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Carl C. Swisher 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 Carl C. Swisher sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 136 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Carl C. Swisher 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 Carl C. Swisher sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Carl C. Swisher is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research mainly spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular emphasis on several subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, and Paleontology.

The main topics of their work focus on Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Astro and Planetary Science, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Planetary Science and Exploration.

Swisher's recent publications reflect their research interests and expertise. These include:

  • Rapid cooling of the Rustenburg Layered Suite of the Bushveld Complex (South Africa): Insights from biotite 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, 2020, Geology
  • 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology for Submilligram Samples Using a Ta Platform Microfurnace, With Illustrations From the Bushveld Complex, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • 40Ar/39Ar ages of L4, H5, EL6, and feldspathic ureilitic clasts from the Almahata Sitta polymict ureilite (asteroid 2008 TC3), 2023, Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • In Memoriam, 2020, PS Political Science & Politics
  • A low-temperature hydrothermal cutoff: plagioclase 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the Rustenburg Layered Suite, Bushveld complex, 2022, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Swisher include:

  • B. D. Turrin
  • Jacob Setera
  • J. A. VanTongeren
  • G. F. Herzog
  • F. N. Lindsay

Their work is regularly published in venues such as Geology, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, PS Political Science & Politics, and Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.

Best Publications

  • A revised Cenozoic geochronology and chronostratigraphy

    William A. Berggren;Dennis V. Kent;Carl C. Swisher;Marie-Pierre Aubry

  • Intercalibration of standards, absolute ages and uncertainties in 40Ar/39Ar dating

    Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne;Carl C. Swisher;Alan L. Deino;Daniel B. Karner

  • Earliest Pleistocene hominid cranial remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: taxonomy, geological setting, and age.

    Leo Gabunia;Abesalom Vekua;David Lordkipanidze;Carl C. Swisher

  • Age of the earliest known hominids in Java, Indonesia

    CC Swisher;GH Curtis;T Jacob;AG Getty

  • Cretaceous age for the feathered dinosaurs of Liaoning, China

    Carl C. Swisher;Yuan-qing Wang;Xiao-lin Wang;Xiao-lin Wang;Xing Xu

  • Coeval 40Ar/39Ar Ages of 65.0 Million Years Ago from Chicxulub Crater Melt Rock and Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Tektites.

    Carl C. Swisher;José M. Grajales-Nishimura;Alessandro Montanari;Stanley V. Margolis

  • Cenozoic South American Land Mammal Ages: Correlation to Global Geochronologies

    John J. Flynn;Carl C. Swisher

  • Latest Homo erectus of Java: Potential Contemporaneity with Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia

    C. C. Swisher;W. J. Rink;S. C. Antón;H. P. Schwarcz

  • Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and the opening of the Northeast Atlantic.

    Michael Storey;Robert A. Duncan;Carl C. Iii. Swisher

  • Intercalibration of astronomical and radioisotopic time

    Paul R. Renne;Alan L. Deino;Robert C. Walter;Brent D. Turrin

  • Further support for a Cretaceous age for the feathered-dinosaur beds of Liaoning, China: new 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Yixian and Tuchengzi formations

    Carl Swisher;Xiaolin Wang;Zhonghe Zhou;Yuanqing Wang

  • Late Pliocene Homo and hominid land use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

    Robert J. Blumenschine;Charles R. Peters;Fidelis T. Masao;Ronald J. Clarke

  • The Ischigualasto Tetrapod Assemblage (Late Triassic, Argentina) and 40Ar/39Ar Dating of Dinosaur Origins

    Raymond R. Rogers;Carl C. Swisher;Paul C. Sereno;Alfredo M. Monetta

  • Preservation of Miocene glacier ice in East Antarctica

    David E. Sugden;David R. Marchant;Noel Potter;Roland A. Souchez

  • 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

  • Early Dispersals of Homo from Africa

    Susan C. Antón;Carl C. Swisher

  • Stratigraphy and chronology of Upper Cretaceous–lower Paleogene strata in Bolivia and northwest Argentina

    Thierry Sempéré;R.F. Butler;D.R. Richards;L.G. Marshall

  • Land Mammal High-Resolution Geochronology, Intercontinental Overland Dispersals, Sea Level, Climate, and Vicariance

    Michael O. Woodburne;Carl C. Swisher

  • Dmanisi and dispersal

    Leo Gabunia;Susan C. Antón;David Lordkipanidze;Abesalom Vekua

  • South America's earliest rodent and recognition of a new interval of mammalian evolution

    André R. Wyss;John J. Flynn;Mark A. Norell;Carl C. Swisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Carr
Michael J. Carr Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mark A. Norell
Mark A. Norell American Museum of Natural History
Michael J. Novacek
Michael J. Novacek American Museum of Natural History
John J. Flynn
John J. Flynn American Museum of Natural History
Mark D. Feigenson
Mark D. Feigenson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Keisuke Nagao
Keisuke Nagao University of Tokyo
Reynaldo Charrier
Reynaldo Charrier University of Chile
Alan L. Deino
Alan L. Deino Berkeley Geochronology Center
Malcolm C. McKenna
Malcolm C. McKenna American Museum of Natural History

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