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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 46 4194 3852 1628 1445 171 8420

Warren D. Sharp publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Warren D. Sharp between 1978 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Warren D. Sharp published across 48 years, from 1978 to 2025, averaging 3.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2016. 9 of the 186 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1978 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 16. Peak 16 publications in 2016. 1978: 1 publication 1979: 0 publications 1980: 2 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 2 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 1 publication 1988: 1 publication 1989: 1 publication 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 1 publication 1993: 0 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 0 publications 1996: 1 publication 1997: 4 publications 1998: 3 publications 1999: 2 publications 2000: 2 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 7 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 15 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 6 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 6 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 10 publications 2016: 16 publications 2017: 10 publications 2018: 8 publications 2019: 14 publications 2020: 3 publications 2021: 9 publications 2022: 4 publications 2023: 5 publications 2024: 4 publications 2025: 5 publications
1978 2025

186 publications in total across all disciplines

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Warren D. Sharp: publications per year, 1978 to 2025
Year Publications
1978 1
1979 0
1980 2
1981 0
1982 2
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 0
1987 1
1988 1
1989 1
1990 0
1991 0
1992 1
1993 0
1994 1
1995 0
1996 1
1997 4
1998 3
1999 2
2000 2
2001 4
2002 3
2003 7
2004 3
2005 5
2006 15
2007 3
2008 2
2009 6
2010 8
2011 6
2012 5
2013 3
2014 6
2015 10
2016 16
2017 10
2018 8
2019 14
2020 3
2021 9
2022 4
2023 5
2024 4
2025 5
Total 186
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Warren D. Sharp 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 Warren D. Sharp 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: 171 publications — 50th percentile

50% 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
168–177 490 171
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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Warren D. Sharp 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 Warren D. Sharp 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, 46 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: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% 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 46
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

Warren D. Sharp is affiliated with the Berkeley Geochronology Center in the United States. Their research spans various aspects of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Social Sciences, with a significant focus on fields such as Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Water Science and Technology.

Their research topics cover a range of themes related to geology, archaeology, and environmental studies. These main areas include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Water Quality and Resources Studies
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

Warren D. Sharp has contributed to multiple publications, frequently collaborating with colleagues such as Jessica Oster, Bryce Belanger, Elizabeth Niespolo, Cameron de Wet, and Daniel Ibarra. Their work has been published primarily in venues like the Geological Society of America's Abstracts with programs, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Quaternary Science Reviews, Geophysical Research Letters, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92-80 thousand years ago" (2022), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Semiquantitative Estimates of Rainfall Variability During the 8.2 kyr Event in California Using Speleothem Calcium Isotope Ratios" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "A revised position for the primary strand of the Pleistocene-Holocene San Andreas fault in southern California" (2021), published in Science Advances
  • "Early, intensive marine resource exploitation by Middle Stone Age humans at Ysterfontein 1 rockshelter, South Africa" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Multi-proxy stalagmite records from northern California reveal dynamic patterns of regional hydroclimate over the last glacial cycle" (2020), published in Quaternary Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Insolation-driven changes in atmospheric circulation over the past 116,000 years in subtropical Brazil

    Francisco W. Cruz;Stephen J. Burns;Ivo Karmann;Warren D. Sharp

  • Neandertal roots: Cranial and chronological evidence from Sima de los Huesos.

    J. L. Arsuaga;I. Martínez;L. J. Arnold;A. Aranburu

  • 50-Ma initiation of Hawaiian-Emperor bend records major change in Pacific plate motion.

    Warren D. Sharp;David A. Clague

  • Intercalibration of astronomical and radioisotopic time

    Paul R. Renne;Alan L. Deino;Robert C. Walter;Brent D. Turrin

  • Evidence of rainfall variations in Southern Brazil from trace element ratios (Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca) in a Late Pleistocene stalagmite

    Francisco W. Cruz;Stephen J. Burns;Michael Jercinovic;Ivo Karmann

  • A threshold in soil formation at Earth's arid-hyperarid transition

    Stephanie A. Ewing;Brad Sutter;Justine Owen;Kunihiko Nishiizumi

  • Stratigraphy and chronology of Upper Cretaceous–lower Paleogene strata in Bolivia and northwest Argentina

    Thierry Sempéré;R.F. Butler;D.R. Richards;L.G. Marshall

  • 40Ar/39Ar Dating into the Historical Realm: Calibration Against Pliny the Younger

    P. R. Renne;W. D. Sharp;A. L. Deino;G. Orsi

  • Dating fluvial terraces by 230Th/U on pedogenic carbonate, Wind River Basin, Wyoming

    Warren D. Sharp;Kenneth R. Ludwig;Oliver A. Chadwick;Ronald Amundson

  • Reconstruction of regional atmospheric circulation features during the late Pleistocene in subtropical Brazil from oxygen isotope composition of speleothems

    F.W. Cruz;F.W. Cruz;S.J. Burns;I. Karmann;W.D. Sharp

  • Alder Creek sanidine (ACs-2): A Quaternary 40Ar/39Ar dating standard tied to the Cobb Mountain geomagnetic event

    S. Nomade;S. Nomade;P.R. Renne;P.R. Renne;N. Vogel;N. Vogel;A.L. Deino

  • Provenance of Heinrich layers in core V28-82, northeastern Atlantic: 40Ar/39Ar ages of ice-rafted hornblende, Pb isotopes in feldspar grains, and Nd–Sr–Pb isotopes in the fine sediment fraction

    S.R. Hemming;W.S. Broecker;W.D. Sharp;G.C. Bond

  • A stalagmite record of changes in atmospheric circulation and soil processes in the Brazilian subtropics during the Late Pleistocene

    Francisco W. Cruz;Francisco W. Cruz;Stephen J. Burns;Ivo Karmann;Warren D. Sharp

  • Time relations and structural-stratigraphic patterns in ophiolite accretion, west central Klamath Mountains, California

    Jason B. Saleeby;Gregory D. Harper;Arthur W. Snoke;Warren D. Sharp

  • The 40Ar/39Ar dating of core recovered by the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project (phase 2), Hilo, Hawaii

    Warren D. Sharp;Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne

  • Faulted terrace risers place new constraints on the late Quaternary slip rate for the central Altyn Tagh fault, northwest Tibet

    R. D. Gold;E. Cowgill;J. R. Arrowsmith;X. Chen

  • Differential incision of the Grand Canyon related to Quaternary faulting—Constraints from U-series and Ar/Ar dating

    Joel Pederson;Karl Karlstrom;Warren Sharp;William McIntosh

  • Uncertainties in slip-rate estimates for the Mission Creek strand of the southern San Andreas fault at Biskra Palms Oasis, southern California

    W.M. Behr;D.H. Rood;K.E. Fletcher;N. Guzman

  • Environment, agriculture, and settlement patterns in a marginal Polynesian landscape

    P. V. Kirch;A. S. Hartshorn;O. A. Chadwick;P. M. Vitousek

  • The 40Ar/39Ar and K/Ar dating of lavas from the Hilo 1‐km core hole, Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project

    W. D. Sharp;B. D. Turrin;P. R. Renne;M. A. Lanphere

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Christian A. Tryon
Christian A. Tryon University of Connecticut
Thomas K. Rockwell
Thomas K. Rockwell San Diego State University
Isabel P. Montañez
Isabel P. Montañez University of California, Davis
Patrick V. Kirch
Patrick V. Kirch University of Hawaii at Manoa
Francisco W. Cruz
Francisco W. Cruz Universidade de São Paulo
Kari M. Cooper
Kari M. Cooper University of California, Davis
Ronald Amundson
Ronald Amundson University of California, Berkeley
J. Tyler Faith
J. Tyler Faith University of Utah
Todd E. Dawson
Todd E. Dawson University of California, Berkeley

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