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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 48 3912 3589 1527 1355 133 6168

J. Tyler Faith publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by J. Tyler Faith between 2006 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. J. Tyler Faith published across 20 years, from 2006 to 2025, averaging 8.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 20 publications in 2016. 20 of the 172 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2006 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 20. Peak 20 publications in 2016. 2006: 2 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 1 publication 2009: 2 publications 2010: 1 publication 2011: 6 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 8 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 20 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 13 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 11 publications 2021: 18 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 7 publications 2024: 13 publications 2025: 7 publications
2006 2025

172 publications in total across all disciplines

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J. Tyler Faith: publications per year, 2006 to 2025
Year Publications
2006 2
2007 4
2008 1
2009 2
2010 1
2011 6
2012 5
2013 8
2014 7
2015 11
2016 20
2017 11
2018 13
2019 15
2020 11
2021 18
2022 10
2023 7
2024 13
2025 7
Total 172
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J. Tyler Faith 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 J. Tyler Faith 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, 128–137 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: 133 publications — 30th percentile

30% 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
128–137 557 133
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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J. Tyler Faith 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 J. Tyler Faith 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, 48 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: 48 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% 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 48
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

J. Tyler Faith is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and has contributed extensively to fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences, Social Sciences, and Environmental Science. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including Anthropology, Paleontology, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's work focuses on a variety of topics, prominently covering Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. Additional areas of emphasis include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Primate Behavior and Ecology, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

J. Tyler Faith has published numerous papers in several frequent venues. These include Quaternary Science Reviews, Science, Quaternary Research, the Journal of Human Evolution, and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Notable recent papers are:

  • A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago, 2021, Science
  • Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution, 2020, Science Advances
  • The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Rethinking the ecological drivers of hominin evolution, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Global response of fire activity to late Quaternary grazer extinctions, 2021, Science

Throughout their career, J. Tyler Faith has collaborated frequently with several researchers. These frequent co-authors include John Rowan, David R. Braun, Andrew Du, Kaedan O'Brien, and Mitchell J. Power.

Best Publications

  • Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

    S. Kathleen Lyons;Kathryn L. Amatangelo;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Antoine Bercovici

  • Variability in the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa

    Christian A. Tryon;J. Tyler Faith

  • Alternating high and low climate variability: The context of natural selection and speciation in Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution.

    Richard Potts;J. Tyler Faith

  • Skeletal element abundances in archaeofaunal assemblages: economic utility, sample size, and assessment of carcass transport strategies

    J. Tyler Faith;Adam D. Gordon

  • Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa

    Richard Potts;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;J. Tyler Faith;Christian A. Tryon

  • Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea)

    Stephen Wroe;Judith H. Field;Michael Archer;Donald K. Grayson

  • Synchronous extinction of North America's Pleistocene mammals

    J. Tyler Faith;Todd A. Surovell

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa

    J. Tyler Faith

  • Carnivore competition, bone destruction, and bone density

    J. Tyler Faith;Curtis W. Marean;Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • Changing patterns of carnivore modification in a landscape bone assemblage, Amboseli Park, Kenya

    J. Tyler Faith;Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • An early colonisation pathway into northwest Australia 70-60,000 years ago

    Kasih Norman;Kasih Norman;Josha Inglis;Christopher Clarkson;J Tyler Faith

  • Taphonomic and paleoecological change in the large mammal sequence from Boomplaas Cave, western Cape, South Africa

    J. Tyler Faith

  • Sources of variation in carnivore tooth-mark frequencies in a modern spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) den assemblage, Amboseli Park, Kenya

    J. Tyler Faith

  • Early hominins evolved within non-analog ecosystems

    J. Tyler Faith;John Rowan;Andrew Du

  • The past, present, and future of herbivore impacts on savanna vegetation

    A. Carla Staver;Joel O. Abraham;Gareth P. Hempson;Allison T. Karp

  • Increased Ecological Resource Variability during a Critical Transition in Hominin Evolution

    Richard Potts;René Dommain;René Dommain;Jessica W. Moerman;Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago

    Alan Cooper;Chris S. M. Turney;Jonathan Palmer;Alan Hogg

  • Eland, buffalo, and wild pigs: were Middle Stone Age humans ineffective hunters?

    J. Tyler Faith

  • The spatio-temporal distribution of archaeological and faunal finds at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) in light of the revised chronology for Homo floresiensis

    Thomas Sutikna;Thomas Sutikna;Matthew W. Tocheri;Matthew W. Tocheri;Matthew W. Tocheri;J. Tyler Faith;Jatmiko;Jatmiko

  • A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary

    Jessica L. Blois;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;J. Tyler Faith

  • A demographic perspective on the Middle to Later Stone Age transition from Nasera rockshelter, Tanzania.

    Christian A. Tryon;J. Tyler Faith

  • New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya

    J. Tyler Faith;Richard Potts;Thomas W. Plummer;Laura C. Bishop

  • The Pleistocene archaeology and environments of the Wasiriya Beds, Rusinga Island, Kenya.

    Christian A. Tryon;J. Tyler Faith;Daniel J. Peppe;David L. Fox

  • Paleoenvironmental context of the Middle Stone Age record from Karungu, Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, and its implications for human and faunal dispersals in East Africa.

    J. Tyler Faith;Christian A. Tryon;Daniel J. Peppe;Emily J. Beverly

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian A. Tryon
Christian A. Tryon University of Connecticut
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Anna K. Behrensmeyer National Museum of Natural History
Gary R. Graves
Gary R. Graves National Museum of Natural History
Richard Potts
Richard Potts National Museum of Natural History
Conrad C. Labandeira
Conrad C. Labandeira Smithsonian Institution
Nicholas J. Gotelli
Nicholas J. Gotelli University of Vermont
S. Kathleen Lyons
S. Kathleen Lyons University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Steven G. Driese
Steven G. Driese Baylor University
Jussi T. Eronen
Jussi T. Eronen University of Helsinki
Warren D. Sharp
Warren D. Sharp Berkeley Geochronology Center

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