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Taylor F. Schildgen

Taylor F. Schildgen

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 38 6632 6148 475 455 227 4262

Taylor F. Schildgen publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Taylor F. Schildgen between 2002 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Taylor F. Schildgen published across 24 years, from 2002 to 2025, averaging 10 papers a year. Output peaked at 23 publications in 2024. 39 of the 241 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2002 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 23. Peak 23 publications in 2024. 2002: 2 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 0 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 7 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 9 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 10 publications 2015: 14 publications 2016: 21 publications 2017: 16 publications 2018: 20 publications 2019: 22 publications 2020: 12 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 12 publications 2023: 19 publications 2024: 23 publications 2025: 16 publications
2002 2025

241 publications in total across all disciplines

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Taylor F. Schildgen: publications per year, 2002 to 2025
Year Publications
2002 2
2003 2
2004 2
2005 2
2006 0
2007 2
2008 3
2009 8
2010 7
2011 5
2012 9
2013 7
2014 10
2015 14
2016 21
2017 16
2018 20
2019 22
2020 12
2021 7
2022 12
2023 19
2024 23
2025 16
Total 241
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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.

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, 218–227 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: 227 publications — 72nd percentile

72% 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
218–227 290 227
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
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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.

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, 38 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: 38 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% 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 38
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
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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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