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D-Index
52
Citations
31835
World Ranking
4347
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1620

Anthony D. Barnosky publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony D. Barnosky sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 132 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Anthony D. Barnosky D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony D. Barnosky sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Anthony D. Barnosky is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, General Health Professions, and Geophysics.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of main topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine and Environmental Studies, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Indigenous Studies and Ecology, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and Radioactivity and Radon Measurements.

Among recent publications are:

  • The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines, 2021, Earth s Future
  • The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch, 2021, Episodes
  • Rethinking megafauna, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The proposed Anthropocene Epoch/Series is underpinned by an extensive array of mid-20th century stratigraphic event signals, 2022, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • The Anthropocene is a prospective epoch/series, not a geological event, 2022, Episodes

Frequent publication venues where Barnosky has contributed include:

  • Episodes
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Earth s Future
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Global and Planetary Change

Barnosky collaborates regularly with a core group of co-authors who have contributed extensively to similar research topics. These include Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Reinhold Leinfelder, Alejandro Cearreta, and Martin J. Head.

Best Publications

  • Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

    Anthony D Barnosky;Nicholas Matzke;Susumu Tomiya;Susumu Tomiya;Guinevere O. U Wogan;Guinevere O. U Wogan

  • Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

    Gerardo Ceballos;Paul R. Ehrlich;Anthony D. Barnosky;Andrés García

  • Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene.

    Will Steffen;Johan Rockström;Katherine Richardson;Timothy M. Lenton

  • The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

    Colin N. Waters;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin Summerhayes;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Jordi Bascompte;Eric L. Berlow

  • Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Paul L. Koch;Robert S. Feranec;Scott L. Wing

  • Late Quaternary Extinctions: State of the Debate

    Paul L. Koch;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Mark Williams;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Juliana A. Ivar do Sul;Patricia L. Corcoran

  • Spatial Response of Mammals to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuations

    Russell W. Graham;Ernest L. Lundelius;Mary Ann Graham;Erich K. Schroeder

  • The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Colin N. Waters;Colin P. Summerhayes;Alexander P. Wolfe

  • DISTINGUISHING THE EFFECTS OF THE RED QUEEN AND COURT JESTER ON MIOCENE MAMMAL EVOLUTION IN THE NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS

    Anthony D. Barnosky

  • Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Patrick Gonzalez;Patrick Gonzalez;Jason Head

  • Timing of Quaternary megafaunal extinction in South America in relation to human arrival and climate change

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Emily L. Lindsey

  • Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of Quaternary and future extinctions

    Anthony D. Barnosky

  • Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective:

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Colin N. Waters;Colin N. Waters;Anthony D. Barnosky

  • The technofossil record of humans

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Mark Williams;Colin N Waters;Anthony D Barnosky;Anthony D Barnosky

  • 6. Mammalian Biochronology of the Arikareean Through Hemphillian Interval (Late Oligocene Through Early Pliocene Epochs)

    Richard H. Tedford;L. Barry Albright;Anthony D. Barnosky;Ismael Ferrusquia-Villafranca

  • Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Reinhold Leinfelder;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters

  • MAMMALIAN RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING ON VARIED TEMPORAL SCALES

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Christopher J. Bell

  • The Anthropocene biosphere

    Mark Williams;Jan Zalasiewicz;PK Haff;Christian Schwägerl

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin N. Waters
Colin N. Waters University of Leicester
Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester
Will Steffen
Will Steffen Australian National University
Colin Summerhayes
Colin Summerhayes University of Cambridge
Alejandro Cearreta
Alejandro Cearreta University of the Basque Country
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Elizabeth A. Hadly
Elizabeth A. Hadly Stanford University
Reinhold Leinfelder
Reinhold Leinfelder Freie Universität Berlin
Michael Wagreich
Michael Wagreich University of Vienna
Alexander P. Wolfe
Alexander P. Wolfe University of Alberta

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