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Luis A. Buatois 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 Luis A. Buatois sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 368 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Luis A. Buatois 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 Luis A. Buatois sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Luis A. Buatois is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on paleontology and related subfields. Their research encompasses a wide range of topics centered on geological formations, paleontological and stratigraphic studies, as well as geology and paleoclimatology.

They have contributed extensively to subfields such as Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Geophysics. Their work is reflected in their engagement with key topics including:

  • Geological formations and processes
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Luis A. Buatois has published research in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Ichnos/Ichnos: an international journal for plant and animal traces
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Lethaia
  • Palaios

Their collaborative work involves partnerships with multiple co-authors, such as:

  • M. Gabriela Mángano
  • Maximiliano Paz
  • Nicholas J. Minter
  • Noelia B. Carmona
  • Romain Gougeon

Among several publications, notable papers by Luis A. Buatois include:

  • Quantifying ecospace utilization and ecosystem engineering during the early Phanerozoic-The role of bioturbation and bioerosion (2020), published in Science Advances
  • Mixed siliciclastic-carbonate sedimentation in an evolving epicontinental sea: Aptian record of marginal marine settings in the interior basins of north-eastern Brazil (2021), published in Sedimentology
  • The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: Exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • The rise and early evolution of animals: where do we stand from a trace-fossil perspective? (2020), published in Interface Focus
  • Names for trace fossils 2.0: theory and practice in ichnotaxonomy (2022), published in Lethaia

Best Publications

  • Ichnology: Organism-Substrate Interactions in Space and Time

    Luis A. Buatois;M. Gabriela Mángano

  • The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

    M. Gabriela Mángano;Luis A. Buatois;Mark Wilson;Mary Droser

  • Colonization of Brackish-Water Systems through Time: Evidence from the Trace-Fossil Record

    Luis A. Buatois;Murray K. Gingras;James Maceachern;M. Gabriela Mángano

  • Trace fossils in the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: Behavioral diversification, ecological turnover and environmental shift

    Adolf Seilacher;Luis A. Buatois;M. Gabriela Mángano

  • The paleoenvironmental and paleoecological significance of the lacustrine Mermia ichnofacies: An archetypical subaqueous nonmarine trace fossil assemblage

    Luis Alberto Buatois;María Gabriela Mángano

  • Insect Trace Fossil Associations in Paleosols: The Coprinisphaera Ichnofacies

    Jorge Fernando Genise;Maria Gabriela Mangano;Luis Alberto Buatois;José H. Laza

  • Decoupling of body-plan diversification and ecological structuring during the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition: evolutionary and geobiological feedbacks

    M. Gabriela Mángano;Luis A. Buatois

  • Ichnology of an Upper Carboniferous fluvio-estuarine paleovalley: The Tonganoxie sandstone, Buildex quarry, Eastern Kansas, USA

    Luis A. Buatois;M. Gabriela Mangano;Christopher G. Maples;William P. Lanier

  • Categories of architectural designs in trace fossils: A measure of ichnodisparity

    Luis A. Buatois;Max Wisshak;Mark A. Wilson;M. Gabriela Mángano

  • Animal–substrate interactions in freshwater environments: applications of ichnology in facies and sequence stratigraphic analysis of fluvio-lacustrine successions

    Luis A. Buatois;M. Gabriela Mángano

  • The ichnologic record of the continental invertebrate invasion; evolutionary trends in environmental expansion, ecospace utilization, and behavioral complexity

    Luis A. Buatois;M. Gabriela Mangano;Jorge F. Genise;Thomas N. Taylor

  • Trace fossils from a carboniferous turbiditic lake: Implications for the recognition of additional nonmarine ichnofacies

    Luis A. Buatois;M. Gabriela Mángano

  • Trace fossil analysis of lacustrine facies and basins

    Luis A Buatois;M.Gabriela Mángano

  • Trace fossils from Carboniferous floodplain deposits in western Argentina: implications for ichnofacies models of continental environments

    Luis A Buatois;M.Gabriela Mángano

  • The Cambrian revolutions: Trace-fossil record, timing, links and geobiological impact

    M. Gabriela Mángano;Luis A. Buatois

  • Invertebrate Ichnology of Continental Freshwater Environments

    Luis Alberto Buatois;María Gabriela Mángano

  • The paradox of nonmarine ichnofaunas in tidal rhythmites; integrating sedimentologic and ichnologic data from the Late Cretaceous of eastern Kansas, USA

    Luis A. Buatois;M. Gabriela Mangano;Christopher G. Maples

  • Ichnology of Carboniferous tide-influenced environments and tidal flat variability in the North American Midcontinent

    M. Gabriela Mángano;Luis A. Buatois

  • Ediacaran matground ecology persisted into the earliest Cambrian

    Luis A. Buatois;Guy M. Narbonne;M. Gabriela Mángano;Noelia B. Carmona;Noelia B. Carmona

  • Permian nonmarine invertebrate trace fossils from southern Patagonia, Argentina; ichnologic signatures of substrate consolidation and colonization sequences

    Luis Alberto Buatois;Guillermo A. Jalfin;Florencio G. Acenolaza

  • Sedimentary facies, depositional evolution of the Upper Cambrian-Lower Ordovician Santa Rosita formation in northwest Argentina

    Luis A Buatois;M Gabriela Mángano

  • Ichnology: Paleobiology of trace fossils

    Luis A. Buatois;M. Gabriela Mángano

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Gabriela Mángano
M. Gabriela Mángano University of Saskatchewan
Robin W. Renaut
Robin W. Renaut University of Saskatchewan
Guy M. Narbonne
Guy M. Narbonne Queen's University
Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar
Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar University of Granada
Jorge F. Genise
Jorge F. Genise National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Richard G. Bromley
Richard G. Bromley University of Copenhagen
Carlos O. Limarino
Carlos O. Limarino University of Buenos Aires
Conrad C. Labandeira
Conrad C. Labandeira Smithsonian Institution
Brian R. Pratt
Brian R. Pratt University of Saskatchewan
Carlos Jaramillo
Carlos Jaramillo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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