Standout Papers

Mechanism of burial metam... 1970 2026 1988 2007 1976 1970 250 500 750 1000
What are hit papers?

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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Mechanism of burial metamorphism of argillaceous sediment: 1. Mineralogical and chemical evidence
    1976 1.1k citations John Hower, Eric Eslinger et al. Geological Society of America Bulletin profile →
  2. Burial Diagenesis in Gulf Coast Pelitic Sediments
    1970 423 citations Ed Perry, John Hower Clays and Clay Minerals profile →

Immediate Impact

4 by Nobel laureates 39 from Science/Nature 57 hit
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2 intermediate papers

Works of John Hower being referenced

Burial Diagenesis in Gulf Coast Pelitic Sediments
1970 Hit
Matrix corrections in the x-ray spectrographic trace element analysis of rocks and minerals
1959

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
John Hower 2.1k 1.7k 792 768 668 41 4.0k
Jan Środoń 1.7k 0.8× 1.8k 1.1× 807 1.0× 748 1.0× 477 0.7× 91 3.8k
D. M. Moore 1.6k 0.8× 1.4k 0.9× 844 1.1× 411 0.5× 442 0.7× 27 4.5k
B. Velde 2.0k 1.0× 2.1k 1.3× 1.2k 1.5× 623 0.8× 542 0.8× 123 5.5k
Christine V. Putnis 2.0k 0.9× 1.6k 0.9× 475 0.6× 536 0.7× 624 0.9× 148 6.3k
Stephen Guggenheim 2.0k 0.9× 1.8k 1.1× 753 1.0× 558 0.7× 611 0.9× 142 5.9k
John V. Walther 965 0.5× 1.7k 1.0× 374 0.5× 469 0.6× 367 0.5× 55 4.2k
Gilles Berger 826 0.4× 947 0.6× 472 0.6× 650 0.8× 299 0.4× 78 4.2k
Dennis D. Eberl 2.9k 1.4× 1.8k 1.1× 1.3k 1.6× 1.0k 1.3× 956 1.4× 108 7.4k
Victor A. Drits 1.8k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 747 0.9× 324 0.4× 853 1.3× 66 5.0k
K. Norrish 1.3k 0.6× 1.3k 0.8× 1.1k 1.4× 192 0.3× 555 0.8× 48 4.6k

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