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D-Index
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Citations
8274
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3453
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241

Timm John 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 Timm John sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 227 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Timm John 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 Timm John sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Timm John is a researcher affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany, specializing primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a strong focus on geophysics. Their academic contributions span multiple subfields including geophysics, astronomy and astrophysics, artificial intelligence, atmospheric science, and geochemistry and petrology.

The scientist's work covers a range of research topics, notably geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geochemistry and geologic mapping, geology and paleoclimatology research, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions.

Timm John has contributed to an extensive number of publications, including notable papers such as:

  • Uncovering and quantifying the subduction zone sulfur cycle from the slab perspective, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Instantaneous rock transformations in the deep crust driven by reactive fluid flow, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Months-long thousand-kilometre-scale wobbling before great subduction earthquakes, 2020, Nature
  • Slab-derived devolatilization fluids oxidized by subducted metasedimentary rocks, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • The role of brucite in water and element cycling during serpentinite subduction - Insights from Erro Tobbio (Liguria, Italy), 2020, Lithos

The researcher frequently collaborates with other scientists, including Johannes C. Vrijmoed, Stefan M. Schmalholz, Esther M. Schwarzenbach, Xin Zhong, and Jilei Li.

Key publication venues for their work include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Lithos
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Best Publications

  • Mobilization of Ti Nb-Ta during subduction : Evidence from rutile-bearing dehydration segregations and veins hosted in eclogite, Tianshan, NW China

    Jun Gao;Timm John;Timm John;Reiner Klemd;Xianming Xiong

  • Volcanic arcs fed by rapid pulsed fluid flow through subducting slabs

    Timm John;Nikolaus Gussone;Yuri Y. Podladchikov;Gray E. Bebout

  • Trace-element mobilization in slabs due to non steady-state fluid-rock interaction: Constraints from an eclogite-facies transport vein in blueschist (Tianshan, China)

    Timm John;Timm John;Reiner Klemd;Jun Gao;Carl-Dieter Garbe-Schönberg

  • Trace element fractionation during fluid-induced eclogitization in a subducting slab: trace element and Lu-Hf-Sm-Nd isotope systematics

    Timm John;Timm John;Erik E. Scherer;Karsten Haase;Volker Schenk

  • An evaluation of reactive fluid flow and trace element mobility in subducting slabs

    Thomas Zack;Timm John;Timm John

  • Generation of intermediate-depth earthquakes by self-localizing thermal runaway

    Timm John;Timm John;Sergei Medvedev;Lars H. Rüpke;Torgeir B. Andersen

  • Replacement Processes in the Earth's Crust

    Andrew Putnis;Timm John

  • Changes in dip of subducted slabs at depth: Petrological and geochronological evidence from HP-UHP rocks (Tianshan, NW-China)

    R. Klemd;T. John;E.E. Scherer;S. Rondenay;S. Rondenay

  • Dehydration of subducting serpentinite: Implications for halogen mobility in subduction zones and the deep halogen cycle

    Timm John;Timm John;Marco Scambelluri;Matthias Frische;Jaime D. Barnes

  • Timing and PT Evolution of Whiteschist Metamorphism in the Lufilian Arc–Zambezi Belt Orogen (Zambia): Implications for the Assembly of Gondwana

    Timm John;Volker Schenk;Klaus Mezger;Francis Tembo

  • Partial eclogitisation of gabbroic rocks in a late Precambrian subduction zone (Zambia): prograde metamorphism triggered by fluid infiltration

    Timm John;Volker Schenk

  • Fluid escape from subduction zones controlled by channel-forming reactive porosity

    Oliver Plümper;Oliver Plümper;Timm John;Yuri Y. Podladchikov;Johannes C. Vrijmoed;Johannes C. Vrijmoed

  • Trace-element mobilization during Ca-metasomatism along a major fluid conduit: Eclogitization of blueschist as a consequence of fluid–rock interaction

    Andreas Beinlich;Reiner Klemd;Timm John;Timm John;Jun Gao

  • Evidence for a Neoproterozoic ocean in south-central Africa from mid-oceanic-ridge type geochemical signatures and pressure-temperature estimates of Zambian eclogites

    Timm John;Volker Schenk;Karsten Haase;Erik Scherer

  • Blueschist-facies rehydration of eclogites (Tian Shan, NW-China): Implications for fluid–rock interaction in the subduction channel

    François van der Straaten;Volker Schenk;Timm John;Jun Gao

  • Fast intraslab fluid-flow events linked to pulses of high pore fluid pressure at the subducted plate interface

    Stephan Taetz;Timm John;Michael Bröcker;Carl Spandler

  • Nb–Ta fractionation by partial melting at the titanite–rutile transition

    Timm John;Reiner Klemd;Stephan Klemme;Jörg A. Pfänder

  • The metamorphic evolution of the Paleoproterozoic (Birimian) volcanic Ashanti belt (Ghana, West Africa)

    Timm John;Reiner Klemd;Wolfgang Hirdes;Geoffrey Loh

  • Uncovering and quantifying the subduction zone sulfur cycle from the slab perspective.

    Ji-Lei Li;Ji-Lei Li;Esther M. Schwarzenbach;Timm John;Jay J. Ague

  • Fluid-mediated metal transport in subduction zones and its link to arc-related giant ore deposits: Constraints from a sulfide-bearing HP vein in lawsonite eclogite (Tianshan, China)

    Ji-Lei Li;Ji-Lei Li;Jun Gao;Timm John;Reiner Klemd

  • Distribution of halogens between fluid and apatite during fluid-mediated replacement processes

    Christof Kusebauch;Timm John;Martin J. Whitehouse;Stephan Klemme

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Schenk
Volker Schenk Heidelberg University
Yuri Y. Podladchikov
Yuri Y. Podladchikov University of Lausanne
Torgeir B. Andersen
Torgeir B. Andersen University of Oslo
Loïc Labrousse
Loïc Labrousse Sorbonne University
Jun Gao
Jun Gao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Addi Bischoff
Addi Bischoff University of Münster
Reiner Klemd
Reiner Klemd University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History
Erik E. Scherer
Erik E. Scherer University of Münster
Marco Scambelluri
Marco Scambelluri University of Genoa

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