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Earth Science 139 12 10 2 2 1023 66536

Stefan Schouten publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Stefan Schouten between 1989 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Stefan Schouten published across 37 years, from 1989 to 2025, averaging 30.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 78 publications in 2012. 18 of the 1,142 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
25 50 75
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1989 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 78. Peak 78 publications in 2012. 1989: 1 publication 1990: 0 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 2 publications 1993: 5 publications 1994: 3 publications 1995: 12 publications 1996: 2 publications 1997: 11 publications 1998: 19 publications 1999: 8 publications 2000: 14 publications 2001: 13 publications 2002: 10 publications 2003: 15 publications 2004: 31 publications 2005: 21 publications 2006: 49 publications 2007: 49 publications 2008: 44 publications 2009: 74 publications 2010: 74 publications 2011: 63 publications 2012: 78 publications 2013: 60 publications 2014: 76 publications 2015: 45 publications 2016: 49 publications 2017: 69 publications 2018: 51 publications 2019: 67 publications 2020: 35 publications 2021: 48 publications 2022: 6 publications 2023: 19 publications 2024: 14 publications 2025: 4 publications
1989 2025

1,142 publications in total across all disciplines

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Stefan Schouten: publications per year, 1989 to 2025
Year Publications
1989 1
1990 0
1991 1
1992 2
1993 5
1994 3
1995 12
1996 2
1997 11
1998 19
1999 8
2000 14
2001 13
2002 10
2003 15
2004 31
2005 21
2006 49
2007 49
2008 44
2009 74
2010 74
2011 63
2012 78
2013 60
2014 76
2015 45
2016 49
2017 69
2018 51
2019 67
2020 35
2021 48
2022 6
2023 19
2024 14
2025 4
Total 1,142
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Stefan Schouten 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 Stefan Schouten 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, 603+ 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: 1,023 publications — 100th percentile

100% 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
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 1,023
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Stefan Schouten 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 Stefan Schouten 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, 106+ 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: 139 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% 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
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+ 98 139
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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
  • 2014 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2012 - C.C. Patterson Award, Geochemical Society

Overview

Stefan Schouten is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple areas within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences with an emphasis on Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Molecular Biology.

Their work encompasses various main topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Stefan Schouten has published frequently in venues such as:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Organic Geochemistry
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • 30th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2021)
  • Climate of the past

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, most often with:

  • Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
  • Ellen C. Hopmans
  • Marcel T. J. van der Meer
  • Nicole J. Bale
  • Laura Villanueva

Among recent publications attributed to Stefan Schouten are:

  • Lipidomics of Environmental Microbial Communities. I: Visualization of Component Distributions Using Untargeted Analysis of High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data (2021, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Late Paleocene-early Eocene Arctic Ocean sea surface temperatures: reassessing biomarker paleothermometry at Lomonosov Ridge (2020, Climate of the past)
  • The absence of intact polar lipid-derived GDGTs in marine waters dominated by Marine Group II: Implications for lipid biosynthesis in Archaea (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Spindle-shaped archaeal viruses evolved from rod-shaped ancestors to package a larger genome (2022, Cell)
  • Global temperature calibration of the Long chain Diol Index in marine surface sediments (2020, Organic Geochemistry)

Stefan Schouten has been recognized with awards including membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014 and the C.C. Patterson Award from the Geochemical Society in 2012.

Best Publications

  • A microbial consortium couples anaerobic methane oxidation to denitrification

    Ashna A. Raghoebarsing;Arjan Pol;Katinka T. van de Pas-Schoonen;Alfons J. P. Smolders

  • Distributional variations in marine crenarchaeotal membrane lipids: a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea water temperatures?

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Enno Schefuß;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • A novel proxy for terrestrial organic matter in sediments based on branched and isoprenoid tetraether lipids

    Ellen C Hopmans;Johan W.H Weijers;Enno Schefuß;Lydie Herfort

  • Archaeal nitrification in the ocean

    Cornelia Wuchter;Ben Abbas;Marco J. L. Coolen;Lydie Herfort

  • Evidence for gammacerane as an indicator of water column stratification

    J.S. Sinninghe Damsté;F. Kenig;M.P. Koopmans;J. Koster

  • The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Environmental controls on bacterial tetraether membrane lipid distribution in soils

    Johan W.H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Jurgen C. van den Donker;Ellen C. Hopmans

  • New indices and calibrations derived from the distribution of crenarchaeal isoprenoid tetraether lipids: Implications for past sea surface temperature reconstructions

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Jaap van der Meer;Stefan Schouten;Peer Helmke

  • Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Appy Sluijs;Stefan Schouten;Mark Pagani;Martijn Woltering

  • Occurrence and distribution of tetraether membrane lipids in soils : Implications for the use of the TEX86 proxy and the BIT index

    Johan W.H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Otto C. Spaargaren;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Crenarchaeol: the characteristic core glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether membrane lipid of cosmopolitan pelagic crenarchaeota.

    Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté;Stefan Schouten;Ellen C Hopmans;Adri C T van Duin

  • The effect of improved chromatography on GDGT-based palaeoproxies

    Ellen C. Hopmans;Stefan Schouten;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • An improved method to determine the absolute abundance of glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids

    Carme Huguet;Ellen C. Hopmans;Wilma Febo-Ayala;David H. Thompson

  • Occurrence and abundance of 6-methyl branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils : Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction

    Cindy De Jonge;Ellen C. Hopmans;Claudia I. Zell;Jung Hyun Kim

  • Membrane lipids of mesophilic anaerobic bacteria thriving in peats have typical archaeal traits

    Johan W. H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Jan A. J. Geenevasen

  • Analysis of intact tetraether lipids in archaeal cell material and sediments by high performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry.

    Ellen C. Hopmans;Stefan Schouten;Richard D. Pancost;Marcel T.J. van der Meer

  • Environmental, genomic and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia.

    Huub J. M. Op den Camp;Tajul Islam;Matthew B. Stott;Harry R. Harhangi

  • Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes

    Charlotte L. O'Brien;Stuart A. Robinson;Richard D. Pancost;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Mark Pagani;Nikolai Pedentchouk;Matthew Huber;Appy Sluijs

  • Climatic controls on central African hydrology during the past 20,000 years

    Enno Schefuss;Stefan Schouten;Ralph R Schneider

  • Analytical methodology for TEX86 paleothermometry by high-performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization-mass spectrometry.

    Stefan Schouten;Carme Huguet;Ellen C Hopmans;Michiel V M Kienhuis

  • Trophic upgrading of food quality by protozoans enhancing copepod growth: role of essential lipids

    W. C. M. Klein Breteler;N. Schogt;M. Baas;S. Schouten

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Ellen C. Hopmans
Ellen C. Hopmans Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Marcel T. J. van der Meer
Marcel T. J. van der Meer Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Appy Sluijs
Appy Sluijs Utrecht University
Henk Brinkhuis
Henk Brinkhuis Utrecht University
Gert-Jan Reichart
Gert-Jan Reichart Utrecht University
W. Irene C. Rijpstra
W. Irene C. Rijpstra Utrecht University
Enno Schefuß
Enno Schefuß University of Bremen
Francesca Sangiorgi
Francesca Sangiorgi Utrecht University
Mike S. M. Jetten
Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University

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