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Richard A. Fortey 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 Richard A. Fortey sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 189 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Richard A. Fortey 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 Richard A. Fortey sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Frink Medal, Zoological Society of London
  • 1997 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Richard A. Fortey is affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on paleontology and related disciplines.

Their work covers various subfields, including paleontology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, oceanography, plant science, and cell biology. The main topics addressed in their research include paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, paleontology and evolutionary biology, marine biology and ecology research, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, evolution and paleontology studies, as well as studies on fossil insects in amber.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard A. Fortey illustrate their active engagement in trilobite research and paleontological studies. These include:

  • Revision of F. R. C. Reed's Ordovician trilobite types from Myanmar (Burma) and western Yunnan Province, China, 2022, Zootaxa
  • Extraordinary Ordovician trilobite Fantasticolithus gen. nov. from Peru and its bearing on the trinucleimorph hypothesis, 2022, Papers in Palaeontology

Other related publications in the field, though with different lead authors, also intersect with Fortey's areas of research:

  • The first Silurian trilobite with three-dimensionally preserved soft parts reveals novel appendage morphology, 2021, Papers in Palaeontology
  • A novel antennal form in trilobites, 2022, Journal of Paleontology
  • New Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) faunas from the Sultanate of Oman, 2023, Proceedings of the Geologists Association

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Gregory D. Edgecombe
  • Jonathan M. Adrain
  • James C. Lamsdell
  • Derek J. Siveter
  • Derek E. G. Briggs

The scientist's contributions have been published in several venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Field Mycology
  • Journal of Paleontology
  • Papers in Palaeontology
  • Proceedings of the Geologists Association
  • Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Richard A. Fortey has received recognition including the Frink Medal from the Zoological Society of London in 2000 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Faunal evidence for oceanic separations in the Palaeozoic of Britain

    L. R. M. Cocks;R. A. Fortey

  • Palaeontological evidence bearing on global Ordovician-Silurian continental reconstructions

    Richard A. Fortey;L.Robin M. Cocks

  • Disparity as an evolutionary index: a comparison of Cambrian and Recent arthropods

    Matthew A. Wills;Derek E. G. Briggs;Richard A. Fortey

  • Feeding habits in trilobites

    R. A. Fortey;R. M. Owens

  • A revision of Ordovician series and stages from the historical type area

    R. A. Fortey;D. A. T. Harper;J. K. Ingham;A. W. Owen

  • The Ordovician Trilobites of Spitsbergen. II, Asaphidae, Nileidae, Raphiophoridae and Telephinidae of the Valhallfonna Formation

    R.A. Fortey

  • Morphological Disparity in the Cambrian

    Derek E. G. Briggs;Richard A. Fortey;Matthew A. Wills

  • Late Ordovician global warming—The Boda event

    Richard A. Fortey;L. Robin M. Cocks

  • Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene

    J Zalasiewicz;M Williams;R Fortey;Alan Smith

  • The Arenig Series in south Wales

    R. A. Fortey;R. M. Owens

  • Biogeography of Ordovician and Silurian faunas

    L. R. M. Cocks;R. A. Fortey

  • Problems of Reproducibility-Does Geologically Ancient DNA Survive in Amber-Preserved Insects?

    Jeremy J. Austin;Andrew J. Ross;Andrew B. Smith;Richard A. Fortey

  • The Cambrian evolutionary ‘explosion’: decoupling cladogenesis from morphological disparity

    R.A. Fortey;D.E.G. Briggs;M.A. Wills

  • The Early Radiation and Relationships of the Major Arthropod Groups

    Derek E. G. Briggs;Richard A. Fortey

  • A revised correlation of Ordovician Rocks in the British Isles

    R. A. Fortey;D. A. T. Harpe;J. K. Ingham;A. W Owen

  • Classification of the trilobite suborder Asaphina

    R. A Fortey;B. D. E Chatterton

  • Testing the Cambrian explosion hypothesis by using a molecular dating technique

    Lindell Bromham;Andrew Rambaut;Richard Fortey;Alan Cooper

  • The Ordovician graptolites of Spitsbergen

    R A Cooper;R A Fortey

  • Pelagic trilobites as an example of deducing the life habits of extinct arthropods

    R. A. Fortey

  • Latitudinal and depth zonation of early Ordovician graptolites

    Roger A. Cooper;Richard A. Fortey;Kristina Lindholm

  • An arthropod phylogeny based on fossil and recent taxa

    MA Wills;Deg Briggs;RA Fortey;M Wilkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek E. G. Briggs
Derek E. G. Briggs Yale University
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Gregory D. Edgecombe Natural History Museum
L. Robin M. Cocks
L. Robin M. Cocks Natural History Museum
Derek J. Siveter
Derek J. Siveter University of Oxford
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
Andrew B. Smith
Andrew B. Smith Natural History Museum
Francisco Hervé
Francisco Hervé Andrés Bello University
Robert J. Pankhurst
Robert J. Pankhurst British Geological Survey
David A. T. Harper
David A. T. Harper Durham University

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