2026 Anthony D. Barnosky: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	52	4347	4162	1620	1496	132	31835

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

5382
Citations
Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

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

4903
Citations
Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene.

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

3388
Citations
The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

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

2486
Citations
Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

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

2479
Citations
Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents

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

1268
Citations
Late Quaternary Extinctions: State of the Debate

Paul L. Koch;Anthony D. Barnosky

1061
Citations
When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal

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

933
Citations
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

886
Citations
Spatial Response of Mammals to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuations

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

721
Citations
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

477
Citations
DISTINGUISHING THE EFFECTS OF THE RED QUEEN AND COURT JESTER ON MIOCENE MAMMAL EVOLUTION IN THE NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS

Anthony D. Barnosky

446
Citations
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

369
Citations
Timing of Quaternary megafaunal extinction in South America in relation to human arrival and climate change

Anthony D. Barnosky;Emily L. Lindsey

322
Citations
Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of Quaternary and future extinctions

Anthony D. Barnosky

317
Citations
Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective:

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

305
Citations
The technofossil record of humans

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

294
Citations
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

292
Citations
Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene

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

286
Citations
MAMMALIAN RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING ON VARIED TEMPORAL SCALES

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

265
Citations
The Anthropocene biosphere

Mark Williams;Jan Zalasiewicz;PK Haff;Christian Schwägerl

264
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin N. Waters University of Leicester

Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester

Will Steffen Australian National University

Colin Summerhayes University of Cambridge

Alejandro Cearreta University of the Basque Country

Mark Williams University of Leicester

Elizabeth A. Hadly Stanford University

Reinhold Leinfelder Freie Universität Berlin

Michael Wagreich University of Vienna

Alexander P. Wolfe University of Alberta

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