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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 39 6054 5605 53 50 189 7032

Vivi Vajda publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Vivi Vajda between 1988 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Vivi Vajda published across 38 years, from 1988 to 2025, averaging 5.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 21 publications in 2018. 21 of the 219 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1988 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 21. Peak 21 publications in 2018. 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 5 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 9 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 8 publications 2015: 6 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 7 publications 2018: 21 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 15 publications 2021: 20 publications 2022: 6 publications 2023: 18 publications 2024: 10 publications 2025: 11 publications
1988 2025

219 publications in total across all disciplines

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Vivi Vajda: publications per year, 1988 to 2025
Year Publications
1988 1
1989 0
1990 0
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 0
1998 2
1999 0
2000 1
2001 5
2002 0
2003 2
2004 6
2005 4
2006 7
2007 7
2008 4
2009 5
2010 9
2011 5
2012 8
2013 5
2014 8
2015 6
2016 11
2017 7
2018 21
2019 15
2020 15
2021 20
2022 6
2023 18
2024 10
2025 11
Total 219
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Vivi Vajda 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 Vivi Vajda sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 188–197 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 189 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401 189
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Vivi Vajda 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 Vivi Vajda sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 39 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349 39
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Vivi Vajda is affiliated with the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on paleontology and related disciplines.

Their subfields of study exhibit a strong concentration in Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, and Earth-Surface Processes. This multidisciplinary approach underlines their engagement with both biological and geological aspects of past environments.

Key topics addressed in Vivi Vajda's body of work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Geological formations and processes, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis. These areas highlight a broad but interconnected spectrum of scientific investigation focusing on Earth's history and biological evolution.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Vivi Vajda include Stephen McLoughlin, Sam M. Slater, Chris Mays, Tracy D. Frank, and Christopher R. Fielding. Such collaborations indicate a network of researchers contributing to related scientific areas.

Vivi Vajda has published extensively in several scientific venues, with notable numbers of publications appearing in GFF, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Geological Society London Special Publications, and Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Vivi Vajda include:

  • Pace, magnitude, and nature of terrestrial climate change through the end-Permian extinction in southeastern Gondwana, 2021, Geology
  • Microbial life in the nascent Chicxulub crater, 2020, Geology
  • Palaeovegetation and palaeoclimate changes across the Triassic-Jurassic transition in the Sichuan Basin, China, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Sedimentology of the continental end-Permian extinction event in the Sydney Basin, eastern Australia, 2020, Sedimentology
  • Origin of a global carbonate layer deposited in the aftermath of the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary impact, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Best Publications

  • The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

    Peter Schulte;Laia Alegret;Ignacio Arenillas;José A. Arz

  • Indication of global deforestation at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary by New Zealand fern spike.

    Vivi Vajda;J. Ian Raine;Christopher J. Hollis

  • Age and pattern of the southern high-latitude continental end-Permian extinction constrained by multiproxy analysis

    Christopher R. Fielding;Tracy D. Frank;Stephen McLoughlin;Vivi Vajda

  • The global vegetation pattern across the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction interval: A template for other extinction events

    Vivi Vajda;Antoine Bercovici

  • Fungal proliferation at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

    Vivi Vajda;Stephen McLoughlin;Stephen McLoughlin

  • Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

    Daniel J. Field;Antoine Bercovici;Jacob S. Berv;Regan Dunn

  • The First Day of the Cenozoic

    Sean P.S. Gulick;Timothy J. Bralower;Jens Ormö;Brendon Hall

  • Fossilized Nuclei and Chromosomes Reveal 180 Million Years of Genomic Stasis in Royal Ferns

    Benjamin Bomfleur;Stephen McLoughlin;Vivi Vajda

  • Substantial vegetation response to Early Jurassic global warming with impacts on oceanic anoxia

    Sam M. Slater;Richard J. Twitchett;Silvia Danise;Vivi Vajda

  • Triassic-Jurassic climate in continental high-latitude Asia was dominated by obliquity-paced variations (Junggar Basin, Urumqi, China)

    Jingeng Sha;Paul E. Olsen;Yanhong Pan;Daoyi Xu

  • Extinction and recovery patterns of the vegetation across the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary — a tool for unravelling the causes of the end-Permian mass-extinction

    Vivi Vajda;Stephen McLoughlin

  • Geochemical and mineralogical investigation of the Permian-Triassic boundary in the Continental Realm of the Southern Karoo Basin, South Africa

    Louise Coney;W. Uwe Reimold;W. Uwe Reimold;P. John Hancox;Dieter Mader

  • Pollen and spores in marine Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary sediments at mid‐Waipara River, North Canterbury, New Zealand

    Vivi Vajda;JI Raine

  • Early Jurassic (late Pliensbachian) CO2 concentrations based on stomatal analysis of fossil conifer leaves from eastern Australia

    Margret Steinthorsdottir;Vivi Vajda

  • Terrestrial paleoenvironment characterization across the Permian-Triassic boundary in South China

    Antoine Bercovici;Ying Cui;Marie-Béatrice Forel;Jianxin Yu

  • Miocene climate evolution of northern Europe: A palynological investigation from Denmark

    Linda M. Larsson;Karen Dybkjær;Erik S. Rasmussen;Stefan Piasecki

  • Flora of the Late Triassic

    Evelyn Kustatscher;Sidney R. Ash;Eugeny Karasev;Christian Pott

  • Pace, magnitude, and nature of terrestrial climate change through the end-Permian extinction in southeastern Gondwana

    T.D. Frank;C.R. Fielding;A.M.E. Winguth;K. Savatic

  • An Early Jurassic flora from the Clarence-Moreton Basin, Australia

    Ida-Maria Jansson;Stephen McLoughlin;Vivi Vajda;Michael Pole

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen McLoughlin
Stephen McLoughlin Swedish Museum of Natural History
Christopher R. Fielding
Christopher R. Fielding University of Connecticut
Tracy D. Frank
Tracy D. Frank University of Connecticut
Sean P.S. Gulick
Sean P.S. Gulick The University of Texas at Austin
Timothy J. Bralower
Timothy J. Bralower Pennsylvania State University
Joanna Morgan
Joanna Morgan Imperial College London
James L. Crowley
James L. Crowley Boise State University
Katherine H. Freeman
Katherine H. Freeman Pennsylvania State University
Kliti Grice
Kliti Grice Curtin University
Marco J. L. Coolen
Marco J. L. Coolen Curtin University

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