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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 63 1616 1446 712 621 296 12823

David A. Foster publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by David A. Foster between 1977 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. David A. Foster published across 49 years, from 1977 to 2025, averaging 6.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 22 publications in 1998. 10 of the 321 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1977 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 22. Peak 22 publications in 1998. 1977: 2 publications 1978: 1 publication 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 1 publication 1990: 3 publications 1991: 3 publications 1992: 4 publications 1993: 10 publications 1994: 2 publications 1995: 4 publications 1996: 7 publications 1997: 17 publications 1998: 22 publications 1999: 17 publications 2000: 5 publications 2001: 6 publications 2002: 13 publications 2003: 8 publications 2004: 10 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 8 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 14 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 2 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 12 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 18 publications 2017: 10 publications 2018: 15 publications 2019: 20 publications 2020: 15 publications 2021: 6 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 11 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 4 publications
1977 2025

321 publications in total across all disciplines

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David A. Foster: publications per year, 1977 to 2025
Year Publications
1977 2
1978 1
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 0
1987 0
1988 1
1989 1
1990 3
1991 3
1992 4
1993 10
1994 2
1995 4
1996 7
1997 17
1998 22
1999 17
2000 5
2001 6
2002 13
2003 8
2004 10
2005 5
2006 8
2007 8
2008 5
2009 14
2010 5
2011 2
2012 6
2013 6
2014 12
2015 4
2016 18
2017 10
2018 15
2019 20
2020 15
2021 6
2022 5
2023 11
2024 6
2025 4
Total 321
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David A. Foster 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 David A. Foster 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, 288–297 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: 296 publications — 86th percentile

86% 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
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
288–297 119 296
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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David A. Foster 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 David A. Foster 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, 63 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: 63 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% 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
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 63
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

David A. Foster is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable concentration in Geophysics. Additional subfields of study include Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work covers a broad range of topics, emphasizing geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, as well as geochemistry and geologic mapping. Studies in evolution and paleontology, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and tectonic studies in Latin America, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils also form significant areas of their research portfolio.

Foster has contributed to multiple publications across various venues. Frequent publication outlets include Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Gondwana Research, Geological Society of America Bulletin, International Journal of Earth Sciences, and the Journal of South American Earth Sciences.

The following is a selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Foster:

  • Late Neogene evolution of the Peruvian margin and its ecosystems: a synthesis from the Sacaco record (2021), International Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Episodic intra-continental reactivation during collapse of a collisional orogen: The Damara Belt, Namibia (2022), Gondwana Research
  • Caribbean-South America interactions since the Late Cretaceous: Insights from zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic data in sedimentary sequences of the northwestern Andes (2023), Journal of South American Earth Sciences
  • Miocene vanishing of the Central American Seaway between the Panamá Arc and the South American Plate (2024), Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Metamorphic response within different subduction-obduction settings preserved on the NE Arabian margin (2020), Gondwana Research

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Ángel A. Barbosa-Espitia, George D. Kamenov, Diana Ochoa, Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi, and Paul A. Mueller.

Best Publications

  • Tectonic history of the Altyn Tagh fault system in northern Tibet inferred from Cenozoic sedimentation

    A. Yin;P.E. Rumelhart;R. Butler;E. Cowgill

  • Exhumation, crustal deformation, and thermal structure of the Nepal Himalaya derived from the inversion of thermochronological and thermobarometric data and modeling of the topography

    Frederic Herman;Frederic Herman;Peter Copeland;Jean Philippe Avouac;Laurent Bollinger

  • Differential exhumation in response to episodic thrusting along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

    Dennis Arne;Brenton Worley;Christopher Wilson;She Fa Chen

  • A Damara orogen perspective on the assembly of southwestern Gondwana

    David R Gray;David Foster;J.G. Meert;B D Goscombe

  • Evolution and Structure of the Lachlan Fold Belt (Orogen) of Eastern Australia

    David A. Foster;David R. Gray

  • Tectonic evolution of the Lachlan Orogen, southeast Australia: Historical review, data synthesis and modern perspectives

    D. R. Gray;D. A. Foster

  • Proterozoic evolution of the western margin of the Wyoming craton: implications for the tectonic and magmatic evolution of the northern Rocky Mountains

    David A. Foster;Paul A. Mueller;David W. Mogk;Joseph L. Wooden

  • Refrigeration of the western Cordilleran lithosphere during Laramide shallow-angle subduction

    Trevor A. Dumitru;Phillip B. Gans;David A. Foster;Elizabeth L. Miller

  • Shaping the Australian crust over the last 300 million years: Insights from fission track thermotectonic imaging and denudation studies of key terranes

    B. P. Kohn;A. J. W. Gleadow;R. W. Brown;K. Gallagher

  • Relationships between crustal partial melting, plutonism, orogeny, and exhumation: Idaho–Bitterroot batholith

    David A Foster;Carl Schafer;C.Mark Fanning;Donald W Hyndman

  • Thermochronologic constraints on the tectonic evolution of active metamorphic core complexes, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea

    Suzanne L. Baldwin;Gordon S. Lister;E. June Hill;David A. Foster

  • Chronology of deformation within the turbidite‐dominated, Lachlan orogen: Implications for the tectonic evolution of eastern Australia and Gondwana

    David A. Foster;David R. Gray;Martin Bucher

  • Origin of the white shark Carcharodon (Lamniformes: Lamnidae) based on recalibration of the Upper Neogene Pisco Formation of Peru

    Dana J. Ehret;Bruce J. Macfadden;Douglas S. Jones;Thomas J. Devries

  • Structural and thermal constraints on the initiation angle of detachment faulting in the southern Basin and Range: The Chemehuevi Mountains case study

    Barbara E. John;David A. Foster

  • Quantifying tectonic exhumation in an extensional orogen with thermochronology: examples from the southern Basin and Range Province

    David A. Foster;Barbara E. John

  • Geochronology of the northern Idaho batholith and the Bitterroot metamorphic core complex: Magmatism preceding and contemporaneous with extension

    David A. Foster;C. Mark Fanning

  • Chronology and tectonic framework of turbidite-hosted gold deposits in the Western Lachlan Fold Belt, Victoria: – results

    David A Foster;David R Gray;Teunis A.P Kwak;Martin Bucher

  • 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of the Pan-African Damara Orogen, Namibia, with implications for tectonothermal and geodynamic evolution

    David R. Gray;David A. Foster;Ben Goscombe;Cees W. Passchier

  • Event geochronology of the Pan-African Kaoko Belt, Namibia

    Ben Goscombe;David Gray;Richard Armstrong;David A. Foster

  • Divergent double subduction: Tectonic and petrologic consequences

    Alvar Soesoo;Paul D. Bons;David R. Gray;David A. Foster

Frequent Co-Authors

David R Gray
David R Gray University of Tasmania
George D. Kamenov
George D. Kamenov University of Florida
Paul A. Mueller
Paul A. Mueller University of Florida
Andrew J.W. Gleadow
Andrew J.W. Gleadow University of Melbourne
Barry P. Kohn
Barry P. Kohn University of Melbourne
Joseph L. Wooden
Joseph L. Wooden Stanford University
Frank P. Bierlein
Frank P. Bierlein ANS Exploration Corp.
Paul A. S. Breslin
Paul A. S. Breslin Monell Chemical Senses Center
Calvin F. Miller
Calvin F. Miller Vanderbilt University
T. Mark Harrison
T. Mark Harrison University of California, Los Angeles

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