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Nigel C. Hughes publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Nigel C. Hughes between 1991 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Nigel C. Hughes published across 36 years, from 1991 to 2026, averaging 4.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 18 publications in 2023. 6 of the 174 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1991 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 18. Peak 18 publications in 2023. 1991: 1 publication 1992: 1 publication 1993: 1 publication 1994: 3 publications 1995: 6 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 2 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 6 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 4 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 6 publications 2012: 2 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 8 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 4 publications 2019: 6 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 18 publications 2024: 11 publications 2025: 5 publications 2026: 1 publication
1991 2026

174 publications in total across all disciplines

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Nigel C. Hughes: publications per year, 1991 to 2026
Year Publications
1991 1
1992 1
1993 1
1994 3
1995 6
1996 0
1997 2
1998 2
1999 6
2000 3
2001 3
2002 1
2003 4
2004 2
2005 4
2006 4
2007 8
2008 4
2009 3
2010 5
2011 6
2012 2
2013 5
2014 8
2015 5
2016 9
2017 6
2018 4
2019 6
2020 5
2021 10
2022 10
2023 18
2024 11
2025 5
2026 1
Total 174
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Nigel C. Hughes 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 Nigel C. Hughes 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: 132 publications — 29th percentile

29% 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
128–137 557 132
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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Nigel C. Hughes 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 Nigel C. Hughes 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

Nigel C. Hughes is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial body of work in Paleontology. They have contributed extensively to the subfields of Paleontology, Geophysics, Geology, Atmospheric Science, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their research topics encompass:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes

Among their recent publications are:

  • "The trilobite upper limb branch is a well-developed gill" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "Systematic paleontology, acritarch biostratigraphy, and δ13C chemostratigraphy of the early Ediacaran Krol A Formation, Lesser Himalaya, northern India" (2022, Journal of Paleontology)
  • "Articulated trilobite ontogeny: suggestions for a methodological standard" (2020, Journal of Paleontology)
  • "Enduring evolutionary embellishment of cloudinids in the Cambrian" (2021, Royal Society Open Science)
  • "Tectonic trigger to the first major extinction of the Phanerozoic: The early Cambrian Sinsk event" (2024, Science Advances)

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Paul M. Myrow
  • Shelly J. Wernette
  • Shravya Srivastava
  • Tae-Yoon S. Park
  • Richard K. Bambach

The main venues where their research has been published are:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Paleontology
  • Science Advances
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Geological Society London Special Publications

Best Publications

  • The Magnitude and Duration of Late Ordovician–Early Silurian Glaciation

    Seth Finnegan;Kristin Bergmann;John M. Eiler;David S. Jones

  • Extraordinary transport and mixing of sediment across Himalayan central Gondwana during the Cambrian–Ordovician

    Paul M. Myrow;Nigel C. Hughes;John W. Goodge;C. Mark Fanning

  • Integrated tectonostratigraphic analysis of the Himalaya and implications for its tectonic reconstruction

    Paul M Myrow;Nigel C Hughes;T S Paulsen;Ian Williams

  • Correlation of Precambrian–Cambrian sedimentary successions across northern India and the utility of isotopic signatures of Himalayan lithotectonic zones

    N. Ryan McKenzie;Nigel C. Hughes;Paul M. Myrow;Shuhai Xiao

  • Stratigraphic correlation of Cambrian-Ordovician deposits along the Himalaya: Implications for the age and nature of rocks in the Mount Everest region

    Paul M Myrow;Nigel C Hughes;Michael P. Searle;Christopher Fanning

  • Trilobites and zircons link north China with the eastern Himalaya during the Cambrian

    N. Ryan McKenzie;Nigel C. Hughes;Paul M. Myrow;Duck K. Choi

  • New age constraints for the Proterozoic Aravalli-Delhi successions of India and their implications

    N. Ryan McKenzie;N. Ryan McKenzie;Nigel C. Hughes;Paul M. Myrow;Dhiraj M. Banerjee

  • The ontogeny of trilobite segmentation: a comparative approach

    Nigel C. Hughes;Alessandro Minelli;Giuseppe Fusco

  • The Evolution of Trilobite Body Patterning

    Nigel C. Hughes

  • Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Tal Group, Lesser Himalaya, India, and early Tsanglangpuan (late early Cambrian) trilobites from the Nigali Dhar syncline

    Nigel C. Hughes;Shanchi Peng;O. N. Bhargava;A. D. Ahluwalia

  • Cambrian stratigraphy and depositional history of the northern Indian Himalaya, Spiti Valley, north-central India

    Paul M. Myrow;Karl R. Thompson;Nigel C. Hughes;Timothy S. Paulsen

  • Terminal suturing of Gondwana along the southern margin of South China Craton: Evidence from detrital zircon U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes in Cambrian and Ordovician strata, Hainan Island

    Yajun Xu;Yajun Xu;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Yuansheng Du;Zengqiu Zhong

  • Growth and variation in the Silurian proetide trilobite Aulacopleura konincki and its implications for trilobite palaeobiology

    Nigel C. Hughes;Ralph E. Chapman

  • CAMBRIAN DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF THE ZANSKAR VALLEY REGION OF THE INDIAN HIMALAYA: TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS

    P.M. Myrow;K.E. Snell;N.C. Hughes;T.S. Paulsen

  • Plate tectonic influences on Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic climate and animal evolution

    N. Ryan McKenzie;N. Ryan McKenzie;Nigel C. Hughes;Benjamin C. Gill;Paul M. Myrow

  • The stability of thoracic segmentation in trilobites: a case study in developmental and ecological constraints

    Nigel C. Hughes;Ralph E. Chapman;Jonathan M. Adrain

  • Cambrian Trilobites from the Parahio and Zanskar Valleys, Indian Himalaya

    Shanchi Peng;Nigel C. Hughes;Noel A. Heim;Noel A. Heim;Bryan K. Sell;Bryan K. Sell

  • Exploring developmental modes in a fossil arthropod: growth and trunk segmentation of the trilobite Aulacopleura konincki.

    Giuseppe Fusco;Nigel C. Hughes;Mark Webster;Alessandro Minelli

  • Cambrian–Ordovician orogenesis in Himalayan equatorial Gondwana

    Paul M. Myrow;Nigel C. Hughes;N. Ryan McKenzie;Phuntsho Pelgay

  • 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

  • The Cambrian palaeontological record of the Indian subcontinent

    Nigel C. Hughes

  • Compaction-related deformation in Cambrian olenelloid trilobites and its implications for fossil morphometry

    Mark Webster;Nigel C. Hughes

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul M. Myrow
Paul M. Myrow Colorado College
Shuhai Xiao
Shuhai Xiao Virginia Tech
Mary L. Droser
Mary L. Droser University of California, Riverside
Leonid E. Popov
Leonid E. Popov Cardiff University
Daniel F. Stockli
Daniel F. Stockli The University of Texas at Austin
John R. Paterson
John R. Paterson University of New England
Seth Finnegan
Seth Finnegan University of California, Berkeley
John M. Eiler
John M. Eiler California Institute of Technology
Woodward W. Fischer
Woodward W. Fischer California Institute of Technology
Noah J. Planavsky
Noah J. Planavsky Yale University

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