Standout Papers

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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. Nature and composition of the continental crust: A lower crustal perspective
    1995 2.7k citations Roberta L. Rudnick, David M. Fountain Reviews of Geophysics profile →
  2. Recycling lower continental crust in the North China craton
    2004 1.6k citations Shan Gao, Roberta L. Rudnick et al. Nature profile →
  3. Making continental crust
    1995 1.1k citations Roberta L. Rudnick Nature profile →
  4. Re–Os evidence for replacement of ancient mantle lithosphere beneath the North China craton
    2002 824 citations Shan Gao, Roberta L. Rudnick et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
  5. Carbonatite metasomatism in the northern Tanzanian mantle: Petrographic and geochemical characteristics
    1993 726 citations Roberta L. Rudnick, W. F. McDonough et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
  6. Petrology and geochemistry of spinel peridotite xenoliths from Hannuoba and Qixia, North China craton
    2004 514 citations Roberta L. Rudnick, Shan Gao et al. Lithos profile →
  7. Tracking the budget of Nb and Ta in the continental crust
    2000 501 citations Matthias Barth, W. F. McDonough et al. Chemical Geology profile →
  8. Highly siderophile element composition of the Earth’s primitive upper mantle: Constraints from new data on peridotite massifs and xenoliths
    2006 487 citations Harry Becker, M. F. Horan et al. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta profile →
  9. Recycling deep cratonic lithosphere and generation of intraplate magmatism in the North China Craton
    2008 429 citations Shan Gao, Roberta L. Rudnick et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
  10. Archean upper crust transition from mafic to felsic marks the onset of plate tectonics
    2016 362 citations Ming Tang, Kang Chen et al. Science profile →

Immediate Impact

76 from Science/Nature 135 hit
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Citing Papers

Interplay between oceanic subduction and continental collision in building continental crust
2022 Hit
A global temperature control of silicate weathering intensity
2022 Hit
24 intermediate papers

Works of Roberta L. Rudnick being referenced

Potassium isotope fractionation during continental weathering and implications for global K isotopic balance
2020
Insights into chemical weathering of the upper continental crust from the geochemistry of ancient glacial diamictites
2015
and 21 more

Author Peers

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

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Roberta L. Rudnick 18.4k 5.3k 4.5k 2.1k 1.3k 190 20.8k
Albrecht W. Hofmann 27.3k 1.5× 7.6k 1.4× 4.1k 0.9× 2.8k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 182 29.6k
P. Jonathan Patchett 14.7k 0.8× 6.0k 1.1× 2.9k 0.6× 2.3k 1.1× 1.7k 1.2× 130 16.7k
Zhaochu Hu 17.0k 0.9× 8.4k 1.6× 3.8k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 1.4k 1.0× 329 20.7k
S. R. Taylor 14.2k 0.8× 6.9k 1.3× 6.6k 1.5× 2.8k 1.4× 1.6k 1.2× 173 19.7k
Stanley R. Hart 25.2k 1.4× 6.6k 1.2× 4.1k 0.9× 4.0k 1.9× 1.8k 1.3× 202 28.0k
Frederick A. Frey 18.4k 1.0× 4.8k 0.9× 3.1k 0.7× 3.0k 1.5× 1.4k 1.0× 199 19.7k
Jan D. Kramers 11.6k 0.6× 6.4k 1.2× 3.0k 0.7× 2.5k 1.2× 2.8k 2.1× 167 16.1k
Hugh P. Taylor 12.7k 0.7× 4.8k 0.9× 4.6k 1.0× 3.6k 1.7× 2.3k 1.7× 129 16.3k
Yue‐Heng Yang 17.8k 1.0× 7.6k 1.4× 3.1k 0.7× 795 0.4× 910 0.7× 246 19.2k
C. H. Langmuir 20.3k 1.1× 4.8k 0.9× 2.6k 0.6× 2.6k 1.3× 1.0k 0.8× 204 22.5k

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