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46
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6010
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Michael Archer publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Archer sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 260 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Michael Archer D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Archer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michael Archer is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, with a primary focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broad fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields including Paleontology, Ecology, Anthropology, Geometry and Topology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics of their research include Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Morphological variations and asymmetry, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, and Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

Archer's publication record includes several recent papers:

  • Patterns of Oral Microbiota Diversity in Adults and Children: A Crowdsourced Population Study (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • Global elongation and high shape flexibility as an evolutionary hypothesis of accommodating mammalian brains into skulls (2021) published in Evolution
  • Decoupling Functional and Morphological Convergence, the Study Case of Fossorial Mammalia (2020) published in Frontiers in Earth Science
  • A new family of diprotodontian marsupials from the latest Oligocene of Australia and the evolution of wombats, koalas, and their relatives (Vombatiformes) (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • Taxonomy of the Dingo: It's an ancient dog (2020) published in Australian Zoologist

Their frequent co-authors include Suzanne J. Hand, Trevor H. Worthy, R. Paul Scofield, Vanesa L. De Pietri, and Robin M. D. Beck.

Michael Archer has published multiple works in notable scientific journals, with repeated contributions to:

  • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology
  • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • Geobios
  • Scientific Reports
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In terms of book publications, Archer has contributed to at least one book titled Prehistoric Australasia (2023), published by CSIRO Publishing.

Best Publications

  • First Mesozoic mammal from Australia—an early Cretaceous monotreme

    Michael Archer;Timothy F. Flannery;Alex Ritchie;R. E. Molnar

  • Predators with Pouches: The Biology of Carnivorous Marsupials

    Menna Jones;Chris Dickman;Mike Archer

  • Fossil Mammals of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland: Preliminary Overview of Biostratigraphy, Correlation and Environmental Change

    Michael Archer;Henk Godthelp;Suzanne J. Hand;Dirk Megirian

  • Possums and opossums : studies in evolution

    Michael Archer

  • First discovery of monotremes in South America

    Rosendo Pascual;Michael Archer;Edgardo Ortiz Jaureguizar;José L. Prado

  • 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

  • The Dasyurid Dentition and its Relationships to that of Didelphids, Thylacinids, Borhyaenids (Marsupicarnivora) and Peramelids (Peramelina : Marsupialia)

    Michael Archer

  • The basicranial region of marsupicarnivores (Marsupialia), interrelationships of carnivorous marsupials, and affinities of the insectivorous marsupial peramelids

    Michael Archer

  • Riversleigh, the story of animals in ancient rainforests of inland Australia

    M. J. Archer;S. Hand;H. Godthelp

  • Earliest known Australian Tertiary mammal fauna

    Henk Godthelp;Michael Archer;Richard Cifelli;Suzanne J. Hand

  • Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific

    Trevor Henry Worthy;Alan J. D. Tennyson;Michael Archer;Anne M. Musser

  • The Rise of Australian Marsupials: A Synopsis of Biostratigraphic, Phylogenetic, Palaeoecologic and Palaeobiogeographic Understanding

    Karen H. Black;Michael Archer;Suzanne J. Hand;Henk Godthelp

  • Australia's Oldest Marsupial Fossils and their Biogeographical Implications

    Robin M. D. Beck;Henk Godthelp;Vera Weisbecker;Michael Archer

  • Palaeoecological analyses of Riversleigh's Oligo-Miocene sites: Implications for Oligo-Miocene climate change in Australia

    Kenny Travouillon;Serge Legendre;Michael Archer;Suzanne Hand

  • The Evolutionary History and Diversity of Australian Mammals

    M. Archer;R. Arena;M. Bassarova;K. Black

  • Current status of species-level representation in faunas from selected fossil localities in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland

    Michael Archer;Derrick A. Arena;Mina Bassarova;Robin M.D. Beck

  • Developing a radiometrically-dated chronologic sequence for Neogene biotic change in Australia, from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area of Queensland

    Jon Woodhead;Suzanne J. Hand;Michael Archer;Ian Graham

  • Correlation of the Cainozoic sediments of the Riversleigh World Heritage Fossil Property, Queensland, Australia

    M. Archer;S. J. Hand;H. Godthelp;P. Creaser

  • Evolution and biogeography of Australasian vertebrates

    J. R Merrick;M Archer;G. M Hickey;M. S. Y Lee

  • Multivariate analyses of Cenozoic mammalian faunas from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland

    Kenny J. Travouillon;Michael Archer;Suzanne J. Hand;Henk Godthelp

  • First Eocene bat from Australia

    Suzanne Hand;Michael Novacek;Henk Godthelp;Michael Archer

  • Ontogenetic changes in the retinal photoreceptor mosaic in a fish, the black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri

    Julia Shand;Michael A. Archer;Shaun P. Collin

  • Predators with Pouches

    Menna Jones;Mike Archer;Chris Dickman

Frequent Co-Authors

Trevor H. Worthy
Trevor H. Worthy Flinders University
Stephen Wroe
Stephen Wroe University of New England
Sarah A. Dunlop
Sarah A. Dunlop University of Western Australia
Julien Louys
Julien Louys Griffith University
Thomas H. Rich
Thomas H. Rich Museums Victoria
Michael S. Y. Lee
Michael S. Y. Lee Flinders University
Lyn Beazley
Lyn Beazley University of Western Australia
Paul Tafforeau
Paul Tafforeau European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Matt R. Kilburn
Matt R. Kilburn University of Western Australia
John P. Newnham
John P. Newnham University of Western Australia

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