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D-Index
65
Citations
15290
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1398
National Ranking
630

Thomas M. Church 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 Thomas M. Church sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 155 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Thomas M. Church 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 Thomas M. Church sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas M. Church was affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research spanned multiple disciplines including mathematics, earth and planetary sciences, and environmental science. The scientist contributed to various subfields such as oceanography, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, mathematical physics, geometry and topology, and nutrition and dietetics.

Their work covered a diverse range of topics, with publications addressing mercury impact and mitigation studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology research, geometric and algebraic topology, mathematical dynamics and fractals, homotopy and cohomology in algebraic topology, and selenium in biological systems.

Thomas M. Church had research published in these venues:

  • Marine Chemistry
  • Journal of the European Mathematical Society
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Their notable recent publications included:

  • "Dissolved iron in the Bermuda region of the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean: Seasonal dynamics, mesoscale variability, and physicochemical speciation" (2020) in Marine Chemistry
  • "On finite generation of the Johnson filtrations" (2021) in Journal of the European Mathematical Society
  • "Tellurite and selenite processing by tellurite resistant marine microbes" (2025) in Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Thomas M. Church frequently collaborated with the following co-authors:

  • Peter N. Sedwick
  • Andrew R. Bowie
  • Jay T. Cullen
  • Rodney J. Johnson
  • Maeve C. Lohan

Best Publications

  • The atmospheric input of trace species to the world ocean

    R. A. Duce;P. S. Liss;J. T. Merrill;E. L. Atlas

  • The fate of nitrogen and phosphorus at the land-sea margin of the North Atlantic Ocean

    S. W. Nixon;J. W. Ammerman;L. P. Atkinson;V. M. Berounsky

  • Impact of anthropogenic combustion emissions on the fractional solubility of aerosol iron: Evidence from the Sargasso Sea

    Peter N. Sedwick;Edward R. Sholkovitz;Thomas M. Church

  • Atmospheric deposition of nutrients to the North Atlantic Basin.

    J. M. Prospero;K. Barrett;T. Church;F. Dentener

  • The Behaviour of Dissolved Barium in Estuaries

    M. Coffey;F.A. Dehairs;O. Collette;G. Luther

  • An underground route for the water cycle

    Thomas M. Church

  • Sulfur speciation and associated trace metals (Fe, Cu) in the pore waters of Great Marsh, Delaware

    Jacques Boulegue;Charles J. Lord;Thomas M. Church

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Seasonal iron cycling in the salt-marsh sedimentary environment: the importance of ligand complexes with Fe(II) and Fe(III) in the dissolution of Fe(III) minerals and pyrite, respectively

    George W Luther;Joel E Kostka;Thomas M Church;Barbara Sulzberger

  • The chemistry of the Delaware estuary. General considerations1

    Jonathan H. Sharp;Charles H. Culberson;Thomas M. Church

  • Fractional solubility of aerosol iron: Synthesis of a global-scale data set

    Edward R. Sholkovitz;Peter N. Sedwick;Thomas M. Church;Alexander R. Baker

  • Iron in the Sargasso Sea (Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study region) during summer : eolian imprint, spatiotemporal variability, and ecological implications

    Peter N. Sedwick;Thomas M. Church;Andrew R. Bowie;Christopher M. Marsay

  • Marine barite saturation

    Thomas M. Church;Kenneth Wolgemuth

  • The geochemistry of salt marshes: Sedimentary ion diffusion, sulfate reduction, and pyritization

    Charles J. Lord;Thomas M. Church

  • Influence of anthropogenic combustion emissions on the deposition of soluble aerosol iron to the ocean: Empirical estimates for island sites in the North Atlantic

    Edward R. Sholkovitz;Peter N. Sedwick;Thomas M. Church

  • Inorganic and Organic Sulfur Cycling in Salt-Marsh Pore Waters

    George W. Luther;Thomas M. Church;Joseph R. Scudlark;Monique Cosman

  • Sulfur speciation and sulfide oxidation in the water column of the Black Sea

    George W. Luther;Thomas M. Church;David Powell

  • Sulfur enrichment of humic substances in a Delaware salt marsh sediment core

    Timothy G. Ferdelman;Thomas M. Church;George W. Luther

  • Megacities and large urban agglomerations in the coastal zone: interactions between atmosphere, land, and marine ecosystems.

    Roland von Glasow;Tim D. Jickells;Alexander Baklanov;Gregory R. Carmichael

  • Marine Chemistry in the Coastal Environment

    Thomas M. Church

Frequent Co-Authors

Guebuem Kim
Guebuem Kim Seoul National University
James N. Galloway
James N. Galloway University of Virginia
Peter N. Sedwick
Peter N. Sedwick Old Dominion University
George W. Luther
George W. Luther University of Delaware
Tim Jickells
Tim Jickells University of East Anglia
Anthony H. Knap
Anthony H. Knap Texas A&M University
Maeve C. Lohan
Maeve C. Lohan University of Southampton
Richard Arimoto
Richard Arimoto New Mexico State University Carlsbad
Pere Masqué
Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University
Mark Baskaran
Mark Baskaran Wayne State University

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