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D-Index
89
Citations
23065
World Ranking
293
National Ranking
154

Adina Paytan 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 Adina Paytan sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 454 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Adina Paytan 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 Adina Paytan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 89 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

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

  • The oceanic phosphorus cycle.

    and Adina Paytan;Karen McLaughlin

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

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

  • Sulfur isotopic composition of cenozoic seawater sulfate

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

  • Toxicity of atmospheric aerosols on marine phytoplankton.

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

  • Early Cenozoic decoupling of the global carbon and sulfur cycles

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

  • Marine barite: Recorder of variations in ocean export productivity

    Adina Paytan;Elizabeth M. Griffith

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

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

  • Barite in the ocean - occurrence, geochemistry and palaeoceanographic applications

    Elizabeth M. Griffith;Adina Paytan

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

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

  • Origin of marine barite deposits: Sr and S isotope characterization

    Adina Paytan;Sarah Mearon;Kim Cobb;Miriam Kastner

  • 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

  • Marine barite as a monitor of seawater strontium isotope composition

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

  • Calcium isotope constraints on the end-Permian mass extinction

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

  • Seawater sulfur isotope fluctuations in the Cretaceous.

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

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

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

  • Applications of Sr Isotopes in Archaeology

    N. M. Slovak;A. Paytan

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

    Adina Paytan;Miriam Kastner

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Anton F. Post
Anton F. Post University of Rhode Island
Francisca Martínez-Ruiz
Francisca Martínez-Ruiz Spanish National Research Council
Anton Eisenhauer
Anton Eisenhauer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Miriam Kastner
Miriam Kastner University of California, San Diego
Ellen Thomas
Ellen Thomas Yale University
Scott D. Wankel
Scott D. Wankel Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Barak Herut
Barak Herut Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Alexandria B. Boehm
Alexandria B. Boehm Stanford University
Carol Kendall
Carol Kendall United States Geological Survey
Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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