2026 Adina Paytan: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	89	293	251	154	129	454	23065

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2014 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

Overview

Adina Paytan is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research spans several fields with a focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. The subfields of study that define much of their work include Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Paleontology.

Paytan has published extensively in the following venues:

Open Access Server of the Woods Hole Scientific Community (Woods Hole Scientific Community)
Goldschmidt Abstracts
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

Their research interests cover a variety of topics such as:

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Isotope Analysis in Ecology
Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
Marine and coastal ecosystems
Marine Biology and Ecology Research
Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Several recent publications reflect the scope of their scientific inquiries, including:

"Global Ocean Sediment Composition and Burial Flux in the Deep Sea," 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
"Bioactive Trace Metals and Their Isotopes as Paleoproductivity Proxies: An Assessment Using GEOTRACES-Era Data," 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
"Toward an Improved Understanding of the Marine Barium Cycle and the Application of Marine Barite as a Paleoproductivity Proxy," 2020, Minerals
"Groundwater discharge impacts marine isotope budgets of Li, Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba," 2021, Nature Communications
"The impacts of climate change on coastal groundwater," 2024, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Paytan has also contributed to book publications, notably with Cambridge University Press, where their work "Pelagic Barite" was published in 2020.

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

Tristan J. Horner
Christina Richardson
Eyal Rahav
Barak Herut
Weiqi Yao

Professional recognition includes being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2018 and receiving the Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2014.

Best Publications

High-Frequency Dynamics of Ocean pH: A Multi- Ecosystem Comparison

Gretchen E. Hofmann;Jennifer E. Smith;Kenneth S. Johnson;Uwe Send

1096
Citations
The oceanic phosphorus cycle.

and Adina Paytan;Karen McLaughlin

979
Citations
Atmospheric Iron Deposition: Global Distribution, Variability, and Human Perturbations*

Natalie M. Mahowald;Sebastian Engelstaedter;Chao Luo;Andrea Sealy

724
Citations
Sulfur isotopic composition of cenozoic seawater sulfate

Adina Paytan;Miriam Kastner;Douglas Campbell;Mark H. Thiemens

470
Citations
Toxicity of atmospheric aerosols on marine phytoplankton.

Adina Paytan;Katherine R. M. Mackey;Ying Chen;Ivan D. Lima

460
Citations
Early Cenozoic decoupling of the global carbon and sulfur cycles

A. C. Kurtz;L. R. Kump;M. A. Arthur;J. C. Zachos

455
Citations
Marine barite: Recorder of variations in ocean export productivity

Adina Paytan;Elizabeth M. Griffith

405
Citations
Glacial to interglacial fluctuations in productivity in the Equatorial Pacific as indicated by marine barite

A. Paytan;M. Kastner;F.P. Chavez

400
Citations
Barite in the ocean - occurrence, geochemistry and palaeoceanographic applications

Elizabeth M. Griffith;Adina Paytan

396
Citations
Tracing organic matter sources and carbon burial in mangrove sediments over the past 160 years

Meagan Eagle Gonneea;Adina Paytan;Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira

311
Citations
Origin of marine barite deposits: Sr and S isotope characterization

Adina Paytan;Sarah Mearon;Kim Cobb;Miriam Kastner

307
Citations
Submarine groundwater discharge: An important source of new inorganic nitrogen to coral reef ecosystems

Adina Paytan;Gregory G. Shellenbarger;Joseph H. Street;Meagan E. Gonneea

294
Citations
Marine barite as a monitor of seawater strontium isotope composition

A. Paytan;M. Kastner;E. E. Martin;J. D. Macdougall

294
Citations
Calcium isotope constraints on the end-Permian mass extinction

Jonathan L. Payne;Alexandra V. Turchyn;Adina Paytan;Donald J. DePaolo

275
Citations
Seawater sulfur isotope fluctuations in the Cretaceous.

Adina Paytan;Miriam Kastner;Douglas Campbell;Mark H. Thiemens

273
Citations
A comparison between excess barium and barite as indicators of carbon export

Meagan Eagle;Adina Paytan;Kevin R. Arrigo;Gert van Dijken

249
Citations
Applications of Sr Isotopes in Archaeology

N. M. Slovak;A. Paytan

233
Citations
Benthic Ba fluxes in the central Equatorial Pacific, implications for the oceanic Ba cycle

Adina Paytan;Miriam Kastner

230
Citations
Reduced calcification and lack of acclimatization by coral colonies growing in areas of persistent natural acidification

Elizabeth Derse Crook;Anne L Cohen;Mario Rebolledo-Vieyra;Laura Hernandez

209
Citations
Submarine groundwater discharge and nutrient addition to the coastal zone and coral reefs of leeward Hawai'i

Joseph H. Street;Karen L. Knee;Eric E. Grossman;Adina Paytan

203
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anton F. Post University of Rhode Island

Francisca Martínez-Ruiz Spanish National Research Council

Anton Eisenhauer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

Miriam Kastner University of California, San Diego

Ellen Thomas Yale University

Scott D. Wankel Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Barak Herut Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research

Alexandria B. Boehm Stanford University

Carol Kendall United States Geological Survey

Donald J. DePaolo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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