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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
54
Citations
13240
World Ranking
3088
National Ranking
1095

David Pilbeam publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 115 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

David Pilbeam D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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

30 D-Index: 95 scientists 31 D-Index: 123 scientists 32 D-Index: 191 scientists 33 D-Index: 245 scientists 34 D-Index: 252 scientists 35 D-Index: 244 scientists 36 D-Index: 249 scientists 37 D-Index: 244 scientists 38 D-Index: 254 scientists 39 D-Index: 254 scientists 40 D-Index: 280 scientists 41 D-Index: 274 scientists 42 D-Index: 266 scientists 43 D-Index: 233 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 208 scientists 46 D-Index: 201 scientists 47 D-Index: 213 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 172 scientists 50 D-Index: 209 scientists 51 D-Index: 199 scientists 52 D-Index: 153 scientists 53 D-Index: 169 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 148 scientists 56 D-Index: 120 scientists 57 D-Index: 146 scientists 58 D-Index: 137 scientists 59 D-Index: 140 scientists 60 D-Index: 104 scientists 61 D-Index: 119 scientists 62 D-Index: 118 scientists 63 D-Index: 99 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 100 scientists 66 D-Index: 86 scientists 67 D-Index: 83 scientists 68 D-Index: 75 scientists 69 D-Index: 94 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 68 scientists 72 D-Index: 59 scientists 73 D-Index: 63 scientists 74 D-Index: 66 scientists 75 D-Index: 60 scientists 76 D-Index: 42 scientists 77 D-Index: 49 scientists 78 D-Index: 39 scientists 79 D-Index: 37 scientists 80 D-Index: 43 scientists 81 D-Index: 41 scientists 82 D-Index: 45 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 40 scientists 85 D-Index: 35 scientists 86 D-Index: 55 scientists 87 D-Index: 24 scientists 88 D-Index: 24 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 25 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 27 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 23 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 14 scientists 98 D-Index: 19 scientists 99 D-Index: 16 scientists 100 D-Index: 14 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 21 scientists 103 D-Index: 16 scientists 104 D-Index: 10 scientists 105 D-Index: 7 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 7 scientists 108 D-Index: 6 scientists 109 D-Index: 9 scientists 110 D-Index: 11 scientists 111 D-Index: 12 scientists 112 D-Index: 9 scientists 113 D-Index: 7 scientists 114 D-Index: 3 scientists 115 D-Index: 8 scientists 116 D-Index: 5 scientists 117 D-Index: 11 scientists 118 D-Index: 4 scientists 119 D-Index: 2 scientists 120 D-Index: 5 scientists 121+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Best Publications

  • A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa

    Michel Brunet;Franck Guy;Franck Guy;David Pilbeam;Hassane Taisso Mackaye

  • The Raw and the Stolen. Cooking and the Ecology of Human Origins.

    Richard W. Wrangham;James Holland Jones;Greg Laden;David Pilbeam

  • Faunal and environmental change in the late Miocene Siwaliks of northern Pakistan

    John C. Barry;Michèle E. Morgan;Lawrence J. Flynn;David Pilbeam

  • Size and Scaling in Human Evolution

    David Pilbeam;Stephen Jay Gould

  • The Cambridge encyclopedia of human evolution

    Steve Jones;R. D. Martin;David R. Pilbeam

  • Virtual cranial reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis

    Christoph P. E. Zollikofer;Marcia Ponce de Leon;Daniel Eric Lieberman;Franck Guy;Franck Guy

  • The first australopithecine 2,500 kilometres west of the Rift Valley (Chad)

    Michel Brunet;Alain Beauvilain;Yves Coppens;Emile Heintz

  • PRELIMINARY REVISION OF THE DRYOPITHECINAE (PONGIDAE, ANTHROPOIDEA) (Part 1 of 4)

    E.L. Simons;D.R. Pilbeam

  • New hominoid skull material from the Miocene of Pakistan

    David Pilbeam

  • New material of the earliest hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad

    Michel Brunet;Franck Guy;Franck Guy;David Pilbeam;Daniel Eric Lieberman

  • Genetic and Morphological Records of the Hominoidea and Hominid Origins: A Synthesis

    David Pilbeam

  • Ecological changes in Miocene mammalian record show impact of prolonged climatic forcing

    Catherine Badgley;John C. Barry;Michèle E. Morgan;Sherry V. Nelson

  • Homoplasy and earlyHomo: an analysis of the evolutionary relationships ofH. habilissensu stricto andH. rudolfensis

    Daniel E. Lieberman;Bernard A. Wood;David R. Pilbeam

  • A Hominoid Genus from the Early Miocene of Uganda

    Daniel L. Gebo;Laura MacLatchy;Robert Kityo;Alan Deino

  • New Sivapithecus humeri from Pakistan and the relationship of Sivapithecus and Pongo

    David Pilbeam;Michael D. Rose;John C. Barry;S. M. Ibrahim Shah

  • African Apes as Time Machines

    R. Wrangham;D. Pilbeam

  • Chimpanzees and Human Evolution

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  • Geology and palaeontology of Neogene strata of Pakistan

    David Pilbeam;John Barry;Grant E. Meyer;S. M. Ibrahim Shah

  • The geography of Neandertals and modern humans in Europe and the greater Mediterranean

    Ofer Bar-Yosef;David R. Pilbeam

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution.@@@The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere Over the Past 300 Years.

    A. Mowle;Steve Jones;Robert Martin;David Pilbeam

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Brunet
Michel Brunet University of Poitiers
Daniel E. Lieberman
Daniel E. Lieberman Harvard University
Patrick Vignaud
Patrick Vignaud University of Poitiers
Everett H. Lindsay
Everett H. Lindsay University of Arizona
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Anna K. Behrensmeyer National Museum of Natural History
Louis L. Jacobs
Louis L. Jacobs Southern Methodist University
Mathieu Schuster
Mathieu Schuster University of Strasbourg
Denis Geraads
Denis Geraads Sorbonne University
Richard J.H. Smith
Richard J.H. Smith University of Iowa
Hervé Bocherens
Hervé Bocherens University of Tübingen

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