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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.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 176 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

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.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

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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