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Charles H. Wellman 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 Charles H. Wellman sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 153 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Charles H. Wellman 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 Charles H. Wellman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Charles H. Wellman is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant number of publications related to paleontology, ecology, evolution, behavior, systematics, atmospheric science, and molecular biology.

Their work covers various specialized subfields, including:

  • Paleontology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Earth-Surface Processes

Wellman's published research engages with a range of core topics:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis

They have contributed to multiple frequent publication venues, including:

  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Journal of the Geological Society
  • Nature Plants
  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Current Biology

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Wellman and colleagues are:

  • The Devonian landscape factory: plant-sediment interactions in the Old Red Sandstone of Svalbard and the rise of vegetation as a biogeomorphic agent, 2021, Journal of the Geological Society
  • Evolution of phenotypic disparity in the plant kingdom, 2023, Nature Plants
  • The Nonesuch Formation Lagerstätte: a rare window into freshwater life one billion years ago, 2020, Journal of the Geological Society
  • Low tropical diversity during the adaptive radiation of early land plants, 2022, Nature Plants
  • The use of spore-pollen assemblages to reconstruct vegetation changes in the Permian (Lopingian) Zechstein deposits of northeast England, 2021, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Frequent collaborators in Wellman's research include:

  • Paul K. Strother
  • John Marshall
  • Gilda Lopes
  • James B. Riding
  • Neil S. Davies

Best Publications

  • The timescale of early land plant evolution

    Jennifer L. Morris;Mark N. Puttick;James W. Clark;Dianne Edwards

  • Fragments of the earliest land plants

    Charles H. Wellman;Peter L. Osterloff;Peter L. Osterloff;Uzma Mohiuddin

  • The Microfossil Record of Early Land Plants

    Charles H. Wellman;Jane Gray

  • Origin and Radiation of the Earliest Vascular Land Plants

    Philippe Steemans;Alain Le Hérissé;John Melvin;Merrell A. Miller

  • A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic

    Paul Kenrick;Charles H. Wellman;Harald Schneider;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes

    Paul K. Strother;Leila Battison;Martin D. Brasier;Charles H. Wellman

  • The terrestrial biota prior to the origin of land plants (embryophytes): a review of the evidence

    Charles H. Wellman;Paul K. Strother

  • Embryophytes on land: the Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) record

    Dianne Edwards;Charles Wellman

  • Terrestrial plant microfossils from Silurian inliers of the Midland Valley of Scotland

    C. H. Wellman;J. B. Richardson

  • Spore assemblages from the Lower Devonian ‘Lower Old Red Sandstone’ deposits of the Rhynie outlier, Scotland

    Charles H. Wellman

  • A high-precision U-Pb age constraint on the Rhynie Chert Konservat-Lagerstätte: time scale and other implications

    S.F. Parry;S.R. Noble;Q.G. Crowley;C.H. Wellman

  • Mid-Devonian archaeopteris roots signal revolutionary change in earliest fossil forests

    William E. Stein;Christopher M. Berry;Jennifer L. Morris;Linda VanAller Hernick

  • Permanent dyads in sporangia and spore masses from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland

    Charles H. Wellman;Dianne Edwards;Lindsey Axe

  • Spores of the Rhynie chert plant Aglaophyton (Rhynia) major (Kidston and Lang) D.S. Edwards, 1986

    Charles H. Wellman;Hans Kerp;Hagen Hass

  • Plant spore walls as a record of long-term changes in ultraviolet-B radiation

    Barry H. Lomax;Barry H. Lomax;Wesley T. Fraser;Mark A. Sephton;Terry V. Callaghan;Terry V. Callaghan

  • Chapter 29 Palaeophytogeography of Ordovician–Silurian land plants

    Charles H. Wellman;Philippe Steemans;Marco Vecoli;Marco Vecoli

  • Investigating Devonian trees as geo‐engineers of past climates: linking palaeosols to palaeobotany and experimental geobiology

    Jennifer L. Morris;Jonathan R. Leake;William E. Stein;Christopher M. Berry

  • Tetrads in sporangia and spore masses from the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland

    Dianne Edwards;Charles H. Wellman;Lindsey Axe

  • A land plant microfossil assemblage of Mid Silurian age from the Stonehaven Group, Scotland

    Charles Wellman

  • Ultrastructure of laevigate hilate spores in sporangia and spore masses from the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland

    Charles H. Wellman;Dianne Edwards;Lindsey Axe

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Steemans
Philippe Steemans University of Liège
Dianne Edwards
Dianne Edwards Cardiff University
Marco Vecoli
Marco Vecoli Saudi Aramco (United States)
John E. A. Marshall
John E. A. Marshall University of Southampton
David J. Beerling
David J. Beerling University of Sheffield
Thomas Servais
Thomas Servais University of Lille
Howard J. Falcon-Lang
Howard J. Falcon-Lang Royal Holloway University of London
Harald Schneider
Harald Schneider Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Paul Kenrick
Paul Kenrick Natural History Museum
Mark A. Sephton
Mark A. Sephton Imperial College London

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