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Earth Science 54 2639 2403 19 19 585 14233

Philippe Claeys publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Philippe Claeys between 1991 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Philippe Claeys published across 35 years, from 1991 to 2025, averaging 19.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 78 publications in 2017. 36 of the 697 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
25 50 75
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1991 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 78. Peak 78 publications in 2017. 1991: 2 publications 1992: 7 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 8 publications 1995: 2 publications 1996: 6 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 4 publications 1999: 3 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 6 publications 2004: 7 publications 2005: 7 publications 2006: 23 publications 2007: 13 publications 2008: 10 publications 2009: 12 publications 2010: 18 publications 2011: 17 publications 2012: 28 publications 2013: 33 publications 2014: 43 publications 2015: 53 publications 2016: 44 publications 2017: 78 publications 2018: 36 publications 2019: 58 publications 2020: 38 publications 2021: 44 publications 2022: 46 publications 2023: 0 publications 2024: 20 publications 2025: 16 publications
1991 2025

697 publications in total across all disciplines

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Philippe Claeys: publications per year, 1991 to 2025
Year Publications
1991 2
1992 7
1993 2
1994 8
1995 2
1996 6
1997 1
1998 4
1999 3
2000 3
2001 5
2002 4
2003 6
2004 7
2005 7
2006 23
2007 13
2008 10
2009 12
2010 18
2011 17
2012 28
2013 33
2014 43
2015 53
2016 44
2017 78
2018 36
2019 58
2020 38
2021 44
2022 46
2023 0
2024 20
2025 16
Total 697
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Philippe Claeys 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 Philippe Claeys 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, 578–587 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: 585 publications — 99th percentile

99% 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
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 14 585
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Philippe Claeys 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 Philippe Claeys 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, 54 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: 54 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% 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
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163 54
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

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Philippe Claeys is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Their work spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, and Environmental Science. The main fields of study for their research include Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 261 publications, followed by Physics and Astronomy with 236 publications, and Environmental Science with 97 publications.

Their research covers several subfields, notably Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Ecology, and Paleontology. These specializations frame the broader scope of their work, which also explores diverse main topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Planetary Science and Exploration, Astro and Planetary Science, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure.

Philippe Claeys has published extensively in a range of respected venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Science Advances

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure", 2021, Science Advances
  • "Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater", 2020, Science Advances
  • "Negative effects of cattle on soil carbon and nutrient pools reversed by megaherbivores", 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • "A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Subdaily-Scale Chemical Variability in a Torreites Sanchezi Rudist Shell: Implications for Rudist Paleobiology and the Cretaceous Day-Night Cycle", 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Muriel Gargaud
  • William M. Irvine
  • Henderson James Cleaves
  • Maryvonne Gérin
  • Stéphane Tirard

In recognition of their scientific involvement, Philippe Claeys has been named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

    Peter Schulte;Laia Alegret;Ignacio Arenillas;José A. Arz

  • Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs

    David De Vleeschouwer;Anne-Christine Da Silva;Frédéric Boulvain;Philippe Claeys

  • Coeval 40Ar/39Ar Ages of 65.0 Million Years Ago from Chicxulub Crater Melt Rock and Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Tektites.

    Carl C. Swisher;José M. Grajales-Nishimura;Alessandro Montanari;Stanley V. Margolis

  • Tektite-bearing, deep-water clastic unit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Mexico.

    Jan Smit;Alessandro Montanari;Nicola H.M. Swinburne;Walter Alvarez

  • Coarse-grained, clastic sandstone complex at the K/T boundary around the Gulf of Mexico: Deposition by tsunami waves induced by the Chicxulub impact?

    J. Smit;T. B. Roep;W. Alvarez;A. Montanari

  • The formation of peak rings in large impact craters

    Joanna V. Morgan;Sean P.S. Gulick;Timothy Bralower;Elise Chenot

  • Distribution of Chicxulub ejecta at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

    Philippe Claeys;Wolfgang Kiessling;Walter Alvarez

  • Proximal impact deposits at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Gulf of Mexico: a restudy of DSDP Leg 77 Sites 536 and 540.

    Walter Alvarez;Jan Smit;William Lowrie;Frank Asaro

  • Emplacement of Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Shocked Quartz from Chicxulub Crater

    Walter Alvarez;Philippe Claeys;Susan W. Kieffer

  • Chicxulub impact: The origin of reservoir and seal facies in the southeastern Mexico oil fields

    José M. Grajales-Nishimura;Esteban Cedillo-Pardo;Carmen Rosales-Domínguez;Dante J. Morán-Zenteno

  • The astronomical rhythm of Late-Devonian climate change (Kowala section, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland)

    David De Vleeschouwer;Michał Rakociński;Grzegorz Racki;David P.G. Bond

  • The First Day of the Cenozoic

    Sean P.S. Gulick;Timothy J. Bralower;Jens Ormö;Brendon Hall

  • Microtektites and mass extinctions: evidence for a late devonian asteroid impact.

    Philippe Claeys;Jean-Georges Casier;Stanley V. Margolis

  • Reduced plumage and flight ability of a new Jurassic paravian theropod from China

    Pascal Godefroit;Pascal Godefroit;Helena Demuynck;Gareth Dyke;Dongyu Hu;Dongyu Hu

  • Globally distributed iridium layer preserved within the Chicxulub impact structure.

    Steven Goderis;Honami Sato;Honami Sato;Ludovic Ferrière;Birger Schmitz

  • Towards a biologically available strontium isotope baseline for Ireland

    Christophe Snoeck;Saskia Ryan;Saskia Ryan;John Pouncett;Maura Pellegrini;Maura Pellegrini

  • An independent evaluation of the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis

    Todd A. Surovell;Vance T. Holliday;Joseph A. M. Gingerich;Caroline Ketron

  • Microtektites, Microkrystites, and Spinels from a Late Pliocene Asteroid Impact in the Southern Ocean

    Stanley V. Margolis;Philippe Claeys;Frank T. Kyte

  • Timing and pacing of the Late Devonian mass extinction event regulated by eccentricity and obliquity

    David De Vleeschouwer;David De Vleeschouwer;Anne-Christine Da Silva;Matthias Sinnesael;Daizhao Chen

  • The Chicxulub Scientific Drilling Project (CSDP)

    Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi;Joanna Morgan;Dieter Stöffler;Philippe Claeys

  • Reevaluation of siderophile element abundances and ratios across the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary : implications for the nature of the projectile

    Steven Goderis;Steven Goderis;R Tagle;J Belza;J Smit

  • Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater

    David A. Kring;Sonia M. Tikoo;Martin Schmieder;Ulrich Riller

  • Chicxulub impact ejecta from Albion Island, Belize

    Kevin O Pope;Adriana C Ocampo;Alfred G Fischer;Walter Alvarez

Frequent Co-Authors

Vinciane Debaille
Vinciane Debaille Université Libre de Bruxelles
Frank Vanhaecke
Frank Vanhaecke Ghent University
David De Vleeschouwer
David De Vleeschouwer Münster University of Applied Sciences
Christian Koeberl
Christian Koeberl University of Vienna
Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez University of California, Berkeley
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Alessandro Montanari
Alessandro Montanari Mines ParisTech
Akira Yamaguchi
Akira Yamaguchi National Institute of Polar Research
Nadine Mattielli
Nadine Mattielli Université Libre de Bruxelles

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