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Robert Riding 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 Robert Riding sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 176 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert Riding 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 Robert Riding sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Robert Riding is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specific concentration in Paleontology, Geophysics, Oceanography, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work spans several main topics, including Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies.

Robert Riding has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Hybrid Carbonates: in situ abiotic, microbial and skeletal co-precipitates (2020) in Earth-Science Reviews
  • A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian timescale (2021) in Journal of the Geological Society
  • The 'classic stromatolite' Cryptozoön is a keratose sponge-microbial consortium (2020) in Geobiology
  • Keratolite-stromatolite consortia mimic domical and branched columnar stromatolites (2021) in Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Early Mesoproterozoic Ca-carbonate precipitates record fluctuations in shallow marine oxygenation (2022) in Precambrian Research

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Philip Fralick
  • Jeong-Hyun Lee
  • Liyuan Liang
  • Stefan V. Lalonde
  • Brittany Ramsay

Robert Riding's publications are often featured in venues such as:

  • Precambrian Research
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Marine Geology
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Journal of Paleontology

Best Publications

  • MICROBIAL CARBONATES: THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD OF THE CALCIFIED BACTERIAL-ALGAL MATS AND BIOFILMS

    Robert Riding

  • Structure and composition of organic reefs and carbonate mud mounds: concepts and categories

    Robert Eric Riding

  • Calcareous Algae and Stromatolites

    Brian R. Pratt;Robert Riding

  • Classification of Microbial Carbonates

    R. Riding

  • Cyanobacterial calcification, carbon dioxide concentrating mechanisms, and Proterozoic–Cambrian changes in atmospheric composition

    R. Riding

  • Microbial carbonate abundance compared with fluctuations in metazoan diversity over geological time

    Robert Riding

  • Hot-spring travertine facies and sequences, Late Pleistocene, Rapolano Terme, Italy

    Li Guo;Robert Riding

  • Cyanobacterial tufa calcification in two freshwater streams: ambient environment, chemical thresholds and biological processes

    Martina Merz-Preiß;Robert Riding

  • Geobiology of microbial carbonates: metazoan and seawater saturation state influences on secular trends during the Phanerozoic

    Robert Eric Riding;Liyuan Liang;Liyuan Liang

  • The stable isotope record of environmental and climatic signals in modern terrestrial microbial carbonates from Europe

    Julian E. Andrews;Robert Riding;Paul F. Dennis

  • Biomineralization in lower plants and animals.

    B. S. C. Leadbeater;R. Riding

  • Diversity of coralline red algae: origination and extinction patterns from the Early Cretaceous to the Pleistocene

    Julio Aguirre;Robert Riding;Juan C. Braga

  • Mediterranean Messinian Salinity Crisis: constraints from a coeval marginal basin, Sorbas, southeastern Spain

    Robert Riding;Juan C Braga;José M Martı́n;Isabel M Sánchez-Almazo

  • Controls on microbial dome fabric development along a carbonate-siliciclastic shelf-basin transect, Miocene, SE Spain

    Juan C. Braga;Jose M. Martin;Robert Riding

  • The term stromatolite: towards an essential definition

    Robert Riding

  • Coral−stromatolite reef framework, Upper Miocene, Almería, Spain

    Robert Riding;José M. Martin;Juan Carlos Braga

  • Biosedimentology of Microbial Buildups IGCP Project No. 380 Proceedings of 2nd Meeting, Göttingen/Germany 1996

    Fritz Neuweiler;Joachim Reitner;Claude Monty;Mark Feldmann

  • The ecology of the Cambrian radiation

    Andrey Zhuravlev;Robert Riding

  • Stable isotopic compositions of Recent freshwater cyanobacterial carbonates from the British Isles: local and regional environmental controls

    J. E. Andrews;R. Riding;P. F. Dennis

  • Origin and diagenesis of Quaternary travertine shrub fabrics, Rapolano Terme, central Italy

    Li Guo;Robert Riding

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan C. Braga
Juan C. Braga University of Granada
Julian E. Andrews
Julian E. Andrews University of East Anglia
José M. Martín
José M. Martín University of Granada
Liyuan Liang
Liyuan Liang Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Paul F. Dennis
Paul F. Dennis University of East Anglia
Jody M. Webster
Jody M. Webster University of Sydney
Julio Aguirre
Julio Aguirre University of Granada
Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo
Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev
Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev Lomonosov Moscow State University
Eberhard Gischler
Eberhard Gischler Goethe University Frankfurt

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