Subfield · Geology
Most cited papers in Geology
What are the most cited papers in Geology?
The most cited paper in Geology is "The continental crust: its composition and evolution" (Brian Frederick Windley, 1986), with 11,005 citations. Next come "PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation" (9,954) and "Chronology of Fluctuating Sea Levels Since the Triassic" (7,338).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,177 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The continental crust: its composition and evolution Brian Frederick Windley · Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors | Feb 1986 | 11,005 |
| 2 | PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation Raffaelli Charles, Hao Su, Kaichun Mo et al. | Jul 2017 | 9,954 |
| 3 | Chronology of Fluctuating Sea Levels Since the Triassic Bilal Ul Haq, Jan Hardenbol, Peter R. Vail · Science | 6 Mar 1987 | 7,338 |
| 4 | Biopython: freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology and bioinformatics Peter Cock, Tiago Antão, Jeffrey T. Chang et al. · Bioinformatics | 20 Mar 2009 | 6,801 |
| 5 | Composition of the Continental Crust Roberta L. Rudnick, Shan Gao · Treatise on Geochemistry | 2003 | 6,466 |
| 6 | Structure-from-Motion Revisited Johannes L. Schönberger, Jan‐Michael Frahm | Jun 2016 | 6,276 |
| 7 | Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings Walter H. F. Smith, David T. Sandwell · Science | 26 Sep 1997 | 4,763 |
| 8 | Geology of mankind Paul J. Crutzen · Nature | 3 Jan 2002 | 4,513 |
| 9 | Parallel Tracking and Mapping for Small AR Workspaces Georg Klein, David W. Murray | Nov 2007 | 4,314 |
| 10 | ScanNet: Richly-Annotated 3D Reconstructions of Indoor Scenes Angela Dai, Anne Lynn S. Chang, Manolis Savva et al. | Jul 2017 | 4,270 |
| 11 | ORB-SLAM3: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual–Inertial, and Multimap SLAM Carlos Campos, Richard Elvira, Juan J. Gomez Rodriguez et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics | 25 May 2021 | 4,192 |
| 12 | ‘Structure-from-Motion’ photogrammetry: A low-cost, effective tool for geoscience applications Matthew Westoby, James Brasington, Neil F. Glasser et al. · Geomorphology | 6 Sep 2012 | 4,137 |
| 13 | Generic Mapping Tools: Improved Version Released Paul Wessel, Walter H. F. Smith, Remko Scharroo et al. · Eos | 5 Nov 2013 | 4,121 |
| 14 | A benchmark for the evaluation of RGB-D SLAM systems Jrgen Sturm, Nikolas Engelhard, Felix Endres et al. | Oct 2012 | 4,086 |
| 15 | KinectFusion: Real-time dense surface mapping and tracking Richard A. Newcombe, Andrew W Fitzgibbon, Shahram Izadi et al. | Oct 2011 | 4,035 |
| 16 | Fast Point Feature Histograms (FPFH) for 3D registration Radu Bogdan Rusu, Nico Blodow, Michael Beetz | May 2009 | 3,961 |
| 17 | Petrology of the sedimentary rocks Earle F. McBride · Geomorphology | Jun 1991 | 3,689 |
| 18 | Tectonic models for accretion of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt Brian Frederick Windley, Dmitriy V. Alexeiev, Wenjiao Xiao et al. · Journal of the Geological Society | 7 Dec 2006 | 3,433 |
| 19 | Multi-view Convolutional Neural Networks for 3D Shape Recognition Hang Su, Subhransu Maji, Evangelos Kalogerakis et al. | Dec 2015 | 3,408 |
| 20 | The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart K.M. Cohen, Stanley C. Finney, P.L. Gibbard et al. · Episodes | Sep 2013 | 3,226 |
| 21 | A Revised Cenozoic Geochronology and Chronostratigraphy William A. Berggren, Dennis V. Kent, Carl C. Swisher et al. · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks | 1995 | 3,091 |
| 22 | PointRCNN: 3D Object Proposal Generation and Detection From Point Cloud Shaoshuai Shi, Xiaogang Wang, Hongsheng Li | Jun 2019 | 3,070 |
| 23 | Unmanned aerial systems for photogrammetry and remote sensing: A review I. Colomina, P. Molina · ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Apr 2014 | 3,006 |
| 24 | Characterizing dissolved organic matter fluorescence with parallel factor analysis: a tutorial Colin Andrew Stedmon, Rasmus Bro · Limnology and Oceanography Methods | Nov 2008 | 2,845 |
| 25 | Unsupervised Learning of Visual Representations by Solving Jigsaw Puzzles Mehdi Noroozi, Paolo Favaro · Lecture notes in computer science | 2016 | 2,823 |
| 26 | Morphology, Genesis, and Distribution of Nanometer-Scale Pores in Siliceous Mudstones of the Mississippian Barnett Shale Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, Stephen C. Ruppel et al. · Journal of Sedimentary Research | 30 Nov 2009 | 2,793 |
| 27 | Cenozoic geological and plate tectonic evolution of SE Asia and the SW Pacific: computer-based reconstructions, model and animations Robert Jr. O. Hall · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | Apr 2002 | 2,626 |
| 28 | Automatic generation and detection of highly reliable fiducial markers under occlusion Sergio Garrido-Jurado, Rafael Muñoz‐Salinas, Francisco José Madrid-Cuevas et al. · Pattern Recognition | 21 Jan 2014 | 2,621 |
| 29 | Least-squares estimation of transformation parameters between two point patterns Shinji Umeyama · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Apr 1991 | 2,436 |
| 30 | Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds: A Survey Yulan Guo, Hanyun Wang, Qingyong Hu et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 29 Jun 2020 | 2,375 |
| 31 | Building Information Modeling (BIM) for existing buildings — Literature review and future needs Rebekka Volk, Julian Stengel, Frank Schultmann · Automation in Construction | 14 Dec 2013 | 2,199 |
| 32 | PV-RCNN: Point-Voxel Feature Set Abstraction for 3D Object Detection Shaoshuai Shi, Chaoxu Guo, Li Jiang et al. | Jun 2020 | 2,170 |
| 33 | SVO: Fast semi-direct monocular visual odometry Christian Förster, Matia Pizzoli, Davide Scaramuzza | May 2014 | 2,156 |
| 34 | PointNet++: Deep Hierarchical Feature Learning on Point Sets in a Metric Space Charles R. Qi, Li Yi, Hao Su et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) | 7 Jun 2017 | 2,145 |
| 35 | KinectFusion Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Otmar Hilliges et al. | 16 Oct 2011 | 2,142 |
| 36 | Mesozoic and Cenozoic Chronostratigraphy and Cycles of Sea-Level Change Bilal Ul Haq, Jan Hardenbol, Peter R. Vail et al. · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks | 1988 | 2,129 |
| 37 | The EuRoC micro aerial vehicle datasets Michael Burri, Janosch Nikolic, Pascal Gohl et al. · The International Journal of Robotics Research | 25 Jan 2016 | 2,116 |
| 38 | Efficient RANSAC for Point‐Cloud Shape Detection Ruwen Schnabel, Roland Wahl, Reinhard Klein · Computer Graphics Forum | 21 May 2007 | 2,108 |
| 39 | Continental Basalts and Mantle Xenoliths D. BARRIE CLARKE · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | Jul 1984 | 2,048 |
| 40 | Gondwana dispersion and Asian accretion: Tectonic and palaeogeographic evolution of eastern Tethys Ian Metcalfe · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2 Jan 2013 | 2,030 |
| 41 | Photometric Method For Determining Surface Orientation From Multiple Images Robert J. Woodham · Optical Engineering | Feb 1980 | 2,019 |
| 42 | Maps of Pleistocene sea levels in Southeast Asia: shorelines, river systems and time durations Harold K. Voris · Journal of Biogeography | Sep 2000 | 1,996 |
| 43 | 3D Semantic Parsing of Large-Scale Indoor Spaces Iro Armeni, Ozan Şener, Amir Zamir et al. | Jun 2016 | 1,987 |
| 44 | Real-time loop closure in 2D LIDAR SLAM Wolfgang J. Hess, Damon Kohler, Holger Rapp et al. | May 2016 | 1,967 |
| 45 | PointConv: Deep Convolutional Networks on 3D Point Clouds Wenxuan Wu, Zhongang Qi, Fuxin Li | Jun 2019 | 1,954 |
| 46 | Submarine Thermal Springs on the Galápagos Rift John B. Corliss, Jack Dymond, Louis I Gordon et al. · Science | 16 Mar 1979 | 1,902 |
| 47 | PCT: Point cloud transformer Meng-Hao Guo, Jun-Xiong Cai, Zheng-Ning Liu et al. · Computational Visual Media | 9 Apr 2021 | 1,894 |
| 48 | UAV for 3D mapping applications: a review Francesco Nex, Fabio Remondino · Applied Geomatics | 7 Nov 2013 | 1,892 |
| 49 | Matterport3D: Learning from RGB-D Data in Indoor Environments Anne Lynn S. Chang, Angela Dai, Thomas A. Funkhouser et al. | Oct 2017 | 1,833 |
| 50 | Petrogenesis of Mesozoic granitoids and volcanic rocks in South China: A response to tectonic evolution Xinmin Zhou, Tao Sun, Weizhou Shen et al. · Episodes | Mar 2006 | 1,774 |
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