Scholarly Index

Paleontology and Earth History

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Paleontology and Earth History.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Thomas J. Algeo	99.95	36,067	603
2	Roger Benson	99.89	11,410	232
3	Michael J. Benton	99.83	33,545	872
4	Noah J. Planavsky	99.80	27,439	449
5	Shu‐zhong Shen	99.68	13,785	395
6	Philip D. Mannion	99.43	6,724	126
7	Patrick Roberts	99.37	6,792	252
8	Eva E. Stüeken	99.37	4,453	159
9	Zhong‐Qiang Chen	99.36	14,378	446
10	Jacopo Dal Corso	99.31	3,036	96
11	John R. Hutchinson	99.28	16,381	320
12	Feifei Zhang	99.27	3,515	142
13	Daizhao Chen	99.26	4,987	126
14	Maoyan Zhu	99.22	12,763	229
15	Fernando E. Novas	99.20	7,886	204
16	Philip C. J. Donoghue	99.19	23,907	350
17	Philip J. Currie	99.15	18,194	400
18	Sterling J. Nesbitt	99.13	8,904	189
19	Stephen L. Brusatte	99.09	10,155	271
20	Stefano Mammola	99.07	7,361	202
21	Zhonghe Zhou	99.06	13,671	261
22	Guangyou Zhu	99.00	6,533	334
23	Tao Deng	98.98	5,513	256
24	Richard J. Butler	98.97	9,714	212
25	Emily J. Rayfield	98.89	9,014	192
26	Spencer G. Lucas	98.76	11,062	1,107
27	David C. Evans	98.75	7,219	189
28	Huyue Song	98.73	4,277	89
29	Max C. Langer	98.62	7,023	175
30	Rachel Wood	98.62	7,523	178
31	Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira	98.34	5,263	433
32	Jian Cao	98.30	6,425	328
33	Julia A. Clarke	98.22	7,903	191
34	Gary M. Feinman	98.22	8,643	234
35	Torsten M. Scheyer	98.17	5,120	165
36	Hélène Morlon	98.16	15,267	102
37	David A. T. Harper	97.99	28,778	468
38	Martin G. Lockley	97.89	11,645	459
39	Fernando Zagury Vaz‐de‐Mello	97.86	6,386	304
40	Anusuya Chinsamy	97.86	5,484	161
41	Anjali Goswami	97.79	9,323	189
42	Thomas J. Near	97.59	15,098	209
43	Gérald Mayr	97.56	9,127	364
44	Allison C. Daley	97.47	3,238	106
45	Genming Luo	97.38	5,190	102
46	Donald E. Canfield	97.30	54,565	382
47	Thomas W. Holstein	97.28	9,772	126
48	Ariel D. Anbar	97.28	24,938	616
49	Francisco J. Rodrı́guez-Tovar	97.22	7,199	367
50	David M. Martill	97.21	7,307	246