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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 114 56 45 1 1 512 52148

W. R. Peltier publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by W. R. Peltier between 1970 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. W. R. Peltier published across 56 years, from 1970 to 2025, averaging 10.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 34 publications in 2022. 20 of the 611 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1970 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 34. Peak 34 publications in 2022. 1970: 2 publications 1971: 1 publication 1972: 0 publications 1973: 1 publication 1974: 1 publication 1975: 0 publications 1976: 2 publications 1977: 2 publications 1978: 4 publications 1979: 4 publications 1980: 3 publications 1981: 5 publications 1982: 8 publications 1983: 4 publications 1984: 8 publications 1985: 9 publications 1986: 4 publications 1987: 5 publications 1988: 7 publications 1989: 16 publications 1990: 15 publications 1991: 16 publications 1992: 8 publications 1993: 13 publications 1994: 14 publications 1995: 13 publications 1996: 12 publications 1997: 7 publications 1998: 12 publications 1999: 10 publications 2000: 13 publications 2001: 12 publications 2002: 16 publications 2003: 7 publications 2004: 17 publications 2005: 8 publications 2006: 13 publications 2007: 12 publications 2008: 14 publications 2009: 12 publications 2010: 11 publications 2011: 14 publications 2012: 13 publications 2013: 26 publications 2014: 9 publications 2015: 19 publications 2016: 16 publications 2017: 22 publications 2018: 15 publications 2019: 10 publications 2020: 32 publications 2021: 18 publications 2022: 34 publications 2023: 22 publications 2024: 12 publications 2025: 8 publications
1970 2025

611 publications in total across all disciplines

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W. R. Peltier: publications per year, 1970 to 2025
Year Publications
1970 2
1971 1
1972 0
1973 1
1974 1
1975 0
1976 2
1977 2
1978 4
1979 4
1980 3
1981 5
1982 8
1983 4
1984 8
1985 9
1986 4
1987 5
1988 7
1989 16
1990 15
1991 16
1992 8
1993 13
1994 14
1995 13
1996 12
1997 7
1998 12
1999 10
2000 13
2001 12
2002 16
2003 7
2004 17
2005 8
2006 13
2007 12
2008 14
2009 12
2010 11
2011 14
2012 13
2013 26
2014 9
2015 19
2016 16
2017 22
2018 15
2019 10
2020 32
2021 18
2022 34
2023 22
2024 12
2025 8
Total 611
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W. R. Peltier 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 W. R. Peltier 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, 508–517 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: 512 publications — 98th percentile

98% 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
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 19 512
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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W. R. Peltier 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 W. R. Peltier 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, 106+ 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: 114 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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
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+ 98 114
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2013 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
  • 2010 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
  • 1986 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1986 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 1977 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

W. R. Peltier is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has produced scholarly work primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Geophysics, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Frequent coauthors in their research include Deepak Chandan, Gerrit Lohmann, Zhongshi Zhang, Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, and Ayako Abe-Ouchi.

W. R. Peltier has published extensively in notable journals and venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Climate of the past
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent papers from W. R. Peltier include:

  • The PMIP4 Last Glacial Maximum experiments: preliminary results and comparison with the PMIP3 simulations, 2021, Climate of the past
  • The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: large-scale climate features and climate sensitivity, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from 1992 to 2020, 2023, Earth system science data
  • Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Lessons from a high-CO 2 world: an ocean view from ∼ 3 million years ago, 2020, Climate of the past

The scientist has received several awards including the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize from Canada Council in 2013 and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute in 2010. They were also named Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1986, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science) in 1986, Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1986, and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1977.

Best Publications

  • GLOBAL GLACIAL ISOSTASY AND THE SURFACE OF THE ICE-AGE EARTH: The ICE-5G (VM2) Model and GRACE

    W.R. Peltier

  • An alternative astronomical calibration of the lower Pleistocene timescale based on ODP Site 677

    N. J. Shackleton;A. Berger;W. R. Peltier

  • Ice Age Paleotopography

    W. Richard Peltier

  • Space geodesy constrains ice age terminal deglaciation: The global ICE‐6G_C (VM5a) model

    W. R. Peltier;D. F. Argus;R. Drummond

  • Global glacial ice volume and Last Glacial Maximum duration from an extended Barbados sea level record

    W.R. Peltier;R.G. Fairbanks

  • Investigating the Causes of the Response of the Thermohaline Circulation to Past and Future Climate Changes

    Ronald J. Stouffer;J. Yin;J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;K. W. Dixon

  • Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2017.

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik Ivins;Eric Rignot;Ben Smith

  • Global changes in postglacial sea level: A numerical calculation☆

    James A. Clark;William E. Farrell;W.Richard Peltier

  • The impulse response of a Maxwell Earth

    W. R. Peltier

  • Ice‐3G: A new global model of Late Pleistocene deglaciation based upon geophysical predictions of post‐glacial relative sea level change

    A. M. Tushingham;W. R. Peltier

  • Postglacial variations in the level of the sea: Implications for climate dynamics and solid‐Earth geophysics

    W. R. Peltier

  • Neoproterozoic ‘snowball Earth’ simulations with a coupled climate/ice-sheet model

    William T. Hyde;Thomas J. Crowley;Steven K. Baum;W. Richard Peltier

  • Glacial-Isostatic Adjustment—I. The Forward Problem

    W. R. Peltier;J. T. Andrews

  • A data-calibrated distribution of deglacial chronologies for the North American ice complex from glaciological modeling

    Lev Tarasov;Arthur S. Dyke;Radford M. Neal;W.R. Peltier

  • On postglacial geoid subsidence over the equatorial oceans

    J. X. Mitrovica;W. R. Peltier

  • The Antarctica component of postglacial rebound model ICE-6G_C (VM5a) based on GPS positioning, exposure age dating of ice thicknesses, and relative sea level histories

    Donald F. Argus;W. R. Peltier;R. Drummond;Angelyn W. Moore

  • Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)

    S. Joussaume;K. E. Taylor;P. Braconnot;J. F.B. Mitchell

  • Viscous gravitational relaxation

    Patrick Wu;W. R. Peltier

  • Global Sea Level Rise and the Greenhouse Effect: Might They Be Connected?

    W. R. Peltier;A. M. Tushingham

  • On eustatic sea level history: Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene

    W.R. Peltier

  • Comment on "An Assessment of the ICE-6G_C (VM5a) Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Model" by Purcell et al.

    W. Richard Peltier;Donald F. Argus;Rosemarie Drummond

  • GLOBAL GLACIAL ISOSTASY AND THE SURFACE OF THE ICE-AGE EARTH: The ICE-5G (VM2)

    W. R. Peltier

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Lev Tarasov
Lev Tarasov Memorial University of Newfoundland
Simon E. Engelhart
Simon E. Engelhart Durham University
Jerry X. Mitrovica
Jerry X. Mitrovica Harvard University
William D. Smyth
William D. Smyth Oregon State University
Yongyun Hu
Yongyun Hu Peking University
Patrick Wu
Patrick Wu University of Hong Kong
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner National Center for Atmospheric Research

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