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2026

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101
Citations
31512
World Ranking
126
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2002 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1998 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1993 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America
  • GSA Honorary Fellow Award, The Geological Society of America

Overview

Sierd Cloetingh is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their primary research area lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 72 publications in the field. Within this broad discipline, Cloetingh has focused extensively on several subfields, including Geophysics, Geology, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects related to geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological formations and processes exploration, methane hydrates and related phenomena, geology and paleoclimatology research, and geological studies and exploration. These thematic areas reflect a diverse interest in understanding Earth's dynamic processes and material characteristics.

Notable recent publications by Cloetingh include:

  • Geodynamics, seismicity, and seismic hazards of the Caucasus (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Arctic ocean mega project: Paper 2 - Arctic stratigraphy and regional tectonic structure (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Plume-Induced Sinking of Intracontinental Lithospheric Mantle: An Overlooked Mechanism of Subduction Initiation? (2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems)
  • Arctic Ocean Mega Project: Paper 1 - Data collection (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • The 'pargasosphere' hypothesis: Looking at global plate tectonics from a new perspective (2021, Global and Planetary Change)

Cloetingh frequently publishes in several scientific venues. The most productive publication venues for this scientist include:

  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geotectonics
  • Tectonophysics

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Cloetingh's work. They have repeatedly co-authored with other researchers, notably:

  • Alexander Koptev
  • István Kovàcs
  • Taras Gerya
  • Todd A. Ehlers
  • Csaba Szabó

Over the course of their career, Cloetingh has been recognized by multiple scientific organizations. Awards include Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2002, membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1998, membership in Academia Europaea since 1993, and the GSA Honorary Fellow Award from The Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Dynamic processes controlling evolution of rifted basins

    Peter A. Ziegler;Sierd Cloetingh

  • Dynamics of intra-plate compressional deformation: the Alpine foreland and other examples

    P.A. Ziegler;S.A.P.L. Cloetingh;J.D. van Wees

  • Late Precambrian to Triassic history of the East European Craton: dynamics of sedimentary basin evolution

    A.M. Nikishin;P.A. Ziegler;R.A. Stephenson;S.A.P.L. Cloetingh

  • Formation and deformation of the Pannonian Basin: constraints from observational data

    Frank Horváth;Gábor Bada;Gábor Bada;Péter Szafián;Gábor Tari

  • Stress-induced late stage subsidence anomalies in the Pannonian Basin

    F. Horváth;S.A.P.L. Cloetingh

  • Stress in the Indo-Australian plate

    Sierd Cloetingh;Rinus Wortel

  • On a tectonic mechanism for regional sealevel variations

    Sierd Cloetingh;Herb McQueen;Kurt Lambeck

  • Interplay between tectonics, climate, and fluvial transport during the Cenozoic evolution of the Ebro Basin (NE Iberia)

    Daniel Garcia-Castellanos;Jaume Vergés;Jorge Gaspar-Escribano;Sierd Cloetingh

  • Eastern Pyrenees and related foreland basins: pre-, syn- and post-collisional crustal-scale cross-sections

    J. Verges;H. Millan;E. Roca;J.A. Munoz

  • EuCRUST‐07: A new reference model for the European crust

    Magdala Tesauro;Mikhail K. Kaban;Sierd A. P. L. Cloetingh

  • Erosion and rift dynamics: new thermomechanical aspects of post-rift evolution of extensional basins

    E. Burov;S.A.P.L. Cloetingh

  • Mesozoic transtensional basin history of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombian Andes: Inferences from tectonic models

    L.F. Sarmiento-Rojas;J.D. Van Wess;S. Cloetingh

  • Present-day stress field and tectonic inversion in the Pannonian basin.

    Gábor Bada;Frank Horváth;Péter Dövényi;Péter Szafián

  • Intraplate Stresses: A New Element in Basin Analysis

    S.A.P.L. Cloetingh

  • Mechanical controls on collision-related compressional intraplate deformation

    Peter A Ziegler;Jan-Diederik van Wees;Sierd Cloetingh

  • Thermomechanical structure of European continental lithosphere: constraints from rheological profiles and EET estimates

    Sierd Cloetingh;Evgene B. Burov

  • Geothermal energy in deep aquifers: A global assessment of the resource base for direct heat utilization

    Jon Limberger;Thijs Boxem;Maarten Pluymaekers;D.F. Bruhn

  • Lithosphere folding: Primary response to compression? (from central Asia to Paris basin)

    S.A.P.L. Cloetingh;E. Burov;A. Poliakov

  • Large-scale deformation in a locked collisional boundary : interplay between subsidence and uplift, intraplate stress, and inherited lithospheric structure in the late stage of the SE Carpathians evolution

    Liviu Matenco;Giovanni Bertotti;Karen Leever;Sierd Cloetingh

  • Intraplate stresses: A new tectonic mechanism for fluctuations of relative sea level

    S.A.P.L. Cloetingh

  • Tectonic inheritance and continental rift architecture: Numerical and analogue models of the East African Rift system

    Giacomo Corti;Jolante van Wijk;Jolante van Wijk;Sierd Cloetingh;Chris K. Morley

  • Permo–Triassic intraplate magmatism and rifting in Eurasia: implications for mantle plumes and mantle dynamics

    A.M. Nikishin;P.A. Ziegler;D. Abbott;M.F. Brunet

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitrios Sokoutis
Dimitrios Sokoutis Utrecht University
Liviu Matenco
Liviu Matenco Utrecht University
Giovanni Bertotti
Giovanni Bertotti Delft University of Technology
J.D. van Wees
J.D. van Wees Utrecht University
Peter A. Ziegler
Peter A. Ziegler University of Basel
Mikhail K. Kaban
Mikhail K. Kaban Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Frank Horváth
Frank Horváth Eötvös Loránd University
Paul Andriessen
Paul Andriessen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
R.T. van Balen
R.T. van Balen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Daniel García-Castellanos
Daniel García-Castellanos Spanish National Research Council

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