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Leonid E. Popov 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 Leonid E. Popov sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 204 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Leonid E. Popov 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 Leonid E. Popov sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Leonid E. Popov is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on paleontology, geophysics, atmospheric science, oceanography, and geology. Their scholarly work covers topics related to the paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological and geochemical analysis, geological studies and exploration, marine biology and ecology research, as well as geological formations and processes.

Popov's notable recent publications include:

  • "The oldest Cambrian trilobite - brachiopod association in South China" (2020, Gondwana Research)
  • "Stratigraphic and volcanic signatures of Miaolingian-Late Ordovician rift pulses in the Alborz Mountains, northern Iran" (2022, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences)
  • "The identity and significance of the high-latitude Early Ordovician Mediterranean brachiopod Province" (2021, Geological Magazine)
  • "Climatic changes and astrochronology: an Ordovician perspective" (2020, Spectrum Research Repository, Concordia University)
  • "Ordovician of Kazakhstan" (2023, Geological Society London Special Publications)

Popov has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour, Lars E. Holmer, Zhifei Zhang, L. Robin M. Cocks, and Yue Liang. These collaborations reflect an interdisciplinary approach to the research topics.

Their work has appeared in a range of publication venues, with multiple papers published in the Geological Society London Special Publications, Geological Magazine, Journal of Paleontology, Papers in Palaeontology, and Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences Geology.

In addition to journal articles, Popov has contributed to book publications, notably with Wiley, including the book "A mid-Ordovician brachiopod evolutionary hotspot in southern Kazakhstan" published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • A Supra-Ordinal Classification of the Brachiopoda

    Alwyn Williams;Sandra J. Carlson;C. Howard C. Brunton;Lars E. Holmer

  • TREATISE ON INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

    Fernando Alvarez;A. D. Ansell;P. G. Baker;M. G. Bassett

  • Cambrian-Ordovician Lingulate Brachiopods from Scandinavia, Kazakhstan and South Ural Mountains

    Leonid Popov;Lars E. Holmer

  • Were transgressive black shales a negative feedback modulating glacioeustasy in the Early Palaeozoic Icehouse

    A. A. Page;J. A. Zalasiewicz;M. Williams;L. E. Popov

  • Stratigraphy of the Sauk III (Cambrian-Ordovician) in the Ibex Area, Western Millard County, Utah and Central Texas

    James F. Miller;Kevin R. Evans;James D. Loch;Raymond L. Ethington

  • The earliest ostracods: the geological evidence

    Mark Williams;David J. Siveter;María José Salas;Jean Vannier

  • Stratigraphic evidence for the Hirnantian (latest Ordovician) glaciation in the Zagros Mountains, Iran

    Mohammad Ghavidel-syooki;J. Javier Álvaro;Leonid Popov;Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour

  • Phylogenetic analysis of higher taxa of Brachiopoda

    Leonid E. Popov;Michael G. Basset;Lars E. Holmer;John Laurie

  • Organophosphatic brachiopods : Patterns of biodiversification and extinction in the early Palaeozoic

    Michael G. Bassett;Leonid E. Popov;Lars E. Holmer

  • A paired apatite and calcite clumped isotope thermometry approach to estimating Cambro-Ordovician seawater temperatures and isotopic composition

    Kristin D. Bergmann;Seth Finnegan;Roger Creel;John M. Eiler

  • Global Cambrian trilobite palaeobiogeography assessed using parsimony analysis of endemicity

    J. Javier Álvaro;Per Ahlberg;Per Ahlberg;Loren E. Babcock;Osvaldo L. Bordonaro

  • Evidence for 15 m.y. of continuous deep-sea biogenic siliceous sedimentation in early Paleozoic oceans

    Tatiana J. Tolmacheva;Taniel Danelian;Leonid E. Popov

  • Biogeography and affinities of the bradoriid arthropods: Cosmopolitan microbenthos of the Cambrian seas

    Mark Williams;David J. Siveter;Leonid E. Popov;Jean M.C. Vannier

  • Early Cambrian lingulate brachiopods from glacial erratics of King George Island, (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica

    L. E. Holmer;L. E. Popov;Ryszard Wrona

  • Himalayan Cambrian brachiopods

    Leonid E. Popov;Lars E. Holmer;Nigel C. Hughes;Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour;Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour

  • Brachiopods: Cambrian-Tremadoc precursors to Ordovician radiation events

    Michael G. Bassett;Leonid E. Popov;Lars E. Holmer

  • Gondwanan faunal signatures from Early Palaeozoic terranes of Kazakhstan and Central Asia: evidence and tectonic implications

    Leonid E. Popov;Michael G. Bassett;Vyacheslav G. Zhemchuzhnikov;Lars E. Holmer

  • The diversity and phylogeny of the paterinate brachiopods

    Alwyn Williams;Leonid E Popov;Lars Erik Holmer;Maggie Cusack

  • THE CAMBRIAN-ORDOVICIAN BOUNDARY IN THE BALTIC-LADOGA CLINT AREA (NORTH ESTONIA AND LENINGRAD REGION, USSR)

    N Borovko;H Heinsalu;D Kaljo;K Khazanovich

  • Relic aragonite from Ordovician-Silurian brachiopods : Implications for the evolution of calcification

    U. Balthasar;M. Cusack;L. Faryma;P. Chung

  • Relative sea-level changes in Baltoscandia in the Cumbrian and early Ordovician: the predominance of tectonic factors and the absence of large scale eustatic fluctuations

    E.A. Artyushkov;M. Lindström;L.E. Popov

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars E. Holmer
Lars E. Holmer Uppsala University
Rong Jia-Yu
Rong Jia-Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
J. Javier Álvaro
J. Javier Álvaro Spanish National Research Council
Glenn A. Brock
Glenn A. Brock Macquarie University
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
David A. T. Harper
David A. T. Harper Durham University
Maggie Cusack
Maggie Cusack University of Stirling
Christian B. Skovsted
Christian B. Skovsted Swedish Museum of Natural History
L. Robin M. Cocks
L. Robin M. Cocks Natural History Museum
Nigel C. Hughes
Nigel C. Hughes University of California, Riverside

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