Alex Pullen

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Alex Pullen is a scholar working on Geophysics, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Pullen has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Geophysics, 30 papers in Atmospheric Science and 20 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Alex Pullen's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (44 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (31 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (29 papers). Alex Pullen is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (44 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (31 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (29 papers). Alex Pullen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Alex Pullen's co-authors include George E. Gehrels, Paul Kapp, Lin Ding, Jerome H. Guynn, Peter G. DeCelles, V. Valencia, Amy L. Weislogel, Carmala N. Garzione, Jeff D. Vervoort and Mauricio Ibáñez-Mejía and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Alex Pullen

61 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit 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 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.

Detrital zircon geochronology of pre‐Tertiary strata in the Tibetan‐Himalayan orogen

2011 718 citations George E. Gehrels, Paul Kapp et al. Tectonics profile →
Triassic continental subduction in central Tibet and Mediterranean-style closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean

2008 486 citations Alex Pullen, Paul Kapp et al. Geology profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Alex Pullen	4.4k	1.6k	1.3k	755	606	63	5.2k
Philip T. Leat	5.5k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	500 0.7×	812 1.3×	124	6.2k
Françoise Roger	5.8k 1.3×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	392 0.5×	363 0.6×	41	6.6k
John N. Aleinikoff	7.0k 1.6×	3.5k 2.1×	1.2k 0.9×	430 0.6×	897 1.5×	125	7.7k
Andrew T. Calvert	4.0k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	316 0.4×	274 0.5×	111	4.8k
Zhaojie Guo	4.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	756 0.6×	356 0.5×	500 0.8×	118	4.7k
Suzanne Mahlburg Kay	11.3k 2.6×	4.0k 2.5×	1.3k 0.9×	603 0.8×	733 1.2×	131	12.0k
Yahui Yue	3.3k 0.8×	965 0.6×	740 0.6×	207 0.3×	552 0.9×	86	4.1k
Mihai N. Ducea	11.7k 2.7×	4.2k 2.6×	1.2k 0.9×	443 0.6×	876 1.4×	226	12.3k
Jason B. Saleeby	6.0k 1.4×	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	385 0.5×	323 0.5×	135	6.3k
Yani Najman	4.2k 1.0×	918 0.6×	1.8k 1.4×	1.3k 1.7×	483 0.8×	93	5.5k

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Kapp, Paul, Alex Pullen, Jordan T. Abell, & Liyun Zhang. (2024). Wind erosion in northern China: Insights from the western Qaidam fold belt, Loess Plateau, and Hami Basin. Earth-Science Reviews. 261. 105037–105037. 3 indexed citations

Nie, Junsheng, et al.. (2023). A middle Pleistocene to Holocene perspective on sediment sources for the Tengger Desert, China. CATENA. 228. 107119–107119. 8 indexed citations

Abell, Jordan T., Gisela Winckler, Alex Pullen, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the Drivers of Quaternary Dust Fluxes to the Western North Pacific: East Asian Dustiness and Northern Hemisphere Gustiness. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 38(9). 11 indexed citations

Ma, Anlin, Xiumian Hu, Eduardo Garzanti, et al.. (2023). Mid‐Cretaceous Exhumation of the Central Qiangtang Mountain Range Metamorphic Rocks as Evidenced by the Abushan Continental Redbeds. Tectonics. 42(3). 15 indexed citations

Peng, Wenbin, et al.. (2023). Stepwise increased spatial provenance contrast on the Chinese Loess Plateau over late Miocene-Pleistocene. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 12 indexed citations

Leier, Andrew, David L. Barbeau, Alex Pullen, et al.. (2023). Global climate forcing on late Miocene establishment of the Pampean aeolian system in South America. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6899–6899. 6 indexed citations

Pullen, Alex, et al.. (2022). A westerly wind dominated Puna Plateau during deposition of upper Pleistocene loessic sediments in the subtropical Andes, South America. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3411–3411. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Liyun, Wu Fan, Lin Ding, et al.. (2020). Quaternary Volcanism in Myanmar: A Record of Indian Slab Tearing in a Transition Zone From Oceanic to Continental Subduction. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 21(8). 15 indexed citations

Abell, Jordan T., Alex Pullen, Zachary J. Lebo, et al.. (2020). A wind-albedo-wind feedback driven by landscape evolution. Nature Communications. 11(1). 96–96. 15 indexed citations

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Pullen, Alex, et al.. (2020). A mid-Cretaceous change from fast to slow exhumation of the western Chinese Altai mountains: A climate driven exhumation signal?. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 197. 104387–104387. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Chao, et al.. (2016). Petrogenesis of Middle–Late Triassic volcanic rocks from the Gangdese belt, southern Lhasa terrane: Implications for early subduction of Neo-Tethyan oceanic lithosphere. Lithos. 262. 320–333. 192 indexed citations

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Licht, Alexis, Guillaume Dupont‐Nivet, Alex Pullen, et al.. (2016). Resilience of the Asian atmospheric circulation shown by Paleogene dust provenance. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12390–12390. 88 indexed citations

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Kapp, Paul, Alex Pullen, Jon D. Pelletier, et al.. (2015). From dust to dust: Quaternary wind erosion of the Mu Us Desert and Loess Plateau, China. Geology. 43(9). 835–838. 48 indexed citations

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Garzione, Carmala N., et al.. (2014). Inland Aridification of NW China Since the Late Middle Eocene: Stable Isotope Evidence from Western Qaidam Basin. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Ding, Lin, Alex Pullen, Qiang Xu, et al.. (2014). Age and geochemistry of western Hoh-Xil–Songpan-Ganzi granitoids, northern Tibet: Implications for the Mesozoic closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean. Lithos. 190-191. 328–348. 119 indexed citations

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Pearson, David, Paul Kapp, Peter W. Reiners, et al.. (2012). Major Miocene exhumation by fault‐propagation folding within a metamorphosed, early Paleozoic thrust belt: Northwestern Argentina. Tectonics. 31(4). 34 indexed citations

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Pullen, Alex, Paul Kapp, Hong Chang, et al.. (2011). The Qaidam Basin and Northern Tibetan Plateau as Dust Sources for the Chinese Loess Plateau, Determined by U-Pb Detrital Zircon Provenance. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Pullen, Alex, Paul Kapp, & George E. Gehrels. (2008). Mediterranean-style closure of the Paleo-Tethys ocean. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008.

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Pullen, Alex, Paul Kapp, George E. Gehrels, et al.. (2008). Gangdese retroarc thrust belt and foreland basin deposits in the Damxung area, southern Tibet. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 33(5-6). 323–336. 63 indexed citations

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Kapp, Paul, Alex Pullen, George E. Gehrels, & Lin Ding. (2007). U-Pb Basement and Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the Lhasa and Qiangtang Terranes in Tibet. AGUFM. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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