2026 David Nesvorný: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	95	1948	1850	1007	940	364	26845

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Physics

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1007

940

364

26845

Overview

David Nesvorný is a researcher affiliated with the Southwest Research Institute in the United States. Their work primarily falls within the broad domain of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their research interests also extend into related subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Aerospace Engineering, and Instrumentation.

The main topics covered by Nesvorný include Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies. Further topics of their work encompass Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and other areas of Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

Nesvorný has published extensively, contributing to a variety of scientific journals and platforms. Frequent venues for their publications include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Icarus
The Planetary Science Journal
The Astronomical Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Some of the notable recent papers authored by or involving Nesvorný are:

"Ryugu's nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System," 2022, Science Advances
"NEOMOD: A New Orbital Distribution Model for Near-Earth Objects," 2023, The Astronomical Journal
"Contribution of Ryugu-like material to Earth's volatile inventory by Cu and Zn isotopic analysis," 2022, Nature Astronomy
"Bayesian inference on the isotopic building blocks of Mars and Earth," 2023, Icarus
"A re-assessment of the Kuiper belt size distribution for sub-kilometer objects, revealing collisional equilibrium at small sizes," 2020, Icarus

Nesvorný collaborates frequently with a number of scientists in their field. Among the frequent co-authors are:

W. F. Bottke
David Vokrouhlický
Rogerio Deienno
Alessandro Morbidelli
M. Brož

Best Publications

The fossilized size distribution of the main asteroid belt

William F. Bottke;Daniel D. Durda;David Nesvorný;Robert Jedicke

614
Citations
COMETARY ORIGIN OF THE ZODIACAL CLOUD AND CARBONACEOUS MICROMETEORITES. IMPLICATIONS FOR HOT DEBRIS DISKS

David Nesvorný;David Nesvorný;Peter Jenniskens;Harold F. Levison;Harold F. Levison;William F. Bottke;William F. Bottke

559
Citations
Cometary Origin of the Zodiacal Cloud and Carbonaceous Micrometeorites

David Nesvorny;Peter Jenniskens;Harold F. Levison;William F. Bottke

546
Citations
Asteroids Were Born Big

Alessandro Morbidelli;William F. Bottke;David Nesvorný;Harold F. Levison

525
Citations
Linking the collisional history of the main asteroid belt to its dynamical excitation and depletion

William F. Bottke;Daniel D. Durda;David Nesvorný;Robert Jedicke

502
Citations
An Archaean heavy bombardment from a destabilized extension of the asteroid belt

William F. Bottke;David Vokrouhlický;David Vokrouhlický;David Minton;David Minton;David Nesvorný

410
Citations
Statistical Study of the Early Solar System's Instability with Four, Five, and Six Giant Planets

David Nesvorný;David Nesvorný;Alessandro Morbidelli

359
Citations
Multiple-planet Scattering and the Origin of Hot Jupiters

C. Beaugé;C. Beaugé;D. Nesvorný

357
Citations
CAPTURE OF TROJANS BY JUMPING JUPITER

David Nesvorný;David Vokrouhlický;Alessandro Morbidelli

336
Citations
Contamination of the asteroid belt by primordial trans-Neptunian objects

Harold F. Levison;William F. Bottke;William F. Bottke;Matthieu Gounelle;Alessandro Morbidelli

330
Citations
Iron meteorites as remnants of planetesimals formed in the terrestrial planet region

William F. Bottke;David Nesvorný;Robert E. Grimm;Alessandro Morbidelli

299
Citations
Multiple-Planet Scattering and the Origin of Hot Jupiters

C. Beauge;D. Nesvorny

297
Citations
Dynamics of pebbles in the vicinity of a growing planetary embryo: hydro-dynamical simulations

Alessandro Morbidelli;David Nesvorny

277
Citations
The Recent Breakup of an Asteroid in the Main-Belt Region

David Nesvorný;William F. Bottke;Luke Dones;Harold F. Levison

276
Citations
LATE ORBITAL INSTABILITIES IN THE OUTER PLANETS INDUCED BY INTERACTION WITH A SELF-GRAVITATING PLANETESIMAL DISK

Harold F. Levison;Alessandro Morbidelli;Kleomenis Tsiganis;David Nesvorný

269
Citations
EMERGING TRENDS IN A PERIOD-RADIUS DISTRIBUTION OF CLOSE-IN PLANETS

Cristian Beauge;Cristian Beauge;D. Nesvorny

267
Citations
Evidence for asteroid space weathering from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

David Nesvorný;Robert Jedicke;Robert J. Whiteley;Željko Ivezić

267
Citations
Dynamical Evolution of the Early Solar System

David Nesvorný

266
Citations
Yarkovsky/YORP chronology of asteroid families

D. Vokrouhlický;M. Brož;W.F. Bottke;D. Nesvorný

265
Citations
Formation of Kuiper Belt Binaries by Gravitational Collapse

David Nesvorny;A. N. Youdin;D. C. Richardson

260
Citations