Most cited papers in Geological and Geochemical Analysis
What are the most cited papers in Geological and Geochemical Analysis?
The most cited paper in Geological and Geochemical Analysis is "Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes" (Shen‐Su Sun, W. F. McDonough, 1989), with 25,720 citations. Next come "The composition of the Earth" (13,976) and "Trace Element Discrimination Diagrams for the Tectonic Interpretation of Granitic Rocks" (8,648).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 2,066 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes Shen‐Su Sun, W. F. McDonough · Geological Society London Special Publications | 1989 | 25,720 |
| 2 | The composition of the Earth W. F. McDonough, Shen‐Su Sun · Chemical Geology | Mar 1995 | 13,976 |
| 3 | Trace Element Discrimination Diagrams for the Tectonic Interpretation of Granitic Rocks Julian A. Pearce, Nigel Harris, A. G. Tindle · Journal of Petrology | Nov 1984 | 8,648 |
| 4 | The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP) Paula J. Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon | Aug 2020 | 7,945 |
| 5 | New empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture width, rupture area, and surface displacement Donald L. Wells, Kevin J. Coppersmith · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Aug 1994 | 7,875 |
| 6 | Early Proterozoic climates and plate motions inferred from major element chemistry of lutites H.W. Nesbitt, Grant M. Young · Nature | Oct 1982 | 6,835 |
| 7 | A Chemical Classification of Volcanic Rocks Based on the Total Alkali-Silica Diagram M. J. Le Bas, R. W. Le Maitre, Albert Streckeisen et al. · Journal of Petrology | Jun 1986 | 6,747 |
| 8 | Composition of the Continental Crust Roberta L. Rudnick, Shan Gao · Treatise on Geochemistry | 2003 | 6,466 |
| 9 | THREE NATURAL ZIRCON STANDARDS FOR U‐TH‐PB, LU‐HF, TRACE ELEMENT AND REE ANALYSES Michael Wiedenbeck, Paul Allé, Fernando Corfú et al. · Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research | Apr 1995 | 6,331 |
| 10 | Geologic Evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen An Yin, T. Mark Harrison · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | May 2000 | 6,097 |
| 11 | Geochemistry of eocene calc-alkaline volcanic rocks from the Kastamonu area, Northern Turkey Angelο Peccerillo, S. R. Taylor · Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology | 1976 | 5,873 |
| 12 | A-type granites: geochemical characteristics, discrimination and petrogenesis J B Whalen, Kenneth L. Currie, BRUCE W. CHAPPELL · Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology | Apr 1987 | 5,654 |
| 13 | Geochemical discrimination of different magma series and their differentiation products using immobile elements J. A. Winchester, P.A. Floyd · Chemical Geology | 1977 | 5,388 |
| 14 | The application of laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry to in situ U–Pb zircon geochronology Simon E. Jackson, Norman J. Pearson, William L. Griffin et al. · Chemical Geology | 21 Sep 2004 | 5,266 |
| 15 | Plešovice zircon — A new natural reference material for U–Pb and Hf isotopic microanalysis Jiří Sláma, Jan Košler, Daniel J. Condon et al. · Chemical Geology | 10 Dec 2007 | 5,245 |
| 16 | An internally consistent thermodynamic data set for phases of petrological interest Tim J. B. Holland, Roger Powell · Journal of Metamorphic Geology | May 1998 | 4,886 |
| 17 | In situ analysis of major and trace elements of anhydrous minerals by LA-ICP-MS without applying an internal standard Yongsheng Liu, Zhaochu Hu, Shan Gao et al. · Chemical Geology | 7 Sep 2008 | 4,861 |
| 18 | The Composition of Zircon and Igneous and Metamorphic Petrogenesis P. W. O. Hoskin · Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry | 2003 | 4,775 |
| 19 | Tectonic discrimination of granitoids P.D. Maniar, Philip M. Piccoli · Geological Society of America Bulletin | May 1989 | 4,689 |
| 20 | Derivation of some modern arc magmas by melting of young subducted lithosphere Marc J. Defant, Mark S. Drummond · Nature | Oct 1990 | 4,344 |
| 21 | A Geochemical Classification for Granitic Rocks Carol D. Frost, Calvin G. Barnes, William Joseph Collins et al. · Journal of Petrology | Nov 2001 | 4,322 |
| 22 | Trace metals as paleoredox and paleoproductivity proxies: An update Nicolas Tribovillard, Thomas J. Algeo, Timothy W. Lyons et al. · Chemical Geology | 30 Mar 2006 | 4,167 |
| 23 | Naming materials in the magma/igneous rock system Eric A. K. Middlemost · Earth-Science Reviews | Dec 1994 | 4,128 |
| 24 | Zircon saturation revisited: temperature and composition effects in a variety of crustal magma types E. Bruce Watson, T. Mark Harrison · Earth and Planetary Science Letters | Aug 1983 | 4,049 |
| 25 | Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau Paul E. Tapponnier, Xu Zhiqin, Françoise Roger et al. · Science | 23 Nov 2001 | 3,960 |
| 26 | Some remarks on the development of sedimentary basins Dan Peter McKenzie · Earth and Planetary Science Letters | Jun 1978 | 3,955 |
| 27 | Nomenclature of Amphiboles; Report of the Subcommittee on Amphiboles of the International Mineralogical Association Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names BERNARD ELGEY LEAKE et al. · Mineralogical Magazine | Apr 1997 | 3,935 |
| 28 | Continental and Oceanic Crust Recycling-induced Melt-Peridotite Interactions in the Trans-North China Orogen: U-Pb Dating, Hf Isotopes and Trace Elements in Zircons from Mantle Xenoliths Yongsheng Liu, Shunbao Gao, Zhaoping Hu et al. · Journal of Petrology | 16 Dec 2009 | 3,773 |
| 29 | Atlas of Zircon Textures Fernando Corfú · Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry | 2003 | 3,656 |
| 30 | Traveltimes for global earthquake location and phase identification Brian L. N. Kennett, Eric Robert Engdahl · Geophysical Journal International | May 1991 | 3,643 |
| 31 | IsoplotR: A free and open toolbox for geochronology Pieter Vermeesch · Geoscience Frontiers | 11 Apr 2018 | 3,554 |
| 32 | Tectonic setting of basic volcanic rocks determined using trace element analyses Julian A. Pearce, Johnson Robin Cann · Earth and Planetary Science Letters | Jun 1973 | 3,524 |
| 33 | Constraints on seismic velocities in the Earth from traveltimes Brian L. N. Kennett, Eric Robert Engdahl, R. Buland · Geophysical Journal International | Jul 1995 | 3,512 |
| 34 | The chemical composition of subducting sediment and its consequences for the crust and mantle Terry Plank, Charles H. Langmuir · Chemical Geology | Apr 1998 | 3,487 |
| 35 | Geochemical fingerprinting of oceanic basalts with applications to ophiolite classification and the search for Archean oceanic crust Julian A. Pearce · Lithos | Aug 2007 | 3,472 |
| 36 | Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis Zheng‐Xiang Li, Svetlana Bogdanova, Alan Stephen Collins et al. · Precambrian Research | 26 Jun 2007 | 3,470 |
| 37 | 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 |
| 38 | Trace element and isotopic effects of combined wallrock assimilation and fractional crystallization Donald J. DePaolo · Earth and Planetary Science Letters | Apr 1981 | 3,413 |
| 39 | Tethyan evolution of Turkey: A plate tectonic approach A. M. Celâl Şengör, Yücel Yılmaz · Tectonophysics | Jun 1981 | 3,405 |
| 40 | The Hf isotope composition of cratonic mantle: LAM-MC-ICPMS analysis of zircon megacrysts in kimberlites William L. Griffin, Norman J. Pearson, Elena A. Belousova et al. · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | 2000 | 3,392 |
| 41 | Dehydration Melting of Metabasalt at 8–32 kbar: Implications for Continental Growth and Crust-Mantle Recycling Robert Paul Rapp, E. Bruce Watson · Journal of Petrology | Aug 1995 | 3,312 |
| 42 | Chemical differentiation of the Earth: the relationship between mantle, continental crust, and oceanic crust Albrecht W. Hofmann · Earth and Planetary Science Letters | Nov 1988 | 3,293 |
| 43 | The Lu-Hf isotope geochemistry of chondrites and the evolution of the mantle-crust system Janne Blichert‐Toft, Francis Albarède · Earth and Planetary Science Letters | Apr 1997 | 3,222 |
| 44 | The Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd isotopic composition of CHUR: Constraints from unequilibrated chondrites and implications for the bulk composition of terrestrial planets Audrey Bouvier, Jeffrey D. Vervoort, P. Jonathan Patchett · Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 23 Jun 2008 | 3,097 |
| 45 | Petrogenetic implications of Ti, Zr, Y, and Nb variations in volcanic rocks Julian A. Pearce, Michael J Norry · Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology | 1979 | 2,983 |
| 46 | Major and trace element composition of the depleted MORB mantle (DMM) Rhea K. Workman, Stanley R. Hart · Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 25 Jan 2005 | 2,969 |
| 47 | The Volume and Composition of Melt Generated by Extension of the Lithosphere Dan Peter McKenzie, M. J. Bickle · Journal of Petrology | Jun 1988 | 2,958 |
| 48 | Propagating extrusion tectonics in Asia: New insights from simple experiments with plasticine P. Tapponnier, G. Peltzer, A. Y. Le Dain et al. · Geology | 1982 | 2,893 |
| 49 | Zircon chemistry and magma mixing, SE China: In-situ analysis of Hf isotopes, Tonglu and Pingtan igneous complexes William L. Griffin, Xiang Wang, Simon E. Jackson et al. · Lithos | Apr 2002 | 2,839 |
| 50 | A Compilation of New and Published Major and Trace Element Data for NIST SRM 610 and NIST SRM 612 Glass Reference Materials Nicholas J.G. Pearce, William T. Perkins, John A. Westgate et al. · Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research | Jun 1997 | 2,797 |
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