2026 Philippe Huybrechts: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	87	339	290	3	3	360	27367

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Philippe Huybrechts is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly work focuses primarily on cryospheric studies and observations, with significant exploration into climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and related environmental phenomena.

Their body of research includes 55 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 17 in Environmental Science. Within these fields, Huybrechts has explored several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

The topics most frequently covered in their work are:

Cryospheric studies and observations
Climate change and permafrost
Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
Landslides and related hazards
Climate variability and models

Huybrechts has coauthored with several researchers multiple times. Frequent collaborators include Jonas Van Breedam, Heiko Goelzer, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, Hélène Seroussi, and William H. Lipscomb.

The venues where Huybrechts' work has often appeared include:

The Cryosphere
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Earth System Dynamics
Geophysical Research Letters
Nature

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Philippe Huybrechts include:

Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise, 2021, Nature
ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century, 2020, The Cryosphere
The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6, 2020, The Cryosphere
GrSMBMIP: intercomparison of the modelled 1980-2012 surface mass balance over the Greenland Ice Sheet, 2020, The Cryosphere
Projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea level rise from basal ice shelf melt using linear response functions of 16 ice sheet models (LARMIP-2), 2020, Earth System Dynamics

Best Publications

Eight glacial cycles from an Antarctic ice core

Laurent Augustin;Carlo Barbante;Piers R. F. Barnes;Jean Marc Barnola

2075
Citations
Changes in Sea Level

J. A. Church;J. M. Gregory;Philippe Huybrechts;M. Kuhn

1235
Citations
One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica.

C. Barbante;J.-M. Barnola;J.-M. Barnola;S. Becagli;J. Beer;J. Beer

1167
Citations
Ice-Sheet and Sea-Level Changes

Richard B. Alley;Peter U. Clark;Philippe Huybrechts;Ian Joughin

844
Citations
Sea-level changes at the LGM from ice-dynamic reconstructions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets during the glacial cycles

Philippe Huybrechts

717
Citations
Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

663
Citations
Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise

Tamsin L Edwards;Sophie Nowicki;Sophie Nowicki;Ben Marzeion;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

531
Citations
The Dynamic Response of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets to Multiple-Century Climatic Warming

Philippe Huybrechts;Jan de Wolde

528
Citations
Increased Runoff from Melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet: A Response to Global Warming

Edward Hanna;Philippe Huybrechts;Konrad Steffen;John Cappelen

527
Citations
Modelling the response of glaciers to climate warming

J. Oerlemans;B. Anderson;A. Hubbard;Philippe Huybrechts

486
Citations
Greenland ice sheet: increased coastal thinning

W. Krabill;E. Hanna;Philippe Huybrechts;Philippe Huybrechts;W. Abdalati

456
Citations
ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century

Hélène Seroussi;Sophie Nowicki;Antony J. Payne;Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer

430
Citations
Melt-induced speed-up of Greenland ice sheet offset by efficient subglacial drainage

Aud Venke Sundal;Andrew Shepherd;Peter Nienow;Edward Hanna

404
Citations
Threatened loss of the Greenland ice-sheet

Jonathan M. Gregory;Jonathan M. Gregory;Philippe Huybrechts;Philippe Huybrechts;Sarah C. B. Raper

366
Citations
Description of the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM version 1.2

Hugues Goosse;Viktor Brovkin;Thierry Fichefet;R Haarsma

342
Citations
Grounding-line migration in plan-view marine ice-sheet models: results of the ice2sea MISMIP3d intercomparison

Frank Pattyn;Laura Perichon;Gaël Durand;Lionel Favier

336
Citations
Runoff and mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet: 1958-2003

Edward Hanna;Philippe Huybrechts;Ives Janssens;John Cappelen

333
Citations
Marine‐terminating glaciers sustain high productivity in Greenland fjords

Lorenz Meire;Lorenz Meire;John Mortensen;Patrick Meire;Thomas Juul-Pedersen

323
Citations
The future sea-level contribution of the Greenland ice sheet: a multi-model ensemble study of ISMIP6

Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer;Heiko Goelzer;Sophie Nowicki;Anthony Payne;Eric Larour

321
Citations
The treatment of meltwater retention in mass-balance parameterisations of the Greenland ice sheet

Ives Janssens;Philippe Huybrechts

318
Citations
J. Oerlemans Æ B. Anderson Æ A. Hubbard Æ Ph. Huybrechts Æ T. Jo« hannesson Æ W.H. Knap Æ M. Schmeits Æ A.P. Stroeven Æ R.S.W. van de Wal Æ J. Wallinga Æ Z. Zuo Modelling the response of glaciers to climate warming

J. Oerlemans;M. Schmeits;J. Wallinga;Z. Zuo

16
Citations
Description of the Earth system model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM version 1.2

H. Goosse;V. Brovkin;T. Fichefet;R. Haarsma

7
Citations
Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Heiko Goelzer Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

Frank Pattyn Université Libre de Bruxelles

Jonathan M. Gregory University of Reading

Edward Hanna University of Lincoln

Marie-France Loutre University of Bern

Thierry Fichefet Université Catholique de Louvain

Anne Mouchet University of Liège

Michiel R. van den Broeke Utrecht University

Xavier Fettweis University of Liège

Angelika Humbert Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

External Links

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