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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 51 3261 2983 1303 1159 120 8743

David B. Madsen publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by David B. Madsen between 1975 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. David B. Madsen published across 52 years, from 1975 to 2026, averaging 2.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 11 publications in 2014. 5 of the 147 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
2 4 6 8 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1975 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 11. Peak 11 publications in 2014. 1975: 2 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 1 publication 1979: 4 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 1 publication 1982: 1 publication 1983: 0 publications 1984: 1 publication 1985: 0 publications 1986: 1 publication 1987: 1 publication 1988: 1 publication 1989: 1 publication 1990: 3 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 3 publications 1993: 3 publications 1994: 1 publication 1995: 1 publication 1996: 1 publication 1997: 1 publication 1998: 4 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 5 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 1 publication 2005: 3 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 9 publications 2009: 0 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 2 publications 2012: 2 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 11 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 5 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 3 publications 2020: 10 publications 2021: 4 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 1 publication 2024: 2 publications 2025: 4 publications 2026: 1 publication
1975 2026

147 publications in total across all disciplines

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David B. Madsen: publications per year, 1975 to 2026
Year Publications
1975 2
1976 0
1977 0
1978 1
1979 4
1980 0
1981 1
1982 1
1983 0
1984 1
1985 0
1986 1
1987 1
1988 1
1989 1
1990 3
1991 0
1992 3
1993 3
1994 1
1995 1
1996 1
1997 1
1998 4
1999 0
2000 3
2001 2
2002 5
2003 5
2004 1
2005 3
2006 3
2007 8
2008 9
2009 0
2010 4
2011 2
2012 2
2013 4
2014 11
2015 9
2016 5
2017 4
2018 6
2019 3
2020 10
2021 4
2022 5
2023 1
2024 2
2025 4
2026 1
Total 147
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David B. Madsen 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 B. Madsen 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: 120 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
118–127 540 120
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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David B. Madsen 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 B. Madsen 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, 51 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: 51 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% 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 51
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

David B. Madsen is affiliated with the University of Nevada Reno in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Paleontology, Ecology, and Archeology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Geological formations and processes, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by David B. Madsen include:

  • Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau, 2020, Science
  • Temperature-induced dry climate in basins in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau during the early to middle Holocene, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Quantitative precipitation reconstructions from Chagan Nur revealed lag response of East Asian summer monsoon precipitation to summer insolation during the Holocene in arid northern China, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Lake-level history of Qinghai Lake on the NE Tibetan Plateau and its implications for Asian monsoon pattern - A review, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The coastal migration theory: Formulation and testable hypotheses, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

The research has been published frequently in key venues such as:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • PaleoAmerica

Among frequent collaborators are Loren G. Davis, David Rhode, Guoqiang Li, Wenwei Zhao, and Ming Jin. Collaborative work with these individuals appears throughout multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history

    Fahu Chen;Zicheng Yu;Zicheng Yu;Meilin Yang;Emi Ito

  • Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau

    Dongju Zhang;Dongju Zhang;Huan Xia;Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Bo Li;Bo Li

  • Mass collecting and the diet breadth model: A Great Basin example

    David B. Madsen;Dave N. Schmitt

  • The Late Upper Paleolithic occupation of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin

    David B. Madsen;David B. Madsen;Ma Haizhou;P. Jeffrey Brantingham;Gao Xing

  • Great Salt Lake, and precursors, Utah: The last 30,000 years

    Ronald J. Spencer;M. J. Baedecker;H. P. Eugster;R. M. Forester

  • A mid-Holocene drought interval as evidenced by lake desiccation in the Alashan Plateau, Inner Mongolia China

    Fahu Chen;Fahu Chen;Wei Wu;J. A. Holmes;D. B. Madsen

  • Holocene environmental change inferred from a high-resolution pollen record, Lake Zhuyeze, arid China

    Fa-Hu Chen;Bo Cheng;Yan Zhao;Yan Zhu

  • Age constraints on the late Quaternary evolution of Qinghai Lake, Tibetan Plateau

    David B. Madsen;Ma Haizhou;David Rhode;P. Jeffrey Brantingham

  • Last deglacial and Holocene lake level variations of Qinghai Lake, north‐eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

    Xiang-Jun Liu;Zhongping Lai;David Madsen;Fangming Zeng

  • How old is the human footprint in the world's largest alpine ecosystem? A review of multiproxy records from the Tibetan Plateau from the ecologists' viewpoint

    Georg Miehe;Sabine Miehe;Jürgen Böhner;Knut Kaiser

  • Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper's Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago.

    Loren G. Davis;David B. Madsen;Lorena Becerra-Valdivia;Thomas Higham

  • Paleoenvironmental implications of new OSL dates on the formation of the "Shell Bar" in the Qaidam Basin, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    ZhongPing Lai;Steffen Mischke;Steffen Mischke;David Madsen

  • Late Quaternary environmental change in the Bonneville basin, western USA

    D.B. Madsen;D. Rhode;D.K. Grayson;J.M. Broughton

  • A short chronology for the peopling of the Tibetan Plateau

    P. Jeffrey Brantingham;Xing Gao;John W. Olsen;Haizhou Ma

  • Yaks, yak dung, and prehistoric human habitation of the Tibetan Plateau

    David Rhode;David B. Madsen;P. Jeffrey Brantingham;Tsultrim Dargye

  • Paleoenvironmental and archaeological investigations at Qinghai Lake, western China: Geomorphic and chronometric evidence of lake level history

    David Rhode;Ma Haizhou;David B. Madsen;P. Jeffrey Brantingham

  • The Fremont Complex: A Behavioral Perspective

    David B. Madsen;Steven R. Simms

  • Luminescence chronology of aeolian deposits from the Qinghai Lake area in the Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its palaeoenvironmental implications

    XiangJun Liu;ZhongPing Lai;LuPeng Yu;YongJuan Sun

  • Late Quaternary Glacial and Vegetation Changes, Little Cottonwood Canyon Area, Wasatch Mountains, Utah

    Unknown

  • Did climatic seasonality control late Quaternary artiodactyl densities in western North America

    Jack M. Broughton;David A. Byers;Reid A. Bryson;William Eckerle

  • Epipaleolithic/early Neolithic settlements at Qinghai Lake, western China

    David Rhode;Zhang Haiying;David B. Madsen;Gao Xing

  • Late Quaternary climate change and human adaptation in arid China

    David B. Madsen;Fa-Hu Chen;Xing Gao

Frequent Co-Authors

Fahu Chen
Fahu Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
P. Jeffrey Brantingham
P. Jeffrey Brantingham University of California, Los Angeles
ZhongPing Lai
ZhongPing Lai Shantou University
Robert L. Bettinger
Robert L. Bettinger University of California, Davis
Jay Quade
Jay Quade University of Arizona
Steffen Mischke
Steffen Mischke University of Iceland
Jianhui Chen
Jianhui Chen Lanzhou University
Steven L. Forman
Steven L. Forman Baylor University
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Yan Zhao
Yan Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences

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