landschutzer;Nicholas Gruber;Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Ute Schuster

559
Citations
Decadal variations and trends of the global ocean carbon sink

Peter Landschützer;Peter Landschützer;Nicolas Gruber;Dorothee C. E. Bakker

518
Citations
The Variable Southern Ocean Carbon Sink.

Nicolas Gruber;Peter Landschützer;Nicole S Lovenduski

345
Citations
STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

344
Citations
A neural network-based estimate of the seasonal to inter-annual variability of the Atlantic Ocean carbon sink

Peter Landschützer;Nicolas Gruber;Dorothee C.E. Bakker;Ute Schuster;Ute Schuster

325
Citations
Data-based estimates of the ocean carbon sink variability – first results of the Surface Ocean pCO2 Mapping intercomparison (SOCOM)

Christian Rödenbeck;Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Nicolas Gruber;Yosuke Iida

322
Citations
Consistency and Challenges in the Ocean Carbon Sink Estimate for the Global Carbon Budget

Judith Hauck;Moritz Zeising;Corinne Le Quéré;Nicolas Gruber

313
Citations
Revised estimates of ocean-atmosphere CO2 flux are consistent with ocean carbon inventory.

Andrew J Watson;Ute Schuster;Jamie D Shutler;Thomas Holding

307
Citations
Trends and variability in the ocean carbon sink

Unknown

267
Citations
A uniform, quality controlled Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;A. Olsen;D.C.E. Bakker;S. Hankin

266
Citations
An update to the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT version 2)

Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Benjamin Pfeil;Benjamin Pfeil;K. Smith;K. Smith;S. Hankin

223
Citations
Global Carbon Budget 2017 (in open review for Earth System Science Data). doi: 10.5194/essd-2017-123

C. Le Quéré;R. M. Andrew;P. Friedlingstein;S. Sitch

222
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bronte Tilbrook CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Nicolas Gruber ETH Zurich

Christian Rödenbeck Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Ute Schuster University of Exeter

Are Olsen University of Bergen

Dorothee C. E. Bakker University of East Anglia

Andrew J. Watson University of Exeter

Nicolas Metzl Sorbonne University

Adrienne Sutton Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

External Links

Personal website of Peter Landschützer

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