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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 39 6265 5807 2226 1979 199 4823

James A. Austin publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by James A. Austin between 1978 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. James A. Austin published across 48 years, from 1978 to 2025, averaging 4.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 19 publications in 2005. 1 of the 204 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1978 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 19. Peak 19 publications in 2005. 1978: 1 publication 1979: 2 publications 1980: 1 publication 1981: 0 publications 1982: 1 publication 1983: 3 publications 1984: 5 publications 1985: 3 publications 1986: 1 publication 1987: 2 publications 1988: 4 publications 1989: 5 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 1 publication 1992: 2 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 3 publications 1995: 3 publications 1996: 5 publications 1997: 10 publications 1998: 7 publications 1999: 6 publications 2000: 7 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 13 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 19 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 8 publications 2009: 6 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 1 publication 2013: 9 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 3 publications 2018: 3 publications 2019: 4 publications 2020: 2 publications 2021: 3 publications 2022: 0 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 0 publications 2025: 1 publication
1978 2025

204 publications in total across all disciplines

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James A. Austin: publications per year, 1978 to 2025
Year Publications
1978 1
1979 2
1980 1
1981 0
1982 1
1983 3
1984 5
1985 3
1986 1
1987 2
1988 4
1989 5
1990 1
1991 1
1992 2
1993 1
1994 3
1995 3
1996 5
1997 10
1998 7
1999 6
2000 7
2001 4
2002 3
2003 13
2004 6
2005 19
2006 2
2007 8
2008 8
2009 6
2010 8
2011 7
2012 1
2013 9
2014 7
2015 4
2016 6
2017 3
2018 3
2019 4
2020 2
2021 3
2022 0
2023 3
2024 0
2025 1
Total 204
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James A. Austin 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 James A. Austin 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: 199 publications — 63rd percentile

63% 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
198–207 333 199
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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James A. Austin 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 James A. Austin 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, 39 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: 39 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% 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 39
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
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

James A. Austin is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a particular focus on Ocean Engineering, where most of their publications are concentrated. Other subfields of study include Geophysics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Austin's work covers a range of topics within these fields, including Offshore Engineering and Technologies, Drilling and Well Engineering, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

Frequent venues for publishing research by Austin include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
  • Tectonophysics

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several researchers, evidenced by frequent coauthorship with:

  • Craig S. Fulthorpe
  • Gregory S. Mountain
  • Nicholas Christie-Blick
  • Mitchell Malone
  • Serge Berné

Selected recent papers by James A. Austin demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of their work and include:

  • A Modular Adjustable Transhumeral Prosthetic Socket for Evaluating Myoelectric Control, 2020, IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
  • Structure and evolution of the Atlantic passive margins: A review of existing rifting models from wide-angle seismic data and kinematic reconstruction, 2021, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Opening of the Gulf of Mexico: What we know, what questions remain, and how we might answer them, 2021, Tectonophysics
  • Cruise Report: EX-14-02 Leg 3, Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico 2014 (ROV and Mapping), 2021, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - NOAA Central Library
  • ODP Leg 174A, Hole 1072D - Well Logging Data, 2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Continental margin sedimentation : from sediment transport to sequence stratigraphy

    Charles A. Nittrouer;James A. Austin;Michael E. Field;Joseph H. Kravitz

  • Continental-Oceanic Crustal Transition Off Southwest Africa

    James A. Austin;Elazar Uchupi

  • Deep structure of the U.S. Atlantic continental margin, offshore South Carolina, from coincident ocean bottom and multichannel seismic data

    W. Steven Holbrook;E. C. Reiter;G. M. Purdy;D. Sawyer

  • Effects of Canary hotspot volcanism on structure of oceanic crust off Morocco

    James S. Holik;Philip D. Rabinowitz;James A. Austin

  • Deep penetrating MCS imaging of the rift-to-drift transition, offshore Douala and North Gabon basins, West Africa

    Jayson B. Meyers;Bruce R. Rosendahl;Henrike Groschel-Becker;James A. Austin

  • Seismic Facies of Incised-Valley Fills, New Jersey Continental Shelf: Implications for Erosion and Preservation Processes Acting During Latest Pleistocene–Holocene Transgression

    Sylvia Nordfjord;John A Goff;James A Austin;Sean S Gulick

  • Crustal structure of the Southeast Georgia embayment-Carolina trough: Preliminary results of a composite seismic image of a continental suture(?) and a volcanic passive margin

    James A. Austin;Paul L. Stoffa;Joseph D. Phillips;Jinyong Oh

  • Rift propagation, detachment faulting, and associated magmatism in Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula

    Daniel H. N. Barker;Daniel H. N. Barker;James A. Austin

  • Tracking the last sea-level cycle: Seafloor morphology and shallow stratigraphy of the latest Quaternary New Jersey middle continental shelf

    Catherine Schuur Duncan;John A. Goff;James A. Austin;Craig S. Fulthorpe

  • Seismic geomorphology of buried channel systems on the New Jersey outer shelf: assessing past environmental conditions

    Sylvia Nordfjord;John A. Goff;James A. Austin;Christopher K. Sommerfield

  • Contrasting styles of superposed deformation in the southernmost Andes

    Keith A. Klepeis;James A. Austin

  • Contrasting Décollement and Prism Properties over the Sumatra 2004–2005 Earthquake Rupture Boundary

    Simon M. Dean;Lisa C. McNeill;Timothy J. Henstock;Jonathan M. Bull

  • Holocene mass-wasting events in Lago Fagnano, Tierra del Fuego (54°S): implications for paleoseismicity of the Magallanes-Fagnano transform fault

    Nicolas Waldmann;Nicolas Waldmann;Flavio S. Anselmetti;Daniel Ariztegui;James A. Austin

  • Updip rupture of the 2004 Sumatra earthquake extended by thick indurated sediments

    Sean P. S. Gulick;James A. Austin;Lisa C. McNeill;Nathan L. B. Bangs

  • Crustal diapirism in Bransfield Strait, West Antarctica: Evidence for distributed extension in marginal-basin formation

    D. H.N. Barker;James A Austin

  • Progradation along a deeply submerged Oligocene–Miocene heterozoan carbonate shelf: How sensitive are clinoforms to sea level variations?

    Donna L. Cathro;James A. Austin;Graham D. Moss

  • Late Quaternary sedimentation off New Jersey: New results using 3-D seismic profiles and cores

    Thomas A Davies;James A Austin;Martin B Lagoe;John D Milliman

  • Recent and modern marine erosion on the New Jersey outer shelf

    John A Goff;James A Austin;Sean S Gulick;Sylvia Nordfjord

  • Holocene climatic fluctuations and positioning of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies in Tierra del Fuego (54° S), Patagonia

    Nicolas Waldmann;Daniel Ariztegui;Flavio S. Anselmetti;James A. Austin

  • Deep crustal structure of Bransfield Strait: Initiation of a back arc basin by rift reactivation and propagation

    Gail L. Christeson;Daniel H. N. Barker;James A. Austin;Ian W. D. Dalziel

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. Goff
John A. Goff The University of Texas at Austin
Sean P.S. Gulick
Sean P.S. Gulick The University of Texas at Austin
Nicholas Christie-Blick
Nicholas Christie-Blick Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Paul L. Stoffa
Paul L. Stoffa The University of Texas at Austin
Flavio S. Anselmetti
Flavio S. Anselmetti University of Bern
Daniel Ariztegui
Daniel Ariztegui University of Geneva
Wolfgang Schlager
Wolfgang Schlager Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Robert B. Dunbar
Robert B. Dunbar Stanford University
Gregory S. Mountain
Gregory S. Mountain Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Zvi Ben-Avraham
Zvi Ben-Avraham Tel Aviv University

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