Trevor H. Worthy

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
228 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

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Trevor H. Worthy is a scholar working on Paleontology, Ecology and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Trevor H. Worthy has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 145 papers in Paleontology, 86 papers in Ecology and 70 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Trevor H. Worthy's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (129 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (96 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (70 papers). Trevor H. Worthy is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (129 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (96 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (70 papers). Trevor H. Worthy collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Australia and United States. Trevor H. Worthy's co-authors include Richard N. Holdaway, R. Paul Scofield, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Alan Cooper, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Michael S. Y. Lee, Atholl Anderson, Jamie R. Wood, Thomas Higham and Suzanne J. Hand and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Trevor H. Worthy

217 papers receiving 5.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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

2008 402 citations Janet M. Wilmshurst, Trevor H. Worthy et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Trevor H. Worthy New Zealand	40	3.1k	2.6k	1.5k	1.5k	1.1k	228	6.1k
David W. Steadman United States	38	2.8k 0.9×	3.1k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	1.8k 1.7×	196	6.8k
Storrs L. Olson United States	44	3.1k 1.0×	3.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	868 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	394	6.8k
Samuel T. Turvey United Kingdom	39	1.3k 0.4×	3.8k 1.5×	1.4k 0.9×	284 0.2×	916 0.8×	184	6.0k
David A. Burney United States	33	1.0k 0.3×	1.3k 0.5×	584 0.4×	764 0.5×	666 0.6×	68	3.6k
Helen F. James United States	31	955 0.3×	1.7k 0.6×	578 0.4×	630 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	100	3.5k
Richard N. Holdaway New Zealand	31	1.0k 0.3×	1.7k 0.7×	417 0.3×	831 0.6×	356 0.3×	89	3.2k
R. Paul Scofield New Zealand	29	1.4k 0.5×	1.7k 0.7×	864 0.6×	402 0.3×	429 0.4×	177	3.5k
Lawrence R. Heaney United States	35	2.0k 0.6×	2.7k 1.1×	902 0.6×	164 0.1×	1.9k 1.8×	135	5.0k
Elizabeth A. Hadly United States	40	1.3k 0.4×	2.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	108 0.1×	1.1k 1.1×	112	5.2k
Ken Aplin Australia	30	1.1k 0.3×	1.3k 0.5×	269 0.2×	524 0.4×	582 0.5×	116	3.1k

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Pietri, Vanesa L. De, R. Paul Scofield, Suzanne J. Hand, et al.. (2025). Early Miocene gull-like birds (Charadriiformes: Laridae) from New Zealand. Geobios. 90. 45–57.

Wilmshurst, Janet M., et al.. (2025). Burrowing Into the Past: Extending Niche Space Models of Procellariiform Breeding Grounds by Merging Fossil and Historic Data. Diversity and Distributions. 31(5). 1 indexed citations

Worthy, Trevor H., et al.. (2023). New Pleistocene bird fossils in Taiwan reveal unexpected seabirds in East Asia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 68. 5 indexed citations

Camens, Aaron B., et al.. (2023). Description of the Pliocene marsupial Ambulator keanei gen. nov. (Marsupialia: Diprotodontidae) from inland Australia and its locomotory adaptations. Royal Society Open Science. 10(5). 230211–230211. 3 indexed citations

Lee, Michael S. Y., et al.. (2023). A giant raptor (Aves: Accipitridae) from the Pleistocene of southern Australia. Journal für Ornithologie. 164(3). 499–526. 3 indexed citations

Worthy, Trevor H., et al.. (2023). A new species of Mukupirna (Diprotodontia, Mukupirnidae) from the Oligocene of Central Australia sheds light on basal vombatoid interrelationships. Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 47(4). 446–474. 4 indexed citations

Worthy, Trevor H., Vanesa L. De Pietri, R. Paul Scofield, & Suzanne J. Hand. (2023). A new Eocene species of presbyornithid (Aves, Anseriformes) from Murgon, Australia. Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 47(4). 416–430. 6 indexed citations

Hawkins, Stuart, Trevor H. Worthy, Stuart Bedford, et al.. (2016). Ancient tortoise hunting in the southwest Pacific. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 38317–38317. 13 indexed citations

Lee, Michael S. Y. & Trevor H. Worthy. (2011). Likelihood reinstates Archaeopteryx as a primitive bird. Biology Letters. 8(2). 299–303. 62 indexed citations

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Scofield, R. Paul, et al.. (2011). New palaeontological data from the excavation of the Late Glacial Glencrieff miring bone deposit, North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 41(3). 217–236. 15 indexed citations

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Wood, Jamie R., et al.. (2008). A Deposition Mechanism for Holocene Miring Bone Deposits, South Island, New Zealand. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 6(1). 1–20. 8 indexed citations

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Bray, Simon, et al.. (2007). Reconstructing Southern Hemisphere late-Pleistocene and Holocene paleaeo-environments using ancient DNA from cave and swamp-preserved bones and sediments. Quaternary International. 1 indexed citations

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Palma, Ricardo L., Trevor H. Worthy, & Alan J. D. Tennyson. (2003). Resolution of the status of the taxon Apteryx maxima. 14. 1–9. 1 indexed citations

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Worthy, Trevor H., et al.. (2003). A new species of Gallicolumba: Columbidae from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 33(4). 769–793. 8 indexed citations

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Worthy, Trevor H.. (2002). The youngest giant: Discovery and significance of the remains of a giant moa (Dinornis giganteus) near Turangi, in central North Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 32(1). 183–187. 4 indexed citations

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Holdaway, Richard N., Richard G. Roberts, Nancy Beavan, Jon Olley, & Trevor H. Worthy. (2002). Optical dating of quartz sediments and accelerator mass spectrometry ¹⁴ C dating of bone gelatin and moa eggshell: A comparison of age estimates for non‐archaeological deposits in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 32(3). 463–505. 29 indexed citations

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Coleman, James L., et al.. (2001). Identification of a distal ignimbrite in Quaternary strata of the Gisborne area: Implications for ignimbrite dispersal, stratigraphy, and paleofauna. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 44(2). 337–345. 1 indexed citations

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Worthy, Trevor H. & Richard N. Holdaway. (1995). Quaternary fossil faunas from caves on Mt Cookson, North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 25(3). 333–370. 61 indexed citations

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Worthy, Trevor H.. (1990). An analysis of the distribution and relative abundance of moa species (Aves: Dinornithiformes). New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 17(2). 213–241. 43 indexed citations

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Worthy, Trevor H.. (1984). Faunal and floral remains from Fl, a cave near Waitomo. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 14(4). 367–377. 29 indexed citations

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