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Ted E. Bunch 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 Ted E. Bunch sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 237 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ted E. Bunch 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 Ted E. Bunch sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ted E. Bunch is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Arts and Humanities. Within these fields, specific subfields of study include Archeology, Paleontology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's main research topics reflect interdisciplinary approaches, combining geological and archaeological perspectives. These topics include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Archaeology and Historical Studies, Planetary Science and Exploration, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, and Paleopathology and ancient diseases.

Ted E. Bunch has published extensively in venues such as Scientific Reports, Airbursts and Cratering Impacts, Preprints.org, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). The most frequent publication venue in their record is Scientific Reports.

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Ted E. Bunch include:

  • RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria at the Younger Dryas Onset (~12.8 ka): High-temperature melting at >2200 °C, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Abu Hureyra, Syria, Part 2: Additional evidence supporting the catastrophic destruction of this prehistoric village by a cosmic airburst ~12,800 years ago, 2023, Airbursts and Cratering Impacts
  • Microstructures in Shocked Quartz: Linking Nuclear Airbursts and Meteorite Impacts, 2023, Preprints.org
  • Microstructures in shocked quartz: linking nuclear airbursts and meteorite impacts, 2023, Airbursts and Cratering Impacts

Collaboration plays an important role in Ted E. Bunch's work, with frequent coauthors including James P. Kennett, Malcolm A. LeCompte, Robert Hermes, G. Kletetschka, and Allen West. Each of these coauthors has contributed to multiple publications with Bunch.

Best Publications

  • Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling

    R. B. Firestone;A. West;J. P. Kennett;L. Becker

  • Carbonaceous chondrites. II - Carbonaceous chondrite phyllosilicates and light element geochemistry as indicators of parent body processes and surface conditions

    T.E. Bunch;S. Chang

  • Impact Event at the Permian-Triassic Boundary: Evidence from Extraterrestrial Noble Gases in Fullerenes

    Luann Becker;Robert J. Poreda;Andrew G. Hunt;Theodore E. Bunch

  • Chromite composition in relation to chemistry and texture of ordinary chondrites.

    T E. Bunch;Klaus Keil;K.G Snetsinger

  • Nanodiamonds in the Younger Dryas Boundary Sediment Layer

    D. J. Kennett;J. P. Kennett;A. West;C. Mercer

  • THE NAKHLITES PART I: PETROGRAPHY AND MINERAL CHEMISTRY

    T. E. Bunch;Arch M. Reid

  • Fullerenes in the 1.85-Billion-Year-Old Sudbury Impact Structure

    Luann Becker;Jeffrey L. Bada;Randall E. Winans;Jerry E. Hunt

  • Fullerenes: An extraterrestrial carbon carrier phase for noble gases

    Luann Becker;Robert J. Poreda;Ted E. Bunch

  • Meteoroid ablation spheres from deep-sea sediments

    M. B. Blanchard;D. E. Brownlee;T. E. Bunch;P. W. Hodge

  • Mineralogy and petrology of silicate inclusions in iron meteorites

    T. E. Bunch;Klaus Keil;E. Olsen

  • Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago

    Ted E. Bunch;Robert E. Hermes;Andrew M.T. Moore;Douglas J. Kennett

  • Evidence from central Mexico supporting the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis.

    Isabel Israde-Alcántara;James L. Bischoff;Gabriela Domínguez-Vázquez;Hong-Chun Li

  • Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago

    James H. Wittke;James C. Weaver;Ted E. Bunch;James P. Kennett

  • Formation of ferrobasalt at East Pacific Midocean Spreading Centers

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  • Compositional and lithological diversity among brecciated lunar meteorites of intermediate iron concentration

    Randy L. Korotev;Ryan A. Zeigler;Bradley L. Jolliff;Anthony J. Irving

  • Shock-synthesized hexagonal diamonds in Younger Dryas boundary sediments

    Douglas J. Kennett;James P. Kennett;Allen West;G. James West

  • Contributions to the mineral chemistry of Hawaiian rocks: IV. Pyroxenes in rocks from Haleakala and West Maui volcanoes, Maui, Hawaii

    R. V. Fodor;Klaus Keil;T. E. Bunch

  • Geological overview and cratering model for the Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic

    Gordon R. Osinski;Gordon R. Osinski;Pascal Lee;John G. Spray;John Parnell

  • Fullerenes, fulleranes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Allende meteorite

    Luann Becker;Luann Becker;T. E. Bunch

  • The Quaternary impact record from the Pampas, Argentina

    Peter H Schultz;Marcelo Zárate;Bill Hames;Christian Koeberl

  • Chromite and ilmenite in non chondritic meteorites

    T. E. Bunch;Klaus Keil

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony J. Irving
Anthony J. Irving University of Washington
Klaus Keil
Klaus Keil University of Hawaii at Manoa
Douglas Rumble
Douglas Rumble Carnegie Institution for Science
James P. Kennett
James P. Kennett University of California, Santa Barbara
Gunther Kletetschka
Gunther Kletetschka Charles University
Peter H. Schultz
Peter H. Schultz Brown University
George Howard
George Howard University of Alabama at Birmingham
Randy L. Korotev
Randy L. Korotev Washington University in St. Louis
Thomas W. Stafford
Thomas W. Stafford Aarhus University
Jon M. Erlandson
Jon M. Erlandson University of Oregon

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