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Volker Wennrich

Volker Wennrich

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
33
Citations
3491
World Ranking
8469
National Ranking
616

Volker Wennrich 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 Wennrich sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 211 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Volker Wennrich 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 Wennrich sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Volker Wennrich is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work covers a broad range of topics primarily centered on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Their research spans several interrelated fields including:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geology
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Geophysics

Key topics frequently addressed in their publications include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis

Volker Wennrich has a consistent publication record in notable academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate of the past
  • Scientific Reports
  • Science Advances

The scientist collaborates regularly with a group of co-authors, often publishing alongside:

  • Martin Melles
  • Stephan Opitz
  • Niklas Leicher
  • Andrei Andreev
  • Andrea Jaeschke

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Volker Wennrich highlight a focus on interactions of climate, geology, and environmental changes. These include:

  • "Relationships between low-temperature fires, climate and vegetation during three late glacials and interglacials of the last 430 kyr in northeastern Siberia reconstructed from monosaccharide anhydrides in Lake El'gygytgyn sediments" (2020), published in Climate of the past
  • "Impact of CaSO4-rich soil on Miocene surface preservation and Quaternary sinuous to meandering channel forms in the hyperarid Atacama Desert" (2022), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Late Pleistocene to modern precipitation changes at the Paranal clay pan, central Atacama Desert" (2023), published in Global and Planetary Change
  • "Aquatic community structure as sentinel of recent environmental changes unraveled from lake sedimentary records from the Atacama Desert, Chile" (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • "A refined model of Early Cretaceous South Atlantic-Southern Ocean gateway evolution based on high-resolution data from DSDP Site 511 (Falkland Plateau)" (2020), published in Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Best Publications

  • 2.8 Million Years of Arctic Climate Change from Lake El’gygytgyn, NE Russia

    Martin Melles;Julie Brigham-Grette;Pavel S. Minyuk;Norbert R. Nowaczyk

  • Pliocene Warmth, Polar Amplification, and Stepped Pleistocene Cooling Recorded in NE Arctic Russia

    Julie Brigham-Grette;Martin Melles;Pavel Minyuk;Andrei Andreev

  • Climatic change recorded in the sediments of the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, during the last 45,000 years

    Verena Foerster;Annett Junginger;Oliver Langkamp;Tsige Gebru

  • The Lake El'gygytgyn Scientific Drilling Project -Conquering Arctic Challenges through Continental Drilling

    Martin Melles;Julie Brigham-Grette;Pavel Minyuk;Christian Koeberl;Christian Koeberl

  • A pollen-based biome reconstruction over the last 3.562 million years in the Far East Russian Arctic - new insights into climate-vegetation relationships at the regional scale

    P. E. Tarasov;A. A. Andreev;P. M. Anderson;A. V. Lozhkin

  • Climatic fluctuations in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert during the past 215 ka

    Benedikt Ritter;Volker Wennrich;Alicia Medialdea;Dominik Brill

  • Chronology of Lake El'gygytgyn sediments – a combined magnetostratigraphic, palaeoclimatic and orbital tuning study based on multi-parameter analyses

    N. R. Nowaczyk;E. M. Haltia;D. Ulbricht;V. Wennrich

  • Vegetation and environmental responses to climate forcing during the Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation in the East Carpathians: attenuated response to maximum cooling and increased biomass burning

    E.K. Magyari;D. Veres;V. Wennrich;B. Wagner

  • Holocene environmental changes in the highlands of the southern Peruvian Andes (14° S) and their impact on pre-Columbian cultures

    K. Schittek;M. Forbriger;B. Mächtle;F. Schäbitz

  • Evidence for multiple Plio-Pleistocene lake episodes in the hyperarid Atacama Desert

    Benedikt Ritter;Steven A. Binnie;Finlay M. Stuart;Volker Wennrich

  • Distribution of Cyprideis torosa (Ostracoda) in Quaternary Athalassic Sediments in Germany and its Application for Palaeoecological Reconstructions

    Anna Pint;Peter Frenzel;Roland Fuhrmann;Burkhard Scharf

  • Neogene fluvial landscape evolution in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.

    Benedikt Ritter;Finlay M. Stuart;Steven A. Binnie;Axel Gerdes

  • Pliocene to Pleistocene climate and environmental history of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic, based on high-resolution inorganic geochemistry data

    V. Wennrich;P. S. Minyuk;V. Borkhodoev;A. Francke

  • Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene vegetation history of northeastern Russian Arctic inferred from the Lake El'gygytgyn pollen record

    Andrei Andreev;P. Tarasov;V. Wennrich;E. Raschke

  • Inorganic geochemistry data from Lake El'gygytgyn sediments: marine isotope stages 6–11

    P. S. Minyuk;V. Y. Borkhodoev;V. Wennrich

  • Lithostratigraphic and geochronological framework for the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the last ∼36 ka cal BP from a sediment record from Lake Iznik (NW Turkey)

    Patricia Angelika Roeser;Sven Oliver Franz;Thomas Litt;Umut Barış Ülgen

  • FORAMINIFERS FROM HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS OF TWO INLAND BRACKISH LAKES IN CENTRAL GERMANY

    Volker Wennrich;Stefan Meng;Gerhard Schmiedl

  • Holocene rainfall runoff in the central Ethiopian highlands and evolution of the River Nile drainage system as revealed from a sediment record from Lake Dendi

    Bernd Wagner;Volker Wennrich;Finn Viehberg;Annett Junginger

  • Periodic input of dust over the Eastern Carpathians during the Holocene linked with Saharan desertification and human impact

    Jack Longman;Daniel Veres;Vasile Ersek;Ulrich Salzmann

  • Coastal stratigraphies of eastern Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles): New insights into the palaeo-tsunami history of the southern Caribbean

    Max Engel;Helmut Brückner;Volker Wennrich;Anja Scheffers

  • Mass movement deposits in the 3.6 Ma sediment record of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic

    M. A. Sauerbrey;O. Juschus;A. C. Gebhardt;V. Wennrich

  • Deglaciation history of Lake Ladoga (northwestern Russia) based on varved sediments

    Raphael Gromig;Bernd Wagner;Volker Wennrich;Grigory Fedorov;Grigory Fedorov

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Melles
Martin Melles University of Cologne
Andrei Andreev
Andrei Andreev Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Julie Brigham-Grette
Julie Brigham-Grette University of Massachusetts Amherst
Pavel E. Tarasov
Pavel E. Tarasov Freie Universität Berlin
Hendrik Vogel
Hendrik Vogel University of Bern
Robert M. DeConto
Robert M. DeConto University of Massachusetts Amherst
Catalina Gebhardt
Catalina Gebhardt Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Bernd Wagner
Bernd Wagner University of Cologne
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam
Frank Schäbitz
Frank Schäbitz University of Cologne

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