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Ralph R Schneider

Ralph R Schneider

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
75
Citations
20825
World Ranking
708
National Ranking
40

Ralph R Schneider 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 Ralph R Schneider sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 513 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Ralph R Schneider 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 Ralph R Schneider sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ralph R Schneider is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and conducts research primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their body of work includes 47 publications within this main field, focusing on several subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ocean Engineering, Paleontology, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Drilling and Well Engineering, Geological formations and processes, as well as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Recent notable papers include the following:

  • An ~130 kyr Record of Surface Water Temperature and δ18O From the Northern Bay of Bengal: Investigating the Linkage Between Heinrich Events and Weak Monsoon Intervals in Asia (2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology)
  • Higher sea surface temperature in the Indian Ocean during the Last Interglacial weakened the South Asian monsoon (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Climatic evolution in the Australian region over the last 94 ka - spanning human occupancy -, and unveiling the Last Glacial Maximum (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Is 'deep-water formation' in the Baltic Sea a key to understanding seabed dynamics and ventilation changes over the past 7,000 years? (2020, Quaternary International)
  • Muted multidecadal climate variability in central Europe during cold stadial periods (2021, Nature Geoscience)

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Roger D. Flood, David J.W. Piper, Adam Klaus, Stephen J. Bums, and William H. Busch.

The scientist has published multiple works in key venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Quaternary Research
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Holocene climate variability

    Paul A. Mayewski;Eelco E. Rohling;J. Curt Stager;Wibjörn Karlén

  • Environmental processes of the ice age: land, oceans, glaciers (EPILOG)

    Alan C. Mix;Edouard Bard;Ralph Schneider

  • Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum

    C. Waelbroeck;A. Paul;M. Kucera;A. Rosell-Melé

  • Climatic controls on central African hydrology during the past 20,000 years

    Enno Schefuss;Stefan Schouten;Ralph R Schneider

  • 155,000 Years of West African Monsoon and Ocean Thermal Evolution

    Syee Weldeab;Syee Weldeab;David W. Lea;David W. Lea;Ralph R. Schneider;Ralph R. Schneider;Nils Andersen;Nils Andersen

  • An automated leaching method for the determination of opal in sediments and particulate matter

    Peter J. Müller;Ralph Schneider

  • Vigorous exchange between the Indian and Atlantic oceans at the end of the past five glacial periods

    Frank J. C. Peeters;Ruth Acheson;Geert-Jan A. Brummer;Wilhelmus P. M. de Ruijter

  • Transport of terrestrial organic carbon to the oceans by rivers: re-estimating flux- and burial rates

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  • A 300-kyr record of aridity and wind strength in southwestern Africa: inferences from grain-size distributions of sediments on Walvis Ridge, SE Atlantic

    Jan-Berend W. Stuut;Maarten A. Prins;Ralph R. Schneider;Gert Jan Weltje

  • A review of nitrogen isotopic alteration in marine sediments

    Rebecca S. Robinson;Markus Kienast;Ana Luiza Albuquerque;Mark Altabet

  • Multiproxy approach for the reconstruction of the glacial ocean surface (MARGO)

    Michael Kucera;Antoni Rosell-Mele;Ralph Schneider;Claere Waelbroeck

  • Holocene and Eemian sea surface temperature trends as revealed by alkenone and Mg/Ca paleothermometry

    Guillaume Leduc;Ralph R Schneider;Jung-Hyun Kim;Gerrit Lohmann

  • Provenance of present-day eolian dust collected off NW Africa

    Jan-Berend Stuut;Matthias Zabel;Volker Ratmeyer;Peer Helmke

  • Monsoon related variations in Zaire (Congo) sediment load and influence of fluvial silicate supply on marine productivity in the east equatorial Atlantic during the last 200,000 years

    R. R. Schneider;B. Price;P. J. Muller;Dirk Kroon

  • Interlaboratory comparison study of Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca measurements in planktonic foraminifera for paleoceanographic research

    Yair Rosenthal;Suzanne Perron‐Cashman;Caroline H. Lear;Edouard Bard

  • Late Quaternary surface circulation in the east equatorial South Atlantic: Evidence from Alkenone sea surface temperatures

    Ralph R. Schneider;Peter J. Müller;Götz Ruhland

  • Paleo‐sea surface temperature calculations in the equatorial east Atlantic from Mg/Ca ratios in planktic foraminifera: A comparison to sea surface temperature estimates from U37K′, oxygen isotopes, and foraminiferal transfer function

    Dirk Nürnberg;Anja Müller;Ralph Schneider

  • North Pacific and North Atlantic sea-surface temperature variability during the Holocene

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Norel Rimbu;Stephan J. Lorenz;Gerrit Lohmann

  • Late Quaternary Climate Changes in Central Africa as Inferred from Terrigenous Input to the Niger Fan

    Matthias Zabel;Ralph R. Schneider;Thomas Wagner;Adesina T. Adegbie

  • Disentangling marine, soil and plant organic carbon contributions to continental margin sediments: A multi-proxy approach in a 20,000 year sediment record from the Congo deep-sea fan

    Johan W.H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Enno Schefuß;Ralph R. Schneider

  • Late Quaternary Temperature Variability in the Benguela Current System Derived from Alkenones

    Georg J. Kirst;Ralph R. Schneider;Peter J. Müller;Isabel von Storch

  • Arctic/North Atlantic Oscillation signature in Holocene sea surface temperature trends as obtained from alkenone data

    Norel Rimbu;Gerrit Lohmann;Jung-Hyun Kim;Helge W Arz

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J Müller
Peter J Müller University of Bremen
Torsten Bickert
Torsten Bickert University of Bremen
Philippe Martinez
Philippe Martinez University of Bordeaux
Nils Andersen
Nils Andersen Kiel University
Stefan Mulitza
Stefan Mulitza University of Bremen
Jürgen Pätzold
Jürgen Pätzold University of Bremen
Wolfgang H Berger
Wolfgang H Berger Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Gerhard Fischer
Gerhard Fischer University of Colorado Boulder
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen

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