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D-Index
35
Citations
5381
World Ranking
7535
National Ranking
769

Alastair G. Dawson 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 Alastair G. Dawson sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 130 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Alastair G. Dawson 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 Alastair G. Dawson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • The Storegga Slides: Evidence from eastern Scotland for a possible tsunami

    A.G Dawson;D Long;D.E Smith

  • The Storegga Slide tsunami—comparing field observations with numerical simulations

    Stein Bondevik;Finn Løvholt;Carl Harbitz;Jan Mangerud

  • Tsunami Deposits

    Unknown

  • Geomorphological effects of tsunami run-up and backwash

    Unknown

  • Coastal Sedimentation Associated with the December 12th, 1992 Tsunami in Flores, Indonesia

    Shaozhong Shi;Alastair G. Dawson;David E. Smith

  • Ice Age Earth: Late Quaternary Geology and Climate

    Alastair G. Dawson

  • Record-breaking height for 8000-year-old tsunami in the North Atlantic

    Stein Bondevik;Jan Mangerud;Sue Dawson;Alastair Dawson

  • Tsunami sedimentation associated with the Lisbon earthquake of 1 November AD 1755: Boca do Rio, Algarve, Portugal

    A.G. Dawson;R. Hindson;C. Andrade;C. Freitas

  • Evidence for three North Sea tsunamis at the Shetland Islands between 8000 and 1500 years ago

    Stein Bondevik;Jan Mangerud;Sue Dawson;Alastair Dawson

  • A Holocene tsunami deposit in eastern Scotland

    David Long;David E. Smith;Alastair G. Dawson

  • Sedimentary processes associated with the tsunami generated by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake on the Algarve coast, Portugal

    R.A. Hindson;C. Andrade;A.G. Dawson

  • Coastal sedimentation associated with the June 2nd and 3rd, 1994 tsunami in Rajegwesi, Java

    Unknown

  • Microtextural characteristics of quartz grains transported and deposited by tsunamis and storms

    Pedro J.M. Costa;C. Andrade;A.G. Dawson;W.C. Mahaney

  • Lake shoreline development, frost weathering and rock platform erosion in an alpine periglacial environment, Jotunheimen, southern Norway

    John A. Matthews;Alastair G. Dawson;Richard A. Shakesby

  • The Role of Climate in Settlement and Landscape Change in the North Atlantic Islands: An Assessment of Cumulative Deviations in High-Resolution Proxy Climate Records

    Andrew J. Dugmore;Douglas M. Borthwick;Mike J. Church;Alastair Dawson

  • Rock glaciers, protalus ramparts and related phenomena, Rondane, Norway: a continuum of large‐scale talus‐derived landforms

    Richard A. Shakesby;Alastair G. Dawson;John A. Matthews

  • Complex North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Index signal of historic North Atlantic storm-track changes

    Alastair G. Dawson;Kieran Hickey;Tom Holt;L. Elliott

  • Late-Holocene North Atlantic climate ‘seesaws’, storminess changes and Greenland ice sheet (GISP2) palaeoclimates

    Alastair G. Dawson;Lorne Elliott;Paul Mayewski;Peter Lockett

  • Late Holocene coastal tectonics at Falasarna, western Crete: a sedimentary study

    Dale Dominey-Howes;Alastair Dawson;David Smith

  • Geological and historical investigation of the 1650 Mt. Columbo (Thera Island) eruption and tsunami, Aegean Sea, Greece

    D. T. M. Dominey-Howes;G. A. Papadopoulos;A. G. Dawson

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