2026 Trond H. Torsvik: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	96	172	146	1	1	336	36592

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Norway Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Norway Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Norway Leader Award
2005 - Member of Academia Europaea
1999 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Trond H. Torsvik is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly output spans a significant body of work with 64 publications in this field, focused notably on subfields such as Geophysics, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Geology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research covers an array of topics including Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and earthquake and tectonic studies.

Frequent coauthors in their publications are:

Chloé M. Marcilly
Mathew Domeier
L. Robin M. Cocks
Dana L. Royer
Evgeniy Kulakov

They have published repeatedly in several scientific venues, including:

Gondwana Research (7 publications)
Precambrian Research (3 publications)
Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2 publications)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 publications)
SSRN Electronic Journal (2 publications)

Among recent papers, examples include:

"Ordovician palaeogeography and climate change" (2020, Gondwana Research)
"New paleogeographic and degassing parameters for long-term carbon cycle models" (2021, Gondwana Research)
"Genesis and evolution of kimberlites" (2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
"Global Phanerozoic sea levels from paleogeographic flooding maps" (2022, Gondwana Research)
"Circum-Tethyan magmatic provinces, shifting continents and Permian climate change" (2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)

Trond H. Torsvik has been recognized with awards including membership in Academia Europaea since 2005 and fellowship in the American Geophysical Union since 1999.

Best Publications

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200 Ma

M. Seton;R.D. Müller;S. Zahirovic;C. Gaina

2017
Citations
Phanerozoic polar wander, palaeogeography and dynamics

Trond H. Torsvik;Rob Van der Voo;Rob Van der Voo;Ulla Preeden;Conall Mac Niocaill

1537
Citations
Continental break-up and collision in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic — A tale of Baltica and Laurentia

T.H. Torsvik;M.A. Smethurst;J.G. Meert;R. Van der Voo

1062
Citations
Earth geography from 500 to 400 million years ago: a faunal and palaeomagnetic review

L.R.M. Cocks;T.H. Torsvik;T.H. Torsvik

920
Citations
Global plate motion frames: Toward a unified model

Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;R. Dietmar Müller;Rob Van der Voo;Bernhard Steinberger

760
Citations
Greater India Basin hypothesis and a two-stage Cenozoic collision between India and Asia

Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Peter C. Lippert;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Nadine McQuarrie

756
Citations
Earth History and Palaeogeography

Trond H. Torsvik;L. Robin M. Cocks

747
Citations
Gondwana from top to base in space and time

Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;L. Robin M. Cocks

680
Citations
Plate tectonics in the late Paleozoic

Mathew Domeier;Trond H. Torsvik

668
Citations
Baltica from the late Precambrian to mid-Palaeozoic times: The gain and loss of a terrane's identity

L. Robin M. Cocks;Trond H. Torsvik

628
Citations
The making and unmaking of a supercontinent: Rodinia revisited

Joseph G. Meert;Trond H. Torsvik

593
Citations
Plume Generation Zones at the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces on the core–mantle boundary

Kevin Burke;Kevin Burke;Bernhard Steinberger;Trond H. Torsvik;Mark A. Smethurst

588
Citations
Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic

Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen;Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;Stefan M. Schmid;Liviu C. Maţenco

559
Citations
A new scheme for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean and the dissection of an Aptian salt basin

Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;Sonia Rousse;Cinthia Labails;Mark A. Smethurst

547
Citations
Diamonds sampled by plumes from the core–mantle boundary

Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;Kevin Burke;Kevin Burke;Bernhard Steinberger;Bernhard Steinberger;Susan J. Webb

539
Citations
Earth geography from 400 to 250 Ma: a palaeomagnetic, faunal and facies review

Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;L. Robin M. Cocks

495
Citations
The dynamic evolution of the Palaeozoic geography of eastern Asia

L. Robin M. Cocks;Trond H. Torsvik

436
Citations
Siberia, the wandering northern terrane, and its changing geography through the Palaeozoic

L. Robin M. Cocks;Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik

432
Citations
Towards absolute plate motions constrained by lower-mantle slab remnants

Douwe G. van der Meer;Douwe G. van der Meer;Wim Spakman;Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Maisha L. Amaru;Maisha L. Amaru

432
Citations
Restoration of Cenozoic deformation in Asia and the size of Greater India

Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Paul Kapp;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Guillaume Dupont-Nivet;Peter C. Lippert;Peter C. Lippert

362
Citations
Reply to comment by D. Aslanian and M. Moulin on ‘A new scheme for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean and the dissection of an Aptian salt basin’

Trond H. Torsvik;Trond H. Torsvik;Sonia Rousse;Mark A. Smethurst

21
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Steinberger Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

Wim Spakman Utrecht University

Carmen Gaina University of Oslo

Lewis D. Ashwal University of the Witwatersrand

L. Robin M. Cocks Natural History Museum

Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen Utrecht University

Kevin Burke University of Houston

Rob Van der Voo University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Stephanie C. Werner University of Oslo

Joseph G. Meert University of Florida

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