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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 56 2445 2224 1026 911 205 10255

Hans-Dieter Sues publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Hans-Dieter Sues between 1977 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Hans-Dieter Sues published across 49 years, from 1977 to 2025, averaging 5.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 13 publications in 2013. 22 of the 254 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1977 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 13. Peak 13 publications in 2013. 1977: 2 publications 1978: 1 publication 1979: 1 publication 1980: 1 publication 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 1 publication 1984: 0 publications 1985: 3 publications 1986: 2 publications 1987: 3 publications 1988: 2 publications 1989: 2 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 3 publications 1992: 7 publications 1993: 5 publications 1994: 3 publications 1995: 4 publications 1996: 6 publications 1997: 6 publications 1998: 4 publications 1999: 3 publications 2000: 10 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 5 publications 2003: 6 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 6 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 9 publications 2010: 9 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 13 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 10 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 8 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 10 publications 2021: 12 publications 2022: 13 publications 2023: 8 publications 2024: 10 publications 2025: 12 publications
1977 2025

254 publications in total across all disciplines

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Hans-Dieter Sues: publications per year, 1977 to 2025
Year Publications
1977 2
1978 1
1979 1
1980 1
1981 0
1982 0
1983 1
1984 0
1985 3
1986 2
1987 3
1988 2
1989 2
1990 1
1991 3
1992 7
1993 5
1994 3
1995 4
1996 6
1997 6
1998 4
1999 3
2000 10
2001 5
2002 5
2003 6
2004 2
2005 6
2006 3
2007 3
2008 4
2009 9
2010 9
2011 3
2012 6
2013 13
2014 4
2015 10
2016 8
2017 8
2018 6
2019 9
2020 10
2021 12
2022 13
2023 8
2024 10
2025 12
Total 254
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Hans-Dieter Sues 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 Hans-Dieter Sues sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 198–207 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 205 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333 205
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Hans-Dieter Sues 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 Hans-Dieter Sues sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 56 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163 56
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Hans-Dieter Sues is affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences with significant contributions to Environmental Science. Within these broader areas, their work extensively covers subfields including Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Geology.

The scientist's research topics primarily center on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Turtle Biology and Conservation, and Plant Diversity and Evolution.

Recent publications by Hans-Dieter Sues include:

  • Colobops: a juvenile rhynchocephalian reptile (Lepidosauromorpha), not a diminutive archosauromorph with an unusually strong bite (2020), Royal Society Open Science
  • Arctic ice and the ecological rise of the dinosaurs (2022), Science Advances
  • Braincase anatomy of extant Crocodylia, with new insights into the development and evolution of the neurocranium in crocodylomorphs (2021), Journal of Anatomy
  • Osteology, relationships and functional morphology of Weigeltisaurus jaekeli (Diapsida, Weigeltisauridae) based on a complete skeleton from the Upper Permian Kupferschiefer of Germany (2021), PeerJ
  • First rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur from Asia (2021), PLoS ONE

Hans-Dieter Sues frequently collaborates with a number of researchers. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Rainer R. Schoch (14 joint works)
  • Alexander O. Averianov (7 joint works)
  • Martín D. Ezcurra (6 joint works)
  • Stephan N. F. Spiekman (5 joint works)
  • Paul E. Olsen (5 joint works)

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues, notably:

  • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (10 publications)
  • Journal of Paleontology (7 publications)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America (4 publications)
  • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (3 publications)
  • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (3 publications)

Hans-Dieter Sues has been recognized by scientific communities, having received distinctions including Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada awarded in 2003 by the Academy of Science, and Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) awarded in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals

    Norton G. Miller;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;John D. Damuth;William A. DiMichele

  • Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an iridium anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary.

    P. E. Olsen;Dennis Kent;Dennis Kent;H. D. Sues;C. Koeberl

  • Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time

    David Bartley;A.K. Behrensmeyer;J.D. Damuth;W.A. DiMichele

  • The Origins of Angiosperms and their Biological Consequences

    William A. DiMichele;Robyn J. Burnham;Hans-Dieter Sues;Else Marie Friis

  • Early Cretaceous Dinosaurs from the Sahara

    Paul C. Sereno;Jeffrey A. Wilson;Hans C.E. Larsson;Didier B. Dutheil

  • Irritator challengeri, a spinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil

    Hans-Dieter Sues;Eberhard Frey;David M. Martill;Diane M. Scott

  • Cretaceous Extinctions: Multiple Causes

    J. David Archibald;W. A. Clemens;Kevin Padian;Timothy B Rowe

  • Origins and early evolution of herbivory in tetrapods.

    Hans-Dieter Sues;Hans-Dieter Sues;Robert R. Reisz

  • A Middle Triassic stem-turtle and the evolution of the turtle body plan

    Rainer R. Schoch;Hans-Dieter Sues

  • In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods

    Nicholas C. Fraser;Hans-Dieter Sues

  • Cranial osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Hamadasuchus rebouli (Crocodyliformes: Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Cretaceous of Morocco

    Hans C. E. Larsson;Hans-Dieter Sues

  • Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates: Herbivory in late Paleozoic and Triassic terrestrial vertebrates

    Robert R. Reisz;Hans-Dieter Sues

  • Embryos of an Early Jurassic Prosauropod Dinosaur and Their Evolutionary Significance

    Robert R. Reisz;Diane Scott;Hans-Dieter Sues;David C. Evans

  • Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems

    Scott L. Wing;Hans-Dieter Sues

  • On Chirostenotes, a Late Cretaceous oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from western North America

    Hans-Dieter Sues

  • A new specimen of Hesperosuchus agilis from the Upper Triassic of New Mexico and the interrelationships of basal crocodylomorph archosaurs

    James M. Clark;Hans-Dieter Sues;David S. Berman

  • Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates

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  • A new small theropod dinosaur from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Alberta Canada.

    Hans-Dieter Sues

  • Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition

    Hans-Dieter Sues;Nicholas C Fraser

  • Sichuanosuchus shuhanensis, a new ?early Cretaceous protosuchian (Archosauria: Crocodyliformes) from Sichuan (China), and the monophyly of Protosuchia

    Xiao-Chun Wu;Hans-Dieter Sues;Zhi-Ming Dong

  • A new large-bodied oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of western North America.

    Matthew C. Lamanna;Hans-Dieter Sues;Emma R. Schachner;Tyler R. Lyson

  • A plant-eating crocodyliform reptile from the Cretaceous of China

    Xiao-chun Wu;Xiao-chun Wu;Hans-Dieter Sues;Hans-Dieter Sues;Ailing Sun

  • Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Chimaerasuchus paradoxus, an unusual crocodyliform reptile from the Lower Cretaceous of Hubei, China

    Xiao-Chun Wu;Hans-Dieter Sues

  • Major transitions in vertebrate evolution

    Jason S. Anderson;Hans-Dieter Sues

  • IRRITATOR CHALLENGERI, A SPINOSAURID (DINOSAURIA: THEROPODA) FROM THE

    Hans-Dieter Sues;Eberhard Frey;David M. Martill;Diane M. Scott

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander O. Averianov
Alexander O. Averianov Russian Academy of Sciences
Paul E. Olsen
Paul E. Olsen Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Rainer R. Schoch
Rainer R. Schoch Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Robert R. Reisz
Robert R. Reisz University of Toronto
David C. Evans
David C. Evans Royal Ontario Museum
William A. DiMichele
William A. DiMichele Smithsonian Institution
Dennis V. Kent
Dennis V. Kent Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Scott L. Wing
Scott L. Wing National Museum of Natural History
Paul M. Barrett
Paul M. Barrett Natural History Museum
Richard Potts
Richard Potts National Museum of Natural History

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