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Tristram Irvine-Fynn

Tristram Irvine-Fynn

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 38 6615 6133 686 639 99 4431

Tristram Irvine-Fynn publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Tristram Irvine-Fynn between 2004 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Tristram Irvine-Fynn published across 23 years, from 2004 to 2026, averaging 4.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2017. 3 of the 109 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2004 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 16. Peak 16 publications in 2017. 2004: 1 publication 2005: 3 publications 2006: 1 publication 2007: 1 publication 2008: 3 publications 2009: 1 publication 2010: 7 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 15 publications 2017: 16 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 4 publications 2022: 6 publications 2023: 1 publication 2024: 3 publications 2025: 2 publications 2026: 1 publication
2004 2026

109 publications in total across all disciplines

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Tristram Irvine-Fynn: publications per year, 2004 to 2026
Year Publications
2004 1
2005 3
2006 1
2007 1
2008 3
2009 1
2010 7
2011 5
2012 6
2013 3
2014 6
2015 4
2016 15
2017 16
2018 6
2019 9
2020 5
2021 4
2022 6
2023 1
2024 3
2025 2
2026 1
Total 109
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Tristram Irvine-Fynn 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 Tristram Irvine-Fynn 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, 98–107 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: 99 publications — 11th percentile

11% 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 99
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
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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Tristram Irvine-Fynn 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 Tristram Irvine-Fynn 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

Tristram Irvine-Fynn is a researcher affiliated with Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with contributions spanning Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Molecular Biology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's research centers on cryospheric studies and observations, polar research and ecology, climate change and permafrost, microbial community ecology and physiology, landslides and related hazards, geology and paleoclimatology research, and arctic and antarctic ice dynamics.

They have published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, The Cryosphere, Environmental Microbiology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Earth-Science Reviews.

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Irvine-Fynn include the following:

  • Glacier algae accelerate melt rates on the south-western Greenland Ice Sheet (2020), published in The Cryosphere
  • Algal photophysiology drives darkening and melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Hydrology of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Algal growth and weathering crust state drive variability in western Greenland Ice Sheet ice albedo (2020), published in The Cryosphere
  • Seasonally stable temperature gradients through supraglacial debris in the Everest region of Nepal, Central Himalaya (2020), published in Journal of Glaciology

Their research collaborations include frequent coauthors such as Joseph M. Cook, Andy Hodson, Arwyn Edwards, Christopher J. Williamson, and Andrew Tedstone.

Best Publications

  • Increased Runoff from Melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet: A Response to Global Warming

    Edward Hanna;Philippe Huybrechts;Konrad Steffen;John Cappelen

  • Cryoconite: The dark biological secret of the cryosphere

    Joseph Cook;Arwyn Edwards;Nozomu Takeuchi;Tristram Irvine-Fynn

  • POLYTHERMAL GLACIER HYDROLOGY: A REVIEW

    Tristram D. L. Irvine-Fynn;Tristram D. L. Irvine-Fynn;Andrew J. Hodson;Brian J. Moorman;Geir Vatne

  • A glacier respires: Quantifying the distribution and respiration CO2 flux of cryoconite across an entire Arctic supraglacial ecosystem

    Andy Hodson;Alexandre Magno Anesio;Alexandre Magno Anesio;Felix Ng;Rory Watson

  • The structure, biological activity and biogeochemistry of cryoconite aggregates upon an Arctic valley glacier: Longyearbreen, Svalbard

    Andy Hodson;Karen Cameron;Carl Bøggild;Tristram Irvine-Fynn

  • Nitrogen fixation on Arctic glaciers, Svalbard

    Jon Telling;Alexandre Magno Anesio;Martyn Tranter;Tristram Irvine-fynn

  • Glacier algae accelerate melt rates on the south-western Greenland Ice Sheet

    Joseph M. Cook;Joseph M. Cook;Andrew J. Tedstone;Christopher Williamson;Jenine McCutcheon

  • Dark zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet controlled by distributed biologically-active impurities.

    Jonathan C. Ryan;Jonathan C. Ryan;Jonathan C. Ryan;Alun Lloyd Hubbard;Alun Lloyd Hubbard;Marek Stibal;Marek Stibal;Tristam D. Irvine-Fynn

  • Seasonal changes in ground-penetrating radar signature observed at a polythermal glacier, Bylot Island, Canada

    T. D. L. Irvine-Fynn;B. J. Moorman;J. L. M. Williams;F. S. A. Walter

  • A metagenomic snapshot of taxonomic and functional diversity in an alpine glacier cryoconite ecosystem

    Arwyn Edwards;Justin Alexander Pachebat;Martin Thomas Swain;Matthew John Hegarty

  • Algal photophysiology drives darkening and melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Christopher J. Williamson;Joseph Cook;Andrew Tedstone;Marian Yallop

  • Taxon interactions control the distributions of cryoconite bacteria colonizing a High Arctic ice cap

    Jarishma K. Gokul;Andrew J. Hodson;Andrew J. Hodson;Eli R. Saetnan;Tristram D. L. Irvine-Fynn

  • Microbial cell budgets of an Arctic glacier surface quantified using flow cytometry

    T. D. L. Irvine-Fynn;A. Edwards;S. Newton;H. Langford

  • Quantifying bioalbedo: a new physically based model and discussion of empirical methods for characterising biological influence on ice and snow albedo

    Joseph M. Cook;Joseph M. Cook;Andrew J. Hodson;Andrew J. Hodson;Alex S. Gardner;Mark Flanner

  • Hydrology of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia

    Katie E. Miles;Bryn Hubbard;Tristram D.L. Irvine-Fynn;Evan S. Miles

  • Contrasts between the cryoconite and ice-marginal bacterial communities of Svalbard glaciers

    Arwyn Edwards;Sara Maria Rassner;Alexandre Magno Anesio;Hilary Jane Worgan

  • Controls on the autochthonous production and respiration of organic matter in cryoconite holes on high Arctic glaciers

    Jon Telling;Alexandre Magno Anesio;Martyn Tranter;Marek Stibal

  • Recent High-Arctic glacial sediment redistribution: A process perspective using airborne lidar

    T.D.L. Irvine-Fynn;N.E. Barrand;P.R. Porter;A.J. Hodson

  • Microbial abundance in surface ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Marek Stibal;Marek Stibal;Marek Stibal;Erkin Gözdereliler;Erkin Gözdereliler;Karen A. Cameron;Karen A. Cameron;Jason E. Box

  • Algal growth and weathering crust state drive variability in western Greenland Ice Sheet ice albedo

    Andrew J. Tedstone;Andrew J. Tedstone;Joseph M. Cook;Joseph M. Cook;Christopher J. Williamson;Stefan Hofer

  • Supraglacial weathering crust dynamics inferred from cryoconite hole hydrology

    Joseph Mitchell Cook;Andy J. Hodson;Andy J. Hodson;Tristram D. L. Irvine-Fynn

  • Temporal variations in supraglacial debris distribution on Baltoro Glacier, Karakoram between 2001 and 2012

    Morgan Gibson;Neil Glasser;Duncan Joseph Quincey;Christopher Mayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Andy Hodson
Andy Hodson University Centre in Svalbard
Duncan J. Quincey
Duncan J. Quincey University of Leeds
Alun Hubbard
Alun Hubbard University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Alexandre M. Anesio
Alexandre M. Anesio Aarhus University
Marek Stibal
Marek Stibal Charles University
Neil F. Glasser
Neil F. Glasser Aberystwyth University
Martyn Tranter
Martyn Tranter Aarhus University
Jon Telling
Jon Telling Newcastle University
Jason E. Box
Jason E. Box Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Nozomu Takeuchi
Nozomu Takeuchi Chiba University

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