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B. Nagender Nath publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by B. Nagender Nath between 1988 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. B. Nagender Nath published across 38 years, from 1988 to 2025, averaging 3.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 15 publications in 2017. 3 of the 127 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1988 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 15. Peak 15 publications in 2017. 1988: 1 publication 1989: 3 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 2 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 1 publication 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 4 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 0 publications 2000: 5 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 2 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 2 publications 2012: 3 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 3 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 15 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 7 publications 2020: 3 publications 2021: 8 publications 2022: 4 publications 2023: 5 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 2 publications
1988 2025

127 publications in total across all disciplines

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B. Nagender Nath: publications per year, 1988 to 2025
Year Publications
1988 1
1989 3
1990 0
1991 1
1992 2
1993 1
1994 1
1995 0
1996 0
1997 4
1998 1
1999 0
2000 5
2001 4
2002 0
2003 1
2004 2
2005 4
2006 2
2007 7
2008 5
2009 3
2010 3
2011 2
2012 3
2013 3
2014 4
2015 3
2016 11
2017 15
2018 6
2019 7
2020 3
2021 8
2022 4
2023 5
2024 1
2025 2
Total 127
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B. Nagender Nath 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 B. Nagender Nath sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 118–127 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 121 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540 121
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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B. Nagender Nath 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 B. Nagender Nath sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 35 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
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.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372 35
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

B. Nagender Nath is affiliated with the National Institute of Oceanography in India and contributes extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Environmental Science. Their research covers various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Ecology.

The scientist's work centers on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies.

They have authored several recent papers, including:

  • Weakening of the South Asian summer monsoon linked to interhemispheric ice-sheet growth since 12 Ma (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Evidence for increasing anthropogenic Pb concentrations in Indian shelf sediments during the last century (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • A ~ 30 kyr sub-centennial to millennial Indian summer monsoon variability record from the southern Andaman Sea, northeastern Indian Ocean (2022, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology)
  • Late Quaternary record of Indian summer monsoon-induced stratification and productivity collapse in the Andaman Sea (2021, Journal of Quaternary Science)
  • Paleoceanographic significance of Globigerinoides ruber (white) morphotypes from the Andaman Sea (2021, Marine Micropaleontology)

Their frequent co-authors include A.V. Sijinkumar, Pavan Miriyala, P. Linsy, Tyson Sebastian, and M.B.L. Mascarenhas-Pereira.

Publication venues where they have contributed notably include Marine Geology, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Quaternary International, Nature Communications, and Journal of Quaternary Science.

Best Publications

  • Trace and rare earth elemental variation in Arabian Sea sediments through a transect across the oxygen minimum zone

    B. Nagender Nath;M. Bau;B. Ramalingeswara Rao;Ch.M. Rao

  • Influence of Provenance, Weathering, and Sedimentary Processes on the Elemental Ratios of the Fine-Grained Fraction of the Bedload Sediments from the Vembanad Lake and the Adjoining Continental Shelf, Southwest Coast of India

    B. Nagender Nath;H. Kunzendorf;W.L. Plüger

  • Organic matter-A key factor in controlling mercury distribution in estuarine sediment

    Parthasarathi Chakraborty;Arindam Sarkar;Krushna Vudamala;Richita Naik

  • The abrupt onset of the modern South Asian Monsoon winds.

    Christian Betzler;Gregor P. Eberli;Dick Kroon;James D. Wright

  • Buried in time: culturable fungi in a deep-sea sediment core from the Chagos Trench, Indian Ocean

    Chandralata Raghukumar;Seshagiri Raghukumar;G. Sheelu;S.M. Gupta

  • Changes in metal contamination levels in estuarine sediments around India – An assessment

    Parthasarathi Chakraborty;Darwin Ramteke;Sucharita Chakraborty;B. Nagender Nath

  • Geochemical evidence of terrigenous influence in deep-sea sediments up to 8°S in the Central Indian Basin

    B.Nagender Nath;V.Purnachandra Rao;Klaus P Becker

  • Rare earth element geochemistry of ferromanganese deposits from the Indian Ocean

    B. Nagender Nath;V. Balaram;M. Sudhakar;W.L. Plüger

  • South Asian summer monsoon variability during the last ∼54 kyrs inferred from surface water salinity and river runoff proxies

    Daniel Gebregiorgis;Edmund C. Hathorne;A. V. Sijinkumar;B. Nagender Nath

  • Refinement of Miocene sea level and monsoon events from the sedimentary archive of the Maldives (Indian Ocean)

    C. Betzler;G. P. Eberli;T. Lüdmann;J. Reolid

  • Sediment redistribution during simulated benthic disturbance and its implications on deep seabed mining

    Rahul Sharma;B Nagender Nath;G Parthiban;S Jai Sankar

  • Rare Earth element patterns of the Central Indian Basin sediments related to their lithology

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  • Geochemical constraints on the hydrothermal origin of ferromanganese encrustations from the Rodriguez Triple Junction, Indian Ocean

    B. Nagender Nath;W. L. Plüger;I. Roelandts

  • δ 18 O and salinity variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to Recent in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea

    A.V. Sijinkumar;A.V. Sijinkumar;Steven Clemens;B. Nagender Nath;Warren Prell

  • Bacterial standing stock, meiofauna and sediment nutrient characteristics: indicators of benthic disturbance in the Central Indian Basin

    Chandralata Raghukumar;P.A.Loka Bharathi;Z.A Ansari;Shanta Nair

  • Geochemical and Isotopic Signatures of Surficial Sediments from the Western Continental Shelf of India: Inferring Provenance, Weathering, and the Nature of Organic Matter

    Siby Kurian;B. Nagender Nath;N. Chandramohana Kumar;K.K.C. Nair

  • New sequential separation procedure for Sr, Nd and Pb isotope ratio measurement in geological material using MC-ICP-MS and TIMS

    Akio Makishima;B. Nagender Nath;B. Nagender Nath;Eizo Nakamura

  • Early diagenetic processes affecting nutrients in the pore waters of Central Indian Ocean cores

    B.Nagender Nath;A.V. Mudholkar

  • Increased chemical weathering during the deglacial to mid-Holocene summer monsoon intensification

    Pavan Miriyala;N. P. Sukumaran;B. Nagender Nath;P. B. Ramamurty

  • Possible detrital, diagenetic and hydrothermal sources for Holocene sediments of the Andaman backarc basin

    Siby Kurian;B. Nagender Nath;V. Ramaswamy;D. Naman

  • Nature, distribution & origin of clay minerals in grain size fractions of sediments from manganese nodule field, Central Indian Ocean Basin

    V. Purnachandra Rao;B. Nagender Nath

Frequent Co-Authors

James D. Wright
James D. Wright Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
John J. G. Reijmer
John J. G. Reijmer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christian Betzler
Christian Betzler Universität Hamburg
Akio Makishima
Akio Makishima Okayama University
Dick Kroon
Dick Kroon University of Edinburgh
Peter K. Swart
Peter K. Swart University of Miami
Gregor P. Eberli
Gregor P. Eberli University of Miami
Eizo Nakamura
Eizo Nakamura Okayama University
Steven C. Clemens
Steven C. Clemens Brown University
Luca Lanci
Luca Lanci University of Urbino

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