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2023

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D-Index
90
Citations
56004
World Ranking
569
National Ranking
37

Stefan Rahmstorf 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 Stefan Rahmstorf sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 215 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stefan Rahmstorf 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 Stefan Rahmstorf sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2006 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Stefan Rahmstorf is affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered in Rahmstorf's work include Climate Variability and Models, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Global Energy and Sustainability Research.

Rahmstorf has contributed papers to a variety of scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science Advances

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries" (2023), Science Advances
  • "Current Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakest in last millennium" (2021), Nature Geoscience
  • "Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate" (2021), npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • "Assessing ExxonMobil's global warming projections" (2023), Science
  • "The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth" (2024), BioScience

Rahmstorf frequently collaborates with various coauthors, including:

  • Stefan Petri
  • Niamh Cahill
  • Dim Coumou
  • Levke Caesar
  • Michael Mann

Throughout their career, Rahmstorf has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2010
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2006

Best Publications

  • The Physical Science Basis

    E Jansen;J Overpeck;KR Briffa;JC Duplessy

  • Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

    Timothy M. Lenton;Hermann Held;Elmar Kriegler;Elmar Kriegler;Jim W. Hall

  • A decade of weather extremes

    Dim Coumou;Stefan Rahmstorf

  • A Semi-Empirical Approach to Projecting Future Sea-Level Rise

    Stefan Rahmstorf

  • Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against

    Timothy M. Lenton;Johan Rockström;Owen Gaffney;Stefan Rahmstorf

  • Increasing river discharge to the Arctic Ocean

    Bruce J Peterson;Robert M Holmes;James W McClelland;Charles J Vörösmarty

  • Global sea level linked to global temperature

    Martin Vermeer;Stefan Rahmstorf

  • Ocean circulation and climate during the past 120,000 years

    Stefan Rahmstorf

  • Increase of extreme events in a warming world

    Stefan Rahmstorf;Dim Coumou

  • Rapid changes of glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model.

    Andrey Ganopolski;Stefan Rahmstorf

  • Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation

    Stefan Rahmstorf;Jason E. Box;Georg Feulner;Michael E. Mann

  • Observed fingerprint of a weakening Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation

    Levke Caesar;Levke Caesar;Stefan Rahmstorf;Stefan Rahmstorf;A. Robinson;G. Feulner

  • Recent Climate Observations Compared to Projections

    Stefan Rahmstorf;Anny Cazenave;John A. Church;James E. Hansen

  • Bifurcations of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in response to changes in the hydrological cycle

    Stefan Rahmstorf

  • On the driving processes of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

    T. Kuhlbrodt;A. Griesel;M. Montoya;A. Levermann

  • Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods

    Andrea Dutton;A E Carlson;Antony J Long;Glenn A Milne

  • On the freshwater forcing and transport of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation

    S. Rahmstorf

  • CLIMBER-2: a climate system model of intermediate complexity. Part I: model description and performance for present climate

    V. Petoukhov;A. Ganopolski;V. Brovkin;M. Claussen

  • Climate related sea-level variations over the past two millennia

    Andrew C. Kemp;Benjamin P. Horton;Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Michael E. Mann

  • Simulation of modern and glacial climates with a coupled global model of intermediate complexity

    Andrey Ganopolski;Stefan Rahmstorf;Vladimir Petoukhov;Martin Claussen

  • Thermohaline circulation hysteresis: A model intercomparison

    Stefan Rahmstorf;Michel Crucifix;Andrey Ganopolski;Hugues Goosse

  • Observed fingerprint of a weakening Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation

    S. Rahmstorf;L. Caesar;G. Feulner;A. Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dim Coumou
Dim Coumou Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Michael E. Mann
Michael E. Mann Pennsylvania State University
David Archer
David Archer University of Chicago
Andrey Ganopolski
Andrey Ganopolski Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Andrew C. Kemp
Andrew C. Kemp Tufts University
Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
Anders Levermann
Anders Levermann Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Nebojsa Nakicenovic International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Reinhold Leinfelder
Reinhold Leinfelder Freie Universität Berlin

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