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Rolf Kipfer

Rolf Kipfer

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
64
Citations
12299
World Ranking
2375
National Ranking
67

Rolf Kipfer publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rolf Kipfer sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 359 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Rolf Kipfer D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rolf Kipfer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • Noble Gases in Lakes and Ground Waters

    Rolf Kipfer;Werner Aeschbach-Hertig;Werner Aeschbach-Hertig;Frank Peeters;Marvin Stute

  • Interpretation of dissolved atmospheric noble gases in natural waters

    Werner Aeschbach-Hertig;Frank Peeters;Urs Beyerle;Rolf Kipfer

  • Palaeotemperature reconstruction from noble gases in ground water taking into account equilibration with entrapped air

    Werner Aeschbach-Hertig;Frank Peeters;Urs Beyerle;Rolf Kipfer;Rolf Kipfer

  • A Mass Spectrometric System for the Analysis of Noble Gases and Tritium from Water Samples

    Urs Beyerle;Werner Aeschbach-Hertig;Dieter M. Imboden;Heinrich Baur

  • Groundwater recharge history and hydrogeochemical evolution in the Minqin Basin, North West China

    W.M. Edmunds;Jinzhu Ma;W. Aeschbach-Hertig;R. Kipfer

  • ‘PALEOVAN’, International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP): site survey results and perspectives

    Thomas Litt;Sebastian Krastel;Michael Sturm;Rolf Kipfer

  • Long-term changes in hypoxia and soluble reactive phosphorus in the hypolimnion of a large temperate lake: consequences of a climate regime shift

    Ryan P. North;Ryan P. North;Rebecca L. North;David M. Livingstone;Oliver Köster

  • Modeling 50 years of historical temperature profiles in a large central European lake

    Frank Peeters;David M. Livingstone;Gerrit Hein Goudsmit;Rolf Kipfer

  • Constraining the age distribution of highly mixed groundwater using 39Ar: A multiple environmental tracer (3H/3He, 85Kr, 39Ar, and 14C) study in the semiconfined Fontainebleau Sands Aquifer (France)

    J. A. Corcho Alvarado;J. A. Corcho Alvarado;R. Purtschert;F. Barbecot;C. Chabault

  • Cool glacial temperatures and changes in moisture source recorded in Oman groundwaters

    Constanze E. Weyhenmeyer;Stephen J. Burns;H. Niklaus Waber;Werner Aeschbach-Hertig

  • Groundwater dynamics and arsenic mobilization in Bangladesh assessed using noble gases and tritium.

    Stephan Klump;Rolf Kipfer;Olaf A. Cirpka;Charles F. Harvey

  • Retardation of arsenic transport through a Pleistocene aquifer

    Alexander van Geen;Benjamín C. Bostick;Pham Thi Kim Trang;Vi Mai Lan

  • Kinetic Model of Gas Bubble Dissolution in Groundwater and Its Implications for the Dissolved Gas Composition

    Johannes Holocher;Frank Peeters;Werner Aeschbach-Hertig;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Analyzing bank filtration by deconvoluting time series of electric conductivity.

    Olaf A. Cirpka;Michael N. Fienen;Markus Hofer;Eduard Hoehn

  • Noble gas tracing of groundwater/coalbed methane interaction in the San Juan Basin, USA

    Zheng Zhou;Chris J. Ballentine;Rolf Kipfer;Martin Schoell

  • A comparison of groundwater dating with 81Kr, 36Cl and 4He in four wells of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia

    B.E Lehmann;A Love;R Purtschert;P Collon

  • Effects of climate change on methane emissions from seafloor sediments in the Arctic Ocean: A review

    Rachael H. James;Philippe Bousquet;Ingeborg Bussmann;Matthias Haeckel

  • Processes of deep‐water renewal in Lake Baikal

    Roland Hohmann;Rolf Kipfer;Frank Peeters;Gabriel Piepke

  • Infiltration of river water to a shallow aquifer investigated with 3H/3He, noble gases and CFCs

    U Beyerle;W Aeschbach-Hertig;M Hofer;D.M Imboden

  • Analysis of deep-water exchange in the Caspian Sea based on environmental tracers

    Frank Peeters;Frank Peeters;Rolf Kipfer;Rolf Kipfer;Daniel Achermann;Daniel Achermann;Markus Hofer;Markus Hofer

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Aeschbach-Hertig
Werner Aeschbach-Hertig Heidelberg University
Frank Peeters
Frank Peeters University of Konstanz
Flavio S. Anselmetti
Flavio S. Anselmetti University of Bern
Roland Purtschert
Roland Purtschert University of Bern
Thomas Litt
Thomas Litt University of Bonn
Rainer Wieler
Rainer Wieler ETH Zurich
Jens Greinert
Jens Greinert GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Michael Berg
Michael Berg Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Carsten J. Schubert
Carsten J. Schubert Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Pham Hung Viet
Pham Hung Viet Vietnam National University, Hanoi

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