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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 57 2256 2047 246 224 215 12140

Richard S. Lampitt publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Richard S. Lampitt between 1978 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Richard S. Lampitt published across 49 years, from 1978 to 2026, averaging 5.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 21 publications in 2010. 3 of the 248 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1978 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 21. Peak 21 publications in 2010. 1978: 1 publication 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 1 publication 1983: 3 publications 1984: 2 publications 1985: 1 publication 1986: 2 publications 1987: 1 publication 1988: 0 publications 1989: 0 publications 1990: 3 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 1 publication 1993: 3 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 3 publications 1996: 4 publications 1997: 2 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 8 publications 2001: 19 publications 2002: 7 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 9 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 9 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 21 publications 2011: 8 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 17 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 13 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 10 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 4 publications 2022: 2 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 8 publications 2025: 2 publications 2026: 1 publication
1978 2026

248 publications in total across all disciplines

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Richard S. Lampitt: publications per year, 1978 to 2026
Year Publications
1978 1
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 1
1983 3
1984 2
1985 1
1986 2
1987 1
1988 0
1989 0
1990 3
1991 1
1992 1
1993 3
1994 1
1995 3
1996 4
1997 2
1998 2
1999 1
2000 8
2001 19
2002 7
2003 4
2004 9
2005 3
2006 9
2007 4
2008 9
2009 10
2010 21
2011 8
2012 6
2013 17
2014 13
2015 13
2016 9
2017 6
2018 6
2019 10
2020 5
2021 4
2022 2
2023 3
2024 8
2025 2
2026 1
Total 248
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Richard S. Lampitt 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 Richard S. Lampitt 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, 208–217 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: 215 publications — 68th percentile

68% 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
208–217 292 215
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
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Richard S. Lampitt 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 Richard S. Lampitt 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, 57 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: 57 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% 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
55 117
56 163
57 120 57
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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Overview

Richard S. Lampitt is affiliated with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, contributing to 24 publications in the former and 17 in the latter. The subfields of study that Lampitt has engaged with include Oceanography, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Richard S. Lampitt has published in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Nature Communications
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • New Phytologist

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Lampitt include:

  • "Stakeholder alliances are essential to reduce the scourge of plastic pollution" (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • "High concentrations of plastic hidden beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Size does not matter after all: No evidence for a size-sinking relationship for marine snow" (2020), published in Progress In Oceanography
  • "Are all sediment traps created equal? An intercomparison study of carbon export methodologies at the PAP-SO site" (2020), published in Progress In Oceanography
  • "Microplastics in commercial marine fish species in the UK - A case study in the River Thames and the River Stour (East Anglia) estuaries" (2024), published in The Science of The Total Environment

Lampitt has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen
  • Stephanie Henson
  • Corinne Pebody
  • Katsiaryna Pabortsava
  • Daniel J. Mayor

Best Publications

  • Seasonal sedimentation of phytoplankton to the deep-sea benthos

    D. S. M. Billett;R. S. Lampitt;A. L. Rice;R. F. C. Mantoura

  • Evidence for the seasonal deposition of detritus to the deep-sea floor and its subsequent resuspension

    Unknown

  • High concentrations of plastic hidden beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean

    Katsiaryna Pabortsava;Richard S. Lampitt

  • Reconciliation of the carbon budget in the ocean’s twilight zone

    Sarah L. C. Giering;Sarah L. C. Giering;Sarah L. C. Giering;Richard Sanders;Richard S. Lampitt;Thomas R. Anderson

  • Southern Ocean deep-water carbon export enhanced by natural iron fertilization

    Raymond T. Pollard;Ian Salter;Richard J. Sanders;Mike I. Lucas

  • Marine snow studies in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean: distribution, composition and role as a food source for migrating plankton

    R. S. Lampitt;K. F. Wishner;C. M. Turley;M. V. Angel

  • Particle flux in deep seas : regional characteristics and temporal variability

    R. S. Lampitt;Avan Antia

  • Attenuation of sinking particulate organic carbon flux through the mesopelagic ocean

    Chris M. Marsay;Chris M. Marsay;Richard J. Sanders;Stephanie A. Henson;Katsiaryna Pabortsava;Katsiaryna Pabortsava

  • What happens to zooplankton faecal pellets? Implications for material flux

    Unknown

  • Climate, carbon cycling, and deep-ocean ecosystems.

    K. L. Smith;H. A. Ruhl;B. J. Bett;D. S. M. Billett

  • Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical indicators of meso- and bathypelagic biological activity: What the @#! is wrong with present calculations of carbon budgets?

    Adrian B. Burd;Dennis A. Hansell;Deborah K. Steinberg;Thomas R. Anderson

  • Toward the integrated marine debris observing system

    Nikolai Maximenko;Paolo Corradi;Kara Lavender Law;Erik Van Sebille

  • Seasonal deposition of phytodetritus to the deep-sea floor

    A. L. Rice;D. S. M. Billett;J. Fry;A. W. G. John

  • Material supply to the abyssal seafloor in the Northeast Atlantic

    R.S Lampitt;B.J Bett;K Kiriakoulakis;E.E Popova

  • Ocean iron fertilization-Moving forward in a sea of uncertainty

    Ken O. Buesseler;Scott C. Doney;David M. Karl;Philip W. Boyd

  • Seasonal and diel variation in the open ocean concentration of marine snow aggregates

    R. S. Lampitt;W. R. Hillier;P. G. Challenor

  • Ocean fertilization: a potential means of geoengineering?

    R. S. Lampitt;Eric P. Achterberg;T. R. Anderson;J. A. Hughes

  • Temporal and spatial variability of biogenic particles fluxes during the JGOFS northeast Atlantic process studies at 47°N, 20°W

    Philip P. Newton;Philip P. Newton;Richard S. Lampitt;Timothy D. Jickells;Penny King

  • Biomass of the invertebrate megabenthos from 500 to 4100 m in the northeast Atlantic Ocean

    R. S. Lampitt;D. S. M. Billett;A. L. Rice

  • Towards a global model of in situ weight-specific growth in marine planktonic copepods

    A. G. Hirst;R. S. Lampitt

  • Observing climate change trends in ocean biogeochemistry: when and where.

    Stephanie A. Henson;Claudie Beaulieu;Richard Lampitt

  • Export and mesopelagic particle flux during a North Atlantic spring diatom bloom

    Patrick Martin;Richard S. Lampitt;Mary Jane Perry;Richard Sanders

  • The institute of oceanographic sciences biology programme in the porcupine seabight : background and general introduction

    A. L. Rice;D. S. M. Billett;M. H. Thurston;R. S. Lampitt

  • Distribution, composition and flux of particulate material over the European margin at 47° 50°N

    I. N. McCave;Ian Robert Hall;A. N. Antia;L. Chou

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Sanders
Richard Sanders National Oceanography Centre
David S.M. Billett
David S.M. Billett National Oceanography Centre
Johannes Karstensen
Johannes Karstensen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
George A. Wolff
George A. Wolff University of Liverpool
Stephanie A. Henson
Stephanie A. Henson National Oceanography Centre
Uwe Send
Uwe Send University of California, San Diego
Henry A. Ruhl
Henry A. Ruhl Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Brian J. Bett
Brian J. Bett National Oceanography Centre
Humberto E. González
Humberto E. González Austral University of Chile
Michiel M Rutgers van der Loeff
Michiel M Rutgers van der Loeff Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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