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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 47 4112 3777 464 431 98 6049

Philip D. Mannion publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Philip D. Mannion between 2009 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Philip D. Mannion published across 18 years, from 2009 to 2026, averaging 8.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 18 publications in 2022. 17 of the 148 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2009 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 18. Peak 18 publications in 2022. 2009: 2 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 8 publications 2012: 9 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 6 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 11 publications 2020: 9 publications 2021: 11 publications 2022: 18 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 12 publications 2025: 16 publications 2026: 1 publication
2009 2026

148 publications in total across all disciplines

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Philip D. Mannion: publications per year, 2009 to 2026
Year Publications
2009 2
2010 4
2011 8
2012 9
2013 6
2014 5
2015 6
2016 11
2017 4
2018 6
2019 11
2020 9
2021 11
2022 18
2023 9
2024 12
2025 16
2026 1
Total 148
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Philip D. Mannion 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 Philip D. Mannion 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, 98–107 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: 98 publications — 11th percentile

11% 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 98
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
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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Philip D. Mannion 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 Philip D. Mannion 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, 47 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: 47 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% 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
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202 47
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

Philip D. Mannion is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Paleontology and related subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Geometry and Topology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, including:

  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Morphological variations and asymmetry
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Philip D. Mannion has contributed papers to several frequent publication venues, including:

  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
  • Current Biology
  • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Their notable recent publications include:

  • "Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Phylogenetic analysis of a new morphological dataset elucidates the evolutionary history of Crocodylia and resolves the long-standing gharial problem" (2021), PeerJ
  • "The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases" (2020), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Second specimen of the Late Cretaceous Australian sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae provides new anatomical information on the skull and neck of early titanosaurs" (2020), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • "Spatial sampling heterogeneity limits the detectability of deep time latitudinal biodiversity gradients" (2021), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Paul Upchurch
  • Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza
  • Stephen F. Poropat
  • David A. Elliott
  • Trish Sloan

Best Publications

  • Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms

    Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Paul Upchurch;Rosie N. Barnes;Octávio Mateus

  • The extinction of the dinosaurs

    Stephen L. Brusatte;Richard J. Butler;Paul M. Barrett;Matthew T. Carrano

  • Testing the effect of the rock record on diversity: a multidisciplinary approach to elucidating the generic richness of sauropodomorph dinosaurs through time.

    Philip D. Mannion;Paul Upchurch;Matthew T. Carrano;Paul M. Barrett

  • Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction

    Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza;Alexander Farnsworth;Philip D. Mannion;Daniel J. Lunt

  • Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians

    Philip D. Mannion;Roger B. J. Benson;Matthew T. Carrano;Jonathan P. Tennant

  • New Australian sauropods shed light on Cretaceous dinosaur palaeobiogeography

    Stephen F. Poropat;Philip D. Mannion;Paul Upchurch;Scott A. Hocknull

  • Geological and anthropogenic controls on the sampling of the terrestrial fossil record: a case study from the Dinosauria

    P. Upchurch;P. D. Mannion;R. B. J. Benson;R. J. Butler

  • Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution

    Philip D Mannion;Paul Upchurch;Daniela Schwarz;Oliver Wings

  • Biotic and environmental dynamics through the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous transition: evidence for protracted faunal and ecological turnover

    Jonathan P. Tennant;Philip D. Mannion;Paul Upchurch;Mark D. Sutton

  • Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the 'common cause' hypothesis in the terrestrial realm.

    Richard J. Butler;Roger B. J. Benson;Matthew T. Carrano;Philip D. Mannion

  • The completeness of the fossil record of mesozoic birds: implications for early avian evolution.

    Neil Brocklehurst;Paul Upchurch;Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Jingmai O'Connor

  • Revision of the sauropod dinosaur Diamantinasaurus matildae Hocknull et al. 2009 from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia: Implications for Gondwanan titanosauriform dispersal

    Stephen F. Poropat;Stephen F. Poropat;Paul Upchurch;Philip D. Mannion;Scott A. Hocknull

  • Anatomy of the basal titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) Andesaurus delgadoi from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian–early Cenomanian) Río Limay Formation, Neuquén Province, Argentina: implications for titanosaur systematics

    Philip D. Mannion;Jorge O. Calvo

  • Completeness metrics and the quality of the sauropodomorph fossil record through geological and historical time

    Philip D. Mannion;Paul Upchurch

  • Cretaceous tetrapod fossil record sampling and faunal turnover: Implications for biogeography and the rise of modern clades

    Roger B.J. Benson;Roger B.J. Benson;Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Richard J. Butler;Paul Upchurch

  • Ecological niche modelling does not support climatically-driven dinosaur diversity decline before the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction

    Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza;Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Daniel J. Lunt;Alex Farnsworth

  • The earliest known titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur and the evolution of Brachiosauridae

    Philip D. Mannion;Ronan Allain;Olivier Moine

  • A reappraisal of the Late Cretaceous Argentinean sauropod dinosaur Argyrosaurus superbus, with a description of a new titanosaur genus

    Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Alejandro Otero

  • A new Middle Jurassic diplodocoid suggests an earlier dispersal and diversification of sauropod dinosaurs.

    Xing Xu;Paul Upchurch;Philip D. Mannion;Paul M. Barrett

  • Near-stasis in the long-term diversification of Mesozoic tetrapods

    Roger B. J. Benson;Richard J. Butler;John Alroy;Philip D. Mannion

  • A temperate palaeodiversity peak in Mesozoic dinosaurs and evidence for Late Cretaceous geographical partitioning

    Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Roger B. J. Benson;Paul Upchurch;Richard J. Butler

  • A rebbachisaurid sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight, England

    Philip D. Mannion

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Upchurch
Paul Upchurch University College London
Richard J. Butler
Richard J. Butler University of Birmingham
Roger B. J. Benson
Roger B. J. Benson University of Oxford
Paul M. Barrett
Paul M. Barrett Natural History Museum
Peter A. Allison
Peter A. Allison Imperial College London
John Alroy
John Alroy Macquarie University
Massimo Delfino
Massimo Delfino University of Turin
Octávio Mateus
Octávio Mateus Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Anjali Goswami
Anjali Goswami Natural History Museum
Daniel J. Lunt
Daniel J. Lunt University of Bristol

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