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Wolfgang Kuhnt

Wolfgang Kuhnt

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 64 1545 1380 99 92 463 11427

Wolfgang Kuhnt publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Wolfgang Kuhnt between 1986 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Wolfgang Kuhnt published across 40 years, from 1986 to 2025, averaging 12 papers a year. Output peaked at 36 publications in 2018. 7 of the 480 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1986 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 36. Peak 36 publications in 2018. 1986: 1 publication 1987: 1 publication 1988: 6 publications 1989: 3 publications 1990: 5 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 7 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 2 publications 1995: 2 publications 1996: 5 publications 1997: 6 publications 1998: 10 publications 1999: 13 publications 2000: 6 publications 2001: 21 publications 2002: 8 publications 2003: 17 publications 2004: 12 publications 2005: 33 publications 2006: 12 publications 2007: 22 publications 2008: 9 publications 2009: 11 publications 2010: 18 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 26 publications 2015: 23 publications 2016: 21 publications 2017: 15 publications 2018: 36 publications 2019: 18 publications 2020: 22 publications 2021: 30 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 8 publications 2024: 4 publications 2025: 3 publications
1986 2025

480 publications in total across all disciplines

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Wolfgang Kuhnt: publications per year, 1986 to 2025
Year Publications
1986 1
1987 1
1988 6
1989 3
1990 5
1991 0
1992 7
1993 1
1994 2
1995 2
1996 5
1997 6
1998 10
1999 13
2000 6
2001 21
2002 8
2003 17
2004 12
2005 33
2006 12
2007 22
2008 9
2009 11
2010 18
2011 12
2012 8
2013 12
2014 26
2015 23
2016 21
2017 15
2018 36
2019 18
2020 22
2021 30
2022 11
2023 8
2024 4
2025 3
Total 480
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Wolfgang Kuhnt 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 Wolfgang Kuhnt 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, 458–467 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: 463 publications — 97th percentile

97% 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 29 463
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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Wolfgang Kuhnt 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 Wolfgang Kuhnt 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, 64 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: 64 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% 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 64
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

Wolfgang Kuhnt is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research covers a wide range of topics within these fields, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, Ecology, and Oceanography.

Their work encompasses numerous topics including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological formations and processes

Wolfgang Kuhnt has published in multiple scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Ann Holbourn
  • Karlos Guilherme Diemer Kochhann
  • Sebastian Beil
  • Steven C. Clemens
  • Nils Andersen

Among recent papers, the following publications stand out for their impact and topics:

  • Warm pool ocean heat content regulates ocean-continent moisture transport, 2022, Nature
  • Pacific warm pool subsurface heat sequestration modulated Walker circulation and ENSO activity during the Holocene, 2020, Science Advances
  • Global warming-induced Asian hydrological climate transition across the Miocene-Pliocene boundary, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events prolonged by phosphorus cycle feedbacks, 2020, Climate of the Past
  • A ∼12 Myr Miocene Record of East Asian Monsoon Variability From the South China Sea, 2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Best Publications

  • Impacts of orbital forcing and atmospheric carbon dioxide on Miocene ice-sheet expansion

    Ann E L Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Michael Schulz;Helmut Erlenkeuser

  • Orbitally-paced climate evolution during the middle Miocene “Monterey” carbon-isotope excursion

    Ann E L Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Michael Schulz;José Abel Flores

  • Late Miocene climate cooling and intensification of southeast Asian winter monsoon

    Ann E. Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Steven C. Clemens;Karlos G. D. Kochhann;Karlos G. D. Kochhann

  • Global perturbation of the carbon cycle at the onset of the Miocene Climatic Optimum

    Ann Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Karlos G.D. Kochhann;Nils Andersen

  • Fundamental Modes and Abrupt Changes in North Atlantic Circulation and Climate over the last 60 ky - Concepts, Reconstruction and Numerical Modeling

    Michael Sarnthein;Karl Stattegger;Derek Dreger;Helmut Erlenkeuser

  • Neogene History of the Indonesian Throughflow

    Wolfgang Kuhnt;Ann Holbourn;Robert Hall;Mafia Zuvela

  • Middle Miocene climate cooling linked to intensification of eastern equatorial Pacific upwelling

    Ann Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Mitch Lyle;Leah Schneider

  • The response of benthic foraminifers to carbon flux and primary production in the Arctic Ocean

    Jutta Wollenburg;W. Kuhnt

  • Late Quaternary Upwelling Intensity and East Asian Monsoon Forcing in the South China Sea

    Zhimin Jian;Baoqi Huang;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Hui-Ling Lin

  • Middle to late Miocene stepwise climate cooling: Evidence from a high-resolution deep water isotope curve spanning 8 million years

    Ann Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Steven Clemens;Warren Prell

  • Black shale deposition on the northwest African Shelf during the Cenomanian/Turonian oceanic anoxic event: Climate coupling and global organic carbon burial

    Sadat Kolonic;Thomas Wagner;Astrid Forster;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Changes in the thermocline structure of the Indonesian outflow during Terminations I and II

    Jian Xu;Ann Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Zhimin Jian

  • Paleoecology, biostratigraphy, paleoceanography and taxonomy of agglutinated foraminifera

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  • Orbital-scale record of the late Cenomanian–Turonian oceanic anoxic event (OAE-2) in the Tarfaya Basin (Morocco)

    Wolfgang Kuhnt;Florian Luderer;Sandra Nederbragt;Jürgen Thurow

  • Benthic foraminiferal paleoceanography of the South China Sea over the last 40,000 years

    Zhimin Jian;Luejiang Wang;Markus Kienast;Michael Sarnthein

  • Distribution of Cenomanian-Turonian Organic Facies in the Western Mediterranean and Along the Adjacent Atlantic Margin: Chapter 10

    Wolfgang Kuhnt;Jean Paul Herbin;Jurgen Thurow;Jost Wiedmann

  • Cretaceous separation of Africa and South America: the view from the West African margin (ODP Leg 159)

    T. Pletsch;J. Erbacher;A. E. L. Holbourn;W. Kuhnt

  • Surface and subsurface seawater temperature reconstruction using Mg/Ca microanalysis of planktonic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber, Globigerinoides sacculifer, and Pulleniatina obliquiloculata

    Aleksey Sadekov;Aleksey Sadekov;Stephen M. Eggins;Patrick De Deckker;Ulysses Ninnemann

  • Orbitally paced paleoproductivity variations in the Timor Sea and Indonesian Throughflow variability during the last 460 kyr

    Ann Holbourn;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Hiroshi Kawamura;Zhimin Jian

  • Deep-sea benthic foraminiferal recolonization of the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo ash layer in the South China Sea

    S. Hess;W. Kuhnt

  • Distribution of Cenomanian-Turonian Organic Facies in the Western Mediterranean and Along the Adjacent Atlantic Margin

    Wolfgang Kuhnt;Jean Paul Herbin;Jurgen Thurow;Jost Wiedmann

  • Continent-ocean interactions within the East Asian Marginal seas

    Peter D. Clift;Pinxian Wang;Wolfgang Kuhnt;Robert Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Ann Holbourn
Ann Holbourn Kiel University
Nils Andersen
Nils Andersen Kiel University
Michael Sarnthein
Michael Sarnthein Kiel University
Markus Kienast
Markus Kienast Dalhousie University
Pinxian Wang
Pinxian Wang Tongji University
Helmut Erlenkeuser
Helmut Erlenkeuser Kiel University
Andreas Mackensen
Andreas Mackensen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Pieter Meiert Grootes
Pieter Meiert Grootes Kiel University
Steven C. Clemens
Steven C. Clemens Brown University

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