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D-Index
52
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10790
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4459
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1661

George Poinar publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where George Poinar sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 445 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

George Poinar D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • Amplification and sequencing of DNA from a 120–135-million-year-old weevil

    Raúl J. Cano;Heridrik N. Poinar;Norman J. Pieniazek;Aftim Acra

  • The oldest fossil evidence of animal parasitism by fungi supports a Cretaceous diversification of fungal-arthropod symbioses.

    Gi-Ho Sung;George O. Poinar;Joseph W. Spatafora

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  • AMBER FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ANALYSIS BY NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY

    J. B. Lambert;J. S. Frye;G. O. Poinar

  • A Fossil Bee from Early Cretaceous Burmese Amber

    G. O. Poinar;B. N. Danforth

  • Parasite-induced fruit mimicry in a tropical canopy ant.

    Stephen P. Yanoviak;Michael E. Kaspari;Robert K. Dudley;G. Poinar

  • Tapeworm Eggs in a 270 Million-Year-Old Shark Coprolite

    Paula C. Dentzien-Dias;George Poinar;Ana Emilia Q. de Figueiredo;Ana Carolina L. Pacheco

  • Evidence of intestinal parasites of dinosaurs.

    G. Poinar;A. J. Boucot

  • Location of Insect Hosts By the Nematode, Neoaplectana Carpocapsae, in Response To Temperature

    J.A. Byers;G.O. Poinar

  • Parasites and pathogens of mites.

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  • Arthropod Phoresy Involving Pseudoscorpions in the Past and Present

    George O. Poinar;Bozidar P. M. Curcic;James C. Cokendolpher

  • Paleoleishmania proterus n. gen., n. sp., (Trypanosomatidae: Kinetoplastida) from Cretaceous Burmese amber.

    George Poinar;Roberta Poinar

  • Plasmodium dominicana n. sp. (Plasmodiidae: Haemospororida) from Tertiary Dominican amber

    George Poinar

  • Amber: the organic gemstone.

    Joseph B. Lambert;George O. Poinar

  • Palaeonema phyticum gen. n., sp. n. (Nematoda: Palaeonematidae fam. n.), a Devonian nematode associated with early land plants

    Hagen Hass;Hans Kerp;George Poinar

  • Characteristics of the Specific Bacterium Associated With Heterorhabditis Bacteriophora (Heterorhabditidae: Rhabditida)

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  • Amino acid racemization in amber-entombed insects: Implications for DNA preservation

    Jeffrey L. Bada;Xueyun S. Wang;Hendrik N. Poinar;Svante Pääbo

  • A 100 million year old gecko with sophisticated adhesive toe pads, preserved in amber from Myanmar

    E. Nicholas Arnold;George O. Poinar

  • Nematoda and Nematomorpha

    George O. Poinar

  • Evidence of mycoparasitism and hypermycoparasitism in Early Cretaceous amber.

    George O. Poinar;Ron Buckley

  • Strelkovimermis spiculatus n. sp. (Mermithidae: Nematoda) Parasitizing Aedes albifasciatus Mac. (Culicidae: Diptera) in Argentina.

    George O. Poinar;Nora B. Camino

  • Description of an Early Cretaceous Termite (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) and Its Associated Intestinal Protozoa, With Comments on Their Co-Evolution

    George O Poinar

  • New amber deposit provides evidence of early Paleogene extinctions, paleoclimates, and past distributions

    George Poinar;Bruce Archibald;Alex Brown

  • Paleoculicis minututs (Diptera: Culicidae) n. Gen., n. Sp., from Cretaceous Canadian amber, with a summary of described fossil mosquitoes

    George O. Poinar;T. J. Zavortinik;T. Pike;P. A. Johnston

  • Fossilised Anzia (Lecanorales, lichen-forming Ascomycota) from European Tertiary amber

    Jouko Rikkinen;George O. Poinar

  • History of entomopathogenic nematology.

    George O. Poinar;P. S. Grewal

  • Nematode (Nematoda: Mermithidae) and hairworm (Nematomorpha: Chordodidae) parasites in Early Cretaceous amber.

    George Poinar;Ron Buckley

  • Post-larval mortality of the endoparasitic isopod castrator Portunion conformis (Epicaridea: Entoniscidae) in the shore crab, Hemigrapsus oregonensis , with a description of the host response

    Armand M. Kuris;George O. Poinar;Roberta T. Hess

  • Can parasites halt the invader? Mermithid nematodes parasitizing the yellow-legged Asian hornet in France

    Claire Villemant;Dario Zuccon;Quentin Rome;Franck Muller

  • Early Cretaceous trypanosomatids associated with fossil sand fly larvae in Burmese amber

    George Poinar Jr

  • How long can insect species exist? Evidence from extant and fossil Micromalthus beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera)

    Thomas Hörnschemeyer;Sonja Wedmann;George Poinar

  • Global diversity of hairworms (Nematomorpha: Gordiaceae) in freshwater

    George Poinar

  • Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) dominicanus sp. n. (Diptera: Culicidae) from Dominican Amber

    Thomas J. Zavortink;George O. Poinar;George O. Poinar

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph B. Lambert
Joseph B. Lambert Trinity University
Stephen P. Yanoviak
Stephen P. Yanoviak University of Louisville
Bryan N. Danforth
Bryan N. Danforth Cornell University
Pier Giorgio Righetti
Pier Giorgio Righetti Polytechnic University of Milan
Robert S. Lane
Robert S. Lane University of California, Berkeley
Joseph W. Spatafora
Joseph W. Spatafora Oregon State University
Sanford D. Porter
Sanford D. Porter Agricultural Research Service
Andreas Faissner
Andreas Faissner Ruhr University Bochum
Gholamreza Darai
Gholamreza Darai Heidelberg University
Robert Dudley
Robert Dudley University of California, Berkeley

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