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D-Index
49
Citations
8802
World Ranking
3609
National Ranking
1425

Donald J. P. Swift 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 Donald J. P. Swift sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 176 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Donald J. P. Swift 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 Donald J. P. Swift sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Donald J. P. Swift is affiliated with Old Dominion University in the United States. Their professional focus is centered within an academic research context at this institution.

No specific records of their recent papers, including titles, years of publication, or venues, are available at this time.

Information about frequent co-authors and publication venues has not been provided.

There are no details regarding book publications or the publishers involved in their works.

Data on main and subfields of study, as well as the principal topics of research, are not available.

No awards or honors have been documented for this researcher.

Best Publications

  • Coastal Erosion and Transgressive Stratigraphy

    Donald J. P. Swift

  • Transgressive Stratigraphy at Sequence-Bounding Unconformities: Some Principles Derived from Holocene and Cretaceous Examples

    Dag Nummedal;Donald J. P. Swift

  • Marine sediment transport and environmental management

    Daniel J. Stanley;Donald J. P. Swift

  • Barrier-island genesis: evidence from the central atlantic shelf, eastern U.S.A.

    Donald J.P. Swift

  • Relict Sediments on Continental Shelves: A Reconsideration

    Donald J. P. Swift;Daniel J. Stanley;Joseph R. Curray

  • Evolution of a classic sand ridge field: Maryland sector, North American inner shelf

    Donald J. P. Swift;Michael E. Field

  • Hydrogeological characterization of the South Oyster bacterial transport site using geophysical data

    Susan S. Hubbard;Jinsong Chen;John Peterson;Ernest L. Majer

  • Hummocky Cross-Stratification and Megaripples: A Geological Double Standard?

    Unknown

  • Sedimentation on Continental Margins, I: A General Model for Shelf Sedimentation

    Unknown

  • Continental Shelf Sedimentation

    Donald J. P. Swift

  • Shoreface-connected sand ridges on American and European shelves: A comparison

    Donald J.P. Swift;Gerardo Parker;Nestor W. Lanfredi;Gerardo Perillo

  • Shelf sand and sandstone bodies : geometry, facies, and sequence stratigraphy

    Donald J. P. Swift;Sepm

  • Shelf construction in a foreland basin: storm beds, shelf sandbodies, and shelf-slope depositional sequences in the Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group, Book Cliffs, Utah

    Unknown

  • Tidal sand ridges and shoal-retreat massifs

    Donald J.P. Swift

  • High-resolution swath sonar investigation of sand ridge, dune and ribbon morphology in the offshore environment of the New Jersey margin

    John A Goff;Donald J.P Swift;Catherine S Duncan;Larry A Mayer

  • Sedimentation on Continental Margins, IV: Lithofacies and Depositional Systems

    D. J. P. Swift;S. Phillips;J. A. Thorne

  • Modeling shore-normal large-scale coastal evolution

    Alan Wm. Niedoroda;Alan Wm. Niedoroda;Christopher W. Reed;Donald J.P. Swift;Hiroyuki Arato

  • Quaternary shelves and the return to grade

    Donald J.P. Swift

  • Seafloor response to flow in a southern hemisphere sand-ridge field: Argentine inner shelf

    Gerardo Parker;Nestor W. Lanfredi;Donald J.P. Swift

  • Hydrodynamics and sedimentation in wave-dominated coastal environmentsShoreface morphodynamics on wave-dominated coasts

    Alan William Niedoroda;Donald J.P. Swift;Thomas Sawyer Hopkins;Chen-Mean Ma

  • Anatomy of a shore face ridge system, False Cape, Virginia

    Donald J.P. Swift;Barry Holliday;Nicholas Avignone;Gerald Shideler

  • Contaminant dispersal on the Palos Verdes continental margin: I. Sediments and biota near a major California wastewater discharge

    Janet K. Stull;Donald J.P. Swift;Alan W. Niedoroda

  • Shelf Sand and Sandstone Bodies

    D. J. P. Swift;G. F. Oertel;R. W. Tillman;J. A. Thorne

  • Between beds and sequences: stratigraphic organization at intermediate scales in the Quaternary of the Virginia coast, USA

    Donald J. P. Swift;Brian S. Parsons;Anthony Foyle;George F. Oertel

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Mailloux
Brian J. Mailloux Barnard College
Hailiang Dong
Hailiang Dong China University of Geosciences
Tullis C. Onstott
Tullis C. Onstott Princeton University
Daniel Jean Stanley
Daniel Jean Stanley Smithsonian Institution
Susan S. Hubbard
Susan S. Hubbard Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kenneth H. Williams
Kenneth H. Williams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ernest L. Majer
Ernest L. Majer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
John A. Goff
John A. Goff The University of Texas at Austin
Michael J. McInerney
Michael J. McInerney University of Oklahoma
David C. White
David C. White University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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