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Thierry Smith 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 Thierry Smith sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Thierry Smith 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 Thierry Smith sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Thierry Smith is affiliated with the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Belgium. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a focus on Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

The scientist's research topics emphasize Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine Animal Studies, and Amphibian and Reptile Biology.

Key publications by Thierry Smith include:

  • Brawn before brains in placental mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction (2022, Science)
  • Virtual reconstruction of the skull of Bernissartia fagesii and current understanding of the neosuchian-eusuchian transition (2020, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology)
  • Evolution of European carnivorous mammal assemblages through the Palaeogene (2022, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society)
  • A new gecko from the earliest Eocene of Dormaal, Belgium: a thermophilic element of the 'greenhouse world' (2022, Royal Society Open Science)
  • Skeleton of a new owl from the early Eocene of North America (Aves, Strigiformes) with an accipitrid-like foot morphology (2020, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology)

Frequent collaborators in Thierry Smith's research include Annelise Folie, R. S. Rana, Mohd Waqas, Maëva J. Orliac, and Floréal Solé, illustrating a pattern of repeated scientific partnerships contributing to various studies.

The scientist's publications appear repeatedly in several academic venues, notably Geobios, Journal of Mammalian Evolution, MorphoBank datasets, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, and Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Geobios hosts the majority of their published work.

Best Publications

  • Rapid Asia–Europe–North America geographic dispersal of earliest Eocene primate Teilhardina during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

    Thierry Smith;Kenneth D. Rose;Philip D. Gingerich

  • Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion in organic carbon and pedogenic carbonate: Direct comparison in a continental stratigraphic section

    Roberto Magioncalda;Christian Dupuis;Thierry Smith;Etienne Steurbaut

  • High bat (Chiroptera) diversity in the Early Eocene of India.

    Thierry Smith;Rajendra S. Rana;Pieter Missiaen;Kenneth D. Rose

  • Dinosaur egg nests, mammals and other vertebrates from a new Maastrichtian site of the Haţeg Basin (Romania)

    Vlad Codrea;Thierry Smith;Paul Dica;Annelise Folie;Annelise Folie

  • Early Eocene Primates from Gujarat, India

    Kenneth D. Rose;Rajendra S. Rana;Ashok Sahni;Kishor Kumar

  • A Complete Skull of Allodaposuchus precedens Nopcsa, 1928 (Eusuchia) and a Reassessment of the Morphology of the Taxon Based on the Romanian Remains

    Massimo Delfino;Vlad Codrea;Annelise Folie;Paul Dica

  • Early Eocene lagomorph (Mammalia) from Western India and the early diversification of Lagomorpha.

    Kenneth D. Rose;Valerie Burke DeLeon;Pieter Missiaen;R. S. Rana

  • Early Eocene fossils suggest that the mammalian order Perissodactyla originated in India

    Kenneth D. Rose;Luke T. Holbrook;Rajendra S. Rana;Kishor Kumar

  • A Diverse Snake Fauna from the Early Eocene of Vastan Lignite Mine, Gujarat, India

    Jean Claude Rage;Annelise Folie;Rajendra S. Rana;Hukam Singh

  • More than just Nopcsa's Transylvanian dinosaurs: A look outside the Haţeg Basin

    Vlad Codrea;Matei Vremir;Cătălin Jipa;Pascal Godefroit

  • New early Eocene vertebrate assemblage from western India reveals a mixed fauna of European and Gondwana affinities

    Thierry Smith;Kishor Kumar;Rajendra S. Rana;Annelise Folie

  • EARLY EOCENE (YPRESIAN) CONTINENTAL VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGE FROM INDIA, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW ANTHRACOBUNID (MAMMALIA, TETHYTHERIA)

    K. D. Rose;Thierry Smith;R. S. Rana;Ashok Sahni

  • New fossils, systematics, and biogeography of the oldest known crown primate Teilhardina from the earliest Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North America

    Paul E. Morse;Paul E. Morse;Paul E. Morse;Stephen G.B. Chester;Doug M. Boyer;Thierry Smith

  • First Clarkforkian equivalent land mammal age in the latest Paleocene basal Sparnacian facies of Europe: Fauna, flora, paleoenvironment and (bio)stratigraphy

    Thierry Smith;Florence Quesnel;Gaël De Plöeg;Dario De Franceschi

  • New euprimate postcrania from the early Eocene of Gujarat, India, and the strepsirrhine-haplorhine divergence.

    Rachel H. Dunn;Kenneth D. Rose;Rajendra S. Rana;Kishor Kumar

  • A new exceptional vertebrate site from the Late Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin (Romania)

    Thierry Smith;Vlad Codrea;Emanoil Sasaran;Jimmy Van Itterbeeck

  • Anatomy and phylogeny of the gavialoid crocodylian Eosuchus lerichei from the Paleocene of Europe

    Massimo Delfino;Paolo Piras;Thierry Smith

  • An Ailuravine Rodent from the Lower Eocene Cambay Formation at Vastan, Western India, and Its Palaeobiogeographic Implications

    Rajendra S. Rana;Kishor Kumar;Gilles Escarguel;Ashok Sahni

  • First skull of Orthaspidotherium edwardsi (Mammalia, “Condylarthra”) from the late Paleocene of Berru (France) and phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic European family Pleuraspidotheriidae

    Sandrine Ladevèze;Pieter Missiaen;Thierry Smith

  • Paleocene-Eocene Land Mammals From Three New Latest Clarkforkian And Earliest Wasatchian Wash Sites At Polecat Bench In the Northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

    Philip D. Gingerich;Thierry Smith

  • A COMPLETE SKULL OF ALLODAPOSUCHUS PRECEDENS NOPCSA, 1928 (EUSUCHIA) AND A REASSESSMENT OF THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE TAXON BASED ON THE

    Romanian Remains;Massimo Delfino;Vlad Codrea;Annelise Folie

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth D. Rose
Kenneth D. Rose Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ashok Sahni
Ashok Sahni Panjab University
Gerald Mayr
Gerald Mayr Senckenberg Naturmuseum
Philip D. Gingerich
Philip D. Gingerich University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Massimo Delfino
Massimo Delfino University of Turin
Pascal Godefroit
Pascal Godefroit Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Jian Yang
Jian Yang University of Birmingham
Stephen Louwye
Stephen Louwye Ghent University
Paola Iacumin
Paola Iacumin University of Parma
Haiyan Tong
Haiyan Tong Mahasarakham University

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