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D-Index
31
Citations
4102
World Ranking
8909
National Ranking
887

William G. Chaloner 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 William G. Chaloner sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 65 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William G. Chaloner 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 William G. Chaloner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • Fossil charcoal, its recognition and palaeoatmospheric significance

    Timothy P. Jones;William G. Chaloner

  • Influence of environmental factors on the wood structure of living and fossil trees

    Unknown

  • Evolution of leaf-form in land plants linked to atmospheric CO2 decline in the Late Palaeozoic era

    D. J. Beerling;C. P. Osborne;W. G. Chaloner

  • The fossil cuticle as a skeletal record of environmental change

    Jennifer C. McElwain;William G. Chaloner

  • Fossil charcoal as evidence of past atmospheric composition

    Unknown

  • Three growth in the Mesozoic and Early Tertiary and the reconstruction of palaeoclimates

    Unknown

  • Assessing the potential for the stomatal characters of extant and fossil Ginkgo leaves to signal atmospheric CO2 change.

    Li-Qun Chen;Cheng-Sen Li;William G. Chaloner;David J. Beerling

  • Fossil charcoal as an indicator of palaeoatmospheric oxygen level

    Unknown

  • Do fossil plants give a climatic signal

    Unknown

  • The Composition of Sporopollenin and its use in Living and Fossil Plant Systematics

    Alan R. Hemsley;Patrick J. Barrie;William G. Chaloner;Andrew C. Scott

  • The fossil plant record and global climatic change

    Unknown

  • The Carboniferous Upland Flora

    Unknown

  • THE RISE OF THE FIRST LAND PLANTS

    Unknown

  • Biophysical constraints on the origin of leaves inferred from the fossil record.

    C. P. Osborne;D. J. Beerling;B. H. Lomax;W. G. Chaloner

  • Proposed Bio-geological and Chemical Based Terminology for Fire-altered Plant Matter

    Timothy Peter Jones;W. G. Chaloner;T. A. J. Kuhlbusch

  • First Devonian platyspermic seed and its implications in gymnosperm evolution

    Unknown

  • Evidence of multiple late Bashkirian to early Moscovian (Pennsylvanian) fire events preserved in contemporaneous cave fills

    Andrew C. Scott;Fabien Kenig;Roy E. Plotnick;Ian J. Glasspool

  • Carbon-13 solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance of sporopollenins from modern and fossil plants

    A. R. Hemsley;A. R. Hemsley;W. G. Chaloner;A. C. Scott;C. J. Groombridge

  • Palaeozoic plants from Saudi Arabia

    Unknown

  • On the Megaspores of Four Species of Lepidostrobus

    Unknown

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