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Taylor F. Schildgen

Taylor F. Schildgen

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
38
Citations
4262
World Ranking
6632
National Ranking
475

Taylor F. Schildgen 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 Taylor F. Schildgen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 227 publications — 70th percentile

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Taylor F. Schildgen 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 Taylor F. Schildgen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Taylor F. Schildgen is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research covers a broad spectrum of disciplines including Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Geology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • Landslides and Related Hazards
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Geological Studies and Exploration

Schildgen has published their research in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions in:

  • Tectonics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth Surface Dynamics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Interactions between main channels and tributary alluvial fans: channel adjustments and sediment-signal propagation," 2020, Earth Surface Dynamics
  • "Short communication: age2exhume - a MATLAB/Python script to calculate steady-state vertical exhumation rates from thermochronometric ages and application to the Himalaya," 2023, Geochronology
  • "Quantifying drainage-divide migration from orographic rainfall over geologic timescales: Sierra de Aconquija, southern Central Andes," 2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Himalayan valley-floor widths controlled by tectonically driven exhumation," 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • "Temporal and Spatial Variations in Rock Uplift From River-Profile Inversions at the Central Anatolian Plateau Southern Margin," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter van der Beek
  • Hella Wittmann
  • Laurent Jolivet
  • Edward R. Sobel
  • Jonathan C. Aitchison

Best Publications

  • Quaternary deformation, river steepening, and heavy precipitation at the front of the Higher Himalayan ranges

    Kip V Hodges;Cameron Wobus;Katharine Ruhl;Taylor Schildgen

  • Multi-phased uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes

    T. F. Schildgen;D Cosentino;B. Bookhagen;S. Niedermann

  • Linking slab break-off, Hellenic trench retreat, and uplift of the Central and Eastern Anatolian plateaus

    Taylor F. Schildgen;C. Yildirim;Domenico Cosentino;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Uplift of the western margin of the Andean plateau revealed from canyon incision history, southern Peru

    Taylor F. Schildgen;Kip V. Hodges;Kelin X Whipple;Peter W. Reiners

  • Late Miocene surface uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Central Taurides, Turkey

    Domenico Cosentino;Taylor F. Schildgen;Paola Cipollari;Costanza Faranda

  • Simulation of snow shielding corrections for cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure studies

    T.F. Schildgen;W.M. Phillips;R.S. Purves

  • Surface expression of eastern Mediterranean slab dynamics: Neogene topographic and structural evolution of the southwest margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey

    T. F. Schildgen;Domenico Cosentino;A. Caruso;R. Buchwaldt

  • Epigenetic gorges in fluvial landscapes

    W. B. Ouimet;K. X. Whipple;B. T. Crosby;J. P. Johnson

  • Plio-Quaternary extensional tectonics of the Central Anatolian Plateau: A case study from the Tuz Gölü Basin, Turkey

    Erman Ozsayin;T. Attila Ciner;F. Bora Rojay;R. Kadir Dirik

  • Spatial correlation bias in late-Cenozoic erosion histories derived from thermochronology

    Taylor F. Schildgen;Pieter A. van der Beek;Hugh D. Sinclair;Rasmus Christoph Thiede;Rasmus Christoph Thiede

  • Effect of vegetation cover on millennial-scale landscape denudation rates in East Africa

    Verónica Torres Acosta;Taylor F. Schildgen;Brian A. Clarke;Dirk Scherler

  • 26Al and10Be dating of late pleistocene and holocene fill terraces: a record of fluvial deposition and incision, Colorado front range

    Taylor Schildgen;David P. Dethier;Paul Bierman;Marc Caffee

  • Can stable isotopes ride out the storms? The role of convection for water isotopes in models, records, and paleoaltimetry studies in the central Andes

    Alexander Rohrmann;Manfred R. Strecker;Bodo Bookhagen;Bodo Bookhagen;Andreas Mulch

  • 100 kyr fluvial cut-and-fill terrace cycles since the Middle Pleistocene in the southern Central Andes, NW Argentina

    Stefanie Tofelde;Taylor F. Schildgen;Sara Savi;Heiko Pingel

  • Late cenozoic structural and tectonic development of the western margin of the central andean plateau in southwest Peru

    Taylor F. Schildgen;Taylor F. Schildgen;Kip V. Hodges;Kelin X. Whipple;Malcolm S. Pringle

  • Glacial isostatic uplift of the European Alps

    Juergen Mey;Dirk Scherler;Andrew D. Wickert;David L. Egholm

  • Canyon incision and knickpoint propagation recorded by apatite 4He/3He thermochronometry

    Taylor F. Schildgen;Greg Balco;David L. Shuster

  • Late Neogene and active orogenic uplift in the Central Pontides associated with the North Anatolian Fault: Implications for the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey

    Cengiz Yildirim;Taylor F. Schildgen;Helmut Echtler;Daniel Melnick

  • Climate-driven sediment aggradation and incision since the late Pleistocene in the NW Himalaya, India

    Saptarshi Dey;Rasmus C. Thiede;Taylor F. Schildgen;Hella Wittmann

  • Refining the Mediterranean Messinian gap with high-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology, central and northern Italy

    Domenico Cosentino;Robert Buchwaldt;Gianluca Sampalmieri;Annalisa Iadanza

  • Quantifying canyon incision and Andean Plateau surface uplift, southwest Peru: A thermochronometer and numerical modeling approach

    Taylor F. Schildgen;Taylor F. Schildgen;Todd A. Ehlers;Todd A. Ehlers;David M. Whipp;David M. Whipp;Matthijs C. van Soest

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred R. Strecker
Manfred R. Strecker University of Potsdam
Hella Wittmann
Hella Wittmann Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Domenico Cosentino
Domenico Cosentino Roma Tre University
Bodo Bookhagen
Bodo Bookhagen University of Potsdam
Dirk Scherler
Dirk Scherler Freie Universität Berlin
Helmut Echtler
Helmut Echtler University of Potsdam
Daniel Melnick
Daniel Melnick Austral University of Chile
Kelin X. Whipple
Kelin X. Whipple Arizona State University
Kip V. Hodges
Kip V. Hodges Arizona State University
Edward R. Sobel
Edward R. Sobel University of Potsdam

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