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Trevor H. Worthy

Trevor H. Worthy

Flinders University
Australia

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
50
Citations
9289
World Ranking
3856
National Ranking
291

Trevor H. Worthy publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 237 publications — 83rd percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Trevor H. Worthy D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Trevor H. Worthy sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Trevor H. Worthy is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia and specializes in research spanning Earth and Planetary Sciences with a strong focus on Paleontology and Environmental Science. Their work encompasses significant contributions to the fields of Paleontology, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation with notable involvement in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics as well as Geography, Planning and Development.

The research topics covered by Trevor Worthy include:

  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies

Worthy has published research extensively in various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology
  • Geobios
  • Journal für Ornithologie
  • Diversity

Some of their recent scientific papers are:

  • New data on the Vegavis iaai holotype from the Maastrichtian of Antarctica, 2021, Cretaceous Research
  • Endocranial Anatomy of the Giant Extinct Australian Mihirung Birds (Aves, Dromornithidae), 2021, Diversity
  • An annotated checklist of the fossil birds of Australia, 2020, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
  • A new species of Manuherikia (Aves: Anatidae) provides evidence of faunal turnover in the St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand, 2021, Geobios
  • Systematics and palaeobiology of kangaroos of the late Cenozoic genus Protemnodon (Marsupialia, Macropodidae), 2024, Megataxa

Worthy collaborates frequently with various researchers including:

  • R. Paul Scofield
  • Vanesa L. De Pietri
  • Suzanne J. Hand
  • Michael Archer
  • Aaron B. Camens

In addition to journal publications, they have contributed to academic publishing through books, notably with a publication titled Prehistoric Australasia released by CSIRO Publishing in 2023.

Best Publications

  • The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand

    Trevor H. Worthy;Richard N. Holdaway;Rod Morris

  • Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat.

    Janet M. Wilmshurst;Atholl J. Anderson;Thomas F. G. Higham;Trevor H. Worthy

  • Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution

    Kieren J. Mitchell;Bastien Llamas;Julien Soubrier;Nicolas J. Rawlence

  • A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact

    Richard N. Holdaway;Trevor H. Worthy;Alan J. D. Tennyson

  • The evolutionary history of the extinct ratite moa and New Zealand Neogene paleogeography

    M. Bunce;T. H. Worthy;Matthew J. Phillips;R. N. Holdaway

  • Extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism in the extinct New Zealand moa Dinornis

    Michael Bunce;Trevor H. Worthy;Tom Ford;William J.E. Hoppitt

  • Relict or colonizer? Extinction and range expansion of penguins in southern New Zealand.

    Sanne Boessenkool;Jeremy J. Austin;Trevor H. Worthy;Paul Scofield

  • Prehistoric bird extinctions and human hunting

    Richard P. Duncan;Tim M. Blackburn;Trevor H. Worthy

  • Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia

    Giles Hamm;Peter Mitchell;Lee J. Arnold;Gavin J. Prideaux

  • Miocene waterfowl and other birds from central Otago, New Zealand

    Trevor Henry Worthy;Alan J. D. Tennyson;C. Jones;James A. McNamara

  • Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific

    Trevor Henry Worthy;Alan J. D. Tennyson;Michael Archer;Anne M. Musser

  • Coprolite deposits reveal the diet and ecology of the extinct New Zealand megaherbivore moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes)

    Jamie R. Wood;Nicolas J. Rawlence;Geoffery M. Rogers;Jeremy J. Austin

  • Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific

    Arthur W. White;Trevor H. Worthy;Stuart Hawkins;Stuart Bedford

  • A sphenodontine (Rhynchocephalia) from the Miocene of New Zealand and palaeobiogeography of the tuatara ( Sphenodon )

    Marc E.H Jones;Alan J.D Tennyson;Jennifer P Worthy;Susan E Evans

  • Quaternary fossil faunas, overlapping taphonomies, and palaeofaunal reconstruction in North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

    T. H. Worthy;R. N. Holdaway

  • Likelihood reinstates Archaeopteryx as a primitive bird.

    Michael S. Y. Lee;Trevor H. Worthy

  • Quaternary fossil faunas from caves in Takaka Valley and on Takaka Hill, northwest Nelson, South Island, New Zealand

    T. H. Worthy;R.N. Holdaway

  • Quaternary fossil faunas from caves in the Punakaiki area, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

    T. H. Worthy;R. N. Holdaway

  • The evolution of giant flightless birds and novel phylogenetic relationships for extinct fowl (Aves, Galloanseres)

    Trevor Henry Worthy;Federico Javier Degrange;Warren D. Handley;Mike S. Y. Lee;Mike S. Y. Lee

  • High-Resolution Coproecology: Using Coprolites to Reconstruct the Habits and Habitats of New Zealand’s Extinct Upland Moa (Megalapteryx didinus)

    Jamie R. Wood;Janet M. Wilmshurst;Steven J. Wagstaff;Trevor H. Worthy

  • Twenty-first century advances in knowledge of the biology of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes): a new morphological analysis and moa diagnoses revised

    TH Worthy;RP Scofield

  • Osteology of Leiopelma (Amphibia: Leiopelmatidae) and descriptions of three new subfossil Leiopelma species

    Trevor H. Worthy

  • AFFINITIES OF MIOCENE WATERFOWL (ANATIDAE: MANUHERIKIA, DUNSTANETTA AND MIOTADORNA) FROM THE ST BATHANS FAUNA, NEW ZEALAND

    Trevor H. Worthy;Michael S. Y. Lee;Michael S. Y. Lee

  • Quaternary fossil faunas of Otago, South Island, New Zealand

    T. H. Worthy

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
Richard N. Holdaway
Richard N. Holdaway University of Canterbury
Michael Archer
Michael Archer University of New South Wales
Jamie R. Wood
Jamie R. Wood University of Adelaide
Michael Bunce
Michael Bunce Curtin University
Janet M. Wilmshurst
Janet M. Wilmshurst Landcare Research
Jeremy J. Austin
Jeremy J. Austin University of Adelaide
Nigel A. Spooner
Nigel A. Spooner University of Adelaide
James Haile
James Haile Murdoch University
Storrs L. Olson
Storrs L. Olson National Museum of Natural History

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Michael Bunce

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Charles H. Daugherty

Charles H. Daugherty

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Publications: 26

David M. Lambert

David M. Lambert

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Publications: 26

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Morten E. Allentoft

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Publications: 25

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Michael Archer

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Publications: 22

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Jeremy J. Austin

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Publications: 21

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M. Thomas P. Gilbert

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George L. W. Perry

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