2026 Robert F. Anderson: 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	97	169	144	83	70	372	27900

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
2010 - C.C. Patterson Award, Geochemical Society
2005 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Robert F. Anderson is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Environmental Sciences, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

Their work covers several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Ecology, Paleontology, and Global and Planetary Change. The main topics of research emphasize Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Anderson has contributed to numerous publications in key venues, such as:

Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Nature Geoscience

Their recent papers include:

The Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements to the Central Arctic Ocean (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
Poleward and weakened westerlies during Pliocene warmth (2021, Nature)
Global Ocean Sediment Composition and Burial Flux in the Deep Sea (2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles)
230Th Normalization: New Insights on an Essential Tool for Quantifying Sedimentary Fluxes in the Modern and Quaternary Ocean (2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology)
Last glacial atmospheric CO2 decline due to widespread Pacific deep-water expansion (2020, Nature Geoscience)

Frequent co-authors of Anderson include:

Frank J. Pavia
Christopher T. Hayes
Martin Q. Fleisher
Phoebe J. Lam
Gisela Winckler

They have been recognized with the C.C. Patterson Award from the Geochemical Society in 2010 and were named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2005.

Best Publications

Wind-Driven Upwelling in the Southern Ocean and the Deglacial Rise in Atmospheric CO2

R. F. Anderson;R. F. Anderson;S. Ali;S. Ali;L. I. Bradtmiller;L. I. Bradtmiller;S. H. H. Nielsen

1345
Citations
The last glacial termination.

G. H. Denton;R. F. Anderson;R. F. Anderson;J. R. Toggweiler;R. L. Edwards

1032
Citations
Distribution of thorium isotopes between dissolved and particulate forms in the deep sea

Michael P. Bacon;Robert F. Anderson

876
Citations
A review of the Si cycle in the modern ocean: recent progress and missing gaps in the application of biogenic opal as a paleoproductivity proxy

O Ragueneau;P Tréguer;A Leynaert;R.F Anderson

849
Citations
Increased biological productivity and export production in the glacial Southern Ocean

N. Kumar;N. Kumar;R. F. Anderson;R. A. Mortlock;P. N. Froelich;P. N. Froelich

603
Citations
Authigenic molybdenum formation in marine sediments: A link to pore water sulfide in the Santa Barbara Basin

Yan Zheng;Yan Zheng;Yan Zheng;Robert F. Anderson;Robert F. Anderson;Alexander van Geen;James Kuwabara

554
Citations
Iron Fertilization of the Subantarctic Ocean During the Last Ice Age

Alfredo Martínez-García;Daniel M. Sigman;Haojia Ren;Robert F. Anderson

547
Citations
Geochemistry of barium in marine sediments: implications for its use as a paleoproxy

James McManus;William M Berelson;Gary P Klinkhammer;Kenneth S Johnson

516
Citations
Unexpected changes in the oxic/anoxic interface in the Black Sea

J. W. Murray;H. W. Jannasch;S. Honjo;R. F. Anderson

499
Citations
Role of marine biology in glacial-interglacial CO2 cycles.

Karen E. Kohfeld;Karen E. Kohfeld;Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Robert F. Anderson;Robert F. Anderson

470
Citations
Seasonality in the supply of sediment to the deep Sargasso Sea and implications for the rapid transfer of matter to the deep ocean

W.G. Deuser;E.H. Ross;R.F. Anderson

459
Citations
Concentration, oxidation state, and particulate flux of uranium in the Black Sea

Robert F. Anderson;Martin Q. Fleisher;Anne P. LeHuray

450
Citations
The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

352
Citations
Removal of 230Th and 231Pa at ocean margins

Robert F. Anderson;Michael P. Bacon;Peter G. Brewer

341
Citations
The U-series Toolbox for Paleoceanography

Gideon M. Henderson;Robert F. Anderson

331
Citations
Removal of230Th and231Pa from the open ocean

R.F. Anderson;M.P. Bacon;P.G. Brewer

326
Citations
Covariant glacial-interglacial dust fluxes in the equatorial Pacific and Antarctica.

Gisela Winckler;Robert F. Anderson;Robert F. Anderson;Martin Q. Fleisher;David McGee;David McGee

293
Citations
Determination of natural actinides and plutonium in marine particulate material

Robert F. Anderson;Alan P. Fleer

290
Citations
Fluxes of particles and constituents to the eastern United States continental slope and rise: SEEP—I

Pierre E. Biscaye;Robert F. Anderson;Bruce L. Deck

287
Citations
Remobilization of authigenic uranium in marine sediments by bioturbation

Yan Zheng;Yan Zheng;Robert F. Anderson;Robert F. Anderson;Alexander van Geen;Martin Q. Fleisher

283
Citations
The influence of particle composition and particle flux on scavenging of Th, Pa and Be in the ocean

Zanna Chase;Zanna Chase;Robert F. Anderson;Robert F. Anderson;Martin Q. Fleisher;Peter W. Kubik

281
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gisela Winckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Martin Q. Fleisher Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Jerry F. McManus Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Samuel L. Jaccard University of Lausanne

Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University

Laura F. Robinson University of Bristol

Peter Schlosser Arizona State University

Martin Stute Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Zanna Chase University of Tasmania

Daniel M. Sigman Princeton University

External Links

Personal website of Robert F. Anderson

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