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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 43 5059 4674 547 513 119 5985

Hugh Sinclair publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Hugh Sinclair between 1960 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Hugh Sinclair published across 66 years, from 1960 to 2025, averaging 2.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 13 publications in 2023. 21 of the 171 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1960 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 13. Peak 13 publications in 2023. 1960: 2 publications 1961: 0 publications 1962: 1 publication 1963: 1 publication 1964: 0 publications 1965: 1 publication 1966: 1 publication 1967: 0 publications 1968: 0 publications 1969: 0 publications 1970: 0 publications 1971: 1 publication 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 1 publication 1980: 1 publication 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 0 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 2 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 1 publication 1995: 0 publications 1996: 1 publication 1997: 3 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 2 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 7 publications 2010: 1 publication 2011: 4 publications 2012: 6 publications 2013: 1 publication 2014: 3 publications 2015: 3 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 11 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 9 publications 2021: 6 publications 2022: 12 publications 2023: 13 publications 2024: 12 publications 2025: 9 publications
1960 2025

171 publications in total across all disciplines

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Hugh Sinclair: publications per year, 1960 to 2025
Year Publications
1960 2
1961 0
1962 1
1963 1
1964 0
1965 1
1966 1
1967 0
1968 0
1969 0
1970 0
1971 1
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 1
1980 1
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 0
1987 0
1988 0
1989 0
1990 1
1991 2
1992 2
1993 1
1994 1
1995 0
1996 1
1997 3
1998 2
1999 0
2000 2
2001 2
2002 2
2003 2
2004 3
2005 2
2006 4
2007 2
2008 4
2009 7
2010 1
2011 4
2012 6
2013 1
2014 3
2015 3
2016 9
2017 11
2018 11
2019 9
2020 9
2021 6
2022 12
2023 13
2024 12
2025 9
Total 171
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Hugh Sinclair 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 Hugh Sinclair 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, 118–127 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: 119 publications — 21st percentile

21% 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
118–127 540 119
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
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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Hugh Sinclair 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 Hugh Sinclair 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, 43 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: 43 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% 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 43
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
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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Overview

Hugh Sinclair is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research largely focuses within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, covering a significant volume of publications in these areas.

Their main subfields of study include Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Atmospheric Science. The core topics of their work encompass Geological formations and processes, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Soil erosion and sediment transport, and Landslides and related hazards.

Hugh Sinclair has published frequently in several prominent scientific venues. These include:

  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (4 papers)
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (3 papers)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (3 papers)
  • Earth Surface Dynamics (3 papers)
  • Geomorphology (2 papers)

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Editorial. Risk-based, Pro-poor Urban Design and Planning for Tomorrow's Cities," 2021, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • "Sediment dynamics across gravel-sand transitions: Implications for river stability and floodplain recycling," 2020, Geology
  • "Physics-based simulations of multiple natural hazards for risk-sensitive planning and decision making in expanding urban regions," 2022, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • "Dynamic flood topographies in the Terai region of Nepal," 2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • "Formation of Longitudinal River Valleys and the Fixing of Drainage Divides in Response to Exhumation of Crystalline Basement," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Hugh Sinclair has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including Maggie Creed, Simon M. Mudd, Mikaël Attal, C. Scott Watson, and Manoranjan Muthusamy. These collaborations span multiple papers and topics within their fields of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Tectonostratigraphic model for underfilled peripheral foreland basins: An Alpine perspective

    Hugh Sinclair

  • Simulation of Foreland Basin Stratigraphy using a diffusion model of mountain belt uplift and erosion: An example from the central Alps, Switzerland

    Hugh Sinclair;B. J. Coakley;P. A. Allen;A. B. Watts

  • Vertical versus horizontal motions in the Alpine orogenic wedge: stratigraphic response in the foreland basin

    Hugh Sinclair;P. A. Allen

  • Climate-induced rebound and exhumation of the European Alps

    Charlotte E. Cederbom;Hugh D. Sinclair;Fritz Schlunegger;Meinert K. Rahn

  • The inception and early evolution of the North Alpine Foreland Basin, Switzerland

    Philip A. Allen;Sarah L. Crampton;Hugh D. Sinclair

  • Depositional Evolution of Confined Turbidite Basins

    H.D. Sinclair;M. Tomasso

  • FLYSCH TO MOLASSE TRANSITION IN PERIPHERAL FORELAND BASINS : THE ROLE OF THE PASSIVE MARGIN VERSUS SLAB BREAKOFF

    Hugh Sinclair

  • Asymmetric growth of the Pyrenees revealed through measurement and modeling of orogenic fluxes

    H. D. Sinclair;M. Gibson;M. Naylor;R. G. Morris

  • Increase in late Neogene denudation of the European Alps confirmed by analysis of a fission-track thermochronology database

    A. J. Vernon;A. J. Vernon;P. A. van der Beek;Hugh Sinclair;M. K. Rahn

  • Late Cretaceous‐Palaeogene stratigraphic and basin evolution in the Zhepure Mountain of southern Tibet: implications for the timing of India‐Asia initial collision

    Xiumian Hu;Hugh D. Sinclair;Jiangang Wang;Hehe Jiang

  • The Qs problem: Sediment volumetric balance of proximal foreland basin systems

    Philip A. Allen;John J. Armitage;Andrew Carter;Robert A. Duller

  • Pro- vs. retro-foreland basins

    M. Naylor;H. D. Sinclair

  • Tectonic evolution of the Himalaya constrained by detrital 40Ar–39Ar, Sm–Nd and petrographic data from the Siwalik foreland basin succession, SW Nepal

    A. G. Szulc;Y. Najman;H. D. Sinclair;M. Pringle

  • Sedimentology of the Indus Group, Ladakh, northern India: implications for the timing of initiation of the palaeo-Indus River

    Hugh Sinclair;N. Jaffey

  • Rapid extensive erosion of the North Alpine foreland basin at 5–4 Ma

    Charlotte E. Cederbom;Peter van der Beek;Fritz Schlunegger;Hugh D. Sinclair

  • Sediment routing system evolution within a diachronously uplifting orogen: Insights from detrital zircon thermochronological analyses from the South-Central Pyrenees

    A. L. Whitchurch;A. Carter;H. D. Sinclair;R. A. Duller

  • Delta-Fed Turbidites Infilling Topographically Complex Basins: A New Depositional Model for the Annot Sandstones, SE France

    Hugh Sinclair

  • Tectonic forcing of longitudinal valleys in the Himalaya: morphological analysis of the Ladakh Batholith, North India

    S.S.R Jamieson;H.D Sinclair;L.A Kirstein;R.S Purves

  • Late‐ to post‐orogenic exhumation of the Central Pyrenees revealed through combined thermochronological data and modelling

    M. Gibson;H. D. Sinclair;G. J. Lynn;G. J. Lynn;F. M. Stuart

  • The influence of lateral basinal slopes on turbidite sedimentation in the Annot sandstones of SE France

    Hugh Sinclair

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon M. Mudd
Simon M. Mudd University of Edinburgh
Finlay M. Stuart
Finlay M. Stuart University of Glasgow
Patience A. Cowie
Patience A. Cowie University of Bergen
Philip A. Allen
Philip A. Allen Imperial College London
Mary Ford
Mary Ford University of Lorraine
Peter van der Beek
Peter van der Beek University of Potsdam
Alistair G.L. Borthwick
Alistair G.L. Borthwick University of Edinburgh
Xiumian Hu
Xiumian Hu Nanjing University
Jeremy G. Venditti
Jeremy G. Venditti Simon Fraser University
Alexander C. Whittaker
Alexander C. Whittaker Imperial College London

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