Scholarly Index

Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Thomas J. Algeo	99.92	36,067	603
2	Noah J. Planavsky	99.91	27,439	449
3	Benjamin Mills	99.88	6,421	161
4	Chao Li	99.75	8,157	243
5	Simon W. Poulton	99.70	21,385	320
6	Shu‐zhong Shen	99.70	13,785	395
7	Timothy W. Lyons	99.66	43,249	408
8	Shuhai Xiao	99.49	20,536	392
9	Haijun Song	99.46	6,679	147
10	Kurt O. Konhauser	99.45	21,052	439
11	Peter A. Cawood	99.38	45,926	563
12	Ross N. Mitchell	99.31	4,829	215
13	Stephen E. Grasby	99.29	12,129	348
14	Guangyou Zhu	99.29	6,533	334
15	Michael J. Benton	99.15	33,545	872
16	Shuichang Zhang	99.13	10,122	357
17	Jian Cao	99.11	6,425	328
18	Xiaomei Wang	99.09	6,818	372
19	Feifei Zhang	99.08	3,515	142
20	Maoyan Zhu	99.04	12,763	229
21	Eva E. Stüeken	99.01	4,453	159
22	Daizhao Chen	99.00	4,987	126
23	Jacopo Dal Corso	98.99	3,036	96
24	Chengshan Wang	98.98	15,976	628
25	Zhen Qiu	98.95	4,698	124
26	Bing Shen	98.94	3,880	194
27	Zhong‐Qiang Chen	98.94	14,378	446
28	Christopher R. Scotese	98.92	11,322	161
29	David B. Kemp	98.91	4,227	186
30	Xiaoming Liu	98.88	17,830	278
31	Guang‐Yi Wei	98.86	1,460	85
32	Xuefa Shi	98.86	10,533	540
33	Jun Shen	98.84	5,345	113
34	Mu Liu	98.81	1,177	61
35	Nicholas J. Tosca	98.80	10,052	268
36	Michael Wagreich	98.78	10,615	328
37	Francis A. Macdonald	98.75	11,083	302
38	Itay Halevy	98.75	4,270	126
39	Mingcai Hou	98.68	2,068	201
40	Junxuan Fan	98.66	7,620	143
41	Daoliang Chu	98.64	3,230	95
42	Fred Bowyer	98.62	2,145	68
43	Huyue Song	98.61	4,277	89
44	Paul B. Wignall	98.58	22,089	334
45	Michael M. Joachimski	98.57	13,736	283
46	Christopher T. Reinhard	98.55	13,584	200
47	Xingliang Zhang	98.54	3,919	205
48	Stefano M. Bernasconi	98.50	25,538	681
49	Donald E. Canfield	98.50	54,565	382
50	Longyi Shao	98.44	10,849	404