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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 60 1952 1762 15 14 176 10387

Stefan Bengtson publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Stefan Bengtson between 1968 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Stefan Bengtson published across 58 years, from 1968 to 2025, averaging 3.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2017. 2 of the 190 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1968 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 16. Peak 16 publications in 2017. 1968: 1 publication 1969: 0 publications 1970: 1 publication 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 1 publication 1977: 2 publications 1978: 2 publications 1979: 0 publications 1980: 3 publications 1981: 4 publications 1982: 1 publication 1983: 3 publications 1984: 1 publication 1985: 2 publications 1986: 7 publications 1987: 1 publication 1988: 0 publications 1989: 2 publications 1990: 3 publications 1991: 2 publications 1992: 10 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 2 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 1 publication 1997: 1 publication 1998: 2 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 6 publications 2008: 7 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 8 publications 2014: 7 publications 2015: 6 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 16 publications 2018: 5 publications 2019: 4 publications 2020: 3 publications 2021: 5 publications 2022: 1 publication 2023: 2 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 1 publication
1968 2025

190 publications in total across all disciplines

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Stefan Bengtson: publications per year, 1968 to 2025
Year Publications
1968 1
1969 0
1970 1
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 1
1977 2
1978 2
1979 0
1980 3
1981 4
1982 1
1983 3
1984 1
1985 2
1986 7
1987 1
1988 0
1989 2
1990 3
1991 2
1992 10
1993 2
1994 2
1995 1
1996 1
1997 1
1998 2
1999 4
2000 0
2001 4
2002 3
2003 3
2004 6
2005 4
2006 7
2007 6
2008 7
2009 4
2010 6
2011 7
2012 8
2013 8
2014 7
2015 6
2016 7
2017 16
2018 5
2019 4
2020 3
2021 5
2022 1
2023 2
2024 1
2025 1
Total 190
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Stefan Bengtson 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 Stefan Bengtson 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, 168–177 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: 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.

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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
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490 176
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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Stefan Bengtson 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 Stefan Bengtson 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, 60 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: 60 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% 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
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 60
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

Stefan Bengtson is affiliated with the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Sweden and focuses on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on paleontology and related disciplines. Their scholarly work spans several interrelated subfields including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geophysics, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research encompasses a variety of main topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Recent scholarly papers authored or co-authored by Bengtson include:

  • "A late Paleoproterozoic (1.74 Ga) deep-sea, low-temperature, iron-oxidizing microbial hydrothermal vent community from Arizona, USA" (2021) published in Geobiology
  • "Fossilized anaerobic and possibly methanogenesis-fueling fungi identified deep within the Siljan impact structure, Sweden" (2021) published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Introducing palaeolithobiology" (2021) published in GFF
  • "Lower-Middle Cambrian faunas and stratigraphy from northern Siberia" (2022) published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
  • "A Cryptic Alternative for the Evolution of Hyphae" (2020) published in BioEssays

Bengtson frequently collaborates with several researchers. Notable co-authors with multiple joint publications include:

  • Magnus Ivarsson
  • Henrik Drake
  • Veneta Belivanova
  • Christine Heim
  • Oona Snoeyenbos-West

Their work is represented across diverse publication venues with several occurrences in specialized journals, such as:

  • Geobiology
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • GFF
  • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
  • BioEssays

Best Publications

  • Early life on earth

    Stefan Bengtson

  • Palaeontology and biostratigraphy of the Early Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in Yunnan Province, South China

    Qian Yi (钱逸);Bengtson S

  • Predatorial borings in late precambrian mineralized exoskeletons.

    Stefan Bengtson;Yue Zhao

  • Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago.

    Abderrazak El Albani;Stefan Bengtson;Donald E. Canfield;Andrey Bekker

  • Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos.

    Philip C. J. Donoghue;Stefan Bengtson;Xi Ping Dong;Neil J. Gostling

  • Fossilized Metazoan Embryos from the Earliest Cambrian

    Stefan Bengtson;Yue Zhao

  • Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae.

    Stefan Bengtson;Therese Sallstedt;Veneta Belivanova;Martin Whitehouse

  • Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization

    Artem Kouchinsky;Stefan Bengtson;Bruce Runnegar;Christian Skovsted

  • Origins and Early Evolution of Predation

    Stefan Bengtson

  • Cellular and subcellular structure of neoproterozoic animal embryos.

    James W. Hagadorn;Shuhai Xiao;Philip C. J. Donoghue;Stefan Bengtson

  • Phase-contrast X-ray microtomography links Cretaceous seeds with Gnetales and Bennettitales

    Else Marie Friis;Peter R. Crane;Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen;Stefan Bengtson

  • The structure of some Middle Cambrian conodonts, and the early evolution of conodont structure and function

    Stefan Bengtson

  • Discoidal impressions and trace-like fossils more than 1200 million years old.

    Birger Rasmussen;Stefan Bengtson;Ian R. Fletcher;Neal J. McNaughton

  • Oxygen dynamics in the aftermath of the Great Oxidation of Earth’s atmosphere

    Donald Eugene Canfield;Lauriss Ngombi-Pemba;Emma Hammarlund;Stefan Bengtson

  • Fossilized Nuclei and Germination Structures Identify Ediacaran “Animal Embryos” as Encysting Protists

    Therese Huldtgren;Therese Huldtgren;John A. Cunningham;Chongyu Y. Yin;Marco Stampanoni

  • The origin of animals: can molecular clocks and the fossil record be reconciled?

    John A. Cunningham;Alexander G. Liu;Stefan Bengtson;Philip C. J. Donoghue

  • Fungus-like mycelial fossils in 2.4-billion-year-old vesicular basalt.

    Stefan Bengtson;Birger Rasmussen;Magnus Ivarsson;Janet Muhling;Janet Muhling

  • Cambrian predators; possible evidence from boreholes

    Simon Conway Morris;Stefan Bengtson

  • Embryo fossilization is a biological process mediated by microbial biofilms

    Elizabeth C. Raff;Elizabeth C. Raff;Kaila L. Schollaert;David E. Nelson;Philip C. J. Donoghue

  • The controversial "Cambrian" fossils of the Vindhyan are real but more than a billion years older.

    Stefan Bengtson;Veneta Belivanova;Birger Rasmussen;Martin Whitehouse

  • The SPICE carbon isotope excursion in Siberia: a combined study of the upper Middle Cambrian–lowermost Ordovician Kulyumbe River section, northwestern Siberian Platform

    Artem Kouchinsky;Stefan Bengtson;Yves Gallet;Igor Korovnikov

  • A new species of Markuelia from the Middle Cambrian of Australia

    Joachim T Haug;Andreas Maas;Dieter Waloszek;Philip Cj Donoghue

  • Supporting Online Material for Cellular and Subcellular Structure of Neoproterozoic Animal Embryos

    James W. Hagadorn;Shuhai Xiao;Philip C. J. Donoghue;Stefan Bengtson

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip C. J. Donoghue
Philip C. J. Donoghue University of Bristol
Birger Rasmussen
Birger Rasmussen University of Western Australia
Martin J. Whitehouse
Martin J. Whitehouse Swedish Museum of Natural History
Edward D. Young
Edward D. Young University of California, Los Angeles
Andrey Bekker
Andrey Bekker University of California, Riverside
Donald E. Canfield
Donald E. Canfield University of Southern Denmark
Rudolf A. Raff
Rudolf A. Raff Indiana University
Olivier Rouxel
Olivier Rouxel French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Chuanming Zhou
Chuanming Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jere H. Lipps
Jere H. Lipps University of California, Berkeley

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