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Thomas Schuler

Thomas Schuler

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
41
Citations
4763
World Ranking
5668
National Ranking
69

Thomas Schuler 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 Schuler sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 231 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Thomas Schuler 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 Schuler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • Changes in Winter Warming Events in the Nordic Arctic Region

    Dagrun Vikhamar-Schuler;Ketil Isaksen;Jan Erik Haugen;Hans Tømmervik

  • Reconciling Svalbard Glacier Mass Balance

    Thomas Vikhamar Schuler;Thomas Vikhamar Schuler;Jack Kohler;Nelly Elagina;Jon Ove Methlie Hagen

  • Modeling the impact of wintertime rain events on the thermal regime of permafrost

    Sebastian Westermann;Julia Boike;Moritz Langer;T. V. Schuler

  • Glacier-surge mechanisms promoted by a hydro-thermodynamic feedback to summer melt

    Thorben Dunse;Thomas Schellenberger;Jon Ove Methlie Hagen;Andreas Kääb

  • Transient thermal modeling of permafrost conditions in Southern Norway

    Sebastian Westermann;Thomas Schuler;Kjersti Gisnås;Bernd Etzelmuller

  • Modeling the temperature evolution of Svalbard permafrost during the 20th and 21st century

    Bernd Etzelmüller;Thomas Vikhamar Schuler;Ketil Isaksen;Hanne Hvidtfeldt Christiansen;Hanne Hvidtfeldt Christiansen

  • A ground temperature map of the North Atlantic permafrost region based on remote sensing and reanalysis data

    S. Westermann;S. Westermann;T. I. Østby;K. Gisnås;T. V. Schuler

  • Geometric changes and mass balance of the Austfonna ice cap, Svalbard

    G. Moholdt;J. O. Hagen;T. Eiken;T. V. Schuler

  • A statistical approach to represent small-scale variability of permafrost temperatures due to snow cover

    Kjersti Gisnås;Sebastian Westermann;Sebastian Westermann;Thomas Vikhamar Schuler;T. Litherland

  • A long-term dataset of climatic mass balance, snow conditions, and runoff in Svalbard (1957-2018)

    Ward Van Pelt;Veijo Pohjola;Rickard Pettersson;Sergey A. Marchenko

  • CryoGRID 1.0: Permafrost Distribution in Norway estimated by a Spatial Numerical Model

    K. Gisnås;B. Etzelmüller;H. Farbrot;T. V. Schuler

  • Diagnosing the decline in climatic mass balance of glaciers in Svalbard over 1957–2014

    Torbjørn Ims Østby;Thomas Vikhamar Schuler;Jon Ove Hagen;Regine Hock;Regine Hock

  • Estimating the long-term calving flux of Kronebreen, Svalbard, from geodetic elevation changes and mass-balance modelling

    Christopher Nuth;Thomas Vikhamar Schuler;Jack Kohler;Bas Altena

  • The relative age of mountain permafrost — estimation of Holocene permafrost limits in Norway

    Karianne S. Lilleøren;Bernd Etzelmüller;Thomas V. Schuler;Kjersti Gisnås

  • Air and Ground Temperature Variations Observed along Elevation and Continentality Gradients in Southern Norway

    Herman Farbrot;Tobias Florian Hipp;Bernd Etzelmüller;Ketil Isaksen

  • Rate-and-state friction explains glacier surge propagation.

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  • Severe cloud contamination of MODIS Land Surface Temperatures over an Arctic ice cap, Svalbard

    Torbjørn I. Østby;Thomas V. Schuler;Sebastian Westermann

  • Contribution of snow and glacier melt to discharge for highly glacierised catchments in Norway

    Markus Engelhardt;Thomas Schuler;L.M. Andreassen

  • Ensemble-based assimilation of fractional snow-covered area satellite retrievals to estimate the snow distribution at Arctic sites

    Kristoffer Aalstad;Sebastian Westermann;Thomas Vikhamar Schuler;Julia Boike

  • Small-scale variation of snow in a regional permafrost model

    Kjersti Gisnås;Sebastian Westermann;Thomas Vikhamar Schuler;Kjetil Melvold

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