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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 36 7267 6721 530 505 173 4729

Volker Strass publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Volker Strass between 1985 and 2023, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Volker Strass published across 39 years, from 1985 to 2023, averaging 5.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2016. 7 of the 197 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1985 to 2023. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 16. Peak 16 publications in 2016. 1985: 1 publication 1986: 1 publication 1987: 0 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 2 publications 1990: 2 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 4 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 3 publications 1995: 5 publications 1996: 5 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 3 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 2 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 10 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 4 publications 2005: 12 publications 2006: 8 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 7 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 14 publications 2011: 15 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 3 publications 2016: 16 publications 2017: 15 publications 2018: 5 publications 2019: 11 publications 2020: 7 publications 2021: 0 publications 2022: 1 publication 2023: 6 publications
1985 2023

197 publications in total across all disciplines

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Volker Strass: publications per year, 1985 to 2023
Year Publications
1985 1
1986 1
1987 0
1988 1
1989 2
1990 2
1991 1
1992 4
1993 2
1994 3
1995 5
1996 5
1997 1
1998 3
1999 1
2000 2
2001 3
2002 10
2003 1
2004 4
2005 12
2006 8
2007 5
2008 7
2009 3
2010 14
2011 15
2012 5
2013 5
2014 7
2015 3
2016 16
2017 15
2018 5
2019 11
2020 7
2021 0
2022 1
2023 6
Total 197
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Volker Strass 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 Volker Strass 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, 168–177 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: 173 publications — 51st percentile

51% 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
168–177 490 173
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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Volker Strass 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 Volker Strass 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, 36 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: 36 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% 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 36
37 366
38 344
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

Volker Strass is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these domains, they focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Strass has coauthored multiple papers alongside frequent collaborators such as Torsten Kanzow, Olaf Boebel, Gerd Rohardt, Astrid Bracher, and Hongyan Xi. These partnerships have contributed to a consistent output in notable scientific venues.

The publishing record includes papers in several respected journals, among which are:

  • Ocean science (2 publications)
  • Journal of Climate (1 publication)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans (1 publication)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science (1 publication)
  • Progress In Oceanography (1 publication)

Recent papers contributed by Volker Strass include:

  • "Multidecadal Warming and Density Loss in the Deep Weddell Sea, Antarctica," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "Coherent Seasonal Acceleration of the Weddell Sea Boundary Current System Driven by Upstream Winds," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "High Resolution Water Column Phytoplankton Composition Across the Atlantic Ocean From Ship-Towed Vertical Undulating Radiometry," 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "High-resolution physical-biogeochemical structure of a filament and an eddy of upwelled water off northwest Africa," 2020, Ocean science
  • "The Weddell Gyre heat budget associated with the Warm Deep Water circulation derived from Argo floats," 2023, Ocean science

Best Publications

  • Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom

    Victor Smetacek;Victor Smetacek;Christine Klaas;Volker H. Strass;Philipp Assmy;Philipp Assmy

  • Thick-shelled, grazer-protected diatoms decouple ocean carbon and silicon cycles in the iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

    Philipp Assmy;Philipp Assmy;Victor Smetacek;Victor Smetacek;Marina Montresor;Christine Klaas

  • Formation and discharge of deep and bottom water in the northwestern Weddell Sea

    Eberhard Fahrbach;Gerd Rohardt;Norbert Scheele;Michael Schröder

  • Transport and structure of the Weddell Gyre

    Eberhard Fahrbach;Gerd Rohardt;Michael Schröder;Volker Strass

  • The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: Present Knowledge and Future Challenges

    M. Vernet;Walter Geibert;Mario Hoppema;P.J. Brown

  • Chlorophyll patchiness caused by mesoscale upwelling at fronts

    Volker H. Strass

  • The association of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba with the under-ice habitat.

    Hauke Flores;Jan Andries van Franeker;Volker Siegel;Matilda Haraldsson

  • Seasonal variation of diel vertical migration of zooplankton from ADCP backscatter time series data in the Lazarev Sea, Antarctica

    Boris Cisewski;Boris Cisewski;Volker H. Strass;Monika Rhein;Sören Krägefsky

  • Mesoscale frontal dynamics: shaping the environment of primary production in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

    Volker H Strass;Alberto C Naveira Garabato;Alberto C Naveira Garabato;Raymond T Pollard;Haika I Fischer

  • Seasonal shifts in ice edge phytoplankton blooms in the Barents Sea related to the water column stability

    Volker Strass;Eva-Maria Nöthig

  • Sea ice transports in the Weddell Sea

    Sabine Harms;Eberhard Fahrbach;Volker H. Strass

  • Upper ocean vertical mixing in the Antarctic Polar Front Zone

    Boris Cisewski;Volker H. Strass;Hartmut Prandke

  • Formation of Denmark strait overflow water by mixing in the East Greenland Current

    Volker H. Strass;Eberhard Fahrbach;Ursula Schauer;Lutz Sellmann

  • Spatial and temporal distribution of Fe(II) and H2O2 during EisenEx, an open ocean mescoscale iron enrichment

    Peter L. Croot;Patrick Laan;Jun Nishioka;Volker Strass

  • Significant portion of dissolved organic Fe complexes in fact is Fe colloids

    Marie Boye;Jun Nishioka;Peter Croot;Patrick Laan

  • The tunicate Salpa thompsoni ecology in the Southern Ocean. I. Distribution, biomass, demography and feeding ecophysiology

    E. A. Pakhomov;E. A. Pakhomov;E. A. Pakhomov;Corinna Dubischar;Volker Strass;M. Brichta

  • Temporal and Regional Variation of Sea Ice Draft And Coverage in the Weddell Sea Obtained from Upward Looking Sonars

    Volker H. Strass;Eberhard Fahrbach

  • New production in the summer revealed by the meridional slope of the deep chlorophyll maximum

    Volker H. Strass;John D. Woods

  • Spatial variability of phytoplankton, nutrients and new production estimates in the waters around Svalbard

    Georgina Owrid;Giorgio Socal;Giuseppe Civitarese;Anna Luchetta

  • Horizontal and Seasonal Variation of Density and Chlorophyll Profiles between the Azores and Greenland

    Volker Strass;J. D. Woods

  • Multidecadal Warming and Density Loss in the Deep Weddell Sea, Antarctica

    Volker H. Strass;Gerd Rohardt;Torsten Kanzow;Mario Hoppema

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Bathmann
Ulrich Bathmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ilka Peeken
Ilka Peeken Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Evgeny A. Pakhomov
Evgeny A. Pakhomov University of British Columbia
Astrid Bracher
Astrid Bracher University of Bremen
Dieter Wolf-Gladrow
Dieter Wolf-Gladrow Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Eberhard Fahrbach
Eberhard Fahrbach Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Mario Hoppema
Mario Hoppema Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Peter Croot
Peter Croot University of Galway
Torsten Kanzow
Torsten Kanzow Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Katrin Linse
Katrin Linse British Antarctic Survey

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