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Stijn De Schepper

Stijn De Schepper

Stijn De Schepper 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 Stijn De Schepper sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Stijn De Schepper 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 Stijn De Schepper sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Stijn De Schepper is a researcher affiliated with NORCE Research in Norway. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Paleontology, and Molecular Biology.

Their research covers a range of topics related to Geology and Paleoclimatology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Frequent coauthors of Stijn De Schepper include Erin L. McClymont, Bjørg Risebrobakken, Agnes K. M. Weiner, Danielle Grant, and Sze Ling Ho.

The scientist has published in various journals, with notable frequent venues such as Climate of the Past, Quaternary Science Reviews, Reviews of Geophysics, Frontiers in Marine Science, and Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.

  • Lessons from a high-CO 2 world: an ocean view from ∼ 3 million years ago, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation, 2023, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Planktic Foraminiferal Test Size and Weight Response to the Late Pliocene Environment, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Sedimentary ancient DNA: a new paleogenomic tool for reconstructing the history of marine ecosystems, 2023, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Millennial-scale variations in Arctic sea ice are recorded in sedimentary ancient DNA of the microalga Polarella glacialis, 2024, Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • A global synthesis of the marine and terrestrial evidence for glaciation during the Pliocene Epoch

    Stijn De Schepper;Philip L. Gibbard;Ulrich Salzmann;Jürgen Ehlers

  • Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: the Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test

    Kenneth Neil Mertens;Koen Verhoeven;Thomas Verleye;Stephen Louwye

  • Late Pliocene changes in the North Atlantic Current

    B. David A. Naafs;B. David A. Naafs;Ruediger Stein;Jens Hefter;Nabil Khélifi

  • Northern Hemisphere Glaciation during the Globally Warm Early Late Pliocene

    Stijn De Schepper;Stijn De Schepper;Jeroen Groeneveld;B. David A Naafs;Cédéric Van Renterghem

  • Dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Pliocene in northern Belgium, southern North Sea Basin

    Stephen Louwye;Martin J. Head;Stijn De Schepper

  • Distribution of common modern dinoflagellate cyst taxa in surface sediments of the Northern Hemisphere in relation to environmental parameters: The new n=1968 database

    Anne de Vernal;Taoufik Radi;Sebastien Zaragosi;Nicolas Van Nieuwenhove

  • Effect of early Pliocene uplift on late Pliocene cooling in the Arctic–Atlantic gateway

    Jochen Knies;Rune Mattingsdal;Karl Fabian;Kari Grøsfjeld

  • Lessons from a high CO2 world : an ocean view from ~ 3 million years ago.

    Erin L. McClymont;Heather L. Ford;Sze Ling Ho;Julia C. Tindall

  • A new 6 Myr stratigraphic framework for the Atlantic–Arctic Gateway

    Rune Mattingsdal;Jochen Knies;Karin Andreassen;Karl Fabian

  • North Atlantic Current variability through marine isotope stage M2 (circa 3.3 Ma) during the mid‐Pliocene

    Stijn De Schepper;Martin J. Head;Jeroen Groeneveld

  • Pliocene dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy, palaeoecology and sequence stratigraphy of the Tunnel-Canal Dock, Belgium

    Stijn De Schepper;Martin J. Head;Stephen Louwye

  • Deciphering the palaeoecology of Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene dinoflagellate cysts

    Stijn De Schepper;Eva I. Fischer;Jeroen Groeneveld;Martin J. Head

  • Early Pliocene onset of modern Nordic Seas circulation related to ocean gateway changes.

    Stijn De Schepper;Stijn De Schepper;Michael Schreck;Kristina Marie Beck;Jens Matthiessen

  • The Upper Miocene of the southern North Sea Basin (northern Belgium): a palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphical reconstruction using dinoflagellate cysts

    Stephen Louwye;Stijn De Schepper;Pieter Laga;Noël Vandenberghe

  • The Miocene–Pliocene hiatus in the southern North Sea Basin (northern Belgium) revealed by dinoflagellate cysts

    Stephen Louwye;Stijn De Schepper

  • A new age model for the Pliocene–Pleistocene Tjörnes section on Iceland: Its implication for the timing of North Atlantic–Pacific palaeoceanographic pathways

    Koen Verhoeven;Stephen Louwye;Jón Eiríksson;Stijn De Schepper

  • PLIOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE DINOFLAGELLATE CYST AND ACRITARCH ZONATION OF DSDP HOLE 610A, EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC

    Stijn De Schepper;Martin J. Head

  • NEW DINOFLAGELLATE CYST AND INCERTAE SEDIS TAXA FROM THE PLIOCENE OF NORTHERN BELGIUM, SOUTHERN NORTH SEA BASIN

    Stijn De Schepper;Martin J. Head;Stephen Louwye

  • An overview and brief description of common marine organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst taxa occurring in surface sediments of the Northern Hemisphere

    Nicolas Van Nieuwenhove;Martin J. Head;Audrey Limoges;Vera Pospelova;Vera Pospelova

  • Palynological evidence for a southward shift of the North Atlantic Current at ~2.6 Ma during the intensification of late Cenozoic Northern Hemisphere glaciation

    Jan A. I. Hennissen;Jan A. I. Hennissen;Martin J. Head;Martin J. Head;Stijn De Schepper;Jeroen Groeneveld

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin J. Head
Martin J. Head Brock University
Jeroen Groeneveld
Jeroen Groeneveld University of Bremen
Jens Matthiessen
Jens Matthiessen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Stephen Louwye
Stephen Louwye Ghent University
Anne de Vernal
Anne de Vernal University of Quebec at Montreal
Vera Pospelova
Vera Pospelova University of Victoria
Ruediger Stein
Ruediger Stein University of Bremen
Katrine Husum
Katrine Husum Norwegian Polar Institute
James B. Riding
James B. Riding British Geological Survey
Kirsten Fahl
Kirsten Fahl Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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