Scholarly Index

Paleontology and Earth History

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Paleontology and Earth History.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Andrew H. Knoll	99.98	58,408	508
2	Michael J. Benton	99.95	33,545	872
3	Thomas J. Algeo	99.91	36,067	603
4	Philip C. J. Donoghue	99.87	23,907	350
5	Christopher Bronk Ramsey	99.85	61,169	422
6	Philip J. Currie	99.83	18,194	400
7	Hugh C. Jenkyns	99.79	26,930	300
8	Donald E. Canfield	99.77	54,565	382
9	Noah J. Planavsky	99.74	27,439	449
10	David J. Bottjer	99.73	17,668	389
11	David Jablonski	99.72	15,565	216
12	R.E.M. Hedges	99.67	22,288	309
13	Roger Benson	99.66	11,410	232
14	Zhonghe Zhou	99.66	13,671	261
15	Daniel L. Rabosky	99.66	18,342	147
16	Richard J. Butler	99.64	9,714	212
17	John R. Hutchinson	99.64	16,381	320
18	Gregory J. Retallack	99.63	13,425	293
19	Luis M. Chiappe	99.62	11,006	229
20	Stephen L. Brusatte	99.60	10,155	271
21	Maoyan Zhu	99.58	12,763	229
22	Zhong‐Qiang Chen	99.58	14,378	446
23	Paul Upchurch	99.55	9,448	140
24	Dorian Q. Fuller	99.54	27,469	283
25	Joël Cracraft	99.54	16,164	218
26	T. Douglas Price	99.54	14,842	170
27	Shu‐zhong Shen	99.54	13,785	395
28	Olivier Rieppel	99.52	11,640	318
29	Alexander W. A. Kellner	99.46	8,038	253
30	Anjali Goswami	99.43	9,323	189
31	Simon Conway Morris	99.43	9,736	281
32	Emily J. Rayfield	99.42	9,014	192
33	Richard P. Evershed	99.41	33,682	545
34	Ulrich Technau	99.39	12,192	120
35	Ján Veizer	99.36	21,023	216
36	Sterling J. Nesbitt	99.36	8,904	189
37	David A. T. Harper	99.35	28,778	468
38	J. van der Plicht	99.35	38,526	599
39	Stephen Shennan	99.35	11,618	191
40	Nicholas J. Butterfield	99.35	8,264	101
41	Éric Buffetaut	99.32	9,377	399
42	Guy M. Narbonne	99.31	11,430	139
43	Ariel D. Anbar	99.27	24,938	616
44	Lawrence M. Witmer	99.27	8,683	148
45	Robert A. Berner	99.26	46,102	254
46	Dean C. Adams	99.25	18,558	167
47	Fernando E. Novas	99.23	7,886	204
48	Max C. Langer	99.22	7,023	175
49	Zhe‐Xi Luo	99.21	9,413	109
50	Gregory M. Erickson	99.20	7,859	103