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95
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26845
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1948
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1007

David Nesvorný publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Nesvorný sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 364 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

David Nesvorný D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Nesvorný sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

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

  • 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

  • Cometary Origin of the Zodiacal Cloud and Carbonaceous Micrometeorites

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

  • Asteroids Were Born Big

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    David Nesvorný;David Nesvorný;Alessandro Morbidelli

  • Multiple-planet Scattering and the Origin of Hot Jupiters

    C. Beaugé;C. Beaugé;D. Nesvorný

  • CAPTURE OF TROJANS BY JUMPING JUPITER

    David Nesvorný;David Vokrouhlický;Alessandro Morbidelli

  • Contamination of the asteroid belt by primordial trans-Neptunian objects

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

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

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

  • Multiple-Planet Scattering and the Origin of Hot Jupiters

    C. Beauge;D. Nesvorny

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

    Alessandro Morbidelli;David Nesvorny

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

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

  • 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

  • EMERGING TRENDS IN A PERIOD-RADIUS DISTRIBUTION OF CLOSE-IN PLANETS

    Cristian Beauge;Cristian Beauge;D. Nesvorny

  • Evidence for asteroid space weathering from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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

  • Dynamical Evolution of the Early Solar System

    David Nesvorný

  • Yarkovsky/YORP chronology of asteroid families

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

  • Formation of Kuiper Belt Binaries by Gravitational Collapse

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

Frequent Co-Authors

David Vokrouhlický
David Vokrouhlický Charles University
William F. Bottke
William F. Bottke Southwest Research Institute
Alessandro Morbidelli
Alessandro Morbidelli Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Harold F. Levison
Harold F. Levison Southwest Research Institute
Gáspár Á. Bakos
Gáspár Á. Bakos Princeton University
Lars A. Buchhave
Lars A. Buchhave Technical University of Denmark
John M. C. Plane
John M. C. Plane University of Leeds
Joel D. Hartman
Joel D. Hartman Princeton University
Erik Asphaug
Erik Asphaug University of Arizona
Wuhu Feng
Wuhu Feng University of Leeds

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