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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 40 5824 5388 2123 1884 98 6164

Robert D. Hetland publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Robert D. Hetland between 1998 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Robert D. Hetland published across 29 years, from 1998 to 2026, averaging 5.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 19 publications in 2024. 10 of the 154 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1998 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 19. Peak 19 publications in 2024. 1998: 1 publication 1999: 1 publication 2000: 0 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 2 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 1 publication 2007: 4 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 8 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 7 publications 2019: 2 publications 2020: 9 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 10 publications 2024: 19 publications 2025: 8 publications 2026: 2 publications
1998 2026

154 publications in total across all disciplines

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Robert D. Hetland: publications per year, 1998 to 2026
Year Publications
1998 1
1999 1
2000 0
2001 3
2002 2
2003 1
2004 2
2005 5
2006 1
2007 4
2008 5
2009 4
2010 5
2011 5
2012 7
2013 6
2014 8
2015 4
2016 10
2017 6
2018 7
2019 2
2020 9
2021 7
2022 10
2023 10
2024 19
2025 8
2026 2
Total 154
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Robert D. Hetland 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 Robert D. Hetland 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, 98–107 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: 98 publications — 11th percentile

11% 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 98
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
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Robert D. Hetland 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 Robert D. Hetland 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, 40 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: 40 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% 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 40
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
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

Robert D. Hetland is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on oceanography, atmospheric science, and global and planetary change.

The scientist has contributed extensively to fields such as environmental science and water science and technology, exploring topics related to marine and coastal ecosystems, meteorological phenomena, and hydrology. Their main topics of work include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Robert D. Hetland are the following publications:

  • Including the effects of subsurface currents on buoyant particles in Lagrangian particle tracking models: Model development and its application to the study of riverborne plastics over the Louisiana/Texas shelf, 2021, Ocean Modelling
  • Contrasting effects of lake breeze and urbanization on heat stress in Chicago metropolitan area, 2023, Urban Climate
  • Rapid vertical exchange at fronts in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Surface Water CO2 variability in the Gulf of Mexico (1996-2017), 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Hurricane Harvey Caused Unprecedented Freshwater Inflow to Galveston Bay, 2020, Estuaries and Coasts

Their work has appeared repeatedly in specific publication venues, indicating an ongoing engagement with specialized journals. Frequent venues for Robert D. Hetland's research include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Collaboration plays a significant role in Robert D. Hetland's research output, with frequent coauthors listed as:

  • Lixin Qu
  • Daijiro Kobashi
  • Dylan Schlichting
  • Yun Qian
  • TC Chakraborty

Best Publications

  • True Colors of Oceanography: Guidelines for Effective and Accurate Colormap Selection

    Kristen Thyng;Chad Greene;Robert Hetland;Heather Zimmerle

  • The science of hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: a review.

    T. S. Bianchi;S. F. DiMarco;Jr H. Cowan;R. D. Hetland

  • Mixing and Transport in Coastal River Plumes

    Alexander R. Horner-Devine;Robert D. Hetland;Daniel G. MacDonald

  • How does the character of oxygen demand control the structure of hypoxia on the Texas–Louisiana continental shelf?

    Robert D. Hetland;Steven F. DiMarco

  • Relating River Plume Structure to Vertical Mixing

    Robert D. Hetland

  • Quantifying the Contributions of Tidal Straining and Gravitational Circulation to Residual Circulation in Periodically Stratified Tidal Estuaries

    Hans Burchard;Robert D. Hetland

  • A coupled physical-biological model of the Northern Gulf of Mexico shelf: model description, validation and analysis of phytoplankton variability

    K. Fennel;R. Hetland;Y. Feng;S. DiMarco

  • Drivers of Residual Estuarine Circulation in Tidally Energetic Estuaries: Straight and Irrotational Channels with Parabolic Cross Section

    Hans Burchard;Robert D. Hetland;Elisabeth Schulz;Henk M. Schuttelaars

  • Sensitivity of hypoxia predictions for the northern Gulf of Mexico to sediment oxygen consumption and model nesting

    Katja Fennel;Jiatang Hu;Jiatang Hu;Arnaud Laurent;Martinho Marta-Almeida

  • Forecasting Gulf's Hypoxia: The Next 50 Years?

    Dubravko Justić;Victor J. Bierman;Donald Scavia;Robert D. Hetland

  • A mechanism for offshore initiation of harmful algal blooms in the coastal Gulf of Maine

    D. J. Mcgillicuddy;R. P. Signell;C. A. Stock;B. A. Keafer

  • Observations of the Eastern Maine Coastal Current and its offshore extensions in 1994

    Neal R. Pettigrew;David W. Townsend;Huijie Xue;John P. Wallinga

  • An Idealized Study of the Structure of Long, Partially Mixed Estuaries*

    Robert D. Hetland;W. Rockwell Geyer

  • A numerical investigation of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya freshwater transport, filling and flushing times on the Texas‐Louisiana Shelf

    Xiaoqian Zhang;Robert D. Hetland;Martinho Marta-Almeida;Steven F. DiMarco

  • Efficient tools for marine operational forecast and oil spill tracking

    Martinho Marta-Almeida;Manuel Ruiz-Villarreal;Janini Pereira;Pablo Otero

  • Turbulent dissipation in a near‐field river plume: A comparison of control volume and microstructure observations with a numerical model

    Daniel G. MacDonald;Daniel G. MacDonald;Louis Goodman;Louis Goodman;Robert D. Hetland

  • The effects of mixing and spreading on density in near-field river plumes

    Robert D. Hetland

  • A Loop Current-Induced Jet Along the Edge of the West Florida Shelf

    Robert D. Hetland;Ya Hsueh;Robert R. Leben;Pearn P. Niiler

  • Multivariable statistical regression models of the areal extent of hypoxia over the Texas–Louisiana continental shelf

    David R Forrest;Robert D Hetland;Steven F DiMarco

  • Dispersal of Mississippi and Atchafalaya sediment on the Texas–Louisiana shelf: Model estimates for the year 1993

    Kehui Xu;Courtney K. Harris;Robert D. Hetland;James M. Kaihatu

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven F. DiMarco
Steven F. DiMarco Texas A&M University
Katja Fennel
Katja Fennel Dalhousie University
Dubravko Justic
Dubravko Justic Louisiana State University
Norman L. Guinasso
Norman L. Guinasso Texas A&M University
Hans Burchard
Hans Burchard Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Lie-Yauw Oey
Lie-Yauw Oey Princeton University
Peter G. Brewer
Peter G. Brewer Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Andrew J. Manning
Andrew J. Manning Plymouth University
Michael C. Murrell
Michael C. Murrell Environmental Protection Agency
Lisa Campbell
Lisa Campbell Texas A&M University

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